Mumbai: At a time when most Bollywood biggies avoid a direct clash at the box office, Anil Kapoor and John Abraham's two new films " 'Race 2' and 'Shootout at Wadala', are all set to release within a week of each other next January. Date drama Incidentally, John and Anil star in both films. In Sanjay Gupta's encounter flick set in the late 1970's and early '80s, Anil plays Isaque...
10:54 AM, May 31, 2012
Vijayawada: YSR Congress party on Sunday criticised Vijaywada MP and Congress leader Lagdapati Rajagopal for his alleged comment targeting Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy's mother. "Rajagopal should not cross his limits and learn a few lessons on how to behave as an MP," YSR Congress city convener Jaleel Khan told reports. He was reacting to the MP's alleged remark last week that "Vijayamma did not train her son Jagan as...
07:10 PM, May 27, 2012
Mumbai: The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) undertook two ambitious projects, the Metro and Monorail, to solve the Mumbai commuter's woes. However, the routes selected by the planning authority have raised some serious doubts, as commuters feel that the routes pass unfrequented areas. Monorail Phase I of the Rs 2,700 crore Jacob Circle-Wadala-Chembur (JWC) Monorail is between Wadala-Chembur, while Phase II is between Jacob Circle-Wadala. Concerned Chembur resident, 24...
05:58 PM, May 27, 2012
Pune: Seven girls staying at a residential school run by the state government in Yerawada have finally broken their silence and accused the headmaster of making sexual advances. Despite this, the Social Welfare Department has only issued a show-cause notice to the person concerned asking him why he should not be terminated from service. The matter has been put up for further inquiry, but no FIR has been lodged against...
11:08 AM, May 21, 2012
Patna: A teenager, who was the main witness in his mother's rape case, was burnt alive in Nawada district Sunday, police said. Chintu Kumar, 17, was set on fire by the rape accused in Garabigha village under Narhat police station, 150 km from here, a police officer, who did not want to be named, said. Chintu's mother was gangraped in 2006 by five men of her village, and he was...
08:31 AM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Naxals have struck Chhattisgarh once again. They allegedly ambushed a CISF patrol team killing six jawans and a civilian driver late on Sunday night. They were a part of a patrol car that was ambushed near the National Mineral Development Corporation in Kirandul. A few others were also injured and the assailants later looted their vehicles. Home Ministry sources said that an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) may...
08:13 AM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: Naxals on Sunday night ambushed a CISF patrol party near an NDMC plant in Chhattisgarh's Kirandul. Sources said six CISF personnel and the driver of the patrolling jeep were killed in the Naxal attack in Dantewada. Sources said that the CISF personnel were on a night patrol when they were ambushed. It is suspected that Naxals ambushed the vehicle and IED was used to target them. The jawans,...
11:11 PM, May 13, 2012
Hyderabad: Four people died on Friday after consuming illicit liquor in Vijayawada town of Andhra Pradesh, police said. According to police, two others are stated to be in critical conditions. The incident took place on Friday morning at Brahmanaveedhi in the old town of Vijayawada in Krishna district, about 300 km from here. A police officer said all the six were suspected to have purchased and consumed liquor from the...
02:09 PM, May 11, 2012
Mumbai: Filmmaker Vikas Bahl is all set to make a chick flick, titled 'Queen', with Kangana Ranaut. Vikas, who tried his hands on direction with 'Chillar Party' that won National award, would be directing 'Queen'. "I am in the middle of scripting stage. All I can say is it is a chick flick, titled 'Queen'. The pre-production work is going on," the director-producer Vikas Bahl told PTI. Kangana Ranaut will...
01:39 PM, May 08, 2012
Mumbai: Director Sanjay Gupta is at the end of his tether. Barely weeks before the shooting of a mujra sequence with Bipasha Basu for his under-production film Shootout At Wadala, there is no song for the situation. Apparently, the director has requested various composers to create a traditional mujra in a language that will appeal to today's youngsters. But the tune is yet to be delivered. Says a source close...
05:38 PM, May 06, 2012
New Delhi: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh on Friday said that his government had formed a committee under former Madhya Pradesh Chief Secretary Nirmala Buch to look into the cases against tribals as per the Maoist demands, who had pressed for the release of innocent tribals from jail in exchange for abducted Sukma collector Alex Paul Menon. Said Raman Singh, "It will help create a positive environment in the area....
12:58 PM, May 04, 2012
Raipur: Even as efforts are on for the release of the kidnapped Sukma district collector, four police personnel were injured on Wednesday when a group of Maoists allegedly opened fire at a police van in the neighbouring Dantewada district. One of the injured is reported to be critical. Chhattisgarh Additional Director General of Police (naxal operations) Ram Niwas told said that while the team of policemen was patrolling in the...
04:25 PM, May 02, 2012
Mumbai: Filmmaker Sanjay Gupta, who is busy filming underworld drama 'Shootout At Wadala', says he has pushed the film's release to next year as he does not want it to clash with 'Talaash' and 'Dabangg 2'. "Our original release date was Dec 7. Later 'Talaash' was announced for Nov 30 release. So it's obvious that when an Aamir Khan full-fledged mainstream film releases after almost three years, distributors and exhibitors...
03:54 PM, May 02, 2012
Nawada: Two schoolgirls who resisted a molestation attempt were deliberately hit and run over by a jeep leading to their deaths in Bihar's Nawada district on Saturday, police said. The Class X students boarded a jeep after collecting money from their school at Sitaram village under Mufassil police station, the sources said. The money was given to them under the Chief Minister's Uniform Scheme for purchasing uniform and educational material....
10:53 PM, Apr 28, 2012
Mumbai: Bollywood actor Sonu Sood is excited to essay underworld don Dawood Ibrahim in 'Shootout At Wadala', and he is doing his bit to carry off the role perfectly. "I am super excited to play Dawood Ibrahim. My homework is on. I am reading about him and doing research on him. I am all set to play the role," Sonu told IANS. Sonu says "Shootout At Wadala", based on the...
07:53 PM, Apr 18, 2012
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