Paris: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga followed up a long night of worrying with a short day of tennis. In the end, everything turned out OK for France's favorite player. The No. 5 seed returned to Roland Garros on Monday and finished off a five-set victory over No. 18 Stanislas Wawrinka, quickly dropping a service break but rebounding to win the last two games of a match that was suspended by darkness the...
07:58 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Paris: Juan Martin del Potro set up a French Open quarterfinal against Roger Federer by finishing off a 7-6 (6), 1-6, 6-3, 7-5 victory over Tomas Berdych on Monday in a match stopped the night before because of darkness after three sets. The No. 9-seeded del Potro broke No. 7 Berdych at love in the final game. Del Potro is 2-11 against Federer, but one of the victories came in...
06:44 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Chennai: Former DMK minister Veerapandi S Arumugam was arrested in Chennai on Monday in connecting with a land grabbing case, police said. Arumugam, the party's strongman in Salem district, was arrested around noon near his residence, police said. The former agriculture minister would be taken to Salem for further questioning, they said. On May 17, vigilance officials had conducted raids at 16 premises of Arumugam and his relatives in Chennai...
05:48 PM, Jun 04, 2012
London: Rio Ferdinand's representative says England coach Roy Hodgson has shown the defender a lack of respect by repeatedly ignoring him for the European Championship. After Gary Cahill was ruled out of Euro 2012 with a broken jaw, Hodgson selected Liverpool's Martin Kelly, who made his England debut in last week's win at Norway and has just 10 Premier League appearances for his club last term, while the experienced Ferdinand...
02:35 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Ankara: Thousands of demonstrators on Monday staged the largest protest yet against plans by Turkey's Islamic-rooted government to curb abortion, which critics say will amount to a virtual ban. Around 3,000 women, their ages ranging from 20 to 60 years old, gathered at a square in Istanbul's Kadikoy district carrying banners that read "my body, my choice," while shouting anti-government slogans. Many were accompanied by husbands and boyfriends. One man...
11:00 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Hyderabad: Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's first day of questioning revolved around crores of investments that flowed into his companies allegedly through hawala routes. The CBI also sought to know the alleged pressure exerted by the MP and his late father and chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy, on the then investments and infrastructure minister Mopidevi Venkata Ramana Rao with regard to the Vanpic deal. The CBI, according to sources,...
10:44 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Hyderabad: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will continue its questioning of YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy for the second day on Monday. Jagan Reddy is being interrogated for his role as prime accused in the alleged disproportionate assets case. The CBI on Sunday took Jagan Reddy for interrogation in the disproportionate assets case after the Andhra Pradesh High Court granted a 5-day custody of him to the agency...
08:40 AM, Jun 04, 2012
London: Scientists say they may be able to prove by the end of the year that the elusive Higgs Boson, or the particle that is responsible for giving mass to the universe, really exists. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, will be switched off at the end of this year for some major upgrades, but Rolf-Dieter Heuer, director of European Organisation for Nuclear Research...
08:40 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Paris: Victoria Azarenka was knocked out of the French Open fourth round on Sunday and could now lose her world number one ranking, while Novak Djokovic narrowly avoided following her to the exit. Belarussian Azarenka was beaten 6-2, 7-6 by Slovakian 15th seed Dominika Cibulkova and must wait to see if Russian Maria Sharapova will claim the top spot. Sharapova, who meets unseeded Czech Klara Zakopalova in the last-16 on...
11:46 PM, Jun 03, 2012
Beed: A doctor couple in Beed, Maharashtra was held on Sunday for allegedly carrying out illegal abortions. The police is on the lookout for others as well. Doctor Shivaji Sanap will now lose his license and would not be allowed to practice for five years. His hospital was raided after a couple of foetuses were found in the city. A Rickshawpuller reportedly identified the hospital as the place from where...
01:29 PM, Jun 03, 2012
New Delhi: Over 5,000 children, including newborns, died in the past three years while undergoing treatment at the government-run multi-speciality Safdarjung Hospital, an RTI reply has revealed. While 2,545 children died within 48 hours of admission, of which 914 were neonates (newborn), 1,833 died after that. In reply to an RTI query by Mumbai resident Ajay Marathe, the hospital revealed that in the past three years, starting from 2009, a...
11:49 AM, Jun 03, 2012
New Delhi: BJP leader Uma Bharti is expected to lead a Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP)-sponsored, parallel Amarnath pilgrimage from Jammu on Sunday. The leader has been demanding that the Amarnath Yatra be allowed for two months. The Jammu and Kashmir government has allowed the yatra, which begins on June 15, to proceed for 37 days. ...
11:28 AM, Jun 03, 2012
Hyderabad: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Sunday took YSR Congress Chief Jagan Mohan Reddy for interrogation in the disproportionate assets case after the Andhra Pradesh High Court granted a 5-day custody of him to the agency on Saturday. The questions, however, are many and the answers none so far. Will Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy provide answers to all the queries of the CBI? As Jagan and...
10:59 AM, Jun 03, 2012
New Delhi: Union Minister for Overseas Affairs Vayalar Ravi on Saturday pushed for reduction in petrol prices and said that the oil marketing companies are making false claims that they are incurring losses. He suggested that bold steps should be taken to reduce the recent increase in petrol prices. In a letter to Union Minister for Petroleum S Jaipal Reddy, Ravi questioned the claims of oil companies that they are...
08:11 PM, Jun 02, 2012
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