Chelsea manager Villas-Boas gets the sack
March 4th, 2012 - 9:33 pm ICT by IANS
London, March 4 (IANS) Chelsea have sacked manager Andre Villas-Boas after just eight months at the helm of the London football club.Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich got the services of ... Read more...
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Capello resigns, Stuart checks in as caretaker England boss
February 9th, 2012 - 9:34 pm ICT by IANS
London, Feb 9 (IANS) With just five months left for the Euro 2012, England football is in turmoil with the resignation of national team manager Fabio Capello over differences with ... Read more...
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Debt-laden Mexican state keeps financial records secret
December 1st, 2011 - 11:31 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Dec 1 (IANS/EFE) The government of the northern Mexican state of Coahuila, under investigation for a 9,800 percent increase in its debt since 2005, plans to keep its ... Read more...
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Rs.650 crore released from Harshad Mehta’s assets
September 13th, 2011 - 7:51 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Sep 13 (IANS) A Mumbai special court Tuesday ordered the release of Rs.650 crore to the Income Tax department and banks from the liquidated assets of late scamster ... Read more...
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Luke Fickell is the interim coach of the Ohio State University
May 30th, 2011 - 10:29 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Ohio, May 30 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Luke Fickell has been named as the interim coach of the Ohio State University football team after their long time first team coach Jim Tressel stepped down.Fickell ... Read more...
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Sangakkara steps down from ODI, Twenty20 captaincy (Lead)
April 5th, 2011 - 7:32 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, April 5 (IANS) Sri Lankan skipper Kumar Sangakkara Tuesday stepped down from captaincy of the One-day Internationals (ODIs) and the Twenty20 sides, saying it was in the long-term ... Read more...
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New HIV/AIDS study could turn treatment ‘on its head’
March 4th, 2011 - 5:28 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Mar 4 (ANI): A new study of anti-HIV/AIDS medicines in the developing world is on the verge of turning "the whole treatment world on its head," says expert.Paul Palumbo, of pediatric ... Read more...
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Retired diplomat Marc Grossman picked as new US special envoy to Af-Pak region
February 15th, 2011 - 11:43 am ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 15(ANI): US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has chosen Marc Grossman, a retired senior diplomat and former ambassador to Turkey, as the Obama administration's new Special Representative for Afghanistan and ... Read more...
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Richie Richardson named new West Indies manager
January 16th, 2011 - 4:12 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Jan 16(ANI): Former West Indies captain Richie Richardson has been appointed as the new manager of the national team.The 49-year-old has been appointed for a two-year term and will take over ... Read more...
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Colombia elects woman attorney general
December 3rd, 2010 - 11:50 am ICT by IANS
Bogota, Dec 3 (IANS/EFE) Colombia's Supreme Court has elected Viviane Morales as the country's new attorney general, ending 16 months of uncertainty stemming from feuds between the previous government and the judiciary, ... Read more...
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‘Domestic violence law gives no right to seek maintenance’
August 31st, 2010 - 9:25 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Tuesday held that the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 does not give a woman any additional right to claim maintenance ... Read more...
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US football coach’s fate in Indian American boss’ hands
June 28th, 2010 - 6:31 pm ICT by IANS
By Arun Kumar
Washington, June 28 (IANS) Indian-American Sunil Gulati, credited with the rise of the US football team, is faced with a tough question - to sack or keep coach Bob Bradley ... Read more...
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Obama names Indian American to key agricultural post
March 28th, 2010 - 10:30 am ICT by IANS
By Arun Kumar
Washington, March 27 (IANS) After waiting for months for the Senate to act, President Barack Obama has announced he would bypass a vacationing senate to make recess appointments of ... Read more...
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Borders Group CEO Ron Marshall quits
January 27th, 2010 - 1:25 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, Jan 26 (THAINDIAN NEWS) US bookseller Borders Group CEO Ron Marshall has quit. The head of its marketing and merchandising teams, on an interim basis, would replace him. After this ... Read more...
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Fritz Henderson Resigns As CEO Of General Motors
December 2nd, 2009 - 7:23 pm ICT by GD
By Madhuri Dey
Dec. 02, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The Chief Executive Officer of General Motors has declared his intention to resign from the post. He called a press conference late Tuesday evening, in which ... Read more...
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Colombia names Silva as defence minister
July 28th, 2009 - 2:42 am ICT by IANS
Bogota, July 28 (EFE) Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has named Gabriel Silva as the country's new defence minister.
Silva, who will succeed Juan Manuel Santos, will join office in August.Juan Manuel ... Read more...
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Kenyan women to go on sex strike in political protest
April 30th, 2009 - 2:01 pm ICT by IANS
Nairobi, April 30 (DPA) A group of Kenyan women's organisations have called on wives and girlfriends in the country to withdraw conjugal rights for a week in an attempt to end the ... Read more...
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New PCB chief selector Abdul Qadir vows to make sweeping changes in selection
November 21st, 2008 - 1:29 pm ICT by ANI
Karachi, Nov 21 (ANI): Former Pakistan leg-spinner Abdul Qadir, who was yesterday appointed as PCB chief selector, has said that he planned to bring sweeping changes in the procedure to select ... Read more...
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