Balakrishna’s upcoming film Srimannarayana is currently being shot in Switzerland and Italy. Two songs are agoing to be canned in this schedule and the film unit will return to India on June 29. With this, the entire shooting of the film will be complete. Parvathi Melton and Isha Chawla are playing the lead roles. Ravikumar [...]
The parties help people find their match by asking people to submit a slept-in T-shirtSingles looking for dates have turned to pheromone parties to find the right match. The matchmaking parties held in New York and Los Angeles help people find their match by asking “guests to submit a slept-in T-shirt that will be smelled [...]
Staff at the Galapagos National Park in Ecuador say Lonesome George, a giant tortoise believed to be the last of its subspecies, has died, reported the BBC.Scientists estimate he was about 100 years old.Park officials said they would carry out a post-mortem to determine the cause of his death. With no offspring and no known [...]
CROMWELL, Connecticut: Marc Leishman had to sweat it out before tasting his first PGA Tour victory.The 28-year-old Australian claimed his first PGA Tour title, firing an eight-under 62 to take the clubhouse lead at the Travelers Championship then waited it out as a series of contenders fell by the wayside. “I can’t believe it,” said [...]
Actress Keira Knightley, who recently got engaged to James Righton, wants to improve her culinary skills, and she has turned to her mother for guidance. “I’m an alright cook. Not brilliant, but alright. My mum’s a really good cook, but we had a really small kitchen, so she could never actually teach me any of [...]
Remembering Bollywood’s Mogambo Amrish Puri on his 80th birth anniversary, acclaimed filmmaker Shekhar Kapur says he can’t think of a sequel to Mr.India without the actor. “Amrish Puri left an indelible mark on Indian cinema. Can’t think of ‘Mr India 2’ without him. We miss him,” Kapur tweeted on the actor’s birth anniversary Friday. The [...]
Preity Zinta loves being tutored by veteran choreographer Saroj Khan, who is working on a song in the actress’ debut production “Ishkq in Paris”.“Shooting for a song for ‘Ishkq in Paris’ with Sarojji. What a pleasure it is to work with her after so long. She has taught me everything I know,” Preity tweeted.The film, [...]
ATHENS: Greece’s new three-party coalition heads for a showdown this week with a “troika” of international creditors — the EU, IMF and ECB — over its bid to revise an austerity-centred bailout. The new conservative-led government, backed by socialists and moderate leftists, debuts with creditor auditors arriving to determine how much — or little — [...]
by Julian Guyer NOTTINGHAM, England: West Indies captain Darren Sammy said they had been “dominated by the number-one team in the world in all formats of the game” as their tour of England ended without an international win. Sunday’s seven-wicket Twenty20 defeat at Trent Bridge followed 2-0 reverses in three-match Test and one-day international series [...]
PARIS: With the cost of hosting the Olympic Games soaring, the economic benefits of the sporting extravaganza have been called into question as the global economy faces a slowdown in growth. Since Sydney spent four billion euros ($5 billion) to put on the 2000 Games the amounts involved have skyrocketed. Beijing pumped around 40 billion [...]
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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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