NEW DELHI: Ailing Kingfisher airlines has said it has not asked for a bailout from the government butadmitted requesting banks to increase the loan limits to enable it meet rising operating costs due to increase in fuel prices and rupee devaluation. “Kingfisher has not made any bail out request to the government. We have only [...]
Over two per cent of websites in the world, including a number of US government websites such as the official site of the Whitehouse (www.whitehouse.gov), House of Representatives, Department of Energy, Commerce, Health etc., work on Drupal platform. The official sites of USAID, the World Bank and Recovery.gov also deliver services using Drupal. In recent months, various Government [...]
NEW DELHI: With the world watching, the 2G case trial which some have described as a “class war” and an “anti-elite backlash” against the rich being above the law, began in New Delhi on Friday. On the first day, a plea by former telecom minister A Raja that he would not cross-examine prosecution witnesses unless [...]
James Olley and Tom Collomosse Chelsea and Tottenham are set for a double transfer battle with Gary Cahill and Edinson Cavani on both clubs’ target lists. Centre-half Cahill, who was rated at £15million by Bolton in the summer, is in the final year of his contract but wants to leave in January with Manchester City [...]
Chandigarh: Not an astrological reason but only a casual pledge made 18 years ago by a batch of mechanical engineering students of the Punjab Engineering College (PEC) here saw them re-uniting on Friday. Dressed in white T-shirts with ‘Re-union 11.11.11’ printed on them, as the 1993 batch of students gathered in Chandigarh’s Sector 11 near [...]
400 couples tie the knot at a temple in Kuala Lampur Kuala Lumpur: Four hundred couples tied the nuptial knots at the largest Chinese temple in Kuala Lumpur — Thean Hou Buddhist temple —on Friday as it was the 11th day of the 11th month in the 11th year of this century.The date that comes [...]
California Occupy activists told to leave after fatal shooting OAKLAND: Police ordered anti-capitalist protesters in California to abandon their camp on Friday after a fatal shooting, at least the fourth death this week in anti-Wall Street camps across the US. The mayor of Oakland — where violence has flared in recent weeks, at one point [...]
Earlier, a small mosque in the Secretariat compound was developed into a big venue for the faithfuls among employees to offer Friday prayers. It was facilitated by the former chief secretary Jannat Hussain last year. He earned praise for providing a room adjacent to the mosque exclusively for women to offer prayers. Now, a small [...]
After officials found empty liquor bottles lying around in the State secretariat, the government has now decided to come down heavily on the offenders. The government has now imposed a strict ruling that no liquor bottles should be permitted within the secretariat premises nor will consumption of alcohol be allowed inside. To this effect, special [...]
Young Tollywood actor Nikhil was nabbed for drunken driving last night.Nikhil was driving his Skoda Laura car AP 09 BZ-0089. He was coming from Jubilee Hills Check Post around midnight on to Road No 2, Jubilee Hills when the Banjara Hills police intercepted his car. When the brethelyser was applied, the police found that [...]
It’s David vs Goliath as Rajasthan take on Mumbai’s might
Kolkata: They have shown remarkable fighting spirit despite the demoralising spot-fixing scandal and the Rajasthan Royals will now look to upstage the mighty Mumbai Indians in the second qualifier here tomorrow to book, what would be, a dream final berth in the Pepsi IPL. On paper, Mumbai Indians may appear stronger but Rajasthan will be [...]
21 lawmakers back Chandigarh-born as top US judge
Washington: Ahead of an expected Senate vote on the nomination of Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan to a top US court, 21 lawmakers have penned their support for him. Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US last week won unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination as [...]
It was like bereavement: Dravid on spot-fixing
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid says dealing with the turmoil caused by the spot-fixing scandal, which has left his team’s reputation in tatters, has turned out to be as tough as handling “bereavement in some ways”. “I would not lie it was a very tough phase for us. It was a blow to [...]
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A footage is doing the rounds on TV channels where apparently two constables in UP are sorting matters out between them the hard way, raining each other with blows, not verbal, but with their lathis. One look at the video will tell you there seems to be something seriously wrong with the discipline among the [...]
So the thief is in the ship after all. The Mumbai police revelation that Gurunath Melyappan, son-in-law of BCCI Chief Srinivasan, was in constant touch with Vindoo Dhara Singh, now in police custody over betting, leaves no scope for imagination. Little wonder such brazen betting prospered over IPL. It now raises the question: was the [...]
Humorist Jaspal Bhatti, had he been alive, would have found stunning material for a flop show in the BJP’s behaviour of late. How the ‘national opposition party’ turned into a ‘notional’ party is a story worth caricaturing with potential for record viewing-rate.
Chinese president Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer. No wonder he knows the chemical formula to pursue his country’s global ambitions. If anybody in India believed Xi would extend a warm friendship to this country, he should be naive. He has been on a global Sino initiative to widen the Chinese visions of the century. [...]
“India is China’s important neighbour. (The purpose of) my current visit to India is three-fold — to increase mutual interest, intensify cooperation and to face the future,” said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during his visit to India. To this the Indian prime minister’s response could n0t have been more fitting that “the rest of the [...]
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