Washington: The older suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings spoke to his mother about "jihad" in a 2011 phone call secretly recorded by Russian officials, CBS News reported on Saturday. US authorities learned of the wiretapped discussion between Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of two ethnic Chechen brothers suspected of carrying out the April 15 blasts in Boston, and Zubeidat Tsarnaeva within the last few days, CBS said. It provided no other...
10:13 AM, Apr 28, 2013
Washington: Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects vaguely discussed jihad with his mother, officials said on Saturday, days after the US government finally received details about the call. In another conversation, the mother of now-dead bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was recorded talking to someone in southern Russia who is under FBI investigation in an unrelated case, officials said. The...
06:56 AM, Apr 28, 2013
New Delhi: World number 1 shuttler Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia on Saturday said Indian players have improved immensely over the years and added that "never" had five players from the country qualified for the quarter-finals of the India Open badminton tournament. "Now the Indian players are playing well. You had five Indians in the men's quarter-finals here. Never before, right?," said Chong Wei. He applauded the national coach Pullela...
09:27 PM, Apr 27, 2013
New Delhi: At 26, Anand Pawar has seen a lot of lows in his career and at the India Open 2013, the Mumbaikar had his moment recording career best showing at a Super Series reaching the semi-finals. It was by no means an easy draw for the Indian. He had to stave off challenges from world number 19 Takuma Ueda of Japan, third seed Yun Hu of Hong Kong and...
09:17 PM, Apr 27, 2013
New Delhi: World No 1 Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia beat Boonsak Ponsana of Thailand 21-11, 18-21, 21-8 to enter his third India Open men's singles final while Juliane Schenk went past Aprilla Yuswandari to book a place in the women's singles final here at the Siri Fort Sports Complex on Saturday. The two Indians in the fray, Anand Pawar and PV Sindhu, lost their respective semi-final matches much to...
08:14 PM, Apr 27, 2013
Chennai: Tamil composer Anirudh Ravichander, composer of 'Kolaveri di', has roped in London-based R&B singer Arjun Coomaraswamy, to perform a song in upcoming romantic-comedy 'Vanakkam Chennai'. Known by his stage name Arjun, he became popular after composing the R&B cover version of the song 'Why this Kolaveri Di'. "Vanakkam Chennai, my next, will have a song featuring the highly talented Arjun. He's the person behind the UK R&B version of...
07:46 PM, Apr 27, 2013
New Delhi: India's PV Sindhu lost out to 18-year-old Ratchanok Intanon of Thailand rather tamely in straight games 12-21, 6-21 in just 31 minutes in the semi-finals of the India Open here at the Siri Fort Sports Complex on Saturday. In the most anticipated clash of the day, the future of women's badminton was on display with the 17-year-old Sindhu taking on vastly talented and highly rated Intanon but the...
07:22 PM, Apr 27, 2013
New Delhi: Rising shuttler PV Sindhu has been given the top billing in the women's singles event at the Malaysia Grand Prix Gold 2013 starting in Kuala Lumpur from April 30. Sindhu, ranked 15th in the world, faces Chen Jiayuan of Singapore in the first round of the tournament to be played at the Supka Indoor Stadium from April 30 to May 4. Sindhu is currently playing in the India...
06:01 PM, Apr 27, 2013
Los Angeles: Popular TV show 'Two And A Half Men' has been renewed for an 11th season but Angus T Jones will not be in the regular series. Both Ashton Kutcher and Jon Cryer will return for the new series but Jones, who plays Jake Harper, will not be a regular, although it is possible he will make guest appearances, according to Deadline. A tweet on the CBS Twitter feed...
05:56 PM, Apr 27, 2013
Los Angeles: 'The Avengers' star Gwyneth Paltrow, who wore a see-through dress on the red carpet of the 'Iron Man 3' premiere, believes her dress was a 'disaster'. The 40-year-old actress wore a Antonio Berardi dress that exposed more than what she desired, leaving her embarrassed, reported Radar online. "I kind of had a disaster. I was doing a show, and I changed there, and I couldn't wear underwear. I...
05:18 PM, Apr 27, 2013
Washington: President Barack Obama warned Syria on Friday that its use of chemical weapons would be a "game changer" for the United States but made clear he was in no rush to intervene in the civil war there on the basis of evidence he said was still preliminary. Speaking a day after the disclosure of US intelligence that Syria had likely used chemical weapons against its own people, Obama talked...
05:13 PM, Apr 27, 2013
New Delhi: World number 53 Anand Pawar's dream run at the India Open 2013 ended in the semi-finals with a defeat at the hands of sixth seed Kenichi Tago of Japan 21-16, 21-11 in 43 minutes at the Siri Fort Sports Complex here on Saturday. Pawar, who beat world number 19 Takuma Ueda and third seed Yun Hu en route to to his best ever career result at the Super...
04:45 PM, Apr 27, 2013
Boston: The surviving suspect in last week's Boston Marathon bombing was moved to a prison medical center outside Boston on Friday, while the body of his older brother who died in a shootout with police remained unclaimed, officials said. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old ethnic Chechen charged with the bombing that killed three people and wounded 264, was moved from the hospital where he was kept under guard since he was...
06:10 AM, Apr 27, 2013
Toronto: Canada's immigration minister says he is reviewing the country's deportation policies following revelations that a court decided nine years ago against deporting a man who was arrested last week on terror charges. Raed Jaser came to Canada with his family as a teenager in 1993. Court records indicate he was unable to obtain Canadian citizenship because of criminal convictions including acts of fraud in 1997. Federal authorities tried to...
01:15 AM, Apr 27, 2013
New Delhi: Samajwadi Party on Friday sought an apology from the US for the "insult" caused by the questioning of Uttar Pradesh minister Azam Khan at the Logan International Airport in Boston. "We demand an apology from the US on the issue as Indians cannot be insulted like this after being invited," senior SP leader Naresh Agarwal said. Khan, a senior leader of the ruling SP in UP and also...
10:50 PM, Apr 26, 2013
New Delhi: HS Prannoy started off as a qualifier at the India Open 2013, but by the fourth day the Indian had beaten Indonesian legend Taufiq Hidayat. On Friday, he was up against the world number one Lee Chong Wei at the Siri Fort Sports Complex and he lost 21-14, 21-19 but he put up a very good fight prompting the Malaysian to say that Prannoy is a very bright...
07:47 PM, Apr 26, 2013
New Delhi: Eighth seed PV Sindhu of India dispatched Yui Hashimoto of Japan 21-16, 21-16 to enter the semi-finals of India Open for the first time here at the Siri Fort Sports Complex on Friday. The Indian took 47 minutes to beat her Japanese opponent who had ousted the top seed Saina Nehwal a day earlier. Sindhu took the first game in just under 21 minutes leading throughout, with the...
07:17 PM, Apr 26, 2013
Washington: An 80-year-old US woman accidentally swallowed a $5,000 diamond from her champagne glass at a charity event. The Tampa Woman's Club held a fundraiser over the weekend where they poured 400 flutes of champagne. For $20, members could buy a flute of champagne and a chance to win a one-carat, $5,000 diamond. Each flute contained a cubic zirconia stone, and only one of them contained the prized gem donated...
06:29 PM, Apr 26, 2013
New Delhi: India will host the finals of the prestigious Thomas Cup and Uber Cup for the first time from 18th May to 25th May, 2014. The announcement was made after the agreement signing ceremony between Badminton Association of India President Dr Akhilesh Das Gupta and World Federation Deputy President Paisan Rangsikitpoh at the Siri Fort sports complex on Friday. On this occasion, Dr Akhilesh Das Gupta, said, "We are...
05:30 PM, Apr 26, 2013
Washington: A powerful American lawmaker has accused Russia of not co-operating with the US on the Boston Marathon bombings. Congressman Mike Rogers, who has been briefed several times by the intelligence community on the Boston bombings, believes that the Russians have information that will be incredibly valuable on the two Chechen brothers, the suspects in the case. "The Russian government is not quite cooperating yet to the extent that I...
03:13 PM, Apr 26, 2013
