Mohali (Punjab), September 07: Air India (Blue) beat Tata Sports Club by five wickets in a semi-final match of the Sahara Corporate Cup at the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) stadium here Sunday.
With this win, Air India (Blue) have cemented their place in the Sep 8 finals.
Air India Blue elected to field and with the help of some tight spells from its bowlers, they managed to bundle out Tata Sports for 267 runs in 49.4 overs.
Peshawar, September 06: Thousands of civilians have fled Pakistan’s northwest Khyber tribal region where the latest military offensive killed 33 more suspected militants Sunday.
Pakistan is under intense U.S. pressure to crack down on insurgents along its border with Afghanistan, especially the lawless tribal belt where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is suspected to be hiding. The U.S. believes militants use Pakistan’s tribal areas as safe havens from which to plan attacks on Western troops across the frontier in Afghanistan.
Jammu, September 07: Jammu and Kashmir police has sent the details and photographs of a slain Lashkar-e-Taiba militant to Mumbai Police to verify if he was the Hindi tutor of Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone terrorist arrested in the 26/11 terror attack.
“We have sent the photographs and details of slain militant Abu Jindal to Mumbai Police for investigation. We are in close touch with them,” a senior police officer said today.
Suspected LeT militant Abu Jindal was shot dead in Bathoi forest area of Mahore tehsil of Reasi district on Friday.
Hyderabad, September 06: Congress High Command’s directive for restraint notwithstanding, there was no let up in the open campaign by followers of Y S Jaganmohan Reddy to make him as Chief Minister on a day today when he broke his silence leaving the issue to the party leadership.
At the same time, the son of late Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy gave ample hints that he was in the race for succession even as his reluctant followers were persuaded to join interim Chief Minister K Rosaiah’s Cabinet in which all the 34 ministers of the YSR team were sworn in.
Srinagar, September 07: Shaheena, an undergraduate school student, loves to wear her hijab but, like the majority of Kashmiri girls, she refuses attempts by militants to force hijab at gunpoint.
“One who is born a Muslim knows how to live as a Muslim,” Shaheena told IslamOnline.net.
“There is no need of enforcement which creates fear.”
Militants in Muslim-majority Kashmir have issued an ultimatum to schools and colleges across the Valley to implement a strict Islamic dress code for girls, or face the consequences.
Kolkata, September 06: City giants Mohun Bagan squeezed into the semi-final with a 1-1 draw against Mumbai’s Mahindra United in a well-fought group C encounter of the 114th IFA Shield football championship here Sunday.
Snehashish Chakraborty put Bagan ahead in the 25th minute, before Mijin Svetozar restored parity for the visitors soon after the beather.
Both Bagan and Mahindra finished their group engagements with four points, but the former made the cut for the semis because of a better goal difference.
The Kolkata team will play Untied S.C. in the Sep 9 semi-final.
New Delhi, September 06: After suspecting an Indian hand in the terror attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team, Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani on Sunday revealed that the attack may have been funded by the LTTE.
Speaking about the attack on Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore in March this year, Gilani said that he had received word from Sri Lankan authorities about the involvement of a Sri Lankan group.
Gilani also said that the admission came from none other than the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa during the duo’s visit to Libya recently.
London, September 06: Pop diva Madonna has reportedly reconciled with her estranged brother Christopher Ciccone a year after he published an expose of their life together.
The “Music” hitmaker was allegedly furious over Ciccone’s tell-all book, “Life With My Sister Madonna” last year, which lifted the lid on the star’s private affairs, reports celebrifi.com.
Ciccone also incurred the wrath of his famous sibling when he spoke to the media following her split from British director Guy Ritchie in late 2008.
Washington, September 06: White House officials said Sunday a government health insurance option is negotiable, signaling a potential compromise on an issue that President Barack Obama’s liberal supporters consider do-or-die.
As Obama prepares for a Wednesday night speech to Congress in a risky bid to salvage his top domestic priority, political adviser David Axelrod said a public plan is not the core issue in the health care debate. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs danced around a question about whether Obama would veto a bill without the public option.
Kolkata, September 06: Overnight leader Sandipan Chanda was joined by two others in the pole position after the sixth round of the 4th Kolkata Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament here Sunday. Chanda, Viktor Laznicka of the Czech Republic and Le Quang Liem of Vietnam have five points each.
Chanda and GM Nigel Short (4.5) of England drew a hard fought battle on the top board at the Gorky Sadan.
New Delhi, September 06: The two-day politburo meeting of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) that concluded here Sunday decided to prepare a draft document for its “rectification campaign” to inculcate in its cadres the “living culture based on communist values.”
The draft will be placed before the central committee meeting of the party to be held Oct 23-25, said a party communique.
The CPI-M has been searching for the reasons for its worst ever debacle in the April-May Lok Sabha elections with its tally falling to 16 seats from 43 in the 2004 elections.
New Delhi, September 06: Film: “Vaayuputhra”; Cast: Ambareesh, Chiranjeevi Sarja, Aindrita Ray, Ajay, Ramesh Bhat, Mukyamanthri Chandru, Padmaja Rao and others; Director: Kishore Sarja; Music Director: Hari Krishna; Producer: Arjun Sarja; Storywriter: Linguswamy; Camera: Sundaranatha Suvarna; Ratings: ** 1/2
New York, September 06: Serena Williams is still waiting for her first true test of this U.S. Open.
The defending champion’s fourth-round match was competitive for all of four games Sunday, before Williams took 10 in a row to beat No. 22-seeded Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia 6-2, 6-0.
Williams has reached the quarterfinals at 11 of the past 12 major tournaments and won the title at three of the past four.
With the score 2-all against Hantuchova, Williams hit three aces to hold for a 3-2 lead — and she wouldn’t lose a game the rest of the way.
Mumbai, September 06: Bengali Bombshell has now grown up a lot in terms of acting and is now very much cautious about her image, for this purpose Bipasha is now trying to make a perfect balance between commercial and artistic cinema.
Bipasha recently worked in a Bengali film and invited much of attention from the Bengali movie lovers.
She put on Cotton sarees, long blouses and big bindis in the movie according to the character of the movie.
New Delhi, September 06: Gold prices are likely to hit a new high of Rs 17,000 per 10 grams in next the 2-3 weeks due to rising demand from investors and a weak US dollar, analysts said.
The price of the precious metal reached a seven-month high of Rs 15,780 per 10 grams in the domestic markets on September 3. On the same day, it also touched an almost seven-month high of $999.5 an ounce (28.34 grams) in the global markets.
Mumbai, September 06: Salman Khan is soon back with vengeance in the role of a tough guy in Prabhu Deva’s movie “Wanted.”, he plays the role of a contract killer in the movie.
According to Salman, the producer of the movie Boney Kapoor had showed Salman Pokhri, soon after watching the movie Salman agreed to the movie.
In the beginning Salman was little apprehensive Salman about the action part in the movie but somehow Boney managed to convince Salman.
Salman claims that the movie is an entertaining movie and would be loved by the audience.
New Delhi, September 06: Fearing opposition by employee unions, the government is considering listing telecom major BSNL on bourses by issuing nominal fresh shares and may shelve plans of directly divesting its equity for the time being.
Repeated attempts by the government and also management of the PSU have failed to bring the different associations to consensus on divesting government stake even as they (employees) have been lured with employees stock options at an attractive terms.
Mumbai, September 06: He is young, he is energetic and he is shy. Yes, we are talking about the newcomer of Bollywood “Maradona” who is making a dream debut in the dream world.
His debut film “Pankh” is yet to be released and he gets to share screen with the bombshell of Bollywood “Bipasha Basu” the excitement dosen’t end here for him as for his next film, the newcomer will be seen alongside none other than the evergreen Zeenat Aman. In the movie Maradona plays Zeenat’s younger son and Helen’s grandson.
Islamabad, September 06: US and “internal powers” were behind the 1988 plane crash that killed General Zia-ul-Haq, who ruled Pakistan from 1978 till his death, a former Pakistani spymaster has claimed.
Imtiaz Ahmed, a former chief of the Intelligence Bureau, said the US collaborated with “internal powers” in Pakistan to assassinate Zia.
Ahmed, who also served in the ISI, has shaken up political parties with revelations of huge payments allegedly made by the Inter-Services Intelligence to strengthen the opposition to former premier Benazir Bhutto in 1990.
Mumbai, September 06: The “Billo Rani” of Bollywood Bipasha Basu is riding high on the ladders of success as she carved her name in one of her another movie “Shob Charitro Kalponik” but this time its not from hindi version, it’s a Bengali movie.
Bips “Shob Charitro Kalponik” has been directed by a known director of Bengali films Rituparno Ghosh and for this flick Bipasha Basu can’t stop praising her Bengali co-stars Prosenjit and Jishu Sengupta.
New Delhi, September 06: In a fresh case of intrusion by Chinese troops, the Chinese troops entered 1.5 kms into Indian Territory.
The mandarin troops entered the Ladakh some 1.5 kms from the International border.
The Chinese also painted rocks red which could be an effort to lodge claim over the territory.
This is the fresh case in recent times as earlier; a Chinese helicopter had violated the Indian airspace.
The Chinese entered the Indian territory near Mount Gya, which is recognised as international border by both the Nations.
New Delhi, September 06: A health centre inside the high security President’s Estate in the national capital was burgled, police said on Sunday. Thieves also struck at the residence of Rajya Sabha member from Bihar Ejaz Ali here and decamped with bathroom fittings.
According to police, a computer and three pairs of dumb bells were stolen on Wednesday night.
Melbourne, September 06: In one of the auctions in Australia, the white hand glove of late “King of Pop” Michael Jackson has been sold out for 57,600 Australian dollars. Jackson bounced this white hand glove to one of his fan during a show in Australia.
One of spoke-person from Melbourne auction house mentioned that a person named Harvik Stone got those white glove of Michael Jackson by defeating his another five other bidders for the same. The auction bidding before the start of this auction was just 30,000 Australian dollars.
Mumbai, September 06: Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has surpassed batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar and Yuvraj Singh in some matter.
Now don’t start guessing as going by a report it has come to knowledge that Dhoni is the top money grosser in the Indian team.
According to sources, Mahendra Singh Dhoni earns Rs. 50 crore per year while Sachin Tendulkar lags behind with Rs 40 crore.
Flambouyant batman Yuvraj nicknamed Yuvi puts Rs 28 cr in his kitty.
Punjab, September 06: Former Punjab Chief Minister and ex-Haryana Governor Harcharan Singh Brar died at his native village here today at the age of 87 after protracted illness.
A veteran Congress leader, Brar also held the post of Orissa Governor for six months in 1976.
He breathed his last in Sarai Naga village in Punjab’s Muktsar district and would be cremated tomorrow, family members said.
Brar, who played an instrumental role in creation of Muktsar district, is survived by his wife Gurbinder Kaur, son Kanwarjit Singh, an MLA, and daughter Kanwaljit.