London: A rare 1932 hand-drawn cover of a Tintin comic book by Belgian writer and illustrator Herge has fetched a record 1.3 million euros at an auction. The 'Tintin in America' cover broke the record, set by the same item in 2008, when it sold for 764,000 euros. The cover shows the young adventurer Tintin, dressed as a cowboy and sitting with his dog, Snowy, as axe-wielding American Indians creep...
03:29 PM, Jun 03, 2012
Guwahati: Based on information provided by an arrested thief, the Guwahati police on Sunday recovered cash worth Rs 13.29 lakh from a garbage dump at lower Assam's Barpeta district. Police said the money was recovered from a garbage dump behind the house of one Kishore Deka. Deka had been apprehended recently by the police in Guwahati for stealing over Rs 21 lakh from an ATM at Guwahati's Gorchuk locality a...
09:10 PM, May 13, 2012
A Time Magazine cover showing a mother breast feeding her 4-yr-old son has sparked a parenting row amongst its readers. ...
06:12 PM, May 12, 2012
Seldom does the Indian media today act as the cronies of the commoners. However, when it does, especially in pelting stones at the castle, it ...
02:17 PM, May 12, 2012
TIME magazine's newest cover for North America, showing a stay-at-home mother in Los Angeles breastfeeding her over-three-year-old son is drawing flak from different quarters for being too provocative. The photo shows Jamie Lynne Grumet, 26, a stay-at-home mom in Los Angeles who told the magazine that her mother breastfed her until she was six. TIME's American cover is on a style of child-rearing where nursing and breastfeeding a baby beyond...
06:59 PM, May 11, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: As part of the 60th year of India-Japan diplomatic relations, Discover Japan Festival-2012, a three-day cultural festival and industrial expo, will begin in the city on Friday. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy will inaugurate the festival, jointly organised by Japanese Cultural and Information Centre, Alumni Society of AOTS and Terumo Penpol, at 5 pm on Friday at VJT Hall. Chief Secretary K Jayakumar will preside over the function. Masanori Nakano,...
11:37 AM, May 08, 2012
HYDERABAD: Congress MP V Hanumantha Rao on Sunday said he too, like the health minister DL Ravindra Reddy, may have to come to a conclusion that chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy was Jagan Mohan Reddy's covert unless he sheds his silence on the Kadapa MP."Ravindra Reddy's point was that the chief minister was not targeting Jagan even though he was attacking the Congress president Sonia Gandhi. It is time...
11:26 AM, May 07, 2012
Chantilly: Space shuttle Discovery soared around the Washington Monument and the White House in a salute to the nation's capital on Tuesday before landing for the last time near its new museum home. The world's most travelled spaceship took off at daybreak from Cape Canaveral, Florida, bolted to the top of a modified jumbo jet for the trip. Three hours later, the pair took a few spins around Washington at...
11:06 PM, Apr 17, 2012
While Kangana Ranaut has always been a designer favourite, Deepika Padukone looks stunning as always on the cover of Grazia. ...
01:11 PM, Apr 10, 2012
We celebrate our 200th episode of Overdrive by taking 4 luxury SUV's into snow. The new Land Rover Discovery 4 is joined by the Toyota Landcruiser, Mercedes GL and Mitsubishi Montero. ...
07:52 PM, Mar 25, 2012
New Delhi: After the Bahujan Samaj Party's (BSP) debacle in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, party chief Mayawati loses her security cover. Two days after taking oath, the Samajwadi Party (SP) government in UP withdrew 400 security branch personnel and security cars including escort and pilots from outgoing chief minister Mayawati's security cover. However, the Z plus security provided to her will continue. Mayawati will meet Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)...
09:04 AM, Mar 17, 2012
Import-dependent automakers and their suppliers got bushwhacked by the Indian rupee in 2011 when it went into a tailspin after the country's trade gap began to widen and government policy drift kept investor dollars away. By the end of December, the rupee was down 20 per cent against the dollar, and by 22 per cent against the Japanese yen. The yen's rise particularly hit India's biggest carmaker Maruti Suzuki whose...
11:34 AM, Mar 13, 2012
New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh government on Sunday started uncovering Chief Minister Mayawati's statues in Lucknow. The statues were covered on January 7 upon the Election Commission's orders, after several opposition parties raised a hue and cry about her statues being in the open in poll season. The parties alleged that the BSP would have an unfair advantage in the elections because of them. In Lucknow, nine statues of Mayawati...
10:01 AM, Mar 04, 2012
In this episode, we tell you how to make your life more exciting and up your style quotient with out-of-the-world gadgets, that do not burn a hole in your pocket at the same time. ...
12:59 PM, Feb 26, 2012
Mumbai: Salman Khan, who runs charity organisation Being Human for underprivileged people, feels that due to media coverage movie stars tend to have an edge over others who sincerely work toward the betterment of society. And he is not too happy about it. "We (celebrities) have an edge because we are there on every TV and every screen, good films, bad films, stuff like what we do in restaurants...So, we...
12:54 PM, Feb 26, 2012
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