Manchester City fire coach Mancini
byLondon, May 14 (IANS) Italian manager Roberto Mancini was fired by English Premier League club Manchester City, one year after he coached the team…
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Coach Santana sacked by Bahia
byRio de Janeiro, May 14 (IANS) Former South Africa national coach Joel Santana has been sacked by Brazilian top-flight football club Bahia. His dismissal…
Cuba intensifies fight against corruption
byHavana, May 14 (IANS/EFE) Corruption and illegal activities in areas like fuel distribution are of great concern for the Cuban government, the official media…
Power hike to render hill industry uncompetitive, unviable – Himachal industry
byIndustrialists have opposed the stiff hike in power tariffs as approved by HP State Electricity Regulatory Commission in its order for 2013-14 saying that…
Impossible! 49 stations had more than 100 percent voting
byIslamabad, May 14 (IANS) Forty-nine polling stations in Pakistan achieved the impossible — the votes polled were more than the total number of voters….
Venezuelan military to bolster crime-fighting efforts
byCaracas, May 14 (IANS/EFE) Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro Monday launched a plan to fight crime that, in its first phase, will involve 3,000 soldiers…
Sensex recovers as oil, gas stocks gain
byMumbai, May 14 (IANS) A benchmark index of the Indian equities markets was trading 74.67 points up in pre-afternoon trade Tuesday, a day after…
Silent voters catapulted PML-N to power: Pakistani daily
byIslamabad, May 14 (IANS) The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) was nearly reaching the majority mark in the National Assembly all thanks to “silent voters…
Ancient mosaic found in Israel
byJerusalem, May 14 (IANS/EFE) Archaeologists have found a mosaic dating back around 1,500 years in an area in the northern part of Be’er Sheva,…
Scholar Asghar Ali Engineer dead
byMumbai, May 14 (IANS) Internationally acclaimed Islamic scholar, author and social leader Asghar Ali Engineer passed away here Tuesday after a prolonged illness. He…