
The Ernakulam Family Court has granted permission to actress Urvasi to keep daughter Thejalakshmy alias Kunjatta for a few more days in her custody than her former husband and actor Manoj K Jayan. Kunjatta,10, will stay with Urvasi during Onam and Christmas holidays and the first half of the summer vacation. In addition to this, Manoj K Jayan should leave Kunjatta in the custody of Urvasi every second Saturday, Family...

01:17 PM, Jun 01, 2012

Dr. V Krishna Mohan remembers clearly the first time that he saw Sujatha. It was the year 1971. A wedding was taking place at Guruvayur. Yesudas was scheduled to give a performance. He had invited his friend Mohan to attend it. As Mohan sat on the stage, he saw a seven-year-old girl, wearing a white frock, make her way from the audience towards the platform. Mohan was 19-and-a-half years old...

11:21 AM, May 30, 2012

Mumbai: He hasn't had a single release so far this year, but it looks like Salman Khan is already planning his next year's big releases. Considering that the release date determines the kind of opening a big star film will register, it is learnt that the actor is scheduling his next film with Sooraj Barjatya for Eid 2013 and brother Sohail's next directorial venture for Christmas later in the year....

11:05 AM, May 30, 2012

New York: Using FBI wiretaps, email, phone records and the testimony of a Goldman Sachs Group Inc director, US prosecutors drew a picture for jurors on Thursday of events that led to the insider-trading trial of onetime corporate star Rajat Gupta. 63-year-old Gupta is accused of providing now-imprisoned hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam with boardroom secrets between March 2007 and January 2009 while he was a director of Goldman Sachs...

09:17 AM, May 25, 2012

New York: Former Goldman Sachs director and McKinsey & Co executive Rajat Gupta was on a list of "important people" that now-imprisoned hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam was willing to be disturbed to take their phone calls, his onetime secretary testified at Gupta's insider-trading trial on Tuesday. The former Galleon Group employee Caryn Eisenberg also told the Manhattan federal court jury that she saw Gupta "many times" in the firm's...

09:52 AM, May 23, 2012

New Delhi: The first look of 'I M 24' has been revealed. The film stars Ranvir Shorey, Rajat Kapoor, Manjari, and Neha Dhupia in prominent roles. Directed by Saurabh Shukla, the film is about a balding man who falls in love with a very young girl. ...

11:46 AM, May 22, 2012

New York: A former Goldman Sachs Group Inc board member "threw away his duties" in divulging secrets about the investment bank to now-imprisoned hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam, a US prosecutor said at the start of a major insider-trading trial on Monday. Rajat Gupta, once a boldface name in business and charity circles, is the most prominent corporate executive charged in the US government's crackdown on insider trading. He has...

07:16 AM, May 22, 2012

New York: Barely a day went by at the insider-trading trial of multimillionaire hedge-fund founder Raj Rajaratnam a year ago without mention of Rajat Gupta, a boldface name in business and charity circles. On Monday in the same federal court in New York, it will be Gupta's turn to go on trial. The former Goldman Sachs Group Inc and Procter & Gamble board member is accused of leaking stock secrets...

08:27 PM, May 21, 2012

New York: The July 29, 2008, phone call between two titans of Wall Street began with the old friends exchanging mild pleasantries, but then quickly turned serious and - by the government's account - criminal. Hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam asked about a rumor that Goldman Sachs "might look to buy a commercial bank". On the other end of the phone, then-widely respected Goldman board member Rajat Gupta confided there...

09:37 AM, May 21, 2012

New York: Indian-American corporate leader Rajat Gupta has been warned by a US judge that he cannot beat insider trading charges by trumpeting his history of philanthropy any more than Mother Teresa could use her missionary work to fend off bank robbery charges. "If Mother Teresa were charged with bank robbery, the jury would still have to determine whether or not she committed a bank robbery," US District Judge Jed...

06:35 PM, May 18, 2012

New Delhi: The BJP on Friday slammed the government on the issue of cartoon of Dalit icon BR Ambedkar in school text books and accused Congress of "insulting" Gujjar, Jat, Sikh and Jain communities in text books. "For the last two days, this government has been committing mistakes and apologising. It commits a mistake in the morning and apologises in the evening. On Thursday, the Leader of the House in...

08:27 PM, May 11, 2012

This week Rajeev Masand reviews Emraan Hashmi-starrer 'Jannat 2', Rajat Kapoor's 'Fatso' and Hollywood release 'Hugo'. ...

04:55 PM, May 05, 2012

Cast: Ranvir Shorey, Gul Panag, Purab Kohli, Neil Bhoopalam, Gunjan Bakshi Director Rajat Kapoor There's an interesting idea buried somewhere under those layers of flab in director Rajat Kapoor's Fatso. But it's a pity the film's fantastical premise isn't mined for enough laughs... Naveen (Purab Kohli) has popped the question to his girlfriend Nandini (Gul Panag). Soon after, he's killed in a road accident that was meant to claim the...

11:21 PM, May 04, 2012