
Ipoh (Malaysia): Great Britain got back to winning ways as they defeated New Zealand 2-1 in an Azlan Shah Cup match on Wednesday while Malaysia rallied from a two-goal deficit to pull off an upset 3-2 victory over Asian Games champions Pakistan. Malaysia's match-winner came in the 69th minute through a penalty corner conversion by Muhammad Razie. Amir Farid and Faisal Saari had earlier lifted Malaysia back from the two-goal...

08:35 PM, May 30, 2012

An inept display by the Indian defence allowed Argentina to dash India's hopes of playing the championship match at the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup here in Ipoh, Malaysia, after the Argentines held onto a 3-2 victory. The two teams went into the match needing at least a draw to keep themselves alive in the tournament, but two defensive errors by India at the start of the second half gave Argentina...

03:51 PM, May 30, 2012

India took on Argentina today in their fifth match of the 2012 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament, but a 3-2 defeat has put India out of reckoning for the championship match on Sunday. ...

01:03 PM, May 30, 2012

New Delhi: Almost 5,00,000 women in the world will become mothers on Mother's Day, 2012. There is a custom of wearing flowers in southern USA on Mother's Day. If a girl or woman is seen wearing a pink or red flower, it is assumed that her mother is alive. On the other hand, a white flower stands to signify that the girl or woman's mother is dead. Carnation is the...

08:20 PM, May 13, 2012

Washington: The United States on Monday again put Russia and China on its annual list of countries with the worst records of preventing the theft of copyrighted material and other intellectual property (IP), the US Trade Representative's office said. Argentina, Canada and India were also put on the "priority watch list," along with Algeria, Chile, Indonesia, Israel, Pakistan, Thailand, Ukraine and Venezuela. "This year's Special 301 Report is more significant...

09:59 AM, May 02, 2012

Buenos Aires: Argentina will host Formula One races in 2013, 2014 and 2015, President Cristina Fernandez has announced. The city of Mar del Plata, 400 km south of Buenos Aires, will host the F1 races "between the end of November and the beginning of December" in the following three years, said Fernandez. The announcement was made during an event in Casa Rosada, seat of presidency, where Fernandez met with the...

03:19 PM, Mar 15, 2012

Buenos Aires: A packed train slammed into the end of the line in Buenos Aires' busy Once station on Wednesday, injuring at least 340 morning commuters, Argentina's transportation secretary said. "There are people still trapped, people alive, and there may have been fatalities. We don't know if there are dead people" in the wreckage, JP Schiavi told reporters at the station. The commuter train came in too fast and hit...

08:44 PM, Feb 22, 2012

Buenos Aires A 17-year-old Argentine woman set on fire by her boyfriend died after six agonising days in a hospital with burns over 75 per cent of her body, authorities said on Tuesday. Maira Torchelli died of 'multiple organ failure', the Buenos Aires provincial government said. She had been admitted in a critical state a week ago to San Martin Hospital in La Plata, 60 km south of the Argentine...

12:02 PM, Feb 22, 2012

Buenos Aires: Argentina's president on Tuesday accused Britain of "militarizing the South Atlantic" and vowed to complain to the United Nations as tension rises ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Falklands war. Britain and Argentina went to war over the disputed British-ruled Falkland Islands in 1982, and London rejects Argentine demands for sovereignty negotiations unless the roughly 3,000 islanders want talks to be held. "They're militarizing the South Atlantic...

02:02 PM, Feb 08, 2012

Buenos Aires: Tensions continue to escalate between Argentina and Britain over the Falkland Islands. The Argentinean President, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, has said that she will file a protest at the United Nations on what she called the militarisation of the South Atlantic. Both countries fought a war over the Falkland Islands in 1982. Though Britain won the war, Argentina still claims the territory. The issue came to the forefront...

09:51 AM, Feb 08, 2012

Buenos Aires: Barcelona's Lionel Messi was named as Argentina's sports personality of the year on Wednesday, winning the Olimpia de Oro (gold) for the first time. The prize, his first in his home country, is awarded by Argentina's sports writers and follows a year in which his goals helped Barca win Spain's La Liga, the European Champions League and the Club World Cup. "I'm happy and proud of the award....

10:10 AM, Dec 22, 2011

New Delhi: The Indian women's hockey team notched up a facile 4-1 win over Ireland to clinch the bronze medal in the four-nation tournament held in Parana, Argentina. Both the teams were locked 1-1 at half time but India came back strongly in the second session to fire three goals. The goal scorers for India were Jaspreet Kaur (penalty corner 7th min), Anuradha Thokchom (58th min), Vandana Katariya (68th min)...

02:54 PM, Dec 19, 2011

Buenos Aires: A train slammed into a bus trying to beat it across the railroad tracks during rush hour in the Argentine capital on Tuesday, ramming the vehicle into a platform and then striking another locomotive head-on. At least nine people, including the bus driver, were killed and 212 injured, authorities said. The force of the arriving train reduced the bus to a fraction of its width as it became...

02:10 AM, Sep 14, 2011

Fans of Lionel Messi can't wait to catch a glimpse of their hero ahead of the Argentina, Venezuela football match at the Salt Lake stadium. ...

08:19 AM, Sep 01, 2011