Daring, but with an exceptionally cool head made Ashok Kamte an excellent negotiator in crisis situations -- a quality for which he was summoned late Wednesday night to deal with terrorists holed up in Mumbai buildings.
Sania Mirza on her current form, fitness, future, Yuki Bhambri and Indian tennis in general.
Sania Mirza and Poojashree Venkatesha notched up straight-set wins as India blanked Singapore 3-0 in a Group A rubber to get off to a flying start in the Asia/Oceania Group II competition of the Fed Cup tennis tournament in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday.
A group of overzealous Bajrang Dal activists protesting against Valentine's Day celebrations chased a brother and sister and misbehaved with them in Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh.
Eyeing a 10 per cent stake in the overall revenues, the three-wheeler manufacturer Piaggio India has entered into used vehicle business for its vehicle Ape.
The Telugu movie directed by Ram Prasad is a pretty bland film with an uninteresting script.
The company is also ramping up production at its Pantnagar facility, where it enjoys a 10-year tax holiday, and expects to achieve full capacity utilisation in the next five-six months. BAL has three plants with a total installed production capacity of 2.2 lakh units a month, while on an average it produces 1.6 lakh units.
Sukanya Verma looks at some of the dance-offs that regaled us in the past.
About 3,000 employees of MRF in Arkonam and Puducherry were on a 'sit-in' strike within the premises of the respective facilities since May 9. The workers went on strike as they were 'disappointed with the management as the company denied recognition to it' and 150 labourers were also dismissed by the management so far.
Retired Australian opener Matthew Hayden has hit back at S Sreesanth by describing the Kings XI Punjab pacer as an over-rated bowler who "always loses cool under pressure" following the duo's face-off in their Indian Premier League match here on Thursday.
Bardhan blamed former governor Lt General S K Sinha for taking steps which resulted in the widespread violence in the state.
Images from Day 5 of the third Test between India and Sri Lanka in Mumbai.
The six off Iain O'Brien was 50th for Sachin Tendulkar in Test cricket. He became the fourth Indian after Virender Sehwag (65), Kapil Dev (61) and Sourav Ganguly (57) to do so.
An Indian-American CEO of a semiconductor company was shot dead along with two other persons by a laid-off employee of the firm in northern California, police said.
Sri Lanka has made it clear that India does not supply arms to the strife-torn island nation, saying that it understood New Delhi "political compulsions" in this regard.
A metropolitan magistrate on Saturday remanded three persons, arrested in connection with the firing by the bodyguards of Dera Sacha Sauda chief outside a suburban mall in Mumbai, to police custody till July 2. The three accused -- Jagdev Singh, Satnam Aroda and Rajguru Taneja -- bodyguards of Dera Sacha Sauda chief Ram Rahim Singh had been arrested on Friday.
Judging by the narco analysis report of Mohammed Asif, the medical student recently arrested in the state, it does seem so. Based on this report, Intelligence Bureau officials told rediff.com that leaders of the banned SIMI are having second thoughts about making Karnataka their base
England captain John Terry has been ruled out of the 2010 World Cup qualifier against Belarus in Minsk on Wednesday because of the back injury which kept him out of last Saturday's match against Kazakhstan.
n American model shattered stereotypes by breastfeeding her five-month old daughter on a Miami catwalk.
T D Dogra, who heads Forensic Medicines and Toxicology Department and is next to Venugopal in seniority, was appointed AIIMS' acting chief.
Brazilian Julio Baptista struck twice to give AS Roma a 2-0 win over Sampdoria in their rearranged Serie A game on Wednesday.
Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam chief M Karunanidhi on Monday welcomed the idea of projecting Rahul Gandhi as the United Progressive Alliance's Prime Ministerial candidate in next year's Lok Sabha polls. On including the creamy layer of Other Backward Classes in 27 per cent reservation in institutions of higher learning, Karunanidhi said he had taken up the matter with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh.
Normal life remained badly affected on Friday as shops and market places were closed and vehicles off the roads in response to a bandh over the Amarnath land transfer issue. The bandh, called by Shri Amarnath Yatra Sangharsh Samiti to demand transfer forest land to the shrine board, entered the 62nd day on Friday amid no signs of immediate rapprochement between the Samiti and the government.
Sri Lanka crushed Bangladesh by 465 runs in the second Test on Tuesday, recording the fifth highest run margin to sweep the series 2-0.
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India is considering measures to smoothen the procedures of cross-listing of companies on bourses in India and abroad, its Chairman C B Bhave said on Monday. The market regulator's comments came close on the heels of remarks of New York Stock Exchange Euronext CEO Duncan L Niederauer that the exchange was considering listing in Asian markets, including India.
Lyricist Prasoon Joshi wrote a poem to express his feelings of pain and anger over the Mumbai terror attacks.
The trio have worked in films on the same lines.
His new film, tentatively titled Saamantar, is a Marathi movie, which will be directed by him as well. It will co-star Sharmila Tagore.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh left for home after a three-day visit to Japan during which he met world leaders including US President George W Bush on Wednesday, on the sidelines of the summit of the Group of Eight industrialised countries.Singh had a packed schedule on the final day and his bilateral meetings included parleys with Austrlian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and new Russian President Dimitri Medvedev. He attended a breakfast session with leaders of G8.
German insurance giant Allianz is planning to widen base in India with foray in banking business through its unit Dresdner Bank, besides expanding its existing non-banking financial services.
Neha Aggarwal and Soumi Mondal were beaten in the semi-finals in straight games in the girls' singles of the table tennis competition of the Commonwealth Youth Games in Pune on Thursday. Neha was beaten by Isabelle Li 5-11, 6-11, 6-11, 9-11 in just 28 minutes, while Soumi Mondal was victim of another Singaporean, Kai Xin Zena Sim, losing 14-16, 10-12, 4-11, 4-11.
Without revealing its sources, The Herald has said that the unmanned aerial vehicle losses include about 50 that were shot down or suffered catastrophic technical failure in mid-air and another 40 damaged beyond repair by crash-landing on rough terrain in the two countries.
Public sector Hindustan Petroleum Corporation is planning to invest $1.5 billion in its petrochemical complex project, featuring refinery, naphtha cracker and aromatic plant.
For those who believe only grey cells set apart leaders from the rest, there is another hair raising observation among corporate America that most of the successful CEOs including Pepsico's Indra Nooyi part their hair to the left, says US business magazine Fortune.
Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Rajashekhar Reddy, who is in Karnataka to campaign for the Congress in several parts of the state, said that Karnataka was always ahead of Andhra Pradesh when the Congress ruled Karnataka. However, he said, Andhra Pradesh is way ahead today and thanks to the instability that prevailed in Karnataka since the past two years.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist took 'extremely strong objection' to the remark of the Prime Minister's Office that parties should eschew temptation of politicising the misery of the people and said the statement on price rise was 'very insulting'. CPM said that as a political party, it is its responsibility to raise the issue of the plight of the people.
The world's only 'zero-fuel' aircraft 'Solar Impulse-2' on Wednesday landed in Varanasi for an overnight stopover after its pilot held the Ahmedababd 'administration' responsible for the delay in departure from the city for want of customs and immigration clearance.
India brought in Murali Kartik in place of Virender Sehwag while left-arm spinner Abdur Rehman replaced Rao Ifthikar Anjum in the Pakistan team.
"The harsh language used by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, whom we consider an elder statesman, has naturally provoked the protagonists and as a result of which the unhealthy development is taking place," Krishna said in an obvious reference to the violence in the state.
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