Asian News International The upcoming movie ‘Baahubali’ directed by directed by S. S. Rajamouli is a costliest film produced ever in the history of Telugu cinema is going to release the first part on April 17th, 2015.
According to rumours, the filmmakers are planning to release the teaser of Baahubali on October 10th on the occasion of Rajamouli’s birthday.
Actress Archana has her hands full with films in Tamil and Telugu and the upcoming Telugu thriller “Panchami” is the most exciting film of her career.
She has worked in southern movies such as “Nuvvostanante Nenoddantanaa, “Vegam” and “Khaleja”. One of her Tamil films “Nadodi Vamsam” is getting ready for release.
“I’m sure that ‘Panchami’ will make me proud. It’s the most exciting film of my career so far. The film features only one character that’s played by me. It’s very experimental in its approach and that’s what makes it different from other films,” said Archana.
JK Rowling has recently revealed that she is writing a screenplay for a film that is an extension of the wizard world novels she has written earlier.
On Oct 6, the author posted an anagram, “Cry, foe! Run amok! Fa awry! My wand won’t tolerate this non-sense” on twitter for her fans to interpret, she found a winner who rightly found the meaning that was “Newt Scamander only meant to stay in New York for a few hours” after which she declared the news, BBC reported.
Newt Scamander was the fictional author of a textbook on magical animals that featured in the Harry Potter novels.
A recent excavation project disclosed that art may not have originated in Europe but also along the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
Dr Maxime Aubert, of Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, dated the paintings found in Maros in Southern Sulawesi, as probably the earliest of its type, the BBC reported.
Australian and Indonesian scientists have dated layers of stalactite-like growths that have formed over colored outlines of human hands.
A figurative depiction of a pig in Sulawesi cave maybe one of the oldest, nearly 35,400 years old.
The Madras High Court today refused to stay a single judge’s order for a CBI probe into the alleged custodial torture of a woman by police personnel at Udumalpet station in Tirupur district and wondered how the state could appeal against such cases directing the CBI Joint Director to continue investigation.
A division bench, comprising Justices Sathish K Agnihotri and K K Sasidharan, stated this today while declining to stay the order of Justice V Ramasubramanian who ordered a CBI inquiry into the alleged custodial torture of the woman.
A new study has revealed that women were more likely prone and vulnerable in this situation, pre or post ‘sexting.’
Taking a cue from the success of BJP’s online campaign in Lok Sabha election, the other parties have opened up their war chest to spend on social media to expand the reach of their mass contact campaign for the Maharashtra Assembly polls.
The NCP, staring at a massive anti-incumbency factor, is using the platform of social media to showcase the development work done by it in 15 years of power in the state.
The study, published in the journal BMJ Open, examined 1,200 Danish male military recruits between the ages of 18 and 28 years, all of whom underwent a medical examination between 2008 and 2012.
As part of the assessment they were asked about their drinking habits and invited to provide sperm and blood samples.
The researchers found that for men, who habitually drank heavily, there was a clear link between alcohol intake and quality of sperm, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
Car rental firm Carzonrent and Tata Motors have inked a pact to launch an initiative in the Delhi/NCR region, under which customers would be able to hire a Tata Nano car for self drive at just Rs 399 per day.
As part of the ‘Myles City Drive’ initiative, Tata Motors would supply 200 Tata Nano Twist cars to Carzonrent fleet for self-drive service in the Delhi/NCR region.
In order to increase domestic urea production, the Fertilizer Ministry has notified New Urea Investment Policy for setting up and expansion of urea plants.
According to the policy, interested private companies are required to give a bank guarantee of Rs 300 crore for every project, while PSUs firms have been exempted from it.
The companies will get a subsidy on production only if the urea production starts in the next 5 years. The subsidy will continue till 8 years after the commencement of production.
Villagers sit on the debris of their house after it was damaged during the recent exchange of fire between Pakistan and India at the Pakistani border town of Dhamala Hakimwala near Sialkot. Five civilians were killed and thousands took refuge in camps in the disputed region of Kashmir on Wednesday after some of the most intense fighting between nuclear-armed neighbours Pakistan and India in a decade. PTI
The Supreme Court today sought response from the Kerala Government on a petition filed by 16 of the 24 convicts challenging their conviction and varying quantum of sentence in the Suryanelli gangrape case.
A bench comprising Justices S J Mukhopadhaya and P C Pant issued notice to the state government on the appeals against the Kerala High Court’s April 4 judgement upholding the verdict of the trial court.
Ekta Kapoor’s latest offering to the telly world is “Yeh Dil Sun Raha Hai”, a Patna-based love story between a daughter of a senior government employee and a
son of the local coal mafia. The TV tsarina believes the show will strike the right chords.
“‘Yeh Dil Sun Raha Hai’ presents an exceptional love story. Through this show, we want to show our viewers how the relationship between two individuals
survives the test of time,” Ekta, joint managing director, Balaji Telefilms Ltd, said in a statement.
After having rescued over 5,000 people in flood-hit Jammu and Kashmir, the Indian Air Force today contributed for the rehabilitation of the people in the state by donating Rs 8.43 crore in the Prime Minister’s relief fund.
The amount was collected by IAF through donation of a day’s salary by its over 1.7 lakh officers and men deployed across the country.
A cheque of Rs 8.43 crore was handed over by IAF Chief Arup Raha to Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the ‘At Home’ function here on the occasion of 82nd Air Force Day.
Extending its rising streak for the fourth straight day, the rupee surged by 31 paise to trade at two-week high of 61.09 against the dollar in early trade on Thursday at the Interbank Foreign Exchange on sustained selling of the US currency by exporters and banks.
Forex dealers said besides selling of the American unit by exporters and easing global crude prices, gains in other Asian currencies against the dollar and a higher opening in the domestic stock market, buoyed the sentiment.
A Rs 2.50 per litre cut in diesel prices and a little less than Re 1 a litre on petrol is in offing as international oil rates fell to a 27-month low.
Prices may be cut after Maharashtra and Haryana assembly elections are completed on October 15, sources privy to the development said.
Benchmark Brent crude slid by as much as USD 1.35 to USD 90.76 a barrel, its lowest level since June 2012. Prices have declined 18 percent this year.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Barack Obama will discuss the fight against terrorism and cooperation against militants of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group at a summit in Beijing on November 12, the South China Morning Post reported on Wednesday.
Beijing and Washington are expected to set aside their differences to work towards greater cooperation in the exchange of information and to block financing and arms supplies to the IS, which controls large parts of Syria and Iraq, the daily said, citing analysts.
The training for judo and karate will be given to over 90,000 girl students in Uttar Pradesh, an official said on Wednesday.
An order was issued Tuesday by the secondary education department. It makes judo and karate training for girl students in all government schools mandatory as a part of self-defence.
Manoj Kumar Singh, principal secretary (secondary education) has directed education officials to promote self-defence among school girls.
Jennifer Lawrence has revealed that she thinks that the nude pic scandal is a sex crime and the people responsible for it are guilty for sexual violation.
The ‘Hunger Games’ star said that the incident is disgusting and the law needs to be changed, and we need to change, which is why these websites are responsible, the BBC reported.
Oscar winning actress said that just the fact that somebody can be sexually exploited and violated, and the first thought that crosses somebody’s mind is to make a profit from it is beyond her.
The Delhi Police have cracked an international murder plot that involved a London-based millionaire.
As per reports, the millionaire – Butham Govindu – paid contract killers from Delhi Rs 1 crore to eliminate a 70-year-old businessman and his two sons in Vijaywada.
The murders were executed last month, Delhi Police officials said.
As per police, the murders were part of a long-running war of honour between two feuding families.
The police said it has arrested seven persons, including four Delhi-based contract killers, in connection with the case.
Filmmaker Karan Johar has made his debut in designing female wear for a clothing brand.
The newly-launched Vero Moda marquee collection has been created keeping in mind the latest trends.
Johar, 42, who has often worked as a costume designer in his films, said, “Through the years, I have used my films as an outlet to showcase my own sense of fashion which is luxurious and grand, yet functional at the same time.
A day after the Nobel Prize in physics was won by the scientists who invented blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs), the power ministry Wednesday launched a business model enabling the sale of LEDs to households at Rs.10 against the market price of Rs.400.
A woman was killed and 11 persons were injured as Pakistani troops targeted 50 security outposts and three dozen hamlets with heavy mortar shelling and firing overnight along the entire 192-km international border in Jammu and Kashmir.
Extending the ceasefire violations to new areas, Pakistan Rangers shelled border outposts (BoPs) and villages in Samba and Kathua along with Jammu during the night and the firing was continuing till this morning.
Narendra Modi’s tallest assertion at the end of his almost 13-year period in office as Gujarat chief minister was unblemished law and order situation in the state, but for the blemish of Godhra riots. “After 2002, Gujarat has not seen violence,” he would over and over again say.
After Modi’s departure to New Delhi five months ago, the fear factor is gone. Bootleggers and Goons are toying around with Gujarat police, attacking them in public on a regular basis.
Major irrigation minister T Harish Rao held responsible Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu for the shortage of electricity in Telangana.
The people of Telangana would not trust the yellow party and still perceive it as anti- Telangana Rao said while reacting to the proposed bus yatra by TDP leaders in the state from October 10 said.
The minister wanted to know from Naidu as how there were several power plants in Seemandhra despite the fact that
Telangana, with abundant coal reserves, reeled under severe power crisis.