Bhubaneswar: Coming down heavily on the rebels in the Biju Janata Dal (BJD), Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday suspended Lok Sabha MP Pyari Mohan Mahapatra, two ministers and two MLAs from the party. The ministers who have been suspended from the party are Anjali Behera and Sanjeev Sahoo. On Tuesday, more than 25 BJD MLAs and four ministers had met Patnaik's rival Mahapatra at his residence in Bhubaneswar...
06:48 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Ravi Thakran Designation: Managing partner of L Capital Asia"the LVMH sponsored private equity fund Age: 48 Education: MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad Career: Worked as group president for South Asia, South East Asia & the Middle East for the LVMH Group and director for Groupe Arnault in Asia. Earlier, he has worked with the Tata Group, Swatch Group and Nike. Interests: Socialising, travelling, reading, hiking, food and wine...
04:48 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Los Angeles: Alan Horn, the Walt Disney Co's new studio chairman, won't shy away from making big budget films despite Hollywood's recent string of big budget bombs such as Disney's 'John Carter' and Universal Pictures' 'Battleship.' Horn, who spearheaded such expensive hits as the 'Harry Potter' series while president of Warner Brothers Entertainment, intends to focus on six to eight films a year geared toward Disney's core audience of families...
04:33 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Mumbai: Filmmakers rarely applaud each other's work but Anurag Kashyap and Dibakar Banerjee are all praises for each other. After watching 'Shanghai', Kashyap has declared it is the best film he has ever watched and Banerjee is the country's best director. "It's a film that should be made compulsory for everybody to watch. This is the most powerful and the best film I have seen in a long time," Kashyap...
04:06 PM, Jun 01, 2012
London: The main accused in the murder of Indian student Anuj Bidve in Salford in Britain on December 26, 2011 pleaded guilty on Friday in a Manchester court. Kiaran Stapleton admitted to shooting 23-year-old Bidve in an unprovoked attack on the Boxing Day. Stapleton, 21, admitted to manslaughter at the Manchester Crown Court. He is expected to go on trial for murder. Lancaster University student Bidve was walking with friends...
03:57 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Even as 'Billa 2' is gearing up for a release, Ajith's next with Vishnuvardhan is already making several headlines. The latest is that Bollywood director cum actor cum producer Mahesh Manjrekar will play baddie in this yet-to-be-titled film. However it is said that there are few other villains as well in this film where Mahesh Manjrekar plays the main villain. This is not the first time he's playing baddie for...
02:45 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Lucknow: Haunted by the spectre of cheating in the MBBS entrance exam for those aspiring to be doctors, the Uttar Pradesh Combined Pre-Medical Test (CPMT) organisers have come up with unprecedented security measures in 2012. These include carrying answer sheets on a chartered flight, keeping secret the forward route of the sheets and closing all photocopying shops around the test centres. Other steps include taking fingerprints, having handwriting experts on...
02:32 PM, Jun 01, 2012
It looks like there's a lot in store for the Ilayathalapathy Vijay's fans. First, his lovers wowed the 'Thupaki' first look posters. Now, there's more good news for Vijay which will be making his foray in Bollywood. He will be shaking a leg for a peppy number in Akshay Kumar's 'Rowdy Rathore', that's the remake of 'Siruthai' (which by itself is a remake of 'Vikramarkudu'). Prabhu Deva who has directed...
01:12 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Trang Bang: In the picture, the girl will always be nine years old and wailing "Too hot! Too hot!" as she runs down the road away from her burning Vietnamese village. She will always be naked after blobs of sticky napalm melted through her clothes and layers of skin like jellied lava. She will always be a victim without a name. It only took a second for Associated Press photographer...
12:56 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh Chief Justice has suspended Special CBI Judge Pattabhi Rama Rao for alleged irregularities. Pattabhi Rama Rao was hearing the Obulapuram mining scam case. He had granted bail to prime accused Gali Janardhana Reddy on May 11 in the case. Reddy, however, is still in jail in another case. Judge Rao was also hearing the EMAAR case and heard the petition for defreezing YSR Congress chief Jagan...
09:34 AM, Jun 01, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister and BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik will be meeting party colleagues on Friday. Patnaik came back to Bhubaneswar on Thursday night to a grand welcome by partymen who came in huge numbers to show solidarity after a rebellion by Naveen's confidant and BJD MP Pyari Mohan Mohapatra on Tuesday. The revolt led by Pyari took place while Patnaik was on a week-long official tour to the UK...
07:51 AM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: Defence Minister AK Antony will articulate India's view on maritime security, freedom of use of sea lane and piracy during the Asia Security Summit to be held in Singapore on Saturday. On the sidelines of the Summit, also known as Shangri-La Dialogue, Antony will also hold bilateral talks with the leaders of several key countries such as France, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Canada, Vietnam and Tonga. "Antony will...
04:21 AM, Jun 01, 2012
Chandrapur: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray on Thursday said that poaching of tigers in Chandrapur could not have taken place without the support of local people. Thackeray, who was here to collect facts regarding poaching of tigers said that "It is impossible for any outsider to lay traps in deep forests without help from local people. It is the local people responsible for the act". Talking about tiger conservation,...
02:59 AM, Jun 01, 2012
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