Thursday, September 2, 2010

Pak match-fixing scandal: ICC provisionally suspends tainted Pak trio

Pak match-fixing scandal: ICC provisionally suspends tainted Pak trio

Pak match-fixing scandal: ICC provisionally suspends tainted Pak trio

Posted:

Pak match-fixing scandal - The International Cricket Council (ICC) has provisionally suspended and charged three tainted Pakistan players - Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir - under its anti-corruption code in the wake of the match-fixing scandal during the team's tour of England.


Couple in fear of dishonour killing seeks protection

Posted:

With dishonour-killings on the rise, a newly-wed couple, who married outside their caste, on Thursday sought police protection, citing threat to their life from the girl's family.


Senior government official kidnapped

Posted:

Suspected Kuki militants have kidnapped a senior Manipur government officer, official sources said in Imphal on Thursday.


Police to act against Inspector accused of raping minor

Posted:

Hyderabad police on Thursday said disciplinary action would be taken against a Madannapet Inspector who is accused of raping a minor.


Jagan Mohan all set to resume his yatra

Posted:

Despite the reservations of the party high command, Congress MP Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is set to resume his controversial 'Odarpu yatra' in Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh on Friday.


Manmohan is a wonderful Prime Minister, says Tony Blair

Posted:

Former British premier Tony Blair describes Manmohan Singh as "the wonderful Indian Prime Minister" in his best-selling memoirs titled 'My Journey'. Blair, who interacted with Singh on several occasions during his tenure as the British prime minister from 1997 to 2007, says that Singh had advised him that Britain could not afford to be out of Europe.


BlackBerry data requests legitimate: UN official

Posted:

The chief of the UN's telecommunications agency urged the Canadian manufacturer of the BlackBerry to allow law enforcement agencies, including those in India, access to customer data, saying governments had legitimate security concerns which should not be ignored.


Offshore oil platform in Gulf of Mexico explodes

Posted:

An offshore oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, west of the site of the April blast that caused the massive oil spill.


Dengue cases reach 1,081 in Delhi

Posted:

The dengue menace showed no signs of abating in the national capital where the number of cases reached 1,081on Thursday with 67 more patients testing positive form the vector-borne disease.


Dengue at CWG: More countries worried

Posted:

More than a thousand people are now down with dengue in Delhi, and this may emerge as a final hurdle before the Commonwealth Games.


Grain rotting: Govt to release more food grains for BPL families

Posted:

Acting on the directive of the Supreme Court, government on Thursday decided to release an extra 2.5 million tonnes of food grains to states for distribution among the poor but it will not be free.


Twitter app for iPad puts new focus on design

Posted:

Twitter has a new app for the iPad — and along with it, a new approach to design and usability. Twitter has surprised its founders with how useful it has become to a wide variety of people — but the founders are also the first to admit that Twitter's own Web site has not been the easiest, prettiest or most intuitive to use. "It's amazing it's grown so fast given how hard it is to use," Twitter's chief executive and co-founder, Evan Williams, said last spring.


Naxals kill 1 abducted cop in Bihar, extend deadline for 3 others

Posted:

At 5 pm, Naxals in Bihar called local TV channels to declare that one of the four policemen they had kidnapped near Patna had been killed. Soon, sources in the Intelligence Bureau in Delhi confirmed the news. The Naxals didn't reveal how they'd murdered Sub Inspector Abhay Prasad Yadav. He was in his 30s.


Scotland Yard report on cricket to be given to Pak

Posted:

Britain's acting High Commissioner Peter Tibber on Thursday said the Scotland Yard's report on the investigation into the alleged spot-fixing scandal will be shared with Pakistan.


Hostage drama at Germany petrol station

Posted:

A hostage drama at a petrol station in Germany ended without bloodshed when police Tasered the suspect before arresting him.


Whose side are you on? It might be the Taliban’s

Posted:

The Taliban try to kill American troops every day. That is reality. Can you handle it in a video game?


Bangalore's new hi-tech driving test

Posted:

A man in uniform shouts in Kannada, "fail maadi!" The recipient of the news looks dejected. He knows he accelerated too heavily when he was trying to make his way up a slope. He was hoping nobody had noticed the car rolling back. Sensors beeped his mistakes out loud and clear. Big fat "F".


God didn't create the Universe: Stephen Hawking

Posted:

God didn't create the universe - it was actually a result of the inevitable laws of physics, British physicist Prof Stephen Hawking has concluded.In his latest book, 'The Grand Design', Hawking said, "Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing."


Big Rajinikanth family production on Friday

Posted:

It's going to be a Friday release of a different kind for the superstar in Chennai. Ahead of his next big film - Robot or Endhiran - comes his day as Father of the Bride. Rajinikanth's daughter, Soundarya, is getting married tomorrow.


Matrimonial website for defence personnel

Posted:

After having customised websites for different communities, matrimonial portals have taken a step further by launching a site dedicated to defence personnel on Thursday.


Prince Charles urges people to wear old clothes

Posted:

Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, has urged people to wear more old and recycled clothes, and natural fabrics like him so as to help reduce the world's carbon footprint and halt climate change.


Facebook page for lives lost in Haiti

Posted:

The desperate quest to find loved ones started just minutes after the massive Haiti quake, as cell phones rang unanswered from beneath the rubble of Haiti's best hotel.


India to build world's largest solar telescope

Posted:

India is inching closer towards building the world's largest solar telescope in Ladakh on the foothills of the Himalayas that aims to study the sun's microscopic structure.


Nepal seizes gold smuggled from India

Posted:

Nepal's security forces have seized gold worth over NRS 10 million that was being smuggled by road from India and arrested two men, an official said Thursday.


Kerala to get fifth airport

Posted:

The Kerala government on Thursday gave the nod to a proposed airport to be built at Aranmula in the state's Pathanamthitta district in which the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (R-ADAG) would have a 15 per cent holding.


Boy dies in building collapse in Gujarat

Posted:

An 11-year-old boy died in a building collapse here, police officials said.


H1N1 cases on the rise

Posted:

A two and half year-old girl of Tikilipada village in Orissa's Sundargarh district tested positive for swine flu positive, while eight other have been quarantined at home, official sources said. The girl, was admitted to the Ispat General Hospital here on Tuesday, was suspected to have contacted the virus from her aunt who died of H1N1 at VSS Medical College Hospital recently, they said.


Principals of three nursing colleges taken into custody

Posted:

Three nursing colleges run in a same building here by separate education societies have put the future of 80 students at stake, as the institutions are not recognized by the Nursing Council of Maharashtra.


Three poachers held with deer meat

Posted:

Three poachers were arrested and deer meat and a gun seized from them in Sathyamangalam forest in the district, police said.


Accused found dead in police lock-up

Posted:

The body of an accused was found inside the lock up at Jarada police station in Orissa's Ganjam district this morning, hours after he surrendered to the police. Police said Sanyasi Gamanga (55), accused in the death of a boy, was found dead inside the lock up.


Posted by Harshad at 7:38 PM

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)