Actor Kunaal Roy Kapur is happy that his brother Aditya’s film “Aashiqui 2” has crossed the Rs.100 crore mark at the box office. He says it is “unbelievable” for his family.
A Mohit Suri directorial, “Aashiqui 2″ features Aditya and actress Shraddha Kapoor in lead roles.
” I am just very proud and I am very happy that his (Aditya’s) film has attained blockbuster status,” Kunaal said here Thursday.
UPA will decide its strategy on Monday on the ambitious food security bill amid talk of a special session of Parliament.
It was made known after Congress top brass including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and party Chief Sonia Gandhi at an over three-hour-long meeting here discussed the options of calling a special session or taking the ordinance route in the wake of opposition’s “uncooperative” attitude.
Against the backdrop of scams such as the VVIP chopper deal, a new defence procurement policy came into force today which aims at enhancing transparency and probity in military purchases and gives first right of refusal to Indian vendors to promote indigenous industry.
“The Defence Procurement Procedure 2013 which takes effect from today, aims to balance the competing requirements of expediting capital procurement, developing a robust indigenous defence sector and conforming to the highest standards of transparency, probity and public accountability,” Defence Ministry said in a release.
As Indian prisoners in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) prepare to get transferred to some Indian jail under a bilateral prisoner exchange agreement, some of them are ashamed to take up the offer due to the nature of their crimes.
Those jailed for immoral crimes like trafficking women and forcing them into prostitution fear that they won’t be able to face their own people when they go to some jail in their own country, The National reported Saturday.
Richard De Witt, 43, was arrested by police on April 6 on suspicion of murdering a 23-year old British tourist Sarah Groves in a houseboat on the Dal Lake in Srinagar.
Sarah Groves.
A Dutch national accused of murdering a British woman tourist here last month is being treated for schizophrenia, but is proving to be a “headache” for the hospital authorities due to his insatiable hunger for pizzas, an official said Saturday.
The Animal Planet special documentary that claimed to prove the existence of mermaids, was nothing but a man-made hoax, it has been revealed.
‘Mermaids: The New Evidence’, which aired on Sunday in the UK, reeled in a record 3.6 million viewers – the largest in the network’s 17-year history, News.com.au reported.
Biologist Dr Paul Roberton returned in the “mocumentary”, claiming to reveal never-before-seen footage of the assumed mythical creatures swimming in the Greenland Sea.
Germans are even more likely than Americans to tip while traveling, according a new survey.
TripAdvisor asked 9,000 vacationers how often they leave a tip while on holiday, and 69 percent of Germans said they always do, the New York Daily News reported.
More than half (57 percent) of the 1,600 Americans surveyed said they consistently tip during their vacations, followed by 53 percent of Russian respondents.
The majority of Americans surveyed admitted that they weren’t always familiar with the tipping customs while vacationing in a different country.
Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) President N. Srinivasan, who is under all round attack to step down from his post in wake of the arrest of his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan on charges of betting in the IPL, has called for an emergency meeting of the board’s working committee here on Sunday.
Former Test cricketer and BCCI Vice President N. Shivlal Yadav on his part today avoided commenting on the IPL controversy, and said that he would speak on the matter only after the working committee meeting
Researchers at Indiana University, who compared the performance of elite track and field athletes younger than 20 and those 20 and older, found that only a minority of the star junior athletes saw similar success as senior athletes.
The researchers think physical maturation is behind the disparity, with athletes who mature early reaping the benefits early, seeing their best times, jumps and throws at a younger age than Olympians, many of whom mature later.
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said he sees no direct military role in Syria for the alliance.
He also warned against any stepped-up western military involvement.
Rasmussen told CBS News, after a White House meeting with President Barack Obama , that everybody realizes that any foreign military intervention might have unpredictable regional repercussions.
He added that this is a reason why it’s so important to focus on finding a political solution.”
Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone-starrer “Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani” collected Rs.19.45 crore net on its opening day in the country.
Directed by Ayan Mukerji of “Wake Up Sid” fame and produced by Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions, the movie released Friday. The “Bachna Ae Haseeno” combo of Ranbir and Deepika was luring enough for many and the movie’s trailers, combined with its melodious music, has helped the movie get a good start.
The film, which also features Kalki Koechlin and Aditya Roy Kapur, is distributed by UTV, and officials are happy with its initial box office response.
Preeti Rathi, a Delhi nurse targeted in an acid attack in Mumbai May 2, died in a hospital here Saturday, police said.
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An international team of researchers has found that a singular gene mutation helps brain cancer cells to not just survive, but grow tumors rapidly by altering the splicing of genes that control cellular metabolism.
The team was led by principal investigator Paul S. Mischel, MD, a member of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine.
Three persons were killed and six others injured in a clash during anti-erosion work of the Farakka Barrage Project at Simultala here in the district on Saturday, police sources said.
Guns, bombs and sharp weapons were used during the clash between two groups of local people over commission being paid for the work, the sources said.
The three dead were identified as Rashid, Sentu and Akkel.
The injured were admitted to the health centre at Bedrabad, they said.
Superintendent of Police Kalyan Mukherjee was at the spot.
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Jammu and Kashmir unit of CPI(M) today criticised the latest hike in fuel prices, accusing the Centre of not being concerned about the common man.
“The hike of petrol price by 75 paise and diesel by 50 paise per litre entails cascading effect on all commodities that hits the interests of the poor and lower middle class,” State Secretary of CPI(M) M Y Tarigami said in a statement here.
Demanding immediate rollback of the hike, Tarigami said the food inflation and depreciation of rupee have already worsened the economic condition of the people and the fuel price hike will add to it.
Jailed Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt will be trained to make paper bags at the Yerawada Central Jail, official sources said Saturday. He is likely to be paid Rs 25 a day.
Dutt is undergoing his 42-month prison sentence after being linked to the 1993 Mumbai terror attack. It is his second stint in the jail.
A jail official said the actor will be trained to make high quality, heavy duty paper bags with a capacity of 6-8 kg, which are now gradually replacing plastic bags in the market.
Actress Alia Bhatt, who donned an ultra-glamorous avatar for her debut film “Student Of The Year” (SOTY) last year, has gone de-glam for her upcoming film “Highway”. She says the movie is a challenging opportunity.
Directed by Imtiaz Ali and produced by Sajid Nadiadwala, “Highway” is the story of two completely different individuals who take a road trip in a truck.
“I wanted to do something challenging, something different and I got this chance to do it in my second film,” Alia told reporters here Friday at the launch of international apparel and accessories brand Forever 21.
The trial of seven Pakistani suspects, including Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, charged with involvement in the Mumbai attacks was today adjourned till June 15 as the government is yet to appoint a chief prosecutor to handle the case.
Judge Chaudhry Habib-ur-Rehman of the Rawalpindi-based anti-terrorism court adjourned the case for a fortnight without any proceedings during today’s hearing.
The court is also yet to decide on an application to transfer the case to a court in Islamabad.
Jailed Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt will be trained to make paper bags at the Yerawada Central Jail, official sources said Saturday. He is likely to be paid Rs.25 a day.
Dutt is undergoing his 42-month prison sentence after being linked to the 1993 Mumbai terror attack. It is his second stint in the jail.
A jail official said the actor will be trained to make high quality, heavy duty paper bags with a capacity of 6-8 kg, which are now gradually replacing plastic bags in the market.
Targeting Congress for practising dynastic politics, Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley in Gwalior on Saturday said that a debate should be initiated on whether only a leader born in a particular family should lead the country.
Without naming Congress Vice-President and it’s heir-apparent Rahul Gandhi, Jaitley said, “these days there is a move in the Congress to hand over the reins to him. Is India a dynastic democracy? The BJP should initiate a debate in the country on the issue.”
Jaitley was addressing a meeting of party’s booth-level coordinators in Gwalior.
Prince Harry has urged all UK citizens to support their country’s injured warriors, after they return from the front.
He also urged everyone to never forget the sacrifices made by the troops, the Daily Star reported.
The Apache pilot recalled his experiences in the Afghan war zone during a ‘Walking with the wounded’ charity gala held at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.
The royal asserted that for every life taken, which is about 450 in Afghanistan, about 4,000 are injured and that’s what one never hears about.
Scientists have revealed that it took 13 years for the coral reef system in Brazil to recover after the catastrophic El Nino event of 1997-98.
The findings suggest corals may be very vulnerable to regular climate-related impacts.
Marine conservationists from Plymouth University, and the Universidad Federal da Bahia in Brazil, have spent more than 17 years analysing the diversity and density of coral colonies off the coast of South America.
Scorching heat dried up natural waterholes in one of the biggest parks for tigers, the Jim Corbett national Park, forcing forest authorities to supply water to ponds and water bodies through tankers.
May and June are usually the hottest months of the year in India with temperatures ranging from 42 to 47 degrees Celsius in many places.
The Park has about 50 waterholes in the region, which are being filled with water more often using water tanks, because of the soaring mercury.
Tripura outshone other states of the nation in providing employment to rural households under the national rural employment scheme.
It is for the second consecutive year, in 2012-2013 that Tripura topped in implementing MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) in the state.
The scheme provides 100 days of employment to one member of a family in rural areas every year.
Tripura bettered the national average of 39 days of work and provided 87 days of work on an average to a rural household in the state.
Twin sisters from Dehradun conquered the Mount Everest and aim to defy all odds as they expressed their desire to climb the other five high peaks in the world.
Naungshi Malik and Tashi Malik became the first Indian twin sisters to conquer Mount Everest and they returned home safe and sound.
One of the two sisters, Tashi Malik said in Dehradun that they want to conquer the other high summits of the world as well.