Lindsay Lohan will allegedly receive a good report when she visits court next week. The actress, who is on probation for her misdemeanor theft case, has apparently completed 15 days of community service at the Los Angeles County Morgue as well as five therapy sessions. According to a close source, “Lindsay is on track and [...]
Safe House grossed $24 million Friday-Sunday, followed by $23.6 million for The Vow; Ghost Rider sequel opened at #3 with 22 million, while This Means War opened at #5 with $17.6 million. The heated President Day Weekend race at the domestic box office won’t be officially called until Monday, although Denzel Washington-Ryan Reynolds action pic [...]
Bennet Miller’s Moneyball is one of the finest films in Brad Pitt’s career. Whether it wins an Oscar or not, Moneyball is a movie that you can’t afford to miss In Moneyball, Brad Pitt stars as Billy Beane, the general manager of a baseball team Oakland Athletics. He struggles to bring together a competitive team [...]
Actress Judi Dench is battling to save her sight. The James Bond star said in an interview that she had been diagnosed with macular degeneration, an eye condition that can cause blindness, and that her eyesight was already so bad that she couldn’t even read her own scripts. The 77-year-old said that she was relying [...]
Bruce Springsteen said this week that his new album Wrecking Ball was inspired by an “angry patriotism” that drew fuel from the Occupy movement. Springsteen described how the financial crisis, income inequality, and other hot-button political issues informed Wrecking Ball, which paints a picture of an America that has failed the working class. “My work [...]
NEW YORK: The New York Knicks rebounded from their first loss of Jeremy Lin’s magical run to defeat the defending NBA champion Dallas Mavericks 104-97 on Sunday. Just two days after committing a season-high nine turnovers in a loss to New Orleans, the 23-year-old Lin bounced back in superb fashion against the mighty Mavericks. “We [...]
MUNICH: Heavyweight boxer Dereck Chisora was released without charge on Sunday after an astonishing press conference brawl with bitter British rival David Haye, who he threatened to shoot. Chisora, who had been defeated by defending champion Vitali Klitschko in Saturday’s WBC heavyweight title clash here, was detained by police, along with trainer Don Charles, at [...]
DOHA: World number one Victoria Azarenka hit back at more criticism of her on-court grunting on Sunday, claiming it was as natural and uncontrollable as snoring. The Belarusian turned her fire on a reporter after she had defeated Samantha Stosur 6-1, 6-2 in the Qatar Open final which gave her a 17th successive victory in 2012. [...]
Rebecca Bryan LOS ANGELES: Bill Haas rolled in a 45-foot birdie putt at the second playoff hole on Sunday to win the Northern Trust Open and deny Phil Mickelson a second US PGA Tour title in as many weeks. Mickelson, who was coming off a storming victory at Pebble Beach last Sunday, had led or [...]
The Middle East and the West aren’t the only regions that would be hit by an Iran-Israel war Nicholas Clayton TBILISI: After two apparent assassination attempts against Israeli diplomats in the South Caucasus, many fear this fractured and strategically important region is being pulled into the rising tensions between the West and Iran. On Monday, [...]
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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