Washington: Time magazine has included Raj Kapoor's 1951 classic 'Awaara' among 20 new entries added to its All-Time 100 list of the greatest films made since 1923, the beginning of the prestigious US periodical. Rethinking the movie masterpieces, Time critic Richard Corliss describes Raj Kapoor as 'the great star-auteur of India's postcolonial golden age of movies - Cary Grant and Cecil B. DeMille in one handsome package.' "The '50s films...
07:09 PM, May 28, 2012
New Delhi: If you recall the sheer opulence of Baz Luhrmann's musical Moulin Rouge, complimenting Craig Armstrong and Marius de Vries's music, you will find it easier to justify Sanjay Leela Bhansali's magnum opus Devdas' place in the '10 Greatest Movies of the Millennium' list compiled by the Time magazine. A decade after it was released in seven languages, the grandeur of Devdas continues to enamour an audience in the...
05:24 PM, May 24, 2012
There seems to be no end to criticism for the economic policies by the Manmohan Singh government as the UPA-II completes three years in power. CNN-IBN's Smitha Nair spoke to Forbes Magazine CEO Steve Forbes and he claimed that the government has made errors at many levels. Following is an excerpt from the interview with Steve Forbes: Smitha Nair: Do you think the Manmohan government has shifted the goal post...
08:06 AM, May 22, 2012
Washington: Time magazine has ranked Bollywood director Sanjay Leela Bhansali's 2002 film 'Devdas' eighth among the ten greatest movies of the millennium with 'WALL.E' at the top and 'The Artist' in the tenth spot. It described Shah Rukh Khan as an 'all-world charismatist' and Madhuri Dixit 'a hot number who danced flamencos on men's libidos'. "A year after 'Moulin Rouge!' had its world premiere at Cannes, another visually intoxicating musical...
05:23 PM, May 21, 2012
Los Angeles: 'Twilight' star Robert Pattinson is reportedly set to star opposite Scarlett Johansson in 'Hate Mail'.The casting rumor first began at the ongoing Cannes Film Festival, when producer Michael Benaroya promoted his latest project. Benaroya himself is expected to finance 'Hate Mail' which is projected to be made with the budget of USD 11 million, reported Aceshowbiz. Further details of 'Hate Mail' are still to come. It is said...
01:59 PM, May 21, 2012
A Time Magazine cover showing a mother breast feeding her 4-yr-old son has sparked a parenting row amongst its readers. ...
06:12 PM, May 12, 2012
TIME magazine's newest cover for North America, showing a stay-at-home mother in Los Angeles breastfeeding her over-three-year-old son is drawing flak from different quarters for being too provocative. The photo shows Jamie Lynne Grumet, 26, a stay-at-home mom in Los Angeles who told the magazine that her mother breastfed her until she was six. TIME's American cover is on a style of child-rearing where nursing and breastfeeding a baby beyond...
06:59 PM, May 11, 2012
Washington: Al Qaeda's English online mouthpiece 'Inspire' has returned proclaiming that it is "still publishing America's worst nightmare" despite the killing of its two top editors in a US drone strike. Al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen has produced another issue of the magazine, despite the killing in September of two of top editors, Americans Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan. The ninth edition of 'Inspire', which appeared online on Wednesday, mixes...
06:15 PM, May 03, 2012
New York: Grammy-award winning singer and new mother Beyonce was named the world's most beautiful woman for 2012 on Wednesday by People magazine. The 30-year-old entertainer was awarded Peoples top spot after she and her rapper husband Jay-Z welcomed their first child, a daughter named Blue Ivy Carter, who was born in New York in January. "I feel more beautiful than Ive ever felt because Ive given birth. I have...
09:41 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of the world, has been invited by the publication to a gala dinner with the who's who in New York on April 24. "It will be a gala black tie formal dinner where the who's who will be present. The invitation was received by the Chief Minister's office on Friday," a...
05:13 PM, Apr 21, 2012
Kolkata: Ridiculing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's claim that her government has completed most of its tasks in its very first year, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Surjya Kanta Mishra on Friday said after having sent the railways to the ICU as railway minister, she was now doing the same to the state. "As railway minister, she has sent the railways to the Intensive Care Unit. Now she...
10:20 PM, Apr 20, 2012
New Delhi: We all heard of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee making it to the Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Another Indian to make it to the coveted list is advocate and gender rights activist Anjali Gopalan. Gopalan, 54, is the founder and Executive Director of The Naz Foundation (India) Trust, an NGO dedicated to the fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic in...
06:54 PM, Apr 19, 2012
The Time Magazine has released the list of 100 most influential people in the world, which includes people such as artists, reformers, researchers, head of states and captains of industry. From India, the list includes two names, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and eminent lawyer Anjali Gopalan. The list further includes US President Barack Obama, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Pakistan Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and footballer Lionel...
10:41 PM, Apr 18, 2012
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