Samantha won't sign new films this year
by IANS
Chennai: Southern actress Samantha Ruth Prabhu is so busy with her projects in hand that she has decided not to sign any new film this year.

"I haven't signed any new film. (I) will not be signing any new film this year. Too much work already," posted Samantha on her Twitter page.

The 26-year-old currently has four Telugu projects in her kitty. At the moment, she is busy juggling between Naga Chaitanya-starrer political-thriller 'Autonagar Surya' and Junior NTR-starrer action-drama 'Ramayya Vasthavayya'.

She is also paired with Mahesh Babu in a yet to be titled action flick. This will be her third film with the Telugu superstar....more    
05:02 PM, May 15, 2013

Bombay HC quashes arbitration award in Tulip Hotel case Mumbai: In a judgement that might clear the way for the land development in Tulip Star property, the Bombay High Court has set aside an arbitration award which had held that the agreement between Siddhivinayak Realties and V Hotels stood terminated. Siddhivinayak Realties is a joint venture between Oberoi Realty and DB Realty founders Shahid Balwa and Vinod Goenka, while V Hotels is currently the owners of the Tulip Star...  
12:31 AM, May 14, 2013

Subhash Ghai to make 'Hero', 'Khalnayak' again
by IANS
Mumbai: Filmmaker Subhash Ghai has decided to re-visit his old hits, including 'Hero', 'Karma', 'Ram Lakhan' and 'Khalnayak', and bring those stories on the big screen back again with fresh twists and turns. "I have decided to re-visit some of my films to make them again. I will give them a new treatment. It won't be a remake for sure, it would be an adaptation," Ghai told IANS. "My films...  
01:59 PM, May 12, 2013

Abdur Razzak becomes first Bangladesh bowler to 200 ODI wickets The left-arm spinner achieved the landmark in his 141st one-day international, in which he finished with 5 for 62. ...  
06:26 PM, Mar 28, 2013

Southern child artist Teja found dead in Rishikesh The actor won Nandi Award for his performance in a TV serial. He is the son of noted Tollywood cameraman N Sridhar. ...  
05:35 PM, Mar 12, 2013

Uttam Kumar remains a reference point for Bengali actors even after three decades of his death: Swapan Mullick Oddly, nothing in the form of a biography has been written before about Bengal's most memorable actor, Uttam Kumar, in English. Veteran film critic Swapan Mullick's 'Mahanayak Revisited' goes behind the professional life and public face of Bengal's most idolized actor to reveal little-known details of the stars unconscious power in the film industry for more than thirty years,the dazzling achievements dampened by dud disappointments, the aberrations attendant on a...  
04:56 PM, Feb 22, 2013

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10:30 AM, Feb 15, 2013

De Zoysa appointed new Sri Lanka team manager De Zoysa replaces Charith Senanayake who had held the position for over an year. ...  
10:10 AM, Feb 11, 2013

IPL 6: Low-profile, big-budget - the big gainers They may not have set the international stage on fire yet, but these six cricketers found themselves very rich after the 2013 IPL auction. ...  
06:02 PM, Feb 03, 2013

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04:02 PM, Feb 03, 2013

Sri Lanka: Rajapaksa names Peiris new chief justice Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Monday appointed his cabinet's legal advisor as the country's new Chief Justice to succeed Shirani Bandaranayake, whose impeachment created much furore both inside and outside the nation. Rajapaksa sworn in new Chief Justice Mohan Peiris to replace Sri Lanka's first woman chief justice who was impeached by the parliament in a controversial move. ...  
03:20 PM, Jan 15, 2013

Snapshot: Sunny Leone visits Siddhivinayak Temple The producer visited Siddhivinayak Temple with the leading lady of her new film 'Ragini MMS 2'. ...  
03:03 PM, Jan 15, 2013

Sri Lanka President sacks first woman Chief Justice Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on January 13 sacked the country's first woman Chief Justice by ratifying her controversial impeachment by Parliament on corruption charges despite protests at home and global calls for restraint, pushing the nation into the brink of a major Constitutional stand-off. 54-year-old Shirani Bandaranayake was served a notice ordering her to quit her post, two days after the Parliament overwhelmingly voted to impeach her deepening the...  
05:45 PM, Jan 13, 2013

Sri Lanka: Chief Justice Bandaranayake impeached
by IANS
The Sri Lankan Parliament Friday voted by a majority to impeach the country's Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake, beginning the process to remove her from office. The impeachment motion was passed by a two-third majority with 155 members voting for and 49 against it. ...  
09:45 AM, Jan 12, 2013

Telugu Review: 'Naayak' celebrates commercialism
by IANS
To anticipate an offbeat film from VV Vinayak and a performance sans commercial elements from Ram Charan is too much to ask. ...  
03:06 PM, Jan 11, 2013