Polling percentage in Tripura till 10 am on Thursday morning was recorded as 25 per cent, with no incident of violence reported from the northeast state. The Left Front government, led by Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, is looking to regain power in the 60-member State Assembly with a fourth consecutive victory. Tripura Congress Chief Sudip Ray Barman and the President of Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura Bijay Hrankhwal are among...
11:40 AM, Feb 14, 2013
A HuJI militant wanted in the 2001 abduction case of shoe baron Partha Pratim Roy Burman has been arrested by the Special Task Force of Kolkata Police from the Port area. 45-year-old Mijanaur Rehman, wanted in the abduction of Khadim shoe company owner Burman in 2001, was arrested during a raid from the port area late Wednesday, Joint Commissioner of Police (STF) Rajeev Mishra said. ...
09:35 PM, Dec 20, 2012
New Delhi: A former Swiss bank employee has claimed that several politicians, cricketers and internationally well-known people have black money in the Swiss banks. Rudolf Elmer, who gave WikiLeaks the black money list told CNN-IBN that he did not sell any data to the Indian government. Speaking via Skype, Elmer said, "There are politicians, cricket players, international well-known people who are part of that sort of information." Meanwhile, the government...
07:28 AM, Nov 11, 2012
New Delhi: A former Swiss bank employee has claimed that several politicians, cricketers and internationally well-known people have black money in the Swiss banks. Rudolf Elmer, who gave WikiLeaks the black money list told CNN-IBN that he did not sell any data to the Indian government. Speaking via Skype, Elmer said, "There are politicians, cricket players, international well-known people who are part of that sort of information." Meanwhile, the government...
07:28 AM, Nov 11, 2012
New Delhi: Dabur India on Friday regretted allegations made by India Against Corruption activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal against the Burman brothers. "It was unfortunate that every person having a foreign bank account is being painted with the same brush," the Dabur group said in its statement. Kejriwal in a press conference accused HSBC Geneva of money laundering and said that Burman brothers had accounts there. "We wish to state that these...
07:47 PM, Nov 09, 2012
New Delhi: Not many know that legendary singer and actor Kishore Kumar had no formal training in music. Still he has innumerous melodious songs to his credit. The man who recognised Kishore Kumars potential as a singer was music director SD Burman. While working on Mashaal in 1950, SD Burman visited Ashok Kumars house. And he heard Kishore imitating KL Saigal. He suggested Kishore to develop his own style and...
05:00 PM, Aug 04, 2012
New Delhi: Baro mash tero parbon... this common Bengali phrase refers to the essence perennial celebration. The first harvest, the blossoming of spring, the invasion of summers, the norwesters , the spray of monsoon , the onset of autumn, the gentle fading of autumn into winter, .... the festivals are spread across all 12 months seemingly to provide the break in routine every 2-3 months. And then there are those...
11:09 AM, Jun 27, 2012
Music composers Vishal Bhardwaj and Ismail Darbar talk about the legendary RD Burman. ...
09:24 AM, Jun 27, 2012
Agartala: Expressing concern over possible tampering of old Electronic Voting Machines, the opposition Congress in Tripura has requested the Election Commission to conduct the coming assembly elections with new foolproof Electronic Voting Machines (EVM). Prominent Congress Leader and former Chief Minister Samir Ranjan Burman in a letter on Friday requested the Chief Election Commissioner, "It is our earnest request that the Commission may kindly arrange for conducting of the coming...
06:09 PM, Apr 07, 2012
Musical experiments and innovations made RD Burman one of the most beloved musicians of his time. ...
11:28 PM, Jan 08, 2012
Bollywood stars recall the musical legacy of RD Burman - the composer who brought a complete change in the music industry. ...
12:57 PM, Jan 08, 2012
New Delhi: RD Burman was a musical genius whose experiments and innovations made him one of the most beloved musicians of his time. He gave the Hindi film industry an imperishable treasure trove. Son of Sachin Dev Burman, Rahul was fondly referred to as Pancham and started his journey with Chhote Nawab (1961). After that, he worked continuously for 33 years and brought a refreshing change with his extraordinary musical...
04:45 PM, Jan 04, 2012
New Delhi: Jamil Ahmad's The Wandering Falcon has won the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize 2011. As the name suggests, the winner is always a first-time author, and what better start to a literary career than to win an award with your first book? Ahmad, a 78-year-old retired civil servant completed his manuscript of interconnected stories set on the border of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran back in 1974. But it...
06:29 PM, Nov 28, 2011
Bollywood stars recall the musical moments with legendary musician Sachin Dev Burman. ...
01:38 PM, Nov 12, 2011
Bollywood stars recall the musical moments with legendary musician Sachin Dev Burman. ...
04:42 PM, Nov 05, 2011
Bollywood stars recall the musical moments with legendary musician SD Burman on his 105th birthday. ...
12:49 PM, Oct 01, 2011
New Delhi: Amidst all the big ticket literary prizes on the Indian landscape, the one that still has the most hearts racing is the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize. After all, as the name suggests, the winner is always a first-time author, and what better start to a literary career than to win an award with your first book? The prize, set up in memory of the talented writer and...
06:40 PM, Sep 09, 2011
New Delhi, On the 72nd birth anniversary of composer Rahul Dev Burman, megastar Amitabh Bachchan and Lata Mageshkar remembers him fondly. The 68-year-old star who has worked with the music maestro in films like 'Satte pe Satta', 'Kaalia', Sholay', 'Shaan' to name a few, feels nostalgic of their time together. "We used to sit together. He was too good. He used to come up with tunes so quickly. With him...
03:18 PM, Jun 27, 2011
SP Balasubramanian talks about his favourite RD Burman compositions as he releases the book 'RD Burman -The man, The Music' on the legend. ...
04:50 PM, Jun 15, 2011
