Canadian wildfires grow tenfold; rescuers pray for rain

In little over 24 hours, the wildfires, which erupted on Sunday and forced the evacuation of about 80,000 people from Fort McMurray in the Canadian province of Alberta, have grown tenfold. IMAGE:......

Showing soon in Los Angeles: Bollywood glitz

Cooking With Stella will open the 8th annual Indian Film Fetsival of Los Angeles, to be held April 20 to 25 at Arclight Hollywood. The festival will showcase 33 films from five countries, including......

Outsourcing bug bites Hollywood too

With its ever increasing popularity, the Indian film industry, which is already generating more than $ 11 billion annually, is now luring foreign producers too for investment, say experts. "The......

Media and tech: A made-for-TV match

The relationship between traditional media companies and consumer-electronics firms is beginning to look like an episode of The Honeymooners. They can't live without one another--even if behind......

NDTV in talks with NBC for stake sale

Indian television company NDTV is in advanced stages of negotiations with NBC Universal, a subsidiary of New York Stock Exchange-listed General Electric to sell between 25 and 30 per cent in its......

The flip side of Apple's success

Ten weeks after the Apple faithful camped out on sidewalks in a delirious Woodstock-style frenzy to be first in line for iPhones, they were threatening to take to the streets again--only this time......

'Wow. The power of women'

'I want tonight to express gratitude to all the women who have endured years of abuse and assault because they, like my mother, had children to feed and bills to pay and dreams to pursue.' Stirring......

Imagine TV operations shut down today

After having acquired its Hindi general entertainment channel Imagine TV from NDTV back in 2010, Turner Broadcasting System announced today that they will be shutting down operations.Today,......

Slumdog gets 4 Golden Globe noms

Slumdog Millionaire consolidated its Oscar nomination chances last week winning a slew of key awards and by being nominated in four Golden Globes categories includingbest film, best director (Danny......

A desi actor in Hollywood

Ajay Mehta, who played a beleaguered Pakistani immigrant in the well-received off-Broadway hit East Is East, has had his share of guest roles in over a dozen television films over five years.Though......