Smriti Mehra played a tidy round of even-par 72 to join Nalini Singh Siwach (75) in the lead at the end of the second round of the Hero-WGAI Women’s Pro Tour, the eighth leg of the Indian women’s domestic tour in Gurgaon on Thursday.

For the longest time, even since childhood, a fruity mocktail meant fighting over the cherry with your siblings. Then we grew up and ordered cocktails, some of which also carried pitted cherries. Although they add little flavour when dropped into a drink, most people prefer to pull the cherries out by their stems and eat them as well.

Adam Devermann, star mixologist of Grand Marnier, took the orange-flavoured liqueur and gave his own twist to two cocktail classics — margarita and mojito. “These, amongst some of the most other popular cocktails in the world, have just a few ingredients that are familiar to most of us and both drinks are refreshing.

The premiere of Sri Devi’s comeback film English Vinglish turned out to be as amusing as the film itself. For starters, Farah Khan, who was very keen to see the film, got mixed up regarding the venue. She tweeted, “Am I the only idiot who went 2 juhu Pvr last nite 4 english vinglish premiere?whn it was at goregaon Pvr!!...

Two big actors, two viable names — nothing can make for a better casting coup than having Salman Khan and Vidya Balan paired together. The Dabangg Khan is well aware that Vidya, with her back-to-back hits at the box office, is touted as the “fourth Khan of the industry”.

You probably knew him as the one of the cute little members of the band Hanson. But Taylor Hanson, one third of the band that hit the music charts worldwide with their song MmmBop (his brothers Zac and Isaac are the two other members), is now in the news for welcoming his fifth baby into the world.

If you’ve walked into an Indian railway station, then chances are, you’ve also come across a Wheeler bookstore. These ubiquitous stalls stock everything from the day’s newspapers to the latest magazines, railway guides to popular paperbacks.

From the day model-turned-actor Kristina Akheeva stepped in India, she has snapped up some A-list modelling projects. And now, she has bagged a leading role in the next outing of the Deols’ successful franchise Yamla Pagla Deewana.

The Delhi Judo Association on Thursday announced teams for the sub-junior (boys and girls) national championship to held in Guwahati from Saturday.

The Delhi leg of the Coca-Cola Under-16 Cricket Cup tournament will begin on Friday, according to company official Wasim Basir, who made the announcement along with Delhi and Districts Cricket Association secretary Sunil Dev on behalf of the City Cricket Council, former international Syed Saba Karim, and Procam International director operations P.N. Sankaran.