Gurgaon, (IANS) The trial run of Rapid Metro, an intra-city metro service in the city, the first-of-its-kind project on Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) model, was carried out Tuesday, an official said. Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, along with Gurgaon MP Rao Inderjeet Singh, also Tuesday laid the foundation stone of the Rapid Metro’s 7-km-long extension. The [...]
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London, (IANS) A computer glitch cost a kitchenware company in Britain a whopper as it had to give away 600 frying pans for free to customers after mistakenly advertising them for 0.00 pounds online. The fault at ProCook, based in Gloucester, led to the pricing blunder for the non-stick Fusion pans which normally sell for [...]
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iOS 6 jailbreak is talking point for Apple fans. Here are tethered and untethered ways for iOS 6 jailbreaking Within days after the release of iOS 6, lots of hackers successfully managed to jailbreak the firmware. The new firmware has come with a number of issues like failure of Apple Maps, deficiencies with Passbook and [...]
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New Delhi, (IANS) The Commonwealth Games organised in New Delhi exactly two years ago may have been scarred by controversy and charges of corruption that are yet to be proved, but India’s best ever performance at the Olympics in the London Games displays the progress the country has made in sports in the last two [...]
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New Delhi, (IANS) Two years after the Oct 3-14, 2010 Commonwealth Games, that got mired in a welter of corruption charges and led to the arrests of top people associated with the organising committee, there have been no convictions so far as the prosecution has failed to establish guilt in courts of law. While 12 [...]
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Bangalore, (IANS) The match-winner might have been an own goal, but a young Punjab emerged deserving champions with a 2-1 result against experienced Air India in the final of Hockey India’s Senior Men’s National Hockey Championship here Tuesday. It was only fitting that the trophy went to the spiritual home of hockey and Tuesday’s success [...]
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Bidar, (IANS) Unseeded Varunya Wongteanchai of Thailand defeated Prerna Bhambri 7-5, 6-3 to move into the second round of the Ashok Kheny $10,000 ITF Bidar Open Women’s futures tennis championship at the Police Training School courts here Tuesday. The Thai girl played well with solid ground strokes and dictated the pace to put pressure on [...]
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Sonepat, (IANS) Navneet Kaur scored nine goals as hosts Haryana raced to a 23-0 win against Goa in their concluding Pool E league game, qualifying for the quarterfinals of the Hockey India Junior Women National Championship at Motilal Nehru School of Sports, Rai Tuesday. Navneet Kaur, who scored six goals against Maharashtra, played the leading [...]
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Gurgaon, (IANS) Piyush Sangwan and Prakhar Asawa finished tied on top on the leader board in Category B (age group 13-15) with a one over par 73 at the Toyota-IGU Northern India Juniors at the Golden Green Golf Course here Tuesday. In a tough battle for supremacy in Category A (age group 16-18), Aman Raj, [...]
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After Pakistan’s emphatic victory India’s chances to qualify for the semi-finals are not that bright. If India wins the match against South Africa with huge margin, it has chance to move to semis, but if the victory is not emphatic enough, the chance will certainly be difficult. But if they were in the search of [...]
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Colombo: Pakistan kept alive their hopes of qualifying for the semifinals of the World Twenty20 tournament beating Australia by 32 runs in their final Super Eights tie at the R Premadasa Stadium here Tuesday. The Aussies, however, qualified for the last four on the basis of the net run rate. Put in to bat, Pakistan [...]
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Havana, (IANS/EFE) Cuba will dedicate a monument and construct a city square to pay tribute to legendary boxer Teofilo Stevenson (1952-2012), a three-time Olympic and world champion, state media said Monday. The effort to pay tribute to the famous Cuban pugilist – who suffered a fatal heart attack in June – is designed to celebrate [...]
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Santiago, Oct 2 (IANS/EFE) One man was killed and another badly wounded in a shooting attributed by Chilean police to a feud between rival factions of fans of the Colo Colo soccer club. The incident occurred in the Santiago district of Macul, home of Colo Colo’s Monumental stadium, and the dead man was identified by [...]
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Port-of-Spain, Oct 2 (IANS/CMC) Batting legend Brian Lara was among 33 past and present national cricketers honoured by the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB) at a special ceremony over the weekend. The award, part of the 50th anniversary of the twin republic’s independence, is the second in weeks for Lara following his entry into [...]
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