Saturday, July 28, 2012

London 2012 Boxing: Vijender Singh through to the round of 16

London 2012 Boxing: Vijender Singh through to the round of 16

London 2012 Boxing: Vijender Singh through to the round of 16

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 03:40 PM PDT

India's Vijender Singh beat Danabek Suzhanov of Kazakhstan 14-10 in the first round of men's middle-weight 75kg category Boxing event, to advance to the round of 16 at the London Olympics 2012.It ...

Weekend sees better turnout at Team Anna fast; Hazare to join hunger strike today

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 12:19 PM PDT

The weekend provided some much-needed respite for Team Anna as moderate crowds turned up at their indefinite fast on Saturday. Meanwhile, Anna Hazare is all geared up to join the hunger strike today.

IIT Kanpur to accept common entrance test as 'interim' measure

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 11:01 AM PDT

IIT Kanpur today decided to accept the common entrance test based on percentile ranking as an "interim" measure only for 2013 and retain the existing eligibility condition for students who passed thei...

Caught on camera: Mob thrashes women inside a resort in Mangalore

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 11:00 AM PDT

In what appears to be a repeat of the infamous Mangalore pub attack episode, a Kannada channel today aired footage that showed young women being beaten up by a group of men inside a resort in the city...

Tunnel running between India and Pakistan found in Jammu

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 10:52 AM PDT

A tunnel running between India and Pakistan at the international border in the Samba sector of Jammu has been found by a Border Security Force (BSF) patrol.

India beat Sri Lanka to go 2-1 up in series

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 10:45 AM PDT

Until Suresh Raina exploded in a flurry of strokes, Sri Lanka, driven by experience and buoyed by youthful exuberance, seemed to have played the key moments better at the R Premadasa Stadium on Sa...

18-day-old girl found murdered in drain in Ghaziabad

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 09:39 AM PDT

An 18-day-old girl was found murdered in a drain in Ghaziabad, police said on Saturday.

Seven-year-old girl hospitalised after teacher thrashes her for not reading aloud

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 08:42 AM PDT

A seven-year-old girl, studying in a private school in Virudhunagar in Tamil Nadu, was hospitalised after being beaten by her teacher for not reading her English lesson aloud in class.

Blast on bus in J&K kills three; conflicting reports on cause of blast

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 08:33 AM PDT

Three people have died and six others have been injured in a blast on a tourist bus in the Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir. All the three who died were women. The condition of one of the injure...

Team Anna supporters protest outside PM's residence, detained

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 08:06 AM PDT

Around 50 supporters of Team Anna, including six women, today took security personnel by surprise as they suddenly turned up to protest outside Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's official residence, 7 Ra...

Lewis Hamilton on pole for revived McLaren

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 06:34 AM PDT

Briton Lewis Hamilton confirmed that he and McLaren have recovered their form when he swept to a dominant pole position in Saturday's closely-fought qualifying session for Sunday's Hungarian Grand Pri...

What the Prime Minister did not see in Kokrajhar

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 06:21 AM PDT

On Thursday, when we went to the Commerce College relief camp in Kokrajhar town, it was in a mess. People were scattered around in four rooms and a huge auditorium. Even basic facilities like water an...

After Mayawati, three Ambedkar statues vandalised in Uttar Pradesh

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 05:49 AM PDT

Two days after a statue of former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati was vandalised, three statues of Dalit icon BR Ambedkar were damaged in Azamgarh district, police said today.

India clueless about mystery woman at Olympic parade

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 05:37 AM PDT

The presence of an unidentified woman beside flagbearer Sushil Kumar in the Indian contingent during the opening ceremony of the Olympics has prompted the country's miffed officials to take up the iss...

Assam violence a blot on the face of our country, says PM; announces Rs 300 cr relief: Top 10 developments

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 05:28 AM PDT

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has announced Rs 300 crore relief for violence-hit Assam today. On a visit to the relief camps in Kokrajhar he said the recent violence is a blot on the face of the natio...

India's shopping malls lose bustle as economy cools

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 05:22 AM PDT

The slowest growth in nine years and sluggish consumer spending is forcing developers to scale back plans.

London 2012 Archery: Indian men knocked out of Olympics archery

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 04:17 AM PDT

The Indian men's archery team was knocked out of the Olympic Games after losing to Japan in a tense pre-quarterfinal shoot-off at the Lord's Cricket Ground on Saturday.The trio of Jayanta Talukdar, Ra...

London 2012 Shooting: China wins first gold in women's 10m Air Rifle event

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 04:13 AM PDT

Top-ranked Yi Siling of China captured the first gold medal of the London Olympics in the women's 10-meter air rifle at Royal Artillery Barracks on Saturday.Sylwia Bogacka of Poland took silver for he...

Mark Webber fastest in final practice session in Hungary

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 03:59 AM PDT

Mark Webber topped the times for Red Bull in Saturday's final free practice session ahead of Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix.The 35-year-old Australian was fast throughout the session as he made the mos...

MP Shahid Siddiqui who interviewed Modi is not ours: Mulayam's party

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 03:50 AM PDT

The Samajwadi Party has disowned Shahid Siddiqui, the MP from Lucknow who recently interviewed Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for an Urdu newspaper.

Batman shooter was psychiatric patient

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 02:00 AM PDT

The suspected Batman massacre gunman was seeing a psychiatrist specializing in schizophrenia before the attack that killed 12 in Colorado, court documents showed on Friday.

Syrian troops kill six-year-old fleeing into Jordan

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 01:45 AM PDT

The family crept across farmland under night's cover, heading for the border, when Syrian troops opened fire. Bullets whizzed around them as they broke into a mad dash, survivors say. The six-year-old...

Can Delhi Metro deal with blasts, earthquakes? Mock drill tests preparedness

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 01:39 AM PDT

All Metro trains came to a grinding halt at 11 am today and commuters were given different reasons for it - bomb blast, earthquake and terrorist strike, but everything was normal in less than an hour.

Anna Hazare to NDTV: Not disappointed by dwindling numbers at agitation

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 01:01 AM PDT

Anna Hazare tells NDTV in an exclusive interview that he is not worried about the dwindling number of supporters at his protests. "My campaign will continue even if there are just five people," he sai...

PM's chopper develops technical snag during Assam visit

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 12:46 AM PDT

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's helicopter returned midway from a flight to strife-torn Kokrajhar district today due to a technical problem.
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