The government of Pakistan's Punjab Province has recently allocated RS 400 million to the Jamaat Ud Dawa. JuD is believed to be a front for the banned terror group Lashkar-e-Toiba. Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid said there is no need to protest just yet. The minister said it's only a budget allocation to 'Markaz-e-Toiba'. We have to study it carefully. ...
09:49 AM, Jun 20, 2013
Moscow: Russian judo champion Elena Ivashchenko committed suicide last Saturday because of her failure during the London Olympics, a judo official said on Monday. Ivashchenko, 28, a four-time European champion (2007, 2009, 2011, 2012), jumped from the 15th floor in the Siberian city of Tyumen, reports Xinhua. "Her depression started after her defeat at the Olympics. She really punished herself for it. She had beaten several times before those athletes...
06:23 PM, Jun 17, 2013
Rameswaram (TN): Eight fishermen from Tamil Nadu, arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy near Katchatheevu, were on Monday remanded to judicial custody till June 27 by a court in the island nation. The fishermen, arrested yesterday, were produced before the judicial magistrate court in Mannar which sent them to judicial custody, officials here said, quoting information received by them. The eight were arrested along with their two boats by the...
09:05 AM, Jun 17, 2013
Hyderabad: YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy's judicial custody ends on Monday and he will be produced before a Hyderabad court via video conferencing. Jagan has been lodged in Chanchalguda prison since his arrest by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on corruption charges. The ED had on May 31 frozen fixed deposits worth more than Rs 34 crore of a media firm owned by Reddy in connection with the money...
07:38 AM, Jun 17, 2013
Antalya, Turkey: Rajat Chouhan and Manjudha Soy lost out by one point in the compound mixed team final to earn India a solitary silver medal in the Archery World Cup Stage II at Antalya, Turkey on Saturday. The unheralded Indian duo had a slender 112-111 lead against the Italian world champions Sergio Pagni and Marcella Toniolli at the end of the third set. But the inexperienced Indians faltered by a...
10:43 PM, Jun 15, 2013
Antalya, Turkey: Rajat Chouhan and Manjudha Soy stormed into the final of compound mixed section to assure India of a minimum silver medal as top archers came a cropper at the World Cup Stage II being held at Antalya, Turkey. The duo, who qualified third behind Korea, defeated Great Britain 151-149, Russia 156-154 and Canada 154-147 en route to the final. Chouhan and Manjudha will look to win a first-ever...
05:24 PM, Jun 14, 2013
Islamabad: A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Tuesday rejected former military ruler Pervez Musharraf's bail plea in a case over the killing of Baloch nationalist leader Akbar Bugti while another court granted him relief in the case of detention of judges during the 2007 emergency. Judge Mohammad Ismaeel Baloch of the anti-terrorism court in Quetta had yesterday heard Musharraf's bail application and reserved his judgement. During a hearing on Tuesday, the...
01:59 AM, Jun 12, 2013
New Delhi: India on Sunday night offered to train judges and judicial officials from the Maldives in formulation of rules and regulations. This was conveyed by External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid to the Chief Justice of Maldives Ahmed Faiz Hussain, who is on a five-day visit to India. Hussain is in New Delhi at the invitation of the Chief Justice of India Altmas Kabir and will participate in a Roundtable...
10:14 AM, Jun 10, 2013
Memphis: Harris English won the St. Jude Classic on Sunday for his first PGA Tour title, birdieing two of the final three holes to hold off Phil Mickelson and Scott Stallings by two strokes. The 23-year-old American, in his second year on tour, survived a final round where he had six birdies and five bogeys to shoot a 1-under 69. He finished at 12-under 268. "I was just really relaxed...
09:57 AM, Jun 10, 2013
Memphis: Rookie Shawn Stefani has been through enough scrambling around the mini tours trying to make it to the PGA Tour that a quadruple bogey wasn't going to shake his confidence or his concentration. Even if it cost him the lead. Stefani overcame the bad hole that dropped him down on Saturday and shot a 4-under 66 to take the third-round lead in the St. Jude Classic. "I feel like...
09:34 AM, Jun 09, 2013
Memphis: Harris English is becoming more comfortable on the PGA Tour every week and feels right at home on TPC Southwind's Bermuda grass greens. English shot a 6-under 64 on Friday to open a two-stroke lead in the St. Jude Classic. The 23-year-old former Georgia star had never even had a piece of a lead on the PGA Tour until Thursday when he found himself tied with five others, including...
09:24 AM, Jun 08, 2013
Memphis, Tennessee: Phil Mickelson is playing the week before the US Open to make sure his game is sharp as possible, particularly after not playing very well at the Masters after taking off before that major. "I know that for me to be sharp mentally, especially into a tournament where the penalty for missing is so great like the US Open, it's important that I'm sharp and I'm ready to...
12:02 PM, Jun 06, 2013
Dantewada: Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh visited Dantewada, Chhattisgarh to meet the Bastar Naxal attack victims on Tuesday. The Congress leader met the family of Salwa Judum founder Mahendra Karma who died in the attack. Twenty six people were killed in the Naxal attack on May 25 in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh. "I came here to meet Mahendra Karma's family. Karma was my friend for the last 30-35 years. I...
07:36 AM, Jun 05, 2013
Bhubaneswar: Odisha government will seek deployment of two additional battalions of CRPF jawans along its borders with Chhatisgarh following the the May 25 deadly Maoist attack in that state. "Odisha government will make the demand to the Centre for two battalions of CRPF at the Chief Ministers' meeting on internal security in New Delhi on June 5," state Home Secretary UN Behera said on Monday. The state government, he said,...
11:33 PM, Jun 03, 2013
Raipur: Demanding dismissal of the BJP government in Chhattisgarh over the May 25 Naxal attack, Congress MLAs on Sunday said they would resign en mass from the Assembly if the government did not go. "We have sought dismissal of the state government and imposition of President's rule. All the Congress MLAs have offered to resign unitedly if the government did not step down," Leader of Opposition in Assembly Ravindra Choubey...
08:57 PM, Jun 02, 2013
Raipur: Justice Prashant Mishra Commission probing the Naxal attack on the Congress convoy in Chhattisgarh's Bastar district will visit the site of the ambush at Jiram Valley on June 14. 27 people, including state Congress chief Nandkumar Patel, his son Dinesh, Salwa Judum leader Mahendra Karma among others were killed, and 36 others including former Union minister VC Shukla injured in the naxal ambush on Congress' 'Parivartan Yatra' on May...
11:07 PM, Jun 01, 2013
Raipur: Rattled by the deadly naxal attack on Congress convoy on May 25 that left 27 people dead, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh on Saturday directed district collectors and SPs to review on a regular basis the security of public representatives across the state and especially in the Maoist-affected regions. The Chief Minister's directive came in the wake of the Naxal attack on Congress' 'Parivartan Yatra' in Bastar district that...
11:02 PM, Jun 01, 2013
Gurgaon: The condition of Congress leader and former Union minister VC Shukla, who was injured in a deadly Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh last week, continues to show signs of improvement but it remains critical. "Shukla has shown some signs of improvement on third consecutive day today but still remains critical," Medanta Hospital's Medical Superintendent Dr AK Dubey said, adding that he cannot be declared out of danger. The 84-year-old Congress...
08:52 PM, Jun 01, 2013
San Francisco: A US judge has ruled that Google Inc must comply with the FBI's warrantless demands for customer data, rejecting the company's argument that the government's practice of issuing such requests to telecommunication companies, Internet service providers, banks and others is unconstitutional and unnecessary. FBI counter-terrorism agents began issuing the secret, so-called national security letters, which don't require a judge's approval, after Congress passed the USA Patriot Act in...
10:56 AM, Jun 01, 2013
Shillong: Assam Rifles Director General Lt Gen Ranbir Singh on Friday denied that his troopers were involved in any extra-judicial killing during their counter-insurgency operations in India's northeastern states. "It is not true that Assam Rifles is indulging in extra-judicial killings," Singh told reporters on the sidelines of the 'Go Green' campaign at the paramilitary forces' headquarters here while responding to questions raised on the issue. United Nations Special Rapporteur...
05:21 AM, Jun 01, 2013
