Karunanidhi, 94, died at the Kauvery hospital on Tuesday following prolonged illness.
The movie grossed $1.4 million over the weekend, taking its 12-day total to $4.7 million in North America on January 3.
United States President Barack Obama has ended years of 'veto power' wielded by Pakistan in Afghanistan over India's active involvement in the country post-Taliban, a US expert on South Asia has said. Because of Pakistan's stiff resistance and opposition to involve India in any way in Afghanistan that the Bush administration was literally prevented to take any move to include New Delhi as part of its regional strategy on Afghanistan, said Deepa Ollapally.
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee was re-nominated on Sunday by the Congress from the Jangipur seat in West Bengal for the coming Lok Sabha polls
"An alert has been sounded in the district after the arrests yesterday in Delhi and Odisha," said an official.
Here's a recap of events that occurred in India in the past 24 hours.
Deepa Chari started modelling seven years ago. Then she dabbled in movies and returned to the ramp. She walked for Masaba Gupta on Day Three of the Lakme Fashion Week. She tells us how she gets flat abs, toned legs and why she wouldn't want to go back to movies.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday
The actresses were spotted at the premiere of their film, Cooking With Stella at the 34th Toronto International Film Festival.
Find out what Cooking With Stella -- one of the Indian movie which is premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival -- is all about.
Get your low down from Malayalam film industry.
Rising electricity bills and the need to save power have prompted an increasing number of consumers all over the country to go in for solar products.
Professor Deepa Ollapally said, "The way in which this was carried out, it does suggest that they needed some fairly sophisticated, coordinated planning. And, if the reports are true about their rounding up Americans and British, then it sounds like there is an Al Qaeda hand possibly, which again would be the most obvious difference between every other terrorist attack that has gone on before (in India)."
'Shahid had no qualms about shedding his hair for the role,' says a source.
Videsh starts out as a disturbing account on domestic violence but loses all objectivity the minute it resorts to elements of mysticism, inspired by Girish Karnad's play Nagamandala. It's a dangerously incompatible mix and damages the possibility of a decent movie to an outright ridiculous one.
The Sports Ministry dropped para-sports coach Satyanarayana from the list of this year's Dronacharya awardees due to a criminal case pending against him, but made no changes to the names recommended for the Khel Ratna and Arjuna awards.
The Rediff Labs team analysed the data from Rio 2016 Paralympic Games' official website and created the above map with a total number of medals won by each country.
India's Amit Kumar Saroha missed the bronze medal by a whisker in the men's F51 club throw competition at the Rio Paralympic Games on Friday.
Hindi cinema has not just explored various instances of brute force, but often glorified its misogyny.
Bollystars post their mums's pix: A Mother's Day special.
Akshay Kumar will play a brave Sikh in the 1914 Komagata Maru ship tradegy.
With two directors -- Mira Nair and Deepa Mehta -- whose films have been nominated for Oscars, and with the veteran actress Shabana Azmi and the relatively younger Preity Zinta joining the celebrities, the eighth edition of the Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival opens on Wednesday in New York.
Preity Zinta, whose performance in Deepa Mehta's Heaven on Earth, received warm reviews at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, has won the Silver Hugo Award for best actress at the 44th edition of Chicago International Film Festival. The jury praised her 'for her strong yet subtle performance as a woman struggling to keep her dreams despite brutal realities.'
The Indo-American Arts Council brought in the Oscars with a fun party in New York City.
Sukanya Verma lists significant memories in our 1996 recap.
'I went through a phase of disillusionment but took things in my stride -- the good and the bad.' 'In this profession, it's more magnified because we are in the public eye all the time.'
The actor is all set to venture into international cinema with gangster flick American Empire to be directed by Andy Armstrong.
The actor checks out Samir Mondal's painting exhibition in Mumbai.
With the works of veteran film makers such as Shyam Benegal (Bose, the Forgotten Hero) and Deepa Mehta (Heaven on Earth), as well as first-timers such as Sooni Taraporevala (Little Zizou), the 2008 edition of the Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival in New York has a menu of beguiling features and documentaries to suit all tastes.
Dad and mom might be only slightly disappointed if you don't get that coveted college seat or land that high paying job, but we would be heart broken if our daughter is not a good human being -- even if you are the country's president then, reader Deepa Chandrasekar writes to her daughter
With the heroine in Shankar's Robot still undecided -- the makers are swinging between Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Deepika Padukone -- we can't help but wonder why they aren't considering the stunning Shriya Saran.
The Sigur Center for Asian Studies at George Washington University, as part of its expanding set of programs, including those on China, Japan, and Korea, has launched an India Initiative to be headed by Professor Deepa Ollapally, associate director at the center.
Reader Anthuvan Xavier sent us this picture from Dubai.
India-born author Salman Rushdie and Indian Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta will collaborate to produce a movie based on his prize winning novel Midnight's Children.
The Indian Institute of Management-Indore invites corporates, entrepreneurs, professionals, MBA students and undergraduate students to attend its annual festival, Iris 2006.
Four Indian Paralympics medal winners at the Rio Games last month -- Devendra Jhajharia, Mariyappan Thangavelu, Deepa Malik and Varun Singh Bhati -- were on Monday felicitated by a host of personalities, including cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar.
Aditi Nadkarni looks at the funnier side of life as an immigrant.
Bollywood has dealt with same sex relationships before, but homophobia runs deep.
