Leaders recall Berlin Wall’s fall
Three Cold War leaders from the Soviet Union, West Germany and US who saw the Berlin Wall fall two decades ago have been reunited in Germany’s capital. Mikhail Gorbachev, Helmut Kohl and George Bush Senior paid tribute to the ordinary people who were behind the peaceful revolution of 1989. The trio also praised one another... More
UK rejects pirates’ ransom demand
The government has insisted it will not make a ransom payment to Somali pirates who have kidnapped a British couple. Paul and Rachel Chandler, aged 59 and 55 and from Kent, were taken hostage by gunmen as they sailed their yacht in the Indian Ocean early on 23 October. A ransom demand of $7m (£4.3m) was made in a phone call... More
Abdullah to make run-off decision
President Hamid Karzai’s rival in the second round of the Afghan presidential poll says he will announce on Sunday whether he intends to quit the race. Mr Abdullah Abdullah called for the resignation of key election officials and others as a way to mitigate fraud and corruption in the vote. But those demands were rejected... More
Big B promises to do another film with Sujoy Ghosh
Following the rumours of a link-up director Sujoy Ghosh’s, leading lady Jacqueline Fernandez has apparently vanished from Sujoy’s life. Desperate efforts to reach her for promotional activities have proven futile. The lady is just not reachable. On Friday, when Aladin opened, Sujoy was promoting the film with composers... More
Shamita Shetty may not be able to attend Shilpa’s wedding
There’s a chance that Shamita may not be able to attend her sister’s wedding. According to highly- placed sources at Colors, there seems to be no provision to get a contestant out of a game show for a wedding. Hard as it may be to believe, Shilpa Shetty’s kid-sister, now locked away in Bigg Boss, is oblivious of... More
Ranbir Kapoor is cover boy of ‘Yuva’
He is Hot, he is Cool and he is Sid! He is someone, who comes with a statutory warning ‘Beware ladies! Look…I am coming’. Well, he is Bollywood’s latest blue eyed boy – Ranbir Kapoor, who, with his performance in Wake Up Sid, made everyone sit up and take notice of his talent! Looking at his ever-increasing... More
Subhash K Jha speaks about Aladin
Make a wish, make a wish….The Djinn, played by the indefatigable Amitabh Bachchan, is the tonic in this Indianized adaptation of Aladin’s arabesque adventures in blunderland. Once the Big B slams and hurls into the loser Aladin Chatterjee’s life things are never the same again. Aladin Chatterjee? That could well... More
Ponting fumes over training facilities
NEW DELHI: Australia captain Ricky Ponting was an angry man on Friday after a watered practice pitch at the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium hampered the visitors’ preparation for Saturday’s crucial third ODI against India. Australia, who arrived in the capital Thursday evening, were scheduled to practice from 10 a.m. till... More
Sachin should cut down on ODIs: Border
NEW DELHI: Sachin Tendulkar should cut down on his limited over appearances to prolong his Test career, feels former Australia captain Allan Border. “I have high esteem for Tendulkar and his achievements in international cricket. But I think, it would be better for him to appear in fewer limited over matches, including... More
Subhash K Jha about London Dreams
Two friends Arjun and Manu from childhood share a common dream. They both wish to see Manu become a big singing star. Manu migrates to London with his sullen uncle, runs out of the airport…and becomes a rocker almost overnight! Small and very accommodating world. The sequence where Manu now grown into a punk-styled Ajay Devgn... More
