Asian News International Tamil exhibitors decision to shut down theatres Tuesday in solidarity with former Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalitha, who was jailed Saturday for corruption, will affect the box-office prospects of “Jeeva” and “Madras”, say trade experts.
Tamil Film Exhibitors Association have decided to keep a fast Tuesday and cancel shows in all theatres across the state.
Music maestro A.R. Rahman Monday launched his new album “Raunaq” and said that he dedicates it to Vogue Empower, a social awareness initiative that draws attention to women’s empowerment.
“I pledge to spread the message of Vogue Empower by dedicating my latest album, ‘Raunaq’, to the campaign,” Rahman said in a statement.
“The album echoes the significance of the cause, women’s empowerment, with the song and video, “Laadli”, created in collaboration with Kapil Sibal and Lata Mangeshkar,” he added.
Newly-wed couple actor George Clooney and British human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin Monday made their vows official with a formal civil wedding ceremony in Venice.
Alamuddin looked incredibly chic in a pair of cream wide leg trousers and matching top with navy waist band. She teamed it with a wide brim cream hat which also had a navy band, reports mirror.co.uk.
Clooney looked suave in a charcoal grey suit.
The couple was seen grinning at the venue with Clooney waving at fans who were out in their droves to see the happy duo.
A new study has revealed that kids engaged in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity for at least 60 minutes a day after school saw substantial improvements in their ability to pay attention, avoid distraction and switch between cognitive tasks.
A San Francisco real estate developer has created unique one-piece business suit called the ‘Suitsy.’
The inventor, Jesse Herzog, who has created a buzz, has been making waves he told CBS News that he wanted to create something that was comfortable like pajamas but was professional as well, and hence came up with the idea of a pull-on business suit.
The clothing is essentially overalls disguised as dress pants, a dress shirt and a matching jacket and whoever wears it just have to step into in and pull up the veiled zipper.
Scientists have discovered the early signs of pancreatic cancer that show the symptoms for the disease.
Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US, identified that an upsurge in certain amino acids that occurs before the disease is diagnosed, is a sign of the early development of the disease.
Over 200 people have been arrested in Vadodara town in Gujarat after days of communal violence though no fresh incident was reported today, police said.
However, the situation in the city, 116 km from Ahmedabad, remained tense amid huge deployment of police personnel.
Communal violence had erupted in Yakutpura, Panjrapole, Fatehpura and Kumbharvada in the city on Thursday after some posts about a religion, purportedly derogatory in nature, were put up on a social networking site.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that India and the US are connected in many ways, and the openness of their philosophies and their love for democracy are two traits that both nations share.
Speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Prime Minister Modi said, “There are some things that connect India and America. Their openness and democracy are some of those. We need to focus on what India and America can do together for the world: that should be a principle for our foundation.”
Indian traditions tell women to take their husband’s last name after marriage. But a survey has revealed that the majority of Indian women think it as an unnecessary practice.
The survey was conducted to understand what Indian men and women think about equality in marriage by online matrimony website Shaadi.com.
Out of all, 65.7 per cent women said it’s unnecessary and 34.3 per cent said changing the surname doesn’t matter as it is a tradition.
An evolutionary race between rival elements within the genomes of primates drove the evolution of complex regulatory networks that orchestrate the activity of genes in every cell of our bodies, reveal new research.
The race was between mobile DNA sequences known as ‘retrotransposons’ (jumping genes) and the genes that have evolved to control them.
Scientists at the University of California (UC), Santa Cruz, identified genes in humans that make repressor proteins to shut down specific jumping genes.
A bench of the Karnataka High Court will hear the bail petition of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday.
Jayalalithaa, who was sentenced four-year imprisonment by a special court here, had yesterday filed a criminal revision petition.
“The criminal revision petition (CRP) has been listed for admission Tuesday before the vacation bench of Justice Rathnakala,” a counsel for Jayalalithaa told IANS here.
Japanese electronics firm Casio has roped in singer and music director A R Rahman as brand ambassador for its electronic musical instruments division.
Association with Rahman will help it develop market and change its image as a high quality keyboard maker, Casio India, a 100 per cent subsidiary of the JPY 6 billion consumer electronics giant Casio Computer said in a statement.
It will take a “few years” for Sun Pharma to realise the benefits of its USD 4 billion takeover of Ranbaxy, said the company’s Chairman Israel Makov, terming the deal as a “complex and large acquisition”.
Sun will leverage on complementary functional strengths to achieve topline growth and gains through both revenue enhancement and operational synergies, translating into higher margins, greater market share and more profits through the takeover of Ranbaxy, he said.
Parsvnath Developers has leased about 1.7 lakh sq ft in its office building near Connaught Place to big companies like SBI, Aditya Birla Group and Axis Bank, and expects an annual rental income of around Rs 100 crore from this project.
Parsvnath, which recently sold 140 acres at Sohna in Gurgaon to Supertech for Rs 665 crore, has completed construction of an official building covering 2.8 lakh sq ft of leasable area on Bhai Veer Singh Marg, Gole Market.
In a fresh bid to grab a pie of the premium smart phone market, BlackBerry today unveiled its most expensive handset Blackberry Passport, priced at Rs 49,990, which will be available across Indian market from October 10.
“Pre-booking has started for Passport at Amazon and BlackBerry exclusive stores from today. Customers pre-booking at Amazon.In would receive a gift card worth Rs 5,000. It will be be available across stores from October 10 for Rs 49,990,” BlackBerry India Managing Director Sunil Lalvani said at the launch event.
Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M), which is yet to make a mark in the two-wheeler space, on Monday launched a new 110-cc scooter ‘Gusto’ as the homegrown auto major seeks to challenge the supremacy of Japan’s Honda in the domestic market.
Gusto, priced Rs 43,000 onwards (ex-showroom Delhi), is pitted against Honda Activa, HeroMoto’s Maestro and TVS’ Jupiter.
Gusto was first launched in the Northern and Western region to begin with, while in the other parts of the country it will be rolled out in phased manner over the next few months.
Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan is widely expected to hold the key rates citing high inflation at the fourth bi-monthly monetary policy announcement on Tuesday, even though the pro-growth lobby has been wishing for a rate cut.
This is despite some downward movement in consumer price inflation of late, which eased to 7.8 percent for August. But it is the medium-term targets that worry the central bank, say RBI watchers.
Private equity investment in India is likely to touch a staggering $12 billion in 2014 primarily on account of reform measures taken by the government at the Centre.
In the first half of the year, private equity entities pumped in $6 billion in India.
“India is expected to witness investments worth $12 billion in 2014 by private equity players, double than the amount invested by them last year,” Indian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (IVCA) president Arvind Mathur told PTI.
A day after AIADMK party supremo and Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa was convicted and sentenced in the Rs. 66.65 crore illegal asset case, party MLAs are likely to meet here today to propose a candidate for the Chief Minister’s post.
Party sources said the meeting is likely to be held later in the day and all the legislators have been asked to be present.
Majority of the ministers of the Jayalalithaa ministry and MLAs had been in Bangalore since yesterday to know the outcome of the Special Court verdict.
Heritage walks, cleanliness drive and colourful events marked the ‘World Tourism Day’ in the Pink City today.
The day started with ‘Ghat Ki Guni Heritage Walk’ from Roop Niwas Bagh and ended at Sisodia Rani Ka Bagh.
Citizens participated in the walk to create awareness about preserving our heritage, Tourism Director Vikram Singh said.
Another event was organised at Elephant Village at Kunda near Amber where cleanliness and tree plantation drive was taken up to mark the occasion. Participants swept the area and planted trees.
A young woman was charged by the Thane police for allegedly abandoning her new born child at a city hospital.
The 21-year-old woman Savita Jadhav allegedly abandoned her new born girl at a hospital in Kalwa on September 21 and a manhunt has been launched to nab her, API Sandeep B Bagul of Kalwa police station said.
The woman left the hospital without informing anyone, leaving her child in the hospital itself, he said.
The child is presently in the custody of hospital staff and they are taking care of the child, the officer added.
Amid weakening stocks, the combined market valuation of top five Sensex companies fell by Rs. 45,887.6 crore last week, with RIL and ICICI Bank taking the biggest hit.
While TCS, RIL, Infosys, SBI and ICICI Bank saw losses in their market capitalisation (m-cap), ONGC, ITC, CIL, HDFC Bank and Sun Pharma witnessed addition.
The m-cap of RIL plunged Rs. 19,728.88 crore to Rs. 3,01,948.82 crore. ICICI Bank suffered a loss of Rs. 10,682.94 crore to Rs. 1,71,031.83 crore, while the value of SBI dipped by Rs. 9,376.96 crore to Rs. 1,82,380.34 crore.
As owning a sports club becomes the new status symbol for country’s uber rich, it is India’s wealthiest man — Reliance Industries chief Mukesh Ambani — who leads the pack with his IPL team ‘Mumbai Indians’ being worth an estimated $200 million or Rs1,200 crore ($1=Rs. 61), according to Forbes.
According to Forbes, India’s richest are racing to own sports teams in the field of cricket, kabbadi, hockey and badminton.
Benedict Cumberbatch’s 2009 documentary clip ‘Strange Islands’ has gone viral on Internet after it was observed that the actor was unable to pronounce the word ‘penguins’ properly.
The documentary based South Pacific has clocked up over half a million views on YouTube, Metro.co.uk reported.
The actor, who has narrated the documentary, can be heard pronouncing the word ‘ penguins’ in a different manner every time.
The clip was first surfaced on Reddit. (ANI)
Hrithik Roshan is busy promoting “Bang Bang!” and the actor says the biggest challenge in the film was to get blood out of his brain.
Hrithik faced health problems while shooting for the action thriller last year and developed blood clots in his brain which necessitated a surgery.
When asked about the biggest challenge while doing “Bang Bang!”, he said: “The biggest challenge was to get blood out of my brain. I had a flight to catch in eight hours and I was on a treadmill.”