Mumbai: Naseeruddin Shah is doing a film free of cost for director Manish Srivastava. The reason behind this generosity is the script and the fact that it involves a bunch of young actors who have a theatre background. It's well-known fact that Shah loves theatre and is pretty active on the floorboards. So as a token of appreciation for the efforts taken to help budding talents, he decided to take...
11:08 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Bangkok: Asia stock markets took a beating on Monday as signs that the US economic recovery might be shifting into reverse sent investors fleeing. A report on US hiring and employment in May pushed stock indexes to their biggest declines of the year on Friday. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 275 points, its biggest one-day decline since November. The dismal report came on the heels of earlier data that...
09:24 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Tokyo: Japan's Nintendo, the world's leading game console maker, unveiled a new online strategy on Monday, saying it will launch a social and content network dubbed Miiverse for its latest version of the Wii - the Wii U. The strategy is similar to that of rivals including Sony Corp and Apple Inc, although analysts raised concerns that Nintendo has been late to embrace online gaming, and may have to work...
08:46 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Tampa: First came Miami: the case of a naked man eating most of another man's face. Then Maryland, a college student telling police he killed a man, then ate his heart and part of his brain. It was different in New Jersey, where a man stabbed himself 50 times and threw bits of his own intestines at police. They pepper-sprayed him, but he was not easily subdued. He was, people...
07:39 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Mumbai: A 42-year-old labourer was Sunday remanded to police custody in Mumbai till June 7 for allegedly raping his teenage daughter, police said. The accused, Satyajeet Chowdhary, allegedly raped his 16-year-old daughter on several occasions since 2009. Chowdhary, a widower, stayed with his three children, the victim, a 12-year-old daughter and a 10-year-old son in a room in a slum in Dahisar in north Mumbai. His wife had passed away...
07:55 PM, Jun 03, 2012
New Delhi: Contending that IIT Council's nod to hold the engineering entrance test under a new format is a "breach of trust", IIT-Kanpur faculty federation on Sunday said any new system should not be introduced before 2014. "For students aspiring to appear in JEE 2013, the IIT Council proposal is a breach of trust. Both the processes and content of the new examination will not be clear to them any...
04:19 PM, Jun 03, 2012
Mumbai: In the first official confirmation from the family, Saif Ali Khan's mother, Sharmila Tagore has confirmed her sons marriage to actor Kareena Kapoor on October 16. "Yes, that's the date we have decided upon. There will be a reception, too, but not a very big one." The wedding ceremony, said close sources, will be a quiet affair, too. Sources close to Tagore said that Kapoor, like her would be...
03:15 PM, Jun 03, 2012
The Prime Minister's Chief Economic Advisor Dr C Rangarajan has admitted that a hike in diesel and LPG prices is imminent despite a steep hike in petrol prices last week. While speaking to Karan Thapar on 'Devil's Advocate', Dr Rangarajan said the government can soften the blow but fuel price hike is the need of the hour to contain the fiscal deficit. Karan Thapar: Hello and welcome to the Devil's...
12:01 PM, Jun 03, 2012
Kolkata: Six municipalities across West Bengal are going to polls on Sunday. The Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Congress are contesting separately in these polls. The civic polls are a testing ground for both parties for the larger panchayat elections next year. The virtual split in the alliance was attributed to bitter relations between Congress and Trinamool Congress which jointly fought the 2011 Assembly polls. Congress alleged that its candidates...
11:22 AM, Jun 03, 2012
Mumbai: The specifications for revised version of the world's cheapest tablet PC - Aakash 2 will be finalised by month-end, Union Telecom and HRD Minister Kapil Sibal has said. "During the course of this month, we will finalise the specifications and technology for the Aakash project and move forward with its manufacturing," Sibal said at an event over the weekend here. The tablet will be a platform on which public...
11:03 AM, Jun 03, 2012
Hubli: On a day when a ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator was convicted and jailed in a bribery case, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Saturday charged the BJP with making Karnataka the most corrupt state in the country. "There is no other state more corrupt than the BJP-ruled Karnataka. At a time when half the state is reeling under drought, the ruling party's leaders are busy fighting among themselves,"...
01:46 AM, Jun 03, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP on Saturday appeared to endorse the joint agitation by Anna Hazare and yoga guru Ramdev on Sunday saying both were aware of the "economic terror unleashed on the common man" by UPA government led by Congress. "I am sure whether it is Anna Hazare or whether it is Ramdev, they are fully aware of the economic situation in this country and the economic terror unleashed on...
01:12 AM, Jun 03, 2012
Colombo: A batch of 75 former LTTE members rehabilitated by the government was on Saturday released to their families in the northern Sri Lankan town of Vavuniya. "Out of the 12,000 sent for rehabilitation we have already released 11,000. Around 700 only remain to be released from four rehabilitation centres. "There are also another 600 suspects in custody who would be sent for rehabilitation", A Dissanayake, the secretary to the...
08:54 PM, Jun 02, 2012
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