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Bishops welcome Da Vinci Code decision

The Catholic Bishops Conference of India has welcomed the government's decision to withhold the release of the Da Vinci Code in India until representatives of the government and Catholic church......

Vatican takes on Da Vinci Code

Furious over the popularity of The Da Vinci Code, the bestseller which is now being made into a movie starring Tom Hanks, the Vatican hasasked a senior cardinal to debunkthe novel, which it......

HC allows Da Vinci Code screening in TN

Maintaining that the state had no compelling reasons to justify the violation of fundamental right of freedom of expression, the Madras High Court on Friday allowed the screening of controversial......

Decoding Da Vinci's Mona Lisa

A fresh look at the Mona Lisa portrait has revealed that artist Leonardo da Vinci has hidden some tiny letters and numbers in the dark paint of the masterpiece pupils.Experts say the barely......

Burning the Code

A copy of Dan Brown's bestselling book, The Da Vinci Code, being burnt at a protestby Mumbai-based Catholic Secular Forum on May 09.Demonstrating outside a church in the city, the Forum called upon......

Now, a Da Vinci Code tour

Most of us in India associate Switzerland with the famous Hindi flick Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge. Many other Yash Chopra films followed which not only captured the imagination of Indian audiences......

Multiplexes seek insurance cover

Increasing trend of banning controversial films has forced multiplex owners to go in for higher insurance cover. The latest movies to get the axe are Da Vinci Code and the Aamir Khan-starrer Fanaa,......

The world's most powerful celebrities

It was a year of conquest in Hollywood. The worldwide box office soared to a record Rs 1.2 trillion, buoyed by global blockbusters like Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and......

Decoding Kerala's 'rubber riddle'

First it beat logic. Now it has beaten imagination also. We are talking about natural rubber prices in Kerala. It seems even The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown will not be able to decode the......

Harry Potter set to rewrite history

At the crack of dawn on Saturday, the moment the clock strikes 4.30 in India, the midnight hour in the UK, history will be made when the sale of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince starts all......

Nagaland bans Da Vinci Code

Thereare mixed responses from Christian majority hill states in the Northeast to the controversial, headline-hogging Ron Howard film, The Da Vinci Code. While Mizoram, where the Church has strong......

Da Vinci Code: Ho Hum!

Let me tell you a secret or three. Jesus Christ married Mary Magdalene, whose sarcophagus is buried under the crystal pyramid at the Louvre. Their progeny, born after Jesus' was crucified, was......

Da Vinci Code makes $224 million

Despite initial reviews that panned the film, The Da Vinci Code has been welcomed with wideopen arms by moviegoers.Take a look at these statistics:It was the second largest worldwide release after......

Should Da Vinci Code be banned?

Director Ron Howard's Da Vinci Code has raked up a storm, thanks to its controversial content. Adapted from Dan Brown's best-selling novel, the film challenges age-old views about Jesus Christ's......

Muslim groups want Da Vinci Code banned

In a show of solidarity with the Christian community, Muslim groups and clerics in Mumbai have demanded that the movie Da Vinci Code be banned in India."We cannot tolerate any insult to Jesus......

How Indian hockey players are spending time in isolation

IMAGE: India hockey goalkeeper PR Sreejesh, right, with Rupinder Pal Singh at the SAI Centre in Bengaluru. Photograph: PR Sreejesh/Instagram Locked inside the Sports Authority of India centre in......