‘Playing Bhajji was a gamble’ Deccan Herald Galle, July 18, DHNS: | Gary Kirsten admitted that it had been a gamble to play Harbhajan Singh, still to recover completely from the flu, in the first Test against Sri Lanka. | “Yes, it was a gamble, but if he hadn’t played, we would have been really inexperienced in our bowling,”...
Karun Chandhok dropped for German GP Zeenews London: Indian Formula One driver Karun Chandhok has been dropped by the Hispania team for next weekend's German Grand Prix at Hockenheim, the team announced on Friday. | Chandhok will be replaced by Japanese test driver Sakon Yamamoto, who took over from Bruno Senna at the British Grand Prix at Sil...
Mom & Megastar The Telegraph India Tom Hanks is on the line. 'What am I,' he joked, 'just another in your long line of I Love Julia calls?' Well, yes, as it happens. Call around to movie industry associates about Julia Roberts and the love gushes forth. | Hanks, who starred with her i...
Goa's floating casinos ruining Mandoi river: Panel Zeenews Goa's floating casinos dumping sewage into river: Panel Panaji: A legislative panel has slammed the Goa government for allowing offshore casinos and cruise vessels to dump raw sewage into the Mandovi river that runs by this state capital. | "The comm...
AWSA, INWTC sailors tied on nine points The Hindu | A. Joseph Antony | HYDERABAD: Kalaga Yakobu / Rajeev Kumar of the Artillery Water Sports Association (AWSA) and Brijraj Verma / N. Behara of the Indian Naval Watermanship Training Centre (INWTC) were tied with nine points after four races of the Na...
Former team chief says this Tour too hard for Wiggins Zeenews Paris: Bradley Wiggins is at a loss to explain his Tour de France misfortunes but his former team chief believes this year's race is simply too hard for the Briton who finished fourth in 2009. | Garmin Transitions manager Jonathan Vaughters, the man ...
Slipping 'n' sliding Mumbai Mirror | Amit Gupta | Posted On Monday, July 19, 2010 at 02:50:01 AM | In a team sport, ranking is just a number. At the Galle International Cricket Stadium, yesterday, there was ample evidence for all those who have been harping about the Indian cricket te...
‘Playing Bhajji was a gamble’ Deccan Herald Galle, July 18, DHNS: | Gary Kirsten admitted that it had been a gamble to play Harbhajan Singh, still to recover completely from the flu, in the first Test against Sri Lanka. | “Yes, it was a gamble, but if he hadn’t played, we would hav...
A Daunting Business The Telegraph India Preparing to travel abroad again, it came home to me last week that I was actually nothing more than my passport. I could be a famous exponent of Kuchipudi, I could be the best poet of blank verse in Maithili or I could be a columnist writing for maj...
Paris Hilton: 'I am really a tomboy who likes to hunt for frogs' Newstrack India | London, July 29 (ANI): High-flying socialite Paris Hilton revealed that she is really a 'tomboy' who loves to play sports and hunt for frogs. | The reality TV star insists there is a more down-to-earth side to her that the public doesn't see, admitting she's most at home roughing it at farms or shooting hoops. &nbs...
Yani Tseng and Katherine Hull set the early pace in the Women's Open The Guardian | • Tseng and Hull both finish rounds of 68 with long-range eagles | • Michelle Wie lies two shots off the pace after a round of 70 Yani Tseng celebrates holing an eagle putt on the 18th during the first round of the Women's Open at Royal Birkdale. Photograph: David Cannon/Getty Images | Taiwan's Yani Tseng, twice a major winner, produced a bir...