Air India to sell three Boeing 777s to mop up resources
NEW DELHI: Air India on Thursday declared its intent to sell three of its Boeing 777s for mopping up resources to stem its liabilities, barely four months after selling five of these planes to Gulf carrier Etihad Airways. The airline offered three Boeing 777-200 Long Range airplanes, powered with GE 90-110 engines, for outright sale through competitive global bidding, […]
Many BJP leaders contacted me to prevent Modi from becoming PM, Mulayam claims
ETAWAH, UP: Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on Thursday claimed that several BJP leaders have “contacted” him to prevent Narendra Modi from becoming the Prime Minister. Addressing an election rally in Etawah, Mulayam claimed that Modi would never become the Prime Minister “as several top BJP leaders were not in his favour”. The SP […]
US condemns Russian jet’s passes near its warship in Black Sea, calls it ‘provocative’
WASHINGTON: A Russian fighter aircraft made repeated low-altitude, close-range passes near a US ship in the Black Sea over the weekend, the Pentagon said on Monday, condemning the action at a time of heightened US-Russian tensions over Ukraine. “This provocative and unprofessional Russian action is inconsistent with their national protocols and previous agreements on the […]
Can Indian Premier League 2014 rise above scams?
No other edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) would have been cause for as much pressure as the seventh, set to start from April 16. For no matter how many denials the players make and irrespective of how brave they act, the dark cloud of the spot-fixing scandal will loom large over the tournament. […]
Pakistan Cricket Board expecting six separate Test series against India between 2015-2023
New Delhi: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is expecting to play at least six home and away Test series against India in the next eight-year FTP cycle between 2015 and 2023 which will also include an “off-shore” home series in the United Arab Emirates. According to an ESPNCricinfo report, “The PCB is now waiting for […]
Indian priest faces deportation for molestation in US
WASHINGTON: An Indian-American priest who admitted to fondling a girl while attending dinner at her grandmother’s home in Minnesota has been sentenced to 25 years of supervised probation, according to media reports. Father Leo Charles Koppala pleaded guilty March 17 to criminal sexual conduct charges involving a minor child and is likely to be deported […]
Indian-American professor convicted of defrauding students
WASHINGTON: An Indian-American professor has been convicted by a federal grand jury of defrauding the US government and students of $700,000 in research grants. Manoj Jha, a full-time professor at the Morgan State University in Baltimore, faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for each of four counts of wire fraud, and for […]
Sikhs in US to honour Oak Creek shootings police officer
WASHINGTON: A Washington-based Sikh organization has announced to honour Oak Creek police officer Brian Murphy, for his “sacrifice and exemplary service” during the shootings at a Gurudwara in Wisconsin two years ago, with a service award. The first officer on the scene during the August 5, 2012 shootings at the Sikh Temple of Oak Creek […]
Davis Cup may bring Novak Djokovic to India
New Delhi: India will take on Serbia at home in the Davis Cup World Group play-offs to be held from September 12-14, raising the possibility of multiple-time Grand Slam winner and world number two Novak Djokovic touching down in the country. Bogdan Obradovic-led Serbia will face India for the second time in three years in […]
Yuvraj Singh is still India’s greatest match-winner, says Gautam Gambhir
New Delhi: Senior opener Gautam Gambhir says “had there been an Indian Premier League auction today, he would have still gone” for Yuvraj Singh and called him India’s “greatest match-winner” in limited overs cricket. “I don’t think any cricketer has criticised Yuvraj. It is the media which has attacked him and we need to be […]
Indian employees hesitant to seek jobs in west, study finds
NEW DELHI: A significant number of employees are apprehensive about moving to the west for jobs due to global economic uncertainty, while highly skilled ones are returning on account of good opportunities back home, a study by TimesJobs.com said. “40 per cent Indians are cautious about moving to the west for jobs due to economic […]
UK honeymoon murder suspect Shrien Dewani arrives in South Africa
JOHANNESBURG: Indian-origin businessman Shrien Dewani on Tuesday arrived in South Africa after being extradited from the UK, to stand trial for allegedly plotting the 2010 murder of his Indian-Swedish wife while on their honeymoon. Dewani was escorted to the Western Cape high court, where he appeared for the first time in a South African court, […]
Subrata Roy to remain in jail as Sahara struggles to find Rs. 10,000 cr
Subrata Roy, the chief of the Sahara conglomerate, will remain in jail for at least another week because his lawyers say they are struggling to find the 10,000 crores needed for his bail. On Wednesday, Supreme Court judges asked Sahara to deposit Rs.5,000 crore with the court and furnish a bank guarantee of anotherRs. 5,000 crore with […]
Sikhs in US army: India welcomes lawmakers’ backing
WASHINGTON: Indian ambassador S. Jaishankar has welcomed US lawmakers plea to end US defence department’s presumptive ban on Sikh Americans serving in the US military with their beards and turbans. Over 100 members of Congress from both Democratic and Republican parties made the plea in a March 10 letter to the US defence secretary Chuck […]
American Sikh centre seeks applications from entrepreneurs
CHANDIGARH: India centre of Sikh American Chamber of Commerce (SACC) has started inviting applications from young entrepreneurs to develop digital apps for social development and make a difference in the lives of people, said Manipal Dhariwal, president, SACC, India. The World Summit Youth Award (WSYA) is a unique global contest which brings together young developers […]
ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund offloads 11,000 MM Forgings shares
CHENNAI: ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund has offloaded nearly 11,000 shares of Chennai-based industrial forging company MM Forgings. In a stock market announcement, MM Forgings has announced that ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund, which held 7.53% stake in the company, with 920,709 shares, sold 10,837 equity shares of Rs 10 each or 0.09% of the equity share capital of the company. The deal, […]
Satellite clue ends wild theories, hope for MH370
Over an extraordinary 17 days and nights, until the moment Malaysia’s prime minister stepped to a lectern to deliver investigators’ sobering new findings, the fate of vanished Flight 370 hung on morbid conjecture and fragile hope. Many previous tragedies have transfixed us by revealing their power in cruel detail. But the disappearance of the Beijing-bound […]
BAN vs WI: Santokie double-blow rattles Bangladesh
NEW DELHI: Chasing a 172-run target, Bangladesh got off to a bad start as they lost three quick wickets in the World T20 Super 10 match at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur on Tuesday. Samuel Badree dealt first blow to the host by scalping Tamim Iqbal (5) in the third over. Krishmar Santokie […]
Virat Kohli can be better than Sachin Tendulkar: Kapil Dev
KUALA LUMPUR: Former captain Kapil Dev on Tuesday said that Indian batting’s mainstay Virat Kohli will rewrite more records than anyone else in world cricket and believed the Delhi batsman has realistic chances of “bettering” even Sachin Tendulkar’s career graph if he remains injury-free. “Without any doubt Kohli will make more records than anybody else. […]
Nauseating that N. Srinivasan continued as BCCI chief: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has asked N. Srinivasan to step down as BCCI president to ensure a fair probe of the Indian Premier League fixing and betting scandal. Srinivasan’s son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan, who was a team official of Chennai Super Kings, has been indicted by a Supreme Court appointed inquiry committee of betting and sharing team information. […]
