Uttar Pradesh’s Ashutosh Tiwari continued his winning spree and entered the Under-14 boys singles semi-finals of the AITA talent series tennis championship 2012 in Lucknow.

President Pranab Mukherjee felicitated the Indian blind cricket team for winning the inaugural Twenty20 World Cup earlier this month.

India’s Hottest Vegetarian Celebrity of 2012 contest, organised by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, is already seeing Shahid Kapoor and Neha Dhupia take the lead in terms of votes. Close on their heels, in the contest, are Sonu Sood, Amitabh Bachchan, Dhanush, Vidya Balan, Kareena Kapoor and Hema Malini.

It’s abandoned, undisturbed and is rotting away in the middle of an ocean. Fifteen kilometre off the coast of Nagasaki is Hashima island, also known as Gakuranman or Battleship Island.

Bal Bhawan, Dwarka, clinched the 2nd B.K. Gupta inter-school cricket tournament title in convincing fashion registering an eight-wicket win over Ryan International School in the capital on Wednesday.

Moonlight SC and Punjab Heroes FC won their respective matches in the super-six league stage of the Delhi Soccer Association A division football league at the Commonwealth Games Sports Complex in the capital on Wednesday.

Their love for music got them together almost two years ago. The Urban EarlyMen band, a five-member band that has four of its members studying in college, was chosen as a finalist from India in the MRU Music Awards 2012 from the four bands of India that were earlier nominated for the Best International Act 2012 sponsored by DyNaMik Records.

Kareena Kapoor is upset with the media — for paying more attention to her personal life than her histrionics on screen. Well, kya karein Ms Kapoor, aapki life hi hai itni interesting! But anyway, at a recent event, the newly married Bebo sahiba expressed her discomfort with the state of affairs, complaining that earlier, she was quizzed about her wedding plans, and now that she and Saif have tied the knot, about their holiday plans.

The battle lines have been drawn — for the first time in over a decade, the superstars of Bollywood have already marked out their turf on the festive release calendar for the coming year, while the only one to stay mum is Shah Rukh Khan.

Local challengers Ashutosh Tiwari and Satykin Kohli set the pace with contrasting wins on the opening day of the main draw of the All India Tennis Association Under-14 and Under-12 talent series tennis championship in Lucknow.