G Aparna Sai feedback@postnoon.com Vijay Mallya is certainly a worried man. His team in the IPL, Royal Challengers Bangalore, seems to be flying low just like his airlines, Kingfisher. Touted as one of the strongest sides this season with the likes of Chris Gayle, Virat Kohli, Zaheer Khan, AB de Villiers and skipper Daniel Vettori [...]
Adam Yauch might have best explained what the Beastie Boys were, and weren’t, in their 1980s prime: “Hey, we’re not exactly angels.”Yauch, the once-rowdy rap trio’s MCA, died Friday after an almost three-year battle with cancer, the Beasties’ reps confirmed. News of Yauch’s death was broken by longtime friend Russell Simmons, the music mogul who [...]
Emraan Hashmi, lead actor of Jannat 2, has denied allegations that the movie is plagiarised. He says the person hurling the charge is simply trying to draw mileage. “It’s completely uncalled for and our conscience is clear. There are people who link their name with a film to get mileage out of it,” the 33-year-old [...]
Pregnant actress Sienna Miller has taken up yoga to remain fit.The actress is expecting her first child with fiance Tom Sturridge, and she hates working out in gym. “I have been trying to do some pregnancy yoga as I’m definitely not a gym person,” contactmusic.com quoted Miller as saying. “My mum started up one of the first [...]
Who: Hermes What: Messenger of Gods Born to: Zeus and Maia Symbol: Caduceus Worshipped by: Athletes, Boxers,Merchants, Travellers Inventions: The alphabet, astronomy, weighing scales, card games (he also invented cheating, since he cheated in the card games), foot racing, boxing Unique Features Hermes, the herald of the Olympian gods, is a handsome young man with [...]
The Evil Dead, with its campy take on the horror genre, established Sam Raimi as a young director to watch when it hit theaters in 1981. Now, with several Spider-Mans and a track record as one of Hollywood’s foremost hit-makers under his belt, Raimi is suing the producers of a planned sequel to the film that [...]
Delhi Belly actor Kunaal Roy Kapoor is set to go behind the camera to direct Pool, a horror film expected to feature a slew of bikini-clad ladies.Kunaal’s film commences in July, and the auditions for the best figures for flaunting bikinis is on.Producer Siddharth Jain said: “Okay, we’re auditioning for a film. But that’s all [...]
We must wonder at the magic of doubling the expenditure for a shrinking staff and work of AP women’s commission. Only bureaucrats can ‘achieve’ this feat. If they are in private sector, they’d be fired by now. Shut this sham show is the advice of many well-meaning citizens. ‘A’ as we all know is the [...]
In a weird case of avarice, a married man who happens to be the son of a retired cop, and his parents are charged with duping an unwary family of Rs.13 lakh and a car with a promise of marriage. The man has since been absconding after the prospective in-laws alerted the police. A Hyderabadi, [...]
In February 2011, it was R Vineel Krishna, the collector of Malkangiri district in Odisha, who was kidnapped by Maoists; in April 2012, Alex Paul Menon, the collector of Sukuma district in Chattisgarh, was kidnapped by Naxals. The increasing frequency of these incidents is alarming for the reason that a collector of a district, the [...]
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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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