The 92nd Annual Academy Awards hardly had any surprises up its sleeves. Here's a quick look at the winners.
Director Lal Jose teams up with producer Suresh Kumar of the banner Revathi Kalamandir, to remake the Jnanapith award winner M T Vasudevan Nair's Malayalam film Neelathamara.
The whereabouts of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhar Reddy remain unknown, almost seven hours after his helicopter went missing over the deep forest areas in the southern region of the state.
The actor is now all set to romance not one but two hotties in his upcoming film, Race.
Officials said passengers on board the two aircraft -- Royal Nepal Airlines (Delhi-Kathmandu) and Air India (Delhi-Bhubaneswar) -- were evacuated.
Only 13 infrastructure companies attended the pre-bid conference at Rail Bhawan, compared with over 25 companies that had earlier submitted RFQs to the railways. Out of those 25, the railways had prepared a list of 13 companies which were technically qualified for the project. However, the RFQ was cancelled and a new set of documents was prepared.
RBI's move will ensure more transparency while allowing loan seekers to compare the interest rates being offered by different public and private sector banks and other financial institutions. The central bank has also asked banks and financial institutions to ensure that all the information relating to charges and processing fees are disclosed in the application form itself.
After bidding adieu to his technology firm, this ex-Citibanker-turned-poet is now indulging in his latest passion of providing affordable housing for the masses.
The action against the two journalists came as a privately-owned television station in the Maldives went off the air, citing threats during the country's current state of emergency.
"A series of random calls had been made by the LeT handlers using the Callphonex account since they were required to maintain a certain amount of traffic in order to keep the account active," Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Rakesh Maria said. "We have verified every call that was made to India including the random ones and there was no evidence of local support found," he said.
Three days after issuing an advisory to the American citizens warning them of open manholes during the monsoons, the US Consulate on Thursday sent a letter of apology to the Mumbai civic chief.
In another embarrassment for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's White House campaign, the person heading the team looking for his running mate has abruptly resigned following outcry over his personal loan dealings. James A Johnson, a Washington insider for about three decades, stepped down Wednesday as questions were raised over the terms on which he borrowed loans from a company involved in the US housing crisis.
Kal Kissne Dekha is one of those films that won't suffer at all from bad word of mouth.
United Arts' Mayandi Kudumbathar, starring a record-breaking 10 directors, is a sentimental drama that still manages to engage your interest.
The global financial meltdown may take a toll on gifting companies, with corporates likely to tighten their belts around their gifting spend on employees this ensuing festive season.
Commonwealth Games champion Parupalli Kashyap and young H S Prannoy registered contrasting wins in the men's singles to enter the second round of the Singapore Open Super Series badminton tournament.
Four heart specialists from the Asian Heart Institute, Mumbai, are leading a team of doctors operating upon Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences on Saturday.The 11-member team from AHI, led by Ramakant Panda, is heading the team of doctors who are performing the bypass graft surgery on 76-year-old Dr Singh.Helping them would be doctors and technical staff drawn from different departments of AIIMS.
The announcement comes a day after Sathyaraj, who plays the role of Kattappa in the movie, apologised.
World number one Dinara Safina swept to her second claycourt title in as many weeks with a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Danish teenager Caroline Wozniacki in the Madrid Open final on Sunday. After her triumph over compatriot Svetlana Kuznetsova in last week's Rome final, the powerful Russian top seed sealed another comfortable win and looks in fine form leading up to the French Open at the end of this month.
India can expect more terror attacks like the Mumbai carnage from Pakistan-based terrorist groups with high body counts and symbolic targets in an escalating terror campaign in South Asia, a study by a leading US think tank has warned. The RAND study identifies the operational and tactical features of the attack, evaluates the response of Indian security forces, and analyzes the implications for India, Pakistan and the United States.
However, the budget arithmetic is slightly optimistic.
Better-than-expected financial results in Q3 due to higher revenue growth and margins in key markets fuel the rally
Ravi Chopra's new film, Bhootnath, also, revolves around a pint-sized brat and his unlikely friendship with a grubby ghost, Bhootnath. The peppy duo of Vishal-Shekhar score the soundtrack against Javed Akhtar's competent lyrics. Alas, the composers fail to pass on their brand of enthusiasm on its music.
Each terrorist, who participated in the Mumbai attacks would have received at least Rs 20 lakh, IB officials told rediff.com
Statistical details of the Indian squad for the Asia Cup.
Cabinet approval for greenfield airports within the 150 km radius of an existing airport is being done away with, according to the new greenfield airports policy, which has recently been sent for Cabinet consideration by the civil aviation ministry. This would have serious implications for airports in large metro cities including Bangalore, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Chennai, where a second airport will eventually be a reality.
Eleven months after RA Mashelkar retired from the leadership of India's apex research body, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), the government on Monday appointed Samir K Brahmachari, director, Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology (IGIB), New Delhi, as the new chief. Brahmachari will also head the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) as secretary.
Eat right and keep the heat away!
The immediate provocation for Rane's tirade against Deshmukh is apparently the approval of land allotment for Videocon group's Rs 8,000 crore Liquid Crystal Display panel manufacturing project in the state by the state cabinet on Tuesday.
India's top discus thrower Vikas Gowda has retired, the Athletics Federation of India confirmed on Wednesday.
Considering the fact that Surya is renowned stuntman of Tamil films' Jaguar Thangam's maiden venture, which also marks his son's debut, you ought to have a pretty good idea of what the music would be like. And depressingly, you would be right. Here is music director Jerome Pushparaj's offering.
Horizons -- the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode's annual management conclave -- will take place on October 5 to 7 with the theme for this year being 'Bharat ek Khoj'.
Amid high drama, the editor and two journalists of a leading Telugu daily Andhra Jyothi were arrested on Tuesday night for publishing an allegedly offensive story on Dalit organisations and its leaders.
The SIMI link into the serial blasts at Jaipur got deeper with the arrest of a Bangalore-based software engineer. Based on the information by the Bangalore police, the Rajasthan police picked up Rasheed, a 30-year-old software engineer, two days ago.
The chief minister has recommended 4 to 6 per cent additional quota under nomadic cateogry to certain castes including Gurjars, and 10 to 20 per cent to Rajputs, Brahmins, and Vaishyas under EBC, BJP national treasurer Ramdas Agarwal, who is also the Chairman of Gurjar special package committee, told reporters after a party meeting.
Bhupendra Kumar Modi of Spice Corp on Thursday sent an expression of interest to the new Satyam Computer Services board to acquire the fraud-hit company.
The rate, which has been reduced from 14.25 per cent, will benefit all existing home loan and auto loan customers, the bank said. Besides, the bank reduced it benchmark lending rate by half a percentage points to 16.75 per cent.
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