Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh Done With Shooting 'Bajirao Mastani'
NEW DELHI -- The upcoming epic flick Bajirao Mastani is all set to hit the theaters as the real-life couple, Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh, is done with the shooting. The Piku actress took to...
View ArticleChhota Rajan Wanted To Escape To Zimbabwe, Says Bali Police
Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje, who ruled the Mumbai underworld under the alias Chhota Rajan has told the Bali police that his life will be in danger in India and asked them to allow him to leave for...
View ArticleThis Government Mouths Platitude And Expects Silence, Says Sahitya Akademi...
Kiran Nagarkar, one of the country's most respected authors, a Sahitya Akdemi winner, and now to be awarded the Tata Literature Lifetime Achievement Award is no stranger to controversy. He burst on the...
View ArticleKaranvir Bohra To Play Shah Rukh Khan's Role In 'Darr' Remake
Nearly 22 years after Yash Chopra's Darr released, reports say that a remake of the film is on the cards. The 1993 film, which starred Shah Rukh Khan as an obsessive and violent stalker besotted with...
View ArticleKerala House Beef Row: VHP Not Against Having Beef As Part Of Menu
KOCHI -- Condemning the row over serving beef in Kerala House, Viswa Hindu Parishad (VHP) today said Sangh Parivar organisations were not against making beef a part of the menu in Kerala government...
View ArticleFTII Students Call Off Strike, Will Continue Protests Against 'Political...
The students of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) have finally called off their strike, 139 days after they stopped attending classes to protest against what they have termed the...
View ArticleKerala House Beef Row: Buffalo Meat's Return Lasts 45 Minutes
NEW DELHI -- Buffalo meat, on Wednesday was back on the Kerala House menu and was lapped up by the lunch-time crowd as the items that were briefly discontinued following a row that saw police carry out...
View ArticleIndia's 12 Point Jump In World Bank's Ease Of Biz Report Isn't Quite Correct
Since morning, officials in India's economic ministries have been ecstatic over news of India climbing 12 places in the the World Bank's Doing Business Report, an international annual score card rating...
View ArticleSupreme Court Wants To Protect Muslim Women Against Polygamy And Arbitrary...
NEW DELHI -- Thirty years after the Rajiv Gandhi government denied Shah Bano the right to seek lifetime maintenance from her husband, the Supreme Court has once again taken up the cause of Muslim women...
View ArticleFilmmakers Return National Awards To Join FTII Students And Writers In...
Ten filmmakers including Dibakar Banerjee and Anand Patwardhan returned their national awards on Wednesday, to join protests against alleged censorship and "general intolerance" under the present...
View ArticleFTII Students' Strike Was Longest In Institute's 60-Year-Old History
PUNE -- The 139-days long strike that was called off today was the seventh major and the longest such protest in the history of the Film and Television Institute of India, which is replete with stirs...
View ArticleHistorians Join Protests Condemning 'Highly Vitiated Atmosphere'
NEW DELHI -- After writers, artists, filmmakers and scientists, over 50 historians today came out strongly against Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not making any reassuring statement following...
View Article35 Beauty Products Under Rs 500 To Add Shine To Your Festive Season
There can never be enough make-up loot, even on a limited budget. Add to this the onset of the wedding and party season, and the words 'last-lasting' 'extra-volume', 'smudge-proof' suddenly seem to...
View ArticleHere's Why Bollywood Actress Vidya Balan Won't Return Her National Award
MUMBAI -- Bollywood star Vidya Balan today said she will not give back her national award as it was an honour bestowed on her by the country and not the government. The comment come in the backdrop of...
View ArticleSpiceJet's COO Sanjiv Kapoor Quits
NEW DELHI -- SpiceJet's Chief Operating Officer Sanjiv Kapoor today put in his papers, nearly ten months after original promoter Ajay Singh took over the reins of the budget airline. Kapoor, 48, was...
View ArticleShahid Kapoor Has Started Prepping For Vishal Bhardwaj's 'Rangoon'
MUMBAI -- Actor Shahid Kapoor has began working on his next collaboration with filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj Rangoon. The period drama will see the 34-year-old actor teaming up for the first time with...
View ArticleAmerican Policeman On Retrial For Assaulting Elderly Indian, Leaving Him...
WASHINGTON -- An Indian grandfather in the US who was violently assaulted by a policeman leaving him partially paralysed, did not pose any threat, two fellow officers testified during a retrial of the...
View Article'On Air With AIB' Is An Indianised Version Of John Oliver's Show -- But It Works
On Thursday, comedy collective All India Bakchod premiered the debut episode of their news comedy show On Air With AIB. The weekly show, which is up on Hotstar, is out in two versions: English,...
View ArticleEx-Padma Bhushan Pushpa Bhargava's Half A Century Of Dissent
Pushpa Bhargava, who's perhaps become the first Indian scientist to return the Padma Bhushan, has a long history of being opposed to the government. Whether it was filing a writ petition in the Supreme...
View Article3 Shah Rukh Khan Films Show Karva Chauth Can Make You Do Bizzare Things
In the world of Bollywood, average human beings have a host of impractical powers. Everyone can sing without a single note going awry, all women can dance, all men can send other men flying like...
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