Kochi: Catholics in Kerala were elated as Mar George Alencherry, the Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly diocese of the Syro-Malabar Church, was on Saturday ordained a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Many of the Catholics, who form 50 per cent of the over seven million Christians in Kerala, were glued to the live coverage from the Vatican as Alencherry was ordained by the Pope along with 21 other bishops from...
08:55 PM, Feb 18, 2012
New Delhi: Former CWG Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi's troubles refuse to die down. Now, the International Olympics Committee (IOC) has written to the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) Acting President VK Malhotra asking what action he is contemplating against Suresh Kalmadi, who is accused in the Commonwealth Games scam. The IOC's National Olympics Committee (NOC) relations Director Piere Mairo has sought details of the chargesheet filed against Kalmadi. CNN-IBN has...
01:26 PM, Feb 01, 2012
Chennai: MDMK leader Vaiko demanded on Monday that India boycott the London Olympics if the organisers did not cancel the sponsorship contract with Dow Chemicals, which has links to Union Carbide - the company responsible for the Bhopal gas disaster in 1984. "To save the honour of the Indian democracy and to respect the sad sentiments of the affected people of Bhopal (gas tragedy), the government should send a strongly-worded...
06:16 PM, Jan 30, 2012
New Delhi: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has written a letter to the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), seeking a report on sacked Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi's "current and exact situation before the courts of justice". In a letter addressed to the acting IOA president Vijay Kumar Malhotra, the IOC has threatened to refer the case to its Ethics Commission at any moment, should the action taken by...
01:24 AM, Jan 22, 2012
New Delhi: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has written a letter to the chairman of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), seeking a full report on former CWG OC Chief Suresh Kalmadi's "exact situation before the courts of justice". The letter stated: "It is our understanding that, to date, your NOC has not taken any action or measure with respect to Mr Kalmadi. We now ask you to send us a...
04:20 PM, Jan 21, 2012
New Delhi: Former Commonwealth Games OC Chief Suresh Kalmadi has decided to 'step aside' as the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) President. Kalmadi, who has not resigned officially, said that he would not represent the IOA. In a letter to IOA Acting President VK Malhotra, Kalmadi said he will step aside as the IOA President. "I will not be able to represent the IOA. I will not be taking part in...
02:19 PM, Jan 20, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has written to the 2012 London Olympics organisers and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), complaining about sponsor Dow Chemicals lying that there are no pending cases over the Bhopal gas tragedy. In a letter sent to the IOC the IOA demanded that Dow chemicals should be dropped as sponsors for the London Olympics. "A false campaign has been launched by the Dow Chemical's ...
03:17 PM, Dec 20, 2011
New Delhi: The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has written to the 2012 London Olympics organisers and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), complaining about sponsor Dow Chemicals lying that there are no pending cases over the Bhopal gas tragedy. In a letter sent to the IOC the IOA demanded that Dow chemicals should be dropped as sponsors for the London Olympics. "A false campaign has been launched by the Dow Chemical's...
03:17 PM, Dec 20, 2011
Hyderabad: More than a dozen people lost their sight after cataract operations at a free eye camp in the villages of Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh. While 33 cataract surgeries were performed at the private eye camp in November, a month later almost half the patients have lost their vision. "We came here as it was a free eye camp, but after operation our eyes started to hurt. They told...
10:59 AM, Dec 17, 2011
New Delhi: State-owned oil companies on Friday decided not to change petrol prices this fortnight in view of correction in rupee-dollar value. "RBI action has led to rupee correcting by Re 1 per dollar and we feel we should wait for some time before making any changes in retail prices of petrol," an official of Indian Oil Corporation said. "The fall in depreciation of rupee will be good for oil...
07:40 PM, Dec 16, 2011
New Delhi: The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) will not the 2012 London Olympics, but will lodge a strong protest over the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy tainted Dow Chemicals sponsoring the sporting event. The decision to not boycott the Olympic Games was taken at the IOA Executive Board meeting on Thursday in New Delhi. The victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy have been demanding that India boycott the 2012 Olympic Games...
02:21 PM, Dec 15, 2011
New Delhi: Cash strapped Kingfisher Airlines is in trouble. Top sources say the airline may have to shut down if they don't secure working capital loans soon. The airlines grounded one third of its 66 aircraft fleet cancelling over 80 flights over the last two days. The Director General of Civil (DGCA) could take the airline to task. Kingfisher Airlines chief Vijay Mallya on Thursday said, "Decision to reschedule and...
09:42 AM, Nov 11, 2011
New Delhi: Kingfisher Airlines is going through troubled times as over 100 pilots have quit after they were not paid their salaries even as the company cancelled over 80 flights in the last two days. The cancellation of 80 flights in the past couple of days left thousands of passengers in the lurch prompting the Directorate General of Civil Aviation to demand an explanation from Kingfisher. Kingfisher Airlines chief Vijay...
05:35 PM, Nov 10, 2011
b>New Delhi: Over 100 Kingfisher pilots have submitted their resignations, sources said on Thursday. It is reported that the reason behind the mass resignation is because employees are yet to get their salary for the month of October. The cash-strapped airline cancelled almost 80 flights saying it had to drop flights as the company were trying to reconfigure its aircraft. Chaos followed after passengers complained that they were not intimated...
02:53 PM, Nov 10, 2011
Tonight at 10, Sagarika Ghose asks a panel of experts if there is a solution to rising petrol prices.
11:48 AM, Nov 08, 2011
New Delhi: A day after the latest hike of Rs 1.80 in the petrol prices, the Indian Oil Corporation on Friday justified the move saying that no entity could provide products on loss. Addressing a press conference, IOC chairman R S Butola said that though the firm understood that the price increases were steep, there was a situation before them. Pointing that the oil marketing companies had suffered losses of...
05:47 PM, Nov 04, 2011
New Delhi: A day after raising petrol price by a steep Rs 1.80 a litre, Indian Oil Corp, the nation's largest fuel retailer, said on Monday the hike was unavoidable as rupee depreciation has increased crude imports costlier. "The rupee has dipped from Rs 46.29 to a dollar at the time of the last hike (on September 16) to Rs 49.40 making oil imports costlier," IOC Chairman R S Butola...
04:29 PM, Nov 04, 2011
London: Scientists have designed a biocomputer which can identify and kill cancer cells without harming the healthy ones. Biocomputers use biologically derived materials such as DNA or proteins to perform programmed functions. Synthetic biologist Yaakov Benenson of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich collaborated with Ron Weiss of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US, to design a multi-gene synthetic "circuit" to distinguish between cancer and healthy cells. This...
03:02 PM, Sep 04, 2011
Tehran: The Iran's Foreign Minister will visit India in the coming weeks, news agency ISNA quoted an official on Saturday as saying, as the two countries seek a way of ending a standoff over unmet payments for oil exports. Ali Akbar Salehi will hold talks with his Indian counterpart on bilateral and international issues, Mehdi Nabizadeh, Iran's ambassador to India, told ISNA. "(Salehi) will travel to India within the next...
12:44 PM, Jul 24, 2011
Bangalore: Call it the Saturday night fever, but all for a good cause when nine jet-setting CEOs from corporate India lent their voice to a charity event, suitably titled 'CEOs sing for their supper'. But for Biocon founder and MD, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, the exercise was pure passion singing. "I don't think I'm singing for my supper as I'm on a diet but am singing for these kids who need ...
07:46 AM, Jul 17, 2011
