A bloody massacre in Houla in Syria left 92 people including 32 children dead. ...
11:28 AM, May 27, 2012
New Delhi: Sky gazers in parts of the world are up for a celestial treat on May 21 when an annular solar eclipse takes place, a rare event in which the sun will appear as a thin ring behind the moon. However, in India it will only be visible in the northeastern states. An annual solar eclipse occurs when the Sun, the Moon and the Earth are exactly in line,...
10:34 AM, May 20, 2012
Day one of the 65th Cannes Film Festival saw the usual mix of star power and cinema - from the opening film to the controversy around Cannes. ...
04:40 PM, May 18, 2012
Actress Freida Pinto arrived for the opening ceremony and screening of 'Moonrise Kingdom' at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France. ...
10:19 AM, May 18, 2012
Director Vasanths upcoming flick, Moondru Per Moondru Kaadhal (MPMK), is nearing the finishing line, with almost 75 per cent of the shoot complete. Actors Cheran, Arjun and Vimal play the three leads in the film. Thamirabarani fame Muktha Banu and two new actors " Shruti and Surveen Chawla play the female leads. It is now learnt that the filmmaker has roped in two more actors, Thambi Ramaiah and Appukutty, to...
06:43 PM, May 16, 2012
After that extremely forgettable 'Ringtone', director Ajmal is trying a different genre in his new movie ' Doctor Innocentaanu'. But the important question that comes up is whether the filmmaker has learned any wise lessons from his debut debacle. The answer is a dismal no as his new endeavour remains a poor rehash of the sequences from many well known hits of Mollywood. 'Doctor Innocentaanu' has liberal inspirations and sequences...
05:20 PM, May 16, 2012
Cannes: The 65th annual Cannes Film Festival was to get under way Wednesday with Wes Anderson's carefully composed whimsy and Sacha Baron Cohen's less confined theatrics. Anderson's 'Moonrise Kingdom' will open Cannes, where it will premiere amid the frenzy of the French festival. Anderson, as well as cast Bruce Willis, Edward Norton and possibly Bill Murray will make their way down Cannes' grand red carpet in the evening. But before...
04:55 PM, May 16, 2012
London: In a space mission straight from the movie "Armageddon", astronauts are being trained to land on an asteroid, explore it for minerals and even destroy the object if it threatens the Earth. NASA wants humans to make contact with an asteroid up to three million miles away by the end of the next decade, something far beyond the scope of Earth-Moon space flight in 1969. Travelling at around 80,000...
04:58 PM, May 13, 2012
London: Rising stars will compete against established Hollywood names for the limelight at this year's Cannes film festival, with Robert Pattinson, Zac Efron, Kristen Stewart and Shia LaBeouf all appearing in highly anticipated movies. They will rub shoulders with the likes of Brad Pitt and Nicole Kidman, as well as some of the great names in directing, at the world's biggest and most glamorous cinema showcase. "I think there's a...
04:38 PM, May 12, 2012
Hyderabad: Four people died on Friday after consuming illicit liquor in Vijayawada town of Andhra Pradesh, police said. According to police, two others are stated to be in critical conditions. The incident took place on Friday morning at Brahmanaveedhi in the old town of Vijayawada in Krishna district, about 300 km from here. A police officer said all the six were suspected to have purchased and consumed liquor from the...
02:09 PM, May 11, 2012
Bangalore: At 1 am on May 6, the full moon will be at 3,56,954 km from the centre of the earth. This will be the closest full moon to earth since January 1912. The moon will appear larger in the sky than at any time. This event is also referred to as Supermoon. Early Sunday will see the moons closest encounter with earth since March 19, 2011, when the moon...
08:51 AM, May 05, 2012
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has held that refusal by a wife to conceive a child because of family's financial instability could not be used as a ground for divorce by her husband. "Also, not knowing how to cook, not being religious, not parting with salary and not folding clothes properly," could not be treated as grounds for divorce, ruled Justice PB Majmudar and Justice Anoop Mohta. The bench was,...
07:16 PM, May 04, 2012
New Delhi: Myanmar's Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi ended her boycott of Parliament and will be sworn in on Wednesday. The Nobel laureate had objected to the wording of the oath because it required her to pledge to protect the Myanmar constitution, which she says gives too much power to the ruling military junta. "Politics is an issue of give and take," she told reporters in the main city,...
09:11 AM, May 01, 2012
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