Mumbai, July 14 (IANS) Praising his “Student Of The Year” and “Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania” co-star Alia Bhatt, actor Varun Dhawan has said she’s the “Robert De Niro” of their generation in Bollywood. “I found her brilliant in ‘Highway’. A performance like (hers in) ‘Highway’ is very difficult in any age. I think she is someone […]
Bhubaneswar, July 14 (IANS) Legislators from Odisha’s ruling BJD Monday disrupted the proceedings of the state assembly here demanding cancellation of the multi-purpose Polavaram irrigation project in Andhra Pradesh. Speaker Niranjan Pujari adjourned the house till 3 p.m. after members of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) disrupted the proceedings soon after the start of question hour. […]
Kolkata, July 14 (IANS) Relishing soccer’s summit clash with community feasts, Kolkatans set off fireworks and took out processions to celebrate Germany winning the World Cup early Monday. Watching the Germany versus Argentina final on giant screens that were put up at many places across the city, hundreds of fans indulged in night-long revelry as soon […]
The last two editions of the FIFA World Cup (2010 and 2014) have clearly brought one key message to the fore — team cohesion and chemistry. The 2010 winners Spain were predominantly made up of two sides — Barcelona and Real Madrid — with more than half the team being constituted of Catalan players. This […]
Los Angeles, July 14 (IANS) Singer Ashley Roberts misses the joy of performing as part of the Pussycat Dolls band. The blonde beauty is excited about her solo work, but says that she longs for the days of rocking on stage with her girl bandmates. When asked if she misses her group, she said: “Yeah, I […]
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) The government Monday appointed new governors for Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal and Gujarat. The governors are Ram Naik (Uttar Pradesh), Balramji Dass Tandon (Chhattisgarh), Keshari Nath Tripathi (West Bengal) and Om Prakash Kohli (Gujarat), a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique said.
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) A Delhi Police constable was shot dead by unidentified men near his residence here Monday, police said. Shivraj was on his way to meet someone when two men attacked him and pumped a bullet into his chest near his home in Jyoti Nagar area of east Delhi around noon. The assailants […]
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) The Lok Sabha Monday passed a bill to amend the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Act which will pave the way for appointment of former TRAI chairman Nripendra Misra as principal secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The bill replaces an ordinance brought by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, […]
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) Yoga guru Ramdev said Monday that he would talk to Ved Pratap Vaidik about his meeting with 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed, but defended Vaidik saying that he must have met the terrorist leader as a journalist. “I will talk to Vaidik (ji)…I am very confident that even if he has met […]
It’s an English language offbeat entertainer; made by an Indian director with three veteran and two young stars of Bollywood, and topped with one promotional Hindi song – that’s Homi Adajania’s Finding Fanny. Arjun Kapoor, who plays one of the five oddballs in the movie, believes Indian audiences are ready for such content. “I was […]