Malacca (Malaysia): Captain Akashdeep Singh came to his side's rescue with a golden goal as India defeated South Korea 2-1 to bag a consolation bronze medal at the Junior Asia Cup hockey tournament in Malacca on Sunday. After a barren first half, You Seungji put the Koreans ahead in the 47th minute with a immaculate penalty corner conversion. But India replied back seven minutes later through a field effort from...
06:13 PM, May 13, 2012
London: Wayne Rooney's overhead kick for Manchester United against Manchester City in February last season has been voted by fans as the best goal of the 20 years of the Premier League, it was announced on Thursday. Rooney's acrobatic effort, which gave United a 2-1 home victory and helped them to win last term's title, was the only goal from the last 10 years among the nominees. Dennis Bergkamp's swivel...
09:38 AM, May 04, 2012
New Delhi: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon who is on an India trip on Friday met Meira Kumar during which the Lok Sabha speaker asked him to involve developing countries in the consultation process with regard to the millennium development goals (MDG). "The developed countries should try to fulfill commitments towards developing countries, as stipulated under Goal 8 under the MDGs, so as to achieve the goals by 2015,"...
02:41 AM, Apr 28, 2012
A Unicef report on adolescents (between 10 and 19 years of age) titled 'Progress for Children' has revealed that nearly 50 per cent of adolescent girls aged between 15 and 19 years in India are underweight, with a body mass index of less than 18.5. Anaemia is a severe public health problem in sixteen countries of the world, the largest number of cases being found here in India where more...
04:32 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Madrid: Barcelona's Lionel Messi reached another milestone in his amazing career on Saturday when he became the first player to score 60 goals in a season in European top-flight soccer in almost 40 years. The Argentine World Player of the Year netted twice in a 4-1 victory at Real Zaragoza to notch up 38 La Liga goals in the campaign and his 60th in all competitions. Gerd Mueller was the...
10:42 PM, Apr 08, 2012
Barcelona: Barcelona star Lionel Messi broke the record for the most goals in a single Champions League campaign and equalled the all-time European Cup record when he netted an 11th-minute penalty against AC Milan in their quarter-final second leg on Tuesday. Messi scored two first-half penalties to lead Barcelona to a 3-1 victory over Milan at the Camp Nou and a place in the Champions League semi-finals for the fifth...
04:18 AM, Apr 04, 2012
Milan: AC Milan want Serie A to implement UEFA's system of using extra linesmen behind the goals "as soon as possible", after being on the wrong end of two goalline controversies in the space of a few weeks. The club's chief executive Adriano Galliano has written an open letter to the Italian FA asking for the system to be used at least until soccer's ruling body FIFA decides whether or...
02:19 PM, Apr 03, 2012
Guwahati: With the Union Home Ministry alerting the Assam government to tighten security ahead of ULFA's 'Army day' on Friday, DGP Jayanta Narayan Choudhury on Thursday said that three districts in the state were an area of concern. "Three districts in upper Assam are an area of concern and we are on maximum alert," Choudhury who recently took charge said in Guwahati, referring to Tinsukia, Dibrugarh and Sibsagar districts where...
03:35 PM, Mar 15, 2012
Mumbai: The inaugural edition of World Series Hockey, which started on February 29 featuring eight teams from different cities, has seen 128 goals scored from 24 matches till Monday at an average of five per game. Though there are about ten penalty corner experts attached to the various teams and excelling with their drag-flicks, as many as 56 percent (72) of the goals have been field efforts and 40 percent...
10:14 AM, Mar 13, 2012
London: The Premier League is considering using goal-line technology in matches from the start of next season in August, with feasibility studies taking place even before the definitive decision by football's rule-makers in July. The International Football Association Board on Saturday rejected six devices and approved two for a final round of testing in match scenarios before either can be sanctioned for use in competitive fixtures. If IFAB is satisfied...
11:31 PM, Mar 04, 2012
New Delhi: The Millennium Development Goals deadline to tackle health issues such as maternal and child mortality rates is just five years away. But there is not much to cheer about it in India as more than 40 per cent of the children in our country below the age of five are underweight. It means almost every second pre-school child in the country is malnourished or stunted and about a...
10:58 AM, Nov 15, 2010
The Golmaal Guys is the first Hindi film trilogy and the one that has had 100 per cent success rate so far. Sunny Goa beaches, colourful sets, all kinds of vehicles being blown up and truck loads of rib tickling humour are all there in the third film of the Golmaal series. ...
01:55 PM, Nov 05, 2010
Manila: It is lunchtime, but the cooking pots are empty outside Nurain Dimalao's shack. Her 7-year-old son plays amid the flies in garbage-strewn sand. She worries where his next meal will come from. Baseco Compound, a shantytown of 50,000 people on the edge of Manila Bay, is the familiar face of poverty in villages and urban slums around the world. Yet there's also good news, albeit qualified -- worldwide, the...
10:53 AM, Sep 16, 2010
United Nations: Five Indians have won top prizes in various categories of an international photography contest organised by the UN to spotlight the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). Winners were announced on Wednesday ahead of the MDG summit next week in which world leaders would participate before the opening session of the UN General Assembly. Prakash Hatvalne from Bhopal was awarded the first prize under the "education" goal for his photograph...
09:09 AM, Sep 16, 2010
![IED blast in Assam, 4 CRPF personnel killed]( "IED blast in Assam, 4 CRPF personnel killed")
The CRPF personnel were patrolling the area when the unidentified militants set off the explosion at about 8:00 am. ...
09:48 AM, Jul 30, 2010
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