Madrid: Jose Mourinho defended Cristiano Ronaldo's form on the eve of Real Madrid's Copa del Rey quarter-final against Barcelona, describing his performance against Mallorca as his best since the coach's arrival at the club. Ronaldo has come under criticism after squandering chances in a 3-1 loss to Barcelona last month, but Mourinho said the forward's work ethic in the second half of Saturday's 2-1 win was better than all of...
11:46 PM, Jan 17, 2012
New Delhi: The winner of the multi-billion dollar deal to procure 126 combat planes for Indian Air Force is expected to be announced in two weeks time, the IAF Chief said in New Delhi on Tuesday. European EADS Eurofighter and Dasault Rafale are in the final race for Air Force's global tender to procure 126 Medium-Multi Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA). "Right now we have to do the selection for who...
05:12 PM, Jan 17, 2012
New Delhi: In a setback to sugar mill owners on Tuesday, the Supreme Court directed private mill owners to pay approximately Rs 1000 crores to UP sugarcane farmers. The state government had fixed a particular price for sugarcane farmers a few years back, because of which a backlog of nearly one thousand crore rupees turned up. The matter was challenged in court. VM Singh, petitioner in the Supreme Court, said...
01:28 PM, Jan 17, 2012
Yas Marina: When the green light came on at the end of the pit lane and the first car, driven by Malaysian Alex Yoong roared off on to the Yas Marina Circuit track here in a Radical SR3 car, it made for a momentous occasion for Indian motor sports. The start of the first pre-season test session ahead of the inaugural i1 Supercar series promoted by Bangalore-based Machdar Motorsports, finally...
03:47 PM, Dec 21, 2011
Abu Dhabi: Formula One drivers Giancarlo Fisichella and Karun Chandhok seemed pretty happy after their inaugural test drive session in the SR3 racing cars, especially designed for the i1 Supercar Series that gets underway in Sepang (Malaysia) from next month. The test drive session was held at the Yas Marina circuit on Tuesday, though the length of the circuit has been reduced as compared to what it is in Formula...
06:12 PM, Dec 20, 2011
Barcelona: Real Madrid have found an unlikely scapegoat for their 3-1 loss to fierce rivals Barcelona - leading scorer Cristiano Ronaldo. Ronaldo set the Spanish league's all-time scoring record with 40 goals last season, but he had a miserable game on Saturday. The Portugal forward fired several free kicks into the defensive wall and missed his team's best chance to score after Karim Benzema had put Madrid ahead after just...
02:56 PM, Dec 12, 2011
Barcelona: The excuses for Jose Mourinho's Real Madrid are running out. After their latest 3-1 home loss to Barcelona on Saturday, there was no talk of referee bias or the Catalan side's supposed propensity for exaggerating fouls, just the last-ditch explanation left for any loser: pure bad luck. In blaming fate, Mourinho appeared to be resigned to accepting that for whatever reason, his Real Madrid are second best to a...
01:37 PM, Dec 12, 2011
Bangalore: IAF will make public in four weeks the winner of India's biggest-ever Rs 42,000 crore military contract to acquire 126 medium multi-role combat aircraft (MMRCA), Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne said in Bangalore. "We are calculating very hard. There is a lot of work going on. I expect (in) another four weeks, we should be able to wrap it up", Browne told reporters here amid intense flurry among the...
10:53 AM, Nov 19, 2011
Mumbai: John Abraham's first feature film project as producer will be director Shoojit Sircar's Vicky Donor. Says a source, "John has been associated with producing a few commercials and has been contemplating branching out to feature films since a long time. For now there are two projects in the pipeline which John will be co-producing." Amongst them are Vicky Donor which is a light take on the subject of sperm...
03:18 PM, Nov 09, 2011
Lucknow: The Congress has decided to support Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati if she brings the proposal for the trifurcation of the state. According to party sources, the Congress has called for setting up a second State Reorganisation Committee (SRC) for the purpose. In case the trifurcation of the state is done, Uttar Pradesh will be divided into three parts " Harit Pradesh, Bundelkhand and Purvanchal. Notably, Congress general secretary...
05:50 PM, Nov 07, 2011
New Delhi: The Defence Acquisition Council will decide on Friday which company will be given India's over $10 billion Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) deal. The race to supply for 126 fighter jets is between two European offerings - the French Rafale and the Eurofighter Typhoon, manufactured by a European consortium. The EuroFighter and the Rafale are relatively new aircraft and according to the IAF state of art. The EuroFighter...
01:02 PM, Oct 07, 2011
New Delhi: Google has announced the release of its Google Wallet application that can enable phones to make payments. The app is being initially offered on Sprint's network in the US for Sprint Nexus S 4G phones. Google had first announced the app in May 2011. Google Wallet enables users to pay with their Citi MasterCard credit card and the Google Prepaid Card, which can be funded with any existing...
12:53 PM, Sep 20, 2011
Washington: It sounds counter-intuitive - add sugarcane extract to a fatty diet and it will help shed the flab. But that could be the way of the future if trials by scientists, including an Indian-origin researcher, pan out. Dr Ankur Desai from Horizon Science, a Melbourne-based food biotechnology firm, and colleagues at La Trobe University claim their findings show sugarcane molasses in high-fat diets can encourage calorie excretion and increase...
11:53 AM, Jul 19, 2011
New Delhi: New Delhi seems to be bending backwards to explain why two iconic US Fighter aircraft have been left out of the Multi-Role Combat Aircraft Competition to supply fighter jets to India. However, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to push for the fifth generation F-35 on her visit to India. There could be some American sour grapes over the elimination of two iconic American fighter aircraft...
07:56 AM, Jul 19, 2011
London: WikiLeaks and the Icelandic IT company DataCell filed a formal complaint to the European Commission on Thursday, saying payment companies Visa Europe and MasterCard Inc violated EU antitrust laws by blocking donations. Visa Europe, which runs the largest card network in the European Union, and MasterCard blocked WikiLeaks from using its network to collect funds from donors in December 2010. The complaint, filed to the Directorate-General for Competition of...
11:09 AM, Jul 15, 2011
London: WikiLeaks has again begun accepting credit card donations, a company affiliated with the secret-spilling site said Thursday. Andreas Fink, the chief executive of Icelandic payment processor DataCell, told The Associated Press that Visa and MasterCard were again processing payments to WikiLeaks after a seven-month hiatus. Fink claimed the move as a tacit admission of guilt from the credit card companies, but it may well have been accidental. Visa Europe...
07:28 AM, Jul 08, 2011
Mumbai: The much talked about India's 'Rupay' cards are here and it may not be long before it replaces the logos of Visa and Mastercard. Rupay or Rupee Pay is the new card payment scheme launched by the National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI), a company started three years back by ten banks, to oversee all retail payment systems in the country. Currently, all card payments are routed through Visa...
09:57 AM, Jun 22, 2011
New Delhi: US aerospace giant Lockheed Martin may re-enter the Indian Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) race. The powerful Senate Armed Services Committee of the US is pushing the Defense Department to offer India the high-tech F-35 stealth fighter aircraft, the worlds only fifth generation multi-role fighter, built by Lockheed Martin. The move comes after Lockheed's F-16IN Super Viper and Boeing's F/A-18 Super Hornet were eliminated from the MMRCA race...
02:24 PM, Jun 21, 2011
New Delhi: Illusionist Gopinath Muthukad became the second Indian ever to win the International Merlin Award, or the magicians' 'Oscar'. He will be the second Indian after PC Sorcar junior, to win the prestigious award given by the US-based International Magicians' Society (IMS). The awards ceremony in the national capital June 23 will be attended by hundreds of magicians from across the world who will unfold colourful traditional and new-age...
01:19 PM, Jun 05, 2011
New Delhi: India and Germany will hold their first inter-governmental consultations at the cabinet-level on Tuesday. German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be in New Delhi for a day. Her main focus would be to make a strong push for the Eurofighter. Germany and France are both eyeing that coveted deal with Indian Air force (IAF). The Eurofighter built by Germany and three other European countries and the French Rafale are...
07:39 AM, May 31, 2011
