Baoding: The giant orange robotic arms that swiftly weld together car frames at the Great Wall Motors factory in Baoding might seem like the perfect answer to China's fast-rising labour costs - they don't ask for a raise, get injured or go on strike. For Great Wall, a private sector Chinese car maker that employs 50,000 workers, the Swiss robots and other machinery that line its bright factory floor produce...
11:26 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Mumbai: Veteran actor AK Hangal came out of retirement at the age of 97 to shoot for the television serial Madhubala. The veteran actor stepped out of his house for the first time in five months for the shooting of an episode of Madhubala in which he has done a cameo. Hangal pulled off his part in a single-take shot. Hangal has been active in filmdom since 1967 and played...
05:31 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: He takes tentative steps towards a cluster of people, guided purely by his senses, and the oppressive silence that warns him that something is not right here. The gentle timbre of his voice rings through the air heavy with mourning "yaha itna sannata kyu hai bhai"? Thirty-seven years after AK Hangal shot that iconic scene from 'Sholay', the silence at the studio where the television serial Madhubala was...
03:47 PM, May 31, 2012
Mumbai: Bollywood has always opened its gates for budding talent and there seems to be a sudden demand for Bengali actors in Hindi cinema post the box-office success of Vidya Balan starrer 'Kahaani' and Paoli Dam's 'Hate Story'. As 'Kahaani' director Sujoy Ghosh plans to bring Vidya Balan back as Bidya Bagchi in a sequel, Kolkata and the Bengali stars are set to become more important. "Writing begins. I have...
12:23 PM, May 31, 2012
Dankuni: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wishes to set up a factory at 600 acres of land in Singur-the site of abandoned Tata Nano car plant, even as she on Monday attacked the central government for not providing West Bengal the much needed financial aid. "We had already acquired the land in Singur. But the matter is sub-judice right now. But after we get the verdict we would like a factory...
04:30 AM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: A major fire broke out on Sunday at a garment factory in east Delhi, a fire department official said. Efforts are on to douse the flames in which no casualty has been reported so far, he said. "The fire at the garment factory in Gandhi Nagar area was reported at 2:00 pm and so far, no loss of life has been reported," he said, adding 20 fire tenders...
05:46 PM, May 27, 2012
Washington: Pakistan is half way through the construction of its fourth nuclear reactor at Khushab, which will give it capability to speed up plutonium manufacturing, latest US satellite imagery has revealed. On completion, the reactor would enable Islamabad to build large number of smaller nuclear warheads, Washington-based eminent think-tank Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) said. Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme is considered to be among the fastest growing in...
11:59 AM, May 23, 2012
Ahmedabad: Forty-two of the 1,200 Indian workers, who were stranded at a cement plant in Angola for the past 10 days, returned home on Saturday. Among those who have returned, four are from Gujarat. Vijay Valmik, who landed at Vadodara in the morning and reached his home in Petlad in the afternoon, told reporters that neither the federal government nor the Gujarat administration had done enough to ensure the safety...
12:35 PM, May 20, 2012
New Delhi: Contemporary Indian popular fiction that narrates "desi" cosmopolitan stories has been mirroring the changing man-woman relationship in a more open and accepting urban India, a leading literary agent says. Even 10 years ago, romantic novels spun stories about a man and one woman, whose sacrosanct monogamous love twisted and turned its way to the altar after epic struggles. Brazen romantic love as a subject of mass fiction was...
01:54 PM, May 16, 2012
Chennai: Youth in villages around Kudankulam, where people are agitating against the setting up of the nuclear power plant, are unable to take up jobs abroad as passports are being denied to them, it was alleged at a public hearing in Chennai on Monday. About a dozen villagers deposed at the public hearing on 'Kudankulam and State Supression of Democratic Rights, coming up with startling revelations on the harassment they...
08:32 AM, May 15, 2012
Chennai: Income Tax sleuths have conducted raids at the premises of a son-in-law of actor-politician Chiranjeevi here, official sources said. The raids were conducted at the residence of his businessman son-in-law Vishnu Prasad in a posh locality in the and I-T officials are learnt to have recovered cash running into a few crore, sources said. Different teams of officials conducted raids at various properties in the city belonging to Prasad,...
03:12 PM, May 14, 2012
London: Actor Andrew Garfield is worried about how he will be received after his latest film 'The Amazing Spider-Man' releases. The 28-year-old spoke to Tobey MacGuire, who last played the web casting superhero on the big screen, and said his fears are reaching epic proportions, reported Showbizspy. "Right now I have a host of fears that I'm contending with on a minute-to-minute basis. I'm not in the reality of it...
03:24 PM, May 09, 2012
Mumtaz, Vinod Khanna and Shatrughan Sinha have been star examples of supporting actors who took over as main leads in the past. But a look at a few recent and forthcoming releases, and you'll see more cases of character actors graduating into lead stars. And as Lasyapriya Sundaram found out, most don't hail from a filmy family. ...
01:35 PM, May 08, 2012
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