Moscow: Rising Russian women's tennis star Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova on Monday announced that five-time Grand Slam champion Martina Hingis will be coaching her. Pavlyuchenkova rose to 20th in the world on the back of her third title in Monterrey last week, and has enlisted the retired Swiss star's help for this weekend's Fed Cup match and beyond. "Now I'm starting my collaboration with Martina Hingis and we are going to try...
05:01 PM, Apr 15, 2013
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hit out at its biggest ally Janata Dal United saying it should refrain from targeting its allies and instead focus on removing the "corrupt" United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had, in a veiled threat to the BJP, made it clear that his party will not accept the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as the NDA's prime ministerial nominee. ...
03:58 PM, Apr 15, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will take up Bharti Airtel Chairman Sunil Mittal and Essar Group promoter Ravi Ruia's petition challenging the summons of the CBI special court on Monday in a case related to alleged irregularities in the allocation of mobile phone bandwidth during the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance regime in 2002. Mittal and Ruia were summoned by the court as an accused along with Asim Ghosh, the former...
07:30 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Kolkata: East Bengal's I-League hopes virtually went up in smoke after a 1-1 draw against Sporting Clube de Goa at the Vivekananda Yubabharati Krirangan Sunday. East Bengal were wasteful to start with as the Goans drew the first blood when Juanfri Pena struck in the 43rd minute. Cornered, the home outfit found the equaliser through Edeh Chidi who struck in the 62nd minute. It was East Bengal's fourth successive draw...
07:35 PM, Apr 14, 2013
Barcelona: Deportivo La Coruna rolled to a 4-0 victory at Levante to provisionally escape the Spanish league's relegation zone for the first time in 18 weeks after their fourth consecutive win on Saturday. Also, Malaga forward Julio Baptista struck in injury time to grab a 1-0 win over visiting Osasuna four days after the Costa del Sol side was eliminated from the Champions League quarter-finals. Sergio Garcia's last-gasp equalizer secured...
10:25 AM, Apr 14, 2013
London: Actress Halle Berry, who is expecting a child with her French fiance Olivier Martinez, has assured fans that she will still be reprising her role as mutant superhero in 'X-Men: Days Of Future Past' despite her pregnancy. Berry, 42, said she will be less involved in action scenes due to her growing baby bump in the next instalment of the X-Men franchise, which is due to begin filming later...
10:11 AM, Apr 14, 2013
London: Millwall fans fought among themselves at Wembley Stadium on Saturday, overshadowing Wigan's 2-0 victory that advanced the club to the first FA Cup final in their 81-year history. Police and security officers appeared slow to react as disorder built throughout the second half. Groups of Millwall supporters brawled with each other and security personnel. Ten people were arrested following "sporadic disorder" among Millwall fans, police said. The investigation was...
09:57 AM, Apr 14, 2013
Till a few years back Bihar was not only an administrative nightmare but was in the news mostly for the bizarre. The state, caught in the vicious cycle of caste wars, deteriorating law and order, administrative apathy and total abdication of the governance to the mafia and local dons, receded from the national consciousness. But since late 2005 Bihar has made a remarkable comeback from the precipice after Nitish Kumar,...
03:36 PM, Apr 12, 2013
New Delhi: For the first time, Indian private firms can bid for making artillery guns. An Indian Express report says at the last meeting of the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), the Ministry of Defence decided to allow Indian private entities to participate in a bid for making artillery guns. In the past, private firms have made ancillary equipment for the Pinaka missile. It is learnt that while approving the Army's...
02:17 PM, Apr 12, 2013
New Delhi: Filmmaker-composer Vishal Bhardwaj, who refused to screen his forthcoming co-production 'Ek Thi Daayan' before a women's commission, says only the censor board has the authority to assess a film. Directed by Kannan Iyer, 'Ek Thi Daayan' is a supernatural thriller that revolves around a witch. The National Commission for Women (NCW) summoned both the producers - Ekta Kapoor and Bhardwaj - after Ipsita Roy Chakraverti, a Wiccan priestess,...
10:55 AM, Apr 12, 2013
Hazaribagh: Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha on Thursday appealed to the people of Jharkhand not to vote for regional parties if they wished to have a stable government in the state, now under President's rule. "Give majority votes to a single party and it should be a national party and not Jharkhand regional parties, if they (people) like to see development and stability," he told a party meeting at Barkatha...
02:27 AM, Apr 12, 2013
Srinagar: Four Jammu and Kashmir Police constables were arrested in Srinagar for extorting at gunpoint Rs 50,000 from a resident last week, police said on Thursday. A police officer said a resident of Batmaloo area in Srinagar filed a compliant that some armed men in uniform robbed him of Rs 50,000 on April 3. "Four constables have been arrested on the complaint and investigations have been started into the allegation...
01:26 AM, Apr 12, 2013
New Delhi: Bharti Airtel cannot add new 3G customers in seven zones where it does not own the airwaves and offers the services through pacts with other carriers, the Supreme Court said on Thursday, pending a final ruling in the dispute. Bharti can, however, continue 3G services in the zones for its existing customers, the court said, after hearing an appeal by India's top telecommunications carrier challenging a government ban...
12:52 PM, Apr 11, 2013
New Delhi: Bharti CMD Sunil Mittal and Essar group promoter Ravi Ruia, who have been summoned as accused in the additional 2G spectrum allocation case, on Thursday appeared in a Delhi court which posted the matter for further proceedings on April 16. Mittal's counsel placed before special CBI judge OP Saini the order passed by the Supreme Court postponing till April 16 the proceedings in the case. Besides Mittal and...
12:33 PM, Apr 11, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will on Thursday hear appeals filed by Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular and Vodafone in response to notices sent to them regarding discontinuation of their 3G services in unlicensed cities. On April 8, the Apex Court had directed the telecom department to not take any 'coercive action' against the country's largest mobile phone company Bharti Airtel till Thursday, April 11. Last week, a panel of judges...
08:35 AM, Apr 11, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday postponed the proceedings in the Special CBI court against Essar Group promoter Ravi Ruia till April 16, who has been summoned as an accused in a corruption case related to allocation of additional 2G spectrum in 2002. A bench headed by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir issued notice to CBI seeking its response on the petition filed by Ruia challenging the Special CBI Court's...
08:30 AM, Apr 11, 2013
London: Savita Halappanavar's consultant obstetrician has admitted there were a number of system failures in her care at Galway University Hospital, where the 17-week pregnant Indian dentist died last October. Dr Katherine Astbury told the ongoing inquest into Savita's death at Galway Courthouse in Ireland that she was unaware of blood test abnormalities, adding that the patient's vitals should have been checked more regularly after her foetal membrane ruptured. According...
08:31 PM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: A government appointed probe panel looking into Walmart's lobbying with US lawmakers for its India entry on Wednesday sought fresh details from the global retailer and it expects to complete the investigation by June. The one-man panel of former Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court Mukul Mudgal, held its fourth meeting in the capital on Wednesday. It was attended by Walmart representatives and senior officials from...
05:40 PM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: Vidyut Jamwal made his presence felt as a villain in 'Force' (2011) and kept John Abraham on his toes throughout the film. Once again, Vidyut is ready to hit the silver screen, literally, with his latest film 'Commando - A One Man Army' in which he is all set to showcase his martial art skills. Vidyut is said to have trained in the ancient Indian form of martial...
03:02 PM, Apr 10, 2013
