Tsonga dubs rivals Murray, Djokovic `extra terrestrials` for impossible `serve-returning` powers
Source: Zee News
Noida :: India | updated 2013-06-17 23:30:31 -0700 | sports-news
French tennis ace Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has dubbed World No.2 Andy Murray as an ` extra terrestrial` for his ability to read the serves of his opponents, ahead of the Wimbledon. Murray beat the big-serving Frenchman on his way to winning...
Mamata Banerjee loses cool as she faces angry protests in Barasat
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-06-17 21:12:22 -0700 | sports-news
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on June 17 faced angry protests by villagers while visiting Kamduni at Barasat where a college student was raped and murdered last week. She said her government would plea for death sentence for the...
Protests mount, CM visits Barasat rape-murder victim''s family
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-06-18 05:35:55 -0700 | sports-news
Ten days after a college girl was raped and killed at Kamduni village in Barasat, kicking off a series of protests through the state, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee visited the victim's family on Monday around 1.45 pm. The CM's delayed...
Finally, GLADA holds draw of lots for riot victims
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-06-17 18:16:29 -0700 | sports-news
It was after a wait of 29 long years that the victims got the flats promised by the government...However, officials cited incomplete verification of victims as the reason for postponement...Out of these, 3,569 people applied for MIG flats and 2,840...
Zakia''s plea a ploy to confuse court: SIT
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-06-17 18:16:52 -0700 | sports-news
The SC-appointed SIT on Monday alleged that Zakia Jafri's petition challenging the final report of its probe that gave clean chit to CM Narendra Modi and others for their alleged role in 2002 post-Godhra riots was nothing but an attempt...
Farmers plan big tractor rally today against SIR at Mandal-Becharaji
Source: Indian Express
Gāndhīnagar :: India | updated 2013-06-17 18:16:49 -0700 | sports-news
Stepping up their agitation against the proposed Mandal-Becharaji Special Investment Region (SIR), around 5,000 people from 44 villages to be affected by the project have vowed to take out a massive rally on 500 tractors from the region to the...
MC issues notices to 120 guesthouses in villages
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-06-17 18:16:48 -0700 | sports-news
Cracking the whip on guesthouses operating in the villages, the Municipal Corporation has served notices to 120 such guesthouses. The owners have been asked to inform them about whether the building plans have been approved and the requisite clearances are...
Thieves strike at Sector 4 petrol pump, make off with Rs 3 lakh, mobile phone
Source: Indian Express
Chandīgarh :: India | updated 2013-06-17 18:16:46 -0700 | sports-news
Unidentified thieves looted a petrol pump in Sector 4, Chandigarh, in early hours of Monday. They broke into a convenience store attached to the petrol pump and stole Rs 3 lakh from the counter and a mobile phone...The auto service...
State govt asks Centre to dismiss Bhatt
Source: Indian Express
Jūnāgadh :: India | updated 2013-06-17 18:16:49 -0700 | sports-news
The Gujarat government has written to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs recommending the dismissal of IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, who has been under suspension for almost two years now. The 1988-batch Gujarat-cadre IPS officer was arrested following an First...
2,100 students appear for PU CET
Source: Indian Express
Hoshiārpur :: India | updated 2013-06-17 18:16:48 -0700 | sports-news
As many as 2100 candidates from different parts of the country on Monday appeared for the combined entrance test (CET) meant for admissions to various post graduate courses at Panjab University (PU). The CET for 38 PG courses had begun...
Security ring at Statue of Unity site
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-06-17 18:16:48 -0700 | sports-news
Security personnel have been deployed for the first time at the proposed site for the 182-metre-tall Statue of Unity, facing the Narmada dam, after Chief Minister Narendra Modi announced the project in October 2010. Six personnel of Narmada Battalion, which...
Car of minister''s wife rams into tea stall, 4 hurt
Source: Indian Express
Jaunpur :: India | updated 2013-06-17 18:16:44 -0700 | sports-news
Car of minister's wife rams into tea stall, 4 hurt At least four persons sustained injuries when the vehicle, in which wife of Horticulture Minister Paras Nath Yadav was travelling, rammed into a tea stall under Rampur area of Jaunpur...
Cops search for gang members who fled from Naini jail
Source: Indian Express
Allahābād :: India | updated 2013-06-17 18:16:41 -0700 | sports-news
The Allahabad police are reportedly looking for criminals, who escaped from the prison van of Naini Central Jail on April 8, in connection with the murder of Station Officer of Bara Police Station Rajendra Prasad Dwivedi. Dwivedi was shot by...
Man in 80s commits suicide
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-06-17 18:16:37 -0700 | sports-news
Neki Ram Kapoor, a man in his eighties, committed suicide by jumping in front of a train near Damoria Bridge on Monday. Identified as a jeweller from Rishi Nagar, the victim had shops at markets of Sarafa Bazar and Fountain...
AMU to hand over 3 centres to Minority Affairs Ministry
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-06-17 18:16:37 -0700 | sports-news
will hand over its three centres at Mallapuram in Kerala, Kishanganj in Bihar and Murshidabad in West Bengal to the Ministry of Minority Affairs (MoMA) for their upgrade as independent universities. AMU is also unlikely to proceed with proposals to...
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