India Gazette news India Gazette news Rss feed

  • Wockhardt shares plunge 20 pc on USFDA import alert Wockhardt shares plunge 20 pc on USFDA import alert

    MUMBAI - Shares of Wockhardt, one of the leading Indian pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, witnessed a sharp fall of 20% to Rs. 1,315 ($23.61) on the Bombay Stock Exchange(BSE) on Thursday after the US FDA published an import alert on one of its three manufacturing facilities near Aurangabad. The import alert, 'detention without physical examination of drugs from firms which have ...

  • India at Cannes Cola without the fizz

    The hoopla over Indian celebrities and films at Cannes overshadows the harsh reality that it has been 19 years since any Indian film has made it to the Palme d'Or or the Golden Palm section of the prestigious film fest. Prominent filmmakers cite the race for clicking at the box office rather than aesthetics as the reason for the dismal performance by one of the most prolific film-producing ...

  • High hopes of CM and Congress making Bangalore better

    Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah seems to have raised hopes of better times for this capital as he has kept with himself the Bangalore and IT departments, apart from his pet subject - finance. "It is a good move," T. V. Mohandas Pai, former director of IT major Infosys and now vice president of the Bangalore Political Action Committee (B.PAC), told IANS. He was confident that ...

  • Its a sad time for cricket say celebs

    If some are "heartbroken", others are disappointed with the sport getting tainted -- Bollywood celebrities are candidly expressing their discontent over spot-fixing that has cast a shadow over the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL). Three Rajasthan Royal players, including India pacer S. Sreesanth, have been arrested by Delhi Police in connection with spot-fixing. Later Bollywood actor Vindu ...

  • Agras industrial growth halts labour migrates

    Industrial growth in the 10,000 sq. km. eco-sensitive Taj Trapezium Zone has come to a halt, forcing large-scale migration of rural labour to urban hubs. This is because of the restrictions imposed by the Supreme Court on the expansion and opening of new industrial units in the districts of Agra, Mathura, Firozabad, Hathras and part of Aligarh, to contain air pollution, which was harming the ...

Movie Review

Courage Under Fire [DVD]

Courage Under Fire [DVD]

The surface story of Courage Under Fire is about an Army colonel investigating the merits of the first woman ever considered for the Medal of Honor for combat. But the underlying and more important story is about that colonel's fight to come to peace with himself. ...

On Facebook

  • Sensex trades flat in pre-afternoon session

    A benchmark index of Indian equities markets was trading flat in pre-afternoon trade Friday -- marginally up 0.16 percent. After a day of volatility Friday, the market was trying to recoup on the back of BSE capital goods, realty, bankex and metal stocks. Other indexes like technology, media and entertainment (TECK), IT, healthcare and fast moving consumer goods were still down. The 30-scrip ...

  • In heat-wave conditions Punjab politics gets hotter

    Death, funeral pyre, blood-laced, cheap entertainers, breast-beating, power-drunken mind and obituary - these are the words top politicians in Punjab are using to hurl invectives at each other in a virtual free for all. The immediate provocation for all this is the recently held zila parishad and panchayat samiti village-level elections. The ruling Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party ...

  • Bihar to turn village into peacock breeding centre

    Bihar plans to turn a village into a breeding centre for the Indian national bird peacock, forest officials officials said Friday. Madhopur-Gobind village in East Champaran district, home to around 500 peacocks, is popularly known as 'mor gaon' or peacock village. "The government has decided to set up a breeding centre for the national bird in the village. It is common to spot over a dozen ...

  • Dabba wins critics week viewers choice award at Cannes

    Director Ritesh Batra's debut film "Dabba" (Lunchbox) has won the critics week viewers choice award at the 66th Cannes International Film Festival. Produced by Anurag Kashyap, the film, featuring Irrfan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Nimrat Kaur, also received appreciation during the screening at the festival. Even Anurag Kashyap, who was conferred with the French honour Knight of the Order of Arts ...

  • Three troopers killed in Kashmir militant attack

    Three soldiers of the Rashtriya Rifles were killed in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district Friday while they were laying a cordon around a village where militants were reportedly hiding, an army official said. The incident took place at Bachoo village in Tral tehsil of Pulwama, about 35 km from here. "As the troops were laying the cordon they were fired upon by some militants," Lieutenant ...

More India Gazette news