New York: The Laos adventure 'The Rocket' and the Afghanistan War documentary 'The Kill Team' have taken top honors at the Tribeca Film Festival. In an awards ceremony Thursday evening in New York, festival jurors selected Kim Mordaunt's 'The Rocket' for best narrative film. Its 10-year-old star won best actor. The young Sitthiphon Disamoe stars as Aholo, who enters a rocket festival to help save his poverty-stricken family that's been...
11:40 AM, Apr 26, 2013
New Delhi: 'Katiya Karoon' from 'Rockstar' tugged at music lover's heartstrings so much that it became on of their favourite songs. But did you know that legendary singer Shamshad Begum, who died Tuesday, too had sung a song titled 'Katiya Karoon' in 1963! Shamshad Begum was one of the first female playback singers of the Indian film industry, which has turned 100 this year. At 94, she was six years...
06:17 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Baga: Fighting between Nigeria's military and Islamic extremists killed at least 185 people in a fishing community in the nation's far northeast, officials said on Sunday, an attack that saw insurgents fire rocket-propelled grenades and soldiers spray machine-gun fire into neighborhoods filled with civilians. The fighting in Baga began on Friday and lasted for hours, sending people fleeing into the arid scrublands surrounding the community on Lake Chad. By Sunday,...
06:40 AM, Apr 22, 2013
Kolkata: Veteran star Mithun Chakroborty will be teaming up with his son Mimoh for the first time on-screen in the movie 'Rocky'. "'Rocky' is the first film where I will be partnering with dancing guru Mithun Chakraborty in a sequence. Don't know what lies in store for me," Mimoh said here. "You know you have to live up to the steps of a dancing wizard like my father, the mahaguru....
04:25 PM, Apr 14, 2013
New Delhi: Moving forward on its plans to rope in the industry in its activities, ISRO is looking towards the launch of the first privately built rocket in the next five years. The Indian Space Research Organisation has embarked on hiving off production of communication satellites and polar satellite launch vehicles (PSLVs) to the industry. "We are now setting up a national committee to work out the modalities on how...
03:20 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Jerusalem: Israel shut a crossing with Gaza after rockets were fired from the Hamas-ruled territory at the Jewish state on the day it commemorated the Holocaust. The military said it closed the Kerem Shalom terminal on Monday. Another crossing would be open for humanitarian cases only, it said. Israel has blockaded the coastal territory since the Islamic militant Hamas took over in 2007. Israeli police said several rockets were fired...
01:00 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Funny men Adam Sandler and Chris Rock are getting the gang back together for 'Grown Ups 2'. The comedy ensemble that starred in 'Grown-Ups' return for a sequel to the small town where they grew up this July. ...
09:20 AM, Apr 08, 2013
Vancouver: He is on the wish-list of some of the top directors in Bollywood, thanks to his performance in 'Rockstar' and 'Barfi' but Ranbir Kapoor says he is not satisfied with his work in the industry so far. "Now, there is a constant search inside me to find my characters, find the right emotions and do my job honestly and truly. I am not even two per cent happy with...
05:07 PM, Apr 06, 2013
New Delhi: India plans to launch a next generation rocket to put heavier satellites and more astronauts into outer space within a year, a top official said on Wednesday. "The first experimental flight of the GSLV Mark III will take place one year from now," K Radhakrishnan, Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation told the Annual General Meeting of the Confederation of Indian Industry in New Delhi. The new rocket, which...
11:24 PM, Apr 03, 2013
Life is limping back to normal in Sualkuchi - the silk town of Assam, where seven people including two policemen were injured in a clash between weavers and security forces, the government said on Monday, adding it will order a judicial probe into the incident. ...
05:40 AM, Apr 02, 2013
North Korea has put its rocket units on standby on Friday to attack US mainland and military bases in South Korea and the Pacific, after the United States flew two nuclear-capable stealth bombers over the Korean peninsula in a rare show of force. ...
10:19 AM, Mar 29, 2013
Warning Israel that it was at a "crossroads", US President Barack Obama on Friday voiced his opposition to Tel Aviv's controversial settlement activities and said America was "deeply committed" to create an independent, sovereign state of Palestine. ...
09:45 AM, Mar 22, 2013
Syrian air force jets fired four rockets at a remote section of the border with Lebanon on Monday, security sources said, four days after Damascus warned it may strike at Syrian rebels taking refuge across the frontier. ...
12:15 AM, Mar 19, 2013
Director by filmmaker Shashank, the film is produced by Vinod Mehtha. ...
09:05 PM, Mar 17, 2013
Actress Prachi Desai does not mind being part of masala entertainers as leading ladies just have to do a bit of song and dance while heroes do all the work. ...
04:20 PM, Mar 16, 2013
'Policegiri' is in its post-production stage, and is hitting the screens on April 14, 2013. ...
12:03 PM, Mar 13, 2013
