President Pranab Mukherjee presented the 62nd National Film Awards on Sunday at a glittering ceremony here studded with talent representing the diversity of the Indian film industry. Shashi Kapoor, honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke award this year, couldn’t attend and the veteran actor will be feted in Mumbai soon. With 45 awards in Feature Film […]
The annual Sherwood State School Fete will be held on Saturday 9th May, a day before Mother’s Day. The most important fundraising effort for the year – the school fete. Many would not know that the first Sherwood “fete” was held on 23 September 1918.According to The Brisbane Courier “The first annual show and patriotic […]
You are touching 60 and had a stellar career. You earned enough to take care of the rest of your life, luxuriously. You’ve also travelled far and wide. Now, you want to retire for life in a tranquil place, yet with a somewhat engaging life. So where do you go? One such place is nestled […]
With Argentina still going through sovereignty disputes to reclaim the Malvinas, South Georgias and South Sandwich Islands and the surrounding maritime areas with Britain, the South American country is applying the way of Mahatma Gandhi’s ‘ahimsa’ – truth, love and fraternity – that brought independence to India. “Argentina has learned from Gandhi to be patient […]
The iconic central stupa, with its gazing eyes of the Buddha at Kathmandu’s iconic Swayambhunath temple still stands tall at the hilltop, but the surrounding structures inside this famed Buddhist temple complex has been reduced to rubble. A Unesco team has started a “rescue mission” to prevent looting of artefacts from this World Heritage Site. […]
Fondly recalling his evergreen films, the eastern metropolis paid homage to Indian master storyteller Satyajit Ray on his 94th birth anniversary on Saturday with reruns of his pathbreaking movies, launch of collectibles and visits to his home. Netizens hailed him as ‘Maharaj’ (King) and remembered their favourite moments from Ray’s legendary films like “Ghare Baire”, […]
Amid the recent controversy over yoga guru Ramdev’s infertility medicine, a parliamentarian has sought a ban on surrogate advertisements, saying they were misleading the consumers. Devji Mansingram Patel, the Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Jalore in Rajasthan, in a letter written in Hindi to Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley, sought a ban on such […]
Former England footballer Rio Ferdinand’s wife Rebecca Ferdinand passed away following a short battle with cancer. Rebecca, who passed away on Friday, was 34. She is survived by her husband and three children. Rio and Rebecca tied the knot in 2009. The English Premier League (EPL) club Queens Park Rangers (QPR) defender issued a short […]
Akshay Kumar’s much talked about Bollywood project “Gabbar is Back” has received an opening of Rs.13.05 crore. The film, released on Friday, marks the second collaboration of Viacom18 Motion Pictures and Sanjay Leela Bhansali along with co-producer Shabinaa Khan. According to a statement, the film’s box office performance saw a solid and steady growth on […]
Major political parties and social and community organisations will take out a procession here on Tuesday along with bulls and bullocks to protest the ban on beef in Maharashtra, an organiser said on Saturday. “People connected with the beef industry, including farmers, shall walk with the symbolic presence of some bulls and bullocks from Byculla […]