Cristiano Ronaldo has said that he will be returning to Manchester United in the summer after he dreamt that Sir Alex Ferguson was sitting on his pillow. The Real Madrid superstar has also claimed the manager Jose Mourinho will be in charge of relegated QPR next season. This story was published on April 1
There’s something extremely sad about watching one of your idols flounder around drunk at a public event, hands shaking, memory ebbing and flowing like an autumnal tide. There’s also something inevitable about the episode, as if it was always lurking in the recesses waiting for that opportune moment to dismantle decades of genius. Watching Paul [...]
They tell us never to kick a man when he’s down, but in the Swansea versus Chelsea game a couple of days ago, Chelsea star Eden Hazard paid that adage scant attention. Anyone who watched the match live or has seen the clip on YouTube will know what happened. Basically, Chelsea, playing at Swansea, were [...]
Sao Paulo: Football icon Pele was discharged from a hospital here in Brazil’s largest city Thursday, five days after undergoing hip surgery. The 72-year-old emerged from Sao Paulo’s Albert Einstein Hospital to tell reporters, with tears in his eyes, that he “did not imagine” the Brazilian people would be so concerned about him. Surgeons performed [...]
Kolkata: Mohun Bagan today named Karim Bencherifa as their coach but the Moroccan is expected to take over the reigns only on November 18 after serving a one-month notice at Salgaocar. Less than a week after Santosh Kashyap was forced to quit following back-to-back losses in I-League and Federation Cup ouster, Mohun Bagan official Srinjoy [...]
Andhra Pradesh’s Teja Pavan is one of 12 selected players from over 800 participants to train for a week in November at the Manchester United Football Club.
Jamshedpur: The standard of Indian football has improved due to the presence of foreign recruits in various clubs across the country, AIFF Vice-president Ankur Dutta said here today. “We must give credit to them (foreign recruits). The standard of Indian football has gone up because of them,” Dutta, who is here in connection with the [...]
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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