Tom Williams DONETSK, Ukraine: Laurent Blanc has urged France to avoid the mistakes they made against England by starting strongly against co-hosts Ukraine in their second Euro 2012 outing in Donetsk on Friday. France were second-best for the first quarter of their opening match and fell beh-ind to a Joleon Lescott header before earning [...]
London: As David Millar was confirmed on the longlist for the Olym-pic road race, Sir Chris Hoy emphasised his opposition to the reversion of the British Olympic Association’s ban on athletes who have tested positive for drugs reported The Guardi-an. Millar was banned between 2004 and 2006 for using the blood booster erythropoietin but [...]
Hyderabad:Riding on the sympathy wave in the wake of its leader Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy’s arrest, the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) appears to be headed for a clean sweep in the by-elections to the Nellore Lok Sabha and 18 assembly seats. The counting of votes began at 8 a.m. amid tight security in the constituencies spread [...]
New Delhi: Stating that Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav was with her, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Friday sent her “advance congratulations” to former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam for a second tenure in office. Addressing reporters, a confident Banerjee said Kalam was a candidate for both the SP and the Trinamool. “Mulayam and we [...]
Thiruvananthapuram: The Congress Friday won the Neyattinkara by-election in Kerala, with the Congress’ R. Selvaraj, who was trailing third as counting began stealing a march over his Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rivals. Selvaraj, a former CPI-M legislator who had resigned from the party to join the Congress, beat his nearest [...]
Researchers at the University of Leeds found that they were able to deliver the “reovirus” into the bloodstream and, using blood cells, it can make its way to tumors without being killed first by antibodies. Before the technique, most scientists thought that the common cold would immediately be neutralized by natural antibodies.“It seems that reovirus [...]
Brahmanandam’s upcoming film Jaffa is making waves on the Internet. Less than two days after the film’s trailer was posted online, it has already been viewed more than three lakh times on various websites and YouTube. Of late, it has become a trend in Tollywood to evaluate the buzz generated by a film based on [...]
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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A footage is doing the rounds on TV channels where apparently two constables in UP are sorting matters out between them the hard way, raining each other with blows, not verbal, but with their lathis. One look at the video will tell you there seems to be something seriously wrong with the discipline among the [...]
So the thief is in the ship after all. The Mumbai police revelation that Gurunath Melyappan, son-in-law of BCCI Chief Srinivasan, was in constant touch with Vindoo Dhara Singh, now in police custody over betting, leaves no scope for imagination. Little wonder such brazen betting prospered over IPL. It now raises the question: was the [...]
Humorist Jaspal Bhatti, had he been alive, would have found stunning material for a flop show in the BJP’s behaviour of late. How the ‘national opposition party’ turned into a ‘notional’ party is a story worth caricaturing with potential for record viewing-rate.
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 [...]
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