Singer Lady Gaga wants budding young artists to create posters on the theme of bravery for her newly launched charity, Born This Way Foundation, which aims to wipe out bullying. “We are calling on anyone and everyone with the ability to think creatively to come up with a visual representation for the Born This Way [...]
Actor Adrien Brody missed his old school days while making Detachment, in which he plays a teacher. “Stepping into school, it’s like when you smell something you haven’t smelled in years, and it’s like whoa! It brings back all kinds of memories, whether it’s a good smell or a bad smell,” showbizspy.com quoted him as [...]
Filmmaker Sudhir Mishra is currently on an all-time high. Ever since the 53-year old filmmaker discovered Hot Yoga he has begun to feel the change, especially in his grey hair, which has begun go back to black. “I wouldn’t have noticed it if my friends hadn’t pointed it out. My hair has gone white for [...]
Augusta, Georgia: Rory McIlroy will have revenge on his mind when he tees up at Augusta National next Thursday a year on from being on the wrong end of a Masters mauling. Leading by four shots going into Sunday’s final round shoot-out and seemingly on the way to his first Major title at the age [...]
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: West Indies defeated Australia by 14 runs at Kensington Oval on Friday to win the second Twenty20 international and draw the two-game series 1-1. Chasing a modest 161-run target, Australia were well-set at 75-2 at the halfway stage, but their chase slowed with off-break bowler Marlon Samuels taking three crucial wickets to dismiss [...]
CLERMONT: US sprinter Tyson Gay, hoping to put seasons hampered by injury behind him, says he’s focusing his 2012 Olympic season efforts on the 100 metres. On a day when Gay held an open workout attended by several media outlets, he told ESPN.com that he doesn’t think his post-injury training allows him to attempt a [...]
Reigning champ Novak Djokovic beat a stubborn 21st-seeded Juan Monaco 6-0, 7-6 (7/5) Friday to book a re-match of the 2009 Miami Masters final with Scotland’s Andy Murray. Murray, who got the better of Djokovic in the 2009 title match, reached the final on a walkover when world No. 2 Rafael Nadal pulled out of [...]
MADRID: Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola insisted on Friday that unheralded Athletic Bilbao were the surprise team of the Spanish season despite Marcelo Bielsa’s team languishing in 11th place in the table. Bilbao have reached the Europa League quarter-finals, beating Manchester United on the way, and are handily-placed for a semi-final spot after beating Schalke 4-2 [...]
Tests after last Saturday’s match revealed the Bulgarian’s condition LONDON: Aston Villa captain Stiliyan Petrov has been diagnosed with acute leukaemia, the Premier League club announced Friday. Petrov’s illness was discovered in medical tests carried out on the 32-year-old Bulgarian international after he came down with a fever following last Saturday’s defeat at Arsenal, the [...]
Luis Suarez insists Liverpool can end an indifferent season on a high by claiming a second trophy. NEWCASTLE, United Kingdom: Kenny Dalglish’s side travel to Newcastle on Sunday hoping to stem a damaging run of five defeats in their last six Premier League games. It is a worrying loss of form that has left them [...]
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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 [...]
No one kills the goose that lays the golden egg
There is a ridiculous debate going on after the reports on spot-fixing emerged: should IPL be scrapped? Even if IPL were the first sporting event to be tainted by spot-fixing, it would be senseless to even suggest that it be scrapped. Since that is not the case, talking of scrapping is, pardon the coarse expression, [...]
This must be the greatest moment of crisis that Barack Obama has faced till now in his entire time at the White House. There’s the tax agency scandal, 100 emails regarding the Benghazi attacks have been released and also the scandal of the justice department hacking the phones of reports of the nation’s biggest news [...]
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