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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan blessed with a baby girl

IndiaVoice News — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:41:46 +0000

Bollywood star one of the most beautiful women in the world Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has given birth to a baby girl, her husband Abhishek announced today. Abhishek wrote at his twitter account @juniorbachchan "IT'S A GIRL!," without any other details.

ICC ODI XI led by MS Dhoni

IndiaVoice News — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 07:16:59 +0000

Apart from heading the World ODI XI of ICC Mahendra Singh Dhoni also won the "Spirit of Cricket" trophy at ICC awards ceremony in London. MS Dhoni was the lone highlight for India at the ICC Annual Awards this year as Indian team performed really bad after winning the World Cup in subcontinent. English cricketers won most awards and prizes in a glittering ceremony.

World Cup enters the Knockout stage

IndiaVoice News — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 03:54:02 +0000

In the first quarterfinal of the ICC world cup 2011, Pakistan a favourite team to win the cup now is going to take on two times world champion West Indies at Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur in Bangladesh. Though there were no major upsets during the group stages because of the format of the tournament all expected teams entered the knockout stage but now as Pakistan is favourite to win the cup some hard hitting by Windies batsmen like Pollard and Gayle may turn the tables for them.

India starts Worldcup Campaign with a win

IndiaVoice News — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:00:34 +0000

We had a bang of a start to the world cup when Virendra Sehwag of India hit Bangladeshi paceman Shafiul Islam to a four through covers on the very first ball of the opener match at Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur on a nice February afternoon. With that the large crowd making sarcastic cheers realized that India is not going to repeat 2007 disaster, at least in sub-continent with superb battings tracks to play on and with world's strongest on paper batting line-up.

DMK backs Raja after arrest in 2G scam

IndiaVoice News — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 10:14:38 +0000

A.Raja was arrested by Central bureau of Investigation in relation with the 2G spectrum allocation scam when he was Telecom minister in UPA government. Despite of his arrest on charges as serious as criminal conspiracy, the DMK is standing by him and thinks that he is innocent. Party strongly believed that the arrest doesn't prove him of guilt in charges against him in the 2G scam.

Nakamura tops at Wijk aan Zee

IndiaVoice News — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:50:39 +0000

Hikaru Nakamura of the United States got the faintest lead against the wold champion Vishwanathan Anand of India in the Round 11 of the 73rd edition of the Tata Steel Chess a regular event at Wijk-aan-Zee that proved a tournament winner for him. He was half a point ahead in the tournament after that and was leading the table and needed only a draw in the last round with white while Anand needed a win from last round with black pieces to win the tournament.

Unrest in Egypt, protests continue

IndiaVoice News — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:33:11 +0000

President of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, is facing more problems now as the protests continue by youth in Egypt on the fifth day of the unrest. Saturday was no different for the Mubarak as he tried to save his 30 year old government by firing his own cabinet of ministers and forcing marshal law on state. Army was called out by him, a step criticized by many, actually backfired on him as the army troops and demonstrators fraternized and called for the president to leave his post.

CBI registers FIR in Adarsh Society case

IndiaVoice News — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:00:13 +0000

After 10 weeks of time finally CBI launched preliminary investigations into the Adarsh Co-operative Housing Society scam in Mumbai today on 29th January Saturday. The CBI registered a formal complaint into this high profile case involving Ministers of Government of Maharashtra and defense personals.

Eden Gardens loses World Cup match

IndiaVoice News — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 02:53:22 +0000

Construction work still in progress at Eden Gardens, Kolkata, even after the ICC, highest authority in the game of Cricket, decided it would not host the ICC World Cup 2011 game between India and England on February 27 at this venue due to delay in the works and the present condition of the stadium.Meanwhile the president of the Cricket Association of Bengal, Jagmohan Dalmiya, has appealed to the International Cricket Council (ICC), through the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India), asking for the deadline for completion of work at Eden Gardens to be extended for 10 more days.

BJP hoist tricolour at Kathua in Jammu

IndiaVoice News — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 03:32:11 +0000

UPA government in center and Omar Abdullah managed to prevent the flag hoisting by BJP at Lal Chawk in Srinagar but the leaders of Bhartiya Janta Party unfurled the tricolour at Kathua in Jammu. Ekta Yatra by youth wing of BJP came to and end on Wednesday when senior leaders from BJP Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Ananth Kumar, Shanta Kumar and Anurag Thakur were released from the arrest along with over 200 party workers.

Anand leads at Tata Steel Chess

IndiaVoice News — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 06:52:01 +0000

In the 73rd edition of the Wijk aan Zee Tata Steel Chess tournament, after round 8 world champion Vishwanathan Anand of India and American Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura are joint leaders with five and a half points each, with still 5 rounds to go. Last year in January 2010, both Anand and Nakamura finished their campaign with seven and half point each from thirteen rounds and were jointly at fourth place while World no.1 Magnus Carlsen or Norway won the tournament with eight and half points as a sole leader.

Moscow suicide bombing: 40+ killed 150+ injured

IndiaVoice News — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 03:32:21 +0000

A suicide bomber has killed more than 40 people and injured more than 150, blowing himself up in the packed arrivals hall of Moscow's largest airport, Domodedova, in an terrorist attack on Monday. President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev told reporters that he it is an act of Terrorism.

BJP continues Ekta Yatra

IndiaVoice News — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:32:18 +0000

As the cold-wave is over in Jammu & Kashmir new kind of heat is taking on the news as BJP leaders trying to continue their Ekta Yatra to Jammu and Kashmir were arrested on Monday. BJP youth wing’s Rashtriya Ekta Yatra scheduled to enter Jammu and Kashmir yesterday but senior party leaders Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley and Anant Kumar were detained at the Jammu airport.

Lt Gen Rath found guilty

IndiaVoice News — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:44:39 +0000

NEW DELHI: Lieutenant General P K Rath,former Deputy Chief of Army Staff-designate, was found guilty by an Army court martial on Friday in the Sukhna land scam. He found guilty on three counts- issuing No Objection Certificates, signing MoU with the builder and not informing command headquarter.

India wins thriller at Cape Town

IndiaVoice News — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 03:40:37 +0000

India won another thriller back to back again in the series at Newlands, Cape Town with the help of explosive batting by Yusuf Pathan and some help he received from India's, now batting really well, lower order and tail. Now after winning the 3rd ODI at Newlands, Cape Town against South Africa, India has taken a 2-1 lead in the five-match series and have bright chances to win the ODI series in South Africa.