
Cannes: 'After Lucia' by Mexican director Michel Franco has won the top prize in the Cannes Film Festival's sidebar competition, Un Certain Regard. It was chosen Saturday from a slate of 20 films by a jury headed by British actor Tim Roth. Un Certain Regard focuses on new and emerging filmmakers. The jury gave second prize to French film 'Le Grand Soir' by Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern, and a...

11:27 AM, May 28, 2012

Cannes: The Cannes Film Festival rewarded one of its favorite directors Sunday, as Michael Haneke won the top prize for a second time with his stark film about love and death, 'Amour.' The Austrian director's powerful and understated film stars two French acting icons - 85-year-old Emmanuelle Riva and 81-year-old Jean-Louis Trintignant - as an elderly couple coping with the wife's worsening health. Cannes jury member Jean Paul Gaultier praised...

10:15 AM, May 28, 2012

Director John Hillcoat's 'Lawless', Austrian director Michael Haneke's 'Amour' and Romanian director Cristian Mungiu's 'Beyond the Hills' are competing for the prestigious Palme D'Or this year. ...

09:50 AM, May 22, 2012

At a time when book stores are flooded with compendiums on the 2011 World Cup, an intrepid television reporter has come up with a sizzling story on the Indian Premier League (IPL). Sleaze sells and on TV it grips the viewer more as an instant trial is conducted, judgment pronounced and executed in a matter of an hour. If the same story is narrated in a racy style, it can...

08:08 PM, Jan 31, 2011

Hyderabad: A young girl was locked up in a room, beaten up and branded with hot iron by her own mother. The reason: the girl objected to her alleged illicit relationship. She has been rescued and now wants to start her life afresh. Nagachaitanya along with her paramour Naresh locked up Nartana in a room, beating her, even branding her with hot iron. The girl had suffered severe infections on...

11:48 AM, Sep 25, 2010

What happens to models when they cross their prime, a reality most of them face at some point in their career. ...

12:46 AM, Jul 04, 2010

In a new twist to Viveka's suicide case, her family members contradicted Thursday all that Vora had claimed. ...

05:10 PM, Jul 01, 2010

As the Viveka case highlights, the relationship is incestuous and invasive and can rapidly spiral out of control. ...

11:39 PM, Jun 30, 2010

Mumbai: In a reprieve for model Viveka Babajee's 'boyfriend' Gautam Vora, a local court on Tuesday restrained the police from arresting him on the charge of abetment to suicide without giving him a 72-hour prior notice. Principal judge of the sessions court M L Tahaliyani also directed Vora, a stock analyst, to cooperate with the police in the investigation into the June 25 suicide of Babajee and present himself at...

05:57 PM, Jun 29, 2010

The man she mentioned in her diary has applied for anticipatory bail saying he had nothing to do with her death. ...

09:32 PM, Jun 28, 2010

It was declared in a pre-Valentine's Day survey of language experts. ...

07:03 PM, Feb 12, 2010

The 10th Auto Expo in New Delhi is proving to be a crowd puller. ...

08:39 AM, Jan 09, 2010

Women were nominated on the basis of their contributions in respective fields. ...

02:07 PM, Nov 10, 2009