Amid enthusiastic singing and chanting by his fans, Sachin Tendulkar's wax statue was on Saturday unveiled at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG), just a few days before his 40th birthday. Tendulkar's waxwork was unveiled at the SCG where he has played some memorable innings. The statue shows Tendulkar, who will turn 40 on Wednesday, clad in an India ODI jersey with his hands raised in a celebratory pose. ...
05:41 PM, Apr 21, 2013
Sydney: Sachin Tendulkar's wax statue will be unveiled at his favourite Sydney Cricket Ground on Saturday before being displayed at a museum in the city ahead of his 40th birthday on April 24. Tendulkar's waxwork will be first unveiled at the SCG, where he had played some memorable innings, courtesy Madame Tussauds in Sydney, media reports said. Later in the day, his waxwork, expected to be a replica of the...
05:13 PM, Apr 19, 2013
The statue is dressed in Elie Saab dress, which the real Watson wore to a red-carpet event in Hong Kong in 2011. ...
10:34 AM, Mar 27, 2013
Actress Emma Watson's wax statue was unveiled recently at Madam Tussauds' London museum. ...
04:29 PM, Mar 26, 2013
An Iranian newspaper reported on Sunday that government authorities are confiscating Buddha statues from shops in Tehran to stop the promotion of Buddhism in the country. Sunday's report by the independent 'Arman Daily' quotes Saeed Jaberi Ansari, an official for the protection of Iran's cultural heritage, as saying that authorities will not permit a specific belief to be promoted through such statues. ...
04:00 PM, Feb 17, 2013
Chief Minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar during the inauguration of world's tallest statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Patna. ...
03:09 PM, Feb 16, 2013
With a towering height of 70 feet, the world's tallest statute of Mahatma Gandhi was on Friday unveiled in Bihar. Bapu is seen standing affectionately with two children on either side in the bronze statue constructed at the historic Gandhi Maidan in Patna. ...
06:01 PM, Feb 15, 2013
A statue of BR Ambedkar is costing the Namma Metro in Bangalore nearly Rs 100 crore. Plans are on to make an alternative design and a wider pathway will be constructed around the statue. This because the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation has been forced to stop work after Dalit organisations objected against the removal of the statue. While the statues of Subhash Chandra Bose and Jawaharlal Nehru have been moved,...
09:58 AM, Feb 12, 2013
Whitney Houston is all set to be immortalised after Madame Tussauds officials unveiled images of four new waxworks of the tragic singer. ...
07:02 PM, Feb 07, 2013
The statue of Sir Alex Ferguson has been unveiled at Old Trafford on Friday. The statue erected outside the Sir Alex Ferguson Stand has been commissioned to mark the 26th anniversary of the Scot's arrival in Manchester. The nine-foot bronze statue was unveiled by Ferguson's wife Lady Cathy Ferguson. 'He's scared of her,' said the club's chief executive David Gill. Regarding his wife, Ferguson said, 'Someone has to control me...
09:03 PM, Nov 23, 2012
Hyderabad: Hyderabad police on Friday arrested a group of Telangana activists for staging a protest over the re-installation of statues of eminent Andhra personalities at Tank Bund, on the banks of the Hussain Sagar Lake. Those arrested include Telangana Jagruthi president K. Kavita, daughter of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao. The atmosphere was tense near Tank Bund as protestors squatted on the road, disrupting traffic on the...
10:21 AM, Oct 06, 2012
Shimla: Miscreants on Tuesday desecrated a statue of Mahatma Gandhi at the Ridge in Shimla on his birth anniversary. A garland made of empty bottles was found around the neck of the statue, Shimla SP Chander Shekhar Pandit said. A case under Section 295A (insult to religious feelings) has been filed based on the complaint by Deputy Commissioner Arun Kumar, he said. "It is a serious matter and we have...
09:54 AM, Oct 03, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: A 33.5-foot-tall statue of Jesus Christ, billed as the tallest in the country, is ready to be blessed on Saturday at the campus of the Mar Baselios College of Engineering and Technology in Thiruvananthapuram. Made out of a mixture of resin, catalysts, fibre and wax by popular Malayalam film art director Premachandran, the statue has been placed on a 22-foot-tall building in the college campus. "The work was finished...
01:48 PM, Sep 29, 2012
Hyderabad: The state government is all set to reinstall the 12 statues, of that of Telugu icons from Coastal Andhra, on Tank Bund that were vandalised by Telangana activists during the Million March of the Telangana agitation in March 2010. An additional statue of Komaram Bheem of Adilabad district, who fought against the Nizams, would also be installed. The Cultural Department will take up the work from October 1 as...
02:15 PM, Sep 24, 2012
India celebrates Ganesh Chaturthi on Wednesday. ...
09:03 AM, Sep 19, 2012
Bangalore: The Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) has decided to continue the underground Metro station in front of Vidhana Soudha as the state government is delaying a decision on its request to remove a statue of B R Ambedkar from there. Dalit organisations have strongly opposed the removal of the statue and this has led the government to delay the decision on it. The cost of such a delay...
12:54 PM, Sep 17, 2012
Lucknow: The Lucknow Police on Tuesday arrested two more persons in connection with the July 26 vandalism of former UP chief minister Mayawati's statue. The two arrested youth were identified as Meerut resident Pawan Sharma and Shagun Tyagi of Bijnor. The two admitted to being part of a group that broke the life-sized marble statue of the Dalit leader at Ambedkar Park in the state capital. The duo were part...
02:29 AM, Aug 29, 2012
Father of the Indian Constitution Dr BR Ambedkar was voted as the 'Greatest Indian' in a poll spearheaded by History TV18 and CNN IBN. ...
11:44 AM, Aug 20, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The state capital is all set to sport the tallest statue of Jesus Christ in the country. The three-tonne, marble-white statue of Christ, to be unveiled soon at the Mar Baselios College of Engineering and Technology on Bethany Hills, Nalanchira, is 33.5 feet tall and pips the current record by 4.5 feet, its designers said. With his arms spread high in blessing, Christ stands atop a porch which is...
07:21 PM, Aug 17, 2012
