Archive for: July 9, 2010

Newly-married Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who is celebrating his 29th birthday on Wednesday, arrived in the city with his wife Sakshi to a rousing reception from enthusiastic fans.

Dhoni and Sakshi greeted scores of fans from the balcony of their house here.

Dhoni married Sakshi in a low key ceremony in Dehradun on July 5 with only four of his teammates among the exclusive guests.

Dhoni’s brother-in-law Goutam Gupta, who had on Monday said they would throw a party at Ranchi very soon, and other friends and relatives were present at the airport amid tight …

Champion off spinner Muttiah Muralitharan said he decided to quit international cricket at the end of the first Test against India at Galle to challenge himself to capture the eight wickets he needs to become the first bowler in cricket history to reach 800 Test wickets.

“Eight hundred wickets is just a number because I already have the world record,” said Muralitharan addressing his first press conference since announcing his retirement on Tuesday. “I have taken it as a challenge to give me the motivation to take the eight wickets I need to reach that …

In a significant ruling, the Supreme Court has ruled that taxpayers can legally reduce their liability through dividend-stripping, a term used for selling mutual fund units at a discount post-dividend.

An apex court bench headed by Chief Justice SH Kapadia has said there is nothing wrong in dividend-stripping after getting the tax benefits. The bench further said such dividend stripping after availing of the tax rebates cannot be termed as abuse of law.

“Even assuming that the transaction was pre-planned there is nothing to impeach the genuineness of the transaction,” said the bench agreeing with …

HCL Infosystems on Thursday launched its end-to-end cloud-based computing solution service — O’zone — mainly aimed at enterprises, mid-sized organisations and professionals.

“HCL O’zone will deliver the benefits of reduced capital expenses, increased data security, increased flexibility through server consolidation, reduced power and cooling, green computing and disaster recovery. The solution will also provide 24×7 technical support to manage scalability and deliver optimum performance,” company Executive Vice-President George Paul told journalists here.

“We have been able to create a delivery framework which will support its new ‘Infrastructure as a Service’ (IaaS) and ‘Software as …

A Delhi court on Thursday awarded death penalty to a domestic help for murdering an elderly woman and her 12-year-old grandson here in 2007 holding the offence fell in the category of “rarest of rare” case.

Additional Sessions Judge S K Sarvaria rejected the plea of leniency by the convict Mithilesh Kumar Singh and said “his act does not deserve lenient punishment”.

The court had on July 1 convicted him for the offences of murder, attempt to murder, robbery and for destroying evidence under the IPC.

Singh, a resident of Samastipur in Bihar, killed Karamveer (12) and his …

Seventy-two hours after Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and asked him to relieve him of some of his “burden” — that is the consumer affairs, food and public distribution part of his portfolio — the reasons for his request have become the subject of speculation in the Congress.

This is particularly so because the Congress’ relationship with Mr. Pawar and his Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has always been ambivalent, given the circumstances under which he broke with it 11 years ago to float his own outfit. On Wednesday, a …

The UN secretary-general has recalled his envoy to Sri Lanka and is closing an office in Colombo because of “unruly protests” over a war crimes panel.

Ban Ki-moon said it was “unacceptable” that Sri Lankan authorities had failed to prevent the disruption of the work of UN personnel in the country.

The demonstrations are being led by the Housing Minister, Wimal Weerawansa.

He has urged “progressive nations” to halt a UN probe over possible war crimes during Sri Lanka’s civil war.

Mr Weerawansa, an ally of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, said he had also begun a hunger strike …