OCA announced a 15-member Ranji Team, which will be led by Natraj Behera in first two matches. ...
08:05 PM, Oct 29, 2012
Chennai: Anti-nuclear activists in Chennai on Monday morning laid siege to the state secretariat, demonstrating against the India visit by a team from the international watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Activists showed black flags and banners to decry the atomic inspectors' visit. The inspectors have been invited by the Centre to inspect safety practices adopted by the Rajasthan Atomic Power Station in Rawatbhata near Kota. The team will submit...
11:54 AM, Oct 29, 2012
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh effected a major Cabinet reshuffle on Sunday, giving away the major share to Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal to counter the Telangana forces in the former and ex-ally Mamata Banerjee of the Trinamool Congress in the latter. Several ministers were elevated to the Cabinet rank, with many new faces being included at the MoS level, even as portfolios of several ministers were changed. The inductees included ...
03:53 PM, Oct 28, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Sunday that he had always wanted Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi in the government but that he wanted to work for the party and strengthen it. Rahul Gandhi has not gotten any Cabinet post or elevated within the party amidst the mega reshuffle that took place on Sunday. The rumour mill had gone on an overdrive in the days leading up to...
02:05 PM, Oct 28, 2012
New Delhi: The Manmohan Singh Cabinet is set for a major makeover on Sunday. This is expected to be the last big Cabinet reshuffle before the 2014 General Elections, and this time, the theme privileges young blood over the old guard. The embattled Law Minister, Salman Khurshid is the frontrunner for the Ministry of External Affairs, the post left vacant after SM Krishna resigned. Commerce Minister Anand Sharma is also...
07:21 AM, Oct 28, 2012
As per Forbes.com, the 48-year-old is currently 24th in the list of richest Indians. ...
03:04 PM, Oct 25, 2012
Brit Insurance said it would not renew its contract beyond 2014. ...
06:06 PM, Oct 22, 2012
New Delhi: Anti-corruption crusader-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday continued to face sharp attack from the Congress through party general secretary Digvijaya Singh. And this even as his former mentor and associate in the fight against graft, Anna Hazare, offered a word of advice for the India Against Corruption (IAC) member asking him to take up his fight against the corrupts one by one. A day after Digvijaya Singh described Kejriwal...
10:09 PM, Oct 20, 2012
New Delhi: Anna Hazare will meet his new Core Committee in Ralegan Siddhi for two days from November 24 and has invited several eminent persons like former Army chief Gen VK Singh, activist Kiran Bedi said on Saturday. The new Core Committee will meet for the first time just as Arvind Kejriwal, who split with Anna Hazare on the question of going political, is set to announce the name of...
09:42 PM, Oct 20, 2012
The Mumbai A outfit will take on the visiting England team in a three-day tour game from November 3-5. ...
06:15 PM, Oct 20, 2012
Paris: Spint ace Mark Cavendish is leaving Team Sky in order to fulfil his Tour de France ambitions after spending this year's race serving as a domestique for race winner Bradley Wiggins, the British team said on Thursday. Briton Cavendish, the 2011 world champion who has 23 Tour de France stage wins, will join Belgian team Omega Pharma-Quick Step for the 2013 season. Sky's Team Principal Dave Brailsford said Cavendish...
11:52 PM, Oct 18, 2012
New Delhi: The first woman to lead a Formula One team has another reason to look forward to the Indian Grand Prix next week " it's in her country of birth. The 41-year-old Monisha Kaltenborn was promoted from Sauber's chief executive to its team principal last week, and she said her main focus now is on ensuring the Switzerland-based team improves on its four podium finishes this season. "The Indian...
05:38 PM, Oct 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Special Investigation Team probing the violence that occurred at the Maruti plant in Manesar on July 18, 2012, has said that the violence was not instigated from outside. The SIT report says the violence resulted from internal issues between the company management and workers. The Haryana police has framed charges against 145 people after questioning 300 witnesses. A senior manager had died after workers had gone on...
08:28 AM, Oct 16, 2012
Mumbai: The Special Investigating Team (SIT), probing the alleged amassing of disproportionate assets by former Mumbai Congress chief Kripashankar Singh and his family, on Monday recorded his statement. Singh arrived at the Police Commissionerate around noon alone and SIT recorded his statement at least for an hour, said an IPS officer. Various questions relating to his properties were asked by the SIT officials and Singh answered them, the officer said,...
05:30 PM, Oct 15, 2012
"I think I am mentally and physically much stronger now after having gone through the worst phase of my life." ...
11:04 PM, Oct 10, 2012
Bangalore: A team of central government officials arrived here on Thursday to assess water availability in the Cauvery river and Karnataka's requirement in the wake of intensifying agitation against the release of water to Tamil Nadu. The team would on Friday visit Cauvery basin district of Mandya, about 80 km from here, where the Krishnaraja Sagar dam, from which 9,000 cusecs of water is being released to Tamil Nadu daily,...
05:55 PM, Oct 04, 2012
Kerala will kick-start their Ranji campaingn against Himachal Pradesh on November 2 at Dharmasala. ...
02:20 PM, Oct 04, 2012
Time has come to put an arm around Dhoni and ask how he is feeling about leading India in three different formats. ...
01:23 PM, Oct 04, 2012
Patna: Eighteen policemen - seven inspectors and 11 constables - were suspended on Sunday for failing to prevent the attacks on Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's cavalcade during his Adhikar Yatra. The Bihar police on Saturday formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by a superintendent of police, to probe the protests. The SIT filed an FIR against 75 named and 600 unknown people. There were protests in Motihari, Begusarai and...
01:21 PM, Sep 30, 2012
Khagaria: Ranvir Yadav, who was captured on video cameras snatching an automatic weapon from police and firing in the air to disperse protesters near Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's public meeting at Khagaria town, has no case lodged against him, district police superintendent said on Saturday. "No one has filed case with police against Yadav for terrorising anybody by branding a weapon on Thursday and so the question of giving him...
07:46 PM, Sep 29, 2012
