Saturday, May 5, 2012

Eight coaches of Punjab Mail derail near Rohtak; 19 injured

Eight coaches of Punjab Mail derail near Rohtak; 19 injured


Eight coaches of Punjab Mail derail near Rohtak; 19 injured

Posted: 05 May 2012 06:51 PM PDT

Chelsea beat Liverpool 2-1 to win FA Cup

Posted: 05 May 2012 01:38 PM PDT

Didier Drogba delivered Chelsea's fourth FA Cup triumph in six seasons on Saturday by becoming the first player to score in four finals to help the Blues survive a second-half Liverpool onslaught for ...


IPL 5: Rajasthan Royals leave Punjab in tatters

Posted: 05 May 2012 01:10 PM PDT

Kings XI Punjab was not left with much scope to take points against Rajasthan Royals as the visitors here combined aggressive batting with immaculate bowling to register a comprehensive win by 43 ...

Crisis in Rajasthan BJP; Raje threatens to quit, Kataria calls off yatra

Posted: 05 May 2012 11:57 AM PDT

The BJP's infighting in Rajasthan is once again out in the open - this time over a proposed yatra by a senior RSS-backed leader of the party, Gulab Chand Kataria. On Saturday evening, in a meeting of ...


NCTC meet ends without consensus; India needs anti-terror body, says Chidambaram

Posted: 05 May 2012 11:23 AM PDT

The government's ambitious National Counter Terrorism Centre or NCTC, as it is now known, will not be operationalised anytime soon. At least that is what emerged after some tough talk and more than si...


Controversy over Nitish handshake with Modi

Posted: 05 May 2012 10:45 AM PDT

Bihar's opposition party, Rashtriya Janata Dal, on Saturday hit out at Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, questioning his secular credentials after he warmly greeted his Gujarat counterpart, the Bharatiya J...


Air India flights hit after pilots call in sick

Posted: 05 May 2012 08:47 AM PDT

The threat of another pilots' stir in Air India loomed large today, as one of its international flight was cancelled and two more delayed by over 16 hours after a section of pilots reported sick, appa...

Kolkata Knight Riders vs Pune Warriors: Statistical highlights

Posted: 05 May 2012 07:59 AM PDT

# Gautam Gambhir and Brendon McCullum were involved in a stand of 113  for the first wicket - Kolkata's highest  in the IPL, eclipsing the 101 between Brad Hodge and Manoj Tiwary against Bangalo...

IPL 5: Ganguly's Pune Warriors go down to Kolkata by 7 runs

Posted: 05 May 2012 07:53 AM PDT

It was certainly the most talked-about clash in the fifth edition of the Indian Premier League, with many highlighting May 5 as soon as the schedule was drawn up. The home hero Sourav Ganguly, up agai...


Deepika Kumari wins first World Cup title

Posted: 05 May 2012 07:50 AM PDT

India's Deepika Kumari, won her first World Cup individual recurve gold medal at Antalya, Turkey on Saturday. She beat Korea's Lee Sung Jin by six set points to four in the final. Deepika won the...

Thousands march as Japan shuts off nuclear power

Posted: 05 May 2012 06:57 AM PDT

Thousands of Japanese marched to celebrate the switching off of the last of their nation's 50 nuclear reactors on Saturday, waving banners shaped as giant fish that have become a potent anti-nuclear s...


Punjab Minister Tota Singh convicted in forgery case

Posted: 05 May 2012 06:45 AM PDT

A district court in Mohali has sentenced Punjab Agriculture Minister Tota Singh to one year in jail for misusing his official position. Mr Singh was found guilty for misusing his official vehicle whil...


For China, a dissident in exile is one less headache back home

Posted: 05 May 2012 05:30 AM PDT

After more than a week of high-level diplomacy over the fate of the blind activist Chen Guangcheng, the Chinese government was widely seen as making a major concession on Friday by agreeing to allow M...


Defamation suit against Army Chief: Court pulls up Tejinder Singh

Posted: 05 May 2012 05:23 AM PDT

A metropolitan magistrate hearing the defamation suit filed against Army Chief General VK Singh today pulled up petitioner Lieutenant General Tejinder Singh, a retired officer, for "overreaching and p...


NCTC not Centre vs state issue, it will strengthen our counter-terror mechanism, says PM

Posted: 05 May 2012 04:44 AM PDT

Addressing the chief ministers of all states at a crucial meeting on the NCTC or National Counter Terrorism Centre, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today reiterated his stand and said that the anti-terr...


Strong words at NCTC meet: 10 big quotes

Posted: 05 May 2012 04:21 AM PDT

NCTC meet: It was an all-out war between the states and the Centre at a crucial meeting on the new anti-terror body in the Capital today. Here are the top 10 quotes from what various chief ministers s...


Vijay's puff gets PMK's bullet

Posted: 05 May 2012 04:10 AM PDT

What do superstar Rajinikanth and popular Tamil actor Vijay have in common? Both of them have had the PMK up in arms against them for smoking scenes in their films

Analysis: Why intel experts oppose NCTC

Posted: 05 May 2012 03:52 AM PDT

It's not just UPA's main ally Mamata Banerjee or Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik who are opposing the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), but even Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) - India'...

DMK ready to support Pranab Mukherjee as UPA's presidential candidate: Karunanidhi

Posted: 05 May 2012 03:37 AM PDT

Former Communist Party of India (Marxist) activist hacked to death

Posted: 05 May 2012 03:29 AM PDT

Revolutionary Marxist Party leader T P Chandrasekharan, who was expelled from the CPM in 2009, was hacked to death by unidentified assailants at Vadakara in Kozhikode district late last night.


'Home Ministry wants to belittle states, treat them like pawns on chess board', says Jayalalithaa

Posted: 05 May 2012 03:19 AM PDT

Rejecting the National Counter Terrorism Centre or NCTC in its present form, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Saturday blamed the Home Ministry for the growing distrust between the Centre a...


NCTC should not be under secret organisation: Naveen Patnaik

Posted: 05 May 2012 03:18 AM PDT

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik joined the clamour against the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) today. At the chief ministers' meet on NCTC today in Delhi he said no democratic country ha...

Modi says NCTC reflects centre as "omnipotent ruler"

Posted: 05 May 2012 02:55 AM PDT

Accusing the Centre of behaving like "Viceroys of yore", Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today said the constitution of National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) is a conscious strategy to cast th...

Japan 'switching off' final nuclear reactor

Posted: 05 May 2012 02:26 AM PDT

A Japanese power firm began switching off the country's last working reactor, leaving it without nuclear power just over a year after the world's worst atomic accident in a quarter of a century. As te...

'Home Ministry wants to belittle states, treat them like pawns on chess board', says Jayalalithaa

Posted: 05 May 2012 01:57 AM PDT

Rejecting the government's new anti-terror agency - the National Counter Terrorism Centre or NCTC - in its present form, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Saturday slammed the Home Ministry...


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