London: A British woman who contracted rabies after being bitten by a dog during a recent visit to India has died, making her first victim of the disease in the country since 2002, health officials announced on Monday night. The unnamed woman was being treated was diagnosed with the potentially life-threatening disease at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in London. Another case of rabies has been reported from Leeds, where...
02:48 AM, May 29, 2012
Cannes: The longest-running entry in this year's Cannes festival, a five-hour Indian gangster epic, won a warm welcome at the Riviera event, even drawing parallels with Quentin Tarantino. Anurag Kashyap, who directed the five hour 20 minute 'Gangs of Wasseypur', described the film to AFP as 'a Bollywood-influenced gangster epic, part Western, part documentary.' With a folk-meets-dubstep soundtrack and a basis in true stories, the film follows three generations of...
01:08 PM, May 26, 2012
London: The growing phenomenon of rich tourists visiting slums in Mumbai and elsewhere for entertainment, mainly sparked off by movie 'Slumdog Millionaire', is the subject of a new study at the University of Leicester. The study is also examining whether slum tourism can help tackle global inequalities and injustices, by analysing the growth in tours of areas of urban poverty, often called slums, favelas or townships. The project, funded by...
05:26 PM, May 22, 2012
BANGALORE: Rejected by many a parks in the city with the sign No Pets Allowed, mongrels and pet dogs find solace in the expanded kennel of Bengaluru, the Cubbon Park. Due to the small number of dog friendly parks in the city, owners are forced to take their pets for a walk in the few places that do not restrict their entry.City Express spoke to a few animal lovers, joggers...
08:51 AM, May 21, 2012
Beijing: A Chinese man wants to trade his two expensive mastiff dogs for a BMW car as part of a deal to take his cancer-stricken wife to her hometown and other places, hoping that she will recover during the travel. The 61-year-old man, surnamed Pan, has been sitting by the roadside close to the Zhongcun toll station, which is on a road running between Fuyang and Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang...
04:40 AM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: Bollywood superstar Anil Kapoor, who re-united with director Priyadarshan in 'Tezz' after a gap of 14 years, says the filmmaker has a lot of potential in him but hasn't realised it yet. The 52-year-old actor worked with Priyadarshan first in the 1997 film 'Virasat' and thinks that the filmmaker is one of the best directors in the country. "The problem with Priyadarshan is that he doesn't even know...
01:35 PM, May 02, 2012
Mumbai: We remember him as the skinny Jamal from Danny Boyle's Oscar-sweeping Slumdog Millionaire. But that was four years ago. Dev Patel recently celebrated his 22nd birthday and is already working in his fourth feature film. While in Los Angeles, Dev engaged in an exclusive phone interview with HitList to discuss life as a travelling actor, challenges in Hollywood, sweetheart Freida Pinto and his upcoming film. How has life changed...
11:29 AM, May 02, 2012
London: A dog saved the life of his owner who fell off the roof at his house in Britain. The animal fetched him a phone to call for help. James Epps, a 40-year-old former policeman, broke his hip, pelvis and elbow when he fell 10 feet on to concrete at his home in Gillingham, Kent. Epps managed to drag himself indoors but collapsed, the Daily Express reported. But his Italian...
08:12 PM, Apr 28, 2012
Los Angeles: 'Slumdog Millionaire' star Dev Patel has landed lead role in Bill Bennett directed thriller 'Defiant', which is based on the true story of double honour killings in India. It will be Dev's third project based on an Indian story after 'Slumdog' and 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel'. The 22-year-old actor stars opposite Toni Colette in the movie. He will play one of the lovers on the run, the...
05:07 PM, Apr 24, 2012
New York: A very tiny puppy sits inside a coffee mug, trying without success to escape by scratching its little paws against the slippery surface. In recent days, the famous dog has been placed alongside a variety of small objects - an iPhone, a business card and a tape measure, among other things - to demonstrate just how tiny she really is. Its name is Beyonce, a female dachshund mix...
12:20 PM, Mar 29, 2012
Soon after I got out of AR Rahman's North Mumbai home (which also doubles up as his studio), I went online. To look up 'Munbe Vaa,' a song in the Tamil movie, Sillunu Oru Kaadhal, for which Rahman had composed the music. Now, I don't understand a word of Tamil. And I can confidently say"without fear of contradiction from my wife"that I'm rarely 'mushy'. But the moment the song started...
10:58 AM, Mar 28, 2012
London: Indian origin actress Freida Pinto says Dev Patel is really dramatic at home and people don't understand how good an actor he really is. The 27-year-old, who has been dating her 'Slumdog Millionaire' co-star since in 2007, says Patel has a 'massive' range of emotions, reported Femalefirst. "Dev has always been an amazing actor, and I feel people have not tapped into a quarter of what he's capable of...
01:30 PM, Mar 26, 2012
Seoul: US President Barack Obama said on Sunday there was still time to resolve the Iranian nuclear standoff with the West through diplomacy but that the window for such a solution was closing. Obama reiterated his position on Iran after talks with Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on the eve of a nuclear security summit in Seoul. "I believe there is a window of time to solve this diplomatically but...
08:53 PM, Mar 25, 2012
Mumbai: If unofficial sobriquets could be turned official, Michelle Satter would be called the Godmother of creative cinema. After mentoring some of the greatest minds of cinema like Quentin Tarantino and Darren Aronofsky, she has now set her eyes on India. After 31 years of existence and an extended presence in a lot of countries, Satter, the Founding Director of the Feature Film programme at the Sundance Institute, is in...
05:08 PM, Mar 23, 2012
Keeva is a diabetes alert dog in Canada and she's trained to recognize when blood sugar levels go high or low. ...
03:44 PM, Mar 23, 2012
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