'Radha Manoharam' is a musical romance

'Radha Manoharam' is a musical romance 'Radha Manoharam' is a musical romantic film to be directed by Siddhartha Bommagouni, who was associated with Pawan Kalyan as an assistant writer/director in the past. Siraj is debuting as the male lead. Music is composed by KM Radhakrishnan, this one is being made with high technical values. "The characters mirror the thinking of today's youngsters. This is a feel-good movie with a beautiful concept. There will be eight songs...
11:10 AM, Jun 01, 2012

IPL molestation row: Sid Mallya in more trouble

IPL molestation row: Sid Mallya in more trouble New Delhi: Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) team director Sidhartha Mallya may find himself in some deep trouble as the alleged victim in the molestation case involving RCB batsman Luke Pomersbach has decided to file a complaint against him with the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) on Saturday. The alleged victim is expected to meet DCW chairperson at 12 noon. The agency will then register her complaint and ask the police...
09:46 AM, May 19, 2012

IPL molestation case: Luke to appear in Delhi court

IPL molestation case: Luke to appear in Delhi court New Delhi: Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) player Luke Pomersbach will appear in a Delhi court on Saturday for allegedly molesting a woman and beating up her fiance during a party post an IPL match in the early hours of Friday. The court will decide if Pomersbach should continue to stay out on bail or go back into police custody. Luke has claimed innocence in the case. He said on Saturday,...
08:18 AM, May 19, 2012

'Edavapathi' shooting at progress in Munnar

'Edavapathi' shooting at progress in Munnar As Kerala is eagerly waiting for its monsoon and Edavapathi, art house film maker Lenin Rajendran is busy trying to wind up the shoot of his new movie titled the same before this coming 'Edavapathi'. Featuring an international cast starting from Siddhartha Lama (of Yoddha fame), and Manisha Koirala, the movie centres its plot on Tibetan refugees denied total freedom by the Chinese government. In the midst, Lenin will also...
03:04 PM, May 16, 2012

Telugu Review: Watch 'Disco' at your own risk

Telugu Review: Watch 'Disco' at your own risk Cast: Nikhil Siddhartha, Sara Sharma, MS Narayana, Ali, Raghu Babu, Ashish Vidyarthi and others Director: Hari K Chanduri Rating: *1/2 Actor Nikhil Siddhartha started his career with a bang by being part of a trend-setting film 'Happy Days', which was directed by Shekhar Khammula, but later, he could not get a good script to consolidate his career. 'Disco' was expected to give his career a lift but it seems he...
12:07 PM, Apr 23, 2012

Siddhartha Lama returns to Malayalam screen

Siddhartha Lama returns to Malayalam screen Thiruvananthapuram: After enthralling Malayalam film viewers as little 'Unnikkuttan' in his role as Rimpoche in the 1992 box office hit 'Yodha', Siddhartha Lama is back to act in another film on the Tibetan issue, to be directed by eminent director Lenin Rajendran. Lama, now 28, has signed for a film by Rajendran, who is working on a movie on the Tibetan issue. Titled 'No Man's Land' in English, the film...
06:24 PM, Jan 03, 2012

What the Adigas and the Khairs read in 2011!

What the Adigas and the Khairs read in 2011! New Delhi: The year 2011 saw a lot on the writing front but prominent writers like Aravind Adiga, Tabish Khair and Manu Joseph, who were also reading a lot. "I've enjoyed "The Essential Tagore," an anthology published by the Harvard University Press, which has selections from Tagore's essays, poems, and plays. The novelist Amit Chaudhuri has written an excellent preface to this book," says Adiga. The 2008 Booker prize winner...
07:37 PM, Dec 28, 2011
India born doctor wins Guardian First Book Award

India born doctor wins Guardian First Book Award

New Delhi: Another honour for India born doctor Siddhartha Mukherjee. He has bagged the 10 thousand pound Guardian First Book Award for his book on cancer. 'The Emperor of All Maladies' which won the Pulitzer prize earlier in April, was the only work of non-fiction on the shortlist. Mukherjee is an oncologist who treats cancer patients at the Columbia University Medical Center. ...
03:18 PM, Dec 02, 2011

Siddhartha Mukherjee scoops Guardian first book award

Siddhartha Mukherjee scoops Guardian first book award London: A history of cancer, 'The Emperor of All Maladies', won the 2011 Guardian First Book Award on Thursday, beating four works of fiction also on the shortlist. The author, American oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee, has described the work as a "biography" of cancer, or "an attempt to enter the mind of this immortal illness, to understand its personality, to demystify its behaviour". The annual prize organised by British newspaper The...
11:51 AM, Dec 02, 2011

Most Bollywood celebs condemn Pawar slapping

Most Bollywood celebs condemn Pawar slapping Mumbai: Most Bollywood celebrities Friday condemned the incident in which Maharashtra political heavyweight and union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar was slapped by a youth to protest corruption and price rise. While filmmaker Shekhar Kapur said it was no way to protest and actor Shabana Azmi asked if there was no room for sane debate left, director Shirish Kunder felt such action could keep corrupt politicians away. Bollywood celebrities took to...
01:59 PM, Nov 25, 2011

Siddhartha, Mahashweta Devi awarded at Lit Live

Siddhartha, Mahashweta Devi awarded at Lit Live Mumbai: The 2011 TATA Literature Live! Mumbai Literature Fest was be held from November 3 to 6 in Mumbai. Well-known writers, both international and domestic attended the event. The two much anticipated awards at the fest were given away on Sunday. The 'Tata Literature Live! First Book Award' which is to encourage and acknowledge new writers was won by Siddhartha Mukherjee for his debut novel 'The Emperor of All Maladies'....
05:23 PM, Nov 07, 2011

Mukherjee delighted his book among TIME's top 100

Mukherjee delighted his book among TIME's top 100 Washington: Indian American Pulitzer Prize winner Siddhartha Mukherjee is delighted that his book on cancer has been listed 75th among Time magazine's "All-Time 100 Best Non-fiction Books" with President Barack Obama's autobiography in the third place. The Delhi-born cancer specialist's book "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" that made it to the Time magazine's top 10 non-fiction books of 2010 and The New York Times' top five...
11:39 AM, Aug 31, 2011

2G: HC rejects ex-Telecom Secy's bail plea

2G: HC rejects ex-Telecom Secy's bail plea New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday dismissed the bail plea of former Telecom Secretary Siddhartha Behura, arrested for his alleged role in the 2G spectrum scam. "The bail application is dismissed," Justice Ajit Bharihoke said. "Prima facie involvement of petitioner (Behura) in the conspiracy to cause undue advantage to Swan Telecom Pvt Ltd is apparent," the court said. "This gives a glimpse of the quantum of monetary gain...
03:13 PM, Aug 11, 2011

Raja informed PM about 2G policy change: Behura

Raja informed PM about 2G policy change: Behura New Delhi: After A Raja, former Telecom secretary Siddhartha Behura on Thursday sought to implicate Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the 2G spectrum scam, claiming that the PMO was kept in the loop by the then Telecom Minister on the first-come-first-served policy in the award of licenses. Behura, seeking discharge from the case, said the letter, written by Raja to the Prime Minister on December 26, 2007, makes it clear...
05:14 PM, Jul 28, 2011
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