Indian billionaire Adi Godrej considers India ‘as the best emerging economy for investors’ as he expects the ‘Indian stock market to appreciate by about 20 percent within the next two years’.
‘India will be back to its earlier growth rate of 9 percent plus in 2010,’ said Godrej, one of the 10 of the world’s wealthiest [...]
London, Dec 30 (ANI): One in five Britons is planning to stay at home next year, say travel experts.
The estimate is double the number who took no foreign trips this year.
According to survey from travelsupermarket.com, in 2009, a total of 10 per cent took no breaks, but this figure [...]
London, Dec 24(ANI): Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti reckons that the England side has enough players to outmuscle other teams during the 2010 football World Cup in South Africa.
Ancelotti is convinced that his own trio of Frank Lampard, John Terry and Ashley Cole along with Liverpool’s Steven Gerrard and Manchester United pair of Rio Ferdinand and [...]
London, Dec 22(ANI): England skipper John Terry has downplayed his side’s status as one of the favourites for the 2010 football World Cup in South Africa, saying that there is no one outstanding contender.
Terry said that seven or eight teams have the potential to win the trophy.
“I’m not going to stand here and say, ‘We [...]
London, Dec 14(ANI): England midfielder David Beckham has reiterated that he wants to be a part of the national squad for the 2010 football World Cup finals in South Africa and has pledged to fill in wherever needed.
Beckham has finished his season with Los Angeles Galaxy and is preparing to join AC Milan on loan [...]
London, Dec 8(ANI): England’s football World Cup fans will be thrown to the lions in South Africa next year, as with the lack of accommodation, the organisers are planning to house the supporters in big-game reserves.
Errol Heyns, 2010 co-ordinator for Port [...]
London, Dec 8(ANI): England striker Jermain Defoe reckons that most of the countries will fear his team during the 2010 football World Cup in South Africa.
Confidence is also sky-high among the Three Lions players following their favourable group draw against USA, Algeria and Slovenia.
“To be honest, I think the other teams will be worried about [...]
Cape Town, Dec 6(ANI): David Beckham has boosted England’s chance of winning the 2018 football World Cup bid simply by his presence in Cape Town during the draw, as his appearance has wooed FIFA President Sepp Blatter and Vice-President Jack Warner.
However, Beckham fired out a warning to the politicians on England’s bid team that they [...]
London, Dec. 4 (ANI): The 2010 football World Cup in South Africa will become the first world cup to be filmed by three dimensional camera, FIFA has said.
Up to 25 of the games will be filmed 3D.
Although FIFA has no definite plans [...]
London, Dec. 4 (ANI): David Beckham has said that England would be perfect hosts for the 2018 football World Cup because “football is in our DNA”.
Pitching for England’s bid to host the 2018 World Cup, the midfielder [...]
Cape Town, Dec 2 (DPA) The chief organiser of the football World Cup, Danny Jordaan, said Wednesday he hoped the final draw this week would be kind to South Africa – so the struggling hosts do not crash out in the first round.
‘I hope for a good draw for our nation. We don’t want to [...]
Beijing, Nov 30(ANI): In spite of conquering every sport played the world over, China’s performance in football has been a source of shame for its fans for years, with the national team dangling between Cuba and Albania to be ranked 97th in the world.
According to reports, corruption, match-fixing and illegal betting has poisoned Chinese football [...]
Port of Spain, Nov.28 (ANI): Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Chairman Suresh Kalmadi on Saturday said, given the popularity of soccer in India, and the fact that the country will soon have international class stadias, India will soon make a bid to host the Football World Cup.
A trifle [...]
London, Nov. 25 (ANI): England supporters planning to go to South Africa for next year’s football World Cup may face problems such as – crime, rip-off prices and cows, British Foreign Office (FO) has cautioned.
Launching its ‘Be On The Ball’ campaign, the FO also urged approximately 25,000 supporters, expected to follow the England team in [...]
London, Nov. 25 (ANI): England supporters planning to go to South Africa for next year’s football World Cup may face problems such as – crime, rip-off prices and cows, British Foreign Office (FO) has cautioned.
Launching its ‘Be On The Ball’ campaign, the FO also urged approximately 25,000 supporters, expected to follow the England team in [...]
London, Nov 19 (ANI): Chelsea coach Carlo Ancelotti has ruled out cutting short his stay at the club to coach the Italian national team.
With Italy boss Marcello Lippi expected to step down from his post after next summer’s World Cup, Ancelotti [...]
Montevideo, Nov 19 (DPA) Uruguay secured the last available berth for South Africa 2010 football World Cup by defeating Costa Rica 2-1 on aggregate in the playoffs.
The two teams drew 1-1 at a packed Centenario stadium in Montevideo Wednesday in the return leg of a play-off between the fifth-placed team in the South American qualifiers [...]
Zenica (Bosnia), Nov 19 (DPA) Porto midfielder Raul Meireles was the hero for Portugal as his side beat a 10-member Bosnia-Herzegovina 1-0 to qualify for next year’s football World Cup finals in South Africa.
Portugal had already won the first leg of the play-off in Lisbon Saturday by the same score to progress 2-0 on aggregate [...]
Khartoum/Cairo, Nov 19 (DPA) There were tears on the streets of Cairo Wednesday night as stunned fans shook their heads in disbelief at Algeria’s convincing 1-0 victory to qualify for the football World Cup next year.
Cairo fell silent as French-born Anthar Yahia scored from an acute angle five minutes before the break to give Algeria [...]
Cairo, Nov 15 (DPA) Egypt defeated Algeria 2-0 at their football World Cup qualifier match, setting up a playoff later this month between the two teams, who have seen tensions between them escalate in recent days.
The win sent jubilant Egyptians to the streets, with throngs of people celebrating into the night in various parts of [...]
Rio de Janeiro, Oct 18 (DPA) At least 12 people, including two policemen, were killed during shootouts between rival drug gangs in Rio de Janeiro on the weekend, officials said.
Police said the gangs are battling for control of drug trafficking in the northern sector of the Brazilian coastal city recently chosen to host the 2016 [...]
Cape Town, Oct 14(ANI): South African security forces have reportedly foiled an Al-Qaida plot to carry out a terrorist attack during the 2010 football World Cup.
According to reports, South Africa’s National Intelligence Agency, [...]
Copenhagen, Oct 2 (DPA) Short profile of 2016 Olympic Games host Rio de Janeiro. Data from the International Olympic Committee evaluation commission report published Sep 2.
Rio De Janeiro
Slogan: Live your passion
Date: Aug 5-21, 2016
Budget: $13.92 billion, $2.82 billion Olympic budget, $11.1 billion for infrastructure. $5.5 billion for transport system, $813 million for security, $770 for [...]
Copenhagen, Oct 2 (DPA) Rio de Janeiro will host the 2016 Olympic Games. Rio beat off the challenges of Madrid, Tokyo and Chicago in a vote by International Olympic Committee (IOC) delegates at the IOC Session in Copenhagen Friday.
The Brazilian city won after the third and final round of voting in the International Olympic [...]
New Delhi, Sep 22 (IANS) Home Minister P. Chidambaram Tuesday told citizens of Delhi that they needed to change some of their bad habits if visitors to the Commonwealth Games next year are to have a good impression about the host city.
‘We cannot expect mega city policing to function properly if people do not change [...]
London, Sep 20 (ANI): British fans who can’t make it to South Africa for 2010 football World Cup can catch all England matches on eye-popping digital 3D screens.
Cineworld are planning to roll out LIVE 3D coverage of World Cup matches from next year’s tournament in selected cinemas, News Of The World reports.
“For all the [...]
