Hodgson’s side start on the road to Brazil with a trip to face the unheralded Moldovans and are widely expected to cruise to victory. CHISINAU: England manager Roy Hodgson has warned his players not to underestimate minnows Moldova in Friday’s opening World Cup qualifier. Hodgson’s side start on the road to Brazil with a trip [...]
In a thriller of a match, SSC HPRC defeated RC HPRC by seven goals to six-and-a-half to clinch the Prince of Berar Polo Cup at the Bison Polo Grounds on Wednesday. Hyderabad: One can’t expect a better finish to the final of the Prince of Berar Polo Cup Tournament. With seconds remaining in the final [...]
The favourite for the title currently held by South Africa’s Oscar Pistorius is Britain’s Jonnie Peacock. LONDON: The eight fastest amputee sprinters line up on Thursday for the showpiece T44 100m final at the London Paralympics, amid predictions that all finallists could run under 11sec for the first time. The favourite for the title currently [...]
World Cup holders stopped getting automatic entry in the next competition at the 2006 World Cup in Germany. MADRID: Defending World Cup holders should qualify automatically for the next competition, Real Madrid midfielder Xabi Alonso (right), part of the Spain squad that won the 2010 tournament, said on Tuesday. “Logically, as in many competitions and [...]
NORTON, Massachusetts: World number one Rory McIlroy fired his second consecutive four-under 67 on Monday to capture the PGA Tour’s Deutsche Bank Championship by one shot over South Africa’s Louis Oosthuizen. McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, finished at 20-under-par 264 for his third victory of the season. He now has five career PGA Tour wins.“I didn’t [...]
The polo season in Hyderabad for the year 2012 kick started on Saturday with the Bison Cup. This year the tournament will witness four events being held namely, The Bison Cup, The Army Commander’s Cup, The Chief Minister’s Cup and The Prince of Berar Cup. The sport which is also known as the “Sport of Kings” [...]
The City’s Polo season kicked-off in style at the Bison Polo Club in Secunderabad with a cracker of a match. The Sport of Kings is enmeshed in the culture of Hyderabad thanks to its pomp and pace
Britain’s Ellie Simmonds made doubts about US’s Victoria Arlen’s eligibility immaterial, as she retained her S6 400m freestyle crown by smashing Victoria’s world record. LONDON: Britain’s Ellie Simmonds on Saturday made doubts about Victoria Arlen’s eligibility immaterial on Saturday, as she retained her S6 400m freestyle crown by smashing the US swim queen’s world record. [...]
Spa-francorchamps, Belgium: Championship leader Fernando Alonso qualified sixth for Ferrari on Saturday for Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix and then warned Ferrari that they need to improve the car to keep him on top of the title race. The 31-year-old Spaniard said the team should not rely on rivals’ mistakes to retain the lead in the [...]
Bangalore: Indian bowlers picked up early wickets to leave New Zealand struggling at 108 for three at lunch on the opening day of the second Test match at the Chinnaswamy stadium here today. The Kiwi batsmen had a tough time negotiating the Indian attack during the first session, which was mostly played under lights. The [...]
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Andhra Pradesh tops in revenge murders over illicit affairs according to the National Crime Records Bureau statistics. The motive for 445 murders, reported in the State last year, was revenge on cheating partners or their paramours. This amounts to 16 per cent of the murder cases registered here. While the motive for 317 murder cases [...]
Don’t blame the weather for your gloominess. Good rainfall last week and the forecast of further rains due to an active South-West monsoon prompts farmers to sow crops in 50,000 hectares more than last year in Andhra Pradesh. The acreage is expected to increase 25-30 per cent over the normal area of 81.12 lakh hectares, [...]
The man who took a ‘stand’ at Taksim Square
A man stood still in Istanbul’s Taksim Square: silent, staring straight ahead, he had not moved for hours. His peaceful action, on the square that police cleared of protesters on Saturday and where the Turkish authorities have banned gatherings, was a new form of protest. He arrived Monday evening as night was falling and took [...]
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 [...]
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