Commemorating the 40th anniversary of the foundation of Microsoft, co-founder Bill Gates outlined his vision for the company in a letter to its employees by saying that the company had achieved a lot during the first 40 years but added, “what matters most now is what we do next.”
Two gangsters and a policeman were killed and two police officers were injured in a fierce gunfight in Telangana’s Nalgonda district on Saturday, police said.
Two days after the gangsters, suspected to be from Uttar Pradesh, gunned down two policemen and injured two others, police eliminated them in an encounter on Saturday morning near Janakipur village in Mothkur mandal of Nalgonda district, about 175 km from here.
The gunfight started when a police party engaged in combing operations came face to face with the gangsters.
The ‘ Mad Men’ star John Slattery has confessed that he is not at all comfortable to be called as a “sex symbol”.
The ‘God’s Pocket’ actor, who has been playing the role of Roger Sterling for nine years in the American series, said that if anybody was thought in a particular way wasn’t necessary that he was comfortable in it, People Magazine reported.
The 52-year-old American actor explained that in real life he wasn’t like his reel role, and it’s crazy that people consider him as a sex symbol . (ANI)
Two persons were killed in an accident at a LPG pipeline of state-owned gas utility GAIL India Ltd at Suryapet in Telangana.
The accident occurred when an instrumental ‘pig’, which is used to clean the pipeline, ejected out of the pipeline, killing the two persons standing at the mouth of the pipeline, an official said.
There was no fire or blast, he added.
One of the dead is a GAIL employee and the other is a worker of the contractor.
The two were not supposed to stand in front of the barrel of the pipeline during the pigging or cleaning operations, he said.
—PTI
At least two people were killed and three others got injured after a leak in Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) pipeline at Suryapet area of Telangana’s Nalgonda district on Saturday.
The incident took place when GAIL engineers were doing routine pipeline check at around 12 noon.
GAIL employees Roshan Tijare (manager) and V. Ramesh (technician) were killed on the spot.
Three other employees namely Balakrishna (manager) Narsimha (technician) and G. Venkat (technician) were injured in the incident.
Actors Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig have scrapped their secret Lifetime movie after news of the project leaked online Wednesday night.
“We are deeply disappointed that our planned top secret project was made public,” Ferrell said in a statement to Entertainment Weekly.
“Kristen and I have decided it is in the best interest for everyone to forego the project entirely, and we thank Lifetime and all the people who were ready to help us make this film.”
The two-hour film was titled “A Deadly Adoption” and slated to air this summer.
Most photographs of the Taj Mahal taken before 2003 show the Yamuna river flowing close to the rear foundation of the edifice, its water in fact lapping the rear wall. But now a park developed by the Archaeological Survey of India, no doubt to beautify the area around it, has distanced the Yamuna by a good 100 hundred yards from the world-famous marble mausoleum.
R&B star Rihanna says makers kept her character in animated film “Home” close to her real self to make “little girls feel empowered.”
Rihanna, 26, who stars as Gratuity ‘Tip’ Tucci in the movie, said she and the makers wanted the movie to be as realistic as possible, reported People magazine.
“We wanted little girls to feel empowered. Little girls of any size, shape, color, race it didn’t matter. We wanted girls to just feel strong and brave, empowered, beautiful and that they can do anything.
Pop star Justin Bieber has revealed he is making new music keeping ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez in mind.
The 21-year-old “Baby” hitmaker said a lot of songs planned for his upcoming album were inspired by the former Disney princess whom he dated on-and-off for years, reported Ace Showbiz.
“I think a lot of my inspiration comes from (Gomez). It was a long relationship that created heartbreak and created happiness and a lot of different emotions that I wanted to write about. There’s a lot of that on this album,” he said.
Actor-singer David Bowie will bring his iconic character from 1976’s cult film “The Man Who Fell to Earth” for an upcoming play “Lazarus”.
The actor has co-writen the play and composed music for the upcoming stage production, reported Aceshowbiz.
Bowie, 68, played Thomas Jerome Newton, who crash-lands on Earth while seeking water to save his dying home planet, in the classic Nicolas Roeg movie,
“Lazarus” is scheduled to debut at the New York Theater Workshop.
Hollywood star Ryan Reynolds has revealed “Deadpool” won’t be the typical comic book movie.
The 38-year-old actor explained the much-anticipated movie will be shot on a small budget and has, therefore, told fans to expect something a little offbeat, reported Entertainment Weekly.
“It’s not like an X-Men movie where there’s this gigantic budget. It’s quite a small film. It’s very difficult to weave that character into other comic movies. He knows he’s in a comic book.
Rapper Azaelia Banls says she has a huge crush on US President Barack Obama.
Banks, 23, spoke about her admiration for Obama in an interview with Billboard magazine.
“He’s so fine. Those big white teeth and ears hanging off his head?” Banks gushed.
Banks also discussed her perfect guy.
“I love security guards. They’re these big meathead bald white guys with blue eyes. I want a really smart man, who has a lot of silly jokes and stuff. I have to tone it down if I want to get that,” she said.
With Raheem Sterling’s ongoing contract wrangle at Liverpool, Chelsea football team manager Jose Mourinho has said that every player has a price.
Mourinho claimed that he understands Liverpool boss Brendon Rodgers’ stance that Sterling would not be sold, but he insisted that he doesn’t like players that do not want to play for him and his club.
Chelsea is among the clubs linked with the England forward after he rejected a 1,00,000 pounds-a-week contract, the BBC reported.
“Bridesmaids” director Paul Feig in talks to helm ‘Play-Doh’ live-action movie, based on children’s favourite molding compound from Hasbro’s toy line.
Fox is developing the film based on Hasbro’s toy brand Play-Doh, coloured clay usually used for art and craft projects by kids, reported Aceshowbiz.
Script of the film is written by Jason Micallef.
The project inevitably draws comparison to “The Lego Movie” which is based on children’s favourite building blocks.
Andy Murray will try to cap a milestone week, while Novak Djokovic is aiming for another hardcourt double victory when they square off in the Miami Open final on Sunday.
Murray will be gunning for his third Miami Masters title after beating Czech Tomas Berdych 6-4, 6-4 on Friday to secure his final berth. It marks the fourth trip to the championship match for Murray who earlier this week joined the elite club of players to win 500 career matches.
A Chinese company has allegedly disgraced the Indian national flag by packing shoes in boxes bearing the tri-colour.
The incident came to light when a local newspaper reported the disgraceful act taking place in a shop in Kangra district.
Police swung immediately into action and arrested the shopkeeper. An investigation is underway.
Additional Superintendent Police, Kangra, Shiv Kumar, said that a ban has been imposed on the sale of such shoes.
RSS and Bajrang Dal outfits tried to inflame the communal harmony in Alirajpur district of Madhya Pradesh.
Since Ramnavmi, these groups are trying to provoke Muslim community by playing high volume music on DJs in front of the mosque.
But on yesterday the Hindu right wingers allegedly put a match to one of the shop of a Muslim and thrashed another Muslim boy.
The incident makes the environment in Alirajpur and Jhabua very tense. As per locals, police and administration are either supporting the thugs or they have chosen the role of becoming silent spectators.
Father of four, David Beckham has been voted as the top celebrity father in a recent poll, followed by Ozzy Osbourne and Jonathan Ross.
Simon Cowell and Peter Andre were ranked 4th and 5th respectively in the list of best celebrity father, the Mirror reported.
The poll also included a list of best celebrity mother wherein the ‘This Morning’ host and the mother of three, Holly Willoughby grabbed the first position, whereas Sharon Osbourne and Nicole Kidman were ranked 2nd and 3rd on the list.
New Zealand opening batsman Martin Guptill, who had a stellar World Cup campaign, has been recalled to the country’s Test squad for the forthcoming two-match series against England next month.
Guptill, who made his last Test appearance in 2009, has two centuries to his name and averages under 30 in 31 tests.
Reflecting on Guptill’s selection, coach Mike Hesson said that Guptill is a classically-styled batsman and there is really no reason why he couldn’t be as influential in the longer game as he is in the short, Stuff.co.nz reported.
Iggy Azalea made a cameo in recently released ‘ Fast and Furious 7’, but it turns out she had just one line in the blockbuster film.
The 24-year-old rapper appears for a split second in the film saying “Hey, there’s the girl I’ve heard so much about. Where you been at, ghost girl?,” the Daily Star reported.
The news adds to another bad one, as the singer was recently forced to cancel her upcoming tour due to “unforeseen circumstances”.
However, Azalea does have a new single titled ‘Pretty Girs’ coming up with Britney Spears. (ANI)
Megan Fox is tired of people judging her just by her good looks, and wants everyone to see her beyond that.
The 28-year-old ‘ Transformer’ star, who’s disappointed that her acting abilities don’t garner that much attention, admitted that in the autobot-alien flicks she didn’t really make the best impression but it was her own decision to do the film, the Daily Star reported.
She said that she doesn’t “take criticism personally because in some ways I acknowledge and agree.”
It’s a Masters’ mystery and no one it seems has the answer — what is stopping European players winning at Augusta National ?
The last European winner of the fabled tournament was Jose Maria Olazabal, the Spaniard donning his second green jacket in 1999, edging Davis Love and Greg Norman down the back nine on the Sunday.
That emotional victory 16 years ago proved to be the last chapter in two decades of European supremacy at the best-known and loved golf course in the United States.
Sarah Kemp Brady, who became an activist for gun control after her husband was shot in the head in the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, has died.
Brady, 73, died yesterday in a retirement community in Alexandria, Virginia, after battling pneumonia, family members said in an email.
Brady’s husband, former White House Press Secretary James Brady, died Aug 4, also at the age of 73.
The 1981 assassination attempt on Reagan by John Hinckley Jr left James Brady partially paralysed.
With megastar Hrithik Roshan and Shahid Kapoor set to perform, the IPL opening ceremony on April 7 in Kolkata promises to be a glitzy and glamorous affair.
“Entertainers will descend on one stage to mark the start of the eighth season of the IPL with the evening’s proceedings being hosted by Saif Ali Khan,” BCCI Secretary Anurag Thakur said in a statement.
A dazzling line-up of Bollywood stars, including Farhan Akhtar, music director Pritam along with Hrithik and Anushka Sharma will set the ball rolling for the cash-rich T20 league.
At least 40 militants have been killed in Egyptian army’s major ground and aerial offensive in the volatile North Sinai region, a day after 15 soldiers and two civilians died in separate attacks by Islamist militants.
The army launched ground and aerial offensives against terrorists’ hideouts in the south of Sheikh Zuweid, killing the militants, an official said.
Twenty militant headquarters and seven vehicles belonging to the terrorists were also destroyed in the offensive yesterday, the official said.