Mumbai: Actress Priyanka Chopra, who has been appointed as brand ambassador for home entertainment brand Digital Direct Broadcast (DDB), says she is a geek's fantasy. "I love technology...I consider myself geek's fantasy. Any new gadget in the market and I need to have one," Priyanka told reporters at the event here. Explaining about DDB, she said, "The DDB is so simple...its like a file, its like a folder where I...
02:23 PM, Jun 04, 2012
New Delhi: A young engineer, Kundan Jaiswal, risked his own life while trying to chase and nab an alleged assailant. He didn't drive past like everyone else when he saw a helpless man being attacked on the road. "It was a Saturday evening and I was travelling home with my brother in an autorickshaw through the Old Delhi area," Kundan said. Recalling the events of the day, Kundan said, "Suddenly...
09:52 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Jammu: Thirteen people were killed early Wednesday when their vehicle skidded off the road and fell into a deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district, police said. The Tata Sumo carrying 13 passengers rolled into a 300 metre deep gorge at Digdol, about 165 km north of Jammu city, an official said. All the passengers died instantly. Bodies were scattered all over and police were finding it difficult to...
10:51 AM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: The West Bengal government has been quick to cash in on Kolkata Knight Riders' maiden IPL triumph organising a grand felicitation ceremony at the Eden Gardens on Tuesday. However, Kolkata Police, in their bid to enhance the image of 'Brand Kolkata', has conceived an innovative 'Road Safety' advertisement campaign. They have connected William Blake's famous poem "The Tyger" with KKR's IPL victory. Kolkata Traffic Police have put out...
04:40 PM, May 29, 2012
No one manages a party quite like West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. She proved that again on Tuesday at the Eden Gardens. The city ...
03:15 PM, May 29, 2012
Chandigarh: BSNL broadband users in Punjab and Chandigarh have been unable to access internet since morning today due to a server problem. "The server in Noida, which caters to the northern region was not functioning because of some power supply issue. As a result of which the broadband users could not get internet connectivity," official sources in BSNL said. BSNL officials maintained that efforts are being put in restoring the...
11:09 AM, May 28, 2012
New Delhi: If you recall the sheer opulence of Baz Luhrmann's musical Moulin Rouge, complimenting Craig Armstrong and Marius de Vries's music, you will find it easier to justify Sanjay Leela Bhansali's magnum opus Devdas' place in the '10 Greatest Movies of the Millennium' list compiled by the Time magazine. A decade after it was released in seven languages, the grandeur of Devdas continues to enamour an audience in the...
05:24 PM, May 24, 2012
New Delhi: This Friday, Hindi film 'Arjun: The Warrior Prince' will stand tall to face the big Hollywood release 'Men In Black 3' at the box office. Though the audiences have seen films such as 'Rancho' and 'Roadside Romeo' in the past, still the Indian film market is not very open about animation films yet. Bollywood actor Jaaved Jafferi expresses his opinion about the future of animation films in India,"This...
04:04 PM, May 24, 2012
New Delhi: As the UPA government on Tuesday completes its third year in office in second term, the road transport ministry on Tuesday exuded confidence that it will achieve the target of constructing 20 km roads per day before elections in 2014. "Before we will go for elections, we will achieve the target (of constructing 20 km roads per day). I am very much confident about it," Road Transport Minister...
04:27 AM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: Indian audiences are soon going to watch director Arnab Chaudhuri's animated mythological action film 'Arjun: The warrior Prince'. The film is expected to have used new techniques to create the grandeur of the Mahabharata era. The Indian film industry has come up with films such as 'Rancho' and 'Roadside Romeo' in the past, but the market for animation films is still in a nascent state. Arnab Chaudhuri speaks...
04:11 PM, May 22, 2012
BANGALORE: The road connecting the Chord Road Junction and Gali Anjaneya Temple will be made one-way, probably in the next two months. Mayor D Venkatesh Murthy on Monday said, The move will possibly provide partial solution to the ever-increasing traffic on Mysore Road. Accordingly, vehicles coming from Mysore side have to take a left turn on the West of Chord Road and proceed on the bridge at Deepanjalinagar and then...
08:37 AM, May 22, 2012
Three judges from the Saket court were attacked by two men on a motorbike following an accident on Thursday evening. ...
02:24 PM, May 18, 2012
New Delhi: A policemen was killed in New Delhi's Bharat Nagar late on Thursday night. Reports indicate that the policeman, identified as Naresh, was killed as he tried to stop a tempo against which a lookout notice had been issued. According to eyewitnesses, the tempo broke through the barricades and when Naresh pursued it on motorcyle, he was run over. A home guard was also injured in the incident. ...
11:01 AM, May 18, 2012
New Delhi: Three judges from the Saket court in Delhi were allegedly attacked by two men on a motorcycle following an accident. In fact, the motorcyclists threw bricks on the car when they were asked to drive safely. Both have now been arrested. It's one of the most shocking cases of road rage on Delhi's roads. Additional CP Ajay Choudhary said, "It's a clear case of road rage because the...
08:02 AM, May 18, 2012
New Delhi: In a suspected case of road rage, three judges and the driver of the car they were travelling in were attacked by unidentified motorcyclists in south Delhi on Thursday evening. This is the second incident of attacks on judges in the national capital in the past four days. One of the judges, Ajay Garg, suffered head injuries while two of his colleagues Additional Sessions Judges Inderjit Singh and...
10:45 PM, May 17, 2012
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