Tom Williams DONETSK, Ukraine: France weathered a fierce thunderstorm that held up play for almost an hour to beat Euro 2012 co-hosts Ukraine 2-0 on Friday and claim top spot in Group D. An almighty deluge at Donetsk’s Donbass Arena forced the players off the pitch after only five minutes and when the [...]
LONDON: England remained on course for a place in the knockout rounds of Euro 2012 after coming from behind to send Sweden crashing out of the tournament with a 3-2 victory here on Friday. Manchester United striker Danny Welbeck scored a well-taken winner for England in the 78th minute after the introduction of substitute [...]
Football: The Football competition kicks off the London 2012 Olympic Games. Spread across six major grounds around thje UK, it offers all the drama that fans of the game have come to expect from major international tournaments Field of play The football pitches are not exactly the same size in all the venues, but vary [...]
Jonathan Fowler WARSAW: Powerhouses Russia intend to win their final Group A match against Greece, coach Dick Advocaat said on Friday, as striker Alan Dzagoev said the team’s unruly fans should behave in the face of a threatened UEFA points penalty.The Group A leaders know that a draw against bottom of the table Greece will be enough [...]
Barnaby Chesterman WROCLAW, Poland: Czech captain Tomas Rosicky insists his team will not play for a draw when they tackle Poland in their final Euro 2012 Group A match here on Saturday.A draw will be enough for the Czechs to progress to the knock-out rounds unless Greece beat Russia in the other game. Poland have [...]
POZNAN, Poland: Italy coach Cesare Prandelli denied his side lack character after they failed to hold onto a lead for the second game in a row at Euro 2012.The Azzurri have now drawn both their opening two games 1-1 against, first Spain last Sunday and then Croatia on Thursday. Having held the lead for [...]
GDANSK, Poland: Fernando Torres (in pic) put to bed any debate about his form on Thursday as ‘El Nino’ scored a double to inspire defending champions Spain to a 4-0 drubbing of a gutsy but outclassed Ireland. His double and goals by David Silva and Cesc Fabregas sent the Spanish top of Group C [...]
KIEV: Roy Hodgson urged England here on Thursday to show a ruthless attacking streak as they prepared for their Group D meeting with perennial bogey team Sweden. England have never beaten Sweden in a competitive fixture but head into Friday’s Euro 2012 game at the Olympic Stadium as favourites to take all three points [...]
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 [...]
LVIV, Ukraine: Portugal beat Denmark 3-2 in a thrilling Euro 2012 clash, with a last-gasp winner to resurrect their hopes of reaching the competition’s knock-out stages on Wednesday. Substitute Silvestre Varela (in pic) blasted home three minutes from time to give the beaten Euro 2004 finalists the points after they had let a 2-0 lead [...]
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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