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How Andy Murray eats to beat Novak Djokovic

Edit Scotsman 25 Jun 2016
But for the past two years, Djokovic has been the world No 1 and, while Murray is firmly established as No 2, he has been in the Serb's shadow ... Murray has now played in 10 grand slam finals and lost eight times, five of them to Djokovic. As the the third major championship of the season approaches, the Scot takes with him the memories of two grand slam final defeats to his nemesis already this year....

State plans to follow tail-to-head irrigation method

Edit The Hindu 25 Jun 2016
The State Government has decided to adopt “tail-to-head” method in irrigation on experimental basis for one project in every district this year, wherein the localised ayacut in the tail-end is given water first and the ayacut in the beginning at the last ... Harish Rao during a five hour long video conference held with District Collectors, Chief Engineers and others on Friday....

PM Modi to flag off 83 projects for 20 cities

Edit The Times of India 25 Jun 2016
Pune ... Saturday's launch would also mark the beginning of the implementation of the urban development plans based on the government's five-year action plan formulated after analysis of infrastructure gaps in over 500 cities under the Smart Cities Mission and AMRUT, accounting for about 70% of the country's urban population ... This is aimed at continuing citizen participation in the planning ... Click here to download it for your device....

GACA signs lease, operation contract of new hotel at KAIA

Edit Arabnews 25 Jun 2016
The hotel, to be categorized between four or five stars, is expected to be opened in the month of Dhul Hijjah this year. Almelhem explained that the signing of the contract comes hand in hand with Saudi Vision 2030 and within the framework of the ambitious GACA plan that puts passenger services at the forefront of its priorities. This plan aims to ......

Maple Leafs select Arizona-born Auston Matthews No. 1 in NHL draft

Edit Denver Post 25 Jun 2016
The 18-year-old from Scottsdale became the seventh American selected at No ... And he arrives at a time when the Maple Leafs usher in the 100th year of professional hockey being played in Canada’s largest city ... Avalanche plan to approach the No....

Police on patrol nab six robbers

Edit The Hindu 25 Jun 2016
The district police have arrested six robbers, including a woman, involved in various crimes, at Othakadai in the small hours of Friday when they were planning to rob a businessman on the pretext of selling him gold ... When they did could not mobilise money through their associates here, they planned to trap regular buyers of stolen property ... All the five were remanded in judicial custody....

Consulate: Apply for U.S. visa well ahead of travel date

Edit The Hindu 25 Jun 2016
“In the last five years, the demand for visashas increased by 80 per cent, while our staffing has remained static ... Out of total of 1.1 million visa applications adjudicated in India last year, Chennai processed 2.8 lakh applications. Applicants asked to plan ahead and apply early as the demand for ......

Was ‘Game of Thrones’ a feminist fable all along?

Edit New York Post 25 Jun 2016
Has this whole series been a faux-misogynist bait and switch? Were five seasons’ worth of rape and disenfranchisement and rape and objectification and rape and gratuitous boob shots and more rape all just a misdirection so we wouldn’t suspect that the show’s mantra — “All men must die” — might be more literal than we thought? Just entertain, for a ......

Arsenal and Liverpool offer no attraction for Kieran Tierney

Edit Scotsman 25 Jun 2016
If Kieran Tierney spurns all outside offers for the entire five years he yesterday committed to boyhood team Celtic, the full-back will be chained to the club until he reaches the grand old age of… eh, 24 ... “My mates were winding me up, sending me screenshots of the stories as a joke, but they knew I had no plans to leave ... “I don't know what will happen four or five years down the line,” said Tierney....

‘Play Celtic v Rangers abroad or it will lose global appeal’

Edit Scotsman 25 Jun 2016
They tell me I'm insane!” said Stillitano, who claims he believes in respecting brands and meritocracy – despite attracting controversy earlier in the year by holding discussions about a breakaway European super league that involved the big five footballing nations. “The plan was to have River-Boca, Celtic-Rangers, Roma-Lazio – all the really friendly rivalries ... I'd like to do it every year, or at least every couple of years....

Hinch lobbying for Harris to earn All-Star nod

Edit MLB 25 Jun 2016
KANSAS CITY -- Royals manager Ned Yost, who will be tasked with picking five pitchers and two position players for the American League for next month's All-Star Game presented by MasterCard, is no stranger to Astros reliever Will Harris, who entered Friday's series opener with a 0.83 ERA and six saves in 32 appearances ... Yost said on Friday that Hinch pushed hard for Harris last year as well ... "He's had a good year," Yost said of Harris....

City Manager's Update (City of Capitola, CA)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Jun 2016
We also plan to install a new surface for the tennis courts at Jade Street Park (with help from a donation from the Monte Foundation) and replace sidewalks on lower Capitola Avenue ... If that bid process proceeds as planned, you can expect to see the new park opened by the end of the calendar year ... In 2004 Capitola voters approved a five-year quarter-cent sales tax measures to support the City and its Police Department....

Denver tech leaders plan to hire fewer IT workers this year, says survey

Edit Denver Post 25 Jun 2016
In Robert Half’s “IT Hiring Forecast,” these heads of company IT operations say they plan to hire less in the next six months of 2016, compared to the same period last year ... For the next six months, 19 percent of CIOs surveyed plan to add more IT staff, compared to 21 percent during the same period last year. But other responses hinted at a slow down as well — 2 percent plan to reduce staff compared to none last year....
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