Marc Wilson came agonisingly close to grabbing a winner for Stoke as they played out a goalless draw with midlands rivals Aston Villa at the Britannia Stadium. With Peter Crouch and Darren Bent unable to make their returns from illness and injury respectively, both sides lacked attacking quality in the first half, although Villa did hit [...]
DAMASCUS: The first team of Arab League observers landed in Syria late on Monday to monitor a deal to end nine months of deadly violence, as 30 people died in gunfire in and near the besieged central city of Homs. CNN reported that members of the team were due to travel on Tuesday to Homs, [...]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday dispelled rumours the government was mulling over whether to sack the country’s powerful army chief and head of the intelligence to avert a coup. “The rumours that our government wants to remove Director General Inter- Services Intelligence (Lieutenant) General Ahmed Shuja Pasha and army chief General [...]
London: What is the factor that makes social networks tick and catalyses mass mobilisations in revolutions and protest movements worldwide? An Oxford University study of Twitter finds that the most influential group comprise a small number of users close to the centre of a network, described as spreaders. The spreaders play a critical role in [...]
Chennai: Tamil movie super star Rajnikanth has offered his marriage hall free of cost to the activists of India Against Corruption to hold their protest fast for next three days but is not for or against any version of Lokpal law, said an activist. “Rajnikanth was here for around 10 minutes to see what we are doing. [...]
Mumbai: Anna Hazare was greeted with black flags soon after he came out of a government guest house in Bandra here to proceed to Juhu beach to launch his three-day hunger strike today morning. Nearly two dozen people showed black flags and shouted slogans as security personnel whisked them out of his route. The protesters [...]
NEW DELHI: In a strong speech pitching for the Lokpal bill, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said a final decision on the legislation must rest with parliament and stressed that the CBI should be independent of Lokpal. Speaking in the Lok Sabha during the debate on the bill tabled last week, the Prime Minister [...]
Another cry of shouts and counter shouts are heard from the abode of the Lord of Seven Hills. This time it’s the 1000 pillar mandapam The hallowed precinct of Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanam (TTD) is once again reverberated with a cry to reconstruct the famous ‘Veyi Kalla Mandapam’ (1000 Pillar Mandapam). This time too, the trigger [...]
Hyderabad: Another colony, which fulfills the parameters set up by the GHMC for the best managed residential hub is Uma Nagar Residential Welfare society . The members of the society have strived for 12 years to achieve the status. The colony which was founded in 1969 consists of a total 60 plots. Many of these plots now [...]
From Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Bihar’s ‘crorepati’ Sushil Kumar to the notorious Reddy brothers and Vijay Mallya, there were some people who stayed in the headlines — and in our collective consciousness — for reasons good and bad. Manmohan Singh: The year winds down on a dismal note for the PM with corruption and the [...]
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Kubra Fatima Ask any Hyderabadi what they love about the City and they will have many things to say — food, greenery and people being the usual suspects. On the contrary, if you ask them what they hate and ‘travelling in an auto’ will be the first response. Even though going around the twin cities [...]
Expecting a Sunday feast, I went to the dining table eagerly looking forward to the best of my mother’s cooking. I lifted the lid on the big casserole and found pulao with corn. I didn’t know what to make of it. I believe my mother makes the best peas pulao. But to have corn replacing [...]
Shraddha Jahagirdar-Saxena Just a few days ago, when Mumbai Indians played the Sunrisers in Mumbai, I found myself standing on Marine Drive, outside ‘D’ road, along with my brother, waiting for our sons to amble out after the match (which to the pride of this city’s dwellers, MI won). It took several moments for the [...]
No one kills the goose that lays the golden egg
There is a ridiculous debate going on after the reports on spot-fixing emerged: should IPL be scrapped? Even if IPL were the first sporting event to be tainted by spot-fixing, it would be senseless to even suggest that it be scrapped. Since that is not the case, talking of scrapping is, pardon the coarse expression, [...]
This must be the greatest moment of crisis that Barack Obama has faced till now in his entire time at the White House. There’s the tax agency scandal, 100 emails regarding the Benghazi attacks have been released and also the scandal of the justice department hacking the phones of reports of the nation’s biggest news [...]
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