PETALING JAYA: Seminggu selepas dipecat dari parti, bekas Naib Presiden MIC, Datuk M. Muthuppalaniappan mengemukakan rayuan kepada Jawatankuasa Kerja Pusat (CWC) supaya mengkaji semula hukuman tersebut.
CWC mengadakan mesyuarat bulanannya pagi ini.
Dalam pada itu, K. P. Samy, salah seorang pengkritik bersuara lantang terhadap Presiden MIC Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu, yang dipecat dari parti tahun lepas, [...]

PETALING JAYA: Bekas Menteri Besar Perak, Datuk Seri Mohd. Tajol Rosli Ghazali telah memutuskan untuk letak jawatan sebagai Pengerusi Umno negeri ekoran tindakan Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (ADUN) Bota, Datuk Nasarudin Hashim menyertai Pakatan Rakyat Ahad lalu.
Mohd. Tajol memberitahu bahawa beliau “bertanggungjawab terhadap apa yang berlaku (tindakan Nasarudin) ketika ini.”
Beliau berkata, surat letak jawatan telah [...]

AN intriguing battle is shaping up in Perak with the ruling Pakatan Rakyat and Barisan Nasional involved in an intense shadow power play.
After “pinching” Umno’s Bota assemblyman Datuk Nasarudin Hashim, Pakatan Rakyat is now said to be under attack, with Barisan claiming that two PKR assemblymen will quit to become Independents before joining Umno.
While the [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: The defection of Bota assemblyman Datuk Nasarudin Hashim to Pakatan Rakyat has sparked speculation that Barisan Nasional is trying to get at least two Pakatan assemblymen to quit in a tit-for-tat move.
Over the past 48 hours, there has been talk that two PKR assemblymen would quit the party to become independents.
It is not [...]

Razif Latif (left) and Chan Peng Soon are among the promising young pairs.
TOP pairs Koo Kien Keat-Tan Boon Heong and Zakry Latif-Fairuzizuan Tazari have been warned to stay on their toes as coach Rexy Mainaky prepares the next generation of doubles players.

The junior pairs, Rexy has warned, are being groomed to beat the seniors [...]

BIRMINGHAM: Sir Alex Ferguson has warned his Premier League rivals that Manchester United have rediscovered their ruthless streak after Tuesday’s 5-0 hammering of West Brom took the champions three points clear of closest rivals Liverpool.

Goals from Dimitar Berbatov, Carlos Tevez, Nemanja Vidic and two from Cristiano Ronaldo completed an emphatic rout of bottom club West [...]

LONDON: Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp has played down talk of swoops for Robbie Keane and Fred but admitted he is looking for a top class striker despite seeing his team put Stoke to the sword.

Liverpool forward Keane has been linked with a return to White Hart Lane after only appearing in half of the Reds [...]

CARACAS (Venezuela): Diego Maradona (below) says he will not resign as the coach of Argentina’s national team if his former teammate Oscar Ruggeri is not accepted as his assistant.

“I’m not going to resign. It cost me a lot to get here, so it’s one-time opportunity,” said Maradona at a press conference in Venezuela’s capital on [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: A murder suspect was among six ‘mourners’ who were picked up by police during A. Kugan’s funeral procession yesterday.

City police chief Datuk Muhammad Sabtu Osman said the murder suspect was wanted in a case in Johor, while another ‘mourner’ was wanted in connection with several cases of car theft.
The two were involved in [...]

PUTRAJAYA: Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail has sent back the investigation papers on the death of suspected car thief A. Kugan and ordered a more thorough probe.

It was learnt that police submitted the papers to the A-G yesterday but he was not pleased with the results. He also demanded to see the report on [...]