Barnaby Chesterman WROCLAW, Poland: A vibrant Russia took command of Group A on the opening day of the European Championships with a 4-1 win over the Czech Republic here on Friday. Alan Dzagoev notched a brace with Roman Shirokov and Roman Pavlyuchenko grabbing one each as Russia went two points clear at the top of the [...]
Benoit Noel KHARKIV, Ukraine: Denmark’s veteran coach Morten Olsen admitted on Friday he was jealous of his side’s opening Euro 2012 opponents Netherland and cast his side as Group B underdogs. The 62-year-old — the only man to have been capped and coached a national side over 100 times — said he wasn’t being overly [...]
Lviv, Ukraine: Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo said his side could spring a surprise at Euro 2012 and “has the advantage of not being favourite” as they prepare to tackle Germany on Saturday. “I am not nervous. we feel fine — though maybe the tension will rise by tomorrow being the day of the match. yet [...]
SYDNEY: Dumped rower Pippa Savage has been selected as a non-travelling reserve to the Australian team for next month’s London Olympics, Rowing Australia said on Friday. Savage was last month axed from the Olympic women’s quad team due to “incompatibility issues” among the crew as tensions escalated on the water in a Swiss lead-up event to London. [...]
Beijing: China’s Olympic athletes and coaches must vow to reject performance enhancing substances and pass an exam on doping if they want to participate in the London Games, state press said Friday. Athletes have began gathering at Beijing’s national sports training centre where they must take an oath before the nation’s flag and vow to [...]
LONDON: European Taekwondo champion Aaron Cook’s hopes of going to the London Olympics are over after the British Olympic Association (BOA) ratified GB Taekwondo’s controversial decision to omit him on Friday. In a statement, the BOA said their Olympic Qualification Standards (OQS) panel — including Team GB chief Andy Hunt and former England rugby coach Clive [...]
Boxing: The ever-popular men’s Boxing events are joined on the Olympic programme by women’s events for the first time. Boxing featured at the original Olympic Games in the 7th century BC, when opponents fought with strips of leather wrapped around their fists. The sport’s regulations were codified in 1867 as the Marquess of Queensberry Rules. [...]
The City police recently arrested two youth at Old City and seized several weapons, including swords and dagger, from their possession. According to South Zone DCP Akun Sabharwal, the Kamatipura inspector GV Ramana Reddy and his team nabbed the duo when they were trying to sell the weapons to a rowdy gang for an exorbitant [...]
Which cartoon character looks good on the schoolbag and whose lunch box is bigger? These are the worries that children normally think about when school reopens for a new term Sneha Mashetty feedback@postnoon.com Going back to school cannot get more fun than this. While earlier when school reopened, you had kids with long faces and puffy [...]
Movie: Prometheus Cast: Noomi Rapace, Elizabeth Shaw, Michael Fassbender, David Guy Pearce, Peter Weyland, Idris Elba, Janek, Logan Marshall Green, Charlize Theron Directed by: Ridley Scott Ridley Scott, director of Alien and Blade Runner, returns to the genre he helped define. With Prometheus, he creates a groundbreaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover [...]
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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The final kick-off for passion
Tonight the football season will finally come to a close with the Champions League final being played at Wembley stadium. It’s been a tumultuous season for all the wrong reasons. The four big leagues were wrapped up early: Manchester United in the EPL, Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga, Juventus in Serie A and Barcelona in [...]
Earlier this week, I received an email about the Gayatri Mantra being proven to be the most divine and powerful hymn in the world. An American scientist called Dr Howard Steingeril is said to have collected hymns, prayers, mantras and invocations from all over the world and from all religions. He tested these for sound [...]
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 [...]
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