JK Rowling revealed how she felt about ending the Harry Potter series in London where she was honoured for outstanding achievement at the South Bank Show Awards on January 29.
Black Lives Matter was stenciled onto NFL fields and NBA courts. Athletes raised fists and took the knee.
The Harry Potter franchise has now generated a collective fortune worth Rs 4,000 crore (over $900 million) for its author and movie stars.
'It's good to see Johnny Depp and Jude Law in J K Rowling's magical world,' says Namrata Thakker.
From an injury-ravaged struggler to being the hero of Australia's second consecutive Champions Trophy triumph, all-rounder Shane Watson has credited the turnaround to his Indian Premier League stint under talismanic spin wizard Shane Warne.
Manchester United moved three points clear at the top of the Premier League after a Paul Pogba goal gave them a hard-fought 1-0 win over Burnley at a freezing Turf Moor on Tuesday.
The election team of Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance's prime ministerial candidate Lal Krishna Advani has put on its thinking caps to conjure up the maximum number of audience for his campaign rallies.Prodyut Bora, the communication wizard who heads the party's IT Cell, is planning to capture Advani's recent spree of Vijay Sankalp rallies on camera and post it on the internet to attract a larger audience.
Ricky Ponting's over-rate woes after spin wizard Shane Warne's retirement have cost the Australian cricket team a hefty 130,000 dollars in fines so far.
'The English Game could have been truly great -- a precious glimpse into how the game went from being played by just the rich to one being eventually dominated by the masses,' observes Dhruv Munjal.
Former India skipper Rahul Dravid began his third tour of New Zealand on a bright note, scoring a dignified 102 for Canterbury Wizards against Central Stags in a NZC first-class match at the Mainpower Oval, Rangiora, in Wellington on Friday.
India, replying to Sri Lanka's 600-6 declared, were in trouble at 159-6 at close on Day 3 of the first Test.
'Tamhane's densely composed shots achieve what a vacuously whizzing camera seldom does.' 'Like those Renaissance Paintings in which a bewitching lady is shown posing for a portrait, and daily life plays out in a corner unruffled, Tamhane's static frames have a hundred interesting things happening within them,' observes Sreehari Nair.
India's limited-overs vice-captain Rohit Sharma, star wrestler Vinesh Phogat, TT player Manika Batra and Paralympic gold-winning high jumper Mariyappan Thangavelu were on Tuesday picked for this year's Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award by the sports ministry's selection committee.
Australian fans showed no let up in their hostility towards Muttiah Muralitharan and a group of fans threw an egg on the Sri Lankan.
FXLab Studios has tied up with Yash Raj Films to develop an offline game based on Dhoom 2.
Such is the level of consistency of Manchester City (nine straight wins) and Liverpool (five straight victories), that it can be easy to lose sight of just how good this title race is.
Sri Lankan cricket board announced that it had cleared seven players to play in the Indian Premier League.
'After one week, I was told by the head coach of Sporting Lisbon 'you are not good enough, get lost to B team'
Ahead of the first Test between India and England in Rajkot, Rajneesh Gupta looks at the two teams and their numbers.
Google Inc. founder-director Kavitark Ram Shriram and Bose Corporation Chairman Amar Gopal Bose have both moved up the rankings in the list of Forbes' 400 Richest Americans.
Anup Sridhar won the men's singles title in the National Badminton championships.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Sunday
The book had given rise to a lot of speculation and discussion as Rowling had promised two deaths in it.
Harry Potter and the Deathly hallows is here!
PV Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth advanced into the second round while Saina Nehwal and Sai Praneeth made first-round exits at the All England Open Badminton Championships in Birmingham on Wednesday.
Shah wants to focus this time on a mentoring role and help youngsters with innovative ideas live their entrepreneurship dreams by providing them a platform for "institutionalisation, globalisation and scaling up" of their ventures.
A look at the few bright spots, the many worries, and moments that made for a distinctly indelible 2020.
The Australian spin wizard has made his debut on a different field altogether.
Sri Lanka also called up Nuwan Zoysa for the first time since June 2002 for the first Test against Australia.
Adam Gilchrist, who is most commonly considered as the best wicket-keeper in cricket history, has rated Michael Bevan as the most challenging bowler he kept to.
Iran are pinning their World Cup hopes on the midfield magic of 27-year-old Ali Karimi.\n
Cell phones and children most parents would call it a dangerous combination but more and more cell phone companies and operators are wooing kids with new interactive games, cartoons, quiz and word wizard - all of it packed in a single gizmo.
The two former India captains accepted the offer to become honorary members.
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