On Friendship Day, which falls on August 2, Taskbob, a mobile app which provides instant home service, has planned a special way of thanking handymen here and acknowledging their contribution in one’s daily lives. The team of Taskbob has taken on the task to go and meet Mumbai’s handymen in person and thank them by […]
Choreographer-director Remo D’Souza, who is currently judging TV show “Dance +”, says dance-based reality TV shows have over the years had their effect on Bollywood, resulting in the influx of new forms in the dancing style of the film industry. D’Souza, who started his TV journey with the first season of “Dance India Dance” as […]
Maritime Minister Duncan Gay today officially opened the largest recreational marine event in the southern hemisphere, the 48th Sydney International Boat Show. Close to 1,000 boats with a combined value of more than $200 million will decorate the exhibition halls of the Sydney Exhibition Centre at Glebe Island and the Cockle Bay Marina for […]
Hollywood actor Jake Gyllenhaal, who earned accolades for portraying Louis “Lou” Bloom in the 2014 neo-noir thriller “Nightcrawler”, is now back on the silver screen in a macho avatar for the American sports drama “Southpaw”. He says audiences like watching larger than life characters in films. “The trend of sports, action films should never end. […]
After two successful seasons in India, Rainforest Challenge (RFC) founder Luis J.A. Wee said he is looking forward to government support to spread the off-roading motorsport event to other parts of the country, adding that he ranks RFC India among the top three in the world. “We can have RFC in other cities as well. […]
Widely known for creating ensembles that are not only rooted in Indian culture, but also accentuate feminism even if draped in the simplest way, ace designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee says he will continue to celebrate the beauty of the human body through his work by making “beautiful garments”. “I have always stuck to one theory that […]
Amidst the rush to get into one of the regular eateries for a meal, there is this one quaint little place which invites you for an altogether different experience. La Vie, meaning “street” in Italian, opened its doors in April. The menu consists of Italian food, whose specialties are pizzas from a wood-fired oven. Located […]
Yakub Abdul Razzak Memon, convicted in the March 12, 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, was hanged till death at Maharashtra’s Nagpur Central Jail on Thursday morning, officials said. He was sent to the gallows — on his 54th birthday on Thursday — after several of his court appeals and clemency petitions were rejected by various courts, […]
In Mamata Banerjee’s West Bengal, teachers are steadily turning out to be ‘punching bags’, with many calling the frequent attacks on them a reflection of the growing lawlessness in the state. From primary schools to prestigious colleges and universities, assaults on the educators have been reported from a number of districts with the attackers, in […]
Prepared by 600-700 cooks and partaken by up to 50,000 pilgrims daily generating a business of Rs 8-12 lakhs, the mouth-watering “Mahaprasad” (food first offered to the deity) of the Jagannath Temple has retained its appeal among tens of millions of devotees for ages. The Mahaprasad cooked on the premises of the temple at Ananda […]