Environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan quits
Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan on Saturday resigned apparently for being drafted into party work ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. The resignation of 59-year-old Ms. Natarajan, minister of state with independent charge of forest and environment, has been accepted by the President, a... read more »
‘Soodhu Kavvum’ to ‘Lucia’: 10 southern films that ...
By Haricharan Pudipeddi Chennai – Out of the 400-odd films released in four southern languages – Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam, the following films may not have earned a robust box-office number but still managed to elicit positive response from the audience and critics... read more »
Amazed with Armaan’s re-entry in ‘Bigg Boss’ house: Sofia
Mumbai – British singer-actress Sofia Hayat is in a state of shock ever since actor Armaan Kohli re-entered the “Bigg Boss Saath-7” house and says that she is amazed to see him going back as one of the contestants in the reality show. Armaan was arrested Monday night for allegedly... read more »
I need to make money then will direct film: Arshad Warsi
Mumbai – Actor Arshad Warsi says he has all the plans to get into direction but he needs to make money then he will direct a film. “I will surely direct a film. (But) I need to make money then I will direct a film. I am a kind of guy who will say ‘Okay that’s it I... read more »
Chandy holds mass contact programme in Kannur
Kannur (Kerala) – Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy Tuesday walked to a mass contact programme venue amid tight security in Kannur, a CPI-M bastion where he injured in October when... read more »
Big B not in Ghai’s Sarabjit biopic
Mumbai – Filmmaker Subhash Ghai has clarified that megastar Amitabh Bachchan will not be a part of his upcoming biopic on Indian pri! soner Sarabjit Singh. Ghai added that he had... read more »
Parrikar likes to read in loo, be it even on Mahabharata
Panaji – Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar likes reading in the loo, even if the book is based on an epic, like the Mahabharata. Speaking at a book release function in Panaji,... read more »
Government sanction not needed to probe public servants: SC
New Delhi – The Supreme Court said Tuesday there was no need for a prior sanction of the central government to launch an inquiry against a public servant in a court-monitored CBI... read more »
US judge rules NSA data collection unconstitutional
By Arun Kumar Washington – In what the media here called a “powerful rebuke” to the Obama administration, a US federal judge has ruled the US National Security Agency’s... read more »
