New Delhi: Grand preparations have been made for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's three-day fast for peace and harmony in Ahmedabad, with an estimate of over Rs 50 lakhs to be spent over the next three days. A five-tier security ring is being thrown around Gujarat University's plush convention hall in Ahmedabad. The venue has been turned into a fortress. Nearly 12,000 policemen have been deployed at GMDC grounds in...
09:53 AM, Sep 17, 2011
New Delhi: An annual land escalation cost of 10 per cent should be added while awarding compensation to land owners in semi-urban areas as they have a huge housing potential, the Supreme Court has held. A bench of justices GS Singhvi and HL Dattu said such a compensation was essential as the poor land owners cannot be left to the mercy of authorities or others in fixing the compensation. "Therefore,...
12:55 AM, Aug 03, 2011
London: Global banking major HSBC on Monday said it plans to slash around 30,000 jobs worldwide by the end of 2013, as part of a broader cost-cutting drive. "Five thousand roles had already gone so far this year and another 25,000 would need to be removed from the 296,000 global workforce," bank's Chief executive Stuart Gulliver was quoted as saying by 'The Guardian'. "There will be something like 25,000 roles...
05:57 PM, Aug 01, 2011
New Delhi: Stylist Manish Malhota won the best costume designer award for the movie 'Robot' at the Filmfare Awards South. The 58th Filmfare Awards South was held at Hyderabad International Convention Centre Saturday and felicitated talent in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada films. "For me, it's winning the Filmfare Award South for my work in 'Robot' here in Hyderabad tonight," Manish posted on micro-blogging site Twitter. Director Punit Malhotra wished...
11:14 AM, Jul 04, 2011
United Nations: India and 14 other countries were on Friday elected to the 47-nation UN Human Rights Council, which is based in Geneva. India was not in competition for the seat since there were four countries and four seats for the Asia block. With 189 countries voting, Indonesia received 184 votes, Philippines 183, India 181 and Kuwait 166. Other countries to be elected to the Council included Burkina Faso, Botswana,...
11:33 PM, May 20, 2011
CNN's Emily Reuben finds out how much the royal wedding is expected to cost and how does it compare with other royal weddings? ...
10:12 AM, Apr 26, 2011
The challenge for the small coast guard unit is that today it's much harder to tell friend from foe. ...
11:00 AM, Apr 19, 2011
Philadelphia: A new look and a new suit are in store for Ultimate Spider-Man, but the fate of Peter Parker - the awkward teenager who catches thieves like flies - is still a mystery. Marvel Comics said Monday that Parker is taking off the Spidey costume for good as part of its "Death of Spider-Man" story in its Ultimate Comics imprint, but it has offered scant clues as to what...
10:55 AM, Apr 19, 2011
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: India's airlines are staring at declining profits or probable losses in the Jan-March quarter as a sharp spike in crude prices, and inability to pass on high costs erode margins in a traditionally weak quarter, analysts said. "Fuel costs above $100 a barrel is a red signal for all airlines. They will find it difficult to post a profit at EBITDA level as right now they won't be...
02:39 PM, Mar 10, 2011
New Delhi: Mumbai slipped by one place to sixth in the list of the world's most expensive office locations in 2011, according to global realty consultant Cushman & Wakefield. The 2011 list was topped by Hong Kong, while London and Tokyo came second and third in the rankings, which valued Mumbai's office occupancy cost at USD 114 per square foot a year. India's financial capital occupied the fifth position in...
05:29 PM, Feb 23, 2011
London: Poet Jo Shapcott has won Britain's lucrative Costa Book Award for "On Mutability," a collection that draws on her experience with breast cancer. Shapcott said she was shocked to take the 30,000-pound ($48,000) prize, more often won by novelists. She said late Tuesday the book was "a series of meditations on mortality, some of which are terribly cheerful, in fact ecstatic." The Costa prizes are awarded in five categories,...
03:58 PM, Jan 28, 2011
London: Hollywood star Halle Berry is to be honoured at the Annual Costume Designers Guild Awards next month to be hosted by 'Sex and the City' star Kristin Davis. The Oscar-winning actress will receive the newly titled Lacoste Spotlight Award at the stylish event at Los Angeles' Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 22, reported Contactmusic. The star-studded ceremony, which pays tribute to the best in film, television and commercial costume...
04:19 PM, Jan 21, 2011
First-time novelist Kishwar Desai won the First Novel Award for 'Witness the Night' which explores India’s hidden female infanticide. The Costa Book Awards are one of the most prestigious and popular literary prizes in the UK and recognize books of the year by writers based in the UK and Ireland. It has five categories: First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children’s Book. The winners in each category will receive $...
05:19 PM, Jan 05, 2011
New York: Everyone knows it would be prohibitively expensive to actually gift someone the treasures from the "12 Days of Christmas," but it turns out to be even more pricey to insure - nearly 20 times the cost of buying the presents from the famed holiday carol in the first place. A recipient of turtle doves, partridges and leaping lords would end up paying nearly half a million dollars in...
10:45 AM, Dec 23, 2010
Neeta Lulla is a designer who has invested many years in the Hindi film industry. Recalling her long journey in fashion and films, Neeta says, “I never wanted to be a part of the film industry. I wanted to be a fashion choreographer.” Debut in movies But life had something else planned for her, Neeta was asked to design costumes for one of her relative's film Tamacha starring Kimi Katkar....
04:28 PM, Dec 15, 2010
Tokyo: A Japanese discount chain said Tuesday it will pull a Nazi costume from its shelves after receiving a complaint from an American Jewish organization. The costume on sale at retailer Don Quijote Co. includes a black jacket with a red swastika armband in a package adorned with a sketch resembling Adolf Hitler and the phrase "Heil Hitler" in Japanese characters. The outfit was on sale for about 5,000 yen...
06:32 PM, Dec 07, 2010
San Francisco: Twitter co-founder Evan Williams will hand the job of chief executive to Dick Costolo, the architect of Twitter's nascent advertising efforts, in a sign that making money is a top priority at the fast-growing Internet microblogging service. Williams will focus completely on product strategy, effective immediately, he wrote in a post on the Internet company's official blog on Monday. The move, Twitter's second CEO switch in its four-year...
11:28 AM, Oct 05, 2010
