Hockey India (HI) President Vidya Stokes has resigned as the federation chief. Stokes was elected to the post defying the age limit guidelines set by the government for the post.
Hockey India statement released on Wednesday cleared that Stokes after the appointment had notified to the Sports Ministry that she would resign after the conclusion of
Karan Johar is the most celebrated filmmaker of the Tinsel Town, every actor comes running at his disposal. His famous talk show ‘Kofee With Karan’ is back and this time it will launch with the best Bollywood couple of Ash-Abhi.
Karan has decided to go beyond his usual approach in starting the show with his best
Javed Akthar has translated country's national song 'Vande Matram' from Sanskrit to Hindi for the movie 'Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey'.
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The US President Barack Obama has warned that there was ‘credible terrorist threat’ against the country in a hurriedly convened press meet on Friday. Obama’s warning comes after the two packages which reportedly contained explosives was found in the British airport and in Dubai.
The packages are said to have originated from Yemen and was addressed
China’s activist group Rights Defenders has urged the Chinese government to stop cracking down the supporters of the Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo.
“The Chinese government has stepped up the persecution of signers of Charter 08, civil rights defenders and independent academics,” the Chinese Rights Defenders, a network of activist groups was quoted as saying.
Protests against the French government are now subsiding as the Senate has passed the final pension bill on Wednesday.
The protests in France have come down compared to the first day of strike. According to recent reports, the number of protestors were around 5 lakh as against over one million in the previous week. Moreover, many
France along with some NATO troops is likely to withdraw the forces from Afghanistan in early 2011, the country said on Thursday.
French Defence Minister Herve Morin said that the country could withdraw its troops in Afghan. The withdrawal announcement comes after Osama Bin Laden’s warning of France.
France has, however, made it clear that the withdrawal
Osama Bin Laden, in his new audio recording, has warned France not to intervene in Muslims affairs especially in North and West Africa.
The audio release said, “The subject of my speech is the reason why your security is being threatened and your sons are being taken hostage.”
Union Commerce and Trade Minister Anand Sharma on Thursday said that India values South Korean investment despite the row over its POSCO steel project in Orissa over issues related to land and environment.
Anand Sharma, who is accompanying Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on his three nation Asian tour and reached Vietnam this evening, said such
Eager and able Indian companies have are set to invest in domestic Twenty20 teams in Australia, even as the Australian Cricketers'' Association has come out in support of private ownership of these franchises.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the ACA has said that it has no objection to the principle of private ownership.
Cricket Australia''s board
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The Supreme Court on Friday questioned CBI about its sluggish progress in the investigations of 2G spectrum allocation scam.
“You (CBI) have not done anything. Is that the way Government functions? Do you follow the same standards in other cases? One year has (already) gone by,” a bench comprising Justices G.S. Singhvi and A.K. Ganguly said.
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World’s fastest and most expensive car Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport has been launched in India. The car is priced at Rs 16 crore, making it the most expensive car to hit the Indian roads. It is also the fastest car with a top speed of 407 km/hour with an acceleration of 0-100km/hour in 2.7
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Oracle has announced its new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Chaitanya M. Kamat also known as Chet Kamat for its financial services software arm Oracle Financial Services Software (OFSS).
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A scientist for the National Wildlife Federation, Doug Inkley, has criticised what he described as America's "addiction to oil". Inkley stated it is ultimately responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster earlier this year.
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“There is evidence that the slump is not cyclical but secular”, illustrates Oxford Dictionary of Difficult Words to explain a ‘difficult’ word, Secular. While the aforementioned talks of Secular as an economic fluctuation or trend that persists over an indefinitely long period, it is uncanny how it could well have been talking of the debate
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The Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Ashok Chavan, says that had he known that Amitabh Bachchan was going to be present at the innauguration of a grossly mismanaged Bandra-Worli Sea Link Project, he would not have gone there himself!
Why? Because Amitabh Bachchan is now the Brand Ambassador of tourism in Gujarat.
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao on Friday.
Dr. Singh arrived in Vietnam on Thursday as a part of his three-nation tour. Among various issues, climate change issue would also be discussed in the 30-minute meet.
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Nirmohi Akhara said on Friday that it will go to Supreme Court before November 30 to file an application against Allahabad High Court verdict. However, the Hindu party also showed signs that it is ready to resolve the issue harmoniously.
Read MoreBihar's Director-General of Police Neelmani has said that the third phase of polls in the state was by and large peaceful.
"Barring a few sporadic incidents, the third phase of election concluded, by and large peacefully," he said.
"As a precautionary measure, 185 arrests were made in the districts going to polls in the third phase. In
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The Gujarat High Court is expected to deliver its verdict on a petition filed by former Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah, challenging the rejection of his bail plea by a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court today.
Shah was arrested by the CBI in connection with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case on July 25.
In his
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The Karnataka High Court will today pronounce its much-awaited verdict on the disqualification of eleven rebel BJP MLAs today.
Justice V G Sabhahit, the third judge who heard the batch of petitions filed by the rebels challenging their disqualification from Assembly membership by Speaker K G Bopaiah will deliver the judgement at 2.30 p.m.
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