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Former French Open champion Gaston Gaudio has withdrawn from next week's Wimbledon championships, tournament officials announced on Monday. Gaudio, who won Roland Garros in 2004, will be replaced in the draw by fellow Argentine Juan-Pablo Guzman. He joins Belgium's Xavier Malisse and...

He has a movie named after him. He has fans all around the world who emulate him and his acts. He is perhaps the most popular footballer in the world. His main attributes are his abilities ranging from free kicks, dodging opponents, accurate crossing from the right to seemingly limitless...

Two Indian youth teams would rub shoulders with their German counterparts in September as Bundesliga plans to take its partnership with the All India Football Federation (AIFF) one step forward. Bundesliga plans to give the Indian youngsters an opportunity to play with and against youth teams...

Sixth seed Novak Djokovic produced a mature performance against Igor Andreev at the French Open to reach his first Grand Slam semi-final. Djokovic dropped serve in the opening game but was in control thereafter as he won 6-3 6-3 6-3. The 20-year-old is the third Serb to reach the singles...

Ferrari will bounce back from their below-par performance in Monaco to contest victory in Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix, says driver Felipe Massa. Rivals McLaren took a dominant one-two in Monaco, with Massa a distant third. But Massa believes Ferrari will be a force in Montreal and at the US...

Liverpool fans had better hope that Thierry Henry finds his way to Barcelona this summer. Not only will it mean a weakened Arsenal team next season, but it’ll also open the door for Samuel Eto’o to leave. The talk is that the Cameroon striker’s preferred destination would be Anfield and that...

hello everybody Today we have forgotten the importance of the environment around us. 5th june being World Environment day, i'm posting an article with regards to the same. It can be an eye-opener to all of us out here to save our mother nature!!! The deafening Silence of extinction “The earth...

Adam Gilchrist, one of the most destructive ODI batsmen with a staggering strike rate of 96.65, is considering retirement from the shorter version of the game to prolong his Test career. The explosive Australian batsman, with 9038 runs including 15 hundreds from 268 ODIs, has all along...

BCCI President Sharad Pawar has ruled himself out of immediate contention for the top job in the International Cricket Council, even as the Asian bloc seemed set to renominate him as their candidate. Pawar said the post, which became vacant after the death of Percy Sonn, should go to a South...

Sania Mirza, who only recently returned after a knee operation, blamed lack of match practice after losing 6-1 6-4 to seventh-seeded Serb Ana Ivanovic in the second round of the French Open on Thursday. The Indian number one underwent surgery in March after suffering a ligament injury in her...

Team India skipper Rahul Dravid, who lost the race for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna to cueist Pankaj Advani last year, has been recommended again for country's highest sports award. The BCCI has also recommended middle order batsman Yuvraj Singh and former women's team captain Anjum Chopra for...

A day after Kingfisher Airlines announced buying 26 per cent stake in Air Deccan, UB Group Chairman Vijay Mallya indicated fares of the low-cost carrier would go up as no one wants to run on losses. "It may not happen immediately but we are in business to make profits," Mallya told a press...

A Faizabad court rejected a petition filed by megastar Amitabh Bachchan against Barabanki District Magistrate's order cancelling transfer of a land in Daulatpur village in his name. Additional Commissioner (Administration) V S Prasad, after hearing the arguments of Bachchan's counsel M B...

Inflation declined to 5.06 per cent for the week ended May 19 as compared to 5.27 per cent in the previous week due to lower prices of food articles including moong and wheat, and manufactured products. The wholesale price-based index stood at 5.05 per cent in the corresponding week a year...

State-run telecom operators MTNL and BSNL have slashed national roaming charges to Re 1 for incoming calls and Re 0.40 for outgoing calls within any visiting network as part of a new post-paid plan to be launched on June 3. The monthly rental for the plan has been fixed at Rs 550. The...

In a major relief to Indian students and the US-based CFA Institute, the Delhi High Court has allowed all three levels of CFA examinations to be conducted in India on June 3. The high court, however, said the other aspects of AICTE order, restraining the institute from carrying out the...

Ragging should now be a criminal offence, the Supreme Court held today, much like crimes against women like cruelty or dowry-related offences. “A new section should be added to the IPC, making ragging a punishable offence on the analogy of Section 498 A dealing with cruelty towards women,” said...

DMK, a major constituent of the UPA government at the Centre, does not seem to be in a hurry to decide on its strategy for presidential polls, though left parties have propped up the name of Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee for the top post. "I will have to consult my party colleagues and...

Islamabad, May 9 (IANS) Pakistan and the 26-member North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) will institutionalise a political dialogue and expand military cooperation to develop a relationship beyond the war on terror. “In the context of Afghanistan, both sides agreed that nation-building...

The country’s inflation rate fell for the third consecutive week to over a four-month low of 5.44 per cent for the week ended May 5 as some food items like moong, sugar, flour and spices, coupled with oilseeds, turned cheaper. The wholesale prices-based inflation had stood at 5.66 per cent in...