Four rebels of the A’chik National Volunteers Council-B (ANVC-B) faction were killed Saturday night in a gunfight with security forces in Meghalaya after a bomb attack at a petrol pump, police said. The gunfight at Dobasipara area took place after suspected ANVC-B rebels lobbed a crude bomb at a petrol pump in Hawakhana area in […]
Soon, you would be able to drop yourself right in the middle of a video game! In a move to take 3D motion capture beyond the next level, here comes a system that quickly creates a photographic-quality render of any person and then seamlessly inserts it into video game environments as a fully-moveable digital character. […]
At almost 19 degrees Celsius below the freezing point, Leh town in the Ladakh region Sunday recorded the lowest temperature of the season in Jammu and Kashmir. The night temperatures in Kashmir also remained several notches below the freezing point. “The minimum temperature was minus 18.9 degrees Celsius in Leh town today (eary Sunday morning), […]
Trudging up miles of rugged, snow-covered inhospitable terrain of the trans-Himalayas just to administer two drops of polio to tiny tots in the interiors of Himachal Pradesh is, to put it mildly, a mountainous task. Health officials say their staff will have to traverse at least three days on foot from the road-head to the […]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday urged every young Indian, irrespective of faith and religion, to be inspired by Swami Vivekananda. “I urge every young Indian, irrespective of faith and religion, to be inspired by such a man as they build their own future,” said the Prime Minister Office on his Twitter page on the closing […]
Muslim clerics in a Bihar district have decided not to lead or offer namaz-e-janaza (funeral prayers) of drunkards. This decision was taken at a meeting Saturday evening by a group of Imams of Bihar’s Nalanda district. They earlier said they won’t conduct marriage ceremony of those who give or take dowry. “It is a historic […]
Actress Soha Ali Khan says that contrary to the reports she did not participate in Saifai Mahotsav cultural event at the ancestral village of Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav. “Just for the record, I was not performing at Saifai as stated by some news reports,” the daughter […]
Sushmita Sen has lost weight and is gearing up for a comeback and says 2014 is going to be her year. “I have been preparing actually since 2013. I know everytime an actor loses weight or starts looking fitter or thinner, it is always for a reason. But this is me getting ready for the […]
Salman Khan has found support about his controversial performance at Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav’s hometown from an unexpected quarter – fellow superstar Shah Rukh Khan, with who he has been conducting a feud of many years. On Thursday, Shah Rukh told the press: “I’ll just say two thing about this. One, I will […]
Actor Ranveer Singh, who was linked with former co-star Deepika Padukone for a while, kept parrying questions on his rumoured affair with the actress, during an interaction with media for his film Gunday and asked them to focus on the upcoming release. Deepika, who turned 28 recently, apparently spent her birthday with Ranveer and the […]