Cannes: A man was arrested at the Cannes film festival on Friday after firing a starting pistol during a live TV broadcast on the palm-lined waterfront, sending actors Christoph Waltz and Daniel Auteuil running for cover.
French TV station Canal+ was interviewing Austria's Oscar-winning Waltz and French actor Auteuil live on its nightly news show from a beach-front set before a crowd of spectators when a man fired two shots into the air.
"The bodyguards jumped over the barriers into the crowd and pulled him to the ground. The police arrived and told everyone to run because there was a grenade in his hand," witness Arthur Laiguesse told Reuters.
Police arrested the man at the scene and found he was carrying a dummy grenade and a knife, authorities said....
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12:02 PM, May 18, 2013
Cannes: And it appears to have been a crime spree in Cannes after an unidentified person fired two shots into the air during the live broadcast of a TV show. Cannes Film Festival jury members including Christoph Waltz and Daniel Auteuil who were being interviewed had to run for cover. The Police have managed to arrest the man at the scene. The suspect was found carrying a dummy grenade and...
10:20 AM, May 18, 2013
Washington: Kolkata-born Ritankar Das, a bioengineering and chemical biology double major at the University of California at Berkeley, has become the youngest student to receive the University Medal in more than a century. The medal is given to the year's top graduating senior. Das, who began his freshman term when he was 15, will be graduating with more than 200 credits and a GPA of 3.99, which includes eight A+...
11:20 AM, May 11, 2013
Thursday: Pakistan on Thursday shared the autopsy reports on two Indian prisoners - Sarabjit Singh and Chamel Singh. While the autopsy report on Chamel Singh did not define the cause of his death, the report on Sarabjit listed his cause of death as head injury caused by blunt weapon. Chamel had died in a Lahore jail under mysterious circumstances. His autopsy was conducted only two months after his death. The...
08:10 PM, May 09, 2013
Los Angeles: Superstar Tom Cruise has officially signed on to reprise his role as Ethan Hunt in 'Mission: Impossible 5' and Christopher McQuarrie may direct the film. The 50-year-old is officially set for fifth instalment of the action franchise after inking a deal with Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions, reported Deadline. Cruise could re-team with Christopher McQuarrie - who directed him in last year's 'Jack Reacher' - on the project....
05:22 PM, May 07, 2013
Amritsar: Doctors at the Amritsar Government Medical College who conducted the second autopsy on Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh revealed that his vital organs - stomach, heart, kidneys and gall bladder - were missing in his body. "The following viscera was not present in the body of Sarabjit Singh, namely, stomach, gall bladder, heart and kidneys," the doctors told mediapersons, adding that the other viscera present in the body had been...
04:59 PM, May 03, 2013
A hundred years ago when Dhundiraj Govind Phalke organised the first public screening of his film Raja Harishchandra, the publicity posters didn't have any images on them, but that changed soon after. A film's publicity poster also became an extension of the creativity expressed on celluloid and able artists highlighted those selected images from the movie that could draw the audiences to inside the dark theatres for more than two-hours...
06:25 AM, May 03, 2013
New York: Scientists have taken the idea of a film short down to new levels. Molecular levels. IBM says it has made the tiniest stop-motion movie ever - a one-minute video of individual carbon monoxide molecules repeatedly rearranged to show a boy dancing, throwing a ball and bouncing on a trampoline. Each frame measures 45 by 25 nanometers - there are 25 million nanometers in an inch - but hugely...
04:44 PM, May 01, 2013
Telugu actor Sudheer Babu's 'Prema Katha Chitram,' is all set to be released on May 11. The film will star Nandita as the female lead in the film. The film is directed by J Prabhakara Reddy. 'Ee Rojullo' and 'Busstop' fame Maruthi and R Sudharshan Reddy are jointly producing the film under the banner of R C A Creations and Maruthi Talkies banner. J B is the music director of...
10:55 PM, Apr 30, 2013
Ghaziabad: The autopsy report of the murder suspect who allegedly hanged himself in police custody in Ghaziabad on Sunday has revealed that he was strangled to death. Additional Director General (ADG) of Uttar Pradesh Police Arun Kumar said on Monday: "Five Indirapuram police station personnel have been suspended and a case of murder has been filed against unidentified people." He said that Inspector Gorakh Nath Yadav, Sub-inspector Rajvir Singh, night...
07:48 AM, Apr 30, 2013
San Francisco: Amazon.com Inc will release a set-top TV box later this year that will stream video over the Internet, challenging Apple Inc's Apple TV device and a similar gadget sold by start-up Roku, BloombergBusinessweek reported on Wednesday. The box will plug into TVs and give viewers access to Amazon's digital video content, which the company has been expanding, BloombergBusinessweek said, citing three unidentified people familiar with the project. An...
11:52 AM, Apr 25, 2013
New Delhi: Hewlett-Packard launched the HP Officejet Pro X series and the HP Officejet Pro 3610/3620 Black and White series in India. The HP Officejet Pro X500 series is claimed to be the world's fastest desktop printer. On the other hand, the company claims that the HP Officejet Pro 3610/3620 Black & White series offers laser-like quality and performance at very low running costs, comparable to laser toner refills. The...
06:24 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Bangalore: The Congress on Wednesday promised interest-free loans to farmers, free laptops to pre-university students and rice at Re one per kg to BPL card holders if it came to power in Karnataka, where Assembly elections will take place on May five. Interest-free loans up to Rs two lakh and on three per cent interest up to Rs five lakh, establishing of a Rs 1,500 crore natural calamity relief fund...
03:52 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Bhubaneswar: A teacher was arrested on Tuesday in Odisha's Sambalpur district for molesting an eight-year-old-girl in the school classroom, police said. The 28-year-old offender, an art and crafts teacher in a private school at the district headquarters town of Sambalpur, about 320 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, allegedly gave the students some drawing assignments and started watching an obscene video on his laptop. After finishing her drawing, the girl went...
04:40 AM, Apr 24, 2013
Protesters took to the street in the national capital on Saturday, demanding justice for the 5-year-old, who was brutally raped, assaulted, nearly killed and kept captive by a man in east Delhi. Angry crowds demonstrated outside police headquarters, despite the arrest of the arrest of the main accused, Manoj Kumar. ...
10:42 PM, Apr 20, 2013
He is back. As the iconic comic book superhero Superman turns 75, director Zack Snyder gets ready to release his new film 'Man Of Steel'. Co- produced by Christopher Nolan, the film has actor Henry Cavill playing 'Superman' and also features Amy Adams,Russell Crowe and Kevin Costner in prominent roles. The film will be released on June 14, 2013. Here's the trailer, have a look! ...
10:33 AM, Apr 17, 2013
Mumbai: A Shiv Sena worker was hacked to death allegedly by five goons near his residence at Antop Hill area in central Mumbai in the wee hours on Monday as he did not pay extortion money, police said. Raju Soni was attacked with sharp-edged objects at about 4.00 am when he stepped out of his house in Sangamnagar area to fill water from the taps, police said. Raju ran a...
10:14 PM, Apr 15, 2013
New Delhi: Congress top brass including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and party chief Sonia Gandhi met in Delhi this evening in the wake of the resurfacing of the coal scam. The meeting of the Congress Core Group came as NCP chief Sharad Pawar, a constituent of UPA, spoke of the possibility of early Lok Sabha elections in the wake of parting of ways by the DMK. This is the first...
03:20 AM, Apr 14, 2013
Nagpur: Former Bharatiya Janata Party chief Nitin Gadkari on Friday claimed that a "senior leader" of the UPA-II wanted his support to topple the Congress-led alliance government in New Delhi. "The UPA leader who had approached was capable of bringing down the government. However, after that, the kind of assurances which they wanted, we were not in a position to give," Gadkari contended. Gadkari added that he had outrightly rejected...
05:58 AM, Apr 13, 2013
