Mayweather vs. Canelo Results: Alvarez Proves Youth Will Never Defeat Money May

 Before Saturday's bout at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, many pointed to Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s age as a reason the legend could fall to the young, up-and-coming Saul "Canelo" Alvarez.

After all, Mayweather was 36 years old—an age that has seen plenty of historic boxers hit the canvas—and Alvarez was 23 years of age. 

The reality is, age was a big factor in Saturday's fight...but it favored Mayweather.

We learned on Saturday that neither youth, nor power, was a threat to Mayweather. The only thing that matters when it comes to fighting the undefeated boxer is experience.

It was easy to hype up Alvarez before Saturday's clash. It was easy to even like the young Mexican's chances if he could just find some

Bandh over Vanzara letter: Gujarat Congress leaders detained

District level Congress leaders across Gujarat have been arrested ahead of a bandh called on Friday by the opposition party over DG Vanzara's controversial letter criticizing chief minister Narendra Modi. Congress also lashed out at the Gujarat government for breakdown of law and order and constitutional machinery in the state.


The Congress is demanding resignation ofNarendra Modi over the allegations made by Vanzara in his resignation letter. 

The Congress alleged that the Gujarat government would resort to high handedness to foil the shut down. 

Around 100 Congress party workers were detained in Surat on Thursday after they held a surprise programme and jammed the roads. In Dahod, a police jeep

President Obama 'sure Syria behind chemical attack'

US President Barack Obama says the US has concluded that the Syrian government carried out a chemical weapons attacks near Damascus.

He said the use of chemical weapons affected US national interests and that sending a "shot across the bows" could have a positive impact on Syria's war.

But in the interview with PBS, he said he had not yet made a decision about whether to intervene militarily.

His comments follow a day of behind-the-scenes wrangling at the UN.

The UK had been pushing for permanent members of the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution which would have authorised measures to protect civilians in Syria.

But Syrian ally Russia refused to agree to the resolution and the meeting produced no end to the diplomatic stalemate which has long

Son of SP leader sentenced to life term for raping minor

BADAUN: Son of a SP leader was sentenced to life imprisonment and a penalty of Rs one lakh was also imposed on him by a local court here for raping a teenaged girl.


The 15-year-old victim was raped by Varun Bharadwaj alias Chinu, son of fomer SP block head Patanjali Bhardwaj, in Alapur area on December 27, 2010, prosecution counsel Gyan Swaroop Gupta said.

After hearing both the sides, Additional District Judge S N Tripathi held Chinu guilty yesterday, he said.

The court also said that from the amount of the fine imposed, Rs 70,000 be given to the victim.

It also directed to lodge an FIR against three persons, including the then station officer of Alapur Pradeep Shukla, for disclosing the identity of the victim.

Src:The Economic Times

Pak prisoner Sanaullah dies in Chandigarh hospital

Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Rana (file photo in inset) is carried on a stretcher to be shifted to Chandigarh for treatment, after he was attacked by an inmate at a jail in Jammu. PTI Phot

 Pakistani prisoner Sanaullaha, who was beaten up by inmates in Jammu's Kot Bhalwal jail, died in a Chandigarh hospital today. He had suffered kidney failure on Wednesday and was in critical condition. Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Haq suffered a kidney failure, said officials of the PGIMER Chandigarh. According to

Railway minister Bansal's nephew held for accepting Rs. 90 lakh in bribe

In a huge embarrassment for the UPA government, the CBI on Friday arrested railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal’s nephew for accepting Rs. 90 lakh in bribe from a senior railway officer seeking “a lucrative posting”.

Senior agency officials said Bansal's nephew V Singla was arrested in Chandigarh for accepting the money from one Manjunath, an alleged middleman for railway board member (staff) Mahesh Kumar.

Kumar was arrested at the Mumbai airport soon after he arrived from Delhi. He allegedly wanted the position as member (electrical), which

4 years old Madhya Pradesh rape victim dead

NAGPUR: The four-year-old rape victim from Ghansor in Seoni district, Madhya Pradesh, who was battling for life, died of cardiac arrest at 7.45pm at the Care Hospital in city on Monday. All efforts to revive her through cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) failed. The body was sent for post mortem an hour after her death to the Government Medical College and Hospital as it was a medico legal case.

 

The girl remained in coma ever since she was airlifted from Jabalpur on April 20. The victim had suffered a severe

2 killed, 23 hurt as female ward of Kasturba hospital building collapses

BHOPAL: Two persons were killed and about 26 others were injured, four of them critically, when a portion of the two-storeyedKasturba hospital building, run by Bharat Heavy ElectricalsLim-ited (BHEL), collapsed on Friday evening. The portion of the building that collapsed housed the female ward on the upper floor.

However, unconfirmed reports put the toll at four. Twenty three people including a four-year-old child have

Man arrested for raping 6-yr-old girl in Aligarh

A man in his mid-thirties was arrested on Sunday morning for allegedly raping and murdering a six-year-old girl in Aligarh, which was rocked by violent protests against the incident.

The postmortem report of the victim, which was disclosed on Sunday, stated death due to asphyxia and on the basis of genital injuries, it appeared she was sexually assaulted.

The accused Somanna alias Suman had made a bid on his life and was arrested near a hospital in Aligarh where he was

Strong earthquake hits Iran, tremors felt in north India

Strong tremors rocked large parts of north India, including the national capital and its adjoining areas on Tuesday evening. Tremors were felt in Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat, Chandigarh and Himachal Pradesh. There were no immediate reports of any casualties. The quake measured 7.8 on the Richter scale at its epicentre on the Pakistan-Iran border.

"The epicentre of the quake was the Pakistan-Iran border and it measured 7.8 on the Richter scale," V Dattatreya, head, seismology,

Supreme Court verdict on Devinder Pal Bhullar's mercy plea today

The Supreme Court on Friday will pronounce the much-awaited verdict on the petition of Devinderpal Singh Bhullar, who had sought commutation of his death penalty to life sentence on the ground that there was inordinate delay by the President over his plea for clemency. 

Bhullar was sentenced to death in 2003 for carrying out a bomb blast outside Delhi youth Congress office in 1993. He had approached the Supreme Court in 2011, saying that his death sentence should be commuted to life imprisonment, because there was an inordinate delay by the President over his plea for clemency. 

His mercy petition was pending for 8 years. Bhullar had filed his original mercy plea to commute the sentence to life imprisonment in 2003. It was rejected in 2011, a week after he approached the Supreme Court. 

Devinderpal Singh Bhullar was sentenced to death in 2003 for carrying out a bomb blast outside Delhi youth Congress office in 1993.

The apex court's verdict will also lay precedence for others on death row like the Rajiv Gandhi assassination convicts.
Src: IBN Live(India)

Two held for Presidency vandalism

Even as two Trinamool Congress Chatra Parishad supporters were arrested on Thursday for vandalism at Presidency University, TMC ministers sought to downplay the party's involvement in Wednesday's trouble. 

Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Subrata Mukherjee said that while the government would launch a thorough investigation into the incident, the party will also investigate it internally.

"I am scared of the developments at Presidency University. Those who did the mischief, whichever party they showed allegiance

Suicide or murder? Nirbhaya main accused found hanging in Tihar

NEW DELHI: Ram Singh, the 35-year-old main accused in Nirbhaya's brutal gang rape, was found dead in his 15X12 feet cell in Tihar Jail on Monday morning, hours before he was supposed to appear in Saket court for the in-camera trial proceedings.

"Singh's body was found hanging from a grill on the ceiling at around 5.45am by officers of the Tamil Nadu Special Police (TSP) who

ISI gave Rs 5 lakh to man who beheaded Indian soldier

NEW DELHI: The terrorist who beheaded Indian soldier Lance Naik Hemraj Singh on January 8 was rewarded with Rs 5 lakh by Pakistani intelligence agency ISI, which executed the attack on Indian troops with the assistance of terrorists, according to a detailed report of Military Intelligence (MI) on the brutality which almost pushed peace talks with Pakistan off track.

According to the MI report, the beheading was done by one Anwar Khan, a local guide who runs a shop in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), and he was

Tahawwur Rana, an accomplice of convicted terrorist David Headley, was today sentenced to 14 years in jail followed by five years of supervised release by a US court for providing material support to Pakistan-based LeT and for backing a plot to strike a Danish newspaper. 

52-year-old Pakistani-Canadian Rana was sentenced by the Chicago federal court despite his defence attorneys seeking a

Pak suspends cross-LoC bus service

JAMMU: Pakistani authorities on Friday suspended cross-LoC bus service between J&K's Poonch and Rawlakote in PoK amid heightened tensions over the killing of soldiers along the de-facto India-Pakistan border. 

It comes a day after they had disallowed 60 trucks involved in trade along the LoC from crossing over to their side at Chakkan-da-Bagh in Poonch, where two Indian