RSS link worked for Shettar - Times of India
BANGALORE: What made BJP veteran LK Advani delay his decision on making RDPR minister Jagadish Shettar the CM, in spite of his RSS roots?
According to sources close to Shettar, his being identified with former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa, and his resignation for a change in leadership had upset Advani. In fact, Advani had also declined to meet him during the recent crisis. But he relented following negotiations by senior leaders -- both at the central and state levels.
Sources said Shettar's lineage of being a hardcore RSS man favoured him. "Advani knows Shettar's family well, and their commitment to the RSS and the party. Hence, he had a change of heart," they added.
Zola confirmed as Watford boss - Football
Published: 07 Jul 2012 - 19:17:14
Gianfranco Zola has been appointed as manager of Watford, the club have announced.
The Italian has signed a two-year deal at the npower Championship club after the Hornets' new owners confirmed the sacking of Sean Dyche.
"Everyone knows how Gianfranco Zola likes football to be played," Watford technical director Gianluca Nani told the club's official website. "I think Watford's fans can expect an exciting and attacking style from his team. Gianfranco represents this project perfectly."
The appointment completes Zola's return to English football two years after he left West Ham.
It had been expected since the Pozzo family, who completed their takeover of the club from Laurence Bassini last week, revealed the 46-year-old Italian was their preferred candidate.
The Pozzo family also own Serie A side Udinese and La Liga outfit Granada.
The former Chelsea player had two seasons in charge of the Hammers, impressing in the first as he led the club to ninth place in the Premier League in the 2008/09 season.
He struggled badly the following campaign, though, as his side finished just one place above the bottom three and he left his post two days after the end of the season.
Zola, who previously coached the Italy Under-21 side, is best known for a seven-year spell as a player with Chelsea, though, when he established himself as one of the most talented and possibly the best loved foreign player to play in the Premier League.
But he will not have an easy act to follow at Watford, with Dyche helping them finish a respectable 11th in his only season at the helm after succeeding Malky Mackay.
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London police make seventh arrest in terrorism probe - Reuters UK
LONDON |
LONDON (Reuters) - Police investigating a potential terrorist attack said they had arrested a seventh person, a 22-year-old woman, in east London on Saturday.
Police are on high alert ahead of the London Olympics but said the latest arrest and those of a woman and five men in London earlier this week were not linked to the Games.
All seven suspects have been held on "suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism", police said.
Britain has spent millions of pounds beefing up security in preparation for the Olympics.
Security chiefs have said repeatedly that they have no information that the Olympics are being targeted, but Jonathan Evans, head of the domestic intelligence agency MI5, has said the Games present an attractive target.
In a separate operation this week police arrested seven men on suspicion of terrorism after weapons were found in a vehicle stopped on a motorway in Yorkshire, northern England.
A police source said that in that case too, there was nothing to suggest any link with the Olympics, which start on July 27.
In both cases security sources have said the suspects were linked to militant Islamism, but that it remained unclear what was planned. The London suspects were arrested when their plotting was at an early stage, the sources added.
In a sign of heightened vigilance ahead of the Games, armed police closed the M6 motorway near Birmingham, in the Midlands, for four hours on Thursday after a man was reported acting suspiciously on a coach heading to London.
It later emerged the alert was caused by a passenger using an electronic cigarette.
Security authorities have assessed the national threat level at "substantial" - meaning that an attack is a strong possibility - but that is one level lower than it has been for most of the time since the July 7, 2005 suicide bomb attacks in London which killed 52 people.
(Reporting by Tim Castle; Editing by Tim Pearce)
Minnesota Vikings star arrested after refusing to leave club - Reuters
HOUSTON |
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Minnesota Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson was detained for resisting arrest early on Saturday after he refused to leave a Houston nightclub at closing time and shoved an off-duty police officer, police said.
The off-duty officer, who was working a security assignment at Bayou Place, asked Peterson, 27, and others in his group several times to leave the downtown club at around 2 a.m., Houston Police Department spokesman Kese Smith said.
Peterson, who has been recuperating from surgery for an injury sustained in December, responded by yelling and pushing the guard, causing him to stumble, Smith said. Peterson was charged with resisting arrest, a misdemeanor, Smith said.
Peterson, who is from Palestine, Texas, was held on $1,000 bail at a Houston jail, according to the police website. It was not clear if he had been released.
(Reporting by Robert Kleeman; Editing by Alex Dobuzinskis and Paul Simao)
Nathaniel fends off Farhh for Eclipse glory - ESPN.co.uk
Nathaniel made a scintillating return to action with a gallant victory in the Coral-Eclipse Stakes at Sandown.
A winner of last season's King George VI Stakes, Nathaniel's seasonal bow was delayed by a setback. The vibes were not positive, with trainer John Gosden expecting his charge to need to race. If that's the case, he has the world at his feet as Nathaniel hit the front some way from home and powered on superbly to land the Group One contest from Farhh.
William Buick seemed confident that Nathaniel, a winner over two furlongs further last season, would not struggle at the business end as he was on the sharp end throughout. Nathaniel tracked City Style for much of the race before striking on at the top of the straight.
Nathaniel was tracked through by Cityscape but soon fought off the challenge of Roger Charlton's charge. A sterner challenge came from Farhh who came down the outside with what looked a winning run. Frankie Dettori got to within a neck of Nathaniel, but the winner pulled out more once asked and Nathaniel powered away for a three-quarters of a length success.
Trade Commissioner came into the Coral Challenge with the look of a well-handicapped horse and that proved to be the case as Gosden's charge ran out an impressive winner in the hands of Buick. Dettori attempted to take the race by the scruff of the neck aboard by Con Artist by setting sail for home a long way out. Trade Commissioner took a bit of time to pick up, but once hitting top gear he powered up the Sandown hill.
Gosden combined with Trade Commissioner's and Nathaniel's owner Lady Rothschild to land the Lancashire Oaks with Great Heavens. The three-year-old, unbeaten in two starts this season, took the step up from Listed class to Group Two company in her stride with a hugely impressive success.
Robert Havlin set out to make all and he did not see another rival as Great Heavens, the 11/4 favourite, ground her rivals into submission up the Haydock straight to score in the manner of a filly who looks destined for the top of the tree.
Frankie Dettori produced another vintage ride to land the Coral Distaff aboard Falls Of Lora. Mahmood Al Zarooni's charge was forced to give weight away all round in the Listed contest, but it did not stop her as Dettori poked her through a narrow gap with over a furlong to run and Falls Of Lora stuck on admirably to deny Ladys First and Bana Wu. The disappointment of the race was Coronation Stakes second Starscope, who stuck her head in the air once brought under pressure and failed to run on.
Hayley Turner brought Caledonia Lady with a superb late challenge to bag the Coral Charge. The filly was wrapped up with nowhere to go inside the final two furlongs and looked to be fighting a losing battle, but Turner waited for the gap to arrive and once it did Caledonia Lady sprouted wings to cut down Confessional in the shadow of the post and prevail by a nose in the Group Three contest at odds of 10/1.
Number Theory continued his love affair with Haydock by bagging the Old Newton Cup. All three of the four-year-old's previous wins had been at the track and he made it four with a gutsy display under Russ Kennimore, fending off Quiz Mistress and Tepmokea.
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