Oslo, Norway: Ashley Young gave Roy Hodgson a winning start as England coach on Saturday, clinching a 1-0 victory over Norway in the team's first European Championship warm-up match. Young combined with Andy Carroll after nine minutes, scoring in his fourth consecutive international to provide Hodgson with a potential striking partnership for the Euro 2012 opener against France on June 11 when Wayne Rooney is suspended. "I think he and...
09:09 AM, May 27, 2012
Do you believe in love at first sight? And does love at first sight happens because of collective circumstances that lead to it? 'The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight' is a book as the title says, quite what it is - love and the chances of it at first sight. When Hadley misses her flight to London by four minutes, she never expects to meet Oliver - someone...
01:51 PM, May 22, 2012
Hyderabad: Hyderabadis may be facing water woes but a good number of them, particularly youngsters with pocketful of money, are guzzling beer like theres no tomorrow. Beer sales, say wine dealers, are shooting up at the same pace as the mercury, creating new records. The dealers hold individual records, so to speak but statistics furnished by the Andhra Pradesh Beverages Corporation Ltd (APBCL) give a good overall picture. According to...
12:56 PM, May 21, 2012
Author Niven Govinden's 'Black Bread White Beer' captures the inner lives of this thirty something, upwardly mobile couple as it deals with festering, unaddressed issues-mixed-race marriages, parental pressures, the tension between humanism and organized religion-and the loss of their unborn child. With Amal and Claud on the verge of true commitment and true adulthood, 'Black Bread White Beer' casts a critical eye on a society in which, despite never-ending advances...
05:20 PM, May 10, 2012
London: Wayne Rooney, Robin van Persie and Sergio Aguero have all been nominated by their fellow professionals for the PFA Player of the Year award. Manchester City striker Aguero has been nominated for both the Player of the Year and the Young Player award, to cap an excellent debut season in the Premier League. The Argentina international arrived at the Etihad Stadium from Spanish club Atletico Madrid last summer, and...
05:56 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Manchester: Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson has admitted he feels Ashley Young was looking for contact in the penalty area in the first half of their comfortable 4-0 win over Aston Villa on Sunday. Young was brought down by Aston Villas Ciaran Clark in the opening ten minutes of the game, and the home sides manager has agreed that while there was some contact, it was a soft penalty. Ferguson...
06:18 PM, Apr 16, 2012
Bangalore: Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) is attracting the country's most bright youngsters and maintained that Indian Foreign Service and Indian Administrative Service are no longer the only most sought-after careers. Speaking after inaugurating the new campus of the Direct Taxes Regional Training Institute, he said gone are the days when the most brilliant joined only IFS and IAS. After the combined...
11:29 PM, Apr 08, 2012
Moscow: A 10-year-old Moscow girl has become Russia's youngest inventor after she patented her own print-making method. According to the Moskovsky Komsomolets daily, Anastasia Rodimina patented her own method of monotyping - a print-making technique when a smooth surface is covered by paint and a piece of paper then pressed to it to make a single print. Under Rodimina's patented method, which she named "energoinformation monotyping", a monotype is covered...
01:04 PM, Apr 07, 2012
London: A 10-year-old Colombian girl has sparked outrage after becoming one of the world's youngest mothers by giving birth to a healthy daughter, it was reported here Thursday. The girl, a member of the northern indigenous Wayuu tribe in the La Guajira Peninsula, was 39 weeks pregnant when she underwent a Caesarean section, the Daily Mail reported. It was the first time the pre-teen, from the town of Manaure, had...
08:45 PM, Apr 05, 2012
Blackburn: Manchester United moved five points clear at the top of the Premier League after beating Blackburn Rovers 2-0 with dramatic late goals from Antonio Valencia and Ashley Young. The Old Trafford club dominated for long periods of the game, but had to wait until the last 10 minutes to score as Valencia hit a ferocious effort into the far corner from the wing, while Young hit another good effort...
02:36 AM, Apr 03, 2012
Washington: The World Bank has received three nominations for the post of its president, including US President Barack Obama's pick Jim Young Kim. The other two nominations received by the World Bank are Jose Antonio Ocampo, a Colombian national and Professor at Columbia University in New York and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigerian Finance Minister. Friday was the last day of submitting the nominations. In a statement, the World Bank said its...
09:44 AM, Mar 24, 2012
KOCHI: Are doctors in Kerala dying young, mostly of life-style related ailments? Yes, if the Kerala chapter of the Indian Medical Association is to be believed. IMAs social security schemes show that 45 doctors died last year and over half of them were below 50. Most deaths were triggered by heart-related issues caused by excessive stress and in some cases, cancer. But the statistics pertain only to those doctors covered...
09:25 AM, Mar 23, 2012
New Delhi: Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday took his oath to office in Lucknow to become the youngest Chief Minister of India's largest state, Uttar Pradesh. A total of 47 ministers have sworn in, including 19 Cabinet ministers and 28 MOS, along with Akhilesh Yadav. Akhilesh led his party to win 224 seats in the Assembly Elections. "Samajwadi Party will fulfill promises made in the manifesto. Law and...
11:48 AM, Mar 15, 2012
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