Srinagar: Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who is on his much-publicised maiden shoot in Kashmir, had to work his charm on fans and media as chaos broke out during his press conference.
The 46-year-old actor, who completed his nine-day filming schedule in the Valley for Yash Chopra's new directorial venture, took the mic first to apologise for turning up late by fifteen minutes and then started talking about how happy he was to be in Kashmir.
But the actor was forced to repeat his lines as people jostled with each other to pose questions to him at the poorly organized event. Ever the charmer, Shah Rukh first used filmy dialogues like Shatrughan Sinha's 'Khaamosh' to restore order at the press briefing. However, the actor had to leave his chair and
direct the photographers and fans to be seated....
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02:36 PM, Sep 06, 2012
Chennai: Normally, when a groom escapes from the marriage hall to avoid getting married, there is chaos, name-calling and an inevitable police complaint. Things were a little different though when a similar incident happened at a corporation community hall in Shenoy Nagar " barring a few hours delay. An eligible bachelor stepped up and married the bride, thus ensuring a happy ending that is straight out of a Tamil film....
01:40 PM, Sep 03, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A few hours of summer rain showed what the real rainy season can do to the capital city the coming June. The residents and the civic authorities could only watch in horror as all the minor and major trash dumps that had sprung up in every nook and corner of the city flowed out into the streets with the rainwater. On Tuesday evening, the civic authorities also got a...
12:44 PM, Apr 26, 2012
Pune: The much-hyped opening ceremony of 10th chapter of Pune International Film Festival (PIFF) turned into a complete fiasco as around 400 delegates, who were not able to see legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan in flesh and blood during the event, rose in rebellion against the organisers yesterday evening. Unhappy over the fact that they were forced to watch Amithabh's felicitation on multiplex screens -- and not in the main hall...
12:54 PM, Jan 13, 2012
TIRUMALA: Utter chaos prevailed at Tirumala on Thursday as lakhs of devotees thronged Lord Venkateswara temple for Vaikuntha Dwara Darshanam on the auspicious Vaikunta Ekadasi. The Tirumala-Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) plans for comfortable darshan simply fell apart. It were the ordinary devotees who suffered the most despite having on hand different types of darshan tickets introduced by the TTD for the occasion. The entire queue system was mismanaged. Commotion took place...
10:04 AM, Jan 06, 2012
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Looking at the state of the Indian Union and the polity that governs it, one is prompted to dig Henry B Adams out of his ...
09:43 PM, Nov 28, 2011
Berlin: Wintry conditions continued to wreak havoc on Christmas travel in Germany on Friday, with about 700 people forced to spend part of the night on five trains stuck between Berlin and Hanover after the wiring for the rail network iced up. Ice also hit the country's road system, with many streets and highways becoming as smooth as glass after a night of ice rain brought traffic to a halt...
05:33 PM, Dec 24, 2010
Berlin: Thousands of air travelers remained stranded and train services were severely disrupted as fresh snowfall and sub-zero temperatures worsened Europe's Christmas travel chaos. For the fifth consecutive night, several hundred stranded passengers slept on camping beds at Germany's largest airport in Frankfurt as the authorities struggled to cope with the tension building up among those still unable to catch a flight. The airport operator Fraport has been trying to...
02:05 PM, Dec 22, 2010
A blast of harsh winter weather socked Europe on Friday, causing travel chaos and sending temperatures into the deep-freeze. From Northern Ireland to Bulgaria, blizzard conditions left airports with heavy delays or shut them entirely. In Belgium, truck drivers were forced to spend a freezing night in their cabs when authorities banned trucks over seven tons from travelling on icy roads. At London's Heathrow Airport, snow caused the cancellation of...
01:09 PM, Dec 18, 2010
New Delhi: Confusion, chaos and anger. These are the emotions the passengers of Air India had to go through on Thursday as domestic operations shifted to the new terminal 3 at the Indira Gandhi International Airport. The chaos that ensued on Thursday should have been a wake-up call for the national carrier. The least they could have done was rectify the issue but unfortunately Friday wasn’t much different. “When we...
08:30 PM, Nov 12, 2010
Floods have already killed more than 1,500 people in Pakistan over the last week and affected some 3 million others. ...
01:08 PM, Aug 05, 2010
Take a look at CNN-IBN Senior Editor Sagarika Ghose's top reads this year. ...
01:30 AM, Dec 15, 2009
The Civil Aviation Ministry has sought an explanation from GMR. ...
03:41 PM, Aug 22, 2009
A minor storm overpowered the cyclone-proof Delhi airport. ...
12:20 PM, Aug 22, 2009
Organisers allegedly hit a parent with a revolver. ...
03:55 PM, Feb 19, 2009
CJ Mangesh Joshi sent pictures of the confusion at the Borivali station. ...
06:43 PM, Feb 04, 2009
New Delhi: IPL franchise Deccan Chargers on Wednesday contended that a British court's award of over 10 million pounds to its former CEO Tim Wright would be non-est in the eyes of the Indian courts or justice. Reacting to the award by Royal Courts of Justice in London on a suit filed by Wright alleging breach of contract, Deccan Chargers counsel Ravi Singhania said that the judgement of English courts...
12:33 PM, Jun 10, 2008
Lahore: The Pakistan Cricket Board was on Tuesday forced to issue a clarification after off-spinner Saeed Ajmal got embroiled in an unwanted controversy over his bowling action following his interview to a British newspaper. Ajmal, who finished with 24 wickets in the 3-0 whitewash of England in the three-match Test series, got entangled in the controversy after a British newspaper said that Ajmal had claimed that the ICC had given...
04:56 PM, Apr 21, 2008
