The State Minorities Commission has found that over 22 thousand properties owned by the Wakf Board was illegally encroached and sold over the last decade. ...
10:36 AM, Mar 27, 2012
Lahore: Pakistani film actress Salma Mumtaz has died in this eastern city at the age of 85 after suffering from diabetes for several years. Mumtaz, who died yesterday, was born in Jallandhar in 1926. Her family moved to Pakistan after the Partition in 1947. She began her film career in the 1960s with the Urdu film 'Neelofar'. An accomplished dancer, she worked in some 300 movies, mostly in Punjabi. Among...
06:52 PM, Jan 22, 2012
Mumbai: Zeenat Aman got her break playing Dev Anand's sister, Janice/Jasbir, in Hare Rama Hare Krishna, a film directed by the legend, who died last week. The former beauty queen tells us of how she learnt a lot simply by looking at the star in action "I will be eternally indebted to Dev Saab," says actor Zeenat Aman, who woke up last Sunday to a barrage of calls and messages,...
11:18 AM, Dec 11, 2011
Islamabad: A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Saturday handed down death sentence to the police guard who assassinated Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer for calling for changes in the country's controversial blasphemy law. Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, the policeman who gunned down Taseer outside a restaurant in the heart of Islamabad on January 4, was awarded two death sentences on two counts of murder and terrorism by Judge Parvez Ali Shah during...
11:32 AM, Oct 01, 2011
Islamabad: The assassin of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer on Monday confessed in a Pakistani court that he had acted alone in killing the politician and that he had been planning the attack before being deployed to guard him. Even as suspicion lingered that he was part of a conspiracy, Mumtaz Qadri denied that he was influenced by any political or religious group. Qadri was produced in the anti-terrorism court in...
03:49 PM, Jan 10, 2011
Islamabad: The assassin of the outspoken Pakistani governor was showered with rose petals by lawyers and people as he made his appearance in a court room to face murder charges, laying bare increasing radicalisation of the Pakistani society. Mumtaz Qadri, the police bodyguard who killed the Punjab governor Salman Taseer, appeared unrepentant in court, where waiting lawyers showered him with rose petals and others in the crowd slapped his back...
03:03 PM, Jan 06, 2011
Islamabad: Mumtaz Qadri, the assassin of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, has disclosed during investigations that he had informed his fellow Pakistani guards about his intentions, a report said on Tuesday. Qadri had told the other guards not to open fire at him after he killed Taseer as he would lay down his weapon after the murder, 'Geo TV' quoted officials as saying. Qadri said that he wanted to be arrested....
10:26 AM, Jan 05, 2011
Sonal Sehgal and Niharika Singh were present at his b'day bash ...
12:46 PM, Aug 03, 2010
Ben Kingsley is currently in Goa to attend IFFI. ...
10:59 PM, Dec 01, 2009
Kolkata: Dutch all-rounder Ryan ten Doeschate on Thursday said he is looking forward to play in front of his "home crowd" when he will come here in a month's time as part of the Kolkata Knight Riders' team in the fourth edition of the Indian Premier League. "It's pretty special to walk up there. When I came here I had a feeling that it's going to be my home ground...
01:55 PM, Jan 03, 2008
It's likely that some symbolic relics lie inside the coffin at the Taj Mahal. ...
12:50 PM, Aug 23, 2007
Gulmarg is one of the most beautiful places on earth and has been romanced by Bollywood in many a memorable movie. ...
08:50 AM, Dec 20, 2006
Mumtaz is playing an encouraging aunt to her nephew who's just made his Bollywood debut in
Woh Lamhe. ...
08:10 AM, Oct 10, 2006
