New Delhi: Quite often producers feel the need of generating controversies to promote their films. However, this is not the case with Muran, a soon to be released Tamil film. One of its heroines Nikitha Thukral has already shot to limelight with her alleged involvement in actor Darshans domestic violence case. Nikithas alleged role play in Kannada actor Darshans wife bashing has given her ample media space and thus Muran...
05:43 PM, Sep 25, 2011
V S Naipaul sparked off another row by claiming that there has been no woman writer whom he considers his equal. What's your reaction to the statement made by Naipaul?
06:05 PM, Jun 18, 2011
New Delhi: MF Husain was both loved and loathed in equal measures. Husain was a great modern artist, but he was always more than just his art. In the last years of his life, controversy followed him almost at every step. For right-wing Hindu groups, Husian became a hate figure. In the mid 1990s, some of Husain's works from an earlier period became controversial because of their portrayal of Hindu...
09:05 PM, Jun 09, 2011
London: Singer Britney Spears is being sued for $10 million by a licensing company that has alleged the singer failed to pay their commission for launching her fragrance line. The "Toxic" hitmaker and her father Jamie Spears are the subject of legal action by the Brand Sense Partners firm, which has alleged breach of contract. They are claiming they have stopped receiving the 35 percent commission that was agreed as...
12:00 PM, Jun 05, 2011
New Delhi: Baba Ramdev after becoming an enemy of MNCs is now a crusader against corruption, but there's a whole other side to the Yoga Guru. Ramdev has made some pretty striking statements in the past. Baba Ramdev had earlier taken a stand against cold drinks saying, "Drinking cold drinks cause cancer, drinking cold drinks can also lead to impotency, drinking cold drinks causes osteoporosis, drinking cold drinks can also...
09:26 PM, Jun 03, 2011
London: After ending the famous 15-year feud with American writer Paul Theroux at the Hay Festival this week, Nobel laureate V S Naipaul has sparked off another row by claiming that there has been no woman writer whom he considers his equal. Often described as the 'greatest living writer of English prose', Naipaul made the comments at the Royal Geographic Society on Wednesday, prompting angry responses from literary critics, writers...
07:05 PM, Jun 02, 2011
Azamgarh: Former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh has said he would not initiate action against news channels if contents of the controversial CDs allegedly containing his telephonic conversations are aired by them. "The said CD is unauthorised and even the government has accepted the fact. Under such circumstances if the contents of the CD are aired by television channels, then I will take no action," Singh told reporters after a...
02:04 PM, May 15, 2011
New Delhi: Supreme Court lifted its gag order on media on publishing taped conversations of Amar Singh on Wednesday. Amar Singh may proceed against the telecom operator for illegally tapping his phone, the Apex court says. There has been suppression of facts by Amar Singh in the case, SC says. The former Samajwadi Party leader had filed a petition seeking restraint order in 2006, tapes can now be telecast and...
10:41 AM, May 11, 2011
BJP leader and PAC Chief Dr MM Joshi speaks to Rajdeep Sardesai about the 2G controversy. ...
06:50 PM, May 04, 2011
London: Singer Beyonce Knowles has been accused of putting 70 people out of work after "abruptly abandoning" plans for a video game "on a whim". According to a complaint filed on Tuesday in New York, the agreement fell apart during a "crucial moment in the project's development" because Beyonce made "an extortionate demand" for more cash. She allegedly "destroyed Gate Five's business, and drove 70 people into unemployment". The bosses...
02:36 PM, Apr 27, 2011
Cyrus Broacha also talks about Amar Singh exclusive interview over Bhushan CD controversy. ...
10:22 AM, Apr 25, 2011
Hello and welcome to Devil's Advocate. How do Anna Hazare's closest supporters view the controversy surrounding the Bhushans? That's the key issue I should discuss today with Swami Agnivesh. Karan Thapar:Swami Agnivesh, let me start with a simple question. Are the Bhushans, the Achilles heel, the weak link in the Anna Hazare's movement? Swami Agnivesh: I would put it the other way around. They are the strongest link, because when...
09:22 AM, Apr 25, 2011
Hello and welcome to Devil's Advocate. How do Anna Hazare's closest supporters view the controversy surrounding the Bhushans? That's the key issue I should discuss today with Swami Agnivesh. Karan Thapar:Swami Agnivesh, let me start with a simple question. Are the Bhushans, the Achilles heel, the weak link in the Anna Hazare's movement? Swami Agnivesh: I would put it the other way around. They are the strongest link, because when ...
09:22 AM, Apr 25, 2011
Social Activist Swami Agnivesh, who is closely associated with the civil society members on the Lokpal Bill drafting committee has said that there was no problem in carrying out a probe into allegations made against the Bhushans, but the allegations should not be linked with their work on the committee. In an interview with Karan Thapar, he also said once the Lokpal law was enacted, there is no problem in ...
07:48 AM, Apr 24, 2011
Hyderabad: Two hi-tech labs have delivered diametrically opposing results on the Shanti Bhushan CD, even as the CD remains at the heart of the controversy. KPC Gandhi is a retired inspector general from Andhra Police. He's also the Chairman of Truth Labs, a private forensic laboratory that insists the Shanti Bhushan CD is doctored. Gandhi's team compared the Shanti Bhushan CD with telephone conversations between Amar Singh and Mulayam Singh ...
08:12 AM, Apr 22, 2011
New Delhi: The battle continues to rage between the political class and the activists over continuation of Shanti Bhushan in the Jan Lokpal Draft Committee, with senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh leading the charge from the front. "Shanti bhushan got his own CD examined by his personal friend to give himself a clean chit," said Singh. He even took on another member of the committee - Justice Santosh Hegde, Karnataka's ...
07:37 AM, Apr 22, 2011
New Delhi: The battle continues to rage between the political class and the activists over continuation of Shanti Bhushan in the Jan Lokpal Draft Committee, with senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh leading the charge from the front. "Shanti bhushan got his own CD examined by his personal friend to give himself a clean chit," said Singh. He even took on another member of the committee - Justice Santosh Hegde, Karnataka's ...
07:37 AM, Apr 22, 2011
On Talking Point, CNN-IBN asks, 'Have the Bhushans lost the moral right to continue on the Lokpal Panel?' ...
10:34 PM, Apr 21, 2011
New Delhi: The Shanti Bhushan-Mulayam Singh Yadav-Amar Singh CD controversy has pitted the social activists against the politicians with both sides trading charges on the issue. While a Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) report submitted to Delhi Police reportedly says that the CD has not been tampered with, a private lab which had examined the CD on Bhushans' behest is maintaining that there was some tampering in the audio. There ...
01:02 PM, Apr 21, 2011
New Delhi: In a new twist to the CD controversy involving Lokpal panel co-chairman Shanti Bhushan, the Delhi Police sources have said that the CD has not been tampered with. The CD was studied by the government-owned Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL). The CFSL report suggests that there is a continuity in the entire conversation. There is no evidence of patchwork and the conversation seems contextual. This basically means the ...
10:18 AM, Apr 21, 2011
