Late South African President Nelson Mandela’s ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Monday dissociated herself with an upcoming movie about her life, Xinhua reported. The movie “Winnie Mandela”, which portrays the personal and political life of the activist and ex-wife of former South African president Nelson Mandela, is scheduled to be released in South Africa’s theaters, according to […]
Actor Alec Baldwin “felt sorry” for his former Broadway co-star Shia LaBeouf when he heart that the troubled actor walked a red carpet with a paper bag over his head. LaBeouf, 27, wore a paper bag, which read “I am not famous anymore”, at the premier of his film “Nymphomaniac” during the Berlin International Film […]
A Zimbabwean association of voluntary organisations Monday called on the European Union (EU) to lift the sanctions on Zimbabwe’s president and his wife, while urging the government to carry on with political reforms and address governance issues that led to the fallout between the two. A statement from the National Association of Non-governmental Organisations (NANGO) […]
President of India, Pranab Mukherjee Sunday said tuberculosis (TB) cannot be controlled globally unless it is controlled in India. “India has the world’s highest burden of tuberculosis. TB kills one person every two minutes in India or almost 750 people daily,” the president told a conference on TB and allied diseases here. “Global TB control […]
The city of Kolkata will soon be displaying images that capture how celestial objects look from the viewpoint of a skywatcher. The city is set to host its first exclusive photography exhibition on astronomy from Feb 24. The exhibition, showcasing the still frames of an Indian astrophotographer Ajay Talwar and two French photographers Thierry Legault […]
‘Halla Bol’ is the first show under Bindass channel’s recently launched campaign ‘B for change’, where the youngsters are encouraged to bring about a change and stand up for what is right. The show inspired by various true life events, celebrates eight different stories of women, who fought back and emerged as victorious. The show […]
Universally recognised as ‘Babuji’, both on television and celluloid, Alok Nath is now set to go down a different path for a TV show called Nadaniyaan. While Alok will still play ‘Babuji’ on this show, his role will have a comic touch. His character will be that of a framed photograph of a dead person, […]
The upcoming movie of Ayushmann Khurana and Sonam Kapoor, ‘Bewakoofiyaan’ directed by Nupur Asthana has been in the news in the recent past for its modern appeal and the hot bikini avatar of Sonam. However, the film has now made headlines after rumours cropped up of it being inspired by real life incidents. According to […]
At a time when the Cambodia’s strongman prime minister, Hun Sen, is overseeing a brutal crackdown on dissent in one of south-east Asia’s poorest nations, the Abbott government wants to send some asylum seekers to Cambodia. A request on Saturday by Australia’s foreign minister, Julie Bishop, for Australia to initially send a small group of […]
Anjali Damania, Aam Aadmi Party leader on Sunday alleged that NCP chief and union minister Sharad Pawar and spokesperson Nawab Malik were responsible for the attack on the AAP state party office in Mumbai Saturday. Damania told media,the AAP had exposed an alleged scam in the power department headed by Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Sharad Pawar’s nephew Ajit Pawar in Nagpur that barely three days ago, “We exposed their power scam. They (Sharad Pawar and Malik) seem to have got angry and instigated the attack on our office,” Damania said. However, refuting the allegation, Malik said in Mumbai that the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has already issued show cause notice to party activists for the attack on the AAP office and necessary action would be initiated against those responsible for it. “Regarding the AAP’s agitation to sweep the NCP offices in the state, I appeal to them to sweep clean their respective homes instead so that their domestic help can get a day off,” Malik said. Malik referred to AAP leader Mayank Gandhi’s statement Saturday that party activists would adopt a Gandhian form of retaliation and “sweep clean” all NCP offices in Maharashtra with brooms, the AAP’s poll symbol. On Saturday, police stopped AAP activists from proceeding to an NCP office and detained them for several hours. On Sunday, there was a heated exchange and a minor scuffle between AAP and NCP activists when the former trooped down with brooms to sweep the NCP office in Aurangabad.