Jaunpur: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday blamed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati for the sorry plight of women in the state. "Even though this state is ruled by a woman chief minister, there is no one to hear the voice of women," Gandhi said, addressing a pubic rally in this Uttar Pradesh district where polling is due Feb 15 in the third phase of the seven-phase assembly election. "With...
12:13 AM, Feb 13, 2012
Dubai: Wimbledon Open champion Petra Kvitova has pulled out of the Qatar Ladies Open because of an unspecified injury. The Czech is ranked second and would have been seeded second in the tournament that starts on Monday. Tournament organizers say they have no information on Kvitova's injury. Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka is the top-seeded player while the tournament also includes defending champion Vera Zvonareva, 2011 finalist Caroline Wozniacki and...
02:47 PM, Feb 12, 2012
New York: Caroline Wozniacki is keeping her dad as coach. The former top-ranked player fired coach Ricardo Sanchez last week after just two months on the job. She said during a conference call on Friday from Doha, Qatar, that she's been coached by her father, Piotr, "for a very long time" and "right now, it's the best thing." She won't need much coaching at the BNP Paribas Showdown on March...
02:43 PM, Feb 12, 2012
New Delhi: A 13-year-old student kidnapped and raped by a 30-year-old after she snubbed his friendship request; a teenaged girl gang-raped by two men in a car and another yet to be traced after being forced into a car by two young men. It was a night of shame for Delhi on Thursday as the three incidents were reported from the city within hours. In one of the incidents, one...
05:21 PM, Feb 11, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Intensifying its agitation demanding removal of Jyoti Panigrahi as chairperson of State Commission for Women (SCW) over the alleged Pipili rape case, Congress activists on Tuesday 'gheraoed' the SCW office and got the support of five Opposition parties on the issue. Activists led by State Mahila Congress president Bijaylaxmi Sahoo staged a demonstration and demanded removal and arrest of Panigrahi who in her report to the state government mentioned...
03:19 AM, Feb 08, 2012
Kobe, Japan: Ayumi Morita beat Slovenia's Polona Hercog 3-6, 7-6 (6), 6-1 on Sunday as Japan advanced to the Fed Cup World Group play-offs. Morita recovered from a sluggish start in the first set to give Japan an insurmountable 3-0 lead after Sunday's first reverse singles match of the World Group II tie. Hercog experienced pain in her neck during the second set tie-break and won only six points in...
03:58 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Rosario: Silvina D'Elia scored the lone goal in the first half as Argentina defeated Britain 1-0 on Sunday in the final of the Champions Trophy women's field hockey tournament. The event, seen as a key warm up for this year's London Olympics, has now been won five times by Argentina. In the third-place match earlier on Sunday, the Netherlands defeated Germany 5-4. Japan defeated New Zealand 3-2 for fifth place....
08:50 AM, Feb 06, 2012
Bangalore: Sri Sri Ravishankar's Art Of Living Ashram looked like a conglomerate of foreign embassies on Friday as representatives from over 55 countries had assembled there to exchange their ideas and experience in various fields at the International Women's Conference. The discussion eventually boiled down to spiritual approach to the subject since the conference was held at the Ashram. Sri Sri Ravishankar who inaugurated the session along with other dignitaries...
10:23 AM, Feb 04, 2012
Bangalore: Sri Sri Ravishankar's Art Of Living Ashram looked like a conglomerate of foreign embassies on Friday as representatives from over 55 countries had assembled there to exchange their ideas and experience in various fields at the International Women's Conference. The discussion eventually boiled down to spiritual approach to the subject since the conference was held at the Ashram. Sri Sri Ravishankar who inaugurated the session along with other dignitaries...
08:17 AM, Feb 04, 2012
London: It's a research which is likely to reignite the cliched battle of the sexes -- women are much better at parking a car than men. The research, which clearly contradicts the notion that women cannot park a car, has found female drivers are better at finding spaces and also more adept than men at manoeuvring a vehicle into a space -- though they may take longer to park. Women...
08:20 PM, Jan 30, 2012
Melbourne: The status quo has been maintained at the top of the men's rankings after Novak Djokovic's dramatic win over Rafael Nadal at the Australian Open, unlike the situation on the women's tour. Official rankings to be released on Monday show Djokovic maintaining the No. 1 spot on the ATP Tour after winning his third Major in a row. Djokovic's 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-7 (5), 7-5 victory in 5 hours,...
10:26 AM, Jan 30, 2012
New Delhi: As the 2-year-old Falak continues to battle for her life, the father of the teenager who brought Falak to AIIMS now wants to take the 15-year-old back, who is now in a children's home. But Delhi Women's Commission has stepped in and says that looking at the father's past they will oppose his custody demand. The Delhi Women's Commission also says that the teenager has been abused too....
07:22 PM, Jan 29, 2012
London: Have you ever wondered why young men are almost always the first to tell a woman: "I love you"? This is because males often try to smooth-talk their partners in a blossoming romance into bed, a new study has claimed. "Any strategy serving as the means to a sexual end would be beneficial to men, including declarations of love," the 'Daily Mail' quoted as saying researchers at Pennsylvania State...
02:17 PM, Jan 29, 2012
New Delhi: After a newspaper campaign, actor-filmmaker Farhan Akhtar will be the likely face of Delhi Police for an audio-visual advertisement to educate people about crime against women. 38-year-old Akhtar, who directed the recently released Bollywood movie 'Don 2', has already appeared in a newspaper campaign in which he exhorted Delhiites to help end violence against women. "Now we are planning an audio-visual campaign with the actor on the issue....
01:55 PM, Jan 29, 2012
Melbourne: Victoria Azarenka had produced one of the most lopsided Australian Open final victories to capture a Grand Slam title and the No. 1 ranking for the first time. She started celebrating on Rod Laver Arena, then suddenly did a double-take to ask her coach, "What happened?" The answer: She routed three-time Grand Slam winner and 2008 Australian champion Maria Sharapova 6-3, 6-0 in 1 hour, 22 minutes on Saturday...
03:50 PM, Jan 28, 2012
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