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Exchange RatePatna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Wednesday won the trust vote in the assembly, proving his majority after dumping long-time ally the BJP. A total of 126 legislators voted for the motion moved by the chief minister while 24 voted against. The house has 243 members. Bharatiya Janata Party legislators walked out before the special session [...]
Archive for February 11th, 2012
Roger and out! Federer stunned
The world number three, saw his 15-match winning streak in the Davis Cup ended by the giant American, John Isner Dave James PARIS: Roger Federer slumped to his first Davis Cup defeat in nine years on Friday when he was shocked 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7/4), 6-2 by John Isner as the United States opened up [...]
Sharapova’s Parisian nightmare
Tom Williams PARIS: Top seed Maria Sharapova crashed out of the WTA Paris Open in the quarter-finals on Friday after falling 6-4, 6-4 to German ninth seed Angelique Kerber. Sharapova had breezed past Kerber in straight sets en route to the Australian Open final last month but the 24-year-old exacted sweet revenge on the world number [...]
First in line, Harry takes his time
England are looking for a new manager following Capello’s shock resignation and Redknapp is the leading contender to replace the Italian Julian Guyer LONDON: Harry Redknapp may be the fans’ favourite to become the next England manager but the man himself was in no hurry to take on the job on Friday, saying he wanted [...]
The Quest for Love
Isn’t it an idea that we fall in love with? And when we come across someone who tantalises our eyes, we attribute all those characters to their physical form and get attached to that idea: A figment of our imagination that we begin to live with, dream and aspire for and build an existence around. [...]
A little more thought
Valentine’s day is 3 days away and we hear the men scurrying, hunting for perfect gifts. Unplanned again? It is one of those days where every girl feels it is mandatory that if she is in a relationship, her significant other needs to go out of his way to make her feel special. We can’t [...]
Shalt thou not suffer a witch to live?
Babu Gogineni The vicious grip of superstition over people, and the general indifference in society to the plight of its victims, is both infuriating and baffling. Thoughts, wishes, incantations or magical spells cannot affect the physical universe in any way, and yet, the belief that everyday objects are dangerous or could attain special powers through [...]
Growth the organic way
Cherazad Pestonji took to fashion like a fish takes to water. She found success with Chermas, and now with Anahita she aims to raise the bar to unimaginable heights Cherazad was all of 12 when she was convinced that whatever she would do in life would be something to do with fashion. She says she [...]
Work on Paradise Lost shut down
Paradise Lost, Legendary Pictures’ big-budget, special effects-laden take on the John Milton classic poem, has been shut down. The movie was to have been directed by Alex Proyas and to have starred Bradley Cooper as Lucifer. The project couldn’t overcome two challenges; budget and special effects. The budget was more than $120 million and was [...]
A Dose of Deadly Humour
What started off at the age of 11 as mere musings in a diary, translated to comic scripts in adulthood. Meet Sorabh Pant, one among India’s top comedians A rib-tickling comedian now turns author with his new book The Wednesday Soul: A novel on the Afterlife. We ask why this transition? He says, “I have [...]
Macaulay Culkin’s Rep slams health speculation
Macaulay Culkin is fit as a fiddle, his spokeswoman insists — despite what Entertainment Tonight suggests. The 31-year-old actor’s publicist has fired back at ETOnline, after the site published a photo of the star looking thin on the streets of New York on Wednesday. “Macaulay Culkin is in perfectly good health,” Culkin’s publicist told TheWrap [...]
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