Atlanta: The largest lottery jackpot in US history - a whopping $656 million - will be shared by the buyers of three winning Mega Millions tickets in Illinois, Kansas and Maryland - but their identities remained a mystery, lottery officials said on Saturday. A pre-dawn call alerted Denise Metzger, manager of a Motomart convenience store, to news from lottery officials that her store had sold a winning ticket in the...
08:24 AM, Apr 01, 2012
Beijing: A lottery jackpot worth over 16 million yuan (around $2.5 million) has gone unclaimed in China - making it one of the biggest unclaimed lottery wins in the country. The winning ticket was sold May 30 in Nanjing, capital of southern Jiangsu province. Till July 29, no eligible winners presented themselves, the Nanjing Daily reported. In China, a lottery win expires 60 days after the ticket is sold. The...
11:56 AM, Aug 01, 2011
New Delhi: An Indian-American couple has been charged with fraud for cheating the city of New York of $ 460 million. US attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara said that Reddy and Padma Allen have been indicted in absentia in a federal court for what prosecutors describe as a massive and elaborate scheme to steal taxpayer dollars. "The CityTime project was corrupted to its core by...
03:48 PM, Jun 22, 2011
New Delhi: The Silent National Anthem, an ad campaign that features deaf and mute children "singing" the 'Jana Gana Mana' through sign language, won a silver at advertising's highest awards - Cannes Lions 2011. Media reports say, after the shortlists on day one came the awards on day two of the Cannes Advertising Festival. Mudra Groups Silent Anthem for Reliance MediaWorks has bagged a silver and two bronze lions at...
05:11 PM, Jun 21, 2011
London: Singer-actress Janet Jackson is set to become a movie producer and has signed a production deal with Lionsgate to develop big screen projects. "She has a powerful onscreen presence, with a vast audience, and we believe she will be an equally powerful presence behind the scenes. We are honoured to be able to provide a home for her ideas, passion and immense talent," femalefirst.co.uk quoted Mike Paseornek, president of...
03:14 PM, Mar 16, 2011
Berlin: An encyclopaedia that anybody can help to write - whether a pupil or a professor? Encyclopaedia entries which are updated from one minute to the next? And all of that financed by reader donations? Ten years ago when online companies vanished almost as quickly as they appeared, nobody thought that a reliable encyclopaedia could go online - without going bankrupt within a few months. And yet, Wikipedia went online...
10:30 AM, Jan 12, 2011
San Francisco: The weak and woozy California sea lion found on a San Francisco Bay-area beach in December with buckshot embedded in its skull has become an all-too-common sight for wildlife officials. Wildlife officials have seen a slight rise in the shooting of ocean mammals in recent years, and investigators often struggle to find a culprit. There are few witnesses to such shootings, making it nearly impossible to bring a...
02:04 PM, Jan 03, 2011
Adelaide: Enthusiastic Australians camped out at parks alongside the Sydney Harbour Bridge to win the best view of Friday's spectacular New Year's Eve fireworks kicking off celebrations around the world. As the clock ticked closer to 2011 across Asia, Vietnam's capital was preparing its first-ever official New Year's Eve countdown and Taiwan planned a massive pyrotechnic display in the shape of a dragon. Europeans were looking forward to a celebration...
12:06 PM, Dec 31, 2010
Looks like Mallika Sherawat will have to make space for another Bollywood entrant trying to make a name in the West. Koyna Mitra, who’s been signed by a management company in the US, is trying her luck in Hollywood. Recently, she got a milkshake named after her at the Millions of Milkshakes place. ...
01:57 PM, Aug 17, 2010
The latest census shows the population of Asiatic lions in Gir forests in Gujarat has doubled. ...
07:06 AM, May 03, 2010
Forest officials in the Gir sanctuary are all set for the census of the Asiatic lion. ...
11:57 AM, Apr 23, 2010
Census report admits that over 70 lions died in the Gir National Park. ...
09:56 AM, Mar 12, 2010
Gujarat has been opposing Centre's proposal to relocate lions from the Gir. ...
10:02 AM, Feb 17, 2010
Millions is a film with a big, thumping heart. ...
01:19 AM, Feb 28, 2009
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