Youth Initiative for Peace and Harmony, a group of young people has decided to boycott Salman Khan’s upcoming movie ‘Jai Ho’ for taking part in a musical show, Saifai in Uttar Pradesh. The members of the group condemned both Salman and Madhuri Dixit for participating in the event. The group says that it was a […]
Subhash Kapoor, who has made films like ‘Phas Gaye Re Obama’ and ‘Jolly LLB’ is all set to direct a dramedy titled ‘Guddu Rangeela’. It is learnt that the film will see Amit Sadh playing Guddu and Arshad Warsi playing Rangeela and now apparently, Aditi Rao Hydari has been signed as the female lead. She […]
Police said Saturday they have arrested four men for the gang rape of a dancer from Mumbai on New Year Eve. The accused were arrested after police identified them with the help of CCTV footage of an ATM while withdrawing money using the debit card of the victim. The girl, who was called from Mumbai […]
Virgin Galactic’s space tourism vehicle, SpaceShipTwo, recorded a new high Friday on its third rocket-powered supersonic test flight. The passenger-carrying reusable space vehicle departed from Mojave Air and Space Port in California at 7.22 a.m. Pacific Standard Time on its WhiteKnightTwo mothership, which took it to the planned altitude of 14,020 metres (14 km). At […]
With the bitter India-US row over the arrest of an Indian diplomat defused with her departure for India, both sides are hoping to bring the “important” relationship back on track in the weeks ahead. One sentiment encountered during the discussions to work out a deal over the treatment of Devyani Khobragade, India’s then deputy consul […]
More than half of the tourists visiting Nepal are Indians, and a majority of them used land routes to enter the Himalayan nation, according to the Nepal Tourism Board (NTB). According to report released by the NTB Friday, a study, which it has undertaken on a daily basis throughout the year 2012, found that at […]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be the chief guest at the closing ceremony of the 150th birth anniversary celebrations of Swami Vivekananda here Sunday. Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Defence Minister A.K. Antony and Culture Minister Chandresh Kumari Katoch will also be present on the occasion at Vigyan Bhawan. A national committee under the chairmanship of […]
Around 70 health workers in Pakistan’s Khyber Agency area refused to take part in a polio vaccination campaign Saturday citing security concerns, a media report said. “We feel threatened and everyone is frightened after the killing of our colleagues last month,” Dawn newspaper quoted Haji Sadeeq, a spokesman for the workers, as saying. The workers […]
Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, one of India’s leading Urdu scholars and poet, says the lyrics of Bollywood films can in no way be called shayri or Urdu poetry even if they do incorporate Urdu words. “In some old films there were bits of shayri, but the new ones are in no way shayris…,” he said. “The […]
The Himanchal Pradesh’s Shimla and Manali – prominent tourist places – Saturday woke up to a blanket of fresh snow. Tourist spots near Shimla, such as honeymooners’ paradise Kufri, Fagu and Narkanda also experienced overnight snowfall, an official of the meteorological department here told IANS. Likewise, the Solang ski slopes, 13 km uphill from Manali, […]