Thiruvananthapuram: Can a monkey do a man's job? Yes, when it comes to climbing tall coconut trees and plucking its fruits - a skill that has been hit by labour shortage, say the Kerala authorities. With fewer people in the state willing to take up the arduous and risky job, the coconut business has taken a beating. To keep up the supply of the fruit, trained monkeys seem to be...
12:32 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Los Angeles: Warren Spector realises that he made a mistake with "Epic Mickey," his 2010 action-adventure game starring the world's most famous mouse. Despite his insistence on crafting an interactive homage to the silent cartoons that inspired him to create "Epic Mickey," the veteran designer acknowledges that the game's characters should have actually spoken. "I made a choice. In retrospect, I wish I made a different one," said the mastermind...
12:18 PM, Mar 22, 2012
London: More than 2,600 monkeys in Britain have become targets of "horrifying experiments" that included sawing open their skulls while still alive, putting electrodes in them and forcing them to watch TV, a report said. According to the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV), scientists at a university in Edinburgh last year force-fed pregnant marmosets with toxic chemicals used in plastics to monitor the effect on the sexual...
10:17 AM, Feb 27, 2012
It's not quite the Planet of the Apes. A painting monkey in Ontario is taking the Canadian art world by storm. ...
05:16 PM, Dec 07, 2011
New Delhi: Pakistan arrested a monkey, for crossing the Indian border in Bahawalpur on Monday, according to reports. A report in Pakistani daily 'The Express Tribune' said that locals tried to catch the monkey, but failed to do so. The report said that the residents of the area informed the wildlife officials, who managed to capture the monkey. The monkey was later placed at the Bahawalpur Zoo and has been...
08:08 PM, Dec 05, 2011
Los Angeles: Oscar-winner A R Rahman, Gurinder Chadha and Paul Berges are coming together for director Kevin Lima's Bollywood-style animated musical adventure 'Monkeys of Mumbai'. Lima, who directed Disney's animated 'Tarzan' before turning to the live-action hits like '102 Dalmations' and 'Enchanted', has signed on to helm Dream Works Animation's new project, whose story is somewhat similar to the great Indian epic the Ramayana. The movie centers around a man...
02:01 PM, Jul 23, 2011
A behind the scenes look at the scene-stealing monkey in the blockbuster comedy, 'The Hangover Part II'. ...
12:03 PM, May 30, 2011
Titled Monkeys of Bollywood, the film based in Mumbai revolves around two monkeys who try to stop an ancient demon from conquering the world. The movie is said to be inspired by Indian epic Ramayana, reports variety.com. Chadha and her husband Paul Berges will produce the DreamWorks project. "Excited about entering the world of Dreamworks animation...!(sic)," Rahman posted on his Twitter. Broadway lyricist Stephen Schwartz is also attached to it....
12:40 PM, Jan 13, 2011
Beijing: Monkey King, meet Avatar. Production has kicked off on a stereoscopic 3-D version of one of the biggest-ever Chinese language adventure tales as local filmmakers hope to match the gigantic success of "Avatar." The film, "Monkey King," is based on the classic Chinese novel "The Journey to the West," which tells the story of a Buddhist monk's pilgrimage to India to collect religious texts. One of the best-known stories...
04:00 PM, Dec 14, 2010
A panel of distinguished international critics and writers will judge the 2010 Man Asian Literary Prize. The judges are acclaimed novelist Monica Ali, prominent critic, Harvard literary authority Homi Bhabha, and award-winning writer Hsu-Ming Teo. Judges announced writers from Japan, China, India and the Philippines in the long-list for the 2010 Man Asian Literary Prize. Japanese writer, Kenzaburo Oe, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994 also amongst...
07:42 PM, Dec 13, 2010
New Delhi: For many people, the city of Bangalore, also known as Bengaluru, conjures up an image of a metropolis that plays host to the headquarters of some of the world's biggest software companies. But dubbing Bangalore 'the Silicon Valley of India' has started to irritate local residents and even those who have made it their home as they argue the Karnataka capital is much more than just an IT...
12:27 PM, Sep 02, 2010
Monkeys living in Kerala temple are considered guests of the local deity. ...
04:48 PM, Dec 29, 2009
Jyothiraju lists in the must-watch list of tourist attractions in Karnataka. ...
11:36 AM, Aug 01, 2009
Vidhana Souda built a temporary shrine for a deceased pregnant monkey. ...
01:18 PM, Jun 28, 2009
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