IPL 5: DC-MI tie witnesses drama after umpiring error

Visakhapatnam: Controversy erupted in the IPL match between Deccan Chargers and Mumbai Indians here Monday with the latter team's captain Harbhajan Singh having a heated and prolonged argument with the field umpires who committed a mistake in not giving a home side batsman out. The incident happened in the 13th over of Deccan Chargers' innings after they opted to bat first. Their captain Kumar Sangakkara was clearly out off the bowling of Munaf Patel though the field umpires thought it otherwise initially before referring the decision to the third umpire.

Mumbai edge Deccan in last-over cliffhanger

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20th over: Rohit Sharma wins it for Mumbai off a last-ball six. 

19th over: Mumbai Indians 121 for 5. Mumbai need 18 runs off six balls now with five wickets in hand. Steyn is making the difference. He has finished up with 3 for 12 with the wicket of Dinesh Karthik in this over.

Live Updates: Pollard brings Mumbai back

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16th over: Mumbai 94 for 3. This is turning out to be Pollard vs Deccan now. He has clearly singled out who to hit and who not. This time launches himself into Amit Mishra, hitting him over long-off for his third six of this innings so far.

15th over: Mumbai 85 for 3. Sensing Mumbai working their way back into the match, Sangakkara brings his spearhead Steyn back. But Mumbai are up to it and both Pollard and Rohit choose not to play any flashy strokes against the South African speedster. Just two runs off the over. Mumbai need 54 off 30 balls now.

India has already given proof against Saeed to Pakistan: Government sources

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New Delhi: Government sources have hit back at Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's statements about India giving Pakistan solid evidence on Lashkar-e-Toiba founder and alleged 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed.

Government sources have told CNN-IBN that concrete evidence against Hafiz Saeed has already been given to Pakistan. Sources say the evidence includes Ajmal Kasab's statement that Hafiz Saeed was present during the selection and training of terrorists behind the 26/11 attack.

Sources also point out that David Coleman Headley's statements about Hafiz Saeed saying the Mumbai mission was critical have also been sent out.

Sources in the government said that it was now time for Pakistan to act on the evidence provided.

This came after Gilani reacted to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's remarks to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari in Delhi on Sunday, linking progress in bilateral talks to action against the alleged 26/11 mastermind.

Gilani had said, "We are serious on the issue of Saeed but the question is how to proceed against him without evidence. Courts here are independent and we need substantial evidence against him."

IIT Madras student from Uttar Pradesh commits suicide

Chennai: A 19-year-old student of IIT Madras allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in his hostel room on Monday, police said. Kuldeep Yadav, hailing from Uttar Pradesh, was a second year civil engineering student.

Other students in the hostel noticed that Yadav's room had remained closed since morning. On suspicion, they broke open the door and found his body hanging from the ceiling, police said.

He was immediately rushed to a private hospital, where he was declared brought dead.

The boy's father Yasodhar Singh, an agriculturist, has been informed about the incident, police said.

IPL 5: Pietersen and Jayawardene will boost Delhi, says Sehwag

New Delhi: Bolstered by the availability of Mahela Jayawardene and Kevin Pietersen, Delhi Daredevils’ captain Virender Sehwag is hoping to return to winning ways when they take on Chennai Super Kings in an IPL 5 encounter on Tuesday.

Jayawardene and Pietersen missed Delhi's first two games because of national commitments, but are all set to play the Tuesday’s game at the Feroz Shah Kotla. "Mahela and KP's return will give a boost to our side. Any captain would love to have them in his side," Sehwag said on Monday. "[A] lot of young players are looking forward to share the dressing room with them," he added.

Furious US girl tears boyfriend's genital

London: A lovers' tiff in the US hurt a man quite badly as his agitated girlfriend tore his scrotum after bursting into his home.

Christina Reber, 43, is claimed to have marched into her former partner's home and grabbed hold of his genitalia and squeezed "as hard as she could", leaving the 57-year-old with a long and wide tear to his scrotum in the US city of Muncie in Indiana, reported Daily Mail citing The Smoking Gunman website.

The man had ended their eight-month relationship just days before she allegedly carried out the attack.

Reber was arrested on suspicion of several offences following the incident last Friday.

According to the police report, the wound is still bleeding - and doctors still do not know whether he will be permanently wounded.

Monti under fire as crisis deepens

Rome: Jittery bond markets, militant union leaders, angry bosses and even a spate of suicides by recession-hit Italians – the crisis confronting Mario Monti's technocrat government shows no sign of relenting.

Capping the prime minister's worst week in office since he replaced Silvio Berlusconi in the midst of financial turmoil in November, Italy's main trade union federation confirmed on Friday that it would press ahead with strikes in protest against the government's economic reforms.

"We are not standing down," said Susanna Camusso, leader of the leftwing CGIL. Workers are to down tools next Friday over pension reforms passed in December and will strike again when parliament debates Mr Monti's controversial labour reform legislation.

Rather than feeling mollified by concessions made by Mr Monti over changes to rules on the firing of workers for economic reasons, Ms Camusso made it clear the union felt emboldened by its mobilisation.

Those concessions, announced by Mr Monti on Wednesday just two weeks after he said the matter was "closed", drew a fierce response from Confindustria, the main employers' lobby, as well as associations representing banking, insurance, co-operatives, retailers and even farmers.

Eurozone crisis looms over French election

Paris: The spectre of the eurozone crisis has returned to haunt France's presidential election, with President Nicolas Sarkozy using the launch of his campaign manifesto to accuse François Hollande, his Socialist rival, of threatening the country with the fate of Greece or Spain.

Casting himself as the guardian of budgetary rigour and economic reform, Mr Sarkozy said it would take just two days for financial markets to turn on Mr Hollande's "festival of spending plans" if the Socialist leader beat him in the election, which takes place over two rounds on April 22 and May 6.

But with markets already registering renewed concern over developments in Spain, whoever wins the Elysée palace is likely to come under close scrutiny.

"I think the new French government will be given very little time to convince the markets about its plans," said Laurence Boone, Europe economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Mr Hollande, who is holding on to a significant opinion poll lead for the assumed second round run-off against Mr Sarkozy, is mostly in the spotlight.

Sharp slowdown in US jobs growth

Washington/New York: The pace of US jobs creation slowed sharply in March, reviving doubts about the health of the American economic recovery and delivering a blow to President Barack Obama's re-election campaign.

Employers generated 120,000 new positions last month, below economists' forecasts of 205,000 and the weakest rate of payroll formation since last October.

The US unemployment rate fell from 8.3 to 8.2 per cent, but that improvement was the result of a decline in the number of people in the labour force, as dispirited jobless workers abandoned their search for employment.

The signs of fading momentum took financial markets by surprise and were pounced on by Mr Obama's opponents ahead of November's presidential election. S&P futures fell 15.3 points to 1,374.90 in an abbreviated holiday session, following the worst weekly loss since mid-December during trading on Thursday.

The yield on 10-year Treasury notes dropped 12 basis points to 2.05 per cent while the dollar eased 0.2 per cent on a trade-weighted basis, with investors more confident that the Federal Reserve will extend its current bond buying efforts beyond June.

The Indian Army's largest public-private partnership

Four companies are battling for the largest ever public-private partnership project to build a light armoured carrier for the Indian Army—the Future Infantry Combat Vehicle (FICV).

The Army needs about 2,600 such vehicles over 20 years. All four bidders—Tata Motors, Mahindra Defence Systems, L&T and the government-owned Ordnance Factory Board (OFB)—have presented their designs and the evaluation is set to move to the final phase within a month.

The Rs 50,000-crore order is likely to be divided between the winner and runner-up, providing a huge leg up to the defence manufacturing industry. "It will be a game changer," says Brigadier Khutub Hai, CEO Mahindra Defence Systems, since it will help develop an eco-system of small and medium sized companies as suppliers to the winners.

Mahindra Defence is partnering with British Aerospace, while OFB is likely to partner Russian arms export agency Rosoboronexport. There is no clarity on who the partners are for the other two bidders.

Omidyar's Jayant Sinha: Volatile government policy is a deterrent to investing

Jayant Sinha, partner and MD, Omidyar Network India Advisors, tells Dinesh Narayanan that government trying to micro-manage the economy is not good. Edited excerpts from an interview.

Jayant Sinha

Age: 48

Profile: Partner and managing director, Omidyar Network India Advisors

Career: Was a partner at McKinsey and Co; Managing Director, Courage Capital Management

Vikas Khot

Education: MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School; MS in Energy Management and Policy, University of Pennsylvania; and BTech with Distinction from IIT, Delhi

Hobbies: Tennis, writing, public affairs

Heidi Klum files for divorce from Seal

Los Angeles: Heidi Klum moved to formally end her marriage Friday from singer Seal a little over two months after they separated. The supermodel's divorce filing in a Los Angeles court draws to a close a storybook romance that included numerous testaments to their affection for one another, including renewing their wedding vows annually and throwing elaborate Halloween costume parties.

The couple has four children together, including Klum's daughter from a previous relationship. They had been married for more than six and a half years when they announced their separation in January, vowing to keep their breakup amicable.

Klum's filing, which she signed Thursday, cites irreconcilable differences. It provides no details about their split, other than that they entered into a financial agreement after they were married on how to divide their assets.

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The model and star of the TV competition series 'Project Runway' is asking for sole physical custody of the children, with Seal getting visitation and joint legal custody. The Grammy-winning soul and R&B singer's real name Henry Samuel. He released an album days after the couple announced their breakup and told talk show host Ellen DeGeneres that their split didn't mean a total end to their relationship.

"We will be connected in many ways till the rest of our lives," the singer said, "through our children and also through this tremendous admiration, respect and love that we have for each other."

I'm fine now, says Sayali Bhagat after mall mishap

Greater Noida: Bollywood actress Sayali Bhagat met with an accident on Saturday while performing a stunt during a mall inaugural event in Greater Noida.

Police spokesperson said that the stunt being performed in a jeep driven by Sayali went wrong. The jeep turned turtle during the show due to which Sayali sustained a fracture of her right arm. Sayali was rushed to hospital from where she was discharged after a few hours. She was travelling in a remote-controlled car which turned more than it should have.

Sayali tweeted after the accident, "I'm absolutely fine, little injury to the wrist. At home wid my bestie Dr.Mona, doin fine now, friends n family reaching out, thanx all. My best friend of 15 yrs Mona now a doc reaches out and spends the day nursing me, when u see a loved one around pain vanishes."

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According to police, the accident occurred at the Great Adventure Mall situated opposite Gautam Buddha University in the Kasna area of Greater Noida, near the national capital. At the same event, a stuntman rappelling down a 60-foot building plunged to his death as people watched in horror. In keeping with the name of the mall, its promoters, EMR Infrastructure had planned some special stunt events on the opening day. Union Tourism Minister Subodh Kant Sahai was the chief guest at the inauguration, but he left after inaugurating the mall around 11 a.m. The stunt events began after the inauguration programme was over.

Ahmed Khan says no to Shahid to work with Ranbir

Mumbai: Choreographer Ahmed Khan, a close friend of both Ranbir Kapoor and Shahid Kapoor, was recently caught in a very uncomfortable situation where both the the stars required his acumen. Finally Ranbir got Ahmed's coveted dates, while Shahid shot two of his songs with choreographer Chinni Prakash. However there are no hard feelings between Ahmed and Shahid.

"It is true I had to opt out two songs with Shahid for Kunal Kohli's film to do the short film with Ranbir. But there was no other way out. Ranbir's film is a totally new experience. He has narrated an entire love story in four minutes," he said.

"We had to use a 100 Nissan cars, arrange expert drivers from Bangalore and Mumbai…It was an entirely new experience. In fact, Shahid was most co-operative. He advised me to go for the Ranbir project. I felt sorry to see Shahid do the two songs with Chinni Prakashji whom Shahid had never worked with before. But this film with Ranbir was a completely new opportunity for me. I couldn't let go of it," he added.

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Ahmed insists the last-minute opting out has not affected his long-standing friendship with Shahid.

"In fact, I am choreographing another number with Shahid for Kunal Kohli's film. There are no hard feelings between me and Shahid," he said adding that he's taking a long sabbatical from choreography.

"I've been at it since I was 19. I need a break to spend time with my children," he said.