Los Angeles: Anil Ambani-owned Reliance DreamWorks' projects 'War Horse', 'The Help' and 'Real Steel' on Tuesday bagged 11 nominations for the 84th Academy Awards. The prestigious best film category has a line-up of nine nominations, and features 'War Horse' and 'The Help'. Including the best picture nomination, Steven Spielberg-directed 'War Horse' has been nominated in six categories, including sound editing, sound mixing, original score (John Williams), art direction and cinematography....
06:20 PM, Jan 25, 2012
Wijk Aan Zee (Netherlands): Asian champion P Harikrishna put up another sterling show to beat Illya Nyzhnyk of Ukraine and stretch his lead to a full point after the end of the ninth round of the 'B' group of Tata Steel Chess Tournament here. Taking his tally to an impressive seven points out of a possible nine, Harikrishna made his tactics work again and Nyzhnyk had no clue what hit...
01:33 PM, Jan 25, 2012
Beijing: One person was killed and about 30 others injured after carbon monoxide gas leaked in a steel company in Harbin, capital city of northeast China's Heilongjiang province. The leakage occured late last night in Acheng Iron & Steel Co, Ltd in the city's Acheng district, an official with the district government said. The injured were admitted to nearby hospital, in which 10 are reported to be in serious conditions....
08:19 AM, Jan 17, 2012
BANGALORE: The Indian steel industry may have something to cheer about this New Year as 15 to 20 miners from Karnatakas mining belts are likely to get the nod to resume mining activities later this month. The Central Empowered Committee (CEC) will present a report and make recommendations on all representations made before them till late December, 2011, by January 15, 2012, to the Supreme Court. Sources indicate that the...
08:16 AM, Jan 05, 2012
1. The New Brew in Town For those who take their cup of caffeine seriously, there's good news. Starbucks, the world's biggest coffee brand, is likely to make its Indian debut in the first half of 2012. A formal announcement of their retail JV with Tata Coffee is likely next month and those in the know say a search for the country head is underway and an appointment is imminent....
03:23 PM, Jan 04, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Odisha government on Friday shifted a top official over the clashes near the Posco site in which one person was killed. Priyabrat Patnaik was transferred from the post of chairman-cum-managing director of the Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (IDCO), state chief secretary BK Patnaik told reporters. He has been posted as additional chief secretary, pension and public grievances department. Pradeep Jena, secretary in Panchayati Raj department, has been given additional...
03:38 AM, Dec 17, 2011
Paradip: A man was killed and 25 others were injured on Wednesday in a clash between anti-Posco brigade and a private contractor over construction of a coastal road linking the steel plant site near Paradip. Jagatsinghpur SP S Devadutt Singh said crude bombs and other weapons were used by the clashing groups and a person, identified as Dijabar Swain (30) of Kujanga area, died in the violence. Two others, who...
09:12 PM, Dec 14, 2011
Paradip: Anti-Posco leader Abhaya Sahu was arrested in Tirtol area near Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district of Odisha, the police said. "Sahu, President of Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS), was held by a police team at Nuapokhari last night when he was returning from Bhubaneswar to his village," IIC of Tritol police station Debadutta Kar said. The police team stopped Sahu's car on Manijanga - Erasama road near the proposed project...
10:24 AM, Nov 26, 2011
Mumbai: Indian equity benchmark Sensex dropped 1 per cent on Friday led by the slowdown in industrial growth and Moody's negative outlook on the Indian banking system due to rising bad loans. Depreciation in rupee, rising crude oil prices and consistent problems in the eurozone were other concerns that dampened market sentiment further. The 30-share BSE Sensex fell 169.28 points, to close at 17,192.82 and the 50-share NSE Nifty lost...
09:05 AM, Nov 11, 2011
Name: Tata Steel Why they won: For operating with a higher organisational purpose beyond just maximising profits. For aligning the interests of multiple stakeholders - customers, employees, partners, investors, the community and the environment. For successfully balancing doing well with doing good. It was the early 1990s and Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao had invited the countrys top industrialists to Delhi for an informal chat. The Tata group was represented...
11:20 AM, Nov 02, 2011
Los Angeles: Horror movie 'Paranormal Activity 3' jolted awake a sleepy movie box office with an estimated $80 million in global ticket sales over the weekend. The third installment of the low-budget haunted house movies topped domestic charts with $54 million from U.S. and Canadian theatres, the highest-grossing domestic debut for a horror film and a record for an October release. The movie added $26 million from international markets over...
01:46 PM, Oct 24, 2011
Los Angeles: The boxing robots of 'Real Steel' had better footwork at the ticket window than the kids in the remake of the 1980s dance classic 'Footloose' and held on to the domestic box-office title for a second straight week. 'Real Steel' racked up an estimated $39.6 million in global ticket sales over three days, distributor Walt Disney Co said on Sunday. The film earned $16.3 million of that total...
12:26 PM, Oct 17, 2011
London: Actor Hugh Jackman says he was inspired by the music of Sylvester Stallone's 'Rocky', when he was getting fit for the role as a boxer in 'Real Steel'. "My favourite boxing movie is a documentary called 'When We Were Kings', which I would put in my top 10 of all time, but I love all the 'Rocky' movies. I'll be honest, and I know it's corny, but I listen...
11:13 AM, Oct 17, 2011
Mumbai: It was a boring sort of a day on Dalal Street on Thursday, with benchmarks losing 0.4 per cent on expected profit booking after Wednesday's 400 point plus rally on the Sensex. The 30-share BSE Sensex fell 74.47 points, to close at 16,883.92 and the 50-share NSE Nifty declined 21.55 points, to end at 5,077.85. It seemed like the market had already discounted all positive news of the week...
09:13 AM, Oct 13, 2011
New Delhi: Vietnam on Wednesday assured India of early implementation of Tata Steel's $5 billion project in Ha Tinh province which is pending since 2008. This is one of the largest investments by any Indian company abroad. "We understand the importance of Tata Group. Indian and Vietnamese officials are trying their best to kick start the Tata project," Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang said in New Delhi. There have been...
06:49 PM, Oct 12, 2011
Los Angeles: Boxing robots clashed with Hollywood titan George Clooney at the weekend movie box office, and the fighting machines came out the winner. Robot action flick 'Real Steel' starring Hugh Jackman topped the domestic box office and rang up $49.4 million in global ticket sales. Clooney's political thriller 'Ides of March' finished second. 'Real Steel' brought in an estimated $27.3 million over three days at U.S. and Canadian theaters,...
12:06 PM, Oct 10, 2011
This week on Now Showing, Rajeev Masand brings you the reviews of 'Rascals', 'Love, Breakups, Zindagi', 'Soundtrack' and the Hollywood releases. ...
08:33 AM, Oct 08, 2011
Stars: Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly and Dakota Goyo Director: Shawn Levy Set in a not-so-distant future where human fisticuffs are now pass and the new craze is all robot-boxing, Real Steel stars Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton, a washed-up ex-pugilist who struggles to make a living from getting his low-end robots into underground fights. Brash and shortsighted, Charlie pits his mechanical fighters against rivals that are impossible to defeat; no...
11:03 PM, Oct 07, 2011
Rajeev Masand says, 'Real Steal' is a noisy action film'. What do you think. Write your review and win prizes.
11:00 PM, Oct 07, 2011
Hugh Jackman starrer action flick 'Real Steel' and Jesse Eisenberg starrer comedy '30 Minutes or Less' hit screens this Friday. ...
10:03 AM, Oct 07, 2011
