• Gurunath arrested by Mumbai police

  Mumbai police late Friday night arrested Gurunath Meiyappan, son-in-law of Indian cricket board chief N. Srinivasan, in the IPL spot fixing scam after three hours of intense interrogation, an official said. Questioned at the office of the Crime Branch, Meiyappan was confronted with the evidence against him and arrested around midnight. His name criopped up in the scam during revelations by ...

• Himachal courts quashes appointment of 480 teachers

  In a setback to the previous Prem Kumar Dhumal-led BJP government in the state, the Himachal Pradesh High Court Friday quashed appointments of 480 teachers made in 2011 as these were not in accordance with law. Delivering the judgment, Justice Rajiv Sharma said the appointments of postgraduate teachers under the Postgraduate Teacher Class III (non-gazetted) Recruitment and Promotion Rules of ...

• Court quashes rape FIR against three DJB officials

  The Delhi High Court Friday quashed an FIR and summoning order against three Delhi Jal Board employees, accused of gangraping an executive working in a private company. Justice Suresh Kait allowed the plea of DJB engineers and quashed the trial court order which had summoned the officials to stand trial in the case despite a closure report filed by police which stated that they were falsely ...

• Mumbai bomb blast inspired me to make D-Day Nikhil Adwani

  Filmmaker Nikhil Adwani, who is gearing up for his film "D-Day" says Mumbai bomb blast "affected" his life and that inspired him to make this film. "It's fictional characters. We have taken events from India's history and used them as triggers. I am particularly obsessed with the fact that I was 21 when the bomb blast happened in Mumbaiit affected my life, quite a lot and I wanted to make a ...

• Britannia posts 65.7 pc jump in Q4 net profit

  Biscuit and bakery major BritanniaIndustries Friday registered a 65.66 percent jump in its net profit to Rs.87.85 crore for the quarter ended March 31, 2013, from Rs. 53.03 crore during the same period last year. The city-based food maker's net sales during the period under review stood at Rs.1,486.63 crore compared to Rs.1,309.57 crore in the same period a year ago, it said in a filing to the ...

• Rajasthan post a handsome 1656 against Mumbai at Eden

  Keeper-willower Dishant Yagnik played a cameo as Rajasthan Royals rode on a late batting surge to post a decent 165/6 in their Indian Premier League playoff at the Eden Gardens here Friday. The Royals scored 61 runs in the last five overs including 18 of the last after opting to bat first on a slow wicket, with rains delaying the start of the game by an hour. Skipper Rahul Dravid top scored ...

• Demolish all structures in Yamuna flood-plains Tribunal

  Agra/Mathura May 24 (IANS) The National Green Tribunal has authorised demolition of all structures and unauthorised buildings in the flood-plains of the Yamuna river. The May 20 order cleared the way for demolition of all structures all the way from Delhi to Agra in the Yamuna's flood-plains. "If the order is implemented, thousands of buildings will be bulldozed," said environmentalist Shravan ...

• India US in talks to prepare for PM visit

  India and the US are in discussions to plan for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to America in the "near future". This was revealed by US Undersecretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman and Indian Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai at separate briefings. Mathai and Sherman met earlier in the day to prepare for US Secretary of State John Kerry's June 24 visit to India for the bilateral ...

• Haryana man gets 10 years jail for raping university student

  A court in Harayana's Sonipat town Friday sentenced a man to 10 years rigorous imprisonment for the rape of a first-year law student of Haryana's all-women university, Bhagat Phool Singh Women's University. The court order came just over a year after the victim alleged that she was abducted and gang-raped by four youths May 18 last year. However, the court of Additional District and Sessions ...

• NCP talks in two voices on BCCI chiefs resignation

  Hours after its spokesperson demanded resignation of Indian cricket board chief N. Srinivasan over his son-in-law's name figuring in the investigations into the IPL spot fixing scandal, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Friday sought to distance itself from the demand. Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) spokesperson D.P. Tripathi Friday told reporters that Srinivasan should resign as chief of ...

• Deepika finds current IPL theme song most catchy

  Actor Deepika Padukone finds 'Dil Jumping Zapak' - the peppy theme song of the sixth season of Indian Premier League - "most catchy" of all the IPL tunes. "Of all the IPL tunes, this is the most catchy," she told a TV channel as she jived to the song with "Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani" co-star Ranbir Kapoor Friday. Deepika, who was seen supporting superstar Shah Rukh Khan's team Kolkata Knight ...

• Kerala party leaders capable of resolving issues Antony

  Defence Minister A.K. Antony Friday expressed confidence that leaders of the Congress' Kerala unit would themselves resolve any issue facing them. "You (the media) think that there are issues that cannot be resolved in the state unit of the party. I know my colleagues here for several decades and at the appropriate time all will cooperate. My feeling is that the issues can be resolved here ...

• Top banking honchos to attend leadership meet

  Thirty top executive directors and CEOs of leading nationalised banks in the country will attend a classroom training at IIM Kozhikode for three days starting Monday. The workshop will be led by Debashis Chatterjee, director, IIM Kozhikode, and his colleagues. "The workshop assumes immense significance in view of the crisis faced by the banking industry in India and the rest of the world. Our ...

• Asias biggest cruise liner docks in Goa

  One of the world's biggest cruise liners, Royal Caribbean International's Mariner of the Seas, Friday arrived at Mormugao port in Goa, which has plans of promoting the state as a destination for lucrative ocean cruise market. En route from Dubai, the vessel was received by Deputy Chief Minister Francisco D'Souza at Goa's only major port. Speaking to the media here, Captain Rajesh Saigal, ...

• Russia opens consulate in Goa

  A slew of illegal land deals involving its nationals was one of the reasons why Russia decided to start a consular office in Goa, which hosted 1.5 lakh Russian tourists this season, Ambassador Alexander Kadakin said Friday. The ambassador also expressed distaste at the manner in which the word "mafia" was being liberally used when it came to rare cases involving Russians nationals. "Illegal ...

• IAF chief stresses on operational capability training

  Indian Air Force chief, Air Chief Marshal N.A.K. Browne Friday stressed on enhancing operational capability and training for its station commanders. "Commanders need to concentrate on operational capability and training, creation of operational infrastructure, asset protection resources for operation and people management," Browne said at a meeting of the station commanders of the Training ...

• Misquoted on arms sale says Russian envoy

  Russian Ambassador Alexander Kadakin Friday said he had been misquoted by a section of media, which Friday said that a miffed Russia may stop arms sales to India, in light of the latter looking to the US for defence technology and equipment purchases. Kadakin said India and Russia shared a "confident, firm and stable cooperation" in the military field and that the relationship between the two ...

• Two students killed in Delhi road accident

  Two Bachelor in Computer Application (BCA) students were killed after the car they were travelling in collided against an electric pole here, police said here Friday. The accident was reported from west Delhi's Chhawla area around 4.30 p.m. Thursday. Anup, 24, and Abhhimanyu, 24, were rushed to the Rao Tula Ram Memorial Hospital, where they were declared dead. Initial investigation revealed ...

• Assocham calls for comprehensive port development strategy

  Industry body, Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham), has called for a comprehensive port development strategy and for providing level playing field to private players. In its report on ports development in India, released here Friday, it underlined the need to expand the existing framework to attract participation from the private sector for development of ...

• RIL-BP make huge gas discovery in KG-D6

  Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) Friday announced a large natural gas discovery in the consortium's KG-D6 block offshore in Andhra Pradesh. "Formation evaluation indicates a gross gas and condensate column in the well of about 155 metres in the Mesozoic reservoirs," RIL-BP said in a statement here. "The KGD6-MJ1 well was drilled in a water depth of 1,024 metres - and to a total depth of 4,509 ...

• GJM calls indefinite shutdown in Darjeeling hills

  The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) Friday called an indefinite shutdown in north Bengal's Darjeeling hills from Sunday to protest the arrest of an elected member of the hill development body for alleged involvement in arson and violence. The GJM gave the call Friday evening after a local court rejected the bail application of Gorkha Territorial Administration (GTA) member and party leader ...

• Bhajjis Bangnam Style Tendulkars fitness keeps social network abuzz

  Move over Psy's 'Gangnam Style'. Mumbai Indians (MI) fans were awestruck with Bhajji's 'Bangnam Style' as the Mumbaikars took on the Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League play-off at the Eden Gardens here Friday. There was speculation over Tendulkar's fitness through the day, till the late evening heartbreak that he would not take the ground. The supporters of 'paltan' or MI rallied to ...

• Spot fixing helped Rajasthan Royals to gel stronger Gavaskar

  Praising Rajasthan Royals'(RR) effort at "getting everybody gell together" after the side was rocked by the spot fixing scam, cricketing legend Sunil Gavaskar feels the developments have further boosted the bonding between the squad. "I think it's a question of getting everybody gelling together and that is what has happened. Yes I think they have had a traumatic last 10-15 days and ithat is in ...

• With Knights out Eden low on cheer quotient

  The absence of home team Kolkata Knight Riders, wet weather and perhaps the spot fixing scandal played a part as the otherwise boisterous Eden Gardens was low on the "cheer quotient" for the second IPL qualifier between Mumbai Indians and the Rajasthan Royals Friday. Despite a knock out game featuring two of the bigger teams, the iconic venue was half full with a Cricket Association of Bengal ...

• Nothing new in India-China treaty on water sharing NGO

  The flood data agreement signed between India and China during the recent visit of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is just a renewal of the existing treaty between the two countries, an NGO alleged here Friday. "The central government has failed to get any assurance from China on India's concerns regarding China's large scale activities for diversion of Brahmaputra (river) waters. China has ...

• Mumbai police whisk off Gurunath Meiyappan for IPL probe

  Mumbai police whisked off Gurunath Meiyappan, son-in-law of Indian cricket board chief N. Srinivasan, to the police headquarters shortly he landed here Friday evening. Police are likely to interrogate Meiyappan in connection with the IPL spot fixing scam after his name was revealed by Bollywood actor Vindu Dara Singh Randhawa, currently in police custody. A team of Crime Branch sleuths had ...

• Rajasthan elect to bat first at Eden

  Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid won the toss and elected to bat first in the Indian Premier League second qualifier against Mumbai Indians at the Eden Gardens here Friday. While Rajasthan play an unchanged side from the last game, Mumbai's sole change is all-rounder Rishi Dhawan replacing pacer Munaf Patel. The start of the game was delayed by an hour due to a wet outfield following a ...

• Searing heat across plains hills no respite Saturday

  Searing summer heat continued to scorch the plains and hills across north India as temperatures remained over 45 degree Celsius Friday. There will be no respite from the intense heat Saturday, the weather office said. Delhi reeled under blistering temperature that shot up to five notches above the season's average at 45 degrees Celsius. "It felt I was getting baked by the hot winds while ...

• Nuclear power the future for India Russian Ambassador

  Nuclear power is the future of energy for India, said Russian Ambassador Alexander Kadakin, contending that even if the country buys all the oil in the world, it will not be sufficient for its energy requirements in the near future. Kadakin was speaking to reporters after inaugurating the Russian consul office here Friday. "Nuclear power is the only way out of the situation. It can make India ...

• Punjab Haryana can help Africa ensure food security Patil

  India's food grain states Punjab and Haryana can help African countries in ensuring food security through exchange of knowledge and technological knowhow, Punjab Governor Shivraj Patil said here Friday. Addressing the seventh Africa Day lecture at the Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development (CRRID) here, Patil said India and Africa were set to explore immense possibilities in ...

• Rahul Gandhi reviews politics in Jharkhand Odisha

  Amid speculation that the Congress is exploring government formation in Jharkhand -- which is under President's rule -- party vice president Rahul Gandhi reviewed the political situation with state leaders Friday. A section of the Congress has been in favour of exploring ways to form a government in the state with the support of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), said party sources ...

• Heat wave claims 84 lives in Andhra Pradesh

  The severe heat wave conditions in Andhra Pradesh have so claimed 84 lives from April 1, officials said. The state remained in the grip of heat wave Friday, with many towns recording maximum day temperature of over 43 degree Celsius. Munuguru in coal mines area of Khammam district was the hottest place Friday with the mercury shooting up to 50 degrees, the highest this season. Rentachintala in ...

• Captive breeding helps revive endangered vulture in India

  After the population of the vultures dropped alarmingly in India, a local non-government organization (NGO) in Assam is running a successful programme to raise the population of the fast disappearing vultures. The captive breeding process for preservation of vultures has been used to increase the population of these extinct scavengers, in an environment controlled by the humans and in ...

• UP CMs Ghaziabad visit postponed after family-murder

  Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's visit to Ghaziabad has been postponed after the gruesome murders of seven members of a family, an official said. "No further date has been intimated," said Ghaziabad District Magistrate S.V.S. Ranga Rao. Businessman Satish Goel, 62, his wife Manju Goel, 60, their son Sachin Goel, 40, Sachin's wife Rekha, 38, her daughters Megha, 13, and Neha, 11, ...

• ICRA Q4 net profit rises 22 percent

  Rating agency ICRA Ltd Friday announced a 21.64 percent rise in its net profit to Rs.27.49 crore for the quarter ended March 31, 2013 from Rs.22.60 crore for the same period a year ago. The firm's total income for the fourth quarter last fiscal stood at Rs.56.41 crore compared to Rs.52.96 crore for the same period previous fiscal, reflecting growth of seven percent, it said in a release ...

• Rain delays IPL play-off at the Eden Gardens

  The start of the Indian Premier League play-off game between Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals was delayed by an hour Friday due to rain. The city, which has been experiencing inclement weather over the past few days, was lashed by showers in the evening, prompting the organisers to put on the covers on the Eden Gardens turf. Though the rain stopped after some time, the soggy outfield ...

• Moily refutes charges of favouring RIL on gas price

  Petroleum Minister M. Veerappa Moily Friday refuted allegations of government favouring Reliance Industries (RIL) as "malicious" and said the proposed revision in natural gas price would apply to all companies. The allegations of favouring RIL were made here at a press conference Thursday by CPI member of parliament Gurudas Dasgupta. "The proposed pricing guidelines shall be equally ...

• NHRC issues notice to IP University for exam goof up

  The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Friday issued notice to Delhi's Guru Govind Singh Indraprastha University for an anomaly in its admission exams in which aspirants were allotted an examination centre which had been shut for the past 10 years. "Seventy aspirants to the engineering programme of the varsity lost nearly an hour because of this goof up. No extra time was given to them," ...

• PM to talk civil n-cooperation during Japan visit

  Civil nuclear cooperation talks will be high on the agenda, besides economic and regional and international issues, when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh goes to Japan on a three-day visit Monday to attend the postponed bilateral summit. The prime minister, who will also go to Thailand from Japan, will hold talks with Japanese Premier Shinzo Abe. The bilateral summit was originally slated to be ...

• IAF chief reviews induction of new technology in Bangalore commanders conference

  Indian Air Force Chief Norman Anil Kumar Browne inaugurated an annual commanders' conference here on Friday and reviewed the induction of new technology and weapon systems. In recent years, India has emerged as the world's largest weapons importer, but procurements are periodically held up by allegations of corruption. Earlier in the year, AgustaWestland, a division of Italian defence group ...

• President prime minister greet people on Buddha Purnima

  President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Vice President Hamid Ansari Friday greeted the countrymen on the eve of Buddha Purnima. The president said Lord Buddha taught the path of right action so that mankind may overcome its suffering. "Lord Buddha's teachings of non-violence, love and compassion are of eternal significance. We must strive to make these teachings part of ...

• Multiple sclerosis striking youth in India say doctors

  Multiple sclerosis, a disabling disease which strikes mostly young people, is fast becoming a cause for worry in India, doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here said Friday. AIIMS has carried out a study on the patients of multiple sclerosis it treats. It found that around 70-80 percent of patients were in the age group of 18-35 years. They all had relapsing remitting ...

• Will not sponsor Indian team if Srinivasan continues Sahara

  Having pulled out its franchise Pune Warriors from the Indian Premier League (IPL), Sahara chief Subrata Roy fired another salvo saying he would immediately stop sponsoring the Indian team if N. Srinivasan continues to be the president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). "Person like Srinivasan does not know how to run cricket. Sahara will not sponsor team India as long as N ...

• Bollywood spot boy arrested for IPL spot fixing

  A spot boy in Bollywood movies was Friday arrested from Hyderabad for the Indian Premier League (IPL) spot fixing scandal, Delhi Police sources said. Mohammad Ahya alias Yusuf, 45, was arrested at the Hyderabad airport while trying to flee to Dubai, the sources said. "One of the arrested bookies, Chandresh Patel, revealed Ahya's name. We will be bringing him to Delhi," a Delhi Police official ...

• Jet Airways shareholders approve Etihad deal

  Jet Airways Friday said its shareholders have approved the company's plans to offload 24 percent stake to Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways for around $379 million (Rs.2,058 crore). According to the company, the deal was ratified at an extraordinary meeting of Jet's shareholders held here. However, the adoption of a new set of rules relating to 'articles of association' was deferred and will be ...

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