Mumbai Jun 02 : Fiction serials with smaller budgets and loyal viewers fetch better returns for channels.
Couch potatoes and advertisers may want reality shows on television (TV) to last throughout the day.
TV show producers, however, face a different concern. Reality shows are a high-cost proposition for general entertainment channels (GECs) and few of them make money, if at all.
London, June 02: Britain wants to recruit junior doctors from India after their exodus from the country due to tightened immigration rules caused a shortage but the Home Office is not in agreement.
The National Health Service (NHS) is reported to have interviewed doctors from India and even sought the help of the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO) in its recruitment drive.
The BAPIO stipulated that the doctors should be allowed to stay and get training for between three and four years, rather than the two-year limit currently in place.
Mexico City, June 02: At least 40 bodies, including that of a prison warden, were found in a mass grave in Mexico’s Guerrero state, the state attorney general’s office said.
The body of Daniel Bravo Mota, 53, warden of Iguala prison, was identified after forensic tests, spokesman Albertico Guinto said Tuesday, adding that the mass grave, an abandoned mine shaft, was found near Taxco city.
Mota was kidnapped last month along with prison psychologist Ignacio Suastegui Perez by a group of heavily armed men.
New Delhi June 02 : With the domestic industry showing signs of steady recovery and merchandise exports stablising, special economic zones (SEZ) are again getting prominence in boardroom discussions and strategy plans of corporate conglomerates. Six new proposals for setting up SEZs would be coming up in the meeting of the Board of Approval (BoA) on June 8.
As many as 12 SEZ projects were surrendered between December 2008 and March 2009. But, no SEZ was surrendered since then.
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Hyderabad, June 02 (Siasat News): A minor girl was abducted from Kauvaguda in Shamshabad on May 29.
According to the Shamshabad rural inspector Ravichandra, an auto driver Srisailam, 21, resident of Kauvaguda, with the help of his associates Ramesh, Ranjeet, Babu and Srikant, brought the girl from Kauvaguda to Shamshabad by auto rickshaw.
From there, he took the girl to Bhadrachalam by car and married her.
Islamabad, June 02: Legendary theatre personality Uzra Butt, sister of Indian actress Zohra Sehgal, has died in Lahore at the age of 93.
Butt, whose last performance on stage was in 2008, had been ailing and bed-ridden for some time, her friends said.
She celebrated her 93rd birthday with friends and family on May 22. She passed away on May 31.
Munger(Bihar), Jun 02: A fast track court today sentenced six persons to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on each of them in an eight-year-old murder case. Additional District and Sessions Judge Gyanchandra Gupta held five persons, Ramji Mandal, Subodh Mandal, Visho Mandal, Hilan Mandal and Shetal Mandal guilty of killing Yodhi Mandal on August 15, 2002, when he was on his way to watch the Independence Day function.
Mumbai Jun 02 : India gold continued its record-breaking spree on Wednesday morning taking support from a weaker rupee, though prices were steady overseas, analysts said.
The most-active August contract on the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) hit another record high at 18,850 rupees per 10 grams, before easing a tad to 18,828 rupees at 10:42 a.m., still up 0.60 percent.
The Indian rupee gave up early gains and turned weak on Wednesday weighed by losses in the euro against the dollar. A weak rupee makes the dollar-quoted asset expensive.
–Agencies
Mumbai, June 02: Bollywood’s lucky mascot Katrina Kaif is one of the most sought after stars in Bollywood, thanks to all the hard work she’s put in since her debut. And she does manage to strike the right balance between work and family affairs.
Katrina Kaif recently took time out from her busy schedule to attend Bina Kak’s daughter Amrita’s wedding in Jaipur. Amrita, who sung the hit song “Just Chill” from Maine Pyaar Kyu Kiya recently got married on May 29, 2010.
NEW DELHI/BEIJING JUN 01 : A fight breaks out as student Vikas Dagar jostles with dozens of men, women and children to fill buckets from a truck that brings water twice a week to the village of Jharoda Kalan on the outskirts of New Delhi.
Nineteen hundred miles away, near Xi’an in central China, power-plant worker Zhou Jie stands on the mostly dry bed of the Wei River, remembering when he used to fish there before pollution made the catch inedible.
London, June 02: Pop star Lady Gaga revealed every once in a while she helps some of her troubled fans when they need help.
The “Poker Face” singer said that sometimes she even encounters with the parents of her fans, who she believe need some extra care and support, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
“Every once in a while, there is a very extra troubled fan that really wants to see or speak to me,”she said.
“I’ve actually before contacted parents and told them I thought their little monster (child) needed some help and attention and love,” she added.
——IANS
Gaza, June 02: An Israeli warship threatened to sink Captain Huseyin Tokalak’s ship before young commandos boarded the Turkish-flagged Gazze and trained their guns on him and his crew.
“They pointed two guns to the head of each of us,” Tokalak told a news conference on Tuesday. “They were really interesting guns, like the ones you see in the movies.”
It was the only light moment in the grizzled Turkish sea captain’s account of how an attempt to break Israel’s blockade of the Palestinian-run Gaza Strip ended in bloodshed.
JEDDAH JUN 01 : Crown Prince Sultan, deputy premier and minister of defense and aviation, received on Tuesday Saudi citizens who were released from prison in Qatar last week. The crown prince received the prisoners at his palace in Jeddah.
The prisoners were released following a pardon issued by the Qatari authorities in line with a request by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah.
The citizens were accompanied by the chief of the Al-Ghafran tribe, Ali bin Saleh Abu Laylah, and former Umdah, Nassir Al-Arq, during their visit to the crown prince.
–Agencies
New York, June 02: Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-American Times Square bombing suspect, is being labelled as a “hybrid terrorist”, someone who acted alone in the US but drew inspiration from outside extremist forces like the Taliban.
There may be other such radicalised Americans who are waiting for a chance to attack the country, CBS News reported.
“In one sense, Shahzad was a lone wolf, with evidence suggesting that he alone bought, assembled and delivered his botched IED,” it said.
New Delhi, June 02: The glamorous and the intense, the star and the actor, the reigning heartthrob and the quiet performer… filmmakers are trying out unusual pairings in the belief that opposites will attract. Sample Akshay Kumar-Chitrangada Singh, Irrfan Khan-Priyanka Chopra or Abhay Deol-Sonam Kapoor.
Bangalore, June 02: Two South African nationals allegedly involved in a fake currency racket were arrested today and 12 bundles of ‘black paper’, solution bottles, fake Euro currency, passports, visas and mobiles recovered from them, police said.
The accused were identified as Qamar Joseph Dawooda (35) and Verony Anthony Citalu (36) from Swaziland.
New Delhi, June 02: A recent assessment by the military intelligence (MI) of the Indian Army of the Pakistan Army’s deployment in a counter insurgency (CI) role in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) has concluded that 35% of Pakistan Army troops are engaged in that role, thereby creating ‘gaps’ or ‘holes’ on the Indo-Pak border.
JERUSALEM Jun 01 : Pro-Palestinian activists sent another boat to challenge Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday and Egypt declared it was temporarily opening a crossing into the Palestinian territory after a botched raid on an aid flotilla that ended with Israeli soldiers killing nine activists.
Raipur, June 02: Home Minister P. Chidambaram Wednesday admitted that the country has insufficient police stations and an ill-equipped police force but stressed that policing a country in a troubled neighbourhood makes the task more difficult.
Amravati, June 02: A father-son duo died after a truck hit their motorcycle in Anjangaon tehsil today, police said.
The deceased Ravindra Narage (40) and his son Prajal, residents of Kunda in Akot district, were on their way to Pandhari village when a truck hit their two-wheeler killing the duo on the spot, they added.
The dead bodies were brought to Anjangaon Rural hospital for the postmortem. The truck driver is still missing, police said adding that a case has been registered and further investigations are on.
—-PTI
New Delhi, June 02: Senior lawyer Ram Jethmalani, known for his maverick ways, has sprung another surprise. He now wants to return to the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP) and have another stint in the Rajya Sabha.
In his long innings as a member of both Houses of Parliament, Jethmalani has taken support from parties that range across the political spectrum — the Shiv Sena, the BJP, the Congress and even the Janata Dal.
Ahmedabad, June 02: A nine-year-old boy was arrested by Satellite police following his failed attempt to break into a bungalow. The boy Suraj (name changed) was hit by a scooter when he was trying to escape a crowd that was adamant on nabbing him. He was later nabbed and handed over to the police.
Taipie, June 02: Production line workers at iPhone maker Foxconn’s southern China manufacturing hub will get a 30 percent pay rise, after a string of deaths at the site focused attention on working conditions in a region experiencing growing labor unrest.
Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry, owner of Foxconn, said Wednesday that the cash component of wages would rise by 30 percent effective immediately, more than the 20 percent rise the company had talked about late last month.