Anna Hazare's agitation has whipped up the curiosity of the global media. While some international websites have compared it to Egypt's Jamsine Revolution, others are questioning if this Gandhi-like method will help the cause. ...
03:12 PM, Aug 18, 2011
London: A previously unheard interview with Bob Dylan revealed that he had been addicted to heroin in the early 1960s and contemplated suicide after people started calling him a genius. Excerpts from the tape, in which the 'Blowing in the Wind' singer gives an interview to his friend Robert Shelton on board a private plane in Lincoln, Nebraska bound for Denver after a concert late one night in March 1966,...
02:41 PM, May 24, 2011
London: Young men enjoy watching pornography on the web for at least two hours a week, while women do so for 15 minutes on an average, say a survey. The study conducted over 1,000 individuals aged 18-24 found, a quarter of young men fear they are watching too much pornography. One in three young adults, who were light users, admitted it upset their partner or caused relationship problems. That number...
12:12 PM, Apr 22, 2011
Toronto: Research In Motion (RIM) founder Mike Lazaridis ordered a BBC reporter to stop the interview after he was asked questions about his problems with India and Middle East countries which are seeking access to BlackBerry enterprise emails in view of national security issues."That's just not fair," Mike Lazaridis shot back at BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones when he posed this question to the RIM co-CEO at a recent interview....
10:07 AM, Apr 14, 2011
Somewhere in Uttar Pradesh, not so long ago, an old train passenger woke up at midnight to find the train standing in the middle of nowhere. Perplexed and disoriented, he asked aloud, "Ye train kahan khadi hai? (Where has this train stopped?)" Instead of an answer, he got a question from a fellow passenger: Kya aap Onkarnath Srivastav hain? Jo BBC par khabarein padhte hain? (Are you Onkarnath Srivastav? The...
06:04 PM, Mar 15, 2011
London: Three British Broadcasting Corp staff were detained, beaten and subjected to mock executions by pro-regime soldiers in Libya while attempting to reach the western city of Zawiya, the broadcaster said on Wednesday. The news organization said the crew, members of a BBC Arabic team, were detained on Monday by Muammar Gadhafi loyalists at a check point about 6 miles (10 kilometers) south of Zawiya. Chris Cobb-Smith, a British journalist...
04:57 PM, Mar 10, 2011
London: Rihanna's racy new video 'S&M' has reportedly been banned by 11 countries and faces an age restriction on YouTube. The video, which depicts the 22-year-old popstar dressed in latex and whipping a man, has already been axed from the BBC's daytime radio playlist in the UK, reported Mirror online. "We are waiting for an edited version before deciding whether it will be played in the daytime," said a BBC...
11:22 AM, Feb 03, 2011
London: A consortium of British companies said their planned new Web-TV service would be subscription-free, as broadcasters, Web firms and electronics makers scramble to capture a nascent Internet TV market. YouView, a joint venture of seven partners including the state-owned BBC previously known as Project Canvas, said it would charge no subscription for its video-on-demand and catch-up offerings but viewers would have to buy a set-top box. Web search group...
11:38 AM, Sep 17, 2010
London: A veteran British TV reporter has been sentenced after he admitted making up claims he killed a former lover who was dying of AIDS. A judge gave BBC journalist Ray Gosling a 90-day suspended prison sentence for fabricating his confession and wasting 1,800 hours of police time. The 70-year-old Gosling drew media and police attention in February when he said on a BBC TV documentary that he used a...
10:17 AM, Sep 15, 2010
BBC will be following a path similar to one taken by The Guardian, which launched a US-focused site in 2007. ...
11:19 AM, Jul 16, 2010
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Viewers can get the opportunity to talk to the thespian ...
03:25 PM, Jun 28, 2010
The new iPlayer will also allow viewers to personalise their home page, and share tips via Facebook and Twitter. ...
04:50 PM, May 26, 2010
A radio DJ began playing the national anthem and then joked on air that Queen Elizabeth II has died. ...
01:56 PM, May 18, 2010
The 70-year-old journalist did not say where or when the incident took place ...
11:36 PM, Feb 17, 2010
Businesses that made money in sectors that were never on anyone's radar. ...
04:08 PM, Feb 07, 2010
Lloyd Webber is behind hit musicals including
Jesus Christ Superstar. ...
10:29 PM, Oct 25, 2009
No problems with those already settled, but wants no more immigrants. ...
05:27 PM, Oct 23, 2009
The Royal Albert Hall in UK echoed with Bollywood songs. ...
12:28 PM, Aug 17, 2009
Kohli worked as a roving reporter for the show called
The One Show ...
03:24 PM, Jul 13, 2009
The 10 terrorists were being directed on minute-by-minute details on 26/11. ...
09:18 PM, Jun 28, 2009
