Bill Gates

Bill Gates is an American businessman, investor, inventor and philanthropist. He is one of the best known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. Gates is the former chief executive and current chairman of Microsoft. Apart from being criticized for his business tactics, he consistently ranked among the world’s wealthiest people.

   

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zukerberg is a popular internet entrepreneur who co-founded the social networking site, Facebook. He is the chairman and chief executive of Facebook Inc. Also, the founding of Facebook was made into a major Hollywood movie, The Social Network. This self made billionaire is named among the wealthiest and most influential people in the world.

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs is best known as the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Apple Inc and sometimes referred to as ‘master of innovation’. Jobs was responsible for the development and success of iMac, iTunes, iPod, iPhone and iPad among other products and services offered by Apple. Jobs propelled Apple to become one of the most valuable companies internationally. Apart from attracting a lot of wealth, jobs received a number of honors and public recognition for his influence in the technology and music industries.

Michael Dell

Michael Dell is the founder and chief executive of Dell Inc., one of the world’s leading sellers of personal computers. He is ranked among the world’s richest people in the Forbes Billionaire list. On January 5, 2013 it was announced that Michael Dell had bid to take Dell Inc. private for $24.4 billion in the biggest leveraged buyout since the Great Recession.

Gautam Adani

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Roman Abramovich

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Bollywood

We're friends for life, says Deepika of Ranbir

Deepika Padukone, who teamed up with ex-beau Ranbir Kapoor after five years in forthcoming film "Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani" (YJHD), says they are not into a relationship any more but are friends for life.Deepika Padukone, who teamed up with ex-beau Ranbir Kapoor after five years in forthcoming film "Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani" (YJHD), says they are not into a relationship any more but are friends for life.

"Ranbir and I were in a relationship. But we are friends now and will be for life. We know each other well and we had a lovely time shooting (the film)," Deepika said in a statement.

"Moreover, we were more like our characters than ourselves on the sets. I forget about my personal life when I am in character," added the actress who was last seen with Ranbir in 2008 release "Bachna Ae Haseeno".

The 27-year-old has three films lined up for release this year, but YJHD is the most the anticipated one.

Director by Ayan Mukerji, YJHD also features Aditya Roy Kapoor and Kalki Koechlin. It will release May 31.

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Cricket

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KOLKATA: Sunil Narine carried on from where he left off in the fifth edition of the Indian Premier League, as he spun a web around the Delhi Daredevils' batsmen at the Eden Gardens here on Wednesday night as defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders started their campaign in IPL-6 on a winning note. Gautam Gambhir, captain of KKR, then led the run chase of 129 as the hosts eased to a six-wicket win with eight deliveries to spare over their depleted rivals.

The Daredevils batsmen, with the exception of their captain Mahela Jayawardene (68), struggled to come to grips with the slow Eden Gardens track after being put into bat; and Narine (4-13), the Purple Cup Winner in IPL-5, added to their pain as the visitors were bundled out for a sub-par total of 128 in the last delivery of their innings.  

The Knight Riders' chase wasn't off to the best start as Irfan Pathan bowled the first maiden over of IPL-6 before Ashish Nehra dismissed Manvinder Bisla in the second over of the hosts' innings. Gambhir, who made a quickfire 29-ball 42, and Jacques Kallis (23), added 47 runs for the second wicket as they took the attack to the Daredevils' bowlers. 

Kallis was especially harsh on Nehra, who he hit for three boundaries, while Gambhir was harsh on all the bowlers, and looked confident in the middle as he displayed his range of shots. Gambhir did have some nervy moments though, including a couple of occasions when he almost ran himself out, but the KKR captain looked unruffled for most of his knock and he also kept the scoreboard ticking over as he ran the singles and twos. Shahbaz Nadeem (2-22), who was the pick of the Daredevils' bowlers, and troubled Manoj Tiwary, dismissed Kallis with a long hop that the experienced South African all-rounder failed to take advantage of and was caught by Unmukt Chand at midwicket.

The Daredevils may have thought an improbable win was on the cards when Johan Botha and Nadeem dismissed Gambhir and Tiwary in the space of seven deliveries as KKR slipped to 99 for 4 in the 15th over. Botha trapped Gambhir LBW when the southpaw missed a straight delivery, and then a Nadeem delivery that turned sharply led to a top edge from Tiwary (23), and he was easily caught by Naman Ojha behind the stumps.

Eoin Morgan (14*) and Yusuf Pathan (18*), though ensured there wouldn't be any slip-ups in the run chase, as they steered KKR to victory with their unbroken 30-run partnership for the fifth wicket.Jayawardene was the only shining star for Delhi Daredevils. (IANS)

Earlier, Jayawardene came to the middle in only the second delivery of the match and was the only Daredevils' batsman to come to grips with the slow and sluggish Eden Gardens wicket. Brett Lee had given Knight Riders a dream start when he uprooted Chand's off stump with a lethal away cutter in the first delivery of IPL-6. Chand came into the match with consecutive domestic Twenty20 centuries, but was no match for a Lee special that would have been too much for the most experienced of batsmen.

In an indication of things to follow, Jayawardene got himself and the Daredevils off the mark with a boundary in front of square leg off the first ball he faced; with David Warner also hitting a boundary through the covers in the last delivery of the first over. 

Jayawardene, who made a 52-ball 68 (eight boundaries and a six), and David Warner consolidated the Daredevils' innings and gave the visitors some hope with their 44-run partnership for the second wicket. The pair not only kept finding the boundaries at regular intervals, but also rotated the strike well as they ran well between the wickets as the scoreboard was kept ticking over. Warner had a poor away Test series against India, but appeared to be regaining his form, and was especially harsh on Kallis, who he hit for three boundaries. 

But, the introduction of Narine in the sixth over, was to change the complexion of the match, as the West Indies offbreak bowler, struck with his fifth delivery when he got Warner to edge a catch a Kallis at first slip. This was to be Narine's only over of his first spell, but if the Daredevils' batsmen thought they could take runs off the other Knight Riders' bowlers, they had a nasty surprise awaiting them as L Balaji and Rajat Bhatia took the pace off the deliveries and mixed up their deliveries, with Bhatia especially bowling legcutters almost at will. Such was their effectiveness on the slow Eden track that Balaji (1-20) and Bhatia (2-23) only conceded 43 runs in the eight overs they bowled between themselves.

Jayawardene though showcased his class and experience to the hilt through the course of his knock as he mixed caution with aggression even as he watched a procession of Daredevils' batsmen not showing the required application and trying to hit their way out of trouble, but in vain. The 22-year-old Gujarat batsman Manprit Juneja, who was making his IPL debut, failed to learn from his captain's example at the other end, and was well caught by Laxmi Ratan Shukla off Balaji's bowling in the ninth over with the score on 59. Bhatia then got rid of Ojha and Botha in quick succession as the Daredevils slipped to 88 for 5 in the 14th over. 

Narine's re-introduction into the attack in the 16th over destroyed any hopes the Daredevils had of posting a 140-run target, as he dismissed Irfan Pathan, Andre Russell and Nehra to end with dream figures of 4-0-13-4. The dismissal of Russell would be one Narine would get particular pride in as he bamboozled his West Indies team mate during the all-rounder's short stint in the middle. Russell's ordeal finally ended when he lobbed an easy catch to Narine off his own bowling.  

At the other end, Jayawardene was harsh on Lee in the 17th and 19th overs as he took 23 runs, including three boundaries and the only six of the Daredevils' innings, off the former Australian pace spearhead. Lee (2-40) did have Jayawardene caught by Narine off the last delivery of the 19th over; and the West Indies offbreak bowler conceded only three runs in the final over of the innings as Daredevils were bundled out for a paltry 128. 

The Daredevils, who suffered a double blow before the season started, with the injured pair of Kevin Pietersen and Jesse Ryder both ruled out of IPL-6, were without Virender Sehwag for the IPL-6 opener because of a back spasm. Morne Morkel was another notable absentee for the Daredevils as he is playing domestic cricket back in South Africa. The Knight Riders were without New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum, who is yet to join the franchise, because of a hamstring injury he suffered during the drawn third Test against England in Auckland last week. 

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The G.I. Joes are not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence.

Director:

 Jon M. Chu

Writers:

 Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick

Stars:

 Dwayne Johnson, D.J. Cotrona, Channing Tatum

From Space

This set of images compares rocks seen by NASA's Opportunity rover and Curiosity rover at two different parts of Mars. On the left is " Wopmay" rock, in Endurance Crater, Meridiani Planum, as studied by the Opportunity rover. On the right are the rocks of the "Sheepbed" unit in Yell

owknife Bay, in Gale Crater, as seen by Curiosity.

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Mancini: We must keep strong

Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini may have conceded the title to Manchester United but he insists there must be no let-up in intensity.

Having fallen 15 points behind United at the top of the Barclays Premier League with just nine games remaining, City's championship defence appears all but over.

But with the FA Cup still to play for, and the likes of Chelsea and Tottenham not out of the race for second, Mancini is determined to finish the campaign strongly.

The Italian said: "I think when you are a top team and you have good players, you should be very strong when you win or lose. This doesn't change.

"Also, when you can't win a title you can have other situations that you can improve.

"For this reason it is very important to do our best in the next nine games.

"We have the FA Cup and we have to get second position.

"I am sure Chelsea or Tottenham want to take second. We need to do our best for this reason, we want to stay there.

"If we take second position and have a chance to win the FA Cup - I think in the end, with all the problems we have had this year, I think this could be a good season."

City return to action for the first time since a damaging 2-0 loss at Everton a fortnight ago as Newcastle visit Eastlands this weekend.