Section: Daily News & Analysis (India)
Rafael Nadal narrowly avoids another defeat to Lukas Rosol
Third seed Rafael Nadal came within two points of defeat by old nemesis Lukas Rosol before sparking into life and reaching the second round of the Swiss Indoors tournament in Basel on Monday. Spaniard Nadal was in all sorts of trouble, trailing by a set and 5-4 and with 69th-ranked Rosol serving at 30-0, but his Czech opponent framed a basic...
Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif faces contempt case for speaking English at United Nations
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif faces a contempt case for failing to deliver his speech in Urdu at the UN General Assembly in violation of a verdict by the country’s Supreme Court. The court in September ordered the government to take steps for implementation of article 251 of the Constitution to make Urdu the official language. The...
EPL 2015: Chelsea may not be over the blues, says Jose Mourinho
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho is unsure if the Premier League champions are over the worst following their poor start to the season, but he said on Friday that a win and two clean sheets in the last week had lifted everyone at the club. Chelsea made their worst start to a domestic season for 37 years, recording only two wins in their opening...
Syria air strikes push Vladimir Putin’s rating to new high
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s approval rating has hit a record high of almost 90%, primarily as a result of his decision to launch air strikes against Islamist militants in Syria, Russia’s state pollster said on Thursday. VTsIOM, the pollster, said Putin’s rating had reached 89.9 % in October, up from a previous high of...
Vladimir Putin uses Bashar al-Assad’s to Moscow visit to talk up Kremlin role as Syria broker
Vladimir Putin used a rare visit to Moscow by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to talk up the Kremlin’s potential to help broker a political settlement to the crisis as he tried to show the West Russia has become a major player in the Middle East. Assad flew to Moscow on Tuesday evening to thank Putin personally for his military support, in...
Bayern Munich v/s Arsenal: Robert Lewandowski desperate to score against keeper Petr Cech
Robert Lewandowski is more determined than ever to get a goal when Bayern Munich face Arsenal in their return Champions League game because he has never scored against their keeper Petr Cech. The 33-year-old Czech international, who denied Lewandowski with two outstanding saves in the second half of Arsenal’s 2-0 win over Bayern in a...
Champions League: Chelsea thwarted by woodwork in draw with Kiev
Chelsea struck the woodwork twice but could not find a breakthrough in an entertaining 0-0 Champions League draw at Dynamo Kiev on Tuesday that left everything to play for in Group G. Within the context of Premier League champions, Chelsea’s poor start to the season, a goalless draw in the Ukraine can be considered a positive result and...
UEFA Champions League: Pedro and Loic Remy to miss Chelsea’s match against Dynamo Kiev
Chelsea will be without forwards Pedro and Loic Remy for Tuesday’s Champions League visit to Dynamo Kiev. Manager Jose Mourinho told a news conference on Monday that both players had minor injuries and would not be risked against the Group G joint leaders. “They (Pedro and Remy) have little injuries, both nothing really important but...
Egypt, Japan, Senegal, Ukraine, Uruguay win United Nations Security Council seats
Egypt, Japan, Senegal, Uruguay and Ukraine were elected to the United Nations Security Council on Thursday, pitting Kiev against veto-power Russia in what Ukraine’s foreign minister promised would not be a conciliatory two-year term. The 193-member General Assembly elected Egypt with 179 votes in favor, Japan with 184, Senegal with 187,...
Inquiry finds MH17 shot down by BUK missile: Reports
International investigators have concluded that Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by a Russian-made BUK missile fired from rebel-held eastern Ukraine, a Dutch daily said on Tuesday. The final report was due to be officially unveiled at 1115 GMT on Tuesday at a Dutch military base. It seeks to end 15 months of speculation about why the...
