New Delhi, April 14 (IANS) Amitabh Bachchan has packed a punch with his new film “Bhoothnath Returns”, which not only opened to a positive response from both the critics and audiences, but the comedy has also proved to be commercially viable. It has earned over Rs.18 crore in its opening weekend at the domestic box office. […]
Los Angeles, April 14 (IANS) Actress Kate Winslet says her nude portrait in “Titanic” still haunts her and she refuses to autograph a copy of it. In the James Cameron directed 1997 blockbuster, she lay down naked on a sofa while actor and co-star Leonardo DiCaprio sketched her portrait, reports mirror.co.uk. Fans still ask her to […]
Rio de Janeiro, April 14 (IANS) Brazil will implement its largest security operation at the FIFA World Cup by deploying 170,000 police, military and secret service personnel. The figure is 22 percent higher than the number used at the 2010 edition in South Africa. More than a third of the security force – about 57,000 – […]
Berlin, April 14 (IANS) Leverkusen extended Berlin’s winless run as Hoffenheim cruised to a 2-0 win over Augsburg to close the 30th round of the Bundesliga. Bayer Leverkusen return to winning ways under caretaker Sascha Lewandowski as the ‘Werkself’ secured a 2-1 victory over Berlin Sunday to stretch the winless run of the visitors to eight […]
I have an abiding memory of Manmohan Singh. It goes far back to the days when he was not the prime minister, not even the finance minister, when in the early ’90s he took transformational steps to open up and liberalise a collapsing Indian economy and got his name etched in the history of global […]
It’s true. People of this Pakistan want Narendra Modi to become prime minister of India. More than 250 residents, including over 100 voters of a village called “Pakistan” in Bihar’s Purnea district, are set to vote for the BJP to help Modi to fulfil his dream. “We want Narendra Modi to become PM,” said Hira […]
New York, Does diet has a connection with discipline in your life? Yes. A junk food diet makes you fat and lethargic, and later indisciplined. A study provides evidence that being overweight makes people tired and sedentary – not the other way around. “Overweight people often get stigmatised as lazy and lacking discipline. The results […]
Sao Paulo, Singer Lorde has played the biggest show of her career — performing for 40,000 people in Brazil. “Today I found out that I played to forty thousand people at Lolla last night (Sunday),” the singer tweeted Monday after the show, The New Zealand Herald reported. The “Royals” star will be in Australia later […]
Abuja, Nigeria has surpassed South Africa as Africa’s biggest economy, rebased gross domestic product (GDP) figures from authorities showed Sunday. The biggest oil producer in Africa climbed to the 26th largest economy in the world, according to the statistics announced by Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in the national […]
London, Outdoor exercise could be more beneficial than indoor workouts as a study has found that children exposed to scenes of nature while exercising are likely to have lower blood pressure. “Hypertension is a chronic health problem across the world, so given the results we have seen in our study it is crucial that we continue […]