Olympics: Sushil secures silver on concluding day (India Roundup)
August 12th, 2012 - 10:58 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 12 (IANS) Wrestler Sushil Kumar's silver Sunday made him the first individual athlete from India to win back-to-back medals at the Olympics and ensured the country's sixth ... Read more...
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Olympic wrestling: Varner wins gold for US
August 12th, 2012 - 9:57 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 12 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Jacob Varner grappled to the gold medal for the United States in the Olympic men's 96kg freestyle wrestling here at the ExCel Arena Sunday, beating ... Read more...
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Olympic wrestling: Sushil first to win back-to-back medals (Lead)
August 12th, 2012 - 9:11 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 12 (IANS) Wrestler Sushil Kumar Sunday became the first individual athlete from India to win back-to-back medals at the Olympics after settling for silver in the men's ... Read more...
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Olympic wrestling: Sushil assures 6th medal for India (Fourth Lead)
August 12th, 2012 - 6:09 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 12 (IANS) Sushil Kumar assured India of a sixth medal at the London Olympics and his second successive at the Games by powering into the men's 66kg ... Read more...
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Olympic wrestling: Sushil Kumar assures sixth medal for India (Third Lead)
August 12th, 2012 - 5:36 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 12 (IANS) Sushil Kumar assured India of a sixth medal at the London Olympics by powering into the men's 66 kg freestyle wrestling final at the ExCel ... Read more...
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Olympic handball: Norway retains gold
August 12th, 2012 - 5:12 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 12 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Norway defended its Olympic gold medal in women's handball with a 26-23 defeat of Montenegro, which took home its first-ever medal in the Games.Norway, also ... Read more...
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Olympics: All eyes on Sushil after Yogeshwar’s bronze (Overall India Roundup)
August 12th, 2012 - 1:00 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 12 (IANS) India will be hoping for a second wrestling medal at the London Olympics with Beijing bronze winner Sushil Kumar in action on the concluding day ... Read more...
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Olympic wrestling: Yogeshwar wins bronze, fifth Olympic medal fo India (Roundup)
August 12th, 2012 - 1:36 am ICT by IANS
London, Aug 11 (IANS) Indian wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt clinched the bronze medal in the men's 60kg category to give the country its fifth Olympic medal from the London Games ... Read more...
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Olympics wrestling: India’s Yogeshwar inches closer to bronze medal (Fifth Lead, correcting Intro)
August 12th, 2012 - 12:39 am ICT by IANS
London, Aug 11 (IANS) India's Yogeshwar Dutt is just a win away from an Olympic medal as he beat Iranian Masoud Esmaeilpoorjouybari 3-1 in Repechage 2 to set up a ... Read more...
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Olympic wrestling: India’s Yogeshwar a win away from bronze (Fourth Lead)
August 12th, 2012 - 12:32 am ICT by IANS
London, Aug 11 (IANS) Yogeshwar Dutt is just a win away from an Olympic medal as he beat Franklin Gomez Matos of Puerto Rico in Repechage 2 to qualify for ... Read more...
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Olympic wrestling: India’s Yogeshwar in second repechage (Third Lead)
August 12th, 2012 - 12:14 am ICT by IANS
London, Aug 11 (IANS) Yogeshwar Dutt moved closer to an Olympic bronze medal as he defeated Franklin Gomez Matos of Puerto Rico to move into the second repechage round of ... Read more...
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Olympic wrestling: India’s Yogeshwar in repechage (Second Lead)
August 11th, 2012 - 10:37 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 11 (IANS) Yogeshwar Dutt's Olympic medal hopes were rekindled as he qualified for the repechage round of the men's 60kg wrestling event after Russian Besik Kudukhov, who had ... Read more...
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Olympic wrestling: India’s Yogeshwar loses in pre-quarters (Lead)
August 11th, 2012 - 9:04 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 11 (IANS) Indian wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt lost his pre-quarterfinal bout to Besik Kudukhov of Russia in the men's 60kg event at the 2012 London Games here Saturday.The 30-year-old ... Read more...
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Olympic wrestling: India’s Yogeshwar in pre-quarters
August 11th, 2012 - 7:36 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 11 (IANS) Indian wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt qualified for the men's 60kg pre-quarterfinal, beating Bulgarian Anatolie Ilarionovitch Guidea in the first round of the 2012 London Games here Saturday.The ... Read more...
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Olympics: Geeta Phogat out of wrestling (Second Lead)
August 10th, 2012 - 12:34 am ICT by IANS
London, Aug 9 (IANS) India wrestler Geeta Phogat crashed out of the Olympics after she lost her first repechage round to Ukraine's Tetyana Lazareva 3-0 in the women's 55kg wrestling ... Read more...
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Soccer player dies during match in Brazil
July 9th, 2012 - 12:01 pm ICT by IANS
Sao Paulo, July 9 (IANS/EFE) Brazilian soccer player Arjuna Luiz Venutto Ramos, 17, nicknamed "Pele" for his skill, died on the weekend during a match his team was playing, a ... Read more...
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Bayern Munich qualify for Champions League final after penalty shoot-out
April 26th, 2012 - 3:07 pm ICT by IANS
Madrid, April 26 (IANS) Bayern Munich have qualified for the final of the Champions League football after knocking out Real Madrid in a penalty shoot-out.Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka and Sergio ... Read more...
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Men’s hockey Olympic qualifier: Bronze for Canada
February 26th, 2012 - 10:25 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) Canada finished the men's hockey Olympic qualifier on a bright note as they narrowly edged out Poland for the bronze medal, beating them 4-3 at ... Read more...
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Men’s hockey Olympic qualifier: Poland beat Canada
February 19th, 2012 - 8:53 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) Poland recorded its first victory in the men's hockey Olympic qualifiers defeating Canada 3-2 in a hotly-contested match at the Major Dhyan Chand Stadium here ... Read more...
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Women’s hockey Olympic qualifiers: Italy dominate Poland 4-1
February 19th, 2012 - 7:26 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) Italy thrashed Poland 4-1 in the first match on the second day of the women's hockey Olympic qualifiers at the Major Dhyan Chand Stadium here ... Read more...
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Girls’ first period linked to genes, not diet: Study
April 13th, 2011 - 5:39 pm ICT by ANI
London, Apr 13 (ANI): Scientists claim that genetic factors have a major influence on the age women begin menstruating, and these could have an impact on breast cancer risk.In recent decades it ... Read more...
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Starting periods before the age of 10 ups risk of lung complaints in future
April 6th, 2011 - 5:12 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, April 6 (ANI): A new study has found that women who suffer from asthma or poor lung function as adults generally started their periods at the age of 10 or before."Adult ... Read more...
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High testosterone exposure in womb ‘ups risk of autism’
February 7th, 2011 - 11:37 am ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Feb 7 (ANI): A new study has found that high testosterone exposure in the womb increases the risk of autism in children.Researchers at Fiona Stanley's Telethon Institute for Child Health Research ... Read more...
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Inspired England bowling in Ashes opener hardest I’ve ever had to face: Haddin
November 28th, 2010 - 12:05 pm ICT by ANI
Brisbane, Nov 28(ANI): Australia's centurion in the Ashes opener in Brisbane, wicketkeeper-batsman Brad Haddin, has said that England's bowling on day three was the toughest he has ever had to face in ... Read more...
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Chicago Blackhawks Loses To Colorado In NHL
October 8th, 2010 - 7:55 pm ICT by GD
By Meena Kar
The Chicago Blackhawks was defeated by the Colorado Avalanche in the opening day of Stanley Cup of NHL (National Hockey League) Season. Chicago Blackhawks got a 4-3 overtime defeat ... Read more...
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ACA fears of ‘too much cricket’ if proposed Test league becomes reality
September 17th, 2010 - 1:17 pm ICT by ANI
Sydney, Sep 17(ANI): Australian Cricketers' Association (ACA) Chief Executive Paul Marsh has expressed concern at the possibility of more Test matches, as the International Cricket Council (ICC) look to finalize a formal ... Read more...
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ICC proposes radical changes to 50-over, T20 World Cup formats
September 16th, 2010 - 1:01 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sep 16(ANI): An International Cricket Council (ICC) committee has recommended a cut in the number of teams in the 50-over World Cup from 14 to 10.According to The Age, the ... Read more...
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Insecure infant-mother attachment linked to early puberty in girls
September 1st, 2010 - 2:02 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Sept 1 (ANI): Researchers at Birkbeck University in London have established a link between an insecure infant-mother attachment bond and early puberty.Jay Belsky said that it makes more sense to look ... Read more...
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Girls who grow up with younger brothers ‘remain virgins for longer’
August 18th, 2010 - 5:41 pm ICT by ANI
London, August 18 (ANI): A new research has found that women who grow up with a younger brother tend to lose their virginity nearly two years later than otherwise because of their ... Read more...
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Brothers ‘delay’ puberty in younger sisters
August 18th, 2010 - 11:51 am ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Aug 18 (ANI): Having older brothers delays the age at which girls get their periods, Australian researchers have found."What we found was that there was an older age at menarche [when ... Read more...
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Detroit Red Wings’ Johan Franzen Leads His Team To Victory Against San Jose Sharks
May 7th, 2010 - 6:58 pm ICT by GD
By Gina Gomez
Detroit, Michigan, May 7, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Detroit Red Wings player Johan Franzen displayed a scintillating performance on Thursday which enabled his team to register a 7-1 win over the San ... Read more...
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USA Beats Switzerland At Ice Hockey Quarter Finals
February 25th, 2010 - 8:36 pm ICT by GD
By Meena Kar
Vancouver, Feb 25, (THAINDIAN NEWS) While people talked much about the Canada-Russia ice hockey game at the Winter Olympic games, the US has proceeded a step further towards Olympic gold ... Read more...
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Ramesh Kumar creates history by winning bronze in World Wrestling Championship
September 24th, 2009 - 10:47 pm ICT by ANI
Herning (Denmark), Sep 24 (ANI): India made history in wrestling after a gap of 32 years, when Ramesh Kumar won bronze medal in the freestyle 74 kg category in the prestigious World ... Read more...
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Hillsdale High School Has Close Encounter With A 17 Year Old Bomber
August 25th, 2009 - 6:57 pm ICT by GD
By Meena Kar
Alexander Youshock, a San Mateo native had a dangerous motive to kill.When the former student of Hillsdale High School was discovered wearing a tactical vest carrying 10 pipebombs, and ... Read more...
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Spain outclass New Zealand at Confederations Cup
June 15th, 2009 - 4:47 am ICT by IANS
Rustenburg (South Africa), June 15 (DPA) A hat-trick from Fernando Torres in the opening 16 minutes set Spain on the way to a 5-0 demolition of New Zealand in their opening ... Read more...
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