Dubai: Rafael Nadal is set to make his long-awaited return to tennis at an Abu Dhabi exhibition tournament in December. Organizers of the Mubadala World Tennis Championship said on Tuesday in a statement that Nadal is set to join a field including Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray and David Ferrer The tournament runs from December 27-29. Nadal hasn't played since losing in the second round of Wimbledon in June. He is...
04:25 PM, Oct 02, 2012
Chennai: I have a dream! the quote was no more pertained only to Martin Luther King. The children who live in streets too have their own dreams, be it eliminating issues such as alcohol consumtion or to eradicate child sexual abuse. Around 20 children, who live in streets, expressed their opinions through photographs clicked by them which were exhibited at the Art House in Alwarpet. The photo exhibition titled Mele...
02:34 PM, Sep 24, 2012
New Delhi: To celebrate the 150th birth anniversary Gustav Klimt, the Belvedere has decided to devote a comprehensive temporary exhibition to Gustav Klimt, the most renowned Austrian painter and a trailblazer of Modernism. Klimt and his masterpieces are conveyed to the spectator through an entirely unprecedented interdisciplinary approach. As soon as visitors approach the respective paintings, the app installed on their iPads will easily establish correlations with the topography of...
05:57 PM, Jul 14, 2012
New Delhi: On the occasion of the 150th birth anniversary of the Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt, the Belvedere is preparing a very special presentation. The exhibition - Masterpieces in Focus: 150 Years of Gustav Klimt - on the Upper Belvedere's piano nobile will cast new light on what is the largest collection of Klimt's painting worldwide. Unlike most exhibitions of recent years, it will not deal with stylistic relationships...
02:03 PM, Jul 14, 2012
Madrid: Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal, the world's top two players, will try to set a record attendance for a tennis match when they face off at Real Madrid's Bernabeu stadium in July, the club said on Tuesday. "The objective of this exhibition match is to set a spectator record for a game of tennis, exceeding 80,000," the nine-times European champions said on their website. The charity event, to be...
10:23 AM, Apr 11, 2012
Islamabad: Eying to boost trade ties, Commerce Minister Makhdoom Amin Fahim will travel to India with a 250-member delegation on Wednesday to attend the Lifestyle Pakistan exhibition in New Delhi. The delegation, which will include officials of the Commerce Ministry and Trade Development Authority of Pakistan and members of the business community, will take part in the four-day event being organised from April 12 to boost the process to normalise...
07:46 PM, Apr 09, 2012
Mumbai: An exhibition of photographs capturing moments from the daily life of Anna Hazare will be held at the Mumbai Marathi Patrakar Sangh from April 8-14. The photographs were clicked by Mumbai resident Vishal Yadav who works for a Hindi news channel as a driver of Outdoor Broadcasting (OB) van. Hazare himself will inaugurate the exhibition on Sunday. "Before he started his protest at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi (over Lokpal...
02:42 AM, Apr 08, 2012
Jupiter, Fla.: Tiger Woods returned to practice on Friday and declared himself ready to play next week. Woods said in a story on his website that his left Achilles tendon felt good and that he would play in the two-day Tavistock Cup exhibition that starts on Monday, and then the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill. Woods withdrew from the Cadillac Championship on Sunday after 11 holes with what he...
02:20 PM, Mar 17, 2012
New York: Maria Sharapova beat Caroline Wozniacki in an exhibition at Madison Square Garden on Monday - though she lost the only point she played against Wozniacki's boyfriend, top-ranked golfer Rory McIlroy. With the Dane a game away from losing 6-3, 6-4, she invited McIlroy onto the court just hours after he won the Honda Classic in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., to ascend to No. 1 in the world for...
12:14 PM, Mar 06, 2012
Lahore: Pakistanis were saved from severe embarrassment on Tuesday after police cracked a theft case within 48 hours and recovered a diamond necklace worth Rs 10 lakh stolen two days back from an Indian trader at an India Show in Lahore. "We arrested two men named Mohammad Shakil and Mohammad Salim and recovered the necklace," Superintendent of Police Liaquat Malik told a news conference in Punjab's provincial capital Lahore. The...
08:53 AM, Feb 15, 2012
Alleppey: The age-old coir industry of Kerala got a major boost on Saturday with business deals worth crores being signed at the second edition of the Coir Kerala International Marketing Exhibition, held in Allapuzha - the Venice of the East. The representatives of Kerala's coir industry say that valued added products like coir pith and coco lawn will bring in nearly Rs 10 billion after exports. Adoor Prakash, Kerala's Coir...
10:09 AM, Feb 11, 2012
Artist Yoko Ono, wife of the legendary John Lennon, is in India for her first ever exhibition in the country. ...
08:59 AM, Jan 14, 2012
Melbourne: Bernard Tomic moved into the final of the Kooyong exhibition tournament with a 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (2) win over Frenchman Gael Monfils on Thursday. The Australian teenager beat No. 7-ranked Tomas Berdych in his opening match and then controlled the first and third sets against Monfils in his second match at the invitational tournament. He'll next meet the winner of Friday's semifinal between American Mardy Fish and Austria's Jurgen...
11:19 AM, Jan 12, 2012
New Delhi: Even as he donned the national colours for the final time, Bhaichung Bhutia was already thinking of how the exhibition match against Bayern Munich would benefit India. The hosts were brushed aside by their superior German opponents in the first half on Tuesday, going down 4-0, but recovered well enough to ensure no more goals were added to the scoresheet post the interval. India coach Savio Medeira felt...
09:14 PM, Jan 11, 2012
New Delhi: India were no match for Bayern Munich on the field, but the effort of the players and the noise of the fans at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on Tuesday will be a part of the memories the Germans take back with them. Bayern came to India on the back of an intense week-long training session in Doha, and as such did not get a chance to see much...
07:48 AM, Jan 11, 2012
New Delhi: Indian striker Sunil Chhetri was awarded the AIFF Player of the Year award during the farewell exhibition match of Bhaichung Bhutia against German giants Bayern Munich in New Delhi on Tuesday. Chhetri was handed the award by AIFF president Praful Patel in a presentation during the interval. He was handed a silver plaque and a cheque of Rs. 2 lakh. An elated Chhetri thanked all his teammates and...
06:46 AM, Jan 11, 2012
New Delhi: Bhaichung Bhutia's farewell match ended in an expected defeat, but the Indian legend was given a rousing farewell by the crowd, even as German giants Bayern Munich outclassed India 4-0 in an exhibition tie at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on Tuesday. Thomas Muller scored a brace, while Mario Gomez along with Bastian Schweinsteiger netted a goal each, as the Bavarians demonstrated their superiority without having to break a...
08:27 PM, Jan 10, 2012
New Delhi: Follow all the live action of Bhaichung Bhutia's farewell match between India and Bayern Munich from the Jawahar Lal Nehru stadium in New Delhi. ...
06:02 PM, Jan 10, 2012
New Delhi: He started his journey in Tinkitam, a small town in South Sikkim. His prodigious talent saw him make his debut for India as a 19-year-old, in 1995. A record 107 matches and 43 goals later, the story ends at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on Tuesday, in an exhibition tie against Bayern Munich. Inevitably, with their star-studded line-up, it is the German club that has garnered all the attention,...
10:29 AM, Jan 10, 2012
