Archive for May, 2011

Messi seals status as best of his generation

Lionel Messi cemented his status as the greatest player of his generation as two moments of magic from the Argentine maestro inspired Barcelona to Champions League glory on Saturday.
Messi arrived at Wembley widely regarded as the sport’s preeminent force but the likes of Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo and Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney also had their [...]

Speak Asia’s Singapore bank accounts frozen

Market research company Speak Asia has stopped payouts to its vendors, clients and staff. In a letter to its members, Speak Asia says payments cannot be processed since its bank accounts in Singapore have been frozen.
CNN-IBN had first reported how the market research agency is under the scanner for allegedly misleading subscribers.
The Ministry of Company [...]

Speak asia scandal by news chennal

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Baloch movement not fuelled by India

The separatist movement in Pakistan’s Balochistan province is fuelled by the country’s domestic policies and not India, a top US official said on Wednesday.
“I don’t think that the existence of a terrorist or a separatist movement in Balochistan is fuelled by Indian financing or anything like that,” US Assistant Secretary of State for South and [...]

Dominique Strauss-Kahn DNA ‘linked to maid’

The unconfirmed reports cited sources close to the investigation.
More tests from the room where the alleged attack took place are pending.
Mr Strauss-Kahn denies the charges, and resigned as head of the International Monetary Fund last week to defend himself.
He is under house arrest in a New York apartment, after a judge granted him a $1m [...]

Pain lingers for Mangalore air crash survivors

A year ago, eight people survived the crash of the Air India Express Dubai-Mangalore IX-812 flight. These were seven bread-winners and the lone woman, medical student Sabrina Nasrin Haq from Bangladesh. Air India assured had assured it would give the seven survivors jobs but they haven’t materialized even a year later and this has left [...]

Enforcement Directorate to probe money-laundering case against Amar Singh

There’s more trouble for Amar Singh. The Allahabad High Court today directed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to investigate the Rs. 500-crore money laundering case against the Rajya Sabha MP, saying the matter needed a thorough probe as it had “national ramifications”.
The court gave the direction while dismissing a petition filed by the former Samajwadi Party general [...]

India removes 142 wanted terrorists from blacklist

In a significant decision, the Central government has removed from its ‘blacklist’ the names of 142 wanted terrorists and their associates, including the heads of various Sikh extremist groups.
The wanted persons whose names have been deleted are believed to be currently based in countries like Pakistan, the US, Canada, Norway, France and Germany, and the [...]

Mayawati slams Rahul Gandhi

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Thursday hit back at Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi and the party after the former’s visit to the epicentre of the land acquisition stir to support agitating farmers in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
At a press conference, Mayawati also slammed Congress president Sonia Gandhi saying farmers in Rae Bareli should [...]

Trump’s latest scandal: draft-dodging

And now, it seems, another one can be added to the list. This week, Trump told local Fox hosts at “Good Day New York” that he didn’t serve in Vietnam because he “got lucky” with his draft lottery number.
But The Smoking Gun uncovered documents that say otherwise.
“Selective Service records reveal that Trump, the fortunate son [...]

News of the World phone-hacking scandal threatens more newspapers

Britain’s tabloid newspapers are now facing a major crisis after being drawn into the News of the World phone-hacking scandal.
Twenty-four hours after Andy Coulson, the prime minister’s communications chief and former News of the World editor, was forced to resign, a lawyer confirmed other newspapers were facing legal claims.
Mark Lewis, who acted for Gordon Taylor [...]

Satyam scandal shocks India

The Satyam scandal has shocked India.
It is being called India’s Enron.
Many in the financial circles are dismayed that the biggest-ever corporate fraud in the country could have escaped unnoticed for so many years.
It has brought into question the levels of corporate governance in the country, and has cast an ugly shadow on the once shining [...]

Indian corruption scandal engulfs two more high-flying politicians

A spate of high-profile arrests have brought the desperation of India’s government into stark relief, as a series of corruption cases threaten to overwhelm the once-impeccable image of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Suresh Kalmadi, a politician who oversaw the graft-tainted and disastrously managed Commonwealth Games held in Delhi last fall, was remanded in police custody Tuesday [...]