Actress Courteney Cox, who earlier used to practice Pilates for fitness, is now working out using a cross-trainer machine thanks to her friend Jennifer Aniston. Cox says her “Friends” co-star got her hooked on working out using a cross-trainer machine at the gym. Contactmusic.com reports that Cox told Britain’s Marie Claire magazine: “I did Pilates […]
Singer Shakira has released “Can’t remember to forget you”, the first single of her new album, featuring pop star Rihanna, at the Ryan Seacrest’s radio show. The new single was released Monday night on “On-Air With Ryan Seacrest” and is now available via Sony Music worldwide, said a statement. The single will feature in her […]
The Congress Tuesday raised questions over the continuance of Somnath Bharti as Delhi’s law minister after he termed as “erroneous” a CBI judge accused him of tampering with evidence in a case he was handling last year. “People in this country respect the judiciary the most. Our judiciary is independent and nothing can be more […]
Crores of rupees changed hands as defying the police ban, people in parts of Andhra Pradesh bet on cockfights as part of Sankranti festival. Despite the ban, cockfights were organised openly in villages in some districts, mainly in the coastal Andhra region. Powerful politicians of all hues, celebrities and businessmen, who consider the cockfights a […]
A Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) here has awarded a compensation of over Rs.41 lakh to family members of an MTNL employee, who was killed in a road accident in 2009. “I hold that petitioner (kin of the deceased) succeeded in proving that Dec 10, 2009, an accident had taken place due to the rash […]
Mumbai’s landscape, never dull, harvested a rich crop of festivals Tuesday. Its skies were dotted with kites marking Makar Sankranti, Punjabis danced around the Lohri fires, south Indians churned up Pongal dishes, north-east Indians celebrated Bhogali Bihu, and Muslims celebrated Eid Milad-un-Nabi, the birthday of Prophet Mohammed. Maharashtrian families were seen distributing the traditional sweetmeat, […]
The Thai government is able to control the present situation and a string of measures would be rolled out to ensure tourist safety and normal flight operations, Deputy Prime Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul said Tuesday. Protestors, who were demanding that no elections be held until major political reforms are implemented, launched the Bangkok shutdown operations Monday […]
Rahul Gandhi behaved like a “joker” during his visit in the state Monday and such a person is being projected as the prime ministerial candidate by the Congress, a CPI-M leader said here Tuesday. Communist Party of India-Marxist state leader Pinarayi Vijayan said: “His candidature as the Congress’s PM candidate is more or less finalised […]
Four Indian-origin men have been jailed in Britain for printing and circulating 1.2 million pounds of counterfeit currency. Amrit Karra, 45, and his brother Prem Karra, 43, both from Walsall, a town in the West Midlands and their brothers-in-law Rajiv Kumar, 40, of West Bromwich, and Yash Mahey, 44, of Handsworth in Birmingham, were convicted […]
Makar Sankranti, the harvest festival, was celebrated Tuesday across Andhra Pradesh with traditional fervour and gaiety. The countryside wore a festive look with decoration of houses, kite-flying, cockfights, bullfights and other rural sports. ‘Haridasus’ and ‘Basvannas’ the uniquely attired alm-seekers with ornately decorated ox were seen making rounds of the villages to seek alms. The […]