April 22, 2012
A special CBI court rejected the bail pleas of six accused in the Adarsh Housing Society scam, including former Maharashtra bureaucrats Jairaj Pathak and Ramanand Tiwari. The court refused to grant them liberty, accepting CBI's argument that investigation was still in progress.
April 21, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO — A 100-year-old Chinese restaurant in San Francisco once known for having "the world's rudest waiter" is slinging its last insults and barbequed pork noodle rolls.
Sam Wo will close after 100 years in business.
April 21, 2012
Scorecard: Royal Challengers Bangalore 166 for 5 (Gayle 87, de Villiers 52, Awana 4-34) beat Kings XI Punjab 163 for 6 (Hussey 41, Mahmood 33*) by five wickets
April 21, 2012
Pakistan on Saturday began mourning the victims of a plane crash near Islamabad international airport. A total of 127 people were killed when a Boeing 737-200 of Bhoja Air crashed at a short distance from the international airport in the Pakistani garrison city of Rawalpindi, the second such accident in less than two years.
April 21, 2012
ICICI Bank Ltd said the lender's decision to cut its base interest rate by a quarter percentage point won't affect its profitability. "We believe that we'll not see a cut in margins on account of this," Chief Executive Chanda Kochhar said on a television channel, citing the bank's decision to cut deposit rates as well.
April 20, 2012
In 1997, then civil aviation minister C.M. Ibrahim acted under pressure from Jet Airways to thwart the Tata group's bid to start an airline in India in association with Singapore Airlines, a former top bureaucrat has said in a tell-all book.
April, 2012
WASHINGTON: A young Indian American has created history of sorts after winning the primaries in a school board election in the State of Maryland.
Raheela Ahmed, 18, finished first in the Prince George's County (Maryland) Board of Education elections, while the incumbent School Board Chairwoman, Jeana Jacob, received about 1,000 votes less than her.
April 20, 2012
Scorecard: Delhi Daredevils 162 for 5 (Pietersen 103*, Steyn 2-19) beat Deccan Chargers 157 for 8 (Parthiv 45*, Nadeem 3-16) by five wickets
Dale Steyn congratulates Kevin Pietersen, Delhi Daredevils v Deccan Chargers, IPL, Delhi, April 19, 2012
April 20, 2012
PARIS: US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called on Thursday for the UN Security Council to adopt an arms embargo and other tough measures against Syria to try to halt 13 months of bloodshed, but she acknowledged such diplomatic actions would likely be vetoed.
April 20, 2012
After banning certain English dailies and high circulation Bengali newspapers from the state-funded and state-aided libraries, Mamata Banerjee has advised people not to watch some TV channels, alleging that they are spreading false propoganda against the Trinamool government.
