Shanghai: Adrian Sutil wasted no time dwelling on the past on his return to China on Thursday for the first time since a 2011 nightclub brawl left him with a criminal record and almost ended his Formula One career. "No worries, no emotions. The past, for me, is done and I'm concentrating on my future," was the Force India driver's clipped reply on being asked how he felt to be...
11:23 PM, Apr 11, 2013
Istanbul: Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho saluted the passion of the Galatasaray fans on Tuesday after his team scrambled past the Turkish side into the Champions League semi-finals. Mourinho's men had to weather a second-half storm to go through 5-3 on aggregate even though Galatasaray scored three second-half goals in quick succession to win the second leg 3-2. "I had no time to be nervous," Real's coach told reporters. "I...
08:39 AM, Apr 10, 2013
Istanbul: Real Madrid reached the Champions League semi-finals for the third straight season on Tuesday despite losing 3-2 at Galatasaray following a second-half resurgence by the Turkish team. Madrid needed a double from Cristiano Ronaldo to advance 5-3 on aggregate, but only after conceding three goals in a 16-minute span to raise Galatasaray's hopes of pulling off what would have been a remarkable comeback. Ronaldo looked to have wrapped up...
02:39 AM, Apr 10, 2013
Shimla: Government auditor CAG has found revenue loss of Rs 1,569.41 crore in Himachal Pradesh due to under assessment and short levy during financial year 2011-12. There has also been an increase of 13 per cent in revenue collections in 2011-2012 and the state also received Rs 1,998.37 crore as its share of divisible union taxes, the Comptroller and Auditor General's (CAG's) report tabled in the Vidhan Sabha by Chief...
12:38 AM, Apr 10, 2013
Istanbul: Didier Drogba and his Galatasaray team-mates have a tough task when they try to overturn a 3-0 deficit against Real Madrid in the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final on Tuesday. Drogba, who won the title last season with Chelsea, will take some cheer from his performance in Saturday's domestic championship game against Mersin Idman Yurdu when he scored two second-half goals in a 3-1 win. However, the...
01:30 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Chennai: Director Veerabhadram, who has teamed up with Akkineni Nagarjuna in upcoming Telugu action drama 'Bhai', says working with the actor was truly delightful. Veerabhadram's past films as a director include the successful Telugu films 'Aha Na Pellanta' and 'Poola Rangadu'."With just two films old in the industry, I was extremely nervous when I started working with Nag (Nagarjuna) sir. However, the professional that he is at work, I thoroughly...
11:24 AM, Apr 08, 2013
Madrid: Nine-man Atletico Madrid sputtered to a 0-0 draw at Getafe Sunday in the Spanish league, as Diego Simeone's team fell further adrift of Real Madrid in their fight for a second-place finish. Atletico have only one win in their last five games and failed to match Madrid's victory from Saturday to fall four points behind the defending champions. Barcelona are cruising to the title 13 points clear. "The league...
09:47 AM, Apr 08, 2013
Milan: AC Milan's maverick forward Mario Balotelli was caught smoking in the toilet on the train during the team's journey to Florence and will be fined, chief executive Adriano Galliani said on Sunday. Balotelli was ticked off by the train guard who told Galliani: "You need to pull his ears. He was smoking in the bathroom. Smoking is banned on Italian trains. "I want to say that we're going to...
05:56 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Sunday urged the Centre and Supreme Court to reconsider their stand against authorising Tamil as official language in Madras High Court and said administration of justice needs to be taken closer to the people. A recent communication from the Centre had indicated that the long standing request of the state was considered by Supreme Court, but after due deliberations, it reiterated its earlier...
05:07 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Barcelona: Cristiano Ronaldo went on as a substitute to seal Real Madrid's 5-1 win over Levante as they maintained their dominant form on Saturday ahead of their Champions League quarter-final at Galatasaray. Madrid reduced Barcelona's lead in the Spanish league to 10 points before the Catalan side hosted Mallorca later. Gonzalo Higuain's exquisite volley pulled Madrid level in the 36th minute after Miguel "Michel" Alfonso grabbed the visitors the lead...
11:47 PM, Apr 06, 2013
Mumbai: Bajaj Auto said it plans to roll out 5,000 units of its much-delayed four-seater "quadricycle" codenamed RE60 from its Aurangabad plant. The company plans to roll out 5,000 units a month, to begin with, Bajaj Auto's Managing Director Rajiv Bajaj said, adding that though it has an in-principle go-ahead from the government, commercial production would happen only after a government-appointed committee, set up to define the category of this...
01:50 PM, Apr 06, 2013
Mumbai: Defence advocates on Friday declared alleged Indian Mujahideen (IM) co-founder Sadiq Sheikh a hostile witness in the 2006 train blast case. Sadiq, deposing in the court as a defence witness in the 2006 train bombing case, retracted his confessional statement given before a magistrate. "We declared him hostile because he did not support our case on the point of confession," said defence lawyer Abdul Wahab Khan. Defence lawyers had...
01:50 AM, Apr 06, 2013
Chennai: Madras High Court on Friday dismissed a petition challenging the election of AIADMK candidate from the Kallakurichi (Reserved) constituency in Villupuram district in the 2011 Assembly elections. Justice K Venkataraman dismissed the petition filed by S Chinnadurai, an electorate of the constituency praying for setting aside the election of S Chinnadurai on the grounds that she did not belong to Scheduled Caste community. Justice Venkataraman in his order observed...
12:25 AM, Apr 06, 2013
Chennai: IPL heavyweight Chennai Super Kings open their campaign at their bastion in Chennai against Mumbai Indians in game two of Saturday's double-header, and with a replenished pace bowling attack the home team could look to rattle the shaky MI batting order. Mumbai lost their season opener by two runs to Royal Challengers Bangalore on Thursday night, with their batsmen, bar Dinesh Karthik, struggling to dominate the RCB bowling. Their...
09:36 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Spain: Barcelona will try to adapt without leading scorer Lionel Messi against Spanish league struggler Mallorca on Saturday as they prepare for the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals against Paris Saint-Germain. Messi helped Barcelona secure a 2-2 draw at PSG on Tuesday, but they lost the Argentina forward to a right hamstring injury and also saw their defense further depleted when Javier Mascherano hurt his right knee. With...
09:41 AM, Apr 05, 2013
Mumbai: John Abraham is set to make at least eight films in collaboration with director Shoojit Sircar and says they have a blind faith in each other. Sircar directed 'Vicky Donor', the first film that came out from John's production company, and after that he also did 'Hamara Bajaj' and 'Madras Cafe'. "After that ('Hamara Bajaj' and 'Madras Cafe'), Shoojit and I are making a lot of films together. We...
05:54 PM, Apr 04, 2013
Madrid: Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema and Gonzalo Higuain scored to give ruthlessly efficient Real Madrid a 3-0 home win over Galatasaray in their Champions League quarter-final first leg on Wednesday. Portugal forward Ronaldo became the tournament's highest scorer with nine goals when he burst away on to Mesut Ozil's pass to lob the opener after nine minutes at the Bernabeu. Benzema slotted the ball inside Fernando Muslera's near post for...
01:16 AM, Apr 04, 2013
The wheel will have come full circle for the Galatasaray forward when he takes to the pitch for Wednesday's Champions League quarter-final first leg match at Real Madrid. ...
10:44 AM, Apr 02, 2013
A ruling Congress party MLA on Monday climbed on a mobile tower to demand shifting of three mobile towers from Badi Sadri locality in Chittorgarh district of Rajasthan, police said. "Prakash Chandra Chaudhary climbed on the tower in the morning to press for his demand that the towers be shifted to elsewhere and descended after five hours on assurance by district administration," Circle Officer Jagdish Narayan said. ...
04:35 PM, Apr 01, 2013
