New Delhi: 'Joker' may be a disaster of epic proportions everywhere, but it's breaking records in Fiji and is a bigger hit than even Shah Rukh Khan's 'Don 2' there, said film trade analyst Taran Adarsh. The overseas Box Office report for Joker is far from promising according to the collection figures Adarsh tweeted. New Zealand: Thu NZ$ 1,480, Fri NZ$ 6,303, Sat NZ$ 6,772. Total: NZ$ 14,555 (Rs 6.49...
12:20 PM, Sep 03, 2012
New Delhi: After 17 straight days of Olympic frenzy some users might experience withdrawal symptoms not finding a doodle on the Google home page. London 2012 is said to be the first social media Olympics played under the full glare of Facebook and Twitter. What made London 2012 more fun for Internet users were the four interactive doodles that let users participate in the armchair Olympics and flaunt their scores...
06:51 AM, Aug 13, 2012
London: With a little British pomp and a lot of British pop, London brought the curtains down on a glorious Olympic Games on Sunday in a spectacular, technicolour pageant of landmarks, light shows and lots of fun. The closing ceremony offered a sensory blast including rock 'n' roll rickshaws, dustbin percussionists, an exploding yellow car and a marching band in red tunics and bearskin hats. There was a show-stopping reunion...
04:34 AM, Aug 13, 2012
New Delhi: To bid farewell to the London 2012 Olympics, Google on Sunday has come up with the London 2012 closing ceremony doodle, which is apparently the last Google doodle this Olympics. Here are the top 10 interesting facts about the doodle and the ceremony that wraps up the so-far spectacularly successful London Games. 1. The doodle features a spate of athletes from different Olympic sports celebrating the last day...
11:53 AM, Aug 12, 2012
London: Usain Bolt made himself a living legend " just ask him. Michael Phelps swam a last lap into history. A man ran on carbon blades. Two track stars and a long jumper produced perhaps the greatest night in British sports history. Take a victory lap, London. The nightmare that was supposed to be the 2012 Olympics " gridlock and chaos Underground and overground, a city locked down by terrorist...
08:42 AM, Aug 12, 2012
New Delhi: With the view to bid farewell to the London 2012 Olympics, Google is going to come up with the London 2012 closing ceremony doodle, which is apparently the last Google doodle this Olympics, on Sunday. It is the seventeenth doodle by Google during the London 2012 Olympic Games. The doodle features a spate of athletes from different Olympic sports celebrating the last day of the world's biggest sporting...
05:31 PM, Aug 11, 2012
London: Pop will take the podium when London bids farewell to the Olympics on Sunday, with a closing ceremony starring the Spice Girls, Annie Lennox, One Direction and a peculiarly British sense of humour. Undeterred by criticism that the opening ceremony two weeks ago was too British for the rest of the world to fully comprehend, organisers are looking for local inspiration once again as they attempt to deliver a...
04:52 PM, Aug 11, 2012
New Delhi: After posting four interactive Olympic doodles is a row, Google is again back to static. The London 2012 rhythmic gymnastics doodle posted by Google on Saturday is a non-interactive doodle, and does not let you play and score. The doodle has a gymnast with her ribbon that swirls to form the two Os of the Google logo. Today's doodle is the sixteenth doodle posted by Google during the...
11:37 AM, Aug 11, 2012
New Delhi: After four back-to-back interactive avatars, the Google is going back to static for the London 2012 rhythmic gymnastics doodle on Saturday. Rhythmic gymnastics is one of the two female-only sports in the Olympics. The other is synchronised swimming - that Google celebrated in its 10th London 2012 doodle on August 5. After the constant tippity tap of the keyboards, the weekend will be relatively silent and graceful with...
05:13 PM, Aug 10, 2012
New Delhi: In the virtual Olympics that is also parallely underway on Google's home page, Friday's scheduled event is football. After a wrist-wrecking paddling in slalom canoe on Thursday, Google now wants to test your goalkeeping skills in with its interactive London 2012 football doodle. Football is the fourth sport in Google's armchair Olympics. After 11 static doodles, Google debuted an interactive hurdles doodle on Tuesday, followed by basketball, then...
06:45 AM, Aug 10, 2012
New Delhi: If your wrists are aching from all the canoeing on Thursday, Google has a new game for you to play that is not as taxing on your wrists. You can play the London 2012 football doodle using either the keyboard or the mouse or even a combination of both. Adding a fourth sport to its armchair Olympics, Google takes you to the the football field, where you as...
06:22 PM, Aug 09, 2012
New Delhi: Google's keyboard onslaught continues for the third consecutive day with a game of London 2012 slalom canoe as its 14th daily doodle during the ongoing Olympic Games. Curiously, this is the first doodle this Olympics by Google that has been posted after the featured event was over. Also playing the game can leave users with a pain in their hands. This interactive doodle features a paddler in a...
05:51 AM, Aug 09, 2012
New Delhi: After getting you to jump hurdles and netting basketballs, Google takes to the water course for a wrist-wrecking game of slalom canoe. The London 2012 slalom canoe is the 14th doodle (and the third playable doodle) posted by Google during the ongoing London 2012 Olympics. This interactive doodle, which features a paddler with a yellow-coloured canoe, lets you paddle a canoe down a water course that has 10...
06:21 PM, Aug 08, 2012
New Delhi: The keyboard/mouse has been bearing the brunt of the efforts to get a three-star score playing Google's interactive basketball doodle. But getting those three stars and that celebratory image to share on Google+ is not a cakewalk. But then it also isn't that difficult. Here's what you need to do to get the scoreboard constantly moving and moving fast enough before the timer reaches zero: 1. The interactive...
12:43 PM, Aug 08, 2012
New Delhi: Work hours across the globe are at stake again with Google's second playable doodle during the ongoing London Olympics 2012. Following its interactive hurdles doodle, Google has posted a shoot and score London 2012 basketball doodle. The interactive doodle lets users shoot baskets using the space bar or by holding and releasing the left mouse key. The longer you hold down the key the more power you get...
06:20 AM, Aug 08, 2012
New Delhi: Google has added yet another discipline to its armchair Olympics - basketball. After putting up the interactive London 2012 hurdle doodle on Tuesday, Google has come up with yet another interactive doodle - London 2012 basketball - that lets users score points playing basketball on their computers. This is the thirteenth doodle, and the second interactive doodle, posted by Google during the ongoing London 2012 Olympics. The interactive...
06:00 PM, Aug 07, 2012
London: Former champion Liu Xiang left the Olympics Games in the first heat of the 110-meter hurdles for the second time in a row, clutching his right Achilles after he crashed into the first obstacle. Liu won in 2004 at Athens to become the first Chinese man to claim an Olympic track and field gold medal, but shocked the home crowd in Beijing four years later when he had to...
04:09 PM, Aug 07, 2012
New Delhi: Google today gives you a chance to be an athlete and participate in a hurdles race. Though you won't be taken to London, but Google lets you participate in the race just by sitting in your chair. So if are you ready to beat everyone in the armchair Olympics, all you need to do is open the Google homepage and you are at the venue. In a simplified...
11:13 AM, Aug 07, 2012
