MAR DEL PLATA: A colourful cavalcade of cars, motorbikes, quads and trucks set off from this Atlantic resort on Sunday for the 33rd edition of the mythic Dakar Rally. The 2012 Dakar promises to be as tough as any in the event’s drama-laden history, tracing a route across the South American continent, over the Andes [...]
Hyderabad: Another colony which received the best colony award from the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is Sri Laxmi Nagar Welfare Association. The colony is located in IS Sadan Division (No 20) of the corporation. The colony was formed in 1968 and consists of 130 plots and has 150 individual and 23 apartments comprising over [...]
Kay Kay Menon, who has played varied roles in films like Sarkar, Life In A…Metro and Gulaal, doesn’t conform to any particular style and says there is no formula to make a successful film. “I don’t think of trends. I do films that I feel I can give my best to and also enjoy. So, [...]
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said his government took some “transformational initiatives” to empower people and fight corruption and listed five key personal challenges to address as India enters the new year. “These initiatives will take time to have their full effect and we must therefore be patient,” the prime minister said [...]
Julian Guyer LONDON: Northern Irish golf Major winners Darren Clarke and Rory McIlroy (right) were among several sportsmen named in Britain’s New Years Honours List here on Saturday.Clarke, 43, was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), five months after winning the British Open while reigning US Open champion McIlroy, 22, [...]
Choreographer Ganesh Acharya, who directed Katrina Kaif’s dance moves in the popular item number Chikni Chameli, says she was the perfect choice for the number and that nobody could have done justice to the song.“Katrina has done a lot of hard work for the song. Only Katrina Kaif could have been Chikni Chameli, nobody else [...]
Movie: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Cast: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth and Tom Hardy Director: Tomas Alfredson In the early 1970s during the Cold War, the head of British Intelligence, Control, resigns after an operation in Hungary goes awry. Control believed that one of the four senior figures in the service was in fact a Russian [...]
A Game of Shadows has all the makings of an entertaining watch. That is, if you are willing to forget the literary character and enjoy this new Sherlock Holmes. Movie: Sherlock Holmes?: A game of Shadows Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace Director: Guy Ritchie Rating:3/5 Yet another sequel to hit the screen [...]
A logo is an intergral part in the creation of a brand. Marketing a product in every way possible is the mantra and having the right kind of logo is as important as having a good product. We spoke to some brand consultants to find out their picks for the best logos of 2011 A [...]
HYDERABAD: Fourteen persons, including three women, were killed in a hooch tragedy at Poratanagar of Mylavaram mandal in Krishna district on Saturday evening. The New Year eve scarred the village with people who consumed spurious liquor dying one after the other. According to reports reaching the State headquarters, villagers consumed spurious liquor on Saturday afternoon. Condition [...]
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Kubra Fatima Ask any Hyderabadi what they love about the City and they will have many things to say — food, greenery and people being the usual suspects. On the contrary, if you ask them what they hate and ‘travelling in an auto’ will be the first response. Even though going around the twin cities [...]
Expecting a Sunday feast, I went to the dining table eagerly looking forward to the best of my mother’s cooking. I lifted the lid on the big casserole and found pulao with corn. I didn’t know what to make of it. I believe my mother makes the best peas pulao. But to have corn replacing [...]
Shraddha Jahagirdar-Saxena Just a few days ago, when Mumbai Indians played the Sunrisers in Mumbai, I found myself standing on Marine Drive, outside ‘D’ road, along with my brother, waiting for our sons to amble out after the match (which to the pride of this city’s dwellers, MI won). It took several moments for the [...]
No one kills the goose that lays the golden egg
There is a ridiculous debate going on after the reports on spot-fixing emerged: should IPL be scrapped? Even if IPL were the first sporting event to be tainted by spot-fixing, it would be senseless to even suggest that it be scrapped. Since that is not the case, talking of scrapping is, pardon the coarse expression, [...]
This must be the greatest moment of crisis that Barack Obama has faced till now in his entire time at the White House. There’s the tax agency scandal, 100 emails regarding the Benghazi attacks have been released and also the scandal of the justice department hacking the phones of reports of the nation’s biggest news [...]
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