Paris: A family lawyer says the pregnant girlfriend of a French soldier killed in a dramatic gun rampage will wed her partner in a posthumous ceremony. Lawyer Gilbert Collard says that 21-year-old Caroline Monet will marry Abel Chennouf, who was shot dead at a cash machine in the town of Montauban near Toulouse earlier this month. The 25-year-old soldier was one of seven people allegedly gunned down by Mohamed Merah,...
04:30 PM, Mar 24, 2012
New Delhi: Manohar Parrikar of the BJP will be sworn-in as the new CM of Goa on Friday evening. This will be the Parrikar's third stint as the chief minister of the state. A full 12-member Cabinet will also be sworn in. Top BJP leaders are expected to attend the ceremony. Technocrat-turned-politician, Parrikar, is known for his clean image, blunt talk and development initiatives. Parrikar, 56, who had launched a...
08:26 AM, Mar 09, 2012
Wellington: Ten years on from the day the 9/11 terrorist attacks changed so much for so many people, the world's leaders and millions of citizens are pausing to reflect. From Sydney to Atlanta, formal ceremonies are planned or already under way to remember the nearly 3,000 who perished from more than 90 countries. And, in a reminder that threats remain, authorities in Washington and New York are beefing up security...
10:40 AM, Sep 11, 2011
Kolkata: Mamata Banerjee is to be sworn in as the first woman Chief Minister of West Bengal on Friday and, along with her, another 43 ministers will be taking their oath. Mamata Banerjee on Thursday resigned as the Union Minister of Railways and Mukul Roy is likely to be made the Minister of State of Railways until the next Cabinet reshuffle. The number of 43 ministers of West Bengal does...
07:04 PM, May 19, 2011
Rock band Coldplay might perform at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics to be held in London. The prestigious sports event is slated for July 27-Aug 12, 2012, and Coldplay is at the top of the organiser's wish-list of acts for the opening gala, reports contactmusic.com. "Coldplay are the biggest stadium rockers in Britain today, and their style of anthemic music would be perfect for the Olympics. (The opening...
12:19 PM, Apr 09, 2011
Mumbai: He may not comprehend the language but that's hardly a deterrent for Shah Rukh Khan. The star will get jiggy to Tamil tracks for his opening ceremony performance at the Indian Premier League 2011 tonight. As the setting is Chennai, a local flavour is being imparted to King Khan's show. Popular Tamil tracks have been selected for the star to groove on which will also be a singularly unique...
05:07 PM, Apr 08, 2011
Los Angeles: Comedian Ricky Gervais said he did nothing wrong while hosting Hollywood's Golden Globes ceremony, and was merely "confronting the elephant in the room" with his controversial jokes about bad movies and stars in rehab. The British comic, best-known for creating the TV series "The Office", was widely criticized for having a "mean-spirited" attitude when he hosted the Golden Globe awards dinner on Sunday in a live telecast. But...
07:29 PM, Jan 21, 2011
The number of award ceremonies is growing in Bollywood, but many stars seem to be disillusioned with them. Aamir Khan was the first to boycott them, now Ajay Devgn has joined him, and others too feel there is no space for genuine talent at such events meant to garner publicity. "I don't see any value in any of these award ceremonies I see around me nowadays. The ones I don't...
11:56 AM, Jan 20, 2011
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PM Wen will be in New Delhi within a week of India attending the Nobel ceremony for Liu Xiaobo. New Delhi has ignored not one ...
11:06 PM, Dec 12, 2010
New York: Poetry by imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo is coming out in the US. Graywolf Press announced that "June Fourth Elegies" will be published in 2012. It is a bilingual edition of verse by the 54-year-old Chinese dissident and literary critic. Liu is serving an 11-year prison sentence for subversion handed down last year after he co-authored an appeal for human rights and political reform. The title...
05:18 PM, Dec 10, 2010
Oslo: When ambassadors, royalty and other VIPs take their seats in Oslo's modernist City Hall on Friday for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, there will be one chair left empty for this year's winner. Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, a democracy activist, is serving an 11-year prison sentence in China on subversion charges brought after he co-authored a bold call for sweeping changes to Beijing's one-party communist political system. Chinese authorities...
08:39 AM, Dec 10, 2010
The crowds didn't spare Suresh Kalmadi at the Games closing ceremony, booing him especially when he thanked other members of the OC like secretary general Lalit Bhanot. ...
08:13 AM, Oct 15, 2010
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