Australia To Meet Germany In World Cup Final...
Mighty Australia continued their rampaging form in the tournament as they overcame a fighting Netherlands 2-1 in the second semifinal of the hockey World Cup in New Delhi on Thursday to set up a re-match of last edition's title-clash against ...
PHF Sack Selectors, Team Management; Players Resign Too...
Upset over Pakistan's worst ever performance in the hockey World Cup, the national Federation on Thursday sacked its selection committee and team management while the entire 18-man squad resigned, taking up moral responsibility for the shoddy show. Pakistan finished in ...
HC Gives Two Weeks To TN Govt To Decide On...
The Madras High Court on Thursday asked the Tamil Nadu government to take a decision within two weeks on a plea for premature release by Nalini, serving life term in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case."Positively two weeks," a Division Bench ...
Women's Bill May Not Come Up In LS Immediately...
The women's reservation bill appears to have been put on on the backburner for the time being after dissent stared at the face of BJP with some MPs threatening to defy the whip and the Yadav trio stepping up their ...
Swami Nithyananda Dismisses Allegations Of Rape, Corruption...
Scandal-tainted Swami Nithyananda has in an interview dismissed all allegations levelled against him. In an interview to a Princeton-based researcher Rajiv Malhotra the swami said he was being made a target of calumny. In the interview Malhotra brought up all ...
India Joins US, Switzerland In Hunt For Aliens...
Ahmedabad: India is embarking on an ambitious hunt for extra-terrestrial life in the universe. Ahmedabad-based Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), an autonomous institution supported by the department of space, is working on a special project to look for habitable planets in ...
Salman Deposes Against Chhota Shakeel's Henchman In Court...
Actor Salman Khan on Thursday appeared before a special court in Mumbai as a prosecution witness and deposed against gangster Chhota Shakeel's henchman Anjum Fazlani. According to the prosecution, Fazlani had threatened Salman to reduce his fee for producer Nazim ...
Sena To Oppose If Force Used To Pass Women's...
Shiv Sena, an ally of NDA which voted for the Women's Reservation Bill in Rajya Sabha, on Thursday said it will oppose it if marshals were called in and force was used to pass the measure in Lok Sabha. "We ...
Govt Agrees To Discuss Women's Bill With All Parties, ...
The regular disruption of Lok Sabha proceedings ended on Thursday afternoon, after Leader of the House Pranab Mukherjee in a meeting with the Yadav trio, along with Mamata Banerjee and DMK leader T R Balu, promised to convene an all-party ...
India Says Pak Charge About Lahore Blast Unthinkable...
Dismissing Pakistan's allegation that India was involved in the Lahore blast, External Affairs Minister S M Krishna today said it was "most unthinkable" and a "falsehood" that was being spread.Asserting that these incidents were occurring due to "selective" approach of ...
Mamata Meets Sonia, Explains TC's Absention From Voting In RS...
A day after Trinamool Congress abstained from voting on women's reservation bill in Rajya Sabha, party supremo Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday met Congress President Sonia Gandhi and explained her party's stand. Banerjee, a key UPA constituent, and her party leader ...
Cong Hopes TC To Back Women's Bill In Lok Sabha...
Congress on Wednesday downplayed the decision of UPA partner Trinamool Congress to abstain from voting on the Women's Reservation Bill in Rajya Sabha and expressed hope that it will reconsider the position and come out strongly for the Bill when ...
CM's No Comment On Sajjan Bail; Says Justice Delayed In...
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Wednesday declined comment on granting of bail to Sajjan Kumar, chargesheeted for his alleged role in anti-Sikh riots cases, but said justice gets delayed in India. "I do not want to comment on anything ...
No Quotas Within Quota, No Threat To Govt: Moily...
Government on Wednesday ruled out providing 'quota within quota' for OBCs and Muslims in the Women's Reservation Bill and said there was no deliberate delay in bringing the measure to Lok Sabha on perceived threat to its stability. Unfazed by ...
