Paris: Roger Federer dropped a set before earning his record-breaking 234th Grand Slam match victory to reach the third round of the French Open. Federer eliminated 92nd-ranked Adrian Ungur of Romania 6-3, 6-2, 6-7 (6), 6-3 on Wednesday to break a tie with Jimmy Connors for most career wins at major tournaments in the Open era, which began in 1968. The 16-time Grand Slam champion is now 234-35 in tennis'...
07:02 PM, May 30, 2012
Paris: Roger Federer equalled Jimmy Connors' record of 233 career Grand Slam match wins by beating Tobias Kamke of Germany 6-2, 7-5, 6-3 in the first round of the French Open on Monday. Federer, who owns a record 16 major championships, is 233-35 at tennis' top four tournaments, a .869 winning percentage. Connors was 233-49. Kamke, meanwhile, fell to 6-10 in Grand Slam matches. He's never been past the third...
07:39 PM, May 28, 2012
Malayalam cinema is passing through a really entertaining phase where creativity is reining over mediocre productions. Right from selecting the plots to giving titles, everything is on for a change here. And so you will find films titled like 22FK, 'Entry', 'Arrival Chuttika Nakshatram', 'Da Thadiya', and 'Ni Ko Nja Cha'. In the same line is the new movie by debutant director Anish Shashidar. Titled as 'Cinema', this movie will...
07:08 PM, May 13, 2012
Chicago: Poverty, a lack of education and arms proliferation present daunting obstacles, yet peace can be achieved if world leaders are more willing to talk and young people are encouraged to get involved, Nobel Peace Prize winners said on Monday at their annual meeting. Former US President Jimmy Carter and ex-presidents Mikhail Gorbachev of the former Soviet Union and Lech Walesa of Poland were among the Peace Prize winners in...
02:02 PM, Apr 24, 2012
New Delhi: Tigmanshu Dhulia was a well known name in the television industry before he decided to become a film director. His first film 'Haasil' in 2003 proved to be the real launching pad for the versatile Irrfan Khan. Dhulia came with 'Charas' in 2004 but he had to wait till 2011 for his next release 'Shagird'. Back to back success of 'Sahib Biwi Aur Gangster' and 'Paan Singh Tomar'...
04:04 PM, Mar 14, 2012
New Delhi: After mapping the rough terrains of Chambal to commercial and critical acclaim in Pan Singh Tomar, director Tigmanshu Dhulia is set to explore the complexities of a small town romance in his upcoming film Milan Talkies. The director, whose films are high on socio-political elements, says it will be his first 'pure love story'. The star cast of the film is yet to be finalised. "I am planning...
05:22 PM, Mar 13, 2012
Mumbai: Close on the heels of courting trouble for his latest biopic 'Paan Singh Tomar', director Tigmanshu Dhulia's next titled 'Valmiki Ki Bandook' that marks the directorial debut of his assistant, Karan Butani, has now kicked off a storm. Apparently, the title of the Jimmy Shergill starrer has offended the sentiments of the Valmiki community in Punjab. Our source informs, "After reading an article on the film in a local...
09:44 AM, Mar 06, 2012
New Delhi: Tigmanshu Dhulia has once again teamed up with Jimmy Shergill, this time for 'Valmiki Ki Bandook'. A satire on Uttar Pradesh's gun culture, the film will be shot in the Chambal Valley Dhulia had directed Jimmy in 'Sahib Biwi Aur Gangster'. But with 'Valmiki Ki Bandook', Dhulia is associated as the creative director, while his assistant Karan Bhutani will weild the megaphone. "The locations would be real, true...
07:01 PM, Mar 04, 2012
Davos: The founder of Wikipedia hailed the online encyclopedia's role in helping halt US legislation aimed at cracking down on Internet piracy, saying the proposed bills needed to be stopped because they were flawed. The idea to black out Wikipedia's English pages for 24 hours came from the site's volunteer editors, who voted overwhelmingly in favour of the move. Wikipedia was among a number of sites that argued the Stop...
12:43 PM, Jan 27, 2012
Wikipedia Co-founder Jimmy Wales says that the Stop Online Piracy Act is not needed - not in the US atleast. ...
01:57 PM, Jan 18, 2012
Mumbai: Actor Neil Nitin Mukesh, who is all excited about the sequel of Tigmanshu Dhulia's 'Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster', says the second installment would be more 'menacing'. 'Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster', starring Jimmy Shergill, Mahi Gill and Randeep Hooda, was produced and directed by Dhulia and released in September last year. To cash in on success of the thriller drama, its producers have chalked out plans for a sequel. "I...
06:22 PM, Jan 15, 2012
Atlanta: Jimmy Carter may never have been president if he didn't go square dancing. The Georgia Democrat credits a rural square dance club he joined in 1953 with helping him win a state Senate seat by a scant 66 votes. "If I hadn't received support from our square-dancing friends, I would have lost and never become a state senator," he wrote in his latest book, "Through the Years with Jimmy...
02:21 PM, Jan 05, 2012
Jimmy Wales said he supports the idea that corruption in the government is something we have to take seriously. ...
08:46 AM, Nov 19, 2011
Mumbai: When looking for a one stop source of information on virtually anything under the sun, more often than not people turn to Wikipedia, a site on which ordinary people who are armed with simple internet access can update information as it happens when it happens. Co-founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales, who is in India for the three-day Wiki conference, said that the idea for the online encyclopaedia came to...
07:42 AM, Nov 19, 2011
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