Fifteen Oscar statues were auctioned for a stunning $3 million in a sale by Beverly Hills auctioneer Nate D Sanders, the company announced on Tuesday. The highest bid went to the Academy Award for writer Herman Mankiewicz’s 1941 Best Screenplay for Citizen Kane, which sold for $588,455. Christie’s previously sold the Academy Award in 1999 [...]
Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck are proud parents for the third time. The couple has welcomed a son in Santa Monica, a source confirms to People. The new addition joins big sisters Seraphina, 3, and Violet, 6. The couple announced they were expecting in August, with Garner telling Jay Leno in January that they knew [...]
After a close call where a soaring budget nearly killed it, Johnny Depp’s $215 million update on The Lone Ranger begins shooting on Tuesday in the desert of New Mexico. If only the title character had some kind of catchphrase to mark this auspicious event! EW spoke with Johnny Depp previously about what he had [...]
American actress Jennifer Lawrence says she would never want to be as famous as Twilight star Kristen Stewart. The 21-year-old is eagerly waiting for her forthcoming movie The Hunger Games. “I look at Kristen Stewart now and I think, ‘I’d never want to be that famous’. I can’t imagine how I’d feel if all of [...]
NEW YORK: Jeremy Lin’s New York Knicks kicked off the second half of their season in winning style Wednesday, by rallying from a 12 point halftime deficit to rout the Cleveland Cavaliers 120-103. Lin finished with 19 points, 13 assists and five rebounds for the Knicks who scored 71 points in the second half at [...]
BEIJING: Stephon Marbury was supposed to be washed up after 13 gruelling years in the NBA, but the one-time bad boy point guard has reinvented himself in China as the superstar of this season’s revelation, the Beijing Ducks. The 34-year-old New Yorker is averaging about 22 points and six assists a game, leading the Ducks [...]
Andy Murray was in a good mood while talking to the press after his victory over Marco Chiudinelli, the third best Swiss player, by 6-3, 6-4. He has been able to retain his good form in the Australian Open and has brought it to the Dubai Open. “I played well throughout today,” the third seed [...]
LONDON: England, playing their first match of the post-Fabio Capello era, looked to have snatched a draw after goals in the final five minutes from Gary Cahill and Ashley Young cancelled out efforts from Robben and Klaas-Jan Huntelaar. But just as Young’s injury-time equaliser had sent a 76,283 Wembley crowd into raptures, Holland swept forward [...]
MELBOURNE: Formula One ringmaster Bernie Ecclestone has warned the Australian Grand Prix is the “least viable” race on the calendar and could be under threat if it does not become a night event. The sport has a deal with Melbourne until 2015 but beyond that it is up in the air, with others cities lining [...]
LONDON: England captain Scott Parker admits he is desperate to lead his country at Euro 2012 after getting a first taste of the job in the 3-2 friendly defeat against the Netherlands at Wembley. Parker only discovered he would be skipper when caretaker boss Stuart Pearce revealed his decision after a team meeting just hours [...]
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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 [...]
Shraddha Jahagirdar-Saxena Just a few days ago, when Mumbai Indians played the Sunrisers in Mumbai, I found myself standing on Marine Drive, outside ‘D’ road, along with my brother, waiting for our sons to amble out after the match (which to the pride of this city’s dwellers, MI won). It took several moments for the [...]
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