Indian Premier League, 53rd match: Rising Pune Supergiants v Kings XI Punjab at Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam, May 21, 2016. Kings XI Punjab 172/7 (20/20 overs ) Murali Vijay 59 off 41, 4 fours, 3 sixes, Gurkeerat Singh 51 off 30, 3 fours, 3 sixes, R Ashwin 34-4, AB Dinda 16-1, NLTC…
Mark Braude, Canadian born historian, looks behind the creation of Monte Carlo, how a small town grew into a prosperous resort and its rapid rise, luring of Monte Carlo’s gambling tables, and the desperation on the faces of gamblers who lost left a lasting impression on Edvard Munch. In 1891, the Norwegian painter described the…
Kathleen Kennedy and Billy, Marquess of Hartington, had an encounter during the summer of 1938 and fell in love at first sight. He was the oldest son and heir of the Duke of Devonshire, she one of the nine children of the American Ambassador. But there was trouble ahead as the Kennedy’s were prominent…
Indian Premier League, 52nd match: Delhi Daredevils v Sunrisers Hyderabad at Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Stadium, Raipur, May 20, 2016 Sunrisers Hyderabad 158/7 (20/20 ov) David Warner 73 off 56, 8 fours, 1 six, MC Henriques 19 0ff 13, 2 fours, Naman Ojha 16 off 14, 1 six, Eoin Morgan 14 off 10, 1 six,…
Sri Lanka tour of England and Ireland, 1st Investec Test: England v Sri Lanka at Headingley, Leeds, May 19-23, 2016 England 298 all out 90.3 overs Alex D Hales 86 off 206, 12 fours, JM Bairstow 140 off 183, 13 fours, 1 six, St Finn 17 off 46, 3 fours, PVD Chameera 64-3, MD Shanaka…
21 new Bills under a “One Nation” banner in the Queen’s speech were unveiled by David Cameron yesterday at the official opening of parliament. However former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith accused him of “abandoning controversial reforms” in a “helter skelter” pursuit to remain in the EU. Critics may say anyway that this fight over…
Indian Premier League, 51st match: Gujarat Lions v Kolkata Knight Riders at Green Park, Kanpur, May 19, 2016 Kolkata Knight Riders 124/8 (20.0/20 overs) Robin Uthappa 25 off 19, 3 fours, 1 six, Yusuf Pathan 36 off 36, 3 fours, 1 six, Gautam Gambhir 8 off 8, 1 four, Jason Holder 13 off 8, 1 four,…
EgyptAir fight from Paris to Cairo made two sharp turns as it swerved 90ᵒ left and then 360ᵒ to the right and plunged to 15000ft into the Mediterranean Sea, and debris found in hunt for missing jet. A Greek frigate discovered two large floating objects in the Mediterranean sea following a sea Captain’s reported seeing…
Nokia’s once dominant mobile phone franchise will be given a new life as Microsoft exits the feature phone business it acquired from the Finnish Telecom group for £5.4bn in 2014. Nokia was worth £210bn ($300bn) once a decade ago. They have agreed to sell the unit it acquired from Nokia to Foxconn, the Taiwanese technology…
Retail entrepreneurs Mike Ashley, the billionaire founder of Sports Direct and John Hargreaves the founder of Matalan, the discount clothing chain was involved in last-minute rescue talks with BHS which went into administration in April 2016. The other leading bidders are Cafer Mahiroglu, who started as a rag trader in Stoke Newington, North East London was…