Actress Helen Mirren has been named Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year 2014 and will be honoured at the Cambridge, Boston campus in Massachusetts Jan 30. The 68-year-old will be recognised for her contributions to the film industry in a ceremony at Farkas Hall, Cambridge campus, reports contactmusic.com. Speaking about the accolade, Mirren […]
Warner Bros. Pictures has announced that the follow-up of superhero movie “Man of Steel” will hit theaters May 6, 2016, nine months after the previous release date of July 17, 2015. The announcement was made Friday and the earlier date will now be reserved for a Peter Pan movie directed by Joe Wright, reports hollywoodreporter.com. […]
The scoreboard of the first One-day International between India and New Zealand at McLean Park here Sunday: New Zealand innings: Martin Guptill c Ashwin b Mohammed Shami 8 Jesse Ryder b Mohammed Shami 18 Kane Williamson c Rahane b Jadeja 71 Ross Taylor c Dhoni b Mohammed Shami 55 Brendon McCullum c Dhoni b Kumar […]
Women’s top seed and world’s No.1 Serena Williams was knocked out of the Australian Open in the fourth round losing to Serbia’s 14th-seeded Ana Ivanovic 6-4, 3-6, 3-6 here Sunday. Williams, who was also the top seed in 2013, was eliminated by then-19-year-old fellow American Sloane Stephens in last year’s quarterfinals, which was the biggest […]
After a poor showing in the Constituent Assembly elections, Nepal’s once powerful Maoist leader, Pushpa Kamal Dahal alias Prachanda, is under pressure to give up his leadership. Holding him responsible for the results, several party leaders, including second-in-command and former prime minister Baburam Bhattarai, have sought his exit as chairman of the Unified Communist Party […]
In continued attacks for the third consecutive day Sunday by the anti-talk faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), one person was killed and another injured, police said. According to police, two fresh incidents took place Sunday morning in Kokrajhar and in Sonitpur districts. While one body was recovered from Kokrajhar district, the […]
The BJP Sunday demanded Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti’s removal after a court directed police to file a FIR against him for allegedly entering some African women’s home. “He should be immediately removed. He is a symbol of the AAP (Aam Aadmi Party) style of governance which is racist, discriminatory, violent and anarchic,” Bharatiya Janata […]
Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Sunday said people’s perspective towards women needs to change and they should be seen as “nation builders”. “We have so far seen women as home-makers, we need to see them as nation-builders now. That will change our perspective,” Modi said, adding the BJP would launch a […]
Around 100 activists of the Hindu Raksha Dal staged a protest outside Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s house here demanding withdrawal of police cases against them. A member of the Hindu group said its members had been arrested over the Jan 8 attack on the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) office here because of a police […]
BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Sunday attacked the Congress for not naming a prime ministerial candidate, and said the country’s oldest party was falling apart. Speaking on the final day of a three-day leadership meeting here, Modi said the Congress had been allowed to rule India for six long decades, and it was time […]