New Delhi: The ruling Shiromani Akal Dal(SAD)-Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) seemed to be headed for a slender majority in Punjab. The SAD-BJP combine is likely to retain power in Punjab belying history which has not seen the incumbent returning to power in the last 46 years. The SAD-BJP alliance has won 46 seats, while Congress won 40 seats in the 117-seat Punjab Assembly. The counting for the 117-seat Punjab Assembly began...
11:13 AM, Mar 06, 2012
New Delhi: The Shiromani Akal Dal(SAD)-Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) alliance seemed to be heading for a majority in the Punjab Assembly belying history which has not seen the incumbent returning to power in the recent past. The counting for the 117-seat Punjab Assembly began at 8 am on Tuesday and as per the trends at 10:00 am, the SAD-BJP alliance was ahead in 65 seats and the Congress was behind with...
09:54 AM, Mar 06, 2012
New Delhi: The Shiromani Akal Dal(SAD)-Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) alliance seemed to be heading for a majority in the Punjab Assembly belying history which has not seen the incumbent returning to power in the recent past. The counting for the 117-seat Punjab Assembly began at 8 am on Tuesday and as per the trends at 10:00 am, the SAD-BJP alliance was ahead in 65 seats and the Congress was behind with...
09:07 AM, Mar 06, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress and the Shiromani Akal Dal(SAD)-Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) alliance were neck and neck during the early trends of the vote count in Punjab. The counting for the 117-seat Punjab Assembly began at 8 am on Tuesday. The early trends were somewhat similar to the post-poll survey that projected a close contest between the Congress and the SAD-BJP alliance. Congress is contesting all 117 seats, while SAD 94...
07:40 AM, Mar 06, 2012
London: Arguably the hottest of hot seats in soccer is vacant yet again after Chelsea's ruthless Russian owner Roman Abramovich removed Andre Villas-Boas on Sunday. The callow Portuguese lasted just 256 days at Stamford Bridge before "the project", as he usually referred to the task of revitalising the west London club's ageing squad, was aborted. The 34-year-old became the sixth coach to be axed since the Russian oligarch bought the...
08:25 PM, Mar 05, 2012
Chandigarh: Punjab Congress chief Captain Amarinder Singh is confident of the party's win in the Assembly elections. Singh said that the party will not fall short in the 117-seat Punjab Assembly. "We are not going to fall short. The non-governance and corruption of the ruling state government have favoured us," a confident Amarinder Singh said. On the other hand, Punjab's Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal has claimed that Chief...
05:25 PM, Mar 05, 2012
London: Chelsea have become a "serious embarrassment" to the Premier League after firing Andre Villas-Boas just eight months in his reign, the head of England's League Managers' Association said on Monday. Dumping the inexperienced 34-year-old Villas-Boas after only 40 games in charge on Sunday left owner Roman Abramovich searching for his eighth manager since buying Chelsea nine years ago. The instability and uncertainty surrounding Chelsea this season has seen the...
03:52 PM, Mar 05, 2012
It cost Roman Abramovich around 28 million Pounds to sack Carlo Ancelotti and hire Andrew Villas-Boas. Seven months later, history has repeated itself at Stamford ...
02:18 PM, Mar 05, 2012
Good grief! Andre Villas-Boas has been sacked by the autocratic Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich. It's sad that things have come to such a pretty pass in such a short time. The poor man couldn't hold his job for a little more than eight months. The news is saddening, though not surprising at all. The signs were there when there was no public backing for the manager. Villas-Boas kept pleading Abramovich...
02:10 PM, Mar 05, 2012
New Delhi: Directed by Roman Polanski " Carnage is a dark comedy that works on the power of razor sharp wit. The movie is being called one of the best comedies of the year " but Carnage is not for the slapstick lovers. Based on the French play God of Carnage written by Yasmina Reza. Polanski shifts the action from Paris to Brooklyn and transforms Jodie Foster, John C Reilly,...
07:18 PM, Feb 23, 2012
London: Under-fire Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas declared he doesn't need the support of the entire squad as long as he is backed by owner Roman Abramovich. A 2-0 loss at Everton on Saturday left Chelsea fifth in the Premier League and out of the Champions League qualification places. Villas-Boas hauled his under-performing players into the training ground on their day off on Sunday to discuss the team's misfortunes. Questioned on...
01:24 PM, Feb 17, 2012
St. Petersburg: Roman Shirokov scored his second goal of the game in the 89th minute as Zenit St. Petersburg beat Benfica 3-2 in the first leg of their round-of-16 match-up in the Champions League on Wednesday. Maxi Pereira put Benfica ahead in the 20th, tapping the ball in after second-choice goalkeeper Yuri Zhevnov spilled Oscar Cardozo's free kick, but Shirokov equalized seven minutes later. Substitute Sergei Semak made it 2-1...
05:30 AM, Feb 16, 2012
Bollywood actors Kareena Kapoor and Imran Khan talk about their favourite romantic films. ...
11:28 AM, Feb 15, 2012
London: A British couple who have been married for 76 years - the longest in the country - have now joined Twitter to speak about the secret of their remarkable romance. Lionel and Ellen Buxton from Dover, Kent, have invited users of the networking website to tweet them with their problems. The couple said they have not spent more than one night apart in the past eight decades, the Daily...
10:37 PM, Feb 11, 2012
While the Uttar Pradesh elections hog the lion's share of coverage in national media, the Punjab elections are proving to be the more colourful of the two. YouTube, Facebook, and other media platforms are full of the hilarious conversations between cartoon characters Jeeta and Jaggi created by the Congress, who take pot shots at the failings of the SAD"BJP (Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party) government. SAD has responded through their...
12:28 PM, Feb 10, 2012
London: Chelsea spent 28 million Pounds on firing manager Carlo Ancelotti and hiring Andre Villas-Boas, an outlay that does not appear to be paying off with the team performing worse in the English Premier League this season. Ancelotti was ditched in May after failing to win a trophy in his second season at Stamford Bridge, prompting owner Roman Abramovich to take a costly gamble on luring the inexperienced Villas-Boas from...
02:46 PM, Feb 09, 2012
London: Europe continues to battle the intense cold and heavy snowfall and the condition is likely to stay the same at least till the end of the week. While Serbia has declared a state of emergency after the snow snapped access to tens of thousands of people, in Ukraine, 122 people have died so far with the temperatures hitting minus 30 degree celcius. Meanwhile, Romania's Prime Minister Emil Boc resigned...
10:10 AM, Feb 07, 2012
