New Delhi: The first promo of Madhuri Dixit's TV show 'Jhalak Dikhla Jaa Season 5' is out. The promo shows Madhuri giving tribute to Meena Kumari. Based on the reality show 'Dancing with the Stars', the first season of 'Jhalak Dikhla Jaa' started on September 8, 2006. Here is the promo. ...
06:44 PM, May 07, 2012
Raipur: On the day when abducted Sukma Collector Alex Paul Menon was freed, a jailed woman Naxal, who was among the extremists whose release was demanded by Maoists in exchange for the IAS officer, applied for bail. Meena Chaudhary is in prison since January 2008 for her alleged involvement in Naxal activities in Chhattisgarh. Chaudhary's lawyer Sadiq Ali said that he has filed a bail application on behalf of his...
11:47 PM, May 03, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress on Tuesday distanced itself from a bill on media regulation proposed by Meenakshi Natarajan, a Lok Sabha MP and an aide of party general secretary Rahul Gandhi, even as Press Council of India chairman Markandey Katju accused the media of diverting interest from national issues. "The bill is based on her (Natarajan's) views. These are not the views of Rahul Gandhi. Neither are these his views...
03:34 AM, May 02, 2012
Mumbai: Filmmaker Onir, who is basking in the glory of national-award winner 'I Am', will now be producing a film revolving around a 17-year-old athlete and his sports coach who helps the boy realise his potential. Directed by Ashwini Malik, 'Coach Kameena' follows the journey of a youngster, who has a natural talent for running. 'Coach Kameena' is about a sports coach in Punjab and his struggle to help a...
05:47 PM, Apr 30, 2012
New Delhi: Khatun Bi is one of the many real-life protagonists of the recently launched book 'Riots and After in Mumbai: Chronicles of Truth and Reconciliation'. The 65-year-old victim of 1992-93 Bombay riots might have a foggy memory about everything else but she clearly remembers the day when she had to hide neck-deep in a gutter as rioters violently raided the streets of Mumbai. Dipped in muck and her own...
01:25 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Mumbai: She had played a bit part in the 2011 horror film '404' that spooked audiences. But, the uncut tale of small-time actress Meenakshi Thapas murder is considerably more unnerving. According to cops, the two advocates-cum-struggling actors, who were arrested by unit IX of Mumbai crime branch on Saturday night, were carrying the severed head of the 26-year-old for two days before throwing it out of a moving bus. According...
02:58 PM, Apr 16, 2012
New Delhi: The script has changed in Bollywood in the last 60 years - the women are more worldly, the men more macho and the cinema itself more techno-savvy, almost as good as Hollywood, says veteran cinema writer and critic Bhaichand Patel. "The women in Hindi cinema are more assertive though no less beautiful (than yesteryear ones), they often smoke on screen and they are equal to men. Mainstream cinema...
11:28 AM, Mar 28, 2012
New Delhi: Agitated MBBS students at All India Institute of Medical Sciences on Wednesday began an indefinite relay hunger strike to demand removal of its director in the wake of the alleged suicide by a first-year student. "We have called for a hunger strike too as the administration has not met all our demands yet," a protesting student said. Anil Meena (22), who belonged to Baran district in Rajasthan, was...
08:36 PM, Mar 07, 2012
New Delhi: A first-year MBBS student at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan of his hostel room on Saturday, after, claim his friends, facing severe discrimination at the institute. Anil Kumar Meena hailed from a village in Rajasthan. His friends are boycotting classes on Monday as a mark of protest. They claim he was struggling to cope with English...
11:27 AM, Mar 05, 2012
New Delhi: A medical student, who was disturbed over his academic performance, committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan in his hostel room in All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in south Delhi. According to the police, Anil Kumar Meena, 22, from Baran district in Rajasthan, was found hanging from a ceiling fan in his hostel room on Sunday. No suicide note was recovered. "Meena had been...
09:49 PM, Mar 04, 2012
The blurb promised 'Sri Lanka's first collection of 17 scorching short stories and poems that evoke a world of heady sensuality and offer a veritable smorgasbord of spicy fantasies'. Now I usually don't judge a book by its cover - and this one had a sensual, bared-back woman with a cigarette in her hand - and its jacket, but the blurb, indeed, was promising. And I would be lying if...
01:06 PM, Feb 14, 2012
'Death in Mumbai' by Meenal Baghel is a gripping account of the infamous killing of Neeraj Grover by an aspiring actress Maria Susairaj and her naval boyfriend Emile Jerome. Everyone knows the story and how the killing took place. Everyone knows what happened. Why the need then to chronicle this in a book? That is because no one is aware of how it started and also because one must not...
01:26 PM, Dec 28, 2011
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