Paris: Fourth seed Andy Murray, grimacing in pain, battled his way into the third round of the French Open on Thursday by defeating Finn Jarkko Nieminen 1-6 6-4 6-1 6-2 despite back problems. Defending champion Rafa Nadal's progress was rather more swift. The Spaniard, aiming for a record seventh French Open title, thrashed Uzbekistan's Denis Istomin 6-2 6-2 6-0. Nadal and Murray were joined in the third round by French...
07:56 PM, May 31, 2012
Paris: World number one Novak Djokovic showed great composure to beat Italian Potito Starace 7-6 6-3 6-1 and reach the second round of the French Open on Monday. The Serbian was dragged into a first-set tiebreak, which he won 7-3, before gradually outpacing the world number 97 as he bids to become the first man in 43 years to hold all four grand slams simultaneously. Starace put up a decent...
10:11 PM, May 28, 2012
Barcelona: Tito Vilanova's step up from assistant to Barcelona coach for next season is a sign of continuity rather than the end of an era, the outgoing Pep Guardiola said after Friday's 3-0 King's Cup final triumph. Guardiola signed off the same way that he started at Barcelona, with a Cup final win over Athletic Bilbao, securing his 14th trophy from the 19 competitions he has competed in since taking...
04:05 PM, May 27, 2012
Bangalore: Another vigilance officer was attacked in Bangalore on Friday by unidentified assailants. The attack came just days after an auditor, SP Mahantesh, was murdered in the city. Chief Engineer Vigilance (Technical) N Devaraju was attacked after he allegedly did not give the suspects a favourable report in a case. Devaraju is employed with the Bangalore Mahanagar Palika. He has now written a complaint to the corporation commissioner. In his...
06:53 PM, May 25, 2012
CHENNAI : The city was brought under the blanket cover of an intensified anti-dengue fogging drive on Thursday, following a dengue outbreak in the southern districts of the State. Mayor Saidai S Duraisamy launched the drive by the Chennai Corporation at Varadharajapettai in Egmore.According to a health officer with Chennai Corporation, fogging will be done in the 200 wards of the city on two selected days every week.Fogging is planned...
08:27 AM, May 25, 2012
Espirito Santo has downgraded Bangalore-based Biocon to "sell" from "neutral" and sharply revised its target price to Rs 186 a share from Rs 350, flagging off several issues, which it says raise accounting and corporate governance questions over at the biotech firm. The investment bank points out to two issues in particular. The latest being Pfizer scrapping a deal to sell insulin products made by Biocon. Changed priorities at Pfizer...
12:10 PM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: Animation film 'Dr. Seuss' The Lorax' is a musical comedy based on Dr. Seuss' book of the same name. The film is already released in overseas market, and now the makers are all set to get it released in India this Friday. In the US, the film was released on March 2, the 108th birth anniversary of Seuss'. This is the fourth film based on the writer's books....
06:17 PM, May 17, 2012
London: Britons seem to be doing away with their traditional good manners, as a survey has found two out of three people in Britain wouldn't mind answering a call on their cellphone despite being on a dinner date. According to a poll, carried out by mobile phone firm Recombu, once revered for our good manners, Britain has become more 'Rude Britannia' since the introduction of smartphones. Almost two third of...
10:38 AM, May 17, 2012
Beirut: In his first interview since December, Syrian President Bashar al Assad insisted on Tuesday his regime is fighting back against foreign mercenaries who want to overthrow him, not innocent Syrians aspiring for democracy in a yearlong uprising. The interview with Russian TV showed Assad is still standing his ground, despite widespread international condemnation over his deadly crackdown on dissent. "There are foreign mercenaries, some of them still alive," Assad...
02:43 AM, May 17, 2012
New Delhi: Finding fault with the railway budgetary mechanism, Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has observed the national transporter is continuously incurring expenditure over and above the budgetary provisions sanctioned by Parliament. The CAG report of the fiscal 2010-11 also found railways at fault for not presenting any of the statements of fiscal policy in Parliament as defined in the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act 2003. The Audit also...
04:56 PM, May 15, 2012
TIRUNELVELI: Deputy Director of Health Services Meera Mohideen said eight persons have died of dengue in the district so far. He said the deaths occurred at Kadayanallur, Vadakarai, Tenkasi, Sundarapandiapuram, Surandai, Pavoorchatram, V K Puthur and Muthaliarpatti. The health department had initiated measures like anti-larva activities, adult mosquito control and fogging in affected areas to control the spread of the fever. Besides, surveillance activities were also undertaken, he added. Meanwhile,...
10:35 AM, May 09, 2012
Quetta: The beheaded body of a kidnapped British doctor working for the International Committee of the Red Cross was found by the roadside on Sunday in the southwestern Pakistan city of Quetta, police and Red Cross officials said. Khalil Rasjed Dale, 60, was abducted by suspected militants on January 5 while on his way home from work. "The ICRC condemns in the strongest possible terms this barbaric act," ICRC Director-General...
10:22 AM, Apr 30, 2012
Madrid: Barcelona's new coach is about to become famous for a whole lot more than having his eye poked by Jose Mourinho. Tito Vilanova will step up from his role as assistant at the end of the season and replace Pep Guardiola, who announced on Friday that he was ending his four-year spell in charge. Until now, Vilanova has been renowned as the man who was poked in the eye...
03:32 AM, Apr 29, 2012
Kolkata: Veteran actor Soumitra Chatterjee, who starred in 14 celluloid classics of Satyajit Ray, says working with the master filmmaker was an exciting learning process. And he continues to inspire, even 20 years after his death. Saluting Ray's poetic, lyrical and artistic qualities, Chatterjee told IANS in an interview: "He is a special kind of poetic, lyrical, artistic visionary. If you see his films you can feel that such poetic,...
07:11 PM, Apr 23, 2012
United Nations/Beirut: The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a Russia-European drafted resolution on Saturday that authorizes an initial deployment of up to 300 unarmed military observers to Syria for three months to monitor a fragile week-old ceasefire. The vote came hours after UN ceasefire monitors visited the Syrian city of Homs on Saturday after months of bombardment. Opposition activists in Homs, epicenter of the 13-month-old revolt against President Bashar al-Assad,...
01:37 AM, Apr 22, 2012
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