MADRID: Nine-man Real Madrid saw their lead in La Liga cut to six points on Wednesday after they were held to a 1-1 draw by Villarreal. Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 33rd goal of the season in the 62nd minute, but Marcos Senna equalised with eight minutes remaining for struggling Villarreal. Things got worse for Real [...]
Carlos Tevez returned from exile to keep Manchester City’s title hopes up as the Argentine substitute played a big role in his team’s 2-1 win over Chelsea. Inspired by Tevez, City scored twice in the final 12 minutes to move to within one point of Premier League leaders Manchester United, having played the same amount [...]
LONDON: Tottenham midfielder Rafael van der Vaart rescued a 1-1 draw against Stoke on Wednesday but that wasn’t enough to stop his side slipping out of the top three for the first time in three months. Harry Redknapp’s side trailed to Cameron Jerome’s second half strike until Dutch midfielder van der Vaart headed home deep [...]
Although Chelsea are 14 points behind City, caretaker manager di Matteo is confident. LONDON: Roberto di Matteo has no qualms about taking his Chelsea side to Premier League title contenders Manchester City on Wednesday despite the absence of injured captain John Terry. Former Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas, shortly before he was sacked, labelled City’s squad [...]
MADRID: Lionel Messi scored a hat-trick to become Barcelona’s all-time leading scorer on 234 goals in a 5-3 win over Granada Tuesday which moved the champions to within five points of Real Madrid at the top of La Liga. It was Barca’s sixth consecutive league win and this puts pressure on Madrid ahead of their [...]
LONDON: Bolton Wanderers player Fabrice Muamba was on Monday said by doctors to be breathing on his own again, although he remained in an intensive care unit after his on-field cardiac arrest. A statement issued by the hospital where the 23-year-old is being treated said: “Fabrice Muamba remains in intensive care at The London Chest [...]
SAO PAULO: Former Brazil star Ronaldo, a member of the local organizing committee of the 2014 World Cup, on Monday registered his interest in becoming president of the country’s football federation. “I would like to begin my political career in football. I want to become a football politician,” he was quoted as saying in an [...]
MANCHESTER: Manchester City go into Wednesday’s match at home to Chelsea knowing they face a significant test of their Premier League title hopes. City’s 1-0 defeat at Swansea on March 11 saw Roberto Mancini’s men lose top spot in the table for the first time since October. Local rivals Manchester United’s 5-0 thumping of Wolves [...]
PARIS: Argentina’s Lionel Messi is the world’s highest-paid footballer, followed by David Beckham of England and Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo, according to France Football magazine. Barcelona talisman Messi earns some 33 million euros ($43.5 million) a year with a 10.5-million-euro salary, 1.5 million euros in bonuses and 21 million euros in advertising and other contracts. Former [...]
LIVERPOOL: Liverpool may be enjoying plenty of cup success but the trip to QPR offers the chance for them to get their Premier League campaign back on track. The Reds won through to the FA Cup semi-final, where they will meet either Everton or Sunderland, with a 2-1 win over Stoke on Sunday. Kenny Dalglish’s [...]
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As a conscious citizen watching the unfolding of the soap from Bihar, I am constrained to do some hard talk because all these worthies are playing with my life and my children’s. You may well ask how. Because what is happening is not an internal matter of a party or a Front but dividing the nation on communal lines more acutely than they did in the past. And communal venom has no anti-venom. It is deadly.
Corporal punishment in AP schools
The Public Interest Litigation filed in the Andhra Pradesh (AP) High Court on Saturday challenging the inaction of the State government in preventing ‘corporal punishment’ to children in schools calls for attention. Mohammed Shahbaz Ahmed Khan, a City resident, moved the PIL contending that as per the United Nations’ convention, the State was required to [...]
Instigated or inspired suicide?
The reel-like sequences following the real-life suicide of actress Jiah Khan has invoked a debate on abetment of suicide. What is abetment? Is there a clear definition? Does a letter left behind by the victim like in the case of Geetika Sharma against former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda amount to abetment or will it [...]
Social networking is the order of the day. The world is a global village. As Marshall McLuhan believed the Internet has made us participants of this worldwide village. It’s surprising how forest communities and young Adivasis have started navigating in the social media to highlight problems such as displacement faced by tribal communities all over India. [...]
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