
London: Vanessa Redgrave was hailed at a Hollywood film academy tribute Sunday, praised as an actress and an activist by A-list friends including Ralph Fiennes, Meryl Streep and James Earl Jones. More than 30 years after she shocked the Oscars ceremony with a fiercely political acceptance speech, Redgrave was the subject of an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences retrospective - its first to an actor in Europe. "I...

12:15 PM, Nov 14, 2011

San Jose: A sentence in which tiny birds and the English language are both slaughtered has taken top honours in an annual bad writing contest. Sue Fondrie of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, won the 2011 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for her sentence comparing forgotten memories to dead sparrows yesterday, said San Jose State University Prof. Scott Rice. The contestant asks writers to submit the worst possible opening sentences to imaginary novels. Fondrie wrote:...

01:13 PM, Jul 26, 2011

New Delhi: Sathya Sai Baba was laid to rest amid vedic chants at the Sai Kulwant hall in Puttaparthi with full state honours on Wednesday. His nephew RJ Ratnakar performed the last rites three days after Sathya Sai Baba died. The Samadhi of Sathya Sai Baba is at the same spot from where he used to meet and address his disciples for years. Once the last rites were performed by...

07:06 AM, Apr 27, 2011

Hanging their pictures in Gurdwara has divided Sikhs and upset other Indians. ...

08:49 AM, Feb 13, 2010

IIFA honoured actors, films, and directors for the last decade. ...

01:30 AM, Jun 15, 2009

We need youth in arts, says composer at Aligarh Muslim University. ...

06:26 PM, Jun 07, 2009

Indian statesman awarded America engineering prize for service to humanity. ...

01:26 PM, Apr 29, 2009

The title was given away to her by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. ...

03:45 AM, Feb 05, 2009

Indian of the Year Awards honours Indians for their work and cause. ...

02:03 AM, Jan 12, 2009

Financiers, money managers get the blame for global financial crisis. ...

05:24 PM, Dec 28, 2008

Rushdie was knighted for his contribution in the field of literature. ...

02:36 PM, Jun 26, 2008

India-born author Salman Rushdie was awarded knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II on Saturday. ...

08:05 AM, Jun 17, 2007

Police have questioned British Prime Minister Tony Blair as a witness for a second time in the cash-for-honours scandal over political funding. ...

11:43 PM, Feb 01, 2007

A contingent of ceremonial guards of PAP reversed their arms and fired in the air to pay respect to the deceased. ...

04:25 PM, Oct 26, 2006