Kanpur : Youth only upto the age of 35 years will get a chance to meet AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi during his one-day visit to this industrial town, in a move aimed to build the party base among the younger generation. Rahul will meet industrial workers, rickshaw pullers and labourers upto an age of [...]
New Delhi : Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with her delegation of MPs on Friday evening. Mamata has told Singh that minorities are threatened and girl children are suffering in West Bengal. According to her this is sending out a wrong message to the democracy. The Railway Minister has demanded [...]
London: Darron Gibson fired holders Manchester United through to the last four of the English League Cup on Tuesday with a 2-0 win at Old Trafford that ended Tottenham Hotspur’s hopes of a third successive final. United, who beat Spurs on penalties in last season’s Wembley final, were joined in the semi-finals by Aston Villa [...]
PARIS: Roger Federer has topped the ATP end-of-year world rankings for the fifth time during his career having ceded the position last year to Roger Rafael Nadal. The 28-year-old Swiss star, who won the French Open and Wimbledon during the summer, was world No.1 previously from 2004 to 2007 and he is now level with [...]
London: Obesity can increase risk among people with HIV, according to a new study. The study has shown that antiretroviral therapy may not be as effective on obese HIV patients as it is with people of normal weight. Researchers from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, who conducted the study, insisted that the [...]
MANCHESTER: Rodrigo Tello scored the only goal as Besiktas became the first team to win in the Champions League at Old Trafford in almost five years with a 1-0 victory over Manchester United on Wednesday. Already-qualified United, who have reached the last two finals in the competition, had not lost at home in their previous [...]
Mumbai : There are now reports that David Headley used filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt’s son Rahul Bhatt as a cover for his reconnaissance of 26/11 targets like the Taj, the Trident and Leopold Cafe. Sources say Headley insisted on taking an unsuspecting Rahul to these places. The visits to these targets took place between November 2006 [...]
London: Hundreds of Al Qaeda terrorists remain in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan, continuing to receive explosives and weapons training in camps in that country, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said. “There are still several hundred foreign fighters based in the FATA area of Pakistan and travelling to training camps to [...]
MUMBAI/DELHI: Ageing Shiv Sena patriarch Bal Thackeray on Monday alienated himself from millions of Indians when he attacked the country’s icon Maharashtra’s most loved son, Sachin Tendulkar, for saying that “Mumbai belonged to all Indians”. In an editorial in the Sena mouthpiece, Saamna, Thackeray, warned Sachin to “keep off the political pitch” for his own [...]
Sachin Tendulkar is going strong after two decades on the cricket pitch, but he has just been given “run-out” on the “Marathi pitch”. The master blaster, who had said at a recent Press conference that he was a “proud Maharashtrian”, but an Indian first, has come in for flak from the Shiv Sena. Advising Sachin [...]
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