Dates announced for techno festival

Said to be one of the “50 best music festivals in the world” by Time Out magazine, experiential music festival Magnetic Fields has announced dates for its fourth edition. The three-day arts and music festival will take place from 9-11 December at Alsisar Mahal, Rajasthan, the 17th century palace-turnedhotel that provides the perfect backdrop for Magnetic Fields' handpicked showcase of music and the arts.

The festival, that has grown by 200% since its debut in 2013, claims to be an immersive, curated experience — with secret, dawn-breaking parties — unlike any other on the Indian circuit. The festival will continue to be a limited capacity event.

Just like in its previous editions, the festival will host two main stages — the North stage ( night stage), and the South stage (day stage). The Rajputana Palace will hear the strains of music round the day as acts are slated to perform during the afternoon on the lawns before curtains open on the North stage. The music on the North stage is programmed to go on till late into the night and for those unwilling to call it a night, Magnetic Fields also features dawn-breaking, popup parties throughout the weekend — a definite and popular highlight of the festival.

Music at the Desert Disco Oasis stage will greet campers every noon before the main stages kick off, providing a soundtrack to the Bedouin Village.

Red Bull Music Academy North Stage returns to Alsisar Mahal and will feature some of the world's most exciting new talent and favourites from the world of electronic music. Ronaldo takes it easy before Euro ’16 therefore deny Hodgson the three games and to do that, I Fifty Years of Hurt. “People opportunity to watch his will need more than eleven will judge it based upon tourplayers take on an opponent players. naments. I think Roy can be with one outstanding indi“At the moment, things have proud of an excellent piece of vidual ahead of the encoungone to plan. On Thursday, work. ter with Wales in Lens on I believe we'll have a very "It needs a good finish in the June 16. strong team on the field. summer. My view would be

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Portugal captain Ronaldo will miss Thursday's friendly at Wembley after being given permission to take a pretournament holiday by coach Fernando Santos following Real Madrid's Champions League final victory against Atletico Madrid in Milan last Saturday.

Despite the Football Association selecting Portugal for the Wembley send-off fixture partly due to Ronaldo's star status — the former Manchester United winger has not played at the stadium since the 2007 FA Cup Final — the 31-year-old has instead spent his week holidaying on a yacht in Ibiza.

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With only Southampton defender Ryan Bertrand unavailable against Portugal due to an unspecified injury, Hodgson could field his planned starting XI for the Euro 2016 opener against Russia at Wembley.

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“Headaches still exist in terms of spiking the final XI that will start the first game, but I hope we will go beyond