
Minivan News Editor John James Robinson speaks to CNN-IBN on Skype about the law and order situation in Maldives. ...

07:31 PM, Feb 09, 2012

Hyderabad: Innovation is the middle name of Puri Jagannadh. The three-time Nandi Award recipient has his diary full this year and the list of projects include one with Junior NTR, Devudu Chesina Manushulu with Ravi Teja-Ileana, an untitled flick with Pawan Kalyan-Kajal Agarwal, Businessman 2 and Hindi Businessman. The one with Junior NTR will hit the floors in August. Evidently, they are absolutely in no mood to pay the price...

07:26 PM, Feb 07, 2012

New Delhi: The first official photo from actor Daniel Craig's Bond movie 'Skyfall' was released on Wednesday from a scene set in Shanghai. 'Skyfall', from Albert R Broccoli's EON Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Sony Pictures Entertainment, is directed by Academy Award winner Sam Mendes and stars Craig, who returns for his third film as Ian Fleming's James Bond 007. Joining Daniel Craig the cast includes Javier Bardem, Ralph Fiennes, Berenice...

05:28 PM, Feb 01, 2012

Washington: Pakistan continues to consider India as an "existential threat" despite the two countries taking significant appreciative steps in improving their ties, a top American intelligence official said on Wednesday. "Pakistan and our interests are not always congruent...Their existential threat continues to be India," Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told lawmakers at a Congressional hearing. Clapper said that after a four-year pause, India and Pakistan revived expert-level discussions on...

12:41 PM, Feb 01, 2012

Washington: Noting that India is increasingly getting concerned about China's posture on its border, a top US intelligence official on Wednesday said that the Indian Army is strengthening itself for a "limited conflict" with China. "Despite public statements intended to downplay tensions between India and China, we judge that India is increasingly concerned about China's posture along their disputed border and Beijing's perceived aggressive posture in the Indian Ocean and...

12:34 PM, Feb 01, 2012

London: British actress Naomie Harris says she is delighted to star with Daniel Craig in new James Bond movie 'Skyfall'. The 35-year-old, who plays the role of field agent Eve in the film, believes Craig has reinvented the role of the iconic British spy, reported Contactmusic. "There are some great Bonds but I think Daniel totally reinvented Bond and make it his own, which was very impressive and took a...

02:11 PM, Jan 29, 2012

London: James Bond film 'Skyfall' is to shoot almost entirely in the UK after budget cuts meant production could no longer head to Bali and China. The forthcoming 23rd installment of the franchise - starring Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem and Dame Judi Dench - was expected to shoot in locations across the globe including Bali and China, but because of budget cuts Turkey is now the only other country the...

02:12 PM, Jan 19, 2012

Tokyo: For a former James Bond car, it's a chance to live twice. Japanese engineers put a new spin on an old classic car for a recent auto show, remodelling a Toyota 2000GT with solar panels and high-tech gadgets to make it 100 per cent electric and solar-powered. Heralded as Japan's first sports car when it came out in 1967, the vehicle was used in the James Bond movie You...

08:07 PM, Jan 18, 2012

Los Angeles: Movie lovers will not see James Cameron's 'Avatar 2' in the coming years as the ambitious project has reportedly been delayed. While the awaited film was originally expected to make its way out in 2014, producer Jon Landau revealed that the 'Avatar' sequel may be pushed back until 2016. Nonetheless, he promised that the forthcoming movie will showcase advanced technology that includes a higher rate of 3D camera...

05:57 PM, Jan 15, 2012

Cast: James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent and Bill Nighy Directors: Sarah Smith, Barry Cook Whether you ever believed in Santa Claus or not, you'll find Arthur Christmas is a charming animation film about how Santa manages to deliver so many presents around the world in one single night. The movie suggests that in a high-tech factory buried deep in the North Pole, an army of elves works tirelessly to wrap each...

05:57 PM, Jan 13, 2012

Miami: NASA is questioning whether Apollo 13 commander James Lovell has the right to sell a 70-page checklist from the flight that includes his handwritten calculations crucial in guiding the damaged spacecraft back to Earth. The document was sold by Heritage Auctions in November for more than USD 388,000, some 15 times its initial list price. The checklist gained great fame as part of a key dramatic scene in the...

08:51 AM, Jan 07, 2012

London: Actor James Franco is to release his first novel 'Actors Anonymous', which is loosely inspired by his experiences in Hollywood. The 33-year-old has sold the book to online retailer Amazon, reported Daily Mirror. Although its Franco's debut novel it is not his first book - he previously released a collection of short stories entitled 'Palo Alto'. The actor is well renowned for his love of changing his work constantly,...

02:04 PM, Jan 06, 2012

London: As inquiries continue at various levels into the phone-hacking row, News International chairman James Murdoch on Tuesday admitted that he had received an email in 2008 that detailed phone-hacking at the News of the World tabloid, but claimed he did not read it in full. The email is a key factor in the row, and Murdoch's defence before the Culture, Media and Sport Committee has been that he did...

07:28 AM, Dec 14, 2011

I couldn't decide if I wanted to read this book or not, and then it landed in my lap, and that seemed pretty decisive, right there. The fates were looking up. It had been a drab and dreary sort of month, after all. What better way to transition out of that?! And yet, the stakes were high. After all, 'Pride and Prejudice' is one book that I read pretty much...

02:15 PM, Dec 05, 2011