Swapan Mullick, film critic and former director of Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute in Kolkata, joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on on Satyajit Ray's 92nd birth anniversary. Q. Which movie do you think is his worst movie? Asked by: Kamya A. Ray never fell below the standard he had set for himself. But there was a point towards the end when ill-health took a toll and he couldn't...
04:44 PM, May 02, 2013
Tokyo/New Delhi: Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko will visit India, probably around autumn, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries, media reports said. The imperial couple has been invited by the Indian government. Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga made the announcement, the media reports. According to Japan's Imperial Household Agency, Akihito will be the first Japanese emperor to visit India. The emperor visited...
04:42 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Washington: President Barack Obama on Tuesday said that an independent Israel has no greater friend and ally than the United States, as he marked the 65th anniversary of Israel's independence. "On the 65th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel, I join my fellow Americans in wishing the Israeli people a joyous Independence Day. On this date 65 years ago, the Jewish people realised their dream of the...
01:20 AM, Apr 17, 2013
The infamous sinking of the once 'unsinkable' ship, Royal Mail Ship (RMS) Titanic, completes 101 years on Monday. On April 15, 1912, the Titanic hit an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean at 11.40 pm. Less than three hours later, the entire ship had sunk. More than 1500 people lost their lives in the accident. The ship was on its maiden voyage from England to New York. ...
08:24 AM, Apr 15, 2013
New Delhi: BJP president Rajnath Singh on Sunday hit out at Congress for doing "nothing for Dalits" in the country and "using" them as mere "vote bank". "Congress ruled the country for 54 years out of the 65 years since independence. This is not little time, but it made no effort to lift your status," Singh said while addressing a gathering on the occasion of BR Ambedkar's 122nd birth anniversary....
03:58 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Miami: A visit by American pop star Beyonce and rapper husband Jay-Z to Havana last week was a cultural trip that was fully licensed by the U.S. Treasury Department, a source familiar with the itinerary said on Monday. The longstanding U.S. trade embargo against Cuba prevents most Americans from traveling to the communist-led island without a license granted by the U.S. government. Three Cuban-American members of Congress, all Republicans from...
10:07 AM, Apr 09, 2013
March 12 is the 20th anniversary of the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts, a frightening event that shocked the nation and is also known a Black Friday. On the 20th anniversary of the dastardly attack in which 257 people were killed and 713 others injured as 12 blasts rocked Mumbai, security agencies are yet to apprehend the conspirators of the March 12, 1993, serial bomb blasts including Dawood Ibrahim. ...
11:48 PM, Mar 12, 2013
2013 is the birth anniversary of Amrita Sher-Gil. This astonishing creature, no less astonishing as a painter than as a woman, was born in Budapest ...
02:12 PM, Feb 05, 2013
What is the relevance of Gandhi in today's India? Can modern India, with its obsession for breakneck growth, still learn from a man whose ideas and ideals have inspired liberation movements and men like Martin Luther King Junior and Nelson Mandela? Historian Mridula Mukherjee joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on 65th death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. ...
01:09 PM, Jan 31, 2013
The nation on January 30 remembered Mahatma Gandhi on his 65th death anniversary with President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh leading the country in paying homage to the Father of the Nation. ...
02:10 PM, Jan 30, 2013
The faintly heard traffic commotion does not affect the serenity of 5, Tees January Marg, a leafy avenue in the heart of the Indian capital, where Mahatma Gandhi spent the last 144 days of his life and where he was assassinated on Jan 30, 1948. ...
12:46 PM, Jan 30, 2013
The Shiv Sena on Wednesday distributed knives to women in Mumbai for "enhancing their personal security" in the backdrop of recent attacks against women. ...
01:26 AM, Jan 24, 2013
The Shiv Sena has planned to distribute knives to women at different places as a means of enhancing their personal security in the wake of the recent harassment cases against women. The Shiv Sena has taken up the task of distributing knives to women on late founder Bal Thackeray's birth anniversary on Wednesday. ...
02:20 PM, Jan 23, 2013
Functions were held at various Ramakrishna Mission Ashrams and schools and colleges across the country to mark the occasion. ...
05:56 PM, Jan 12, 2013
Oscar award winning musician AR Rahman performed live in Mumbai to mark the tenth anniversary of the Dhirubhai Ambani International School. ...
10:53 AM, Dec 25, 2012
New Delhi: Parliamentarians led by Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar on Thursday paid homage to martyrs on the 11th anniversary of the attack on Parliament. UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, BJP leader LK Advani, Leaders of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley respectively and other members attended a solemn ceremony held in the...
11:10 AM, Dec 13, 2012
