New Delhi, April 1 Former national champion Anup Sridhar beat Chetan Anand to move into the men’s singles main draw of the $250,000 India Open Super Series at the Siri Fort Sports Complex here Tuesday. Sridhar delivered a dominant performance and did not allow Anand any space to win 21-14, 21-16 in the second round of […]
Brussels, April 1 NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen Tuesday said there was no sign of Russia pulling its forces back from the border with Ukraine, CNN reported. “Unfortunately I cannot confirm that Russia is withdrawing its troops,” Rasmussen was quoted as saying at the opening of a two-day meeting of NATO foreign ministers in […]
New Delhi/Chennai, April 1 Automobile manufacturers Tuesday reported a decline in March sales due to prevailing economic slowdown coupled with high fuel and interest costs. Passenger car major Maruti Suzuki’s total sales declined by 5.5 percent during last month at 113,350 units from 119,937 units. Domestic sales in March fell by 5.2 percent at 102,269 units […]
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Tuesday directed the Zee group to follow the News Broadcasters Association (NBA) guidelines while telecasting programmes. It was hearing a defamation suit filed by lawmaker Naveen Jindal contending that the group aired “highly defamatory and malicious” programmes against him. Lok Sabha member Jindal moved the high court […]
Isha Sahni The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM), the southern hemisphere’s greatest annual celebration of Indian cinema will take place in the month of May. The festival this year will be exploring the richness of contemporary Indian cinema across four program streams, with films spanning Bollywood to art house and the subcontinent, as well as establishing an […]
TV actress Pooja Gor, who is the first contestant to be eliminated from “Khatron Ke Khiladi 5”, says her experience on the action-adventure reality series has helped her conquer her fears to an extent. Her elimination was announced Sunday. “I do wish I had survived my elimination stunt and continued to be a part of […]
Looks like Prabhu Dheva’s upcoming film ‘Action Jackson’ has run into a hurdle. Though the last schedule of the film has yet to be wrapped up, actor Ajay Devgn has started shooting for his other project, Rohit Shetty’s ‘Singham 2’. Sources state that Devgn is keen to finish ‘Singham 2’ before starting to shoot for […]
Ekta Kapoor’s new TV show “Kumkum Bhagya” marks the comeback of Ekta’s lucky letter ‘K’, but she says it hasn’t been done deliberately. “‘K’ has come back into my life unknowingly. I am hoping that the success that came with ‘K’ before, comes back with this show,” the 38-year-old said here at the launch of […]
An exclusive peek at Sidharth Malhotra & Shraddha Kapoor in Mohit Suri’s forthcoming ‘Ek Villain’, in which they have been paired opposite each other for the first time. Known for crafting intense romantic sagas, this time the director of Aashiqui-2 ups the ante with a musical romantic thriller around three protagonists – Rakesh (Riteish Deshmukh), […]
Actor Arjun Kapoor was almost 140 kg before he forayed into acting, but leading a “balanced” lifestyle helped him lose excess weight. He laments how fitness has become more about the number of pack of abs that one has. “It’s unfortunate that now fitness has become about how many abs you have. But health is […]