
Turin: Juventus boss Antonio Conte has reiterated that he was not aware of any match-fixing during his time in charge of Siena. It has been alleged that the former Italy international was aware of a plot to arrange the outcome of a crucial Serie B clash with Novara on April 30, 2011 - to play out a draw - and the 42-year-old's house was searched on Monday as part of...

04:01 PM, May 29, 2012

London: Tony Blair's decision to openly court Rupert Murdoch to win power and ensure favorable coverage during his decade-long tenure as British prime minister will come under scrutiny when he faces a media inquiry on Monday. The inquiry, ordered by Prime Minister David Cameron after Murdoch's now defunct News of the World tabloid admitted hacking phones, has tarnished Britain's elite by laying bare the collusion between politicians, the police and...

11:00 AM, May 28, 2012

New Delhi: Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has ordered a probe after CNN-IBN reported that officials close to former Medical Council of India chairman Ketan Desai were being allowed a back door entry into the Council. "A committee has been formed under the chairmanship of the Director General of ICMR. The committee will submit its report within two months," Azad said. The Board of Directors, which was given the task...

11:07 AM, May 17, 2012

New Delhi: It seems that another scandal is set to rock the Health Ministry. A CNN-IBN investigation has revealed that former Medical council of India (MCI) members, close to arrested former chief Ketan Desai, are being brought back into the Medical Council. The Board of Governors that was appointed to clean up the mess is under scrutiny. Two years after Ketan Desai's arrest and dissolution of the Medical Council of...

10:05 AM, May 16, 2012

Kochi: The Kerala High Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition of Leader of Opposition V S Achuthanandan seeking a copy of the investigation report in the Kozhikode ice-cream parlour sex case allegedly involving state minister and Indian Union Muslim League leader P K Kunhalikutty. It was Achuthanandan as the then chief minister in January last year who had ordered a fresh probe by the Kerala Police in the wake of...

04:29 PM, May 02, 2012

The US Secret Service and military have been accused of getting prostitutes before President Barack Obama's visit to Colombia. ...

02:09 PM, Apr 26, 2012

Islamabad: Pakistan's Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) has named Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's son as an accused in a case of alleged irregularities in the import of controlled drugs, prompting the premier to say that he was being punished for backing President Asif Ali Zardari before the judiciary. The ANF formally named Mr Gilani's son Ali Musa as one of the eight accused in a case related to alleged irregularities in...

05:47 PM, Apr 21, 2012

Cartagena: A prostitution scandal involving US security personnel in Colombia and an unprecedented regional push to end the isolation of Cuba threatened on Saturday to eclipse President Barack Obama's charm offensive to Latin America. In a major embarrassment for Washington at the Summit of the Americas attended by more than 30 heads of state, 11 US Secret Service agents were sent home and five military servicemen grounded over "misconduct" allegations...

09:56 AM, Apr 15, 2012

New Delhi: Lieutenant General (Retd) Tejinder Singh is likely to record his statement in the criminal defamation case filed against Army Chief General VK Singh and 4 others in the bribery scandal on Tuesday. Lt Gen (Retd) Tejinder Singh filed the case after General Singh hinted that he had offered him a bribe to clear a deal for the purchase of sub-standard Tatra trucks. The General had hinted at Lt...

06:50 AM, Apr 10, 2012

Melbourne: The Australian military has been rocked by a sex scandal after a 23-year-old soldier was arrested over the alleged rape of a civilian woman at a military college. The soldier has been arrested and charged with raping a 21-year-old woman at Canberra's Royal Military College, Duntroon on Friday. The incident comes just weeks after the military handed down wide-ranging reviews of Defence culture, including how to handle sexual abuse...

03:13 PM, Apr 07, 2012

London: James Murdoch's exit from the chairmanship of BSkyB moves his father Rupert into the firing line in Britain, just as an inquiry into a phone-hacking scandal turns its focus on his peculiar influence in the country. Rupert Murdoch, News Corp's chief executive, is due to appear before a judge-led inquiry into ethics and standards in the British press, which will be turning its attention to newspaper proprietors and politicians....

03:03 AM, Apr 05, 2012

Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh government has transferred a senior police officer who was probing the liquor pay-offs scandal allegedly involving some top politicians. Additional Director of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) K Sreenivasa Reddy has been posted as chief of coastal security. The orders of his promotion as inspector general of police and new posting were issued on Tuesday night. The development came as a big surprise for many as the probe...

12:49 PM, Apr 04, 2012

Ahmedabad: All the Congress MLAs were on Thursday suspended from the Gujarat Assembly for disrupting the House, seeking dismissal of two BJP MLAs accused of watching obscene video clips during the proceedings. During the second session of the day, Minister of State for Legislative affairs Pradeepsinh Jadeja raised a point of order against Congress members who were shouting slogans against the MLAs Shankar Chaudhary and Jetha Bharvad. The point of...

06:20 PM, Mar 22, 2012

Chennai: Self-styled godman Nithyananda has claimed that four US-based forensic agencies have concluded that visuals showing him in a compromising position with an actress were "morphed." "Forensic reports from four US-based agencies have endorsed my claim showing 60 reasons. So the video aired (by regional channels) was absolutely a fabricated lie," he told reporters in Chennai. He claimed the software used by those who morphed was sophisticated and could not...

05:35 PM, Mar 15, 2012

London: Police arrested Rebekah Brooks, the former News of the World editor and close associate to Rupert Murdoch, for a second time on Tuesday in a new round of detentions in Britain's phone-hacking scandal, Sky News reported. British police confirmed they had held five men and one woman in dawn raids across the country on suspicion of conspiring to pervert the course of justice, with the woman described as 43-years-old...

06:18 PM, Mar 13, 2012