Only Bong Joon Ho -- whose film Parasite won the Oscars for Best Film, Best Director, Best International Feature -- knows how to work with a heavy hand and still get respectable results, says Ranjita Ganesan.
On this day last year, ICC Anti-Corruption council officer Steve Richardson chose to eat breakfast in the executive lounge on the ninth floor of Cinnamon Grand instead of heading down to restaurant, a decision that saved him from the Easter Bombings. Richardson, who was in the country along with his colleagues to investigate corruption charges against Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), was staying on the ninth floor of the hotel in Colombo, one of the six locations where bombs went off in a series of blasts, killing and injuring hundreds of people across the country.
A 10-month-old Indian girl, who was kidnapped early this week, was on Friday found dead in the basement of an apartment in a Philadelphia township in the United States.
West Bromwich Albion have turned down a bid for Sweden defender Jonas Olsson from the Premier League's basement side Queens Park Rangers, manager Steve Clarke said on Thursday.
West Indies won the battle of the ICC World Cup's basement dwellers, beating Afghanistan by 23 runs in their final group match at Headingley on Thursday.
A preview of the line-up action in the English Premier League.
Team shirts and a laptop computer belonging to a cycling official have been stolen from the Australian building in the athletes' village at the Rio Olympics, team chief Kitty Chiller said on Sunday.
Nearly 50 children, locked up in chains, were rescued by the Pakistani police following a raid on a religious seminary, which officials fear was forcing militant training on them. Senior police officials said the children apparently were being prepared for illegal and extremist activities at the seminary. During the raid in the notorious Sohrab Goth area of Karachi on Monday, police personnel recovered the children from a basement where they were chained.
Gurjot Parkash Sahib gurdwara, located in the suburb of Island Lake, was locked down by police on December 8 because of certain safety violations that had put public safety in jeopardy.
'Some semi-literate lunkhead tweeting at Rs 2 per tweet from a dingy basement in Chennai or San Diego accomplishes nothing, but give hundreds of thousands of them a time, date, and talking points, and they can create a wall of sound -- a nonsensical wall, perhaps, but one that is heard, and that can occasionally prevail just because it's there,' says Mitali Saran.
Two management staff of the AMRI Hospital where 90 persons, mostly patients, choked to death from a fire in the basement on December nine, were arrested on Monday.
Real Madrid overcame an early howler from Sergio Ramos to beat Real Sociedad 3-1 at home on an eventful Saturday at the Santiago Bernabeu, where Gareth Bale was loudly booed by his own supporters and Luka Modric returned to his very best form.
The Calcutta high court on Thursday granted bail to a director of the AMRI Hospital, where over 90 people had been killed in December last year, after a fire broke out in its basement. A division bench comprising Justices Asim Kumar Roy and Ashim Kumar Ray granted bail to AMRI Director S K Todi, who has been in custody since December 9.
Unless stale stories, bad acting and bungled possibilities capture your fancy, this film is much too sluggish, simplistic and boring to bother.
The fire, suspected to have originated in the electrical department in the basement of the AMRI hospital, swiftly spread to the first and second floors, trapping patients, with the fire brigade called in at 4:00 am, the sources said.
Three persons, including two women, were killed when a four-storeyed building collapsed in west Delhi on Saturday morning. The building located near Uttam Nagar Metro Station came down at around 11:30 am while some construction was going on in the basement of the building.
Bindisha Sarang takes a look at Vodafone's RedX and Airtel's new plan.
Images from the Champions League matches played across Europe on Tuesday.
Manchester United's Bruno Fernandes fired home a late penalty to rescue a point for the visitors in a lively 1-1 draw at Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League on Friday.
Sooni Taraporewala makes us root for her young characters even if we aren't entirely sure about the depth of their feelings, feels Sukanya Verma.
Sitting on a chair along with his top national security advisors in the Situation Room, located in the basement of the White House last Sunday afternoon, it was one of the longest 40 minutes of United States President Barack Obama's life.
Last week, we invited readers to write in with fabulous stories of fun times with your closest pals. Here is the first set of responses!
The Enforcement Directorate has seized the largest ever cash haul of Rs 9.28 crore from a Hawala dealer operating from Connaught Place in New Delhi after a night-long operation.
Three persons were killed on Wednesday and another injured after a major fire broke out at the Bombay House building, housing the Tata Group offices in South Mumbai.
A sessions court on Wednesday granted interim protection from arrest till July 16 to three sons of a former owner of Altaf Manzil building, which collapsed last week killing 10 people.
Lionel Messi ensured Barcelona maintained their eight-point lead over Real Madrid ahead of next weekend's Clasico, scoring twice as the leaders came back to beat basement side Almeria 3-1 in La Liga on Saturday.
If the Murari Lal Jalan-Kalrock Capital combine can script a turnaround, it will have pulled off a bigger coup than Ajay Singh did with SpiceJet in 2014.
One attacker blew himself up at the crowded entrance to the shrine and the second in the basement, where people perform ablutions before entering the complex. The third bomber detonated his explosive vest in a part of the shrine adjoining a busy market, witnesses said.
The Australian team said they evacuated their building at the Olympic Village in Rio de Janeiro because of a fire in the basement on Friday, one week before the Games open.
The weatherman has forecast that more showers would lash the national capital where intermittent rains have disrupted normal life for the last four days.
Hotties from Brazil to Bhopal lined up at the auditions for Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai. We talk to those who made the cut and others who didn't.
News that transpired on and off the football field.
Kaka came off the bench after six weeks out injured and produced a clinical finish from Cristiano Ronaldo's assist to keep Real Madrid hot on the heels of leaders Barcelona in La Liga on Saturday. After Barca's nervy 3-1 win at home to basement side Xerez in the earlier kickoff, Brazil's World Cup-bound playmaker Kaka struck eight minutes from time to fire Real to a nail-biting 2-1 victory at 10-man Real Zaragoza.
It's important to learn from failure, and just show up the next day, and the next, till you've got it right, says Radhika Ghai, co-founder, ShopClues
The motive of the crime is still unclear.
Barcelona's eight-game winning run was halted following a 2-2 draw with Valencia, Atletico Madrid lost 1-0 at Real Betis and a resurgent Real Madrid secured their fourth win in a row by beating Alaves 3-0.
Rajeev Varma on D'Arranged Marriage, a play about Sanjay Gupta, an aspiring New Zealand Indian stand-up comic who spends his life working at his father's corner shop and avoiding the issue of an arranged marriage.
The draw interrupted a run of four straight league wins for Zinedine Zidane's side and left them second on 67 points after 31 games, three behind leaders Atletico who thrashed Eibar 5-0 earlier in the day.
Paris is suffering the worst flooding in more than 100 years on Saturday forcing the Louvre to evacuate 250,000 pieces of art to safety from its basements.
'Governments, democratically elected governments, are custodians for a short- specified time.' 'Parents don't let baby sitters decide the course of their child's future.'
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