LOS ANGELES: Mexico’s Leo Santa Cruz won a 12-round unanimous decision over South African veteran Vusi Malinga on Saturday to capture the vacant International Boxing Federation bantamweight world title. Santa Cruz, 23, remained unbeaten, improving to 20-0 with one drawn and 11 knockouts as he punished southpaw Malinga with an array of punches, notably his [...]
KIEV: When we think of the Swedish national team, most of us picture Zlatan Ibrahimovic and 10 others. Sweden’s national team actually has a number of talented and capable players—Kim Kallstrom, Sebastian Larsson, etc.—but Ibrahimovic is clearly a cut above his teammates. At first glance Ibrahimovic’s 29 goals in 75 appearances for Sweden may not [...]
Having failed to reach the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Euro 2012 is an important tournament for Sweden to prove they have overcome that setback. STOCKHOLM: Prior to the 1990s, Sweden’s qualification record for big tournaments was patchy to say the least. Although they had qualified for seven out of 12 World Cups from [...]
SYDNEY: Australia’s four-time Olympian Duncan Free has announced his retirement from rowing after succumbing to a long-term rib injury, Rowing Australia said on Sunday. The 2008 Olympic gold medallist in the men’s pair was attempting to compete at his fifth Games in London next month but has been troubled by the ongoing rib cartilage issue. [...]
Eugene, Oregon: Great Britain’s Mo Farah says he is targetting the 10,000 metres at the London Olympics and will wait to see how he feels before deciding whether to go for a double in the 5,000. “I am going to run the 10,000 for sure because it is the first race,” Farah said after winning [...]
Five months back, this newspaper had published an article about women being shown leniency by the traffic policemen. Even now the situation is just the same but the men in uniform maintain that rules apply to the sexes equally. “My sister drives a two-wheeler and often she forgets the licence at home in the hurry [...]
Besides the premiere of Dibakar Banerjee’s political thriller Shanghai, the 13th annual IIFA awards will also showcase excerpts from Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s upcoming film Ferrari Ki Sawari. Directed by Rajesh Mapuskar and dialogues by acclaimed director, Rajkumar Hirani, the film is a moving story about how the pursuit of an Indian cricket legend’s Ferrari makes [...]
Is making headlines and how! With her upcoming film, alongside , PC is certainly drawing all the media attention. However, there’s more to her besides her movies and glamour. The ‘Junglee Billi’ of Don, has adopted a 15-year-old lioness named Sundari from the Birsa Zoological Park in Ranchi. However, the lioness that has been adopted [...]
Filmmaker Boney Kapoor’s son Arjun, whose debut film Ishaqzaade has received acclaim from audiences and critics alike, believes that a star surname is not the criteria for success. “You are as good as what you do in front of the camera. Nothing else matters, your surname, from where you come or where you will go [...]
Road No11 and 12 Banjara Hills, Road No 36 Jubilee Hills, the road opposite Salar Jung and the Himayatnagar road — will have model footpaths in accordance with international standards Alison Lal After facing many years of discomfort, the pedestrians of Hyderabad have a reason to cheer. The GHMC decided last year that five roads [...]
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Chinese president Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer. No wonder he knows the chemical formula to pursue his country’s global ambitions. If anybody in India believed Xi would extend a warm friendship to this country, he should be naive. He has been on a global Sino initiative to widen the Chinese visions of the century. [...]
“India is China’s important neighbour. (The purpose of) my current visit to India is three-fold — to increase mutual interest, intensify cooperation and to face the future,” said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during his visit to India. To this the Indian prime minister’s response could n0t have been more fitting that “the rest of the [...]
Adopt and restore a lake is new mantra
It’s interesting that the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has invited interested individuals, voluntary and corporate organisations to adopt lakes in and around the city in order to protect and preserve water bodies. Last week, HMDA Commissioner Neerabh Kumar Prasad said 176 lakes in the jurisdiction of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and another [...]
About Traditional Russian values
Russia has decided to review its adoption pact that it has with France after the latter legalised gay marriage. This is in the wake of the statement of the Russian president Vladmir Putin which he made last month that Russia could change its adoption agreements with the countries which allowed gay marriage that goes against [...]
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 [...]
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