In a city such as Delhi, your air conditioners should be all-weather but not if you happen to be transferred to Cherrapunjee. You may not ...
01:51 PM, May 22, 2012
Mumbai: The raven-tressed heroine stares adoringly at the handsome Mughal prince, who gazes lovingly back at her - from where they are painted on a Mumbai wall. The mural of the classic Bollywood film 'Anarkali' is the brainchild of a pair of movie buffs, who hope to give Mumbai a distinct Bollywood identity through a series of murals, aiming for the iconic appeal of the 'Hollywood' sign in California. The...
07:23 PM, May 16, 2012
Films are dangerous. Ask the person who named 'Kali-Ma', the beer named after the Hindu goddess Kali. The beer, by the Burnside Brewing Company based ...
11:16 AM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notices to the central and West Bengal governments on a petition that devotees be permitted to enter the sanctum sanctorum of the Kolkata-based Kalighat temple to pay obeisance to the deity. An apex court vacation bench of Justice Deepak Verma and Justice SJ Mukhopadhyay issued the notice after it was told that devotees were not allowed to enter the temple's sanctum sanctorum...
01:45 AM, May 16, 2012
Washington: An American brewery company has apologised for naming a beer after Hindu goddess Kali and said it is currently scrambling to rename the product, amidst protest in the Indian parliament. The 'Kali Ma' beer which was scheduled for launch on Tuesday has now been postponed till the Portland-based company Burnside Brewing Co finds a new name to it. "In response to pleas from the Hindu community we have decided...
08:25 PM, May 15, 2012
The Antyakshari scene in Gabbar Singh has been receiving much attention for the fact that Pawan Kalyan used the scene to ridicule Rajshekar and Jeevitha. They will hit back was expected, though that they would make the ridiculous suggestion that Pawan mimicked Rajshekar so as to score a hit after a spate of flops is laughable. Speaking to a national daily, the couple said, "Siva Reddy had become popular and...
06:46 PM, May 15, 2012
New Delhi: Strongly objecting to a US company launching a beer brand named after Goddess Kali, a demand was made in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday that US Ambassador to India should be summoned and asked to apologise for it. Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Ravi Shankar Prasad (BJP) said it is a serious and sensitive issue that a Portland-based company Burnside Brewing has launched a product titled Kali-Ma beer,...
02:32 PM, May 15, 2012
P Sunil Kumar Reddy of Sontha Vooru and Gangaputrulu is known for telling compelling stories. If it was the 'sell-out' of the village land (SEZs) and the exploitation of the coast, respectively, in this first two films, his Oka Romantic Crime Katha is a take on the issues like teen love, teen sex and abortions, which have become common place in the modern society. The director says, "Owing to various...
06:11 PM, May 13, 2012
Looks like this is the season of political dramas. After Autonagar Surya and Krishna Vamsi's Paisa (which is allegedly a political satire), Sri Praveen of Gaayam-2 fame is returning with an action based political flick. And the catch here is that, this film is based on a real incident which happened in the 1980s. Without revealing the incident or the plot, the director says that the film will see the...
06:37 PM, May 12, 2012
The opposition has attacked the government for lack of storage of foodgrain. ...
04:04 PM, May 09, 2012
Chandigarh: Punjab Agriculture Minister Tota Singh was found guilty in a corruption case by a trial court in Mohali adjoining Chandigarh on Saturday. He has been sentenced to one-year imprisonment and a fine of Rs 30,000. However, Tota Singh will not be arrested till July 2 by which time he can file an appeal in the superior court. Tota Singh is the second minister in the newly formed Akali Government...
07:21 PM, May 05, 2012
Guwahati: In one of the worst boat tragedies in Assam, 100 people, including women and children, drowned and over 100 went missing when a packed steamer carrying over 300 passengers sank in the Brahmaputra river after being caught in a severe storm midstream in Dhubri district of Assam on Monday. Deputy Commissioner Kumud Chandra Kalita said the bodies of 100 victims were recovered by the BSF and the National Disaster...
11:10 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Malaika Arora said that it was great dancing with Mithun Chakraborty and he is rightly the king of disco. ...
08:30 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Chandigarh: Clashes have been reported from Patiala and some other regions of Punjab as tension escalates over the hanging of Balwant Singh Rajoana, convicted in the assassination of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh. Sikh groups have also taken out protest marches in Jammu in support of Rajoana, putting pressure on the Punjab government. Security forces have been put on high alert across Punjab and 60,000 Punjab Police personnel along...
02:51 PM, Mar 28, 2012
Chandigarh: A day-long bandh called by radical Sikh outfits to protest the proposed execution of Balwant Singh Rajoana, convicted in the Beant Singh killing case, disrupted normal life in parts of Punjab on Tuesday. A report from Patiala said the call for bandh evoked a total response in the city where Rajoana is lodged in the local Central Jail awaiting his execution on March 31 as per the orders of...
10:43 AM, Mar 28, 2012
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