CHARLOTTE, North Carolina: America’s Chloe Sutton won the women’s 1,500m freestyle event on Thursday ahead of training partner Ashley Twichell as the Charlotte Ultra Swim kicked off with two distance events. Sutton won in 16 minutes 23.96seconds, the seventh-fastest time in the world this year in the event, which isn’t contested by women at the [...]
G Aparna Sai On a high after their victories against the Deccan Chargers and the Mumbai Indians, Royal Challengers Bangalore take on Pune Warriors India today on the latter’s home ground. The Challengers, under the captaincy of stand-in skipper, Virat Kohli, have done quite well. They walloped the Chargers on Sunday and repeated their demolition [...]
BUCHAREST: A double by Colombian striker Radamel Falcao inspired Atletico Madrid to a 3-0 win over fellow Spaniards Athletic Bilbao here on Wednesday and their second Europa League trophy in three seasons. Falcao, who also became the first player to win successive Europa League/UEFA Cups with different sides having scored the winning goal for Porto last term, [...]
Shambhavi Dikshit reached the under-16 final of the Sinnet Super Series beating Srutha Keerthi 6-4, 6-3 on Thursday. She will play Rashmitha Reddy in the final. Rashmitha Reddy prevailed over Kanishka Chawla 6-7, (7-1), 6-3, 7-5 to make it to the final. Shambhavi, who made it to the semifinal beating Saranya Nagpal 6-0, 7-6, was [...]
Luke Phillips DOHA: The outdoor athletics season gets under way proper on Friday when the Qatar Sports Club hosts the first leg of the prestigious 14-meet Diamond League, with all eyes on this summer’s Olympic Games in London. Jamaican sprint star Usain Bolt will be absent, however, having preferred to make his season debut on [...]
Seventy-year-old Jacques Rogge, at the helm of the IOC since 2001contemplates life after 12 years as head of sport’s most powerful governing body Pirate Irwin PARIS: Jacques Rogge has plenty to do when he retires as President of the International Olympic Committee in just over a year’s time — and he says he will do [...]
G Aparna Sai feedback@postnoon.com Rajasthan Royals are set to take on the defending champions, Chennai Super Kings, today in Jaipur. Both the sides have had a mixed bag of fortunes this season. While the Super Kings were expected to be in superb form like they were in the previous two seasons, they failed to win [...]
G Aparna Sai feedback@postnoon.com Trevor Penney, the fielding coach of the Deccan Chargers, would certainly be a worried man what with the Bulls putting up such a dismal performance on the field. While there may not be too many complaints about their batting and bowling performances, it is not unknown that their sloppy fielding and [...]
LONDON: Blackburn Rovers’ deputy chief executive wanted manager Steve Kean sacked in December, a leaked letter he sent to the club’s Indian owners has revealed a day after the side were relegated from the Premier League. Paul Hunt’s letter, obtained by the Sporting Intelligence website, also revealed his concerns about the club’s financial position and [...]
LONDON: Chelsea will have to win the Champions League final if they are to compete in next season’s edition after a 4-1 defeat by Liverpool on Tuesday ended their hopes of a top four Premier League finish. Just three days after beating Liverpool 2-1 in the FA Cup final at Wembley, Chelsea were 3-0 behind [...]
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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 [...]
Adopt and restore a lake is new mantra
It’s interesting that the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has invited interested individuals, voluntary and corporate organisations to adopt lakes in and around the city in order to protect and preserve water bodies. Last week, HMDA Commissioner Neerabh Kumar Prasad said 176 lakes in the jurisdiction of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and another [...]
About Traditional Russian values
Russia has decided to review its adoption pact that it has with France after the latter legalised gay marriage. This is in the wake of the statement of the Russian president Vladmir Putin which he made last month that Russia could change its adoption agreements with the countries which allowed gay marriage that goes against [...]
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