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Liverpool sign striker Iago Aspas from Celta Vigo

Jun 14, 2013

Aspas, who was Celta's top scorer last season with 12 goals in 34 La Liga games, helped set up the winner as they stayed up on the final day thanks to a 1-0 home victory over Espanyol. #EPL #Liverpool #football #KickingAround #Football Transfers #Celta Vigo #Iago Aspas
Luis Suarez is not for sale: Liverpool

Jun 01, 2013

The 26-year-old, who signed from Ajax Amsterdam in January 2011, was second in the Premier League's list of top scorers last season. #Sports #EPL #Liverpool #football #Real Madrid #Luis Suarez
Hard to say no to Real Madrid: Liverpool's Suarez

May 30, 2013

Suarez received a 10-match domestic ban for biting Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic last month and suggested the pressure from the British media was one reason why he would consider a move. #Sports #EPL #Liverpool #football #KickingAround #Real Madrid #Luis Suarez

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This season, Liverpool will walk alone unless...

Aug 22, 2012

With Liverpool playing Manchester City, Arsenal and Manchester United in quick succession, Rodgers will have to figure out his best side quickly or risk the club ending up in mid-table obscurity. #OnOurMind #Liverpool #football #English Premier League #KickingAround
Fernando Torres and the thrill of a comeback

May 05, 2012

To be honest, El Nino isn't back, but he's well on the way to being back. And that's something. #Liverpool #Chelsea F.C. #KickingAround #David Villa #Fernando Torres
The distance between Manchester and London is seven points

Dec 29, 2011

Given that the Premier League is the hardest and most competitive in the world, the top teams will be fighting tooth and nail to best one another over the remainder of the season. #Liverpool #English Premier League #Arsenal #Manchester #KickingAround

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Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard returns to training

2013-06-20 07:22:00

Liverpool legend's salon opens its doors for new Chalnnel 5 programme Amanda Whittington's ear for dialogue shines through in balanced production Paddy Shennan reports on a special occasion for unique rehab centre the Park View Project Search for jobs in #Liverpool F.C. #Steven Gerrard #Aston Villa
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Liverpool Cruise Terminal set for record numbers of ships in 2014

2013-06-20 06:27:00

A NEW six-star cruise ship, 70,000 tourists and a set of bookings already numbering more than 50 ship visits are the early highlights of Liverpool’s next cruise season. A leading international cruise line which vowed it would never operate in the Irish S #MSC Cruises #Dublin, Ireland #Belfast
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Andy Carroll completes move from Liverpool to West Ham

2013-06-19 13:30:00

Probe was called before Saturday's sinking of Wacker Quacker 1 in the Albert Dock Full list of Liverpool FC fixtures for the 2013-14 season Liverpool's weekly culture diary of what to see and do around Merseyside Paddy Shennan reports on a special occasi #Andy Carroll #Everton F.C. #West Ham United

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Why India should have been prepared for Uttarakhand floods

But we aren’t helpless: we’ve failed because, though we’ve done our homework on how not to fail, we haven’t actually turned these lessons into practice.
Why the political isolation of Narendra Modi is temporary

If Modi stands in splendid isolation today, it would appear that he represents a break from the consensual leader. But once again the disagreement over Modi is all about optics.
Why is the Kedarnath pilgrimage so important? Five key points

According to reports, while the temple is safe, the outer compound has been damaged and the town around the temple has suffered massive losses as it felt the full force of the rising waters.
It's batting vs batting as India take on SL in Champions Trophy

The key player battles for the Champions Trophy semi-final between India and Sri Lanka in Cardiff.

The 4 MLAs who helped Nitish Kumar keep calm and carry on

Nitish Kumar’s fate today might swing on six independents. Four of them have extended their support, and two are undecided. Here we give you the low-down on who the decision-makers might be today
Hauz Khas Village: The hypocrisy of high-end 'alternative' chic

HKV provides Delhi’s socialites and chatterati with what they need most: Obnoxious status display masked as anti-establishment virtue.
Why diversification is at the heart of a good financial future

Diversification is a risk management technique that mixes a wide variety of investments within a portfolio. The rationale behind this technique contends that a portfolio of different kinds of investments will, on average, yield optimally desired returns while lowering a risk that is posed by any individual investment found within the portfolio.
India lose 1-5 to Australia, crash out of Hockey World League

An error-prone India needed a miracle to topple Australia in what was the 100th international fixture between the two sides.

Lok Sabha polls 2014: Back to basics for Congress and BJP

With the playing field level, from now on it will be a battle of strategies for the Congress and the BJP
Chidu's 'Ferrari' of reforms has an autorickshaw engine

A slew of economic reforms has been promised this month, but one should not expect anything more than fancy footwork from the FM.
From a fed-up, die-hard fan: An open letter to SRK

Forget all this surrogacy business. The reason we love Shah Rukh Khan is that he’s been one of Bollywood’s smarter actors. But of late, SRK’s been a bit disappointing, complains a fed-up, die-hard fan.
Dhoni has Ganguly's touch but with a difference

Rohit, Kohli, Raina, Jadeja, Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar, Umesh – that’s the core of the Indian team today and perhaps it wouldn’t be wrong to say that they are Dhoni’s boys.

Vajpayee, Advani, Modi: Every leader has given Hindutva a twist

From Vajpayee to Advani to Modi –the Sangh Parivar has come a long way, presenting before India every few years a Hindutva face rendered presentable through a shrewd makeover
Why Nitish 'really' dumped the Modi-led BJP

While prima facie it might seem to be a clash of two strong personalities i.e. Modi and Kumar, there is much more to the split than that.
3 Indias at war: Sensex India, Maoist India, and Bharat

The current tensions in India can directly be traced to three visions of India – one of which will involve breaking the country
Last man standing: Why it's easy to feel sorry for Misbah

Sympathy for a Pakistani cricketer, especially a batsman, is a novel emotion for those of us coming from the 90s.

Fear of the unknown grips the BJP in Bihar

Although the party is maintaining a brave face, the eventuality of a split has left many leaders on tenterhooks.
In Mamata's Bengal: Zero tolerance for rape or protesting against rape?

Bengal tops the list in violence against women. There have been several reports of gang rape in the past few weeks. The Mamata government has taken quick and stern action – against the women protesting the rapes in front of the CM’s residence.
Food security: For poor’s sake, jholawalas must speak up

The subsidy to the rich accounts for more than 7 percent of the GDP while that for the poor, with the food security act, would account for 1.1 percent.
Patients get HIV in Assam hospital after blood transfusion, panic spreads

Many patients who were administered blood from the same blood bank fear the worst.

Why a BJP-JD(U) split will be good for India

Neither UPA nor NDA is an alliance. And the BJP and JD(U) were mere power-sharers, not allies. To grow, alliances have to be built around principles not just power-sharing
Chidu takes comfort in Fitch upgrade, but where are real reforms?

At a press conference, Finance Minister P Chidambaram, however, did not reveal any concrete steps but promised more reforms by August. He said the rupee’s decline is in line with that of the currencies of other countries with high current account deficit like India.
Why cutting interest rates will have little impact on industrial production

The index of industrial production (IIP), a measure of the industrial activity in the country, grew by a meagre 2% in April 2013, in comparison to the same period during 2012. The index was expected to grow by around 2.4% (source: India: Weak growth and sticky retail inflation. Sonal Varma and Aman Mohunta, Nomura). In [...]
Why 'Sir' Ravindra Jadeja is a people's genius

If one was simply to go by numbers, young and jolly Jadeja is on course to be a great. That’s not overrating him — it’s the simple logic of statistics one cannot argue against.