After matching tough dance steps with ace choreographer Prabhudheva in “Oh My God!”, actress Sonakshi Sinha recently challenged herself with some Kathakali steps on the set of “Dabangg 2”.
The 25-year-old tried some steps of the classical dance form while shooting for the song “Dagabaaz re” from the movie.
“Jab Tak Hai Jaan” (JTHJ), Yash Chopra’s last directorial venture, continues to mint money. The romantic saga has earned Rs.101.26 crore at the domestic box office in 11 days since its release.
The movie, featuring Shah Rukh Khan, Anushka Sharma and Katrina Kaif, released on 2,500 screens on the auspicious occasion of Diwali, Nov 13.
Made at a budget of Rs.50 crore, the film has surpassed the Rs.100 crore mark in the Indian market, even though it had crossed the milestone figure in terms of worldwide collections within six days of hitting the screens.
A court here Friday sent Sukhdev Singh Namdhari, an eyewitness to the Nov 17 shootout at a farmhouse here in which liquor baron Ponty Chadha and brother Hardeep were killed, to five days in police custody.
Namdhari was sacked as chairman of the Uttarakhand Minority Commission after the shootout and was arrested from his farmhouse in Uttarakhand Friday.
Delhi Police, seeking the custody of Namdhari, accused him of being the main conspirator in Ponty Chadha shootout case, saying that he fired at Hardeep Chadha.
Children aged between six to 10 years Saturday rubbed shoulders with India’s first ‘Master Chef’ winner Pankaj Bhadouria in a cooking workshop here.
The workshop underlined the importance of making healthy eating choices and an active lifestyle, said a statement from life’s DHA, a vitamin manufacturer.
“Parents and children learned how to make yummy, healthy, simple snacks. They also successfully created Delhi’s longest vegetarian sandwich,” it said.
Preliminary investigations show more than 40 buildings were damaged in a d that injured 18 people, building inspectors said.
A strip club was flattened and a day care centre was heavily damaged in the massive explosion on Friday night in
Springfield, one of the biggest cities in the northeastern New England states.
No one was killed in the explosion.
Investigators were trying yesterday to figure out what caused the blast that could be heard for kilometres, left a
At least seven people, including three children, were killed and 18 injured in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province Saturday after a blast occurred near a Muharram procession, Geo News reported.
According to bomb disposal squad, the massive blast, for which 8-10 kg of explosives were used, occurred in the province’s Dera Ismail Khan city in the morning.
The bomb was planted in a garbage dump, said police.
The army was called in to take over security in the city.
A 52-year-old businessman was robbed of Rs.22 lakh by motorcycle-borne assailants who hit him with helmet and threatened him with a gun in south Delhi, police said Saturday.
“The incident was reported 9.30 p.m. Friday, while businessman Kamal Chandra, owner of a money exchange shop in South Extension Part II, was all set to leave his office,” a police official said.
Chandra was walking towards his car when the assailants struck, police said.
A fire broke out near the paediatric ward of West Bengal’s largest state-run hospital SSKM Saturday night. There was panic but no casualties or injuries, an official said.
The fire has been arrested, said SSKM hospital superintendent Tamal Kanti Ghosh.
Around 80 children admitted in the Allex ward were evacuated through the back door.
“Four fire tenders were rushed to control the fire. The situation is now under control. All children are safe,” said a fire brigade official.
Russian physicist Valentin Danilov, who was convicted in 2004 for passing data on satellite technology to China walked to freedom Saturday after eight years in prison, pledging he would continue studying science.
“Of course, I will be involved in science, just not related to outer space,” said Danilov during a press conference after his release, adding “because everything space-related in our country is a state secret”.
He was paroled earlier this month for the remainder of his 14-year prison sentence.
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) plans to set up a missile launch site in the coastal town of Machilipatnam in Andhra Pradesh with an investment of Rs.1,000 crore.
DRDO chief V.K. Saraswat, who is also the scientific advisor to the defence minister, told reporters here Friday that they had asked the state government to allot 260 acres of land to set up the long-range missile testing centre.
“As soon as the government clearance comes for land, we will start creating infrastructure. It will take three years to set up the centre,” he said.
The BJP’s internal troubles resurfaced Saturday with the party taking a serious note of Ram Jethmalani questioning the stance over appointment of new CBI chief and Shatrughan Sinha joining those who have asked Nitin Gadkari to step down as party chief.
quit over allegations related to a firm linked to him.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi Saturday launched a scathing attack on the Asom Gana Parishad and the Bharatiya Janata Party, accusing them of raking up the illegal Bangladeshi migrants’ issue for political advantage and of having pushed the problem under the carpet when the two parties were in power.
The issue of infiltration from Bangladesh “is blown out of proportion” by the opposition Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he said and added that the issue is raked up by these parties for taking political mileage.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is all set to lead the state for the third successive term, with an increased number of seats, says the opinion poll conducted by ABP News and AC Nielsen in October.
The opinion poll conducted all over Gujarat has projected 124 seats for the BJP, seven more than the 117 it won in the 2007 assembly election.
While the opinion poll brings cheers to the BJP and its supremo in Gujarat, Narendra Modi, it scales down the share of Congress seats to just 51. That is eight short of the 59 seats the party won in the last assembly elections.
London Mayor Boris Johnson will lead a senior business delegation to India next week to promote the city and further enhance bilateral economic links.
The Mayor will arrive in New Delhi tomorrow and later visit Hyderabad and Mumbai.
The Mayor’s five-day visit to India is the first of a series of planned overseas visits seeking to build on the international exposure received by London during the successful Olympics games earlier this year.
Young Indian batsman Cheteshwar Pujara on Wednesday rated his century in the first innings of the ongoing second Test higher than the unbeaten double hundred he struck in the first Test, saying it has come in a more challenging situation.
Pujara, who is in scorching form, scored 135 to script India’s revival in the second Test.
If you have been one of those who are lost in the reveries of finding or turning their partner a perfect woman, it’s time to wake up since “perfect female does not exist”, says a study.
In a survey, not one of they 2,000 men polled described their partner as 100 percent flawless.
Apart from celebrities like beautiful brunette Cheryl Cole who was voted as close to perfection as it possible to get, modern guys may talk about their “ideal woman” but, in reality, she may not be what he truly wants, Daily Express reported.
Sixteen-year-old Nischal Nadhamuni from Bangalore scored 100 percent in a standard test for admission to colleges in the US, Mallya Aditi International School said Saturday.
“Nischal, who is reading in Class 11 in our school, got 2400 out of 2400 in the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), a standardised test for college admissions in the US, by scoring 800 points each in Mathematics, Critical Reading and Writing subjects,” the school said in a statement here.
As many as 18 miners were killed and five others remained trapped at a coal mine in China Saturday after a gas and coal outburst.
The accident occurred in the morning in Guizhou province, leaving a total of 28 miners trapped in the collapsed mine. At least five of the trapped miners were rescued till late evening, reported Xinhua citing local officials.
The mine, operated by Pannan Coal Exploitation Co. Ltd., is located in Panxian county of the coal-rich Liupanshui City. It went into operation in 2006 with an initial output of 4 million tonnes a year.
More than 10,000 couples in the capital will be tying the knot Sunday and the number is expected to remain the same Monday, owing to the auspicious three-day period that begins Saturday.
According to Ravindra Nagar, head priest at the Birla Mandir in central Delhi: “The jupiter and moon are in the appropriate houses on these three days and couples who will get married during this period will stay together for the next seven births.”
“The couple will be blessed with a child within one year of the nuptial,” he added.
Over 10,000 weddings took place in the capital Saturday as well.
Violence between two Muslim sects left more than 26 people injured in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut district Saturday, police said.
The clashes, officials informed IANS, broke out between two groups at Abdulahpur village over the issue of beating of drums.
“One side asked the other not to do so but the others did not relent, leading to violence,” Meerut Senior Superintendent of police (SSP) K. Satyanarayan told IANS.
Since the ‘Majlis’, a religious congregation of Shias was underway, a group took umbrage to the beating of the drums and soon clashes erupted between the two sides.
Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Gulam Nabi Azad Saturday announced that a National Cancer Institute (NCI) would come up in the AIIMS-2 campus at Badhsa village in Haryana, which would be an even bigger facility than the Tata Cancer Institute, Mumbai.
A National Cardio Care Centre (NCCC) would also be set up in this institute, he said.
The health minister was speaking after inaugurating the outreach OPD of AIIMS Badhsa village, 40 km from New Delhi, in Haryana’s Jhajjar district.
Congress MLC MS Prabhakar on Saturday demanded that the State Government introduce a Sub-Plan for Minorities in the State on the lines of SC, ST Sub-Plan.
Talking to reporters here, Prabhakar thanked Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy for convening a special session of the State Legislative Assembly to legislate the SC, ST Sub-Plan. He said that this would ensure focused development of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the State. Further, he appealed to the Chief Minister to introduce Minorities Sub-Plan to ensure proper implementation of schemes for the welfare of minorities.
Taking strong objection to the TRS leader KT Rama Rao’s letter which has a strong accent on defaming YSR and bringing to fore the dynasty question, YSR Congress has said, TRS is scared of losing much of its ground with the tremendous response Sharmila’s Maro Praja Prasthanam is getting.
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi on Saturday accused former Chief Minster late Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy of cheating the people of Telangana.
Talking to media persons here, TRS MLA K Tarakarama Rao said that the Congress party returned to power in 2004 due to its alliance with the TRS. He said although YSR had assured that he would respect the Telangana sentiments, he used his wealth to sabotage the TRS and statehood movement. The former Chief Minister even stated that people from Seemandhra region would need passports to visit the region, if Telangana was formed.
He has squared off against the most fearsome of pace attacks all over the world but veteran Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar jokes that it is nothing when compared to facing his wife when she is upset! In the Marathi book ‘Samvad Legends Shi’ (Conversations with Legends) by Dwarkanath Sanzgiri and published by Majestic Publications, the 39-year-old batsman, who has spent over two decades in international cricket, opens up about things other than cricket that have shaped his life.