Film: 'Bittoo Boss'; Music Director: Raghav Sachar; Lyricists: Kumaar, Luv Ranjan, Aseem Ahmed Abbasi; Singers: Mika Singh, Raghav Sachar, Sonu Niigaam, Shahid Maliya, Master Saleem, Shreya Ghoshal, Tulsi Kumar, Natalie Di Luccio, Neeti Mohan; Rating: *** 1/2 Forget about DK Bose as Bittoo Boss is here to take over. Already, embroiled in a controversy with the censor board having a problem with its double inuendo lyrics, most people still haven't...
12:12 PM, Mar 29, 2012
New Delhi: Indicating signs of possible funds related to crime and terror trickling into the Indian casino sector, a government report has said that more than 7,000 instances of suspicious transactions have been detected in the elite gaming business during the last financial year. A total of 7,006 Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs) during the 2010-11 fiscal have been reported by the casino business and allied payment operators to the Financial...
12:59 PM, Jan 22, 2012
Washington: IIT Mumbai alumni and Microsoft veteran Bharat Shyam has been appointed the new chief information officer (CIO) of Washington state. Shyam's appointment was announced by Washington Governor Chris Gregoire on Monday. "I am incredibly impressed with Bharat," Gregoire said in a statement. "With nearly 20 years of experience at Microsoft, he brings a deep understanding of software and technology. And his level of enthusiasm for the position is unmatched....
11:47 AM, Nov 17, 2011
New York: A personal assistant-turned-personal manager to Michael Jackson said the King of Pop had been taking propofol as early as 1999, and that the singer was drugged up ahead of his 2001 30th anniversary concerts. Frank Cascio, who became a family friend to Jackson at age 5 and eventually one of the singer's closest friends and employees, writes in a new book that he first noticed Jackson taking the...
11:32 AM, Nov 14, 2011
Naples: Former Juventus general manager Luciano Moggi was sentenced to five years and four months in jail on Tuesday for his role in the match-fixing case which led to the club being demoted and stripped of their 2005 and 2006 Serie A titles. Moggi, already banned from football for life, was found guilty of sporting fraud and conspiracy by an Italian court in the criminal trial linked to the affair....
12:18 AM, Nov 10, 2011
Name: Tata Steel Why they won: For operating with a higher organisational purpose beyond just maximising profits. For aligning the interests of multiple stakeholders - customers, employees, partners, investors, the community and the environment. For successfully balancing doing well with doing good. It was the early 1990s and Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao had invited the countrys top industrialists to Delhi for an informal chat. The Tata group was represented...
11:20 AM, Nov 02, 2011
In early 2009, Ramesh Kymal got a phone call that changed his life. Kymal was then the managing director of the Indian subsidiary of Vestas, the biggest wind turbine maker in the world. For the past five years, Kymal had tried and failed to convince his bosses in Denmark that he needed new investments in India. Eventually, he gave up and decided to move on. Yet, after six long months...
12:35 PM, Sep 17, 2011
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Anger and Fear are the predominant emotions of our times today. We are a nation of scared people. The generation above us was ...
12:35 PM, Jul 15, 2011
New Delhi: Facebook has become a hot target for online scamsters. The latest Facebook scam doing the round on the world's largest social networking site is in the form of a Facebook wall post with the title "The beautiful Marika Fruscio shows her breasts on Italian TV!" and some variations of the text. The post is accompanied with an image of the Italian adult model and television personality. "The beautiful...
11:45 AM, Jun 24, 2011
Washington: An American national, apparently of Ethiopian origin, was detained on Friday after being found with a suspicious device in a vehicle near Pentagon, following which security around the Defence Department headquarters was tightened and roads to the building closed for some time. Pentagon police spokesman Chris Layman said the person was taken into custody early on Friday, and that one or two other people may be involved. The suspected...
07:24 PM, Jun 17, 2011
Boston: US President Barack Obama's Indian-American infotech czar Vivek Kundra is headed to Harvard University this year for a fellowship programme and is expected to leave his post at the White House as Chief Information Officer in August. Kundra, who has been CIO in the Obama administration for the past two and a half years, will serve a joint fellowship later this year at Harvard. He will split his time...
09:59 AM, Jun 17, 2011
New Delhi: Bollywood star Abhishek Bachchan, perhaps the first Indian actor to receive a made-to-order Tramezza shoe from Italian luxury label Salvatore Ferragamo, says he was excited to see a Lord Ganesh idol placed at the entrance of Ferragamo house in Italy. "Had a wonderful evening. Went to the Ferragamo show and then dinner with the Ferragamo family. The highlight? Being greeted by a Ganeshji's murti at the entrance of...
06:51 PM, Jan 17, 2011
Brasilia: Dilma Rousseff became Brazil's first female president on Saturday after promising to build on an unprecedented run of economic success achieved by her popular predecessor and mentor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The 63-year-old former Marxist guerrilla and her Vice-President Michel Temer took the oath of office at the National Congress before hundreds of government officials and world leaders, including Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyco...
07:39 AM, Jan 02, 2011
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