London, March 9 (IANS) Arsenal became the first team to seal a place at Wembley in The FA Cup Semi-Finals, when they knocked out Everton at the Emirates Stadium in Saturday’s only Sixth Round tie. An early opening goal from Mesut Ozil, the German’s first since December, set Arsene Wenger’s side on their way only for […]
Tehran, March 9 (IANS) European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton arrived in Iran’s capital Tehran Saturday for talks on Iran’s nuclear issue and the relations between Iran and Europe, media reported. Ashton is scheduled to meet with Iran’s president, foreign minister and parliament speaker during her stay in Tehran, Xinhua reported. Senior Iranian nuclear […]
Washington, March 9 (IANS) The US Navy said Saturday that it has dispatched a warship to assist in the search for a missing Malaysia Airlines plane. The USS Pinckney, an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, is en route to the southern coast of Vietnam to aid in the search for flight MH370, Xinhua quoted the US […]
Sopot (Poland), March 9 (IANS/CMC) Reigning World and Olympic 100 metres champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce stormed into Sunday’s semi-finals of the women’s 60m sprint, when she won her heat at the World Indoor Championships here. Running out of lane three in heat two, the dynamic pint-sized sprinter easily brushed aside her competition to cross the line in […]
Mumbai, March 9 (IANS) It couldn’t have been a better day for their victory – Raagini Makkar and her troupe Naadyog picked the “India’s Got Talent 5” trophy here on International Women’s Day Saturday. Raagini is a housewife and a kathak dance teacher and she runs her family institute called Naadyog, which is 25 years old […]
Mumbai, March 8 (IANS) Kolkata-based designer Sayantan Sarkar will bring a taste of “new age romance” via his collection at the forthcoming edition of Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) summer-resort 2014, which begins here March 12. The collection is titled ‘A Motley Love’. “The collection is inspired by the motley emotion called love, dedicated to the urbane […]
Islamabad, March 8 (IANS) Pakistani actress Sana Khan has died in an accident near Looni Kot, around 30 km off Hyderabad, a media report said. Sana and her husband actor Babar Khan were on their way from Karachi to Hyderabad in a car when the vehicle, driven by Babar, went out of control Friday, reports dawn.com. […]
Sanaa, March 8 (IANS) Three members of the Yemeni armed forces were killed in an Al Qaeda attack Saturday, a provincial police source said. The three, belonging to the 115th Armoured Army Brigade, were killed when unidentified gunmen, believed to be from Al Qaeda, attacked their base in the district of Lowder in southern Abyan province, […]
Mumbai, March 8 (IANS) Juhi Chawla is revelling in the reviews of her latest release “Gulaab Gang”, in which she has played a negative role for the first time. “I am loving the hate. For the first time, I’m actually glad you could hate me,” Juhi posted on her Twitter page, along with the links of […]
Kuala Lumpur, March 8 (IANS) Malaysian Transport Minister Hishamuddin Hussein said here Saturday that no signs had been found that a Malaysia Airlines flight, carrying 239 passengers and crew, had crashed,. He said no sign of any plane wreckage was found and denied earlier media reports that the plane had crashed south of an island off […]