RATING : (2.5) PRODUCED BY : KUSHAL GADA, DHAVAL GADA, JAYANTILAL GADA DIRECTED BY : AMAN KHAN MUSIC BY : RAJENDRA SHIV SYNOPSIS:‘Mahabharat’ is one of the major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. It all started with Kauravas and Pandavas, the first cousins fighting for the supremacy of Hastinapur. The fight leads to a game where Yudhishtir loses his […]
New Delhi, Dec 29 It was on “intuition” that M.S. Sathyu gave a big screen break to a young, innocent-looking Farooque Sheikh 40 years back in “Garam Hawa”. His talent, says the filmmaker, was “fantastic”. However, he rues that the late actor didn’t get as much work as he truly deserved. Farooque’s sudden death in […]
Chandigarh, Dec 29 Microsoft founder Bill Gates, one of the richest men in the world, as also one of the most powerful in the field of technology, has no ego, says Gurdeep Singh Pall, global head of Skype, the popular and free international voice and messaging service. Chandigarh-born software engineer Pall, who was named as […]
New Delhi, Dec 29 Built by the British in 1933, Connaught Place, the Indian capital’s crecent-shaped central business district that had fallen on bad days, has now been restored to its pristine glory, complete with a fresh coat of white paint, brighter signposts, a landscaped central fountain lawn and better access roads. The long-delayed renovation […]
Shimla, Dec 29 Himachal’s popular tourist resorts Manali, Narkanda and Kalpa are wrapped up in a thick blanket of snow, making the hill stations more picturesque for New Year Eve revellers. Members of the hospitality industry say it’s the last week’s snow that has surged the tourist footfall, which is likely to cross the 50,000-mark […]
At a juncture when party ideologues are starting to write the first draft of election manifestoes, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s speech to the Combined Commanders of the three services last month provided much food for thought. Certain significant points made by him deserve special attention; not just of the political parties or the intelligentsia but […]
Kathmandu, Dec 29 Nepal newspapers Sunday gave wide coverage to AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal taking charge of Delhi and wondered if their country too needed a similar anti-corruption crusader. Many newspapers here extensively covered the oath-taking ceremony of Kejriwal at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan — with photographs. The event was attended by tens of thousands of […]
Ranchi, Dec 29 (IANS) BJP president Rajnath Singh Sunday compared the party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi with Lord Rama. “As Manthara in the Ramayana hatched a conspiracy to prevent Rama from becoming the king of Ayodhya, similarly the Congress is hatching a conspiracy against Modi,” Rajnath Singh told a public rally here. “But despite Manthara’s […]
Hyderabad, Dec 29 Five Congress MPs from Seemandhra, who recently moved a no-confidence motion in parliament against their own party-led government, Sunday told President Pranab Mukherjee that the UPA government had been reduced to a minority. The MPs met the president, who is on his southern sojourn here, and demanded that he stall the process […]
Ghaziabad, Dec 29 It was his first Sunday after becoming Delhi’s chief minister, but it may well have been a working day for Arvind Kejriwal. With the excitement of the 45-year-old taking charge of Delhi yet to die down, Kejriwal had his hands full as an unending stream of people called on him at his […]