
London: West Ham United edged closer to a Premier League return with a 3-0 home win over Cardiff City on Monday, completing a 5-0 semi-final aggregate triumph to ease into the Championship play-off final. Kevin Nolan and Ricardo Vaz Te scored in the first half and a late Nicky Maynard strike sealed a crushing win for the east London club, who were relegated from the top flight a year ago....

08:35 AM, May 08, 2012

New Delhi: Ahead of elections in Uttar Pradesh starting February 8, the Election Commission has relaxed the conditions for use of aircraft in campaigning and its expenditure monitoring. As per the relaxed terms for use of aircraft for campaigning, political parties or candidates using the aircraft would now have to inform the District Electoral Officers (DEO) concerned 24 hours ahead of the proposed visit. Earlier the parties/candidates had to inform...

08:35 PM, Feb 06, 2012

New Delhi: Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf revealed on Friday that he was open to an alliance with Pakistan Tehreek-i Insaaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan, however, adding that he would not "work under him". Musharraf was speaking to Karan Thapar on Devils Advocate when he made the comments. Speaking from Dubai, he said Pakistan needed a third political option when asked whether alliance with Imran Khan was a possibility....

06:50 AM, Jan 15, 2012

Washington: Claiming that people of Pakistan need a viable alternative in this hour of crisis, former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf has said that he is "prepared to take risk" of his life to return back home from a self-imposed exile. "Well, yes, I am prepared for the risk. I have to be prepared for the risk," Musharraf told the CNN from Dubai, where he is preparing for his trip...

12:39 PM, Jan 14, 2012

New Delhi: Delhi Police Commissioner B K Gupta and Uttar Pradesh DGP Brij Lal figure on a Ministry of Home Affairs list of 864 IPS officers who have failed to submit their Immovable Property Returns (IPR) for the year 2010. Suspended Gujarat IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt, who has openly revolted against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Kumar Modi, also figures on the list displayed on the Home Ministry website. The list,...

11:06 AM, Oct 27, 2011

Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Rosamund Pike, Dominic West Director: Oliver Parker In Johnny English Reborn, sequel to that forgettable James Bond parody from 2003, Rowan Atkinson reprises his role as the bumbling British super-spy. It's been five years since he exiled himself to a monastery in Tibet, after botching up his last mission in Mozambique. When we first meet him in this new adventure, he's busy honing his martial arts skills,...

12:15 AM, Sep 24, 2011

New Delhi: Madhuri Dixit has taken the decision to return to India after staying in the US for 15 years with her husband and two kids. Earlier she had tweeted " For all my fans, we r relocating to India! It will b good to b back home. Media reports have quoted her saying that her returning home was bound to happen one day anyway. The reports say that she...

02:28 PM, Sep 18, 2011

New Delhi: After doing comedies, thrillers and dramas, actor Aftab Shivdasani, who was last seen in Bin Bulaye Baraati, now wants to try his hand at horror with 1920-Evil Returns, a sequel to Vikarm Bhatt's 1920. Aftab, who did murder thriller Kasoor and comedy Awara Paagal Deewana with the Bhatt, says 1920-Evil returns is his first horror project. "The movie which is titled 1920-Evil returns.. It's also my first ever...

05:19 PM, Aug 21, 2011

Mumbai: Tata Steel on Friday said its fiscal first-quarter net profit tripled, mainly due to one-time gains, but the steelmaker flagged high raw material costs and economic uncertainty as a cause for concern. In a presentation to analysts, Tata Steel said uncertainty about the economy had risen following the downgrade of US debt and the European sovereign debt issue. The world's No 7 steelmaker also said growth sentiment in key...

04:41 PM, Aug 12, 2011

New Delhi: The Income Tax Department will open 50-special counters at Vikas Bhawan (near ITO) for residents of North-East and North-West Delhi from July 28 to July 31 to file their tax returns. The last date for filing of income tax returns for the assessment year 2011-12 is July 31. "The ITD, New Delhi, is setting up Special counters to avoid last minute rush," Chief Commissioner (IT) Digvijai Kumar told...

07:46 PM, Jul 26, 2011

Bollywood reacts to Baba Ramdev's agitation against black money and the midnight crackdown by the police on the Ramlila grounds. ...

09:51 AM, Jun 07, 2011

New Delhi: A total of 557 Indians returned home in two batches by air from strife-torn Libya in the wee hours on Tuesday taking to 1,083 the total number of people evacuated so far by the four Air India special flights. The fourth Air India flight( AI-170) landed at Terminal 2 of Indira Gandhi International Airport(IGIA) here at around 4:30 am, bringing 331 passengers, an airport official said. The plane...

08:20 AM, Mar 01, 2011