NEW DELHI: Australian Michael Nobbs faces his first big test as India’s field hockey coach as he aims to win the Olympic qualifying tournament starting in New Delhi on Saturday. India, past masters in the sport with record eight Olympic men’s titles, suffered a setback when they failed to make it to the 2008 Beijing [...]
ROTTERDAM: Tomas Berdych and Juan Martin del Potro (right) joined resting top seed Roger Federer in the Rotterdam Open quarter-finals on Thursday. Second seed Berdych advanced with only minimal effort as opponent Marcos Baghdatis quit with a left foot injury after 19 minutes on court while trailing 3-0 in their second round match. But Del [...]
While the Summer sun is getting ready to work its fiery magic and majority of eight million population fearing the worst water shortage, another segment is busy counting currency, exploiting the groundwater which is going dangerously low in the City Hundreds of private water tankers, where complicity of local politicians is almost certain, mindlessly exploit groundwater and [...]
It was difficult to match up to acting skills of Boman Irani and Arshad Warsi, says Amrita Rao who has teamed up with them in Jolly L.L.B.“I am shooting for Jolly L.L.B. with Boman and Arshad, two of the finest actors we have in Hindi cinema. I have to really polish my acting skills to [...]
Kamal Haasan is planning to revive his magnum opus Marudhanayagam, if the grapevine is to be believed. The film was shelved several years ago due to various reasons. A section of media reported that Kamal Haasan is even planning to approach Rajinikanth for a role. Rajinikanth and Kamal have been friends for more than 35 [...]
Since it’s a long weekend ahead and you may find it tough to keep yourselves occupied, we list some movies that could make for that perfect weekend watch WATERSHIP DOWN Watership Down is a classic heroic fantasy novel by Richard Adams, which was later made into an animated movie of the same name. It [...]
‘I defy convention, I am scorned by many, understood by few, my stage is likened to a cemetery, and I am called the misguided messiah of mean music. I am Heavy Metal’ Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Iron Maiden showed what unconventional looked like, and how the ruthless use of the fretboard sounded like. Heavy [...]
Meet the gifted artisans who make the dream theme wedding sets in the City Weddings in Hyderabad are usually opulent affairs. Larger than life sets, exotic flowers, scrumptious food and heavily bedecked guests could more or less describe a Hyderabadi wedding. In fact, many of us wonder and marvel at the mammoth theme marriage sets [...]
Racing cars and bikes have always been a fad for Hyderabadis, but if you happen to witness a large flock of white and grey birds soaring high in the skies, it means Hyderabad’s pigeon-racing season has begun. Petting messenger-pigeons dates back to the days of the Nizams in Hyderabad and there are still some people [...]
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Humorist Jaspal Bhatti, had he been alive, would have found stunning material for a flop show in the BJP’s behaviour of late. How the ‘national opposition party’ turned into a ‘notional’ party is a story worth caricaturing with potential for record viewing-rate.
Chinese president Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer. No wonder he knows the chemical formula to pursue his country’s global ambitions. If anybody in India believed Xi would extend a warm friendship to this country, he should be naive. He has been on a global Sino initiative to widen the Chinese visions of the century. [...]
“India is China’s important neighbour. (The purpose of) my current visit to India is three-fold — to increase mutual interest, intensify cooperation and to face the future,” said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during his visit to India. To this the Indian prime minister’s response could n0t have been more fitting that “the rest of the [...]
Adopt and restore a lake is new mantra
It’s interesting that the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has invited interested individuals, voluntary and corporate organisations to adopt lakes in and around the city in order to protect and preserve water bodies. Last week, HMDA Commissioner Neerabh Kumar Prasad said 176 lakes in the jurisdiction of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and another [...]
About Traditional Russian values
Russia has decided to review its adoption pact that it has with France after the latter legalised gay marriage. This is in the wake of the statement of the Russian president Vladmir Putin which he made last month that Russia could change its adoption agreements with the countries which allowed gay marriage that goes against [...]
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