Butler is developing the project about a Secret Service agent who must foil a terrorist attack on the president’sresidence; Millennium Films is the studio. Gerard Butler is attached to star in a White House-set action film called Olympus Has Fallen. Butler’s agency confirms the 300 star is developing the project, from writers Creighton Rothenberger and [...]
British boy band One Direction is only going one way next week on the Billboard 200 and that’s straight to the top. The quintet’s “Up All Night,” is poised to sell between 165,000-175,000 copies, which should be enough to top Adele’s “21”, which will likely remain at No 2 with sales of 150,000-160,000 copies. Should [...]
Singer Rihanna says her daring fashion choices aren’t for seeking attention in public. “Dressing is always so spontaneous, it always depends on the mood, plus the occasion, plus your little badass daring touch that I like to put on my outfit every time. I don’t do things for the response or for the controversy. I [...]
The eyebrow-raising relationship between Whitney Houston’s daughter and the man raised by the singer as a son may have gone one big, baffling step further. Bobbi Kristina Brown, 19, was spotted with a ring on her engagement finger following days of very public PDA with Nick Gordon. One source tells a magazine, “Yes, they are engaged, but [...]
After stepping out with a smile this week to celebrate her 37th birthday with pals, Eva Longoria says her face tells the whole story. “I feel very excited about my life and I’m excited about things to come,” the actress told a magazine, speaking out for the first time since her split from Eduardo Cruz. [...]
Well-known documentary filmmaker Ashvin Kumar, who had to wait for four years to release his first feature film The Forest, says the unsystematic distribution system in the industry is the reason behind such a long delay that is often killing good content-based cinema. “For the last four years, I have been walking to every door to [...]
Mirpur: Virat Kohli produced a blistering 183 off 148 balls as India notched up their highest run chase ever to register an incredible six-wicket victory over arch rivals Pakistan and keep themselves afloat in the Asia Cup cricket tournament here today. Chasing Pakistan’s stiff 329 for six, the Indians rode on Kohli’s breath-taking heroics to [...]
LONDON: Swansea turned on the style as Gylfi Sigurdsson’s double inspired an impressive 3-0 win at Fulham on Saturday. Brendan Rodgers’ team have earned plenty of plaudits for their eye-catching play since last season’s promotion from the Championship and they delivered one of their best performances of the campaign to rout the Cottagers thanks to [...]
Actress Sonam Kapoor has landed the role of a Varanasi girl, who studies in the capital’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), in Raanjhanaa. She is cast opposite southern star Dhanush. The decision was taken after intense discussions between director Aanand L Rai of Tanu Weds Manu and Sonam. As per the script, Dhanush plays a local [...]
New Delhi: Saina Nehwal won her first title of the season when she retained the Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold trophy with a straight-game victory over China’s Shixian Wang in the summit clash at Basel, Switzerland. The world number five Indian defeated Shixian, ranked third, 21-19 21-16 in a 48-minute thrilling women’s singles competition to defend [...]
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Andhra Pradesh tops in revenge murders over illicit affairs according to the National Crime Records Bureau statistics. The motive for 445 murders, reported in the State last year, was revenge on cheating partners or their paramours. This amounts to 16 per cent of the murder cases registered here. While the motive for 317 murder cases [...]
Don’t blame the weather for your gloominess. Good rainfall last week and the forecast of further rains due to an active South-West monsoon prompts farmers to sow crops in 50,000 hectares more than last year in Andhra Pradesh. The acreage is expected to increase 25-30 per cent over the normal area of 81.12 lakh hectares, [...]
The man who took a ‘stand’ at Taksim Square
A man stood still in Istanbul’s Taksim Square: silent, staring straight ahead, he had not moved for hours. His peaceful action, on the square that police cleared of protesters on Saturday and where the Turkish authorities have banned gatherings, was a new form of protest. He arrived Monday evening as night was falling and took [...]
As a conscious citizen watching the unfolding of the soap from Bihar, I am constrained to do some hard talk because all these worthies are playing with my life and my children’s. You may well ask how. Because what is happening is not an internal matter of a party or a Front but dividing the nation on communal lines more acutely than they did in the past. And communal venom has no anti-venom. It is deadly.
Corporal punishment in AP schools
The Public Interest Litigation filed in the Andhra Pradesh (AP) High Court on Saturday challenging the inaction of the State government in preventing ‘corporal punishment’ to children in schools calls for attention. Mohammed Shahbaz Ahmed Khan, a City resident, moved the PIL contending that as per the United Nations’ convention, the State was required to [...]
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