Wahlberg stopped by LA police
London: Hollywood actor Mark Wahlberg was stopped by police for allegedly running a stop sign as he was driving through Los Angeles. The Planet of the Apes star's luxury Bentley car was pulled over by |
Girls in skimpy clothes distract drivers
London: Men are more likely to be involved in a car accident in summer as they are distracted by girls in skimpy outfits, a survey has revealed. As many as 29 per cent of male drivers admitted that gi |
DeGeneres quits as Idol judge
Los Angeles: Celebrated Television host Ellen DeGeneres has quit the talent show American Idol, after serving as a judge for just one season. "A couple of months ago, I let FOX and the American Ido |
Freida's Miraal in Venice fest
London: Indian actress Freida Pinto starrer Miraal, her first project after debuting in the multiple Oscar winning film Slumdog Millionaire, is in competition for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Fe |
2 rare songs of Rafi and Madan Mohan released
New Delhi: Two unheard and unreleased songs sung by Mohammed Rafi and composed by Madan Mohan have been released to mark the death anniversaries of the legendary musical duo who collaborated on some o |
Brown dwarf discovered
Washington: Astronomers claim to have discovered a very young brown dwarf, or a failed star, in a tight orbit around a young nearby sunlike star. An international team, led by University of Hawaii, |
Rahul 2nd wife claims assault, walks out, in
Mumbai: Amid high drama, Kolkata-based model Dimpy Ganguly walked out of her fourmonth-old TV marriage with Rahul Mahajan, accusing him of "punching, kicking and dragging" her by hair only to return h |
Ashutosh finds no face to fit Buddha
Ashutosh Gowariker and his co-producer B.K. Modi have shelved their magnum opus Buddha for a while. Soon after the duo announced their plans of making the biopic, they launched a website, www.buddh |
Vidya is on a perfection spree
outhern beauty Vidya Balan, who has won several accolades for her struggling mother act in Paa or the brutally seductive villager in Ishqiya, is known famously for getting under the skin of her charac |
Abhinav plays it commercially safe
Abhinav Kashyap is all set for the release of his directorial debut Dabangg. The first-time director is very excited about this project. "I'm privileged to have a huge star like Salman in my movie," h |
Art with a heart
Khushii, an NGO, in a bid to help the underprivileged, organised "Art Loot" in association with Crayon Capital Art, at the DLF Emporio, Vasant Kunj, recently. Art Loot is a first-of |
Batting for a long life
hetan Chauhan, Vice President, DDCA, celebrated his birthday with his friends and family in the capital recently. Among those present included Arun Jaitely, C.K. Khanna, S.P. Bansal, Sunil Mittal a |
HC rejects plea against Once Upon...
Mumbai: The decks have been cleared for the release of Once Upon a Time in Mumbai on Friday, after a sessions court on Thursday dismissed a suit filed by the daughter of alleged late smuggler Haji Mas |
Murphy's hubby emptied her bank accounts
Melbourne: American actress Brittany Murphy's bank accounts were emptied by her husband Simon Monjack before he died, sources have revealed. Murphy's former business manager has claimed that |
World's oldest tweeter dies
London: Ivy Bean, who became an online celebrity as the oldest known user of micro-blogging site Twitter, has died at the age of 104. Pat Wright, manager of the care home where she lived in Bradfor |
`Patients can grow own joints'
London: Raising hope for millions suffering from knee and hip problems, scientists have claimed that it would soon be possible for the patients to "grow" properly working joints inside their body usin |
Clooney's girlfriend in cocaine scandal
Los Angeles: Hollywood superstar George Clooney's model girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis is being investigated on drugs charges, after the arrest of a witness who claims to have seen her snorting cocaine |
`Racy' Jolie pics on Net
Highly shocking and racy images of actress Angelina Jolie are currently doing the rounds on the Internet. The images published by Star Magazine see the 35year-old actress flashing her assets in bon |
Jolie, Zeta-Jones in Liz Taylor biopic role race
London: Angelina Jolie and Catherine Zeta-Jones, Hollywood's two leading ladies, have locked horns to play Elizabeth Taylor in a major new biopic of her life. Jolie, 35, is hoping that her notoriet |
Innerwear inspired by Robert finds few fans
This time, it is not the film Twilight which is making Robert Pattinson popular among the youth, but a new range of underwear designed by a popular brand. R-pant, engineered to be worn u |
Weekends turn learn days for professionals
With hectic job schedules leaving most young pro fessionals with little or no time to pursue their hobbies, "weekend courses" seem to be the buzzword. From pho |
Soha, Kunal in no hurry for marriage
ctress Soha Ali Khan and Kunal Khemu are tinseltown's latest official lovebirds. Kunal, it is learnt, has already met with Soha's parents and they have been bonding in a big way. Sources rev |
BENGAL REVISITED
It was an evening which celebrat ed rich Bengali culture. Designer Anupama Dayal and Kolkata based designer duo Dev and Nil
showcased their bridal collection, creating an Indian ambience at Ved |
Isolation equal to 15 cigarettes a day
People with
close family and social ties have 50 per cent more chances of living longer than those living isolated lives without friends, families or colleagues, says a new global study. Isolatio |
Ross' niece claims she's MJ love child
Diana Ross' niece, who claims to be Michael Jackson's illegitimate love child, has moved the court to claim "her part" of pop legend's estate. Mocienne Petit Jackson, who lives in the Netherlands, |
Cellphones carry more germs than toilet handle
The average mobile phone carries 18 times more potentially harmful germs than a flush handle in a men's toilet, tests have revealed. One of the phones in the test had such high levels of bacteria t |
Jolie attacked by stalker in Moscow
Tomb Raider star Angelina Jolie was left petrified when she was attacked by a crazed lookalike fan at the premiere of her action movie Salt in Moscow. Jolie, 35, was grabbed by the deranged, tattoo |
UK woman, 56, is slowest to swim Channel
A 56-year-old British woman is said to have broken the world record as the slowest person to swim the English Channel. Jackie Cobell took an epic 28 hours 44 minutes; she was forced off course so muc |
HC green light to Once Upon A Time...
The release of Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai has been given a green signal by the Bombay high court after producers of Balaji Telefilms agreed to issue a statement denying that the movie is based on the |
Dev will remake Hare Rama Hare Krishna
EVERGREEN ACTOR Dev Anand announced that he is soon planning to remake his 70's hit Hare Rama Hare Krishna. The actor revealed that he has a strong script in mind. He plans to shoot the film once agai |
Justin may take Cowell place on Idol
Pop star Justin Timberlake is the latest celebrity to emerge as a potential replacement for music mogul Simon Cowell as a judge on talent hunt show American Idol. The SexyBack hitmaker has joined S |
Canadian actor Maury Chaykin dies
: Canadian actor Maury Chaykin has died at the age 61. Manager Paul Hemrend said Chaykin died early on Tuesday morning at a Toronto hospital surrounded by family. He would not elaborate on the cause o |
Webcerts take music beyond boundaries
Now you don't have to be present at the venue to watch your favourite bands perform live as www.artistaloud.com has come up with an innovative and unique concept to help fans cherish m |
New concepts redefine traditional teaching tools
The traditional model of the paathshaala has taken a new spin in the capital. With the government for mulating plans to roll out mobile schools for unde |
Ash set to do cameo in Abhishek's next
B ollywood's favourite couple Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan seem to be making every effort to spend as much time as possible with each other. Afte |
Mughda `helps' spread
fear in box office
Actress Mughda Godse, who is just two films old, is all set to scare the audience with her role in Help. The actress reveals that she was apprehensive about doing a horror film. "I knew |
1-800-Love gets another new name
A bbas Tyrewala's 1-800 Love has been going through a sea of title changes. Initially, titled 1-800Love, it was then changed to Call Me Dil. Apparently, the produc
ers were no |
ARTY STYLE
Fashion is all about glamour and style and this is what could be seen at the recently concluded Delhi Couture Week when a beer brand had a party and celebrated art with an installation b |
Filmy b'day bash
When celebs from Bollywood throw their birthday bashes, party lovers from tinseltown rush to make an appearance.
That's what happened when Sandiip Kapur, managing director Promodo |
HITTING THE RIGHT NOTES
Soulful music filled the air on the ninth evening of "Raag Rang", a series of Indian classical music concerts, when Saskia Rao-de Haas, a brilliant cellist from the Netherlands took over t |
Non-availability of books irks parents
If a back-breaking syllabus wasn't enough to trouble school students, they're now being haunted by the non-availability of NCERT textbooks. With NCERT allegedly not publishing enough books to |
Part-time party jobs
How about getting all dressed up for a party in a posh night club, enjoying free entry, drinks and also getting paid for it? May sound surprising, but for many 20-somet |
Moss hires exorcist for her house
Supermodel Kate Moss has hired a professional exorcist to rid her London home, which has been struck by several calamities in recent months, of "evil energy". The model, who lives in a plush area o |
Smith, wife gatecrash at wedding
Star couple Will Smith and Jada Pinkett brought a little Hollywood glamour to a French bride's wedding as they unwittingly gate crashed the nuptials. The couple, who were on the way to the premiere |
`Dinosaurs dressed to attract mates'
Just like brightly plumed peacocks, dinosaurs evolved fancy head crests and sails along their backs to attract mates, says a new study. Palaeontologists claim that pteranodon crests and eupelycosau |
Pitt gorges on butter chicken
Hollywood heartthrob Brad Pitt chose naan and butter chicken over gourmet cuisine during his solitary trip to New Zealand. The superstar surprised the staff at Tulsi restaurant, a small Indian eate |
Jolie `joins' Twitter
Angelina Jolie has finally joined the social networking site Twitter, it has emerged. According to a source, one won't hear any 140character musings from the actress as she's locked her account rig |
OBITUARY I
A comedian has the last laugh
ACE COMEDY actor Ravi Baswani, 64, who was known for his sterling performance in the cult movie Jaane Bi Do Yaaron, died of a massive heart attack in Nainital on Tuesday. Baswani was in Nainital to |
Paris under fire over Nazi salute
Paris Hilton is in trouble again. This time the hotel heiress has come under fire for pulling a "Heil Hitler" pose while partying aboard a yacht. The reality TV star was pictured wearing a military |
Oz lyricists' bid to write longest song
Hoping to set a world record for the longest ever song, 168 Australian songwriters are penning a single, proceeds from which will go to charity. The song producers will release it as a single with |
Dhobi Ghat heads to Toronto festival
Dhobi Ghat, directed and produced by Aamir Khan's wife Kiran Rao, will have its world premiere at 2010 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), organisers announced here on Tuesday. Aamir Khan, |
COUTURE COTERIE
Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla's after party at Keya, DLF Promenade, held recently was the perfect way to celebrate the conclusion of the much-anticipated Couture Week. The who's who of D |
FASHION FIESTA
The exclusivity of JJ Valaya's show at the Delhi Couture Week continued at his after
show party. Hosted by Amit Burman and Rohit Aggarwal at Asia Seven, The Qutub Hotel, the post party |
Salman wins hearts with charity
Salman Khan is infamous for his mood swings and controversies alike, but one thing that never fails to impress is his extensive charity work. While shooting for Bhushan Kumar's Ready in Sri Lanka, Sal |
Arjun is a `leading' ladies man
ver since Arjun Rampal has completed shooting for Karan Johar's We Are Family, the actor has not stopped gushing about his co-stars Kajol and Kareena. "I had a great time shooting with them. Kajol |
Kangana to play a glamorous rascal
angana Ranaut certainly seems to be going places. The actress, it has been heard, has bagged Sanjay Dutt's first home production Rascals, being directed by David Dhawan. Dhawan wanted this Ajay Dev |
Young actors wish to make it big with Aisha
T hree young girls, in their 20s, from different back grounds, have only one wish at the moment -they all want their first commercial film, Aisha to be a block |
Good looks are ticket to fame
Good looking politicians get more coverage, says a study. And our young leaders, who are sharp
dressers make sure their work speaks
A ccording to a study in Israel, good look |
Jogging can cause heart attack, cellulite, strain
If you think that
jogging can help you stay fit, better consult your doctor, for a leading British expert claims that it may not always help -in fact, it can cause cellulite, heart attacks and joint |
Paresh, wife pledge to donate skin
In a rare gesture,
actor Paresh Rawal and his wife Swaroop Sampat have signed up to donate their skin. The couple have taken up the brand ambassadorship for skin donation awareness to help the ca |
SRK, Aamir dine together in London
Bollywood Rukh Khan
superstars Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan seem to have patched up as the two were spotted dining together in London.
The duo were seen flashing hashi's (Japanese chopsticks) F |
UK's oldest couple wed at age 97, 87
It's never too late
to fall in love -a couple in Britain, aged 97 and 87, are said to have scripted history by becoming the oldest to get married. According to the Daily Express, Henry Kerr, who |
Buckingham Palace launches Queen's Year exhibition
THE BUCKINGHAM Palace is highlighting Queen Elizabeth II's hectic work schedule in a special exhibition, called The Queen's Year, during the two monthsummer opening of the British monarch's London res |
Couture Week: Final
Show ends on `golden' note
IT WAS one of the most spectacular finishes as Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla took the stage to make the climax of Delhi Couture Week an affair to remember. Abu-Sandeep were showing in the capital aft |
Nobel laureate Yunus to star in Simpsons
Bangladesh's
microcredit pioneer and Nobel Peace laureate Mohammed Yunus is set to star in a special episode of hit American TV series The Simpsons, his office said on Monday. Yunus's off |
Aesthetics and the concert
noteworthy
ONE OF the earliest "intrusions" to the traditional stage was the electronic tambura, which replaces the real instrument in many contexts. It is certainly far less aesthetic than the graceful tambura, |
INTERPRETING BEETHOVEN & MOZART
rhythm
HIS FINGERS strum some of the most mesmerising tunes on this earth that transcend your soul into another world. And then it graduates to be the language of life. It ceases to be a Beethoven's composit |
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168 WRITERS, LONGEST SONG
AUSTRALIAN SONGWRITERS, including Lisa Mitchell and Josh Pyke, have joined hands to set a world record for the longest ever song. The grand project attracted 168 co-writers after budding artists were |
Lady Gaga gets a makeover
review
"I HATE the truth!" Lady Gaga yelled somewhere in the middle of the second of her three sold-out dates at Madison Square Garden this month. Conveniently, it hates her back. No one in recent pop mem |
SPANISH SPLENDOUR
T he capital had some Spanish style fun at the Lap Garden recently, when the evening kickstarted with the unveiling of works by renowned photograph
er Rohit Chawla and Spanish install |
Tee time for golfers
A n invitational event, the "British Open Night" at Golfworx saw many "birdie" lovers like Vishal Chawla, owner Ravissant, George Fanthome, CIO, Bharti Airtel, Pradeep Jain, chair |
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Priyanka looks forward to an action-packed season
After partying with her gang of girls on her birthday in Phuket, Priyanka Chopra, is now back to work, on location for the shoot of the promos of the third season of the action realit |
Katrina can't wait to belly dance
Katrina Kaif is on a roller coaster these days, shooting for Zoya Akhtar's Zindagi Milegi Na Dobara. However, she is missing shaking a leg or two on the sets. Even her last two release |
Ali Zafar was abducted by `Laden fan' in Lahore
PAKISTANI SINGERACTOR Ali Zafar, who has made it big with his debut film Tere Bin Laden, was kidnapped in his hometown of Lahore two years ago by persons who might have been members of the militant gr |
Couture Week: Day 5
High on fashion, dry on stars
DAY FIVE OF the Pearls Infrastructure Delhi Couture week was high on fashion and dry on Bollywood without a single representation from the film industry. There was no star presence even in Suneet V |
Reclusive nuns sign record deal
London: An order of Benedictine nuns, who live a reclusive life, has signed a major record deal with the label behind controversial singer Lady Gaga. Unlike Gaga's outrageous stage performances and bi |
Books in comic form revive reading interest
Remember the gnawing feeling when you were unable to turn the pages of a book your friends were raving about and left it midway. Well, perhaps this news may be of interest to you. A |
COUTURE GETS HAUTE
The Delhi Couture Week finally came to an end on a happy note. There was high fashion, glamour, confusion, a dash of Bollywood, gossip and almost everything which qualifi |
Flight of fantasy
D esigner Reynu Taandon of Mynah's Designs show cased her collection over wine and cheese at The Brix
wine and cheese at The Lounge, at the Pearls Infrastructure and Projects Ltd DC |
Indian craft celebrated
F ashion designer Tarun Tahiliani managed to convert a luxury shop ping mall into a perfect wedding setting by erecting a three-storey haveli, decorated with marigold flowers, a manda |
`Bollywood is still male dominated'
Q How has your journey been in Bollywood?
There have been ups and downs -I've bee sad sometimes, and on a high at other times. But it has been fabulously exciting and it feels g |
Going back to the roots
It is the age of musical fusion, especially in India. There is a synchronised scale of notes that gel to near perfection, from various genres, forming another world within a world of music. For thi |
Who's on YOUTUBE
They are southindian rappers who add an Indian twist to American rap songs. Ludakrishna (John Simson) and Vikram MC (Saju Chacko) became a viral sensation on YouTube following their two hilarious song |
This day THEN
A three-night concert honouring Frank Sinatra on his 80th birthday begins at Los Angeles. A visibly ailing Sinatra attends but does not perform. Meanwhile, in New York City, the Empire State Buildi |
`People in New York accepted us as another rock band'
Null Friction is not just another rock band playing head-banging tunes at schools and colleges and going their own way past the psychedelic music phase. Scattered over different parts of North Amer |
A year younger
Mughda Godse has the distinc tion of celebrating her birthday consecutively on the sets of a Madhur Bhandarkar film. As she turns a year older on July 26, this ti |
Sridevi's artistic inspiration
When Sridevi sold her paintings recently at Christie's, it was widely-reported. But what is not known is that Salman was the inspiration for Sridevi to take up painting again. Duri |
Silence please!
Despite being a National Award winner, Priyanka Chopra has no qualms about how much prominence her roles get her. She has now opted for the second lead in Anurag Basu's upcoming flick Silence op |
Delhiites invited to play traffic cops
After being caught up in a dreadful traffic jam, do you feel that you could have done a better job as a traffic cop? Now's the time to prove your proficiency at handling the traffic snarls and jams. Y |
GURUVE NAMAH
SUHAS GOPINATH, CEO, Globals Inc I look up to Chenraj Jain, the founder of Mahaveer Jain group of institutions, as my guru and mentor because he started
from scratch. He is a first-generation |
Bevy of beauties
It's raining fashion trends in the capital with the ongoing Pearls Infrastructure Couture Week. When Ammu Saidi and Rani Sushma Kumari of Sahaspur Bilari unveiled designer Jaya Rathore's collect |
Booked and hooked
The launch of author Amit Dasgupta's book India for a Million Reasons (Wisdom Tree) was a glittering event. The book was launched by politician Suresh Kalmidi and saw the presence of man |
Couture Week
Net-a-couture dazzles Day 4
WHERE THERE is Anamika Khanna, there is oodles of pizzazz. And she proved it yet again during her couture show at the ongoing Delhi Couture Week. Her look is global. Her designs are quirky |
Solar drone lands after 14 days aloft
An ultra-light
unmanned aircraft powered by solar energy and designed for military surveillance landed after being aloft for two weeks, setting the record for the longest unmanned flight, its manu |
Supermodel airbrushed to look size zero
Crystal Renn, the
world's most successful plus-sized model has spoken up against airbrushing after she was digitally reduced from a size 10 to a size zero for a new ad campaign. The 24-year-old w |
Zsa Zsa is critical after heart attack
Hollywood icon
Zsa Zsa Gabor is in critical condition after she suffered a heart attack post her hip replacement surgery earlier this week. The 93-old actress broke her hip on Saturday after fa |
Superman Reeves had gay affair?
Christopherr
Reeves, the Superman star considered one of Hollywood's foremost family men, had a passionate affair with gay porn star Cal Culver, claims a new book. Both Reeves and Culver have lon |
