Arambag: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday announced setting up of an IT hub at Chinsurah in Hooghly district and said this was in accordance with her government's promise to develop industry in the districts. "We are committed to develop industry in the districts," the chief minister said at the inauguration of the Arambag-Tarakeswar new broad gauge line in Arambag. The IT hub at Chinsurah, a former Dutch...
10:12 PM, Jun 04, 2012
An article in a RSS mouthpiece has criticised Narendra Modi for his style of functioning. ...
08:54 AM, Jun 03, 2012
Bangalore: AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi is on a two-day visit to Karnataka. On Saturday, Rahul will be attending the Indian Youth Congress (IYC) and National Students' Union Of India (NSUI) - the national executive of Congress' student wings and state Youth Congress convention. Rahul's visit is being seen as another step towards getting party workers together before the 2014 general elections. Rahul, during his two-day visit, will attend many...
09:57 AM, Jun 02, 2012
New Delhi: Veteran actor AK Hangal finally made his much awaited appearance in the TV serial 'Madhubala: Ek Ishq Ek Junoon' on June 1. The actor played himself only where he in a way started the real story of the serial. Hangal, 97, put the name of a new born baby in the serial who is going to be the lead heroine of the show in the coming weeks. A...
09:41 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Mumbai: Veteran actor AK Hangal came out of retirement at the age of 97 to shoot for the television serial Madhubala. The veteran actor stepped out of his house for the first time in five months for the shooting of an episode of Madhubala in which he has done a cameo. Hangal pulled off his part in a single-take shot. Hangal has been active in filmdom since 1967 and played...
05:31 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: He takes tentative steps towards a cluster of people, guided purely by his senses, and the oppressive silence that warns him that something is not right here. The gentle timbre of his voice rings through the air heavy with mourning "yaha itna sannata kyu hai bhai"? Thirty-seven years after AK Hangal shot that iconic scene from 'Sholay', the silence at the studio where the television serial Madhubala was...
03:47 PM, May 31, 2012
In Odisha, the BJD and the CPM have given a bandh call against the petrol price hike which has completely paralysed the state. ...
08:49 AM, May 31, 2012
Ahmedabad: Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday faced increasing attack from dissidents and former state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders who were brought together by his predecessor Keshubhai Patel. The rebels went even said that Emergency was "better" than the Gujarat strongman's rule. Patel, a known rival of Modi, hosted the meeting of former chief minister Suresh Mehta, former Union minister Kanshiram Rana, former minister of state for home Gordhan...
09:28 PM, May 30, 2012
Mumbai: Once an actor always an actor. Quite true for 97-year-old A.K. Hangal, who wears grease paint despite the ripe age in a role in the television show 'Madhubala'. He is excited and says work knows no age limit. "I believe there is no age limit to work. But these days I'm not keeping well," Hangal told IANS. Talking about the show, he said: "I am feeling great about it....
04:50 PM, May 29, 2012
New York: Just as a trench dug in the 1800s created a shortcut to the nation's interior and helped make New York a global trading hub, the city is now hoping for another "Erie Canal moment" with a high-tech research complex to be built on an island in the East River. The idea is to create an applied-sciences university where engineers are also trained as entrepreneurs from day one. Proponents...
09:56 AM, May 29, 2012
'There is no story in the film and if you still find any, its purely your imagination. Thats the message that will appear on screen before the film begins, says debutant director Kamalakannan, speaking about his flick, 'Madhubaanakkadai'. The movie is about the happenings at a TASMAC shop in Erode on a single day, he says. 'Madhubaanakkadai' is not based on a character or a situation but a compilation of...
06:09 PM, May 28, 2012
New Delhi: Seven officials, including two loco drivers, have been suspended by the Railways in connection with last Tuesday's rail mishap in Andhra Pradesh that claimed 25 lives. The May 22 accident of Hubli-Bangalore Hampi Express at Penukonda station in Anantapur district of South Western Railway also injured 55 people. The suspended officials included station master of Penukonda Station of Bangalore division M Sri Ramulu, traffic inspector of Hindupur Station...
06:11 PM, May 27, 2012
Hyderabad: The Hampi Express collided with a goods train near Penukonda in Andhra Pradesh early on Tuesday morning on its way from Hubli to Bangalore. The death toll has risen to 16 and over 25 were injured in the collision, according to a railway spokesperson. The accident happened at around 3:45 am on Tuesday. Railway Minister Mukul Roy is reportedly on his way to the accident site. The Railway Ministry...
07:33 AM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: Actress Sushmita Mukherjee, fondly remembered as the Kitty of the 1980s show "Karamchand", is set to feature in "Madhubala - Ek Ishq, Ek Junoon" that will go on air on Colors May 28. Her character, Daima, will be that of a lady, who in the olden days, was a substitute to a doctor or nurse. She makes an entry when she is called to predict the gender of...
11:40 AM, May 19, 2012
Ahmedabad: District-level leaders from various parts of Gujarat on Friday urged former Gujarat chief minister Keshubhai Patel to take a lead in campaign against the incumbent chief minister Narendra Modi ahead of the state elections. Leaders, businessmen and important people from different districts kept pouring in at Keshubhai's residence in Gandhinagar on Friday, sources close to him said. "A meeting was held at the residence of Patel, in which, these...
11:12 PM, May 18, 2012
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