
New Delhi: 'Battleship' steams into movie theaters overseas this week, giving international audiences the first chance to decide whether a board game-based movie is sea-worthy. The Hasbro Inc search-and-destroy game was once a way for kids to while away a summer afternoon. But as it debuts in Europe on Wednesday, 'Battleship' the movie has become a potential franchise, sporting Michael Bay-inspired special effects, aliens invading Earth, a bikini-model actress, superstar...

02:15 PM, Apr 13, 2012

'Prometheus' is an upcoming science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof. ...

05:18 PM, Jan 04, 2012

Indian science is waiting to take over the world. REALLY?!!, I thought to myself. Forgive me for being very skeptical when I started off on 'Geek Nation' by Angela Saini. It seemed the sort of book tailored to scare the Goras stiff. First the Raj, then Land Rover, then the World Cup, now those bloody Indians will rob us of our science! I could imagine them going all red in...

11:05 AM, Apr 07, 2011

This may be Bollywood' s first comedy in the science fiction genre. ...

12:49 AM, Sep 06, 2008
Kolkata: As a compensation for the scrapping of India-England World Cup match, Eden Gardens will host a Twenty20 International match and an ODI later this year, Cricket Association of Bengal president Jagmohan Dalmiya said here on Thursday. BCCI has alloted a Twenty20 International between India and England in September or October. The ODI between India and either England or West Indies would also be held later this year, Dalmiya told...

12:34 PM, Dec 21, 2007

Here are some tech goof ups you might have missed in sci-fi flicks. ...

04:50 PM, Aug 02, 2007

Samit will answer your queries on India, science fiction and fantasy. ...

10:47 AM, Aug 01, 2007

Samit will answer your queries on India, science fiction and fantasy. ...

10:47 AM, Aug 01, 2007

If the future is robotic, it's perhaps time for laws to control them and Korea is gearing up to tame technology. ...

12:07 PM, May 12, 2007