Mark Wahlberg has revealed that he is taking his children to see him get his tattoos removed. The Contraband star, who has four children with model Rhea Durham, said that he never wants his own kids to get tattoos. “[All the tattoos] have meaning to me, but it’s both personal and professional,” Wahlberg said of [...]
The Descendants and Midnight in Paris have been honoured with awards from the Writers Guild of America. Midnight in Paris screenwriter Woody Allen triumphed over films including Bridesmaids and Young Adult to take the Original Screenplay award, while The Descendants won the accolade for Adapted Screenplay at the Sunday night’s ceremonies, held simultaneously in New [...]
Jason Priestley has said that Beverly Hills 90210 was just a small part of his career. The former ‘90s heartthrob, who played Brandon Walsh in the teen US drama for almost 10 years, added that he has no idea why people make such a big deal out of the show, ignoring his other professional achievements. Priestley [...]
MANCHESTER: Yaya Toure has warned his Manchester City team-mates that they still have work to do to reach the Europa League’s last 16 stage. The Premier League leaders start Wednesday’s last 32 second leg tie with holders Porto firm favourites to progress after securing a 2-1 advantage in Portugal. But Toure does not expect Porto [...]
SYDNEY: World Cup-winning skipper Ricky Ponting said Tuesday he intended to continue playing Test cricket for Australia despite being told he had no future in the national one-day team. Ponting said he had been informed by selectors that he did not fit into their future plans for the one-day team, but despite speculation about his [...]
NEW YORK: Jeremy Lin flirted with a triple double but the New York Knicks struggled to find the right chemistry with the return of Carmelo Anthony from injury, losing 100-92 to the New Jersey Nets on Monday. “I need to come out with more energy and the team needs to come out with more energy. [...]
BERLIN: British boxers David Haye and Dereck Chisora could both face possible prison sentences in Germany following their Munich brawl, prosecutors here confirmed Monday. Haye and Chisora clashed during the press conference after Chisora’s defeat to defending WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko on Saturday night in the Bavarian capital. In front of stunned reporters and [...]
TEHRAN: Iran deployed warplanes and missiles on Monday in an “exercise” to protect nuclear sites threatened by possible Israeli attacks and warned it could cut oil exports to more EU nations unless sanctions were lifted.The EU said it could cope with any halt in Iranian supplies. Tehran’s stance marked a hardening of its defiance in [...]
MANCHESTER: Alex Ferguson believes that he will stay on at Manchester United even after he steps down as manager, he said in an interview to be broadcast on Monday. “I will remain active. I think there will be a role for me at United after I finish,” he told the BBC in an interview, extracts [...]
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“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 [...]
Kubra Fatima Ask any Hyderabadi what they love about the City and they will have many things to say — food, greenery and people being the usual suspects. On the contrary, if you ask them what they hate and ‘travelling in an auto’ will be the first response. Even though going around the twin cities [...]
Expecting a Sunday feast, I went to the dining table eagerly looking forward to the best of my mother’s cooking. I lifted the lid on the big casserole and found pulao with corn. I didn’t know what to make of it. I believe my mother makes the best peas pulao. But to have corn replacing [...]
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Though blind he’s spot on
Commentator Dean du Plessis gauges the field action with his ears: a bowler’s grunt, the drag of feet along the pitch, but he is rarely wrong HARARE: The Zimbabwean is one of the world’s few sightless sports analysts, plying his remarkable expertise by training his acute hearing on the stump microphones despite being born with a [...]
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