Bonding with your co-star is perhaps the best way to ensure that there is chemistry onscreen. Century Star Shivarajkumar is known to be friendly, so it comes as no surprise when we spotted that he had posed for a selfie with his beautiful Vajrakaya co-star Shubra Aiyappa.
Vajrakaya is Shubra’s debut Kannada movie, which has gone on to do exceptionally well at the box office. What we also like about the picture is that both the actors are colour-cordinated as they are both wearing white outfits. Sweet!
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> Entertainment> Kannada> Movies / TNN / July 08th, 2015
Harshika Poonacha is currently on a holiday, which she is spending in the USA. And in preparation for her break, the actress seems to have done something special — she’s coloured her hair blonde!
Harshika looks quite different in her blonde streaks and bangs. Going by her feeds on social media, she seems to be having a ball of a time on her holiday. Here are some of her posts that will give you an insight into what she’s up to in the US:
“Now thts d reason y I love America….I can do watever I want to do….. #USA #Funnn #Ilovetravelling”
“The Deepest Lake in #USA #CraterLake #CraterNationalPark #Funnn #Holiday”
“Saw a full rainbow for the first time in my life. So beautiful☺☺☺ #USA is filled wid new surprises fr me.I love it”
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> Entertainment> Kannada> Movies / TNN / July 03rd, 2015
Ajinkya Rahane will lead a 15-member team for three One-Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Twenty20 matches as seniors like MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli were rested for the series. India face the hosts in the first ODI on July 10.
India wicketkeeper-batsman Robin Uthappa said on Monday the Zimbabwe tour call-up was an opportunity he was waiting for the last three-four years, adding he would try to utilise the chance to cement his place in the side.
Middle-order batsman Ajinkya Rahane will lead a 15-member team for three One-Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Twenty20 matches as regular skipper Virat Kohli, among other seniors, were rested for the series. India face the hosts in the first ODI on July 10. (I’ve My Own Style of Captaincy: Ajinkya Rahane)
“I am very grateful that finally I will get a whole series to play after playing one or two games in a year. I am looking forward to the tour. This is the opportunity I was waiting for last three to four years. The hard work I have put in has given me positive results now,” Uthappa said here at a press conference. (Binny Determined To Showcase His All-Round Skills)
“I want to make the opportunity I have got. I want to consolidate my place in the squad, as I believe I have a lot to offer for the Indian team.” (Karn Sharma Fractures Finger)
Speaking on the aspect of being a wicketkeeper-batsman he said, “It has been quite an enjoyable journey. Initially it was a bit of a trouble, but as time went I fell in love with it. Once I kept wickets in the Indian Premier League (IPL) and Champions League, I thought of taking it as a full time. It came at a perfect time when my batting clicked.”
“I could invest the same time which I did in batting, in the wicket-keeping as well. Today I am enjoying keeping the wickets. It gives us so much of information while you are standing behind the wickets and see what’s going on in the field.”
With the new rules in ODIs coming into play, the 29-year-old said five fielders outside the 30-yard circle wouldn’t matter to him as he would look for runs and try to hit boundaries.
“I don’t think it makes a difference as a batsman as you are looking at the gaps and not at the fielders. But I think from the bowlers perspective it gives them a bit of confidence,” Uthappa concluded.
source: http://www.sports.ndtv.com /NDTV Sports / NDTV Sports> News / by Indo-Asian News Service / Monday – July 06th, 2015
Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa jumped from 15th to 13th in the latest rankings
New Delhi (IANS):
India’s most successful women’s doubles shuttlers Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa rose two places to be at No.13, matching their career-best in the latest rankings released by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) on Thursday.
Jwala and Ashwini, who won the women’s doubles bronze at the 2011 World Championships, reached the semi-finals of the US Open Grand Prix Gold which helped them rise up the ladder.
Manu Attri and B. Sumeeth Reddy also jumped two places to be ranked No.24 in the men’s doubles following their finals appearance at the US Open on Sunday.
Meanwhile, Indian shuttlers maintained their positions in singles.
Olympic medallist Saina Nehwal is still No.2 with P.V. Sindhu at No.14 among the women. In men’s singles, Kidambi Srikanth, Parupalli Kashyap and H.S. Prannoy are still on No.3, 10 and 12, respectively.
There is no Indian representation in top-25 of mixed doubles.
Indian shuttlers are currently participating at the ongoing $50,000 Canada Open Grand Prix in Calgary.
Rohan Bopanna and Florin Mergea ended runners-up at the ATP Gerry Weber Open following a surprise straight set defeat at the hands of Raven Klaasen and Rajeev Ram, here on Sunday.
Halle, Germany:
Rohan Bopanna and Florin Mergea ended runners-up at the ATP Gerry Weber Open following a surprise straight set defeat at the hands of Raven Klaasen and Rajeev Ram, here on Sunday.
The second-seeded Indo-Romanian pair lost the summit clash 6-7(5) 2-6 against the unseeded American-South African team in one hour and 12 minutes.Bopanna and Mergea had come into the event after wining the Mercedes Cup in Stuttgart, last week.
They had advantage, following an early break but lost the momentum as well as their grip over the contest as the match progressed. They could not force a Match tie-breaker as they were outplayed in the second set.
They won 300 ranking points each and shared 50,880 as prize money for their effort.
source: http://www.zeenews.india.com / Z News / Home> News> Sports News> Tennis / PTI / Sunday – June 21st, 2015
Seagram’s 100 Pipers Music CDs in association with Pride of Karnataka, an initiative of Round Table India and Ladies Circle India felicitated 12 ‘true legends’ from the state.
Ashwini Nachappa and Pramoda Devi
Among those felicitated were Priya Mani, Ricky Kej, RK Misra, Prasad Bidpa, Manoviraj Khosla, Shukla Bose, Ashwini Nachappa and Robin Uthappa. Kartik Mohindra, Business Head, International Brands, Pernod Ricard India, said, “True legends are successful people who lead a positive change on society. The True Legends awards recognizes and felicitates successful personalities who have risen above the material pursuits of success, and believe in giving back to humanity. Each True Legend story is very inspiring and will forever be remembered for good.”
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Bengaluru / TNN / June 19th, 2015
Den Thimmaiah of Kodagu emerged as the fastest driver at the second edition of Maruti Suzuki Autocross Championship at Supernova Arena in Bengaluru on Sunday. Thimmaiah won three races which included four podium finishes.
Advocate P.S. Muthamma (Kaliyanda Muthamma Poonachcha) has been appointed as the Special Public Prosecutor of Lokayukta in Mysuru, according to an order issued by the Lokayukta Office in Bengaluru.
Muthamma was earlier serving as Special Public Prosecutor for the Fast Track Court in Mysuru.
A resident of Seshadri Iyer Road in the city, Kaliyanda Muthamma Poonachcha is a native of Kolakeri near Napoklu in Kodagu district.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / Monday – June 08th, 2015
Femi Ogunode shatters his own Asian 100m record with a 9.91s
M.R. Poovamma, the fastest qualifier in the semifinals, retained her 400m silver while Liksy Joseph came up with an inspired performance for the heptathlon silver with a personal best as India’s women athletes did themselves proud at the 21st Asian athletics championship here on Thursday.
Purnima Hembram, a former Asian junior champion, followed Liksy for the women’s heptathlon bronze, and in the men’s section, G. Lakshmanan won the 5,000m bronze bettering his personal best by nearly 14 seconds.
Qatar’s Femi Ogunode did what he had been promising for some time by lowering his own Asian 100m record to a stunning 9.91s. That should make him the fifth fastest man in the world this year.
The Nigeria-born Ogunode had set the previous mark of 9.93 while winning the Asian Games gold in Incheon last year.
There were disappointments too for India, with both the country’s eight-metre long-jumpers, Ankit Sharma (7.76m) and K. Prem Kumar (7.69m) finishing fourth and fifth respectively.
Ankit was in the medal range for a brief while before going down. An eight-metre jump would have fetched them gold, for it was with a 7.96m that China’s Goa Xinglong took the top spot.
Poovamma, the Asian Games bronze medallist who has a personal best of 51.73s, was in fact quicker in Wednesday’s semifinal which she topped with 52.94s. Her silver, behind China’s Yang Huizhen, came in 53.07s.
Arokia Rajeev, also an Incheon Asiad bronze medallist, was seventh in the men’s 400m while Srabani Nanda was fifth in the women’s 100m.
The women’s sprint relay team finished fourth and the men sixth. Suprisingly Manikanda Arumugam, who had helped the team to qualify for the Asians in 39.11s in the controversial trials in Bengaluru recently, was not part of the men’s relay squad which finished in 39.67s.
Qatar’s Mohamad Al Garni, who had won the men’s 1,500m on Wednesday, completed a distance double by taking the 5,000m title.
India have bagged their second medal at the Asian Athletics Championships, that is currently being played in Wuhan, China with MR Poovamma clinching the silver in the 400m. event.
The Kodagu-born athlete clocked a timing of 53.07 and thereby clinched her second consecutive silver at the Asian Championships after her silver medal win at the 2013 edition of the Championships, that were held in Pune.
But her medal, here though, seems like it might have come at a cost as she fell behind the Olympic qualification mark by 1.07 seconds.
This is now India’s second medal after Inderjeet Singh won Gold on Day One of the competition with an effort of 20.41m.
source: http://www.sportskeeda.com / Sports Keeda / Home> Athletics> Asian Athletics Championship> News / by Shankar Narayan / June 04th, 2015
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