“Aashiqui 2” led the films category of the fourth Gionee Star Global Indian Music Academy (GiMA) Awards as it walked away with six awards here. Initiated by Wizcraft International to applaud the finest achievements in the music Industry, the ceremony hosted by Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh was held Monday evening. The Aditya Roy Kapur-Shraddha Kapoor […]
Vivek Oberoi has played gangster in films like ‘Company’, ‘Shootout at Lokhandwala’, ‘Rakht Charitra’, ‘Zila Ghaziabad’ and ‘Jayantabhai Ki Luv Story’ and now the actor has been approached once again to play the role of none other than gangster Abu Salem. The movie will be a biopic on Salem and the film will be produced […]
Actress Sonakshi Sinha is on her way to Jaipur, Rajasthan, to shoot for her next film “Tevar”, which will see her with Arjun Kapoor. “New day…New film! Start work with the other ‘gunda’ (goon) Arjun today. Off to Jaipur for ‘Tevar’. Wish me luck,” Sonakshi posted on microblogging website Twitter Tuesday. In 2013, the 26-year-old […]
Six Shiv Sena MPs were in touch with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and wanted its tickets to contest the next Lok Sabha elections, a top party leader claimed here Monday. NCP’s Maharashtra unit chief Bhaskar Jadhav, a former Shiv Sena leader, told media persons that the six SS MPs – whom he did not […]
Indian Health Minister Gulam Nabi Azad Monday launched the National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) here to provide health security to the urban poor, amounting to about 200 crore people. “The mission envisages setting up health check-up infrastructure and create manpower for the welfare of the poor dwelling in cities and towns on the lines of […]
A controversy erupted Monday over a purported letter handed over by a Ugandan High Commission “official” to Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti, with the external affairs ministry revealing that the Ugandan mission staff are not in town and “not to give credence to rumours”. External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid told reporters that he felt “sad […]
The Jain community was Monday granted minority status by the central government which will enable them to avail benefits in government schemes and programmes. The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting here, an official release here said. The decision comes a day after Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi took up this issue with Prime […]
Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Minister Shashi Tharoor, died due to drug overdose, says the autopsy report, adding more than a dozen injury marks were also found on her body. According to police sources, the post-mortem report submitted to Sub-Divisional Magistrate Alok Sharma said Pushkar died due to drug overdose. There were more than a dozen […]
In yet another incident of gangrape in the eastern metropolis, a 21-year-old mall employee, returning home in a shared taxi, was dragged out and assaulted by some of her co-passengers, police said Monday. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee assured stringent action against the perpetrators, while opposition parties attacked her government for the rising crimes against women […]
The central government Monday decided to provide financial assistance of Rs.27.2 billion ($440 million) to the revived Nalanda University in Bihar’s Rajgir district. The aid, to be provided over 12 years, was approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, an official release said. The revival of the university will benefit 2,450 Indian and foreign […]