As the world’s number three badminton player, Saina Nehwal returned to a rousing welcome in Chennai, Deepika’s dad — the badminton legend Prakash Padukone personally invited her over to his place in Bengaluru. His daughter Deepika and Anisha (who is about to turn to professional golf) might be there too. “Prakash Padukone had always maintained [...]
China’s Li Na denied she had been intimidated by Serena Williams after being knocked out of Wimbledon by the defending champion in the quarter-finals on Tuesday. Li’s All England Club campaign came to a halt when she was beaten 7-5, 6-3 by defending champion Williams, who booked a semi-final place for the seventh time in [...]
When spotted together it is evident that they are very much in love — and Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan has no qualms in saying that his wife and actress Aishwarya Rai is very supportive and encouraging. “Aishwarya is very supportive and encouraging. She is a very chilled out person and doesn’t take things to heart,” [...]
A routine traffic stop triggered a movie-style chase through the crowded streets of north Kolkata on Monday evening, ending in the seizure of an SUV and its consignment of 5,000 bullets of .315 bore, apparently meant for the Maoists. Although all three occupants of the car escaped, they were arrested within hours thanks to some [...]
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that Islamabad is ready to support any Afghan-led initiatives to restore peace in the war torn country. Talking to reporters at the Multan airpoprt, Qureshi said that Afghan President Hamid Karzai had given a road map at the London Conference earlier this year for reconciliation and re-integration [...]
Condemning NCP leader Ratnakar Mahajan’s view advocating the party’s merger with Congress, the NCP Pune unit has passed a resolution demanding his expulsion. “Mahajan’s statement is a result of his personal frustration following failure to get a certain post. He has lost touch with the NCP grassroot workers and has no support from party ranks”, [...]
Efforts to convert the July 5 Bharat Bandh, being organised to protest against the Manmohan Singh government’s decision to hike the prices of petro-products, into a success have got a major fillip with almost the entire Opposition, including the Left parties and the BJP-led NDA, coming out in its support. While the Left parties — [...]
The alleged beau of Viveka Babajee, Gautam Vora, who sought anticipatory bail following the model’s death, can breathe easy for now. A city sessions court on Tuesday said there was no question of giving anticipatory bail as the police had not yet registered a case of abetting suicide against him. However, while disposing of the [...]
In a major embarrassment to the BJP, a party legislator was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment by a fast track court for murder during the anti-Christian riots in Kandhamal district of Orissa in 2008. G Udayagiri MLA Manoj Pradhan (30), along with his accomplice, Prafulla Mallick, was convicted of a murdering Parikhit Digal, a Christian [...]
The first batch of nearly 1,300 pilgrims on Wednesday morning left for the Himalayan cave shrine of Amarnath in south Kashmir from here. There were 233 women and 32 children in the first batch of 1,272 pilgrims. Their pilgrimage was flagged off by state tourism minister Nawang Rigzin Jora, who said: “Adequate security arrangements have [...]