Claire Danes isn’t the only celeb taking home Harvard University’s top honors in entertainment this year. Jason Segel was honoured with the Ivy League university’s Hasty Pudding 2012 Man of the Year award, after a traditional roast by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals drama troupe. The How I Met Your Mother star, who donned a blue [...]
Kolkata: Three months after a laptop snag killed an MNC employee, another man in Kolkata was found dead close to his burnt laptop in his bedroom, police said on Sunday. Asphyxiation is suspected to be the cause of death. The body of Saptarishi Sarkar, 30, an employee of a private firm, was detected around 11am [...]
Pippa Middleton, sister-in-law of Prince William, is reportedly dating George Percy, heir to one of Britain’s richest and grandest dukedoms. According to sources Percy is completely besotted with Pippa. “It looks likely the Middleton sisters will be completing the double before too long. It was like a shark circling its bait. Some people think she [...]
London: Lotus have set Kimi Raikkonen a clear target of taking the former Renault team to fourth place in the Formula One constructors’ championship in his comeback season, according to a Reuters report. Last year the champions Red Bull, McLaren, Ferrari and Mercedes all finished above the former champions Renault, who are now to be [...]
Singer Katy Perry has found support in her ex-boyfriend after her marriage broke down. The Firework hitmaker and British comedian Russell Brand called off their marriage in December. Perry’s former love, Gym Class Heroes frontman Travie McCoy, said he has been trying to help the singer get over the break-up. McCoy and Perry dated in [...]
Pirate Irwin DUBLIN: Wales must keep things simple if they are to progress to being an outstanding team, coach Warren Gatland said on Sunday. And the 48-year-old New Zealander, who guided his side to last year’s World Cup semi-finals and the 2009 Grand Slam, believes their last-gasp 23-21 defeat of Ireland in their Six Nations [...]
Mumbai: Terming a Delhi court’s dismissal of his petition against home minister P Chidambaram in the 2G case as “wrong”, Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy on Sunday said he would soon prove the decision wrong in the Supreme Court. He also claimed Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) had dossiers on black money stashed away by Indian [...]
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s most ambitious project Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, starring Farhan Akhtar, is set to go on floors this month and athlete Milkha Singh, who is the inspiration behind the film, would be actively involved in recreating the key incidents of his life on-screen. The Olympian sprinter will be present on the location when those [...]
HYDERABAD: In a bid to do some balancing act, Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy inducted three legislators – N Utham Kumar Reddy, G Prasad Kumar and Kondru Murali Mohan – into the State Cabinet, taking the strength of council of ministers to 41. Governor ESL Narasimhan administered the oath of office and secrecy on [...]
SCOTTSDALE: Kyle Stanley bounced back from a bitter defeat to win the Phoenix Open on Sunday, erasing an eight-shot deficit to triumph a week after his last-round collapse at Torrey Pines. “I’m not sure what I’m thinking right now,” Stanley said. “I just needed to focus on playing golf. I needed to put last week [...]
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Andhra Pradesh tops in revenge murders over illicit affairs according to the National Crime Records Bureau statistics. The motive for 445 murders, reported in the State last year, was revenge on cheating partners or their paramours. This amounts to 16 per cent of the murder cases registered here. While the motive for 317 murder cases [...]
Don’t blame the weather for your gloominess. Good rainfall last week and the forecast of further rains due to an active South-West monsoon prompts farmers to sow crops in 50,000 hectares more than last year in Andhra Pradesh. The acreage is expected to increase 25-30 per cent over the normal area of 81.12 lakh hectares, [...]
The man who took a ‘stand’ at Taksim Square
A man stood still in Istanbul’s Taksim Square: silent, staring straight ahead, he had not moved for hours. His peaceful action, on the square that police cleared of protesters on Saturday and where the Turkish authorities have banned gatherings, was a new form of protest. He arrived Monday evening as night was falling and took [...]
As a conscious citizen watching the unfolding of the soap from Bihar, I am constrained to do some hard talk because all these worthies are playing with my life and my children’s. You may well ask how. Because what is happening is not an internal matter of a party or a Front but dividing the nation on communal lines more acutely than they did in the past. And communal venom has no anti-venom. It is deadly.
Corporal punishment in AP schools
The Public Interest Litigation filed in the Andhra Pradesh (AP) High Court on Saturday challenging the inaction of the State government in preventing ‘corporal punishment’ to children in schools calls for attention. Mohammed Shahbaz Ahmed Khan, a City resident, moved the PIL contending that as per the United Nations’ convention, the State was required to [...]
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