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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

Movie Review

Die Another Day

Die Another Day

Forty years and 20 official movies later, James Bond is still at it. In the longest-running franchise in movie history, we have seen British special agent 007 escape from virtually every situation imaginable, defeat dozens of maniacal villains intent on taking over the world, utilize gadgets ranging from the extraordinary to the ludicrous, and bed a bevy of beauties from every continent while sti ... ...

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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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," ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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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