Belgrade: World number one Novak Djokovic has pulled out of the Serbia Open following the death of his grandfather during the Monte Carlo Masters event last week, the Serbian said on Wednesday. "I've made a decision not to take part in the tournament this year," Djokovic, the title holder at the Belgrade clay-court event, said on his website. "This is certainly one of the toughest decisions in my career but...
10:53 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Malayalam director Aashiq Abu's new film, '22 Female Kottayam', has received a good opening at the box-office. ...
05:30 PM, Apr 25, 2012
CHENNAI: The earnest endeavour of a father to trace his four-year-old son, who went missing from his home in Gummidipoondi on April 21, by pasting posters himself at various railway stations between his town and Chennai Central yielded quick results, leading to a happy family reunion on Tuesday.Dilip, who came from Odisha about 15 years ago and now ekes out a living as a labour contractor in Gummidipoondi, was dejected...
08:13 AM, Apr 25, 2012
Lucknow: A query posted by a 10-year-old girl under the Right to Information Act (RTI) regarding father of nation status to Mahatma Gandhi has raised a piquant situation before the government. In February this year, Aishwarya Parashar, a class sixth student, sent an RTI application to the central public information officer of Prime Minister's office seeking a photocopy of the order through which Mahatma Gandhi was declared as father of...
03:37 PM, Apr 03, 2012
There's no doubt about it - Jeffrey Archer's got a gift. At first glance, The 'Sins of the Father' is a heady mix of, well, stuff that Archer's given us before " the prison sentence, the wronged innocent, the devoted partner, who fights against all odds " but he does it so well, and injects more drama than you would think possible! There is also a definite seediness that he...
01:07 AM, Mar 24, 2012
New Delhi: How do you define a film? Is it something captured on camera or is this something that deserves to be captured on camera? What is 'The Godfather'? A film, an epic, a story, a subtle story, a life portrayed on celluloid, a story so subtle that it achieved the status of an epic, or it is just 'The Godfather'? The film has completed 40 years but does it...
04:38 PM, Mar 17, 2012
Beijing: A Chinese man, believed to be suffering from a mental disorder, bit off the penis of six-year-old son in a sudden outburst on a road, leaving the onlookers shocked and the little boy writhing in pain. The incident happened last week in the southern Shenzhen city, where people on the road rushed the boy's rescue. Witnesses said the boy was walking naked along with his four-year-old sister, when the...
05:50 PM, Mar 12, 2012
London: Around 72,000 families in Britain have no male parent or role models at home and are headed by a single mother, a study has found. An official review into what caused last year's riots spoke about the lack of good male role-models in the lives of many young people arrested for taking part in the disturbances, the Daily Mail reported. Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles said the...
09:59 AM, Mar 11, 2012
Jodhpur: A three-year-old boy is struggling for life at a government hospital in Rajasthan after his alcoholic stepfather put burning cigarettes on his face, beat him up and clawed him in a drunken condition, police said Friday. Sanyam Jain, a resident of Vishala village near Sanchore in Jalore district, was Thursday admitted to the intensive care unit of Ummed Hospital in Jodhpur, some 400 km from state capital Jaipur. He...
03:40 PM, Feb 24, 2012
Shimla: A familiar figure strolling along Shimla's Mall, greeting friends and chatting animatedly in the coffee house is being missed with the death of actor Anupam Kher's father Pushkar Nath Kher, 84. Nath's friends and local theatre artistes, who once shared stage with Kher, mourned his demise. Nath, a Kashmiri Pandit by origin, died in Mumbai after a brief illness Friday. "Nath will always be remembered for the excitement he...
02:18 PM, Feb 12, 2012
Chandigarh: First it was 'kaka' and now it is 'peo-puttar' (father-son). The Election Commission (EC) on Sunday directed that the words 'peo-puttar' should not be used in advertisements and campaigning, in an incorrect manner, in the run-up to the Jan 30 assembly poll in Punjab. The direction followed a complaint by the Akali Dal to the EC against the Punjab Congress using the word 'peo-puttar' in its series of advertisements...
01:38 PM, Jan 23, 2012
Koshambi: A man was hacked to death by one of his sons after the father killed another son in the Koshambi district of Uttar Pradesh on Monday night. After an argument turned ugly between one Mainkulal Raidas and his son Anesh in the Saini locality of Kamalpur village in Koshambi, Raidas attacked Anesh with an axe gravely injuring him, police sources told IBN7 on Monday. Anesh later succumbed to his...
02:37 PM, Jan 10, 2012
London: Mitch Winehouse, father of late singer Amy Winehouse, has turned her home into a shrine following her death there in July. The 27-year-old singer was found dead in her north London home and her father Mitch says he still can't bear to touch some of the items in the property because he is still haunted by her tragic death, Contactmusic reported. "I can't bring myself to move some things....
01:36 PM, Dec 13, 2011
London: One in every three women believe that their husbands "lose interest" in them and don't find them attractive any more once they give birth, says a British study. Almost half of women surveyed accused their husbands of "forgetting" who they were since they became a mother, said the research by the website Netmums. On being asked which words their male partner would use to describe them, just 12 percent...
06:29 PM, Dec 02, 2011
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