Pranab Mukherjee said anger against corruption is legitimate but it cannot become an excuse for an assault on democratic institutions. ...
11:09 PM, Aug 14, 2012
New Delhi: Low-cost carrier SpiceJet on Tuesday announced it would provide free air tickets for life to Indian medal winners of the London Olympics. Making the announcement, SpiceJet CEO Neil Mills said, "The nation is proud of their unprecedented performance. It is a matter of great honour for us to be associated with the sportspersons who brought recognition for India at London Olympics." The victory of Sushil Kumar, Yogeshwar Dutt,...
08:16 PM, Aug 14, 2012
Mumbai: Faisal Khan, whose father earns his living by driving an autorickshaw here, won the "DID Li'l Masters Season 2" on Sunday night. The 13-year-old won the Master Blaster title, a trophy and walked away with Rs 10 lakh. He won the crown by beating fellow contestant and seven-year-old Om Chetry from Assam who finished on the No 2 position. Indore boy Rohan Parkale, 12, came third and walked away...
09:59 AM, Aug 13, 2012
London: Sports minister Ajay Maken said the Government of India will offer coaching jobs to its athletes who win medals at the 30th Olympic Games starting Friday. "Government of India has decided to offer coaching jobs to all past and present medal winners at the Olympics," Maken said while speaking at a reception hosted at India House in honour of the Indian Olympic Team. Maken hoped the announcement would motivate...
12:50 PM, Jul 27, 2012
Montreal: Ferrari's Felipe Massa raised the possibility on Thursday that he could, against the odds, become Formula One's eighth different winner in a row. The Brazilian, eclipsed by Spain's double world champion Fernando Alonso at the Italian glamour team, has not won a Grand Prix since 2008 and nor has he stood on any step of the podium since 2010. In this most unpredictable of seasons, with an unprecedented seven...
10:53 AM, Jun 22, 2012
New Delhi: Here is a list of winners of the prestigious 59th National Film Awards. The ceremony will be held on May 3, 2012. Feature Films Best Feature Film: Shared by Deool (Marathi) and Byari (Byari) Deool Producer: Abhijeet Gholap Director : Umesh VinayakKulkarni Byari (Byari) Producer: TH AlthafHussain Director :Suveeran SwarnaKamal: Rs.2,50,000/- Indira Gandhi Award For Best Debut Film of a Director: Aaranyakandam (Tamil) Producer:S.P.Charan Director :Kumararaja Thiagarajan SwarnaKamal:...
03:13 PM, May 03, 2012
Atlanta: The largest lottery jackpot in US history - a whopping $656 million - will be shared by the buyers of three winning Mega Millions tickets in Illinois, Kansas and Maryland - but their identities remained a mystery, lottery officials said on Saturday. A pre-dawn call alerted Denise Metzger, manager of a Motomart convenience store, to news from lottery officials that her store had sold a winning ticket in the...
08:24 AM, Apr 01, 2012
Washington: India's Sachin S Kukke is the Asia-Pacific region winner and one of the six global winners of the YouTube Space Lab 2012 contest for young people to design experiments that could be performed in outer space. The winners of the contest by YouTube and Lenovo, in cooperation with Space Adventures, NASA, ESA (European Space Agency), and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) were announced at a ceremony at the Newseum...
10:53 AM, Mar 27, 2012
Los Angeles: Interview with Tom Fleischman and John Midgley for film Hugo Q. Congratulations. A. [Tom Fleischman] Thank you. Q. So, uhm, in talking with some of your collaborators on this film now that Martin is going to the third dimension, what was it like mixing for the third dimension? I mean, what...how does this space, how does the space on the screen change the......all space you have to work...
02:41 PM, Feb 27, 2012
Los Angeles: Hollywood's biggest fashion parade, the red carpet outside the Oscars, began heating up on Monday morning ahead of the world's top film awards where silent movie "The Artist" is widely seen as the choice for best movie. Early arrivals included 'Artist' actress Berenice Bejo, who is nominated in a supporting role, in a mint green dress, "The Help" star Jessica Chastain in a stunning black gown embroidered in...
06:25 AM, Feb 27, 2012
Bangalore: A Bangalore engineering student is in the running to get an experiment he dreamed of, done aboard the International Space Station. He has also been dreaming about a live streaming of the experiment on YouTube. YouTube offered 14 to 18-year-old students the chance to get an experiment they had dreamed of, done aboard the International Space Station. Sachin Kukke, one among six worldwide semifinalists, is the winner from the...
09:44 AM, Feb 23, 2012
Bangalore: An 18-year old engineering student from here was today declared as the regional winner from India in the 'YouTube Space Lab' global science competition. Sachin Kukke, a first year mechanical engineering student of BMS College here, is one of the six winners in the 17-18 year old category of the competition to design a science experiment that can be performed in space, organisers YouTube, Lenovo and Space Adventures announced....
07:27 PM, Feb 22, 2012
The 54th annual Grammy Awards were swept by British singer Adele. She was nominated in six categories and she won all six. ...
12:16 PM, Feb 13, 2012
Los Angeles: Potential Oscar winners will now be a click away from winning a trophy. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday that it has partnered with a company to develop an electronic voting system for next year's 85th annual Academy Awards. The motion picture academy says it entered into an agreement with Everyone Counts Inc. to exclusively to work with longtime accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers to create the...
08:05 AM, Jan 26, 2012
Mumbai: Bollywood stars Ranbir Kapoor and Vidya Balan picked the best actors' trophies at the star-studded seventh edition of Chevrolet Apsara Awards here Wednesday night for their performance in 'Rockstar' and 'The Dirty Picture' respectively. The best film award went to 'Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara', and Zoya Akhtar won the best director for the movie. Her actor-filmmaker brother Farhan took home the best supporting actor award for the movie too....
07:47 AM, Jan 26, 2012
'The Artist' bagged three Golden Globe Awards this year to become the frontrunner for the Oscar Awards next month. ...
12:08 AM, Jan 17, 2012
Mumbai: India's veteran marathoner, Hawaldar Ram Singh Yadav was truly a man on a mission in Mumbai on Sunday. After almost a year of meticulous planning that culminated in an almost 'top-secret' movement of location 48 hours before the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon, he finally got his hands on to something that eluded him four years ago at this very venue. Ram Singh finished the Mumbai marathon in 2 hours,...
12:22 PM, Jan 16, 2012
California: Winners of the 69th annual Golden Globe Awards, announced Sunday in Beverly Hills: Motion Pictures - Picture, Drama: 'The Descendants'. - Picture, Musical or Comedy: 'The Artist'. - Actor, Drama: George Clooney, 'The Descendants'. - Actress, Drama: Meryl Streep, 'The Iron Lady'. - Director: Martin Scorsese, 'Hugo'. - Actor, Musical or Comedy: Jean Dujardin, 'The Artist'. - Actress, Musical or Comedy: Michelle Williams, 'My Week With Marilyn'. - Supporting...
07:38 AM, Jan 16, 2012
