NEW YORK: US Fed Cup captain Mary Joe Fernandez and US Tennis Association Men’s Player Development chief Jay Berger were named Tuesday as coaches for the US women’s and men’s tennis teams for the London Olympics. Fernandez won Olympic gold in women’s doubles with Gigi Fernandez at the 1992 and 1996 Olympics and she guided [...]
Luke Phillips OSLO: Sally Pearson (right, #1) had a season to remember last year, winning all but one of her 11 races, producing seven of the quickest 11 performances and claiming world gold in the fourth fastest time ever run. The 25-year-old Australian 100m hurdler was rewarded with the IAAF accolade of female athlete of [...]
Badminton: During the 19th century, British military officers in the Indian town of Poona added a net to the ancient game of battledore (bat) and shuttlecock, and named this new game after the town. The sport was brought back home by the officers, and was played at the Duke of Beaufort’s Gloucestershire residence in 1873. [...]
These days the most beautiful game is not beautiful anymore without WAGs. Here’s part-I of the list of women behind the men in Euro 2012 that starts June 8.
Warangal: State BJP president G Kishan Reddy has made it clear that his party was contesting in Parakala Assembly constituency as part of the Telangana movement. As part of his by-election campaign in Parakala constituency on Tuesday, Kishan Reddy said that the TRS has been harming the Telangana movement by taking the wrong steps. He [...]
Colonial past, lush green surroundings, coconut plantations, thriving aqua-culture trade at global level, salt production, lace exports and oil exploration by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) aptly sums up the Narsapur Assembly constituency, which is going to polls on June 12. Being one of the important ports during the British Raj, Narsapur boasts of [...]
TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu has targeted the former Karnataka minister Gali Janardana Reddy at his election campaign in Rayadurgam as his follower is YSR Congress candidate Kapu Ramachandra Reddy in the Rayadurgam constituency. Addressing election meetings, he said that Gali, who has bribed a judge for his bail, was capable of bribing anyone, including [...]
As age limited the possibilities of adventures and escape, the gang began making the best use of their ‘soft skills’ to loot the gullible There was a time when they made a ‘good living’ out of serious crime — robbery, dacoity, extortion. But things changed. Four of the gang members are now dead. Two of [...]
There’s a special reason behind actress Genelia D’Souza’s latest short hairdo. It was her husband, actor Riteish Deshmukh’s idea, and Genelia was all for it because she feels he has a great sense of style. “Riteish has a great sense of style, for sure. Actually, it was Riteish’s idea and he had for long asked [...]
The growing number of power cuts in and around Kothapet area have vexed its citizens. With more than 8 hours power cuts on an average, they are forced to find alternative means to carry on with their day-to-day activities. Some residents say power outages happen every 10 minutes. Anuradha, a housewife in Chaitanyapuri Colony says, [...]
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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 [...]
The inglorious case of Sreesanth
It may be said there was something amiss about the way S Sreesanth’s career spanned out. He was the hope of a whole state that had never seen any of its cricketers hold their place in the national team. Once there was time when vernacular papers and sports magazines debated deeply about why Kerala could [...]
Reforming the Cockatoo Bureau of Investigation
Of all the acronyms that Indian public associate with investigation, CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) is the most common. However, if its functioning is anything to go by, the motto ‘Industry, Impartiality, Integrity’ would be one of the longest-running jokes in the history of the country.
Don’t fall for Sharif’s charisma
Political pundits of our country are already in La-La Land airspace over the great opportunities the return of Nawaz Sharif presents. The intelligentsia still seems to be buying the explanation that Sharif was actually serious about peace with India — and unaware of Kargil intrusions. We forget that Sharif was, at that time, facing serious threats [...]
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