Friday, August 3, 2012

London 2012 Athletics: Krishna Poonia qualifies for discus throw final, Antil out

London 2012 Athletics: Krishna Poonia qualifies for discus throw final, Antil out

London 2012 Athletics: Krishna Poonia qualifies for discus throw final, Antil out

Posted: 03 Aug 2012 04:16 PM PDT

India's Krishna Poonia qualified for the women's discus throw final round in London Olympics with an impressive effort in the qualification round on the first day of track and field events here.Seema ...

London 2012 Boxing: Vikas Krishan through to 69-kg quarter-final

Posted: 03 Aug 2012 03:49 PM PDT

India's Vikas Krishan kept alive hopes for an Olympic medal in boxing as he won the pre-quarterfinal bout to enter the last eight of the men's 69 kg category here at ExCel London Friday.The 20-year-ol...

London Olympics 2012: Day 8, All the highlights

Posted: 03 Aug 2012 01:56 PM PDT

London 2012 Tennis: Paes-Mirza trail by a set as bad light interferes

Posted: 03 Aug 2012 01:38 PM PDT

The Indian pair of Leander Paes and Sania Mirza were trailing 5-7 2-3 in their mixed doubles tennis quarterfinal match against Belarusian pair of Max Mirnyi and Victoria Azarenka in the Olympic Games,...

Anna Hazare ends fast; his team to join politics, asks public to name it

Posted: 03 Aug 2012 01:08 PM PDT

Before ending its hunger fast in Delhi, the group of activists known as Team Anna announced that they are forming a political party which will contest the elections. Anna Hazare, 75, said he will not ...

Feedback that Team Anna wants on new political party

Posted: 03 Aug 2012 01:04 PM PDT

Minutes before Team Anna ended its hunger strike on stage at the Jantar Mantar venue of their protest, they announced that they are forming a political party, which will contest the elections, with an...

Not a drought, but drought like situation; Met confirms rain will be deficient

Posted: 03 Aug 2012 12:36 PM PDT

When the Director General, Indian Meteorological Department, L S Rathore announced the forecast for the monsoon for August and September on Friday morning, there was very little good news. He said tha...

5 things you may not know about the planet Mars

Posted: 03 Aug 2012 11:30 AM PDT

Mars is set to get its latest visitor Sunday night when NASA's new robotic rover, named Curiosity, attempts to land there. Mars has been a prime target for space exploration for decades, in part becau...

Muslim suspect in US fined again for having beard

Posted: 03 Aug 2012 10:55 AM PDT

A US military judge has again held the Muslim suspect of a mass shooting in contempt of court after he appeared at a pretrial hearing with a beard, in violation of Army regulations.

Throw the corrupt out of power: VK Singh from Anna's dais

Posted: 03 Aug 2012 10:44 AM PDT

Lending his support to Anna Hazare's movement against corruption, former Army Chief Gen VK Singh today asked the people to "throw" the corrupt out of power and support Anna's alternative political for...

London 2012 Badminton: I was thinking too hard, says Saina Nehwal after her semi-final loss

Posted: 03 Aug 2012 10:42 AM PDT

Outclassed by a clearly superior rival, Saina Nehwal Friday  lost to the top-seeded Yihan Wang of China in the women's singles semi-final of the Olympic Games here, acknowledging later that the ...

London 2012 Shooting: I stuck to my plans, says Silver medalist Vijay Kumar to NDTV

Posted: 03 Aug 2012 10:39 AM PDT

Vijay Kumar has fetched India a Silver. It's first at the London Olympics, its second individual Silver in any Olympics in the last 100 years.  As the Indian shooter took focused aim for his final se...

Test-driving the 'World's Cheapest Computer'

Posted: 03 Aug 2012 10:15 AM PDT

India's 'Aakash' project, a tablet billed as the cheapest computer in the world, hopes to revolutionize learning in Indian colleges and universities. We've been following the ups and downs of the Aaka...

India's space mission to send a satellite to Mars

Posted: 03 Aug 2012 10:12 AM PDT

After a successful moon mission, the Union Cabinet gave the go-ahead to India's first mission to Mars. The Cabinet, at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday, cleared the proposa...

J Dey murder case: Jigna Vora didn't cross limits as a scibe, says Court

Posted: 03 Aug 2012 09:48 AM PDT

In a relief to Jigna Vora, who was granted bail in J Dey murder case last week, a special MCOCA court said in its order that evidence produced by the prosecution against her was not enough to keep her...

'Muktadhara': Seeking a second chance

Posted: 03 Aug 2012 08:33 AM PDT

A Bengali film that hit the screens in Kolkata on Friday has the most unusual star. He is a man once convicted for kidnap and murder, sentenced to life imprisonment but acquitted after nine years in j...

Supreme Court shocked by how bodies of Vrindavan widows are treated

Posted: 03 Aug 2012 08:27 AM PDT

The Supreme Court today expressed shock over the manner in which the bodies of deceased Vrindavan widows were disposed by chopping into pieces and packing in gunny bags. The Court said "It is shocking...

Govt approves Air India compensation for Dreamliner

Posted: 03 Aug 2012 07:57 AM PDT

Air India was initially supposed to get the delivery of the aircraft between September 2008 and October 2011.

Indian girl killed, 36 others injured in US Megabus crash

Posted: 03 Aug 2012 07:43 AM PDT

A packed double-decker Megabus slammed into an Illinois interstate bridge support pillar on Thursday, hurtling screaming passengers from their seats and leaving an Indian student dead and more than th...

Pune blasts: 5-6 people involved, suspects police

Posted: 03 Aug 2012 07:42 AM PDT

48 hours after four bombs exploded on a busy road in Pune, these are the top 10 developments in the investigation.

2G auction: Cabinet sets base price at Rs 14,000 crore

Posted: 03 Aug 2012 07:39 AM PDT

This price is lesser by Rs 4,100 crore compared to what telecom regulator TRAI had recommended. The reserve price is for 5 MHz of GSM spectrum of GSM across the country. The government was forced to a...

Vijay was sure of a medal today: Father

Posted: 03 Aug 2012 07:36 AM PDT

Vijay Kumar stunned the world of shooting to claim his first and India's 22nd Olympic medal - taking the silver in the 25m rapid fire pistol event. While India erupted in celebration at bagging th...

How Team Anna says its party will differ: 5 facts

Posted: 03 Aug 2012 07:23 AM PDT

On the 10th day of his hunger strike, and just before he ended it, Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal looked frail and sat on a chair as he announced that the anti-corruption activists would float a pol...

Profile: Vijay Kumar

Posted: 03 Aug 2012 07:08 AM PDT

For Vijay Kumar, success might have come at just the right time. He had a stunning performance to bag the silver medal in the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol event.At the Commonwealth Games too, he brought glor...

Gallup Poll: India Worst Country in Asia for Entrepreneurs

Posted: 03 Aug 2012 06:45 AM PDT

Indians' unwillingness to risk failure has hobbled the creation of small businesses and led the nation to be ranked last in Asia in promoting entrepreneurship, according to a Gallup poll.
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