Filmmaker Vipul Shah attributes his success to his wife Shefali Shah and says that they don’t mix their personal and professional life.
When asked when do we see him directing Shefali, a versatile actress, he said: “I will approach her only if I have something that will justify her as an actress. Besides, we both don’t mix our personal and professional life.”
The worlds of Bollywood, cricket and politics came together in a lavish ceremony as the winners of the 2014 Indian Premier League, the Kolkata Knight Riders and team owners Shah Rukh Khan and Juhi Chawla received a regal reception amid thunderous applause at the packed Eden Gardens here Tuesday.
Indian IT bellwether Wipro Ltd has entered into a partnership with enterprise application software major SAP to deliver managed mobility services to customers at lower costs.
“Our new services will help customers improve their business, increase agility and reduce costs, as our partnership will bring domain expertise and systems integration experience together with SAP’s mobile solutions,” the global software major said in a statement here Tuesday.
Shocked BJP workers and leaders of other parties gathered at the party’s headquarters here to pay homage to union Rural Development Minister Gopinath Munde, who died in a road accident here Tuesday morning.
Munde’s body encased in a glass-top coffin was brought on an army truckto the Bharatiya Janata Party’s 11 Ashoka Road office for people to pay homage.
The transparent coffin with Munde’s body wrapped in a white sheet was carried inside the office and a BJP flag was placed on it.
Actress Deepika Padukone gave four superhit films in 2013, but it was her character Naina Talwar from Ranbir Kapoor-starrer “Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani” that won many hearts. And on its first anniversary, her fans have gifted the star a Naina Talwar page on a social networking site.
Her bespectacled look, simplicity and acting prowess struck the right chord with the movie buffs. The film completed a year May 31 and some of her fans put together Naina Talwar page on Facebook March 13, which went live in May.
After making a promising start with “Filmistaan”, Nitin Kakkar is hopeful of materialising his plans of making a black and white movie on Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto’s stories and finding producers for his dream project.
“I wanted to make my debut with a black and white film but unfortunately that script never took off. I wanted to adapt Manto’s stories. There were five short stories which I wanted to adapt in one story.”
He hopes that the “Filmistaan” buzz will help him find producers for the project.
Are you on a strict diet to reduce body fat that may also help lower breast cancer risk? Better take up exercise as researchers have found that physical activity offers additional benefit, beyond the effect of weight loss in reducing cancer risk.
Both exercising and eating better are thought to reduce women’s risk of breast cancer by decreasing body fat and levels of the sex hormones related to breast cancer.
As the US reaches out to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a dozen lawmakers have introduced a bipartisan congressional resolution committing to working with his government “to advance shared values and interests”.
Co-sponsored among others by lone Indian-American House member Ami Bera and the first Hindu-American lawmaker Tulsi Gabbard, the resolution also seeks “to further strengthen our strategic partnership with India, including in the defence, trade, and security arenas”.
There is a “concerning pattern” among young Canadian students in watching porn and ‘sexting’ has also become commonplace among teenagers, a survey shows.
“In our survey, 40 percent of boys admitted to looking for porn online and the ones that did typically said they were frequently searching for it,” Matthew Johnson, director of education for MediaSmarts, an Ottawa-based digital literacy outfit, was quoted as saying.
The researchers conducted a survey with 5,436 students in grades four through 11 about their lives online.
The union cabinet Tuesday met and passed a resolution condoling the death of union minister Gopinath Munde, who died in a car accident here in the morning.
Munde would be cremated in his native place in Maharastra Wednesday “with full state honours”, said union Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu.
The cabinet also resolved to observe national mourning Tuesday, he added.
India’s central bank Tuesday kept all key policy rates unchanged but eased some money for lending, indicating that it will await more positive signals from the economy and the upcoming national budget before measures to spur growth.
While the cash reserve ratio was kept unchanged at 4 percent, statutory liquidity ratio (SLR), which is the quantum of liquid assets banks have to hold against their deposits, has been reduced by 50 basis points to 22.5 percent.
This could release Rs.35,000 crore more for banks to lend. India Inc welcomed the move.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi Tuesday wrote to Pradhanya Munde, wife of union minister Gopinath Munde who died in a car accident, expressing “great pain” at his demise.
“The news about the sudden demise of your husband has caused me great pain. I am aware that the pain must be unbearable for you and other family members and words of condolences are not enough. There are certain accidents in life on which we lack control and must bear with,” Gandhi said in the letter.
The much speculated birth control pill for males may not see the light of day soon as researchers have found that hormonal male contraception via testosterone does not stop the production of healthy sperm.
The problem actually lies in optimal dosing of testosterone, the study showed.
The study involving mice showed that a previously developed male hormonal oral contraceptive method (via testosterone) is unable to stop the production and/or the release of sperm.
India is the future not only for Indians but for the world, a leading Indian corporate leader said here.
Citing a recent McKinsey report to assert that India would achieve an average GDP growth rate of around 8 percent by 2022 which will help leave only 1 percent of the population below the poverty line by that time, GMR chairman G. Madhava Rao said: “No multinational company can afford to be absent from India because of its enormous intellectual manpower.”
The Delhi High Court Tuesday granted three weeks’ interim bail to former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala to perform the last rites of his younger brother.
Pratap Singh Chautala died June 1.
A division bench of Justice Kailash Gambhir and Justice V.K. Shali, after going through the status report filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), allowed Chautala’s bail plea and asked him to furnish a personal bond of Rs.5 lakh and two sureties of like amount.
Have you ever seen a thermometer that uses light to measure temperature with a precision of 30 billionths of a degree?
Researchers from University of Adelaide have produced the world’s most sensitive thermometer – three times more precise than the best thermometers in existence.
“We have been able to measure temperature differences to 30 billionths of a degree in one second,” said project leader Andre Luiten.
The thermometer injects two colours of light (red and green) into a highly polished crystalline disk.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has reiterated her pledge to ensure the safety of competing teams, officials and fans during the FIFA World Cup starting next week.
The government earlier this year announced plans to spend $800 million on the largest ever security operation for football’s premier tournament, reports.
More than 170,000 soldiers, police and private security personnel are expected to be deployed in Brazil’s 12 host cities.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj held talks with her Omani counterpart Yusuf Bin Alawi Bin Abdullah here today and discussed ways to further consolidate the strong bilateral relations and enhance project exports from India.
Signalling a desire for continued engagement at high levels between the two countries, the Omani leader’s visit is
Amid nation-wide outrage over the Badaun gangrape and murder incident, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today accused the media of highlighting cases occurring in UP while ignoring those in other states.
Do you grab that bottle of sleeping pills every time you have trouble nodding off? Try hypnosis instead.
Researchers have shown that restorative slow-wave sleep, or deep sleep, can also be increased without medication – using hypnosis, a method that can influence processes which are very difficult to control voluntarily.
“It opens up new, promising opportunities for improving the quality of sleep without drugs,” said biopsychologist Björn Rasch from University of Zurich in Switzerland.
Retired but still very much in touch with the game he considers his life, iconic Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar today said the ongoing investigations into corruption in cricket are critical and fans deserve fair competition.
Tendulkar, who bid adieu to the game last year after playing 200 Test matches, said the ICC’s probe into corruption
into cricket are “critical for the game”. “I think the concerned people are taking really important steps because it is critical for the game to make sure that the spectators watch a fair competition,” Tendulkar told reporters here.
A court here today adjourned to June nine the income tax return cases against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and her aide Sasikala for their appearance.
When the case came up for hearing to fix the date for their appearance before the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate R Dakshinamurthy, the prosecution prayed to post the case within a week for questioning the accused and for framing charges.
A newly married girl was allegedly stabbed by a jilted lover at Salgajhuri on outskirts of the steel city today.
Poonam Tiriya (19), who works in a shop in Burmamines here, was on her way to work when the man came from behind and stabbed her six times, police said.
Poonam, who got married to one Srikant Mazumdar in March last, was admitted to the M G M hospital.
According to the victim, the accused had one-sided feelings for her and has been harassing the couple ever since they got married.
A police constable has been suspended for alleged dereliction of duty in searching a missing minor girl who was allegedly later gangraped and murdered in Jhalawar district even as Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje asked the state police to accord top priority to rape-related case.
Family members of the girl, who went missing since Saturday afternoon from Kholi village, reached Bakani Thana in the night and informed the head constable Ram Kumar.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who wants to remove Australia’s unpopular carbon tax on industrial polluters, today described President Barack Obama’s plan to slash US greenhouse gas emissions as sensible steps.
Abbott’s conservative government faces resistance in the Senate to its plan to remove the 24.15 Australian dollar (USD 22.39) tax that Australia’s 260 largest polluters pay for every metric ton of carbon dioxide that they produce.