SYDNEY: Defending Olympic triathlon champion Emma Snowsill said Tuesday she would appeal her omission from Australia’s team for next month’s London Games. Snowsill missed out on the three-strong women’s team after Emma Jackson and Erin Densham were chosen by Triathlon Australia to join early nomination Emma Moffatt in London. “I will be appealing my non-nomination [...]
SAINT-VALLIER: Tour de France champion Cadel Evans of Australia won a sprint finish to claim the first stage of the Dauphine Libere race here on Monday, as Britain’s Bradley Wiggins took the overall leader’s jersey. BMC rider Evans, 35, outsprinted France’s Jerome Coppel and Kazakh Andrey Kashechkin over the final 4km in the 187km stage, [...]
Archery: Dates back around 10,000 years, when bows and arrows were first used for hunting and warfare, before it developed as a competitive activity in medieval England. A tense and testing sport that requires immense reserves of skill and nerve, Archery is now practised in more than 140 countries around the world. Field of play [...]
As per the latest prediction of the Hyderabad Meteorology Department, monsoon is going to begin in Hyderabad from June 7 or June 8. The smell of the dry earth getting drenched makes monsoon a popular season. The monsoon is sure to give farmers a reason to rejoice but they are also upset with the end [...]
Kadapa district, the strong bastion of former chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy’s family for the last three and half decades, will witness by-elections in three of its assembly constituencies this month. Among these constituencies Rajampet assembly seat occupies an important place. Being one of the biggest towns in Kadapa district and Parliamentary constituency being represented [...]
The upcoming bypolls scheduled to be held on June 12 have come as a boon for many voters. The valuable votes of these people have not only turned them into demigods overnight but also made them dictate terms to political parties. For these voters, gone are the days of accepting inducements like liquor, sarees and [...]
Doing one’s duty can sometimes prove to be a risky affair as was proved by some auto drivers on Monday. A traffic police home guard, who was manning the signal at Balamrai bus stop under the Begumpet police station limits, was badly beaten up by some auto drivers when he asked them not to park [...]
The Hunger Games stars Josh Hutcherson and Jennifer Lawrence have been crowned the king and queen of the 2012 MTV Movie Awards after landing the two top acting accolades on Sunday. The action blockbuster earned a total of four honours, including Best On-Screen Transformation (Elizabeth Banks) and Best Fight, but the coveted Best Movie title [...]
Preventing child labour is no longer just an ethical issue begging our sympathy. It’s now a matter of necessity. Here’s why it is time we start to take it seriously As you read this, 215 million children around the world are at, or going to, work. They have no rights, no privileges, no holidays, no [...]
TSS Siddharth feedback@postnoon.com As part of the celebrations for the World Environment Day, IT professionals from three Ascendas IT parks organised a walk through all the major IT junctions in Hitec City. The objective of this walk was to encourage and create awareness among IT professionals. These professionals who spend half their time in front [...]
It’s David vs Goliath as Rajasthan take on Mumbai’s might
Kolkata: They have shown remarkable fighting spirit despite the demoralising spot-fixing scandal and the Rajasthan Royals will now look to upstage the mighty Mumbai Indians in the second qualifier here tomorrow to book, what would be, a dream final berth in the Pepsi IPL. On paper, Mumbai Indians may appear stronger but Rajasthan will be [...]
21 lawmakers back Chandigarh-born as top US judge
Washington: Ahead of an expected Senate vote on the nomination of Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan to a top US court, 21 lawmakers have penned their support for him. Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US last week won unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination as [...]
It was like bereavement: Dravid on spot-fixing
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid says dealing with the turmoil caused by the spot-fixing scandal, which has left his team’s reputation in tatters, has turned out to be as tough as handling “bereavement in some ways”. “I would not lie it was a very tough phase for us. It was a blow to [...]
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Reporter’s diary: Waste not flowers
A flower is most beautiful when it is in the garden, like a deer or a lamb seen in its natural habitat. If this wisdom is known to the mayor and the GHMC, they would not have wasted several hundred lovely flowers at the function declaring the GHMC’s plan to open 14 biodiversity parks on [...]
Reporter’s diary: Bravo, Naidu
TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu is a visionary. Few will doubt this considering what he did to give Hyderabad a modern face, and many of his welfare schemes are now implemented (of course, renamed after Rajiv Gandhi or Indira Gandhi). But many could not understand his logic of asking for a ban of `500 and `1,000 [...]
Reporter’s diary: Who’s this footloose at CCS?
For some time now, staff in the powerful central crime station are being cowed down by a sada home guard who is said to be close to a senior IPS officer. CCS staff whisper that he is the eyes and ears of the officer and therefore gets a free run. Recently, when three ruffians who [...]
Reporter’s diary: Jubilee Hills show
Talking of thick skinned civic officials, one could take a look at the picture above. Here the building contractors of the rich and the mighty make insulting gestures at law and the GHMC. It seems to say, “Right to walk? Forsooth! Building rules? My Right Foot!”
Reporter’s diary: GHMC, practice what you preach
So the GHMC preaches about how cleanliness is next to godliness and has all sorts of clean and green quotes in every other corner of its office and parks. But if you walk into the head office, you’ll wonder what stops the staff from practicing what they preach. The entire office is permeated with the [...]
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