
New Delhi: The trailer of 'Les Miserables' is out. The film stars Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, Helena Bonham Carter, Samantha Barks, and Aaron Tveit as pivotal characters. Directed by Tom Hooper, the film is based on the novel of the same name by Victor Hugo. ...

02:41 PM, May 30, 2012

New Delhi: An American national has been arrested at the IGI airport allegedly with 23 live cartridges, which police on Sunday claimed was brought from the United States without any valid documents. Police said no firearms were recovered from Jeffrey Jinnin Worn, who was about to board a Turkish Airlines flight on Saturday. "During security check at the time of boarding, some suspicious items were found in Worn's baggage. It...

03:01 PM, May 27, 2012

After working together for 24 long years, one of the biggest brand of directors of Mollywood Rafi-Mecartin is heading for a separation. As per the latest details, their last movie together will be Prithviraj's 'Mumbai Dhosth' all set to start the shoot by the month of June. Howly Pottur will produce these humorous films that will have plenty of slapsticks, as usual by the director duo. Rai-Mecartin has plenty of...

03:13 PM, May 24, 2012

Cyrus Broacha also talks about Ambedkar cartoon row, Rekha in Rajya Sabha and much more. ...

11:58 PM, May 19, 2012

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday stormed out of a CNN-IBN show on one year of Trinamool Congress rule, after accusing the audience, which consisted of students, to be Maoists and CPM cadre. The Trinamool Congress chief lost her cool and stormed out of the interactive TV session when members of the audience questioned her on the arrest of Jadavpur University professor Ambikesh Mahapatra and increased rate...

07:30 AM, May 19, 2012

New Delhi: In 1923, iconic Bengali humorist Sukumar Ray described a curious race of beings "who were scared to laugh". With the government forced to apologise for a 1949 cartoon on Jawaharlal Nehru and B.R. Ambedkar after parliamentarians of all hues raised a massive ruckus, are Indians becoming that humourless race? The 63-year-old cartoon by the eminent Shankar - considered the father of Indian political cartoonists who ran the highly...

01:12 PM, May 18, 2012

The grand old man of Indian cartooning, RK Laxman, has a delightful anecdote that embodies the charm of political cartooning. Soon after the 1962 Sino-Indian ...

12:22 AM, May 18, 2012

New Delhi: It is a cartoon controversy that has almost no one laughing. After a furore by MP's over BR Ambedkar's caricature, the government has banned all cartoons in textbooks. The question is whether politicians take themselves too seriously. RJD chief Lalu Prasad's was the loudest voice in Parliament demanding a ban on cartoons in textbooks, following a 60-year-old cartoon on BR Ambedakr that united leaders across party ranks. But...

10:17 AM, May 17, 2012

New Delhi: The government has set up a panel headed by former UGC chairman SK Thorat in the wake of the cartoon row to review NCERT's political science textbooks for schools. The committee, which has five members from the social science background, will review class IX to XII social science/political science textbooks of NCERT from the point of view of identifying educationally inappropriate material in them, said a NCERT notification....

09:39 PM, May 16, 2012

New Delhi: Pakistan is a part of India and PV Narasimha Rao is the Prime Minister of the country - this is being taught to school students in some states, according to a Member of Parliament. AIADMK member S Semmalai highlighted this in Lok Sabha on Wednesday while referring to the controversy over Ambedkar cartoon in CBSE textbooks during a discussion on Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Amendment Bill,...

08:42 PM, May 16, 2012

What has happened to the nation? The Parliament is scared of cartoons while the government resents freedom of press. News broke on Friday that the ...

04:37 PM, May 15, 2012

New Delhi: The members of Parliament across party lines said not just Ambedkar cartoons but no political cartoons at all should be allowed in school textbooks. The BJP said HRD Minister Kapil Sibal must resign on this issue. The question is whether cartoon and politician satire should be censored. CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose discussed the issue with a distinguished panel on her show Face The Nation. Following is the...

12:17 PM, May 15, 2012

New Delhi: Under attack over the cartoon row, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal on Monday acknowledged that cartoons on the political class should not find a place in textbooks as they influence the impressionable minds of students. Holding that the issue is not about the content of the cartoons but about their inclusion in textbooks, he said the impression should not go to the world that the political class is corrupt...

02:04 AM, May 15, 2012

Sources say the MPs want cartoons of all politicians removed from school textbooks as they depict politicians in a poor light. ...

11:58 PM, May 14, 2012