Chelsea climbed into the Premier League top-six as Thomas Tuchel earned the first major victory of his short time in charge of the Blues with a 1-0 win at Tottenham on Thursday.Jorginho’s penalty midway through the first-half was scant reward for Chelsea’s dominance on another damaging night for Spurs boss Jose Mourinho against his former club. “We are super happy about the result. It was a tough game against a strong opponent, but we did very well and controlled the game well,” said Tuchel, who has taken seven points from three games in his first eight days in charge.“It’s not…
Author: Mike Harrison
Serena Williams has been drawn in the same quarter at the Australian Open as No. 2-ranked Simona Halep and the same half as Naomi Osaka in her latest bid for a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam singles title.First up for the seven-time Australian Open champion will be Laura Siegemund of Germany.Tough pathU.S. Open champion Osaka will face Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the first round and has Major winners Angelique Kerber, Garbine Muguruza (last year’s runner-up), Venus Williams and Bianca Andreescu in her quarter. Defending champion Sofia Kenin is in the top half of the women’s draw along with No. 1-ranked Ashleigh Barty…
“Our relations are under a severe strain,” EU foreign affairs chief said. The European Union’s top diplomat told Russia’s foreign minister on Friday that the treatment of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny represents “a low point” in the relations between Brussels and Moscow.EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov several days after Mr. Navalny was ordered to serve nearly three years in prison, a ruling that elicited international outrage.“Certainly, our relations are under a severe strain, and the Navalny case is a low point in our relations,” Mr. Borrell said ahead of his talks…
The Arab country said that Houthi rebels and their Iranian backers are an obstacle to peace in an apparent defense of Saudi military involvement in Yemen. Yemen’s Foreign Minister said his government will work with U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration to end the war in the Arab world’s poorest country.Still, Ahmed Awad Bin Mubarak insisted the Houthi rebels and their Iranian backers remain the main obstacle to peace — an apparent defense of Saudi military involvement in Yemen. On Thursday, Mr. Biden announced the U.S. was ending support for the grinding Saudi-led war in Yemen. The five-year conflict has killed…
The Biden administration has announced that it is delaying the H-1B policy of the previous Trump administration on allocation of the popular foreign work visas by continuing with the lottery system until December 31, 2021, to give the immigration agency more time to develop, test and implement the modifications to the registration system.On January 7, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced to do away with the traditional lottery system in deciding the successful applicants for the H-1B visas.The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in specialty occupations that require theoretical…
The CPI on Friday hit out at the government for terming the economic crisis as an act of God, and said the policies of the government are squarely responsible for the situation and not the almighty.Participating in a discussion on the motion of thanks on the President’s address, CPI member Binoy Viswam said the government’s much-touted ₹20 lakh crore financial package was only a “gimmick” as only around ₹2 lakh crore reached the people instead.The CPI member did not support the motion of thanks on the President’s address. He also urged the government to bring a national employment act on…
The posters hail Ms. Sasikala, aide to former CM Jayalalithaa, as the future of Tamil Nadu, and appeal to her to lead the AIADMK towards a victory in the upcoming election Posters hailing and welcoming V.K. Sasikala, close aide of former chief minister Jayalalithaa, were found in Andipatti Town, for the second time recently, on Friday. At a time when the AIADMK high command is sacking functionaries supporting Ms. Sasikala, the posters that have come up again have shocked ruling partymen here.The posters hailed Ms. Sasikala as the future of Tamil Nadu and appealed to her to lead the party…
The Collegium also approved the proposals for elevation of the two judicial officers and an advocate as Judges of the Karnataka High Court and for elevation of a judicial officer and an advocate as Judges of the Chhattisgarh High Court. The Supreme Court Collegium has approved the proposals for elevation of eleven and eight judicial officers as judges of the Allahabad High Court and Calcutta High Court respectively.The Collegium also approved the proposals for elevation of the two judicial officers and an advocate as Judges of the Karnataka High Court and for elevation of a judicial officer and an advocate…
The family has wrapped the farmer’s body in national flag. The mother and brother of a farmer, who died in a road accident near the Ghazipur protest site, have been booked along with another person for allegedly insulting the national flag after a video of his last rites here showed the body draped in the Tricolour, police said Friday.According to the flag code of India, draping the Tricolour in a civilian funeral is an offence.The farmer had gone to the farmers’ protest site on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border and died in an accident near there, police said.“Baljindra, a resident of…
In his first address to the State Department as President, he said alliances were America’s greatest asset and that the U.S. would engage with adversaries and competitors diplomatically when it was in the country’s interest In his first address to the State Department as President, Joe Biden outlined his administration’s foreign policy priorities, reiterating that America was back and engaging the world, but acknowledging the world had changed in the last few years. The new President said alliances were America’s greatest asset. He said the U.S. would engage with adversaries and competitors diplomatically when it was in the country’s interest,…