Cannes: And it appears to have been a crime spree in Cannes after an unidentified person fired two shots into the air during the live broadcast of a TV show. Cannes Film Festival jury members including Christoph Waltz and Daniel Auteuil who were being interviewed had to run for cover. The Police have managed to arrest the man at the scene. The suspect was found carrying a dummy grenade and a knife.
"The bodyguards jumped over the barriers into the crowd and pulled him to the ground. The police arrived and told everyone to run because there was a grenade in his hand," witness Arthur Laiguesse told Reuters.
"It really appears to be a crazy guy," said a police source.
After the man was taken away, the show's producers told the crowd the program would continue: "The show must go on." Waltz, who has won two best supporting actor Oscars for "Django Unchained" and "Inglourious Basterds", and Auteuil, both of whom are serving on the Cannes jury, returned to the set....
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10:20 AM, May 18, 2013
Jewellery belonging to luxury brand and Cannes Film Festival sponsor Chopard were stolen on Friday from a hotel room. Police say that the robbers managed to enter the hotel room without forcing the door open or using the magnetic key card and removed the entire safe containing the jewels worth over a million dollars. A Chopard spokesperson though has downplayed the reports that the jewels were valued over a million ...
09:55 AM, May 18, 2013
Paris: Thieves ripped a safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with around $1 million worth of jewellery, in a brazen late-night burglary just hours after the screening of a film about break-ins at the homes of Hollywood celebrities, French officials said Friday. The apparently well-planned robbery at the Novotel hotel took place in the room of a representative of Chopard,...
11:24 PM, May 17, 2013
Mumbai: Shares of jewellery manufacturers on Monday gained up to 7.5 per cent in an otherwise weak stock market amid hopes of pick-up in sales of gold jewellery and coins on Akshaya Tritiya. Thangamayil Jewellers soared by 7.49 per cent, Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri (3.19 per cent), Tara Jewels (3 per cent), Titan Industries (1.24 per cent), Rajesh Exports (1.84 per cent), Shree Ganesh Jewellers (1.84 per cent). Akshaya Tritiya is...
01:52 PM, May 13, 2013
Jaipur: A couple was intercepted with gold jewellery worth Rs 1.39 crore at the Sanganer airport in Jaipur. The couple, hailing from Phalodi area in Jodhpur district, had come from Hyderabad on Tuesday and the jewellery was found during the scanning of their bags, officials said. On being questioned, they failed to produce the relevant documents regarding the jewellery, they said. They were interrogated till late Tuesday night after which...
02:49 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Bollywood fashionista Sonam Kapoor opened the national capital's first ever India International Jewellery Week. ...
08:30 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Mumbai: Two brothers running a jewellery business were killed in their home by a gang of robbers in Nalasopara, Mumbai. According to the police, the victims were brothers and have been identified as Madan Soni and Dinesh Soni. The Soni brothers had a jewellery shop near their residence. The robbers entered their house with an intention to loot and after facing resistance from the brothers, killed the duo. Police officials...
12:42 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Actress Katie Holmes has posed topless for a new advertisement for a jewellery brand. ...
12:20 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Gems and jewellery sector on Thursday heaved a sigh of as there is duty hike in gold or jewellery in Budget 2013-14. "We thank the Finance Minister for accepting our demand by not increasing the Customs duty on gold and not levying Excise or any other duty on gold jewellery. We accept the Budget with a positive attitude," Bombay Bullion Association President Mohit Khamboj said. ...
05:59 PM, Feb 28, 2013
Who killed composer duo Jatin-Lalit's sister? Music composer Lalit Pandit joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. ...
03:29 PM, Feb 07, 2013
The police on Tuesday seized Mughal and Roman era gold and silver jewellery worth more than Rs 5 crore. The jewellery was seized from a group of contractors who found the ornaments buried in the wall of an old building. The contractors have been arrested. ...
01:24 PM, Dec 13, 2012
Hyderabad: Much like the market of decorative items, toys and a lot of other goods in India, the pearl market of Hyderabad is now dominated by China. Shop owners in the city say China has overtaken other countries from where pearls are being imported. Hyderabad is known as the "city of pearls". But the irony of its pearl story is that the city is nearly 300 km away from the...
01:18 PM, Nov 20, 2012
New Delhi: Buoyed by a firm trend in the overseas markets, gold futures prices on Thursday climbed to all-time high of Rs 31,029 per 10 grams as speculators indulged in enlarging positions. Rising spot demand in domestic markets for the wedding season also pushed gold futures to trade at record high, traders said. At the Multi Commodity Exchange, gold for delivery in December rose by Rs 352, or 1.23 per...
11:07 AM, Aug 23, 2012
Mumbai: The beginning of festivals has hardly been encouraging for the jewellery business, as retailers blame the lack of demand on rising gold prices, which is ruling over Rs 30,000 per 10 grams. "Even as the festival season has begun the demand for jewellery is hardly there. The sudden spurt in prices to over Rs 30,000 is the main deterrent against the demand," Bombay Bullion Association president Prithviraj Kothari told...
10:08 AM, Aug 12, 2012
