
After many delays owing to usage of elephants on the screen, M Padmakumar's 'Thiruvambadi Thampan' is finally in theatres. The movie which celebrates the fondness of Malayalees, especially the 'Thrissur'ians, towards elephants tells a story about a family who trade elephants for festivals and other functions. A sumptuously shot movie, this 'Thampan' is worth a watch though it is a bit disjointed on script level. The movie has Jagathy as...

04:30 PM, Jun 01, 2012

Mumbai: The nation-wide bandh called by the NDA on Thursday crippled the commercial capital of the country, causing it to incur losses worth Rs 270-300 crore. MiD-DAY spoke to economists, who revealed that the city has a population of approximately 20 million, of which about eight million account for the workforce. On an average, each member of this workforce has an income of Rs 1 lakh per annum, while the...

03:47 PM, Jun 01, 2012

Mumbai: The Maharashtra government will fix responsibility on those political parties who called the Bharat bandh on Thursday and recover from them losses caused to public and private property, Home Minister RR Patil said. "The process of registering the panchnamas of the loss has been initiated. The police department has been asked to assess the loss of the public and private properties due to attacks on the buses, disrupting public...

09:08 PM, May 31, 2012

New Delhi: The Centre on Thursday said it had no information on the claim by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee that the CPM had hatched a conspiracy to assassinate her with help from abroad. At the presentation of the monthly report card of Ministry of Home Affairs, Home Minister P Chidambaram was asked by a reporter about the details of threats being faced by the Trinamool Congress supremo as...

07:29 PM, May 31, 2012

New Delhi: Left leaders Prakash Karat, AB Bardhan and Sitaram Yechury on Thursday courted arrest along with a number of their supporters in central Delhi as part of their protest against petrol price hike. The protest was organised at Delhi Gate on Thursday morning and a number of demonstrators blocked traffic. Holding placards and shouting slogans against the government, the Left activists marches towards the Daryaganj Police Station where they...

12:50 PM, May 31, 2012

New Delhi: The nationwide bandh called by the NDA and the Left Front evoked a mixed response from across the country on Thursday. While the NDA states were hit by the Bharat bandh, there was a lukewarm response in the Congress-ruled states as they remained partially affected. Most of the protests have been peaceful till now, but sporadic violence has been reported from Maharashtra and Karnataka. In the BJP-ruled Karnataka,...

11:44 AM, May 31, 2012

New Delhi: JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav was detained on Thursday in Bihar while he tried to enforce the Bharat bandh. JD(U)'s women's wing also stalled traffic on rail route in Patna. BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi also courted arrest in Delhi. He tweeted, "I am arrested, While taking part in protest program against Petrol price rise, @ akshardham." (sic). In Allahabad, Samajwadi Party workers, too, jammed the Delhi-Howrah rail route...

10:30 AM, May 31, 2012

Shiv Sena workers are expected to come out on the streets to hold rallies while the dabbawalas too have joined the strike. ...

10:06 AM, May 31, 2012

New Delhi: The Bharat bandh against petrol price hike started affecting normal life across the country on Thursday. The protests even turned violent at some places with public transport being damaged. In Karnataka, three state-run buses were burnt and 11 others were damaged early on Thursday morning. Following this, the BMTC has suspended operations for now and will review the situation after a meeting. There were similar scenes in Pune...

09:30 AM, May 31, 2012

New Delhi: The Bharat bandh call by the NDA and the Left parties started affecting normal life on Thursday with the other parties joining the the protests. Rail traffic was hit as Samajwadi Party and JD(U) workers blocked rail routes in Allahabad and Patna. The Saket Express and Ganga Gomti Express were stopped in Allahabad. The bandh turned violent in Karnataka as protestors burnt three state-run buses and damaged 11...

07:40 AM, May 31, 2012

Mumbai: Shares in Tata Motors dropped as much as 11.8 percent on Wednesday, wiping more than $1.5 billion off the value o f the Indian car maker, following deep disappointment about the fall in operating margins at its Jaguar Land Rover unit. The steep decline came even after Tata Motors said on Tuesday fiscal fourth quarter net profit had more than doubled, as it had been driven by a one-off...

03:53 PM, May 30, 2012

Mumbai: The next time you find strangers at your doorsteps, claiming that they have come to invite you for a wedding at your hometown, think twice before you welcome them. On Monday, a group of three unidentified men, under the pretext of giving a wedding invite, robbed a housewife and her daughter at gunpoint. According to the Chembur police, the unidentified trio had introduced themselves to Sohani Naval, 48, a...

12:36 PM, May 30, 2012

Mumbai: If you thought adulterating milk meant diluting it with water, heres a disgusting reality check. Cops caught four milk vendors red-handed selling milk packets mixed with sewage water to customers in Vile Parle (East) in Mumbai on Monday. The milk vendors were engaged in this act since the past six months and were using empty milk packets that they collected from garbage bins. Acting on a tip-off, Vile Parle...

12:45 PM, May 29, 2012

Mumbai: Kareena Kapoor may soon be seen sharing the screen space with Emraan Hashmi in Karan Johar's next " details of which are tightly been kept under wraps. If sources are to be believed, Kareena is taking keen interest in the film and is looking forward to working with Emraan given his recent spate of back-to-back hits. Apparently, Emraan is fast becoming a favourite in the Karan camp and has...

11:38 AM, May 29, 2012

Mumbai: Two of the five alleged Indian Mujahideen operatives behind bars in connection with 13/7 bomb blasts case were on Monday arrested in a motorcycle theft case, a senior ATS official said. Terror suspects Naquee Ahmed and Nadeem Shaikh were on Monday arrested for stealing two motorcycles from VP Road and Dongri areas days before the 13/7 bomb blasts, the official said. Both of them were in judicial custody in...

10:50 PM, May 28, 2012