New York: Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy will square off in China this fall in a one-day exhibition. Woods and McIlroy are to play an 18-hole match at Lake Jinsha International Golf Club on October 29, the Monday after the top two players in the world ranking compete in different Asian tournaments. Mark Steinberg at Excel Sports Management, the agent for Woods, says the exhibition has been in the works...
10:28 AM, Aug 16, 2012
Berhampur (Odisha): Ravi Kumar is no stranger in our country. This 24-year-old weightlifter had won the coveted Gold Medal at Delhi Commonwealth Games in 2010. An Arjuna awardee, he is an inspiration to many young individuals. But life was not a bed of roses for Ravi. He lost his father when he was 8 years old. In the hope of securing a stable life for her son, Ravi's mother sent...
10:01 AM, Jul 30, 2012
London: Wimbledon organizers are pushing back the start date for the Grand Slam tournament by one week from 2015 in order to prolong the grass-court season and give players more time to recover from the French Open. The All England Club announced the change on Thursday, saying in a statement that it will "benefit the sport as a whole by creating a three-week gap between the French Open and Wimbledon."...
09:44 PM, Jul 19, 2012
New Delhi: A journalist was shot at by unknown assailants in Arunachal Pradesh on Sunday evening. The journalist was identified as Tongam Rina, an Associate Editor with the Arunachal Times. The incident took place as the victim was entering her office in capital Itanagar. No arrests have been made so far in the case while the victim is said to be recuperating at a hospital. Chief Minister Nabam Tuki said...
07:42 AM, Jul 16, 2012
Hyderabad: R Sushma, a resident of Ayodhya Nagar in Balapur, had a panic attack on Monday evening, induced by the sight of a nine-foot long cobra slithering away in a corner of her compound. The petrified woman raised an alarm and alerted her neighbours who had the presence of mind to immediately buzz the Friends of Snake Society Club. The five-year-old male cobra was rescued soon enough much to the...
12:57 PM, Jul 11, 2012
Mumbai: Instead of the usual targets of nightclubs or restaurants, this time it was a spa whose owner was allegedly abused by the police, while her shop was vandalised in broad daylight. In a complaint addressed to the API, DCP and the Sr PI, Deepika Sonawne, owner of S7 Spa in Barfiwala Lane in Andheri, was in her shop and was resting on June 29, when police came in and...
09:59 AM, Jul 04, 2012
Wichita: Rahil Gangjee nearly put himself out of the tournament with three bogeys in a row on the front nine but made a stunning comeback over the last 10 holes to squeeze inside the cut line at the Wichita Open, here. Gangjee carded one-under 70 with the help of four birdies on the back-nine and at four-under 138, he was placed tied 56. He just made the cut, which came...
11:26 AM, Jun 23, 2012
Mumbai: Hearing a petition seeking action against a laughter club in the city, the Bombay High Court has observed that it is not proper to gather outside someone's house and laugh aloud. The petition, filed by a family, alleged that members of a laughter club called Sheetal Jogging Association gathered at Sheetal Talao in suburban Kurla and laughed loudly causing "mental agony, pain and public nuisance". Justice S A Bobade...
09:36 PM, Jun 19, 2012
London: No matter what David Nalbandian achieves in his career, it is unlikely he will ever forget a moment of madness that left a linesman bloodied, an angry crowd feeling short-changed and an opponent bewildered. The Argentine has long had a reputation for being a hot-head, and 10 years after being thrown out of the Vina del Mar tournament in Chile for hurling a torrent of verbal abuse at a...
09:54 AM, Jun 18, 2012
San Francisco: Webb Simpson won the US Open and put two more names into the graveyard of champions. Overlooked for so much of the week, Simpson emerged on a fog-filled Sunday at The Olympic Club with four birdies around the turn and a tough chip out of a hole to the right of the 18th green that he converted into par for a 2-under 68. He finished at 1-over 281,...
08:44 AM, Jun 18, 2012
Mumbai: Bollywood is not happy with the police crackdown on Mumbai's nightclubs. Assistant Commissioner of Police Vasant Dhoble's zeal to ensure that late night bars do not flout rules related to music and overcrowding has not gone down well with many celebrities. Actors say the policeman is trying to kill the city's night life. Dhoble raided the Shiro nightclub in Worli on Saturday, saying it was flouting rules. Published reports...
02:34 PM, Jun 13, 2012
Rome: Fiorentina have hired former Italy striker Vincenzo Montella as their new manager, said the Serie A club on Monday. Montella has signed a two-year contract with the Tuscan club with an option for a third year. "Fiorentina convinced me [to sign] because they want to be great again, to return to the part of the league table where they belong, and I feel the same desire. The club have...
11:59 AM, Jun 12, 2012
The coaching staff of the Champions League winners is in New Delhi to train young Indian footballers and coaches. ...
11:39 AM, Jun 01, 2012
Dublin: Four-times champion Tiger Woods, without playing at his best, moved ominously into contention at the Memorial tournament after shooting a two-under-par 70 in Thursday's opening round. The former world number one birdied three of the four par-fives in surprisingly firm and fast-running conditions at a sun-drenched Muirfield Village Golf Club to finish one stroke off the early pace. Australian Aaron Baddeley, South African Rory Sabbatini, Argentina's Andres Romero and...
09:05 AM, Jun 01, 2012
After the super hit movie 'Malarvady Arts Club', actor, singer and director Vineeth Sreenivasan is ready with his new script. Titled as 'Thattin Marayathu', this new movie will be a romantic entertainer with songs by Shaan Rehman. Nivin Poly who played the lead in 'Malarvady...' will once again come up as the lead character in this movie which will present a fresh face n the female lead. Another celebration of...
06:02 PM, May 30, 2012
BANGALORE: Its seldom that elections to the Press Club of Bangalore (PCB) - the abode of journalists - has hit headlines. Newspapers generally devote one paragraph, listing the names of office-bearers and committee members, the day after the results are declared. Anything beyond this, should be seen as an extra-effort by an insider. Well, this piece, however, is written ahead of the polls and hence, no eye-brows, should go up...
08:30 AM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: Sanjay Tripathy, maker of the popular science program of the 90's - 'Turning Point' is all set to make his directorial debut in Bollywood with "Club 60", a sneak-peek into the lives of a youthful bunch of people aged 60. "I started my career as a journalist. I also produced and directed many science based shows for BBC, National Geographic and Discovery. But making films was always the...
10:52 AM, May 19, 2012
New Delhi: Cricket has not caught on to any major extent in Afghanistan even 11 years after the Taliban was pushed out of Kabul in 2001. The sports-shy Afghans are still too battle-scarred to laugh their angst away on the pitch. However, literary fiction explores unimaginable possibilities for peace in Afghanistan and escape from the daily acts of subversion. Cricket, the game of friendship, and the tyranny of the Taliban...
01:20 PM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: If you are planning to drop into the neighbourhood greetings card store on the Mother's Day eve, think again. At least that's what the founder of the Mother's Day would have liked you to do. Anna Jarvis, who started a campaign on May 12, 1907, to see the day officially being recognised in the US in 2014 dissociated herself from what Mother's Day had become by 1920. Anna's...
12:49 PM, May 13, 2012
Charlotte, North Carolina: A frustrated Tiger Woods missed a cut for only the eighth time in a PGA Tour event while Nick Watney stormed into a one-shot lead in Friday's second round of the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina. Former world number one Woods battled to a one-over-par 73 at Quail Hollow Club, struggling with his putter, failing to birdie any of the four par-five holes and finishing...
09:23 AM, May 05, 2012
