Mumbai: Sunrisers Hyderabad coach Tom Moody lavished praise on Mumbai Indians allrounder Kieron Pollard, saying the visitors had won "80 per cent" of the IPL game before the West Indian got in their way. "Of course we are disappointed. We won 80 per cent of the game, but Mumbai are undefeated here at home. We have been criticised throughout the tournament how poorly we have batted and I think we...
11:04 AM, May 14, 2013
Mumbai: In a judgement that might clear the way for the land development in Tulip Star property, the Bombay High Court has set aside an arbitration award which had held that the agreement between Siddhivinayak Realties and V Hotels stood terminated. Siddhivinayak Realties is a joint venture between Oberoi Realty and DB Realty founders Shahid Balwa and Vinod Goenka, while V Hotels is currently the owners of the Tulip Star...
12:31 AM, May 14, 2013
Cast: Aadi Pudipeddi, Nisha Aggarwal, Sharada, G Krishna, Chandra Mohan, Bhavna Ruparel, Srinivasa Avasarala, Brahmanandam, Maruthi Rao, Raghu Babu, Jayaprakash Reddy, Rao Ramesh and Tanikella Bharani Director: G Ashok Rating: 2.5 out 5 Some films take time to strike a chord with the audience, but 'Sukumarudu', about greedy NRI protagonist, makes an instant connect with viewers. It's another Telugu film high on emotion with good performances. However, what makes the...
06:17 PM, May 12, 2013
NDA ally Shiv Sena has done its own post-mortem of the Karnataka debacle - it says the BJP should have projected Narendra Modi as an outright Hindutva leader instead of trying to project a secular image. ...
03:55 PM, May 12, 2013
Mohali: After having virtually brought Kings XI Punjab's campaign to an abrupt end in IPL 6 inflicting a 30-run defeat on them, Sunrisers Hyderabad coach Tom Moody on Saturday heaped praise on his opener Parthiv Patel, saying he played a very mature innings. He said the team which had improved their chances of reaching the play-off stage by virtue of the win was not looking at the net run rate....
08:35 AM, May 12, 2013
Mohali: Sunrisers Hyderabad overcame the thrashing they had against Chennai Super Kings a few days earlier with a 30-run victory over Kings XI Punjab on Saturday. The win, their eighth in 13 matches, at Mohali also brought them into the contention of reaching the top four. The wicket at the PCA Stadium had a greenish look to it and the Punjab bowlers exploited it to good effect. While Praveen Kumar...
11:30 PM, May 11, 2013
Live updates from game 59 of IPL 6 between Kings XI Punjab and Sunrisers Hyderabad played at the PCA Stadium in Mohali. Kings XI Punjab innings: End of over 20 - KXIP 120 for 9: Very sloppy end to the innings. Harmeet Singh is run out by Ishant Sharma off the first ball. Luke Pomersbach hits the second over Ishant at long-off for six. Sammy ends up getting a fourth...
07:10 PM, May 11, 2013
Lucknow: After Harvard University's invitation to Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, his uncle and senior Cabinet Minister Shivpal Yadav has been invited by John Hopkins University, US, to deliver a lecture on flood control, official sources said here. "Yadav, who besides others holds portfolio of Irrigation Department has been invited by Hopkins University to deliver lecture on flood control and expediting water sector restructuring project in Uttar Pradesh," a senior official...
05:55 PM, May 09, 2013
Mumbai: Markets in Mumbai have been shut for days now as traders fight against the controversial Local Body Tax. It has been estimated that the strike has incurred a loss of almost Rs 75,000 crore and it still counting. From grocery stores to restaurants to apparel stores, the bandh was near total. Around 40 traders were detained for holding a rally without permission at Lohar Chawl. But that was no...
08:41 AM, May 09, 2013
Mumbai: The BJP on Wednesday expressed surprise over Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray expressing his happiness over the Jagadish Shettar-led government's defeat in Karnataka Assembly elections. "The results in Karnataka are very saddening for the BJP. But what is surprising is the happiness expressed by leaders of our alliance partner," Maharashtra state BJP spokesperson Madhav Bhandari said. His comments came after Uddhav expressed happiness, earlier on Wednesday, over the dislodging...
12:55 AM, May 09, 2013
Hyderabad: Suresh Raina on Wednesday reminded everyone yet again how clean a striker he is of the cricket ball as he smashed an unbeaten 99 off just 52 balls to hand Sunrisers Hyderbad their first loss (77 runs) at home, ensuring Chennai Super Kings a place in the play-offs. Had Raina got one more run, he would have equalled David Warner's record of scoring two centuries in a single edition...
11:28 PM, May 08, 2013
As the Congress hopes to dethrone the BJP in Karnataka, co-chairman of Congress's campaign committee DK Shivakumar in Karnataka says he is confident his party will come to power in the state. Shivakumar refutes reports that there is infighting within the party in the state and says they will choose a chief minister who can take everyone forward together. ...
09:20 AM, May 08, 2013
Mumbai: Bollywood actor Ranbir Kapoor was on Saturday detained and fined about Rs 60,000 on undeclared branded personal goods he was carrying at the Mumbai International airport, a customs official said. The 30-year-old actor was later let off. Ranbir, who landed at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport on a British Airways flight from London at about 12:30 am on Saturday, was walking away with branded goods in his luggage that...
02:41 PM, May 04, 2013
Jakarta: Shiv Kapur stumbled to a crippling double bogey on the 17th hole but still gave himself a shot at the title by being tied sixth after the third round of the CIMB Niaga Indonesian Masters here on Saturday. Three-under after 16, Kapur double bogeyed the 17th but got one back with a birdie on the 18th to end the third day at two-under 70. At seven-under 209 for three...
02:31 PM, May 04, 2013
Director: Shivendra Singh Dungarpur We celebrate 100 years of Indian cinema, yet we're little aware of the man who painstakingly restored Dadasaheb Phalke's work as well as several other silent pictures and talkies, and then built our country's moving pictures archive, one film can at a time. The documentary 'Celluloid Man', directed by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, introduces us to that man Paramesh Krishnan Nair, or PK Nair - India's film...
11:33 PM, May 03, 2013
Rajeev Masand says you should make time for 'Celluloid Man' if you love cinema. What do you think? Write your own review and win prizes.
11:27 PM, May 03, 2013
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director - Alfred Hitchcock. With due respect to Alfred Hitchcock's ideas, I dare say that here is a documentary which is far more relevant and heavier in content than most of the feature films where god is not the director. In fact, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur's National Award winning documentary 'Celluloid Man' is a film appreciation course in...
11:36 AM, May 03, 2013
