London: Lewis Hamilton will be reunited with Paddy Lowe sooner than expected after Mercedes announced on Monday that the former McLaren technical head was joining their Formula One team next month.
Mercedes said in a statement that the Briton had been appointed executive director (technical) and would start on June 3 - the week of the Canadian Grand Prix - after agreement was reached with McLaren for him to be released from the remaining seven months of his contract.
Lowe will work closely with team principal Ross Brawn, the man he could one day replace, who retains overall responsibility for technical and sporting matters.
McLaren had already put Lowe on 'gardening leave', removing him from sensitive work, with Tim Goss being promoted to the role of technical director. They announced last week that they would switch from Mercedes engines to Honda in 2015....
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06:57 PM, May 20, 2013
Brackley: Former McLaren technical director Paddy Lowe is joining Mercedes after an agreement was struck between the Formula One rivals. Lowe will assume the role of executive director from June 3, with a focus on technical matters, and work alongside team principal Ross Brawn. Mercedes emphasized that Brawn "will retain overall responsibility for technical and sporting matters," countering reports that his position was under threat. And Brawn welcomed Lowe's arrival...
04:09 PM, May 20, 2013
The blushes of Chelsea's misfiring striker Fernando Torres have been spared after a local council ordered the removal of an advertising hoarding that mocked his performances for the European champions. ...
08:53 AM, Mar 20, 2013
Button shrugged off the departure of top-rated McLaren technical director Paddy Lowe and said the team's Formula One title challenge would not suffer. ...
11:34 PM, Feb 26, 2013
Facing a shortage of labourers, Sri Lanka plans to grant work visas to Indians to harvest paddy in the country's north and east, a media report said on Sunday. "The government is helpless as our people are leaving the country to work as labourers in West Asia, Singapore, South Korea and Italy," Lankan Agricultural Minister Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena was quoted as saying in the Sunday Times. ...
04:46 PM, Feb 24, 2013
Seventeen people have died in Andhra Pradesh in the past two days due to heavy rainfall. The unseasonal rains have also wreaked havoc across most of the agricultural belt with Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh being the worst hit. ...
09:06 AM, Feb 18, 2013
The 44-year-old is the mental conditioning coach of the South African team and assisted former Indian coach Gary Kirsten in the same capacity. ...
03:13 PM, Jan 25, 2013
Malappuram (Kerala): Women farmers in Malappuram are battling against all odds to save their land. In God's own country, shocking reports have come to light on the green paddy fields, which are one of the attractions in the state - the 9 lakh hectares of the 1970s has now shrunk to just 2.3 lakh hectares. But the women farmers are now battling the odds to save what is left. The...
09:01 AM, Nov 15, 2012
Chandigarh: With Haryana facing 70 per cent deficit rainfall during the current monsoon, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Friday demanded an assistance of Rs 4,050 crore from the Centre to bail out the state from the "drought-like situation." A demand to this effect was made by Hooda to Union Ministers Sharad Pawar and Jairam Ramesh during their review meeting with the state government top brass on the drought-like...
06:05 PM, Aug 10, 2012
Hyderabad: Concern is growing in Andhra Pradesh due to drastic fall in area cultivated under paddy because of deficit rainfall in the ongoing Kharif season. As against the normal area of 26.48 lakh hectares, paddy cultivation has been taken up in only 9.40 lakh ha so far, triggering alarm bells about the fall in rice output from the state that is considered a rice bowl. As many as 13 out...
02:06 PM, Aug 09, 2012
London: Indian boxer Laishram Devendro Singh narrowly missed out on a medal at the London Olympics Wednesday, putting up a brave fight against Irishman Paddy Barnes in the quarterfinals of the 49 kg category. Devendro's 18-23 loss to the Beijing Games bronze medallist ended India's boxing campaign in the mega event. It was a ferocious start to the bout with both boxers trading punches. The boxing on display enthralled the...
02:21 AM, Aug 09, 2012
Buchanan says that ideally the best person to coach is always from the country that he would coach. ...
10:20 AM, Jul 19, 2012
New Delhi: Sowing of paddy, maize, bajra and oilseeds is trailing behind but pulses has picked up so far in the ongoing kharif (summer) season, the Agriculture Ministry said on Friday. The sowing of kharif crops like paddy, pulses and oilseeds begins from April but gains momentum after the onset of South-West monsoon in June. Due to delayed monsoon, sowing of some crops has been affected. "Though sowing of rice,...
06:51 PM, Jul 06, 2012
Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has said that the monsoon situation was worrisome as far as the pulses were concerned. ...
01:49 PM, Jul 06, 2012
Jahanabad: Bihar is experiencing a drought-like situation now with a rainfall deficit of 60 per cent. Even as Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Tuesday downplayed fears of a drought, most villages are finding it hard to even find drinking water. It is peak sowing season, but farmers like Vindhyachal Mishra can do nothing but sit at home. Mishra's farmland lies barren as the dry spell in Bihar's agricultural heartland...
08:12 AM, Jul 04, 2012
Burdwan: Burdwan may be the Rice Bowl of Bengal. However, its farmers are committing suicide. Here, rice is not a source of prosperity but of anguish. Spiralling debt has reportedly driven 16 farmers here to commit suicide in the past one year. Fifty-four-year-old Amiya Saha was one such farmer. The memories haunt his wife, but what hurts more is the continued government denials that something is amiss here. Says Jayanta...
04:07 PM, Jun 24, 2012
Hyderabad: Farmers in Andhra Pradesh are battling a paddy crisis. While many farmers have resorted to distress sale of their bumper crop below the Minimum Support Price (MSP), others even threatened to go on a crop holiday, which means, they will not sow paddy this kharif season, work as NREGA labourers and abandon 5000 acres of fertile land. "We are barely being able to sell our crop. What do we...
10:30 AM, Jun 09, 2011
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy has stepped in to stop the rotting of grain. Just hours after CNN-IBN reported a record harvest of grain rotting because of lack of storage facilities Reddy has appointed a team of 10 IAS officers to supervise paddy procurement and has issued instructions to minimise wastage by ensuring a supply of gunny bags to warehouses. He has also reportedly asked officials to...
08:40 PM, May 11, 2011
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh farmers have been forced into distress sale of paddy after the government failed to lift the grain since there is no space to store it. Andhra Pradesh government sources say only 25 per cent of the yield can be bought as there is no space to store grain. Farmers are now demanding the government to lift the ban on rice exports to prevent it from rotting in ...
04:36 PM, May 11, 2011
Irish bookmaker Paddy Power said it would make an improved offer to Woods. ...
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