Pennsylvania: Boxing icon Muhammad Ali will receive the 2012 Liberty Medal from the National Constitution Center, presented annually by the group to honour a champion of freedom. The 70-year-old former heavyweight champion was stripped of his title and kept from boxing at the height of his career because he refused to join the US Army [...]
Nicola Adams I’m writing this in the blurry, way-too-early hours of a freezing Monday morning, just before I fly to Crete for my final training camp ahead of the world championships next month. For the next three weeks, everything will become magnified in importance. Diet, training, conditioning, focus – you name it. And with good [...]
Abdur Rahman was not even born when Muhammad Ali was at the helm of boxing. But that has not stopped the young boxer from drawing inspiration from The Greatest Eleven-year-old Abdul Rahman wakes up at 5 in the morning. He then gets ready and goes to the LB stadium with his father and brother Habeeb [...]
‘I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.’ Muhammed Ali was not just a boxing legend: he was a man who inspired millions Mariano Andrade In Gleason’s Gym, under the Brooklyn Bridge, everybody remembers [...]
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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 [...]
Kubra Fatima Ask any Hyderabadi what they love about the City and they will have many things to say — food, greenery and people being the usual suspects. On the contrary, if you ask them what they hate and ‘travelling in an auto’ will be the first response. Even though going around the twin cities [...]
Expecting a Sunday feast, I went to the dining table eagerly looking forward to the best of my mother’s cooking. I lifted the lid on the big casserole and found pulao with corn. I didn’t know what to make of it. I believe my mother makes the best peas pulao. But to have corn replacing [...]
Shraddha Jahagirdar-Saxena Just a few days ago, when Mumbai Indians played the Sunrisers in Mumbai, I found myself standing on Marine Drive, outside ‘D’ road, along with my brother, waiting for our sons to amble out after the match (which to the pride of this city’s dwellers, MI won). It took several moments for the [...]
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