Zoe Saldana and Megan Fox will star in Swindle. The pair are also signed on to produce Paramount Pictures’ newly acquired heist movie, reports Deadline. Saldana and Fox will team with Moneyball producer Michael De Luca on the film, which is based on Enzo Mileti and Scott Wilson’s spec script. Fox stars in the newly-released [...]
Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow admits she loves small black and yellow bees and that she has even undergone bee venom therapy to help rid her of an injury. “This has been happening to be lately in regards to, well, bees. I was recently given bee venom therapy for an old injury and it disappeared. I [...]
Actress and singer Jennifer Lopez has blamed an internet hacker for spreading rumours suggesting she is to wed her new dancer boyfriend. Gossips spread when a post on Roberto Cavalli’s Twitter.com page suggested Lopez had asked the fashion designer to make a wedding dress for her upcoming marriage to Casper Smart. The message read, “Today, [...]
A major flip in the coin for the boy wizard, the movie packs the right amount of thrill and chills Movie: The Woman in Black Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Ciaran Hinds, Janet McTeer, LizWhite, Shaun Dooley Directed by: James Watkins Rating: 3 Based on Susan Hill’s 1982 novel, Daniel Radcliffe stars as Arthur Kipps in this [...]
LONDON: Roberto Di Matteo insists Chelsea are reaping the rewards of his bold decision to embrace the player power that forced Andre Villas-Boas out of Stamford Bridge. Di Matteo took over as Chelsea’s interim manager after Villas-Boas was sacked following a brief, miserable reign scarred by constant rumours that he was engaged in a power [...]
Melbourne: McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton clocked the fastest time in the third and final practice for Sunday’s season-opening Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne, but there was trouble for Sebastian Vettel. The 27-year-old Englishman produced his best lap in the final seconds of a welcome dry session run in warm conditions at the Albert Park circuit, where [...]
Babu Kalyanpur Back on a wintry morning in 1988, a young lad of 15 went out for to bat for Mumbai against Gujarat and stroked his way to an exact 100. Twenty-four years later, Sachin Tendulkar has become the first player to get to a hundred centuries in international cricket. And own probably every record [...]
California: World No. 2 Rafael Nadal and world No. 3 Roger Federer set up their first semi-final clash at the Indian Wells ATP Masters with contrasting victories over Argentinian opponents on Friday. Nadal, who is chasing his first title of 2012, survived an opening set scare en route to a 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 win over [...]
California: World No. 1 Victoria Azarenka reached the Indian Wells final Friday, beating rising German star Angelique Kerber 6-4, 6-3 to extend her season-long match win streak to 22-0. Reigning Australian Open champion Azarenka has three titles already this year and has now reached the final of her last six tournaments. “I am so excited [...]
Actor George Clooney and his father were arrested on Friday, along with other protesters, outside the Sudanese embassy in Washington, DC, according to the Associated Press. The arrest came a day after he had met President Obama with concerns about the troubled region. The protesters accused Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir of provoking a humanitarian crisis [...]
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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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 [...]
Reporter’s diary: Who’s this footloose at CCS?
For some time now, staff in the powerful central crime station are being cowed down by a sada home guard who is said to be close to a senior IPS officer. CCS staff whisper that he is the eyes and ears of the officer and therefore gets a free run. Recently, when three ruffians who [...]
Reporter’s diary: Jubilee Hills show
Talking of thick skinned civic officials, one could take a look at the picture above. Here the building contractors of the rich and the mighty make insulting gestures at law and the GHMC. It seems to say, “Right to walk? Forsooth! Building rules? My Right Foot!”
Reporter’s diary: GHMC, practice what you preach
So the GHMC preaches about how cleanliness is next to godliness and has all sorts of clean and green quotes in every other corner of its office and parks. But if you walk into the head office, you’ll wonder what stops the staff from practicing what they preach. The entire office is permeated with the [...]
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