Pune | 1 day ago
IPL Scoreboard: Pune Warriors vs Royal Challengers Bangalore
Pune, May 12 - The following is the scoreboard of the Indian Premier League - match between Pune Warriors and Royal Challengers Bangalore at the Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium here Friday.Royal Challengers Bangalore:Chris Gayle c Pandey b Mathews 57Tillakaratne Dilshan run out - 53Virat Kohli c Smith b Sharma 9 Saurabh Tiwary not out 36AB de Villiers not out 9Extras: - 9Total: - 173 Fall of wickets: 1 ... read more

Kolkata | 8 days ago
Eden Garderns set for Dada-SRK grudge match
Kolkata, May 4 - One team has lost four matches on the trot in the Indian Premier League and now finds itself in the rear pack. The other side is on a high occupying the second position after four back-to-back victories and looks set for a place in the play-offs. But such dry statistics carry little significance for Saturday's marquee game between Sourav Ganguly-led Pune Warriors and Shah Rukh Kha ... read more

11 days ago
Madan Mohan Malaviya: As secular as Gandhi
Book: 'Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya: A Valiant Visionary'; Author: Madhuker Upadhyay; Publisher: All India Congress Committee; Pages: 180, Price: Rs.300The best testimony that the Congress had virtually disowned Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya came when the author realised he was the only one who missing from the official collection of speeches of party presidents. Luckily, these were stored in the Neh ... read more

New Delhi | 22 days ago
Metro construction picks up; traffic snarls expected
New Delhi, April 20 - Traffic on some of central Delhi's major roads could be severely affected by diversions on Saturday, due to construction of the upcoming underground ITO metro station in central Delhi on Central Secretariat-Kashmere Gate line of phase 3, an official said.According to Delhi Metro Rail Corporation-, central Delhi's traffic going from ITO towards Delhi Gate will be diverted on D ... read more

Patna | 1 month ago
Bihar procures record paddy but farmers' cheques bounce
Patna, April 7 - Ashok Pandey, a farmer in Bihar, is worried after a Rs.143,000 cheque given by a state agency for his paddy crop bounced twice last one month. He is feeling cheated as the government had announced that farmers would be paid at the earliest for their paddy.After a bumper paddy crop this kharif season, Pandey was a happy man. I was upbeat about selling paddy for good money but the c ... read more

Lucknow | 1 month ago
Third chargesheet filed in NRHM case
Lucknow/New Delhi, April 5 - The Central Bureau of Investigation - Thursday filed a third chargesheet in the multi-crore National Rural Health Mission - scam in Uttar Pradesh, accusing another three people of irregularities in purchasing computers and peripherals.The agency filed the chargesheet in a CBI court in Lucknow against Managing Director of Uttar Pradesh Public Sector Undertaking Shreetro ... read more

Agartala | 1 month ago
Telecom links in all Indian villages by 2014: BSNL
Agartala, March 25 - State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited - has undertaken an ambitious Rs.20,000 crore project to establish telecom links in all villages across India and to take e-governance to rural and far-flung areas in the next two years, a BSNL official said here Sunday.The Rs.20,000 crore project for the creation of a 'National Optical Fibre Network' - for providing internet and other ... read more

Agra | 1 month ago
Agra students claim world record for 'bedai'
Agra, March 23 - Students of Agra University's Tourism and Hotel Management Institute have claimed a new world record for making a 'bedai', a spicy snack made of fine flour with a stuffing of lentils and spices.'We have succeeded in making a 3.5 foot x 3.5 foot bedai. It is slightly different from a kachori due to its ingredients and filling. Plus it is eaten with aloo ki subzi - full of spices an ... read more

Lucknow | 1 month ago
Court takes up threat to Ayodhya verdict judges, lawyers
Lucknow, March 20 - In a significant development, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court Tuesday directed the Uttar Pradesh government to give it details of the steps it had taken to provide security cover to the judges who had delivered the verdict in Ayodhya shrine title suits and also to the lawyers who represented Hindu parties.Hearing a petition filed by a local lawyer Ranjana Agnihotr ... read more

2 months ago
On Delhi's edge, BSP holds sway
Ghaziabad -, March 6 - The Bahujan Samaj Party - may have lost power in Uttar Pradesh but it kept in sway in areas bordering the national capital, winning six of the 11 assembly seats in the districts of Ghaziabad, Gautambudh Nagar and Panchsheel Nagar -.Out of the rest, the Samajwadi Party and the Congress-Rashtriya Lok Dal - alliance won two each and one went to the Bharatiya Janata Party -.The ... read more