England wicketkeeper Matt Prior said that his team’s dressing room will be a better place without controversial batsman Kevin Pietersen, who was sacked following England’s 5-0 Ashes whitewash in Australia.
Pietersen, who scored 8,181 runs in 104 Tests and 4,440 runs in 136 ODIs, was released from his ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board) contract earlier this month.
President Pranab Mukherjee will visit Haryana (Jant-Pali, District Mahendergarh) tomorrow, where he will attend the first Convocation of Central University of Haryana.
He will also inaugurate the permanent campus of the university and an innovation exhibition on the occasion. (ANI)
Michelle Obama was spotted dancing with a trio of giant, human-sized vegetable dancers during the fourth anniversary tour of her ‘Let’s Move’ campaign.
The First Lady of the United States, along with characters Colby Carrot, Brian Broccoli and Erica Eggplant, and their human friends danced with the children at the daycare center, La Petite Academy, where she told the children how important it is to eat healthy, ABC News reported.
The 50-year-old wife of Barack Obama, also admitted that she loves spinach. (ANI)
Bollywood actor Aamir Khan today said he is not shying away from politics, but that he was not interested in it.
“I am not shying away from politics. I am not interested in politics. I am interested in touching people’s heart,” he said responding to a query in this regard.
“People enter politics because they want to serve the country and serve the people. There are many other ways of doing it,” he said. “Actors have a huge role to play. We bring joy to people. we give joy, we bring laughter, colour in their life…,” he said.
Rebekah Brooks, media tycoon Rupert Murdoch’s former British newspaper boss, today acknowledged that she had made “lots of mistakes” and approved payments to public officials when she was editor of his tabloids.
“I personally made lots of mistakes”, Brooks, who edited Murdoch’s News of the World and Sun papers from 2000 to 2009, told the Old Bailey court here.
The 45-year-old, head of News Corp’s British newspaper arm until 2011, said she had agreed payments on a “handful of occasions” between 1998 and 2009, when she held senior roles at both publications.
Union minister Jai Ram Ramesh asked the minority leaders of Congress to play important role in strengthening the party in Telangana and Seemandhra. A meeting of state board and district presidents of Andhra Pradesh Congress Minority Department was held at Gandhi Bhawan in which union minister met the minority leaders particularly Muslim leaders of Telangana and Seemandhra in person and sought their opinion on state bifurcation.
Noting that the context of international relations and the players has changed, Iran’s Foreign Minister Dr. Mohammad Javad Zarif has called for a “new paradigm” to usher in an inclusive world where each State played a role.
A diabetic has claimed that his diet has consisted solely of pizza since he was 15 and he has no thought of stopping now.
Dan Janssen said that the Italian dish “is like sex-even when it’s bad, it’s good,” the Daily Star reported.
The 38-year-old diabetic, who gets regular low blood sugar from his diet, said doctors believe he is fit and healthy as ever.
Speaking to VICE.com, he confessed that he usually eats an entire 14″ pizza, and he only eats cheese pizza. (ANI)
A Japanese H-IIA rocket with the NASA- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory onboard, has been launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Tanegashima, Japan to measure global rain and snow.
“With this launch, we have taken another giant leap in providing the world with an unprecedented picture of our planet’s rain and snow,” NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, said.
Australian cricketers had reportedly engaged in ‘ball tampering’ at training for the third Test in a bid to seek rapid improvement on the reverse-swing issues of the second Test at Port Elizabeth.
South African fast bowlers used the old ball to great effect in Port Elizabeth, with Dale Steyn particularly unstoppable in a collapse of 9-62, in contrast to the tourists, who failed to manage the condition of the ball.
The captain of the ill-fated Costa Concordia, the cruise liner that ran aground off the Italian coast in late January last year, has returned to the wreck for the first time as part of his manslaughter trial.
The ship hit a reef near the island of Giglio in January 2012 and capsized, with the loss of 32 lives.
According to the BBC, Schettino was taken to the wrecked ship, accompanied by a group of court-appointed experts, on a small boat, two days after travelling back to Giglio.
Former Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has revealed that the belt his primary school teacher used to discipline him with was now a prized possession at his home.
Ferguson gave credits to his formidable teacher Elizabeth Thomson whose disciplinary beating inspired Ferguson to rise to greatness in his career.
According to the Mirror, Ferguson said that he received the belt as a memento from the nephew of his favorite primary school teacher at Broomloan Road Primary in Glasgow, months after she passed away.
Legendary Australian spinner Shane Warne has reportedly tweeted pictures of his bruises following a bet from a sports company which offered him 10, 000 Australian dollars to get 50 paintball shots from a distance of five metres.
According to Sport24, Warne posted his picture with a message which said that it was fun but ‘hurt more than being hit by a fast bowler’.
Warne recently fled away after receiving the shock of his life when a British e-gaming operator played a prank on the arachnophobe spinner by serving him a live tarantula on a plate. (ANI)
More than 100 students of Rambagh, Attapur division of Rajendranagar assembly constituency and more than 100 youth and students from Ali Nagar, Milardevpally met B Janardhan Reddy YSR district convenor and announced joining the party.
Janardhan Reddy told that while he was in power Rajshekhar Reddy started fee reimbursement scheme and every student is benefited with the scheme. Now after Jagan comes to power the scheme will be restarted and other facilities will also be provided along with that.
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Apple Design Award-winning app developer Tapity has reportedly introduced its own version of the tragic Flappy Bird game, which was taken down by its creator for being addictive.
The company, known for apps like Languages, Grades 3, and Hours, rolled out the “Buffalo Wings,” another filler for Nguyen Dong’s Flappy Bird.
According to Tech Crucnh, Tapity founder Jeremy Olson said that the main motivation for creating the clone was to fill the gaping hole that appeared in the Flappy Bird market after the original game was pulled out.
For a surprising number of people, the call of the landline is still so strong that they find it nearly impossible to give up.
In a list of “technologies that would be very hard to give up” compiled by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 17 percent of Americans still listed the landline, the Washington Post reported.
Compare that with the 10 percent who said ” social media” was their must-have technology.
Pew’s Internet and American Life Project reviews 25 years of the Web and takes stock of attitudes toward technology.
NBC has announced that Michelle Obama will be making an appearance in the season 6 finale of comedy series ‘ Parks and Recreation s’.
The First Lady will appear on the episode titled ‘Moving Up’, where she will be celebrating investments in healthier out-of-school programs as part of her ‘Let’s Move’ initiative, which deals with childhood obesity, CBS News reported.
Earlier, Vice President Joe Biden had appeared on the show during a 2012 episode. (ANI)
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has rejected allegations of making foreign direct investments (FDI) in certain Indian companies through the Singapore-based firm Biometrix.
Describing the allegation of it being involved in the laundering of “monies” in India as completely false, the RIL said in a statement that these baseless allegations are being repeatedly made in the media and in judicial proceedings, and have been already been responded to.
Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will address ‘Bharatha Gellisi’ rally in Karnataka’s Gulbarga district today.
The Gujarat Chief Minister is also scheduled to hold a rally in Hubli district later in the day.
Earlier, addressing a rally in Mangalore, Modi had criticized the Congress for ruining the country and said that they were intolerant to criticism.
“An Indian with a British passport who works for a German bank”– this is how Deutsche Bank’s co-Chief Executive Officer Anshu Jain described himself.
Speaking at the Jewish Museum’s 28th Annual Purim Ball here, where he was honoured, Jain said a defining year for him was 1982 when he arrived in America as a 19-year-old student.
After snapping an eight-ODI winless streak, five-time champions India will look to build a winning momentum when they take on Sri Lanka in what could by their first real test in the Asia Cup here on Friday.
India notched up a six-wicket win against hosts Bangladesh in their opening match of the five-nation regional tournament on Wednesday but their real test begins against the Lankans who had beaten defending champions Pakistan by 12 runs.
Students of Madina Public School, Himayatnagar, bagged 3 gold medals and 9 merit certificates in Islamic Quiz competition 2013 held by Burooj National Intra School. Mohammed Mansoor Ali, Mehra Abubakar and Nabila Fatima bagged gold medals.
The school congratulated students and their parents on their excellent performance and conveyed best wishes to them.
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On Thursday, BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi accused the Manmohan Singh government of pushing the country back by a decade on development whilst only creating deficits of governance, trust and security.
Vocalizating at a conclave of economists and policy-makers here, Modi took a jibe at the Congress leadership saying: “We have reached a stage where the country is slipping back. We have lost a decade, we have to start afresh. When Atalji left, the growth was 8.4%, now the growth has come down to 4.4%.”
Petty issue caused man’s life
(Siasat News): In a bizarre case, a jeans pant found in a heap of garbage turned the matter violent where a man lost his life.
This incident occurred in Malakpet police station limits where the deceased is yet to be identified. It is said that a notorious goon Shivashankar was picking rags in Dilsukhnagar area.
During the picking, he got a jeans pant that he kept with him. Later, a stranger snatched the pant from him that led to heated arguments.
On Thursday, the Bombay High Court questioned if a woman can be hold accountable of outraging the modesty of another woman and sought the legal provisions for it.
On Thursday, a division bench of Justice Naresh Patil and Justice V L Achliya was hearing a petition by a family of six from Borivli, including a 78-year-old matriarch Sarlaben Shah, seeking to nullify an FIR registered against them by their neighbour Preeta Jain (55).