India captain M.S. Dhoni won the toss and chose to bowl in an attempt to claim a vital bonus-point win over Sri Lanka in Hobart Tuesday and stay in the race for the tri one-day series final. India, trailing Sri Lanka by five points, have to win with a bonus point to have any chance of playing Australia in the final, otherwise they will be on their way home. If India do pull off a big win, Sri Lanka will still have a match to play against Australia …

Siddharth after his Kadhalil Sodhapuvadu Eppadi [KSY] is declared a hit, within days has started his next project in Tamil being produced by director Vetrimaaran, which has working title as NH 4. For the first time award winning director Vetrimaaran is producing a film under his maiden production house Grass Root Film Company. Siddharth starrer film has NH 4 as the working title that was set against the backdrop of National Highways to Bangalore, …

Sri Lanka won a thrilling tri-series one-day international by three wickets over Australia with four balls to spare on Friday at the Bellerive Oval, taking them top of the tournament standings. Peter Forrest scored the first century of the series with 104 to carry Australia to 280 for six off their 50 overs, but it proved insufficient as Sri Lanka kept ahead of the run chase and survived a late wobble to seal victory. Skipper Mahela Jayawardene …

Five persons, all North Indians, were shot dead in an encounter early this morning for their alleged involvement in a bank robbery case here, police said. "Five persons were shot dead around 1 am in connection with the bank robbery case," Commissioner of Police J K Tripathy told newspersons. Acting on a tip-off, a police team surrounded a house in Vandikaran Street in Velachery around 1 am and asked the suspects to come out, another police …

One of the screenplay writers of the Ajith starrer Billa 2, Sharath Mandava is reported to have said that the film is ready for release and after discussing with the Tamil Film Producers Council the release date will be announced. The work on releasing the trailer is on at full swing, he had said. The film has been shot in Epic camera and the output is simply amazing, Sharath reportedly told.

India's cricket greats have begun talking about a topic that was considered unthinkable a year ago -- Sachin Tendulkar's retirement from the sport. Or, at least, the need for the record-breaking batsman to quit one-day cricket to prolong his Test career, like former Australian captain Ricky Ponting did this week. "Maybe his time has come," former World Cup-winning captain Kapil Dev said of the "Little Master" on the Headlines Today news channel. …

Wildfires, peat fires and controlled burns on farming lands kill 339,000 people worldwide each year, said a study released on Saturday that is the first to estimate a death toll for landscape fires. Most of those deaths are concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa, where an estimated 157,000 people die as a result of being exposed to such fires annually, with southeast Asia ranking second with 110,000 deaths. "I was surprised at our estimate being so …

Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia D’Souza, who tied the knot early this month, are busy promoting their latest film “Tere Naal Love Ho Gaya” and they are not complaining as it allows them to spend a lot of time together. “We had no time for ourselves as yet. But so far so good. We are really enjoying ourselves. We are promoting the same film, we are touring and getting a lot of time with each other. It’s fun. I am enjoying this process,” the 33-year-old …

Sunil's latest movie Poola Rangadu, released on Feb 18, is tend to become the biggest hit in his career. The box-office collections of the film are super strong in all the areas and so far, the film has collected 6 crores share in 3 days. Trade pundits are predicting that Poola Rangadu would stand as one of the biggest hits of this year. Sunil worked very hard and sported all new avatar with six pack abs in this film and adding to that, the glamor …

Director Ahmed has said that Trisha did not walk out of the film that he is to direct with Jiiva in the lead. The director has said that Trisha liked the role very much and has agreed to join the project only after completing her Telugu film Dammu and Tamil film Samaran. Ahmed said that though the actress has not signed the dotted lines yet, he is expecting her to do it in the near future. He added that shooting of this yet-to-be-named will begin …