WASHINGTON: Police are probing the death of a man whose body was found in a Churchill Downs barn a day after the fabled racetrack hosted the Kentucky Derby, Louisville Metro Police said on Sunday. Police spokeswoman Alicia Smiley said authorities believe from the man’s injuries that he was involved in an altercation before he died, [...]
SHEFFIELD: Ronnie O’Sullivan will carry a three-frame advantage into the climax of the World Championship final here on Monday after building a 10-7 lead over Ali Carter at the Crucible Theatre. O’Sullivan, in what he has said could be his last match before retirement, needs eight more frames for a fourth world title and Carter [...]
In a two-minute YouTube video, Obama’s appearance on Fallon’s show is interspliced with remarks that Mitt Romney, the all-but-assured GOP nomineee, made after sweeping five primaries on Tuesday. It ends with the Twitter hastag #NotFunny. As NPR’s Frank James observed, the video “appeared to be the RNC’s attempt to take Obama’s coolness asset and turn [...]
Poor batting has been bogging down some of the bigger teams in the IPL 2012. Champions Chennai Super Kings and the Mumbai Indians have climbed up among the top four mainly through some gritty performances rather than with a level of comfort. With many of the other lower placed teams beginning to fire, things may [...]
Secunderabad was one of the earliest colonised cities and as a result it has quite a few stately churches that were constructed in the pre-independence era. St John’s Church in Maredpally is one such church. It is the oldest church to be built in the Twin Cities. The Church of St John, the Baptist was [...]
There are more than six lakhs Keralites in the City. However they still miss the scenic splendours of God’s Own Country. Many Keralites in the City have adopted the Hyderabadi culture. There are nearly 30 associations of the community in the City. All these communities work to promote the traditions and culture of Kerala. Kerala [...]
A resident of Secunderabad, T Sainath, is charged with forming a gang of five and duping many travel and car rental agencies before he was hauled in by the North Zone Task Force Fraud has myriad faces, but the one that the North Zone Task Force met recently has a novelty that shows crooked ingenuity [...]
Singer Courtney Love has asked advisors to help her with social networking after a number of online disasters.The Hole star, who was embroiled in a lawsuit over her Twitter page last year, admits she is not a social network genius and has been relying on others for help with her online identity, reports contactmusic.com. “I’m [...]
The State government has failed to fully utilise the Central funds for the health sector. Two glaring examples were found in the medical and health department where funds were stopped by the Centre in a trauma care project, and now, the popular Arogyasri project has been hit. The objective of providing basic life support and [...]
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Andhra Pradesh tops in revenge murders over illicit affairs according to the National Crime Records Bureau statistics. The motive for 445 murders, reported in the State last year, was revenge on cheating partners or their paramours. This amounts to 16 per cent of the murder cases registered here. While the motive for 317 murder cases [...]
Don’t blame the weather for your gloominess. Good rainfall last week and the forecast of further rains due to an active South-West monsoon prompts farmers to sow crops in 50,000 hectares more than last year in Andhra Pradesh. The acreage is expected to increase 25-30 per cent over the normal area of 81.12 lakh hectares, [...]
The man who took a ‘stand’ at Taksim Square
A man stood still in Istanbul’s Taksim Square: silent, staring straight ahead, he had not moved for hours. His peaceful action, on the square that police cleared of protesters on Saturday and where the Turkish authorities have banned gatherings, was a new form of protest. He arrived Monday evening as night was falling and took [...]
As a conscious citizen watching the unfolding of the soap from Bihar, I am constrained to do some hard talk because all these worthies are playing with my life and my children’s. You may well ask how. Because what is happening is not an internal matter of a party or a Front but dividing the nation on communal lines more acutely than they did in the past. And communal venom has no anti-venom. It is deadly.
Corporal punishment in AP schools
The Public Interest Litigation filed in the Andhra Pradesh (AP) High Court on Saturday challenging the inaction of the State government in preventing ‘corporal punishment’ to children in schools calls for attention. Mohammed Shahbaz Ahmed Khan, a City resident, moved the PIL contending that as per the United Nations’ convention, the State was required to [...]
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