July 13, 2013
Adieu, Pran...
And Pran, Bollywood's most hated villain, bows out
Recognized by that drawled "barkhurdaar" in his steely voice, Indian film industry's most hated reel life villain, Pran Krishan Sikand - or Pran as movie credits and fans always called him - has bid his final goodbye to all the onscreen heroes who happily bashed him up and the heroines who dreaded him.
July 13, 2013
The challenge facing the army is how to thwart trained and heavily-armed guerrillas from entering the state
July 13, 2013
The Gujarat chief minister added that the SIT set up by the Supreme Court had given him a “thoroughly clean chit”
July 12, 2013
UNITED NATIONS: Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot by the Taliban for promoting education for girls, celebrates her 16th birthday on Friday by addressing the United Nations.
July 12, 2013
NEW DELHI: Suranjana Ghosh Aikara's harrowing experience of boarding a flight from Mumbai to Delhi was one of the most shared stories on social networking sites on Thursday.
July 12, 2013
Brief Scorecard: India 203 for 9 (Rohit 58, Dhoni 45*, Herath 4-20) beat Sri Lanka 201 (Sangakkara 71, Thirimanne 46, Jadeja 4-23, Bhuvneshwar 2-24) by 1 wicket
Moments before mayhem: This ball was headed for the stands
July 11, 2013
PARIS: Astronomers said on Thursday they had found another blue planet a long, long way from Earth -- no water world, but a scorching, hostile place where it rains glass, sideways.
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists from Nasa and its European counterpart, ESA, have for the first time determined the true colour of an exoplanet, celestial bodies which orbit stars other than our own Sun.
July 11, 2013
WASHINGTON: Seeking US investment in manufacturing in India, finance minister P Chidambaram on Thursday said the government was committed to ensuring a fair, transparent and non-discriminatory environment for foreign investors.
July 11, 2013
BOSTON: Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Wednesday pleaded not guilty on all charges in connection with the April attacks, some of which could carry the death penalty.
July 10, 2013
MUMBAI: The rupee on Wednesday climbed 49 paise to 59.65 against the dollar, the most since June 28, after the RBI and Sebi took steps to curb volatility, while banks and exporters sold the US currency which weakened overseas.
Support came from foreign capital inflows into the equity market as overseas investors bought shares, forex dealers said.
