Mumbai: 20 May 2013, Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor seems to be as busy as his son Ranbir. He is excited about the total of seven releases he has this year, and that he plays different characters in each one of them. \"(I am) looking forward to lot of films this year. I have seven releases - one just released, \'Chashme Buddoor\' and then \'Aurangzeb\'. And then (I have) five more films - \'D-Day\', two more films to be directed under Yash Raj Films banner, and \'Kaanchi\' and \'Besharam\'. ...
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London: 20 May 2013, Celebrity footballer David Beckham reportedly loves to style daughter Harper and has taken over the duty of styling her. David, who recently announced retirement from the sport, like to make his 22-month-old daughter wear bright clothes whereas wife Victoria has a different choice. \"Victoria has always dressed Harper beautifully, but lately it\'s been David who\'s taken the reins. David tends to pick her bright clothes, whereas Victoria is a fan of a more ...
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Mumbai:19 May 2013, Model-actress Puja Gupta says she knows the importance of education in life and wants to be a graduate. The former Miss India Universe was a bright student during her school days. But after her father\'s death, she somehow managed to take her board examinations and then decided to enter the glamour world. While her film career has started with successful films like \'Faltu\' and the recent zombie comedy \'Go Goa Gone\', Puja is sure that she wants to complete ...
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London: 19 May 2013, JK Rowling\'s personal copy of the first Harry Potter book, complete with handwritten notes which reveal the author invented the fictional sport of Quidditch after a row with her then-boyfriend, is going up for sale. Rowling will auction a hand signed, annotated first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher\'s Stone, containing insights into how she wrote it. The book, to be sold by Sotheby\'s to benefit literacy charity English PEN, contains a note on ...
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Cannes:19 May 2013, The Indian pavilion, set up by the National Film Development Corporation on behalf of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting at Cannes, has generated a healthy enthusiasm amongst delegates, visitors as well as the members of the International Film fraternity at the 66th Cannes Film Festival. The Festival De Cannes celebrates the centenary of Indian Cinema this year where India has been accorded the status of \'Special Guest Country\'. An official statement ...
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Cannes: 18 May 2013, Jewellery worth USD 1.4 million due to be loaned to stars at the Cannes Film Festival was stolen from a local hotel in a pre-dawn heist on Friday but the coveted Palme d\'Or trophy was safe, officials said. The robbery took place in the hotel room of an American woman employee of Swiss bijoutier Chopard as she was out in the evening, police said. A strongbox containing jewels was ripped out of the wardrobe and carried off, they said. The public prosecutor ...
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New Delhi:18 May 2013, Bollywood\'s popular interior designer Sussanne Roshan says that being a working woman and running after her children keep her fit and energetic all the time. Sussanne is married to bollywood superstar Hrithik Roshan and the couple has two sons - Hrehaan and Hridhaan Roshan. \"I am a very hardworking mother and my kids keep me fit. Also, being a working mother, you are always on the go. You always have too many things to do, so you don\'t have the chance to be ...
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Mumbai: 18 May 2013, The cast and crew of \"Ghanchakkar\" have managed to get a break from working on the movie, thanks to sync sound. They didn\'t have to dub for it. \"Rajkumar Gupta, the director of the film is indeed on vacation, he is in Italy. Emraan Hashmi has left for a vacation with his family and Vidya Balan is in Cannes for official work, post which she also has a vacation,\" said a source close to the movie. \"Thanks to sync sound, the film does not need actors to dub ...
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New Delhi:18 May 2013, French honour Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters will be conferred on filmmaker Anurag Kashyap for his efforts in the promotion of Indian cinema across the globe. India is the guest country at the ongoing 66th Cannes International Film Festival, which began on Wednesday. It celebrates 100 years of Indian cinema. French Culture Minister, Aurelie Filippetti will confer the Chevalier dans l\'ordre des Arts et Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) ...
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London: 18 May 2013 An ancient extinct creature with scissor-like claws, newly-discovered in fossil records, has been named after movie star Johnny Depp. The 505-million-year-old fossil called Kooteninchela deppi is a distant ancestor of lobsters and scorpions. Kooteninchela deppi lived in very shallow seas, similar to modern coastal environments, off the cost of British Columbia in Canada, which was situated much closer to the equator 500 million years ago. The creature was ...
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New Delhi: 18 May 2013 After the confession of Sreesanth and two other Rajasthan Royal (RR) players in the IPL spot- fixing scandal, the investigators believe that the rot could be much deeper and wider. Six bookies were held on Friday in Tamil Nadu in connection with another IPL betting racket and one each picked up in Mumbai and Delhi. Eleven bookies were arrested earlier along with cricketers Sreesanth, Ankit Chavan and Ajit Chandila. Lending credence to reports that they may ...
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Sandnes: 18 May 2013 Riding high on confidence, world champion Viswanathan Anand outsmarted Jon Ludvig Hammer of Norway to jump to the joint second spot in the Norway chess 2013 super tournament. The penultimate round victory turned out to be an important one for Anand as it brought him within striking distance of winning the super tournament for which the Indian ace will need a victory against Wnag Hao of China in the last round. Trailing the leader Sergey Karjakin of Russia by one ...
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Hyderabad:18 May 2013, James Faulkner\'s second five-wicket haul of the season went in vain as Sunrisers Hyderabad beat spot-fixing embroiled Rajasthan Royals by 23 runs to brighten their chances of booking a play-offs berth in the Pepsi IPL on Friday. SCORECARD: RR vs SRH Paceman Faulkner, who became the first bowler in IPL history to grab five wickets twice in a season, helped restrict Sunrisers to 136 for nine but his side failed to chase down the target on a slow pitch at the Rajiv ...
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New Delhi: 18 May 2013, Indian cricketer and Rajasthan Royals player S Sreesanth on Friday confessed to spot-fixing in the Indian Premier League (IPL), police said. \"Sreesanth has confessed to spot-fixing. He was teary eyed during interrogation,\" a Delhi Police official informed. Rajasthan Royals cricketer Ankeet Chavan was the first to accept his role in spot-fixing during interrogation by Delhi Police while the third player, Ajit Chandila is yet to accept the charges. The ...
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New Delhi: 18 May 2013, Cricketer Ajit Chandila had approached two more Indian Premier League (IPL) players to be part of the spot fixing after bookies asked him to rope in more people, police sources said on Friday. \"During questioning, Chandila told police that he met bookies at Country Club in Manesar (adjoining Delhi) on April 6. In the meeting, the bookies asked him to rope in more players for spot fixing. He gave two names and the bookies asked him to bring them to a party where ...
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Mumbai,May 18 2013:-- In an exclusive interview to Screen\'s Editor Priyanka Sinha Jha, Katrina Kaif talks about why Salman advice is still the most valuable to her and how is it working with Mr Perfectionist Aamir Khan. Do I think Salman\'s advice has been important? Yes, it\'s been invaluable. He\'s had a very strong basic sense of the working of the film industry, so yes, I think it\'s been invaluable. But it\'s quite similar to Anushka Sharma and all other YRF protégés having ...
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May 18, 2013:- Slumdog Millioanire star Dev Patel will play mathematician Ramanujan in the film The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life Of The Genius Ramanuhan. The film will be directed by Mathew Brown. Produced by Edward R Pressman and Prashita Chaudhary\'s Cinemorphic Entertainment Company, the film will be shot in UK and India during the winter this year. Srinivasa Ramanujan was a mathematics genius who was plucked from obscurity in Edwardian India and brought to The University of ...
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May 18, 2013 (Mumbai) As chaos followed Sanjay Dutt on his way to the court, a member of the media was allegedly manhandled. As mayhem ensued in front of Sanjay Dutt\'s Bandra residence, it was a test of patience for everyone present there. As Dutt, accompanied by his family, left home to surrender to the TADA court, chaos took over the bylanes of Pali Hill and the way ahead. While the media persons present along the way were leaving no stone unturned for taking photographs of the ...
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May 18, 2013(New Delhi) At Cannes, Vidya told NDTV\'s Noopur Tiwari: \"It\'s extremely exciting and invigorating to be on the same jury as Spielberg, Ang Lee and others. It\'s going to be a great learning experience for me. It\'s also a very proud moment for me as an individual, as an actor I feel proud that I\'ve been invited to be on such an august jury. But also because Cannes is celebrating Indian cinema in its 100th year and it\'s India shining all the way.\" Vidya Balan to holiday in ...
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May 18, 2013;-- The release of director Prem Raj\'s \" Ishkq In Paris\" may have been delayed, but he is confident that the film will manage to recover the money. \"It\'s not an expensive film, so I feel we will not lose too much of money. It\'s not an over-budget film and looking at the positive response, I am sure the film will recover its money for sure,\" Prem Raj told IANS. After Prem Soni was diagnosed with cancer, \"Ishkq In Paris\", which was supposed to release in November ...
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