Archive for: July 5, 2010

Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has escaped the ignominy of being sent back home from England after he refused to sign the new Code of Conduct for players enforced by the Pakistan Cricket Board.

According to sources, Akhtar was asked to sign the Code of Conduct which he had been delaying since the Asia Cup in Sri Lanka.

“Eventually the team manager, Yawar Saeed, threatened to send him home from England if he didn’t sign the Code of Conduct,” sources in the Board said. Sources said that it was captain, Shahid Afridi …

Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni tied the nuptial knot with childhood friend Sakshi Singh Rawat tonight in a private ceremony attended only by family members and close friends, including a few of his team-mates, at a farmhouse.
The 28-year-old wicket-keeper batsman got engaged to Sakshi, a 23-year-old hotel management student, at a private ceremony last night.

The wedding at the picturesque Vishranti Resorts at Bidhauli, about 25km from here, was strictly a private affair with only 50-60 close relatives from both the families of the bride and the groom, …

Film icon Kamal Haasan will wear the director’s hat for a third time in his 50-year-long career even as younger daughter Akshara steps into the film industry as assistant to Rahul Dholakia.
Akshara does not want to follow elder sister Shruthi’s example and don the grease paint, said Haasan who was here for the inauguration of an retrospective of his films.

In his career spanning 5 decades, Haasan has only helmed two films, ’Hey Ram’ (2000) and ’Veeru Mandi’ (2004), and he is raring to call the shots again, having …

No matter how hard he tries, it is not easy for Salman Khan to avoid the Bachchans.

Sallu doesn’t want to meet Aishwarya Rai Bachchan for the obvious reason - she is his ex-girlfriend and their relationship had ended on a very bad note. And now that he has replaced Amitabh Bachchan as the brand ambassador of the International Indian Film Academy Awards, he feels awkward facing the other family members as well.
In the past, there have been several instances of Aishwarya and Salman bumping into each other. The …

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said the Reserve Bank will decide on a further hike in its lending and borrowing rates at the quarterly review meeting on July 27.
“The RBI Board will come up with its policy on July 27.

Let us wait till then,” Mukherjee told newspersons here when asked whether there would be any further hike in the repo and reverse repo rates of the RBI.
The RBI had on July 2 raised the repo and reverse repo rates by 25 basis points each to rein in double-digit inflation.

The unscheduled announcement …

Pakistan government should hold negotiations with the Taliban as part of efforts to tackle terrorism as even the US has indicated its willingness to talk to militants, top opposition leader and former premier Nawaz Sharif has said.
“If Washington says it is prepared to talk to the Taliban who are willing to listen, then a similar initiative should also come from Islamabad. We should not only see what decision they (the Western countries) will make about our fate. We should decide our own fate,” said Sharif, the chief of …

TRS MP Vijayasanthi on Sunday submitted her reply to the notice sent to her by the Election Commission over the alleged inflammatory remarks made by her.

“She has sent her reply to the Election Commission before the time given to her by this morning,” state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) I V Subba Rao told reporters in Hyderabad.

Vijayasanthi was served a notice by the EC for allegedly making inflammatory comments at a meeting in the TRS office recently ahead of the bypolls to 12 assembly seats in Telangana region of …

It was the state worst hit by H1N1 last year and is witnessing a second round of infections this monsoon, but doctors and paramedical staff in Maharashtra are refusing to take the swine flu vaccine.
Their reasons range from doubts over the effectiveness of the vaccine, the mode of administering it, its possible side-effects, and even automatic immunity gained from working with patients so far.

Wondering what to do with the massive stock of vaccines before it expires in October, Maharashtra will take a final call on Monday, even as the state …

Expelled Samajwadi Party leader and president of newly-floated Rastriya Lok Manch (RLM) Amar Singh on Sunday claimed that he was facing threat to his life from SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati.
“I have life threat from both Mayawati and Mulayam Singh Yadav,” Singh told reporters here after inaugurating his new party office.

On the SP chief reportedly writing a letter to the Centre to cut down his security, Singh said, “It’s a matter of joy
for me that Yadav is neither Home Minister nor Prime Minister.”

“Mulayam himself …