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Building collapses in Delhi no one injured
A four-storey residential building situated in a busy market area suddenly collapsed here Monday evening, said police. No one injured in the incident. The building collapse was reported from central Delhi's Sadar Bazaar area around 4.50 p.m. "The building looked very precarious. Two days ago it was evacuated for the safety of the people residing in it," said a police officer. No one was ...
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Sherlyn chooses transparent dress for Cannes Movie Snippets
Actress Sherlyn Chopra, who posed for adult magazine Playboy last year, wore a transparent ensemble for a red carpet event at the 66th Cannes International Film Festival. She is there to promote her debut film "Kamasutra 3D" with the team. Sherlyn took to the red carpet in what looks like a transparent black dress with a solid black brassiere to hide her modesty. A heavy Rajasthan-inspired ...
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Will not join Lapataganj 2 says Preeti Amin
Preeti Amin, who played a mute character, Surili, in "Lapataganj", says she will not be a part of its second season, but has no regrets. The second season will go on air June 10 on SAB TV. "After playing Surili in 'Lapataganj' for almost two-and-half year, I felt that I have enjoyed that character to the fullest," she told IANS here. "Besides, I don't feel that I was being able to do ...
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Dhanush finds dubbing for Raanjhanaa tough
Tamil actor Dhanush, who has begun dubbing for his upcoming Hindi debut "Raanjhanaa", says he finds the experience tough but wishes to give his best to satisfy his audiences. "Dubbing for Raanjhanaa. (I'm) finding it quite tough. (I) hope I can live up to your expectations. (I) will give my best," posted Dhanush on his Twitter page. Dhanush is paired opposite Sonam Kapoor in the film, which is ...
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Karnataka budget in July first week Siddaramaiah
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said Monday he will present the budget in the first week of July, the first after Congress returned to power in the state after nine years. Siddaramaiah, who holds the finance portfolio, indicated he was not planning to present a budget of Rs.100,000 crore or more but it would be based on the resources available. His Bharatiya Janata Party predecessors, ...
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Gold silver prices fall to record low on strengthening dollar
Gold hit a 21-month low and silver prices plunged to a two-and-a-half-year level Monday. Experts said this happened because of the strengthening of the dollar. According to MCX data, gold price plummetted to Rs.25,574 per 10 grams (down Rs.261.00) and silver dipped to Rs.41,459 per 1 kilogram (down Rs.1,170). "This slow and steady downfall of gold price is mainly due to strengthening of the ...
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Lift your look by sporting scarf
Scarf is an accessory that never goes out of style irrespective of season. Wear this wardrobe staple in various colours and fabrics around your neck in different ways and also on other body parts. Designer Jinali Sutariya shares how to wear this fashion accessory according to your outfit. Corporate wear: Offices are usually very cold, so a beautiful pashmina scarf can work as a wrap and one ...
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India China ink deals to reduce trade gap
India Monday signed four agreements with China that will boost Indian shipments of buffalo meat, fisheries and pharmaceuticals, and help reduce the trade deficit that rose to $40.77 billion in the financial year ended March 31, 2013. Three Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) relate to facilitating trading of buffalo meat, fisheries and pharmaceuticals. The fourth is related to easing the trade ...
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Congress names new zonal chiefs in Uttar Pradesh
Miffed over the performance of its eight zonal chiefs, including two central ministers, in the politically crucial Uttar Pradesh, the Congress appointed a new team Monday, said party sources. According to party sources, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi was dissatisfied with the performance of eight zonal in-charges, who were not able to devote enough time to the state. Monday's move was ...
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Heat-harassed tourists desert monuments in Taj city
Agra May 20 (IANS) With the temperature a tad short of 46 degrees Celsius Monday, pedestrians were few and far between, even as the heat-harassed tourists began deserting the historical monuments in Taj city Agra. Had it not been for the Jayreens (pilgrims) returning from the Ajmer urs, the number of visitors at the Taj Mahal would have dropped to a trickle from thousands daily that make a ...
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Kerala BJP not allying with Hindu groups BJP
The BJP Monday said Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the Sivagiri Mutt here last month should not be seen as a move to forge an alliance with Hindu groups in the state. BJP spokesperson Nirmala Seetharaman said here: "Modi visited the Sivagiri Mutt last month because he was invited. His visit should not be seen in any political context." Seetharaman was on a visit to the BJP ...
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Nagaland governor to get doctorate degree in Himachal
Nagaland Governor and former CBI director Ashwani Kumar will be awarded an honorary doctorate at a convocation of Himachal Pradesh University here to be presided over by President Pranab Mukherjee May 24, a statement said here Monday. A total of 272 doctorate degrees, including the most prestigious degree in doctorate of science, will be conferred on the candidates, besides 244 gold medals and ...
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Splitsvilla 6 gets hotter spicier
"Splitsvilla" returns with its sixth season and the romance reality show promises to get raunchier with new twists and turns and Sherlyn Chopra hosting it with VJ Nikhil Chinapa. To be shot in Kerala, the show will also see Sherlyn playing cupid to the contestants. She said that the cool youth show "provides me with ample scope to express my individuality in ways more than one". "In the land ...
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Modi did not recommend Amit Shah for UP says Rajnath
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh Monday defended the decision to hand over charge of party affairs in Uttar Pradesh to Narendra Modi's close aide Amit Shah but stressed that Modi did not seek the appointment. "He (Shah) is a general secretary of the party and has been a minister in a highly successful state. I think making him in charge is not a crime," Singh told ...
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Deepika clears the air about SRK
Deepika Padukone has rubbished rumours that her "Chennai Express" co-star Shah Rukh Khan has asked her not to go for the promotional tour of her film "Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani", and says he will never do such a thing. "That's not true at all. Shah Rukh is the most encouraging person I have worked with. He is extremely proud of me and my achievements and he would never do something like that," ...
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Huma to do action in D-Day
Huma Qureshi, who made an impressive debut with Anurag Kashyap's crime thriller "Gangs Of Wasseypur" last year, will now be seen doing action in Nikhil Advani's "D-Day" and she is all excited about it. "I am very excited as, for the first time, I am doing action in a film," she said at an event to launch People magazine. "It's sort of an action film. It's very real but, at the same time, it's ...
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Ive struggled a lot Rohit Khurana
TV actor Rohit Khurana, who is currently seen as ugly-looking Madhav in TV show "Dil Ki Nazar SeKhoobsurat", says he had struggled a lot to come this far in his career. "I started my career with modelling in Delhi and then I came to Mumbai because I had decided that I would work in front of the camera," Khurana told IANS here. "But I have struggled a lot. Gradually, I learnt acting doing ...
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My play will inspire people Anupam
Veteran actor-producer Anupam Kher, whose play "Kuch Bhi Ho Sakta Hai", is based upon the ups and downs in his life, says it will inspire people and change their viewpoint about failures in life. "I wanted to celebrate the failure and wanted to take this philosophy to the people that failure can also be celebrated," he said at the showcase of his play, in which he performed for the 300th ...
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Sami Labs eyes Indian market to boost sales
Leading pharma and nutraceutical export player Sami Labs Monday unveiled a holistic strategy to increase its market share in India to 10 percent in the near future from two percent currently. "We are expanding and diversifying our client base across the country to sell a range of bulk actives and supply finished products for increasing our market share in India by five times," Sami Labs ...
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India China vow to resolve border row boost ties
India and China scripted a new chapter in their ties Monday as Premier Li Keqiang and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh candidly discussed their recent border row and decided to take steps for an early resolution of a dispute that triggered a war in 1962. Li, making New Delhi his first halt in his foreign trip after assuming power in March, and Manmohan Singh also agreed that the world's two most ...
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Commuters fume as Lis visit fuels tailbacks in Delhi
Delhiites Monday had a harrowing time due to traffic restrictions put in place in the heart of the city during Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's visit. Some even slammed the practice of closing roads for the movement of dignitaries. Harassed commuters spent hours in negotiating traffic jams and diversions on a hot summer day and questioned the logic behind blocking off key roads. Swaroop Singh, ...
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IPL scam Rajasthan Royals lodge complaint
Rajasthan Royals have lodged a written complaint in the spot fixing case here Monday, said a Delhi Police officer. "No other First Information Report (FIR) will be lodged separately in the spot fixing scandal. Rajasthan Royals' complaint has been added in the previous FIR which was registered on May 9," said the officer. According to the officer, Delhi Police have also recovered Rs.20 lakh ...
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Heat hits Himachal mercury shoots up by 7 degrees
Mercury continued to rise across the hills of Himachal Pradesh Monday, with temperatures recorded one to seven degrees Celsius above the season's average. Shimla, at an altitude of 2,130 metres, was "hot" at 29.5 degrees Celsius, a whopping seven notches above what is the average for this time of the season. It recorded a high of 29.1 degrees Celsius Sunday. "The maximum temperature remained ...
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Air passenger traffic down 0.27 percent in April
Domestic air passenger traffic decreased 0.27 percent in April and stood at 50.77 lakh from 50.91 lakh during the corresponding month of last year, the civil aviation ministry said Monday. The overall passengers carried by domestic airlines during January-April 2013 was down 0.35 percent at 202.89 lakh from 203.60 lakh passenger ferried during the corresponding period of last year. On a ...
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Sensex closes 0.30 percent down healthcare bank stocks plummet
A benchmark index of Indian equities markets closed Monday's trade down 0.30 percent as there was heavy selling in healthcare, bank, consumer durables, oil and gas and capital goods stocks. However, scrips of automobile, information technology (IT), technology, entertainment and media (TECk) rallied. The Sensex touched its highest intra-trade levels since 2011 during the day as there was ...
Calcutta Spotlight
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Stephen Court disaster: any lessons learned?
Over 700 buildings in Calcutta are not compliant with safety regulations with regard to the risk of fire, and the Stephen Court disaster was a tangible example of what can happen when a fire breaks out in an unsafe building. Following that disaster, the local government seems to be taking a harder line on fire safety.
At 2.30pm on the 23 March, 2010, a devastating fire, allegedly caused by an electrical short circuit, ripped through the iconic Stephen Court building in Calcutta, destroying a large part of the 150-year-old office and residential block and killing over 30 people. Read more
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