Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh Saturday avoided a direct reply on whether Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi would be the party’s prime ministerial candidate in the 2014 Lok Sabha poll, saying the parliamentary board will decide on that.
Ranbir Kapoor wants to play the baddie, but the star of movies like “Rockstar” and “Barfi!” says no director is ready to accept him in such a role.
“I would love to play a negative role, something that is like an anti-hero. Something without guitars, rose and without a heroine. I have been asking this for quite a long time, and I hope the directors are hearing me out and come out with scripts like that,” the 30-year-old told IANS.
He spoke on the sidelines of the first edition of the Times Of India Film Awards (TOIFA) here. He will host the awards night Saturday.
Actress Anushka Sharma may come across as a confident and outgoing person on reel, but she says she is otherwise in real life.
“I am a very under-confident person. Whatever is seen in films is just a projection of my character. I wish I could be as confident as the characters I play on screen, but I am not. I am a very shy person,” the 24-year-old told reporters on the sidelines of first edition of Times of India Film Awards (TOIFA) here.
After tasting the success of a biopic film with “The Dirty Picture”, inspired by the life of late southern sex symbol Silk Smitha, producer Ekta Kapoor is gearing up to begin work on another biopic soon.
“I am doing a very big biopic, but can’t make any announcement now. But I can assure you this will be one biopic that will be shock-worthy,” Ekta told IANS.
“We will start shooting it by the end of this year or next year with a very interesting cast, but I am not allowed to reveal the names. All I can say is it is a male biopic,” she added.
President Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate the ‘Mother Language Festival’ in New Delhi May 19 to commemorate the 11 language martyrs killed in police firing in Assam in 1961, an official said here Saturday.
On May 19, 1961, eleven youths, including a women had become martyrs in a police firing at Silchar railway station in southern Assam when they took part in the language movement demanding recognition of Bengali as their mother tongue and an official language in Assam.
Model-turned-actress Esha Gupta is open to all kinds of films and roles – and even item numbers – because she wants to discover what she is best at.
“I am open to doing everything. I am open to doing an off-beat film. I am open to do a full-on commercial film, I am open to item songs…because I have just started I want to see where I fit,” the 27-year-old former Miss India said here in an interview.
Esha, a former model, made her Bollywood debut with “Jannat 2” opposite Emraan Hashmi. She recently shot a special song for director Punit Malhotra’s “Gori Tere Pyaar Mein”.
Cricket enthusiasts braved the sweltering heat to witness the Indian Premier League (IPL) match between Rajasthan Royals and the Delhi Daredevils here Saturday.
This is the first match the Ferozeshah Kotla is hosting in this season of the IPL. Delhi will be home to six IPL matches. Saturday’s match is one of the two day matches which start at 4 p.m. with the other one being the Daredevils vs Mumbai Indians match. The other four will be night matches starting at 8 p.m.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court Saturday temporarily stayed the hanging of a rape-murder convict, Dharampal Singh, in Haryana.
A division bench of Justices A.K. Mittal and Gurmeet Singh Sandhawalia stayed the hanging of the convict following a petition filed by NGO, Lawyers for Human Rights International. The petition was filed by lawyer Navkiran Singh.
Foreign diplomats in North Korea appeared to be staying put today, ignoring a warning by Pyongyang that they should consider evacuating their missions amid soaring nuclear tensions.
Pyongyang had informed embassies it could not guarantee their safety if a conflict broke out as concerns grew that the isolated state was preparing a missile launch.
But most of their governments made it clear they had no immediate plans to withdraw personnel, and some suggested the advisory was a ruse to fuel growing global anxiety over the current crisis on the Korean peninsula.
The Centre will bear an additional annual subsidy of Rs 2,600 crore on account of decontrolling the sugar sector only for two years, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said today.
Sugar decontrol will ensure timely payment of sugarcane growers, he said.
Earlier this week, the CCEA had partially decontrolled the sugar sector by giving freedom to millers to sell in the open market and removing their obligation to supply the sweetener at subsidised rates to ration shops.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has given the go-ahead for setting up a Centre of Research and Development in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the state.
The Chief Minister took the decision after meeting a delegation headed by Prof Shikhar Kumar Sarma, Head of
Department of Information Technology and Director In charge, Institute of Science and Technology, Gauhati University recently.
In a brief presentation on local language technology development for Information Technology (IT) Prof Sarma
Mounting a scathing attack on the UPA Government, pro-CPI AITUC today said more united struggles against its policies are in the offing as the Centre continues to push “anti-people” policies despite people’s “anger” reflected during the national strike held a few months ago.
Punjab Congress today alleged that the state government was silent on the issue of illegal sand mining in the state, and said it will launch an agitation over it next month.
Punjab Congress chief Partap Singh Bajwa today said that Congress has decided to launch a statewide agitation next
month against illegal sand mining in the state.
Bajwa was addressing the first meeting of party workers after becoming PPCC president here today.
Accusing the Akali government of “encouraging the practice of illegal sand mining” in the state by remaining
Scientists have measured super-sensitive crocodilian facial nerves to better understand how today’s animals, as well as dinosaurs and crocodiles that lived millions of years ago, interact with their environment.
Crocodilians have nerves on their faces that are so sensitive; they can detect a change in a pond when a single drop hits the water surface several feet away. Alligators and crocodiles use these “invisible whiskers” to detect prey when hunting.
Thin, low-level clouds were instrumental in driving Greenland’s record-shattering ice melt last year, a new study has found.
If the sheet of ice covering Greenland were to melt in its entirety, global sea levels would rise by 24 feet.
Three million cubic kilometres of ice won’t wash into the ocean overnight, but researchers have been tracking increasing melt rates since at least 1979. Last summer, however, the melt was so large that similar events show up in ice core records only once every 150 years or so over the last four millennia.
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have discovered signs of star formation perilously close to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
If confirmed, this would be the first time that star formation was observed so close to the galactic center.
The center of our galaxy, 27,000 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, is home to a monstrous black hole with a mass of four million Suns.
Pakistan’s hardline party Jamaat-e-Islami has been secretly reaching out to some of the American diplomats as one of its key leaders met a top USA diplomat in recent days, a report has said.
According to the Daily Times, the JI, led by Munawar Hassan, is going to contest the next general elections and apart from speaking on the domestic issues, is vociferously raising the voice against USA by blaming it for the whole security situation in the region including Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Top American commander has reaffirmed the importance of the U.S.-Pakistani security relationship to ongoing operations in Afghanistan and also to regional security and stability, the U.S. embassy said Saturday.
General Lloyd J. Austin III, commander of U.S. Central Command, wrapped his two-day visit to Pakistan on Saturday after a series of meetings with senior Pakistani military leaders, the U.S. embassy said.
Spanish researchers have found the burials of four personages belonging to the elite of the 17th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, who lived about 3.550 years ago on the hill of Dra Abu el-Naga in Luxor (ancient Thebes).
These findings, discovered during the 12th campaign of archeological excavations of the project, shed light on a little-known historical period in which Thebes becomes the capital of the kingdom and the empire”s foundations become established with the dominance of Egypt over Palestine and Syria to the north, and over Nubia to the south.
The toll in the collapse of a building at Thane rose to 72 on Saturday, an official said.
“The death toll has shot up to 72 as more bodies were pulled out from under the rubble between last night and this (Saturday) morning. Over 35 people are still in hospital in a critical condition,” a Thane disaster management official told IANS.
A seven-floor building in Lucky Compound, in Shilphata area on the outskirts of Thane city collapsed around 6.30 pm on Thursday. The unauthorised building had been constructed in just three months, without the relevant permissions and certificates.
Filmmaker Karan Johar has reportedly got the rights to four recorded classics composed by the late Madan Mohan for his production ‘Bombay Talkies’. He is said to have got them free of cost.
Karan will use the songs in the background of the film, said a source.
“Though the film will not have song-and-dance sequences, the music will be played in the background. Karan won`t be using the whole songs in the film, just verses from them,” the source added.
Those who are overweight starting in early adulthood (ages 26 or 36 years) may be twice as likely to have chronic kidney disease at age 60 to 64 years than those who are not overweight, according to a new study.
Larger waist-to-hip ratios (“apple-shaped” bodies) during middle age are also linked with chronic kidney disease at age 60 to 64 years.
The findings emphasize the importance of excess weight as a risk factor for chronic kidney disease (CKD).
American researchers have for the first time isolated adult stem cells from human intestinal tissue.
The accomplishment provides a much-needed resource for scientists eager to uncover the true mechanisms of human stem cell biology. It also enables them to explore new tactics to treat inflammatory bowel disease or to ameliorate the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation, which often damage the gut.
Terming the “controversial” Pentavalent vaccine “effective and safe”, health experts here Friday said the vaccine will be pivotal in bringing down the country`s child mortality rate.
Touted as a”one-shot wonder” and introduced in the universal immunisation programme (UIP) in eight states, the vaccine claims to targets five infections: diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus hepatitis-B and HiB (haemophilius influenzae type B).
HiB is responsible for pneumonia and meningitis in children in some countries.
Anil Kapoor admits that doing action sequences has become tough for him but the 53-year-old industry veteran says he has not given up and is training hard to keep fit and fight the goons.
Kapoor flexed his muscles during 90s in many of his films including `Rakhwala`, `Meri Jung` and `Insaaf Ki Awaaz` among others. With `Tezz`, `Race 2` and his upcoming release `Shootout at Wadala`, he is back in action space.