Bollywood actor Uday Chopra enjoyed an ‘awesome’ dinner with Hollywood stars Jason Bateman and Olivia Wilde as they shot for his Hollywood production venture The Longest Weekend in the US. “Just had dinner with all the producers and director of The Longest Week as well as @batemanjason and @oliviawilde awesomeness all around,” Uday wrote on microblogging [...]
Manchester United threw down the gauntlet to Manchester City by reclaiming top spot in the Barclays Premier League with a comfortable 2-0 win at QPR. Wayne Rooney scored his 15th goal of the season after just 52 seconds and the champions missed a succession of chances before Michael Carrick’s first top-flight goal for almost two [...]
MUMBAI: The BSE benchmark Sensex tumbled by 208 points in opening trade on Monday, extending its three-ses-sion losing streak on concerns over slowing industrial growth amid a weakening trend on other Asian bourses and persisting worries about the European debt crisis. This is a two-year low. The BSE was trading in this range in the [...]
Simon Martin SEOUL: Belying his caricature image as an eccentric playboy, Kim Jong-Il was a politically skilled and ruthless ruler who kept North Korea’s brutal regime in place despite famine and economic decline. Kim, who died on Saturday of a heart attack aged 69, perpetuated his power using propaganda, prison camps, an all-pervading personality cult [...]
Planning to take the bank to a business of Rs.1 lakh crore by 2015, Amitabha Guha, Chairman of South Indian Bank, says the name doesn’t restrict the institution to a particular geography. The bank, with its branches in Delhi, 28, Chandigarh, Jalandhar, Panchkula, Kanpur, Lucknow and several places in Northern India, the South Indian Bank [...]
Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi are on the move again — and settling down Brad Pitt-style! The talk show host and her gal have purchased the Malibu home of Brad and Angelina Jolie’s for a paltry $12 million. The four-bedroom, four-bath, 4,000 square foot beachfront abode is a snug ‘downsize’ from their $49 million [...]
The hut, at the five-star Four Points hotel in the eastern province of Lianyungang, features host edible festive decorations including stockings, reindeer and Santa Claus figures. Hotel staff estimated that the structure cost 30,000 Yuan (£3,000) to create, using 250kg of flour, 300 bottles of honey, 50kg of sugar and a large amount of cream [...]
New Delhi: The Union cabinet is expected to meet today evening to consider the much-awaited Lokpal Bill that is likely to bring the prime minister as well as Group C government employees in its purview with some conditions. Informed sources said the amended Bill is likely to be brought to the Lok Sabha on Tuesday [...]
HYDERABAD: Speaker of the State Legislative Assembly Nadendla Manohar on Monday issued notices to all the 16 Congress MLAs who voted in favour of the no-confidence motion moved by the Telugu Desam party in contravention of the whip issued by the ruling party. Congress whip Kondru Muralimohan represented recently to the Speaker about the violation [...]
Among other, less earth-shattering events such as the painful demise of Europe’s economy and a little publicised royal wedding, 2011 will be remembered as the year in which the jumper got its mojo back Karen Dacre In a period in which the fashion fraternity found itself playing epic guessing games over the identity of the [...]
It’s David vs Goliath as Rajasthan take on Mumbai’s might
Kolkata: They have shown remarkable fighting spirit despite the demoralising spot-fixing scandal and the Rajasthan Royals will now look to upstage the mighty Mumbai Indians in the second qualifier here tomorrow to book, what would be, a dream final berth in the Pepsi IPL. On paper, Mumbai Indians may appear stronger but Rajasthan will be [...]
21 lawmakers back Chandigarh-born as top US judge
Washington: Ahead of an expected Senate vote on the nomination of Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan to a top US court, 21 lawmakers have penned their support for him. Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US last week won unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination as [...]
It was like bereavement: Dravid on spot-fixing
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid says dealing with the turmoil caused by the spot-fixing scandal, which has left his team’s reputation in tatters, has turned out to be as tough as handling “bereavement in some ways”. “I would not lie it was a very tough phase for us. It was a blow to [...]
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The final kick-off for passion
Tonight the football season will finally come to a close with the Champions League final being played at Wembley stadium. It’s been a tumultuous season for all the wrong reasons. The four big leagues were wrapped up early: Manchester United in the EPL, Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga, Juventus in Serie A and Barcelona in [...]
Earlier this week, I received an email about the Gayatri Mantra being proven to be the most divine and powerful hymn in the world. An American scientist called Dr Howard Steingeril is said to have collected hymns, prayers, mantras and invocations from all over the world and from all religions. He tested these for sound [...]
Reporter’s diary: Waste not flowers
A flower is most beautiful when it is in the garden, like a deer or a lamb seen in its natural habitat. If this wisdom is known to the mayor and the GHMC, they would not have wasted several hundred lovely flowers at the function declaring the GHMC’s plan to open 14 biodiversity parks on [...]
Reporter’s diary: Bravo, Naidu
TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu is a visionary. Few will doubt this considering what he did to give Hyderabad a modern face, and many of his welfare schemes are now implemented (of course, renamed after Rajiv Gandhi or Indira Gandhi). But many could not understand his logic of asking for a ban of `500 and `1,000 [...]
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