Mumbai: Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone, daughter of badminton icon Prakash Padukone, says sports was pure and clean during her father’s time. She rues how malpractices such as spot-fixing can give any sport a bad name. Following news of actor Vindu Dara Singh’s association in the recent spot-fixing scandal of the Indian Premier League (IPL), Deepika [...]
Islamabad: Twelve people were killed in Pakistan’s Quetta city Thursday when a car packed with 100 kg explosives blew up just as a vehicle carrying security personnel was passing by. The deafening explosion took place in Bhosa Mandi area of Quetta Thursday morning, DawnNews reported. Fayyaz Sumbal, a senior police official, said militants targeted the [...]
New Delhi: – Sachin Tendulkar will not take further part in the Indian Premier League owing to an injury on his left hand, his team Mumbai Indians said Wednesday. Tendulkar, who did not play the Qualifier I against Chennai Super Kings here Tuesday, has been ruled out of action for three weeks, according to a [...]
Washington: Microsoft unveiled a new Xbox console Tuesday that represents a major upgrade on the US-market-leading Xbox 360 model. The president of the IT giant’s Interactive Entertainment Business, Don Mattrick, revealed the hi-tech Xbox One entertainment and gaming console during an event at Microsoft’s Redmond, Washington, campus. The Xbox One was presented as an all-in-one [...]
Mumbai: Actress Sherlyn Chopra grabbed the paparazzi’s attention by grooving at the 66th Cannes International Film Festival wearing a white and gold Indian lehenga choli. She is there to promote her movie “Kamasutra 3D” with the team. The film’s director Rupesh Paul said Sherlyn was “very excited and she grooved for the paparazzi without any [...]
Hull (England): Dipika Pallikal reached the pre-quarterfinals at the Allam British Open Squash Championships after edging out Denmark’s Line Hansen in the longest match of the tournament so far. World No.15 Pallikal and her Danish opponent battled it out for 76 minutes before the Indian scraped through with a 13-11, 14-16, 11-6, 8-11, 11-4 result [...]
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday said that the UPA government had improved the performance of the economy, made growth more inclusive and ensured better delivery of welfare programmes. Speaking at a function at his official residence to mark four years of the United Progressive Alliance-II government, the prime minister said his government had [...]
Agartala: A consumer court in Tripura has ordered Cadbury India to pay a compensation of Rs.30,000 to a complainant who found an iron pin inside a chocolate bar made by the company. But the company said it disagreed with the findings of the consumer court and would file an appeal against the order in the [...]
Mumbai: Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt was early Wednesday quietly shifted from Arthur Road jail to Pune’s high-security Yerwada Central Jail, officials said. The shift came as a surprise as state Additional Director General of Police (Prisons), Meeran Borwankar had Tuesday said the actor would not be shifted from the Mumbai jail in the near future. [...]
Washington: India has sought from the US access to Pakistani-American 26/11 Mumbai terror attack convict David Headley and his accomplice Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Hussain Rana, both found guilty of supporting Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). Indian Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde during a meeting with US Attorney General Eric Holder here Tuesday is reported to have raised [...]
