New Delhi: Formula One team Sahara Force India has roped in Speedy Services as its official equipment supplier in a multi-year agreement. Speedy is the leading provider of equipment and support services to various industries including infrastructure, industrial, construction and events. The tie-up will give Sahara Force India access to the latest range of equipment [...]
Armstrong must be banned for life, and more than that he should now face criminal charges which, if convicted, should see him do at least 10 years in prison. Not for doping, but just for being such an ass.
Melbourne: India’s Rohan Bopanna and his American partner Rajeev Ram were surprisingly defeated by Italians Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fagnini 2-6, 6-7 (3) in the second round of the men’s doubles at the Australian Open here Saturday. In one of the early matches to go on court, Bopanna and his Indian origin American Ram, seeded [...]
The American Professional Golfers Association (PGA) traces its origin to this day in 1916. Since then the ‘gentleman’s game’ has come a long way. We take you through some of the best names to have played on the bumpy greens.
Lance Armstrong ‘came clean’ to Oprah Winfrey during an interview on his use of banned drugs, the talk show host said on Tuesday. We look at other famous sport stars who made big confessed at some point of their life. TIGER WOODS (Golf) Woods’s carefully stage-managed good-guy image was shattered for ever thanks to a car crash [...]
Hyderabad: Pete Transformers walk into the Quarterfinals, being the only unbeaten cricket team in the league stages and are known as the “South Africa” of the tournament since they seem to choke in crucial games. Will the Zinda Tilismath cup be the one when they remove that tag and continue their winning streak or will [...]
Speed Striker, Sporting Star and Regal Groom pleased when the horses were exercised here this morning Sand Track 800 Metres Greek Star (Sai Vamshi) Field Smasher (rb) 58, 600/44 Former finished a length in front. Audacious (Imran Khan) 1-1, 600/45 Easy. Corvette (rb) 56.5, 600/43 Moved well. Askioz (rb) 57.5, 600/43 Unextended. Iaz Elle (Imran [...]
Hyderabad: Atluri Prateek of D.A.V Public School, Safilguda and Sai Arun tied for first place with 5.5 points out of 6 rounds in the Juniors category of 80th Brilliant trophy. Prateek was declared as the winner after a tie-breaker while Shanmukha Teja got third place with 5 points. M.Chakravarthy Reddy won the open category of [...]
India’s gloomy slide down the road to nowhere received a glimmer of hope in the cold of fog-ridden Delhi.
Players will be consulted on deciding the choice of courts and venues in the future. NEW DELHI: India’s tennis chiefs on Sunday attempted to end a simmering Davis Cup row with the country’s players by agreeing to most of their demands ahead of next month’s tie against South Korea. Eight India players, headed by Somdev [...]
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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