Actress Halle Berry and musician Chaka Khan will be honoured at the 2013 BET Honors. The network announced on Thursday that basketball star Lisa Leslie, music executive Clarence Avant and religious leader TD Jakes will also be celebrated at the January 12 event in Washington at the Warner Theatre. The special airs on February 11. [...]
Looks like we won’t be seeing any steamy love scenes between Ben Affleck and Kristen Stewart after all. Weeks after the ex-Twilight star signed on to star in Warner Bros.’s Focus — the story of an experienced con artist who teaches a young female protegee the tricks of the trade — her co-star Ben Affleck [...]
Police in Hong Kong are investigating movie star Jackie Chan after he said in an interview that he used pistols and grenades to defend himself from the triads, organised crime groups, media reports said on Thursday. Chan claimed that he found himself surrounded by 20 killers armed with knives and brandished two handguns and six [...]
Katy Perry has reportedly written an email to ex-husband Russell Brand congratulating him for staying clean. Brand, 37, was a drug and sex addict and has had many legal issues. He recently celebrated his drug-free decade and wrote on Twitter: “Ten years clean… thanks for all your messages of love… anyone can get clean, one [...]
Singer Dannii Minogue has rejected Simon Cowell’s offer to judge Britain’s singing competitionThe X Factor again and instead has signed a rival channel. Minogue, 41, was on The X Factor judging panel from 2007 to 2010. Now she has signed to judge a show for Sky Living channel. Titled Britain and Ireland’s Next Top Model, [...]
An overzealous report emerged put Ben Affleck in the driver’s seat of the planned Warner Bros. team-up film Justice League. The report was soon shot down and forgotten about, but in a recent interview about his work on Argo, Affleck said he hated talking about it in the media at all because the eventual stories [...]
Shameless, the US remake of a British TV series of the same name, is absolutely electrifying and is one of the best shows on TV today. There have been several TV shows centred around the concept of dysfunctional families, but Shameless takes this to a whole new level. Created by Paul Abbott, Shameless, is a [...]
Pop star Rihanna fears that her busy work schedule and chaotic love life is leading her to a burnout. The 24-year-old posted cryptic tweets recently after a rumoured rift with boyfriend Chris Brown, Daily Star reported. “If we do the same thing over and over, we get burned out. Outta place all the time, in [...]
Plot details from Transformers 4 emerged on the internet recently, but director Michael Bay says it is all fake. Bay has dismissed reports that an early copy of the script for his new Transformers movie has leaked online. He says only he and screenwriter Ehren Kruger are in possession of the storyline, reports dailystar.co.uk.
Actress Lindsay Lohan has stopped taking calls of some of her friends in a bid to remove bad influences from her life and get herself back on track. The 26-year-old actress, has realised that not all of her friends want what is best for her, and so she is cutting them out of her life. [...]
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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