Jalandhar/New Delhi: Beaten mercilessly in Punjab, an African student has been lying in coma for three months. The incident has put a question mark on India's track record of dealing with African students. However, reacting to the incident, the envoy of Burundi has said that it is a criminal case and not a racist attack. Yannik, a 23-year-old boy from Burundi was a student of the Lovely University in Punjab....
06:39 PM, Jul 06, 2012
Nashik: In a shocking incident, a 16-year-old girl along with her boyfriend allegedly killed her widowed mother and dumped the body in Kasara Ghat, around 70 kms from here. The girl called her 19-year-old boyfriend at home in Shankar Nagar locality of the city on July 2 and the boy allegedly stabbed the girl's mother, Gurwinder Kaur Birdi (40), with a knife in her abdomen and later strangled her to...
05:54 PM, Jul 06, 2012
Jalandhar: A Burundi national and a student of Punjab's Lovely University was reportedly beaten and left for dead in Jalandhar in April this year. The 23-year-old, Yannick Nihangaza is currently in coma. The boy was allegedly pelted with stones and beaten up on April 22. Two people have been arrested in the case. His father has now written an emotional appeal to India asking that he be repatriated to Burundi....
03:49 PM, Jul 06, 2012
New Delhi: Ayushmann Khurrana is going places after the success of his debut film "Vicky Donor". The actor has bagged his third project, an untitled rom-com, to be directed by Rohan Sippy. Ayushmann, who is teaming up with Shoojit Sircar and John Abraham for Hamara Bajaj, will begin shooting Sippy's film from July 20. "It's a buddy film and focuses on the male-bonding between Kunal and me. The film is...
08:15 PM, Jul 04, 2012
Los Angeles: The BET Awards on Sunday split top honors among several artists, including Beyonce Knowles and Chris Brown, in a telecast filled with lively performances and an emotional tribute to late singer Whitney Houston. Beyonce was named best female R&B artist, while Brown, who performed his hit single Turn Up the Music from his new album Fortune, earned the title best male artist. Rappers Jay-Z and Kanye West won...
12:12 PM, Jul 02, 2012
New Delhi: In a case of honour killing, a 24-year-old teacher was killed allegedly by her mother and brother after she refused to stay with her husband and wanted to marry her lover, an engineer, who is from another caste. The incident was reported from Kanjhawla area of Delhi and the deceased has been identified as Deepti Chikara. The teacher was pressured into a marriage in January but had returned...
02:59 PM, Jun 29, 2012
New York: On a weekend in January of 2010, Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios pivoted faster than even Spider-Man would dare. A fourth installment of the hugely popular Spider-Man franchise was planned, with director Sam Raimi and star Tobey Maguire returning to their trilogy of films that had earned more than $2.5 billion at the global box office and generally been hailed as a standard-bearer in big-screen comic book adaptations....
04:54 PM, Jun 28, 2012
Paris: He is one of Hollywood's legendary filmmakers, but Woody Allen feels he is yet to make a great movie and has no plans to quit the industry anytime soon. "I'm 76 now so I don't think that's going to happen, but I keep trying," contactmusic.com quoted Allen as saying. The filmmaker was in Paris to promote his new film 'To Rome With Love', yet another movie expected to garner...
12:21 PM, Jun 28, 2012
Los Angeles: Director of the movie and cast member Woody Allen is interviewed at the premiere of To Rome with Love during the opening night of the Los Angeles Film Festival at the Regal Cinemas in Los Angeles, California June 14, 2012. With a cast featuring Alec Baldwin, Penelope Cruz, Ellen Page and others, the film portrays intertwining stories including that of a young man (Jesse Eisenberg) in the love...
07:43 PM, Jun 27, 2012
It is known that 'Poola Rangadu' fame Veerabhadram has a movie with Nagarjuna. After listening to the story, Nag was so impressed that he wanted to produce it himself. This Annapurna Studios production is very likely to star Richa Gangopadhyay as the heroine. Devi Sri Prasad is teaming up for a Nag film after 'King'. The film will go on the floors after Nag completes 'Love Story', the Dasarath film....
11:08 AM, Jun 27, 2012
Prominent Kannada film journalist Nandakumar after 'Goodluck' that turned bad luck in the box office is trying his luck in the second film 'I am in Love'. The film has completed shoot in 31 days shooting in KGF, Bangalore, Bekalkote and other places. The producer Lalitha Channa Reddy who is an agriculturist in Hosur is extremely happy with systematic production and accurate thinking of director Nandakumar. The half an hour...
12:16 AM, Jun 19, 2012
Now that Nagarjuna is free of the obligations relating to both Shirdi Sai and Damarukam, he is all set to start work on his family entertainer, which is to be directed by Dasarath of Santosham and Mr. Perfect. Produced by Kamakshi Movies, the film sees Nag in a trendy get-up. The producers have announced that the film will go on the floors from June 21. To be shot in Hyderabad,...
08:48 PM, Jun 18, 2012
Mumbai: Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui, whose three films 'Gangs Of Wasseypur' parts one and two and 'Miss Lovely' were screened at the recently concluded Cannes Film Festival, says people in the West felt that "meaningless films are made in India". "All this while they (people in the west) had a notion that only meaningless films with lot of dance and drama were made in India. To some extent that is true...
05:16 PM, Jun 12, 2012
New Delhi: Emraan Hashmi, Abhay Deol, Kalki Koechlin and Prosenjit Chatterjee starrer 'Shanghai' hits the screens on June 8, 2012. Directed by Dibakar Banerjee, 'Shanghai' is a political thriller. This eagerly-awaited film has been given a U/A certificate from the censor board. Known for his films like 'Khosla Ka Ghosla', 'Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye' And 'Love Sex aur Dhokha', Banerjee has enjoyed commercial and critical acclaim so far. Thanks to...
10:39 AM, Jun 08, 2012
The panel constituted to make nominations for the prestigious SIIMA awards has selected the likes of Prabhas and Kajal Aggarwal, among others, for the awards. The nominees for best actor category included the favourites. Nagarjuna for 'Rajanna', Balakrishna for 'Sri Rama Rajyam', Mahesh Babu for 'Dookudu', Prabhas for 'Mr. Perfect' and Naga Chaitanya for '100 percent Love' are the nominees in this category. For the Best Actress category, Kajal Aggarwal...
04:31 PM, Jun 05, 2012
The title would have you believe this is a love story, and it is - in a manner of speaking. Not quite what you would expect, and certainly not chick-lit. Let me start by saying that Kishwar Desai has gone on record saying she was quite angry when she wrote this. As with her first book Witness the Night (which won the Costa Award), she's picked a pressing social issue...
01:14 PM, Jun 04, 2012
New Delhi: Thanks to Aamir Khan's TV show 'Satyamev Jayate', Love Commandos has become a familiar term for thousands of television viewers. Fifth episode of 'Satyamev Jayate' talked about the issue of honour killing in India. Sanjay Sachdev, chairman of Love Commandos was interviewed by Aamir during the show. The name of this organisation sounds like a Bollywood film and they are the real heroes for many couples. In a...
06:37 PM, Jun 03, 2012
Mumbai: Filmmakers rarely applaud each other's work but Anurag Kashyap and Dibakar Banerjee are all praises for each other. After watching 'Shanghai', Kashyap has declared it is the best film he has ever watched and Banerjee is the country's best director. "It's a film that should be made compulsory for everybody to watch. This is the most powerful and the best film I have seen in a long time," Kashyap...
04:06 PM, Jun 01, 2012
After his latest hit, Aadi has come to be referred to as 'Lovely Rock Star.' He is thoroughly enjoying this new image, and says that he has become confident about himself. "I never thought I could dance so well. Thanks to Jaya Garu, I pulled off good steps in the movie. Chori Chori song is something I will never forget. Anup Ruben's music was 10 times better than Prema Kavali's....
10:26 AM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi government on Wednesday warned various auto-rickshaw unions not to go ahead with their proposed strike on Thursday demanding hike in fares, saying it punitive action may be taken against those who participate in the protest. Transport Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely said a majority of auto-rickshaw unions have conveyed to the government their decision not to participate in the strike. Lovely said the unions which have given...
11:02 PM, May 30, 2012
