New Delhi: While the superstars tend to grab the headlines in the Indian Premier League (IPL), it also provides a stage for some virtual unknowns to grab the limelight. This season, a 25-year-old fast bowler, Parvinder Awana, has made quite an impression. His mother, 55-year-old, Rajpali Awana stays in a single storeyed house in the narrow bylanes of the Harola village near Noida. Life has been a struggle for her...
09:47 AM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: Sania Mirza continued to slide down the rankings ladder as the Indian is now placed at number 182, after a loss of 41 places, in the latest WTA list issued on Monday. Sania slipped in the rankings after she missed out on making the singles main draw of the Miami WTA Premier event, losing in straight sets to American 10th seed Sloane Stephens. The Hyderabadi girl has also...
07:12 PM, Apr 09, 2012
New Delhi: CNN-IBN's seven shows and IBNLive emerged winners at the News Television Awards on Wednesday evening. IBNLive was the winner in the Best News Website category at the NT Awards. CNN-IBN's show Bollywood Blockbusters on the renowned Bollywood music director Madan Mohan won the award for the Best Entertainment Feature at the NT Awards that took place in New Delhi. India at 9 was awarded in the Best Presented...
08:59 PM, Mar 28, 2012
Chandigarh: As franchisees gear up for the next IPL season, Bollywood actress Preity Zinta co-owned KPH Dream Cricket Private Ltd continues to be a loss making venture, with accumulated losses of Rs 68.08 crore in 2010-11 from three IPLs already held. KPH Dream, which owns IPL franchisee outfit Kings XI Punjab, recorded accumulated losses of Rs 32.82 crore in 2009-10. In financial statements filed with Registrars of Companies here, KPH...
12:43 AM, Feb 07, 2012
Washington: They may not be starving, but by American standards some 46.2 million people live in poverty today, more than at any other time in American history, erasing gains made in reducing poverty during the 1990s, according to a new study. Compared to the 1990s they are more likely to be white, live in the Midwest, have a high school diploma and own a home, according to shows, the Brookings...
12:12 PM, Nov 04, 2011
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The first I had heard the song- 'Use Somebody' - it was from this bunch of college musicians who were jamming in my living room. ...
06:45 PM, Aug 04, 2011
Los Angeles: King George the stutterer seems primed to reign at Sunday night's Academy Awards, unless there's a palace coup by that asocial billionaire who created Facebook. "The King's Speech," dramatizing British monarch George VI's struggle to vanquish a crippling stammer, leads the 83rd annual Oscars with 12 nominations and is favored to win best picture. Yet "The Social Network," chronicling Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's fierce legal battles over the...
05:07 AM, Feb 28, 2011
Los Angeles: If any of the frontrunners for the best film Oscar win the world's top movie award in nine days, the idea that voters are out of touch with mainstream movie fans may be over after two years of trying. For that, Oscar owes a big "thank you" to Batman and Clint Eastwood. Or, to director Christopher Nolan and his 2008 Batman movie "The Dark Knight," and Eastwood with...
10:55 AM, Feb 19, 2011
Los Angeles: Having marched through Hollywood's major guild awards with hardly a misstep, royal film "The King's Speech" has in past weeks been a frontrunner to sweep through the Oscars, but that may be about to change. With only about 10 days to go before the world's top film honors, Oscar pundits are re-thinking their picks, and as much as co-hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway are expected to bring...
10:38 AM, Feb 17, 2011
Bangalore: Kings XI Punjab co-owner and Bollywood star Preity Zinta said she was disappointed to lose all-rounder Irfan Pathan but glad to buy former Australian wicket-keeper Adam Gilchrist in the first session of auction for the fourth leg of the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Saturday. Kings XI Punjab went all out to buy their former player Irfan Pathan but faced a fierce fight from Delhi Daredevils. Punjab was in...
03:17 PM, Jan 08, 2011
Notices have also been sent to all franchises to furnish the investment details of all the stake holders. ...
08:05 PM, Apr 26, 2010
The Enforcement Directorate has also registered a case against IPL teams under FEMA. ...
10:31 PM, Apr 20, 2010
Preity Zinta speaks about her IPL team Kings XI Punjab ...
07:42 PM, Apr 13, 2010
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