Demi Lovato has clearly had it with all the relentless cyber-bullying out there. The Skyscraper singer, who is no stranger to venting her thoughts and feelings via Twitter, lashed out last night against those who are sometimes just downright mean. “It really surprises me the hateful things people say on the Internet,” Lovato tweeted. “After [...]
Heather Morris probably isn’t feeling too gleeful today. The Glee star is apparently the latest celeb to fall victim to hackers after a series of racy photos purportedly of the actress (or someone bearing a remarkable resemblance) leaked online on Sunday. The scandal comes on the heels of photo leaks last week involving Christina Hendricks [...]
Jake Gyllenhaal has taken on a variety of roles in his career, but this smaller gig may be his goriest. The actor, 31, stars in an eight-minute music video for a song by the French band The Shoes, called Time to Dance. In the clip, Gyllenhaal shows up at house parties and nightclubs, where dressed [...]
MUNICH: Germany striker Mario Gomez scored four goals as Bayern Munich marched into the Champions League quarter-finals by smashing FC Basel 7-0 in the second leg of their last 16 clash on Tuesday. It was the biggest win in a Champions League knockout match as records tumbled in Munich and Bayern bettered their 7-1 home [...]
Injured Australia captain Michael Clarke will be fit to play the first Test against the West Indies, selectors said on Wednesday. SYDNEY: Clarke was ruled out of the one-day series in the Caribbean that starts Friday after injuring his hamstring in a tri-series clash against Sri Lanka earlier this month. But after intense treatment, he [...]
ADELAIDE: Ian Thorpe Wednesday denied he has been deliberately swimming slow times since his comeback to keep the pressure off ahead of Australia’s Olympic trials this week. The 29-year-old, Australia’s most successful Olympian, will attempt to qualify for the London Games after modest results in lead-up events since coming out of retirement in November. Thorpe, [...]
INDIAN WELLS: Top seed Victoria Azarenka, who is riding a season long 20-0 win streak, says she’s not about to take her foot off the accelerator anytime soon. Despite her success, which has seen her rocket to the No 1 ranking in the world this year for the first time in her career, Azarenka says [...]
Following his spectacular performance, Steven urged Liverpool to end the season with a flourish. LIVERPOOL: Gerrard became the first Liverpool player since Ian Rush in 1982-83 to score a league treble against Everton as Liverpool coasted to a 3-0 win over their neighbours at Anfield. It ended a three-match losing run in the Premier League, [...]
The Brazilian scored in injury time to put Marseille in the last eight of the Champions League on the strength of an away goal. MILAN: Inter won the second round, second leg match 2-1 at the San Siro after a hectic finish in which Marseille goalkeeper Steve Mandanda was sent off giving away a penalty [...]
New Delhi: To provide greater protection to Jarawa tribes in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, government has initiated various measures including appointment of a nodal officer to check movement of vehicles and a new law to ban videography in tribal areas. Replying to a question in Lok Sabha, minister of State for Home Affairs Mullappally Ramachandran [...]
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 [...]
New mango named Nirbhaya after gang-rape victim
Lucknow: A new variety of mango, harvested at Uttar Pradesh’s famous mango centre Malihabad, has been named Nirbhaya after the 23-year-old Delhi girl who was brutally gang-raped Dec 16 last year and died of her injuries two weeks later. The new variety, its grower Kaleemullah Khan said, was his way of honouring the bravery and [...]
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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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