Mumbai, July 31 – Veteran actor Shammi Kapoor, some of whose most memorable songs like ‘Chahe Koi Mujhe Junglee Kahe’ were in the voice of Mohammad Rafi, Saturday remembered the legendary singer on his 30th death anniversary and admits he is incomplete without Rafi. ‘I am incomplete without Mohammad Rafi. I used to often go [...]
London, July 31 – Actress Michelle Rodriguez is urging Hollywood bosses to come up with some new ideas because she is bored of seeing remakes. Movie theatres have been bulging with big budget remakes in recent years, with new versions of ‘The A-Team’ and ‘The Karate Kid’ among 2010′s most high profile offerings, reports express.co.uk. [...]
Kolkata, July 31 – Bowing down to the students’ demands, the authorities of Visva Bharati Saturday night decided to decrease the hiked tuition fees by 50 percent. The university, set up by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore at Santiniketan, had been experiencing unrest for long as the students were on an indefinite agitation to protest the [...]
Beijing, July 31 – At least 13 people were killed and nine injured after a bus fell off a cliff Saturday evening in southwest China’s Sichuan province, authorities said. The bus carrying 22 people lost control and crashed the guardrail before falling off the 8.5-metre-high cliff in Xuanhan County, Xinhua reported. Eleven people died at [...]
New Delhi, July 31 – Two people accused of trafficking women have been arrested and a 20-year-old victim rescued, police Saturday said. Naushad, 26 and Gopal, 26, used to lure innocent women on the pretext of marriage and then rape them before forcing them into prostitution. They were arrested Friday from a house in Mangolpuri [...]
Dubai, July 31 – The United Nations is to assemble Sunday an international commission that will investigate the killing of nine activists aboard a Gaza-bound aid ship by Israeli commandos in May, the broadcaster al-Arabiya reported Saturday. Israel would cooperate with the commission, according to the report, which quoted diplomats at UN headquarters in New [...]
London, July 31 – Kristen Stewart feels huge pressure from ‘Twilight’ fans and worries about being ‘persecuted’ if she doesn’t get her character right. The 20-year-old actress, who plays Bella Swan in the movie series opposite rumoured boyfriend Robert Pattinson, admits she worries about what people think of her interpretation of the much loved character, [...]
London, July 31- Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman loves to grow her own food in grounds of the house she shares with husband Keith Urban and their daughter Sunday Rose. ‘We just planted our vegetables for the summer and all we have at the moment is lettuce. I am hoping the corn will be beautiful, because [...]
Suri (Birbhum), July 31 – West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said here Saturday that no illegal stone quarry would be allowed in Birbhum district. Stone quarries in the area were closed down in the past four months after the tribals living in the stone belt in Birbhum, bordering Jharkhand, launched an agitation alleging that [...]
Jerusalem/London, July 31 – US President Barack Obama has warned the Palestinian government of Mahmoud Abbas that ‘there will be consequences’ if he declines to open direct talks with Israel, Arab media reported Saturday. ‘It is time to go to direct negotiations,’ Obama said in a letter sent to Abbas and published Saturday by the [...]
Dubai, July 31 (IANS/WAM) Ace golfer Tiger Woods has confirmed that he will compete in the 2011 Omega Dubai Desert Classic at the Emirates Golf Club here, the promoters and organisers of the event have announced. Since making his first visit to Dubai in 2001, Woods has won the event twice in 2006 and 2008. [...]
Srinagar, July 31 – Hardline Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani, who had been arrested last month for making inflammatory speeches, was released Saturday evening, an official said. A senior police officer told IANS that Geelani, who had been admitted to the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) at Soura here after his health deteriorated [...]
Kolkata, July 31 – Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor, who was in the city Saturday to promote her upcoming moving ‘Aisha’, said Bimal Roy is her most favourite director and expressed her willingness to work in a Bengali film if she gets a good script. ‘I would love to work in a Bengali movie if I [...]
Kolkata, July 31 – Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Saturday alleged that the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) is conspiring to set up a ‘suicide squad’ tasked to eliminate her. ‘These cowards (some CPI-M ministers and leaders) have no courage to fight against me politically and thus forming a suicide squad to eliminate me,’ she [...]
Kolkata, July 31 – Trinamool Congress would do nothing to pull down the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, though it was concerned over the recent fuel price hike, party chief and Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee said Saturday. ‘We would like the government to consider reducing the prices to some extent. Like them (Communist Party of [...]
Kolkata, July 31 – West Bengal Tourism Minister Manab Mukherjee Saturday said the government is trying to create new tourist destinations in Birbhum and Murshidabad districts. ‘We are trying to create new tourist destinations in Birbhum and Murshidabad districts. A flight service from Kolkata to Coochbehar is starting next month. It will also help to [...]
Baghdad, July 31 – At least seven people were killed and 23 wounded in separate attacks in Iraq Saturday, police said. In western province of Anbar, a fuel tanker was blown up near a police checkpoint in the city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad, killing a policeman and wounding another, a provincial [...]
Kolkata, July 31 – Services rallied back from their previous match defeat to register a 2-1 win over Karnataka in their Santosh Trophy soccer competition Group A quarter final league match here Saturday. M. Dileep and Saji D’Silva scored for the winners, while J. Karthigeyan reduced the margin for the southern state at the sparsely [...]
London, July 31 – People now have some good reason to drink as researchers in the US have claimed that drinking red wine can help live a longer and healthier life. Scientists found that a plant extract contained in the skin of red grapes helps protect the body against ageing, The Daily Telegraph reported Saturday. [...]
Kolkata, July 31 – Uruguyan striker Diego Forlan has no regrets for missing out on the golden boot awarded to the best scorer as he considers the golden ball given to him for being the best player of the World Cup as the ultimate honour. ‘I am more happy winning the golden ball. It acknowledges [...]
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