MOSCOW: The outside world still portray the Russians as serious and brooding types, but there’s a smile on their faces as they embrace the world citizens from Saint Petersburg to Sochi, Kazan, Rostov-on-Don, Samara and others. Due to the relatively late involvement of Russia in modern globalisation and tourism, many aspects of their culture like […]

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Monsieur Bernard Koko makes a comeback for World Cup 2018 and Hartman is sure of a new World Cup winner You would have thought that being a senile Goan gentleman, overly fond of his feni and indigenous sausage, I would catch the inauguration and the first match of the World Cup 2018 coming as he […]

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The Indian team was indecisive and as unimaginative as you can get if you hire an English coach still brainwashed by England’s exploits in 1966 Just before the evening of June 14, 2018, the day the World Cup began, I found myself stuck in Goa, in the foothills of the Western Ghats, living in a […]

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With sports like cricket, football and badminton ruling the minds of Indians, rugby somehow remains in the shadows as clubs in Delhi find it difficult to even sustain themselves While the whole country is watching the Fifa World Cup and awaits the Indian cricket team’s tour of England next month, 29-year-old Gautam Dagar is waiting […]

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Unless you go to a stadium and watch a football match in progress, you might never understand what the excitement is all about. And why it is what it is I was the last person to get excited about a football match, because I simply did not like the sport. I thought it’s stupid that […]

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Coming months will tell how the application of technical adjustments helps him on the english pitches. the test for Virat the batsman and Virat the skipper awaits Early this year Michael Holding, the fast bowling legend and one of the most respected voices in world cricket, said something in midst of a test series between […]

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As the world cup kicks off on 14th june in Russia, here’s a glance at the participating teams, how the groups have lined up and who has the chances of lifting the coveted trophy on 15th july in Moscow If Russia is experiencing the frenzy before the much-awaited FIFA World Cup, the enthusiasm of Indians […]

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With the emergence of marathon and running clubs in and around the city, the sport of running appears to emerge as the next big thing in the capital in the coming days Housewife Alka Jain, 52, actively participated in athletics in her school days. Unfortunately, she had to keep her passion at bay as she […]

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