A fire at the Maha Kumbh Mela left one dead and injured five others, hours before pilgrims gathered for the last Shahi Snan on Basant Panchami on Friday, just five days after the Allahabad railway station stampede. ...
08:03 AM, Feb 15, 2013
London: Indian grapplers will join the Olympic action from Thursday hoping to provide the late sparks to the contingent's campaign which has so far not really lived upto expectation with the flop show of many of the serious medal contenders. The wrestlers had won a bronze medal in the Beijing Olympics Games through Sushil Kumar and will be keen to improve upon their tally when the freestyle competitions get underway...
05:27 PM, Aug 08, 2012
Sonepat: He has earned himself a ticket to the London Olympics after a lot of hard work and pain, and grappler Narsingh Pancham Yadav now doesn't want to settle for anything less than a top-three finish at the marquee event. "My focus is to get a medal in the London Olympics. I am not thinking about anything else at this point of time. I am well aware what a podium...
03:28 PM, Jul 18, 2012
New Delhi: Baro mash tero parbon... this common Bengali phrase refers to the essence perennial celebration. The first harvest, the blossoming of spring, the invasion of summers, the norwesters , the spray of monsoon , the onset of autumn, the gentle fading of autumn into winter, .... the festivals are spread across all 12 months seemingly to provide the break in routine every 2-3 months. And then there are those...
11:09 AM, Jun 27, 2012
New Delhi, On the 72nd birth anniversary of composer Rahul Dev Burman, megastar Amitabh Bachchan and Lata Mageshkar remembers him fondly. The 68-year-old star who has worked with the music maestro in films like 'Satte pe Satta', 'Kaalia', Sholay', 'Shaan' to name a few, feels nostalgic of their time together. "We used to sit together. He was too good. He used to come up with tunes so quickly. With him...
03:18 PM, Jun 27, 2011
New Delhi: His hit songs flooded the box office; he was the quintessential romantic hero with heartaches, longings and beach-side philosophies. Yet celebrated musician-composer and song-writer Rahul Dev Burman took time to flower into a Bollywood phenomenon. The oft-repeated question: Why? Despite the moderately successful launch of his career, "Pancham", as he was lovingly called, was unable to leverage the clout that his surname carried in the rather conservative film...
07:14 PM, Apr 12, 2011
Kathmandu: Bands played joyously, Brahmins chanted mantras and women showered flowers as Nepal on Friday celebrated a "marriage made in heaven" thousands of years ago and forming one of its earliest social links with India. The temple town Janakpur in southern Nepal along the Indo-Nepal border, where Hindu epic Ramayana comes alive this time every year, is witnessing the replay of marriage of Ram, the Hindu icon and exemplary king...
04:50 PM, Dec 10, 2010
June 27 is the celebrated composer's 71st birth anniversary ...
02:41 PM, Jun 27, 2010
The veteran singer says there is no spirit in Bollywood music any more. ...
10:47 AM, Sep 19, 2009
Karachi: Under-fire PCB chief Ijaz Butt has been asked by higher authorities to appoint new officials in the Pakistan Cricket Board or forget about getting an extension after his two-year term expires later this month. Well-placed sources in the government have disclosed that the embattled Butt has been given until October 10 to take a decision on forming a new setup of administrators and cricket technocrats in the Board. Butt...
10:10 AM, Oct 21, 2007
The fourth auspicious day of bathing and the third and final
shahi snan will take place on Tuesday. ...
11:57 PM, Jan 22, 2007
