Castrol has strengthened its position in football by signing a prestigious six-year deal as a FIFA World Cup Sponsor until 2014. The agreement awards the global lubricants company worldwide rights for the 2010 FIFA World CupT in South Africa, the
Ravi Upindranath Verma, who runs a transport business in neighbouring Navi Mumbai, used to call up random landline numbers in the north east suburb of Mulund posing as a MTNL vigilance officer and went ahead if a woman took the
An encounter took place between security forces and militants in the general area of Roshni post near Sadhna in Karnah sector, a police spokesman said. He said the area was immediately cordoned off and a massive search operation was launched
Though the identity of the body was not ascertained so far, it belonged to a member of the Greyhound Force of Andhra Pradesh," South-western range DIG Sanjeev Panda told.
Brushing aside criticism that the government and defence ministry had been slow in reacting to the death of the Marshal, a recipient of Padma Vibhushan, Defence Minister A K Antony said that according a State funeral to the late military
The people want Manmohan Singh to lead, not to hand in his resignation. For the last four years he has presided over the economy, which is now facing difficult challenges. An economist prime minister is expected to get a grip
Chances of the parliamentary session of Nepal's Constituent Assembly (CA) remain slim on Monday. The CA sitting which has been repeatedly disrupted by the Madhesi lawmakers has been scheduled for 4pm today. Although the major three parties had claimed to
Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist-Leninist (CPN-UML) General Secretary Jhala Nath Khanal on Monday said that the demand for 'one Madhes one state' will lead the country towards disintegration. Stating that the model for a new Nepal will be multiregional, Khanal
The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has said that peace in Pakistan's Northern Areas will be maintained at all costs. Reacting to reports of recent disturbances in the region, especially along the Karakoram Highway and in the border town of Sost,
Pakistan's Supreme Court today adjourned for two weeks the hearing of an appeal filed by the government against a High Court's order disqualifying former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from contesting the by-polls. The three-judge bench of the apex court adjourned
In a clear indication of the kind of power it has acquired in the volatile tribal regions of Pakistan, and in the country's North West Frontier Province, the Taliban has set up kangaroo courts to deliver its form of Islamic
A physiotherapist has warned that heavy schoolbags are turning a majority of New Zealand kids into 'hunchbacks'. Steve August revealed that heavy school backpacks and an inactive lifestyle were leaving an large number of children with "dowager's hump" and are
