Styling for films not cakewalk:Designers
Mumbai – With 100 years of Indian cinema, fashion in films also has seen a drastic makeover. Designers feel that making clothes for movies is not a cakewalk. Renowned designers like Neeta Lulla, Niharika Khan and Gavin Miguel shared their opinion on the changing trends of fashion in the... read more »
Sharif offers to bring home Musharraf’s ailing mother
Islamabad – The Pakistani government Friday offered to send a special plane or air ambulance to bring former president Pervez Musharraf’s mother to Pakistan from Dubai. “The prime minister of Pakistan, on sympathetic grounds, is ready to send a special plane or an air ambulance to... read more »
Where a tarpaulin cover is home: Visiting the riot displaced
By Rosamma Thomas Shamli (Uttar Pradesh) – At the Malakpur relief camp in Shamli district of western Uttar Pradesh, one of the largest of the dozen-odd for the victims of the riots that erupted in September, children run about barefoot in the cold and damp, with little protection from the... read more »
Nobody has died of cold in UP: UP Principal Secretary
Lucknow – Uttar Pradesh’s Principal Secretary (Home) Anil Gupta on Friday rejected charges that deaths of children in relief camps in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar District, had been due to the wintry and cold conditions. “Children have died of pneumonia, not of cold. Nobody... read more »
Bangladesh Navy to get two submarines soon
Dhaka – President Abdul Hamid has said the Bangladesh Navy will soon get two submarines in its flee. He said the addition would be part of the government’s plan to develop... read more »
Ramdev to campaign against Sonia, Rahul
Lucknow – Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev will campaign agai! nst UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress vice president Rahul Gand! hi in the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls. Announcing this at... read more »
19 jailed Bangladeshi fishermen return from India
Dhaka – Nineteen Bangladeshi fishermen have returned to their homeland after completing three-year jail-term in India for having illegally entered the I! ndian territory, bdnews24.com... read more »
Preparations for upcoming Geneva II on track: UN chief
United Nations – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon Monday said that preparations for the Geneva II c! onference were “on track” while calling on all involved in Syria... read more »
South Sudan president ready to talk with former deputy: US envoy
Washington – South Sudan President Salva Kiir has said he is ready to hold talks with country’s former vice president Riek Machar “without preconditions” to end the prevailing... read more »
