“There is some kind of confusion reigning in the dressing room. Let’s not deny that. Why are people speaking in such disparaging voices and so randomly?” asks senior cricket writer Ayaz Memon.
#Cricket #Mahendra Singh Dhoni #Tri-series Down Under #Virender SehwagTendulkar has more cricket left in him – good, world-class cricket. But he isn’t playing it today and that is the only issue.
If one was going to name a top five list of players to have played in the Premier League, Scholes and Henry would be in there.
The Indian shooting squad for the Olympics was announced yesterday and it didn’t have a single woman shooter in the women’s 10m air rifle category.
At the end of the day the objective is to win the championship; so if it is done in an ugly car, so be it.
How many matches should India’s younger lot get to prove themselves? A statistical analysis looks at what is a good number.
On V-Day, the dumped party is trying to resume ties with the miffed ex, which has in turn already announced multiple rebounds; things can never be better for a feisty tale of romance and cheating.
Plots are hatched – not how to dismiss a batsman, but to capture viewers and create markets where they do not exist.
The FA’s responsibilities are to look after English football for the greater good, irrespective of whether one man is hurt or not.
Once again the elite World Golf Championships event lived up to its reputation for wild unpredictability.
#Golf #Luke Donald #NewsTracker #Tiger WoodsNBA players including All-Stars Dwight Howard, of the Orlando Magic, and the New York Knicks’ Carmelo Anthony, singer Sheryl Crow and DJ Girl Talk, among others, have participated in the website’s lessons.
#basketball #Jason Simms #Jeremy Lin #National Basketball Association #NBA #WhatWeLikeHaving beaten Manchester United in the group stage to reach the second round, Basel’s Valentin Stocker hit an 86th-minute winner and Marseille also scored late for a 1-0 home win against Inter Milan.
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Cameron said Britain should be proud of the achievements of the campaign to rid the sport of racism over the past two decades, adding that other countries had failed to take similar action.
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After the 4-0 thumping of Porto, Roberto Mancini said he accepted Carlos Tevez’s apology and he could play for City within two or three weeks.
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India rode on Sandeep Singh’s brilliance to virtually seal its place in the final of the men’s hockey Olympic Qualification tournament after defeating Canada 3-2 in a hard-fought round-robin match.
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Australian skipper Michael Clarke today said it will be a “weird” and “strange” feeling when he will walk out in Hobart to play against Sri Lanka without Ricky Ponting, who he says is “giant of the game”.
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He is going through a bad phase but his skills are still intact. Let’s not trash him.
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“I think Dhoni is being misled. Who knows, he is just expressing BCCI’s diktat. I am not convinced that the players are bad fielders. If players are being rotated just for the heck of it, I am not convinced,” Bishen Singh Bedi told reporters.
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Saif Ali Khan was arrested this evening and has been released by the police on bail after being charged with assaulting an NRI businessman.
The West Bengal chief minister said the NCTC in the current form will harm the federal structure of the country disturbing the Centre-state equation.
“There is some kind of confusion reigning in the dressing room. Let’s not deny that. Why are people speaking in such disparaging voices and so randomly?” asks senior cricket writer Ayaz Memon.
The telecom policy crisis emanating from the SC’s cancellation of licences is the third time the sector is falling apart. It will take all of this year to unravel.
Google’s privacy violation issues have become bigger with Microsoft jumping in this tale by proving that the search engine did the same with Microsoft’s, Internet Explorer.
Tendulkar has more cricket left in him – good, world-class cricket. But he isn’t playing it today and that is the only issue.
Almost every airline is crumbling under the pressure of high operating costs, fierce undercutting of tickets by rivals, and heavy debt loads.
His critics attack him as elitist. In truth, however, all good Indians know, it’s the bade log who make things happen. It’s when the powerful don’t deliver that their big name pedigree becomes a huge problem.
Robert is discovering that it’s no fun being the nation’s first damaad, or bahu for that matter.
Where do Dhoni and Sehwag want the team to go? Because even in a fight, one’s guessing, someone has to win. But if India loses, then the both of them lose too.
Plans to expand the bill food are a likely vote-winner for the ruling Congress but could worsen strained finances as a flagging economy crimps revenue.
Firstpost spent a day with Alfred Prasad, executive chef at the London-based Michelin starred Tamarind restaurant. And watched him cook his best dish.
Even a two-year-long campaign in UP and brazen pandering to voters hasn’t given Rahul Gandhi and the Congress much room for optimisim in UP.
Firstpost spoke to foreign aid expert Dr Nilma Gulrajani who sheds light on the reasons Britain insists giving aid to India, when they clearly do not want it.
Two decades after the demolition of the Babri Masjid, meet a man whose connection to that history is both direct and controversial. But few know of Baba Dharamdas’ other link – to the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
India’s position is quite indefensible, it is true, and it really has no case to make except for the accession document signed by a monarch.
Marcus Bestin is a man on a mission: to fight the unfair double-standard that makes male prostitution illegal in Nevada. If only this self-described Gandhian could get his history right.
When it comes to the anti-rape debate, everybody has answers on how to keep the victims safe. How about looking at the perpetrators of the crime instead of blaming the victim?
First Mausam, then Rockstar, and now Ekk Deewana Tha. This is the season for failed epic love stories. Perhaps it’s time to stop and reflect on the irrationality of what passes for love in these movies.
The PMO claims it has solved a major issue in the power sector, but it has not really dealt with the problem.
The whole fiasco will serve as a reality check for the BCCI. They will now realise that there is a world beyond their offices at the Wankhede stadium.
Amazon has pulled the iPad 2 from its online stores in China setting off a flurry of speculation as to the reason due to an ongoing trademark dispute over the tablet in China.
The City of Joy is now feeling the blues. Kolkata is on a painting spree. Forget the Orange Revolution and the Green Revolution. Now Kolkata gets its state-sponsored Blue Revolution. Apply two coats and you are done.
It should be easy to withdraw tax concessions to the rich and finance food security. But the numbers prove otherwise.
