Nagpur: Seven labourers were injured when a four-storey building housing a small scale industrial unit on Monday night collapsed in Chikhli area on the city outskirts at Kalamna where rescue operations are in full swing to extricate a number of persons feared trapped under the debris, police said. The dilapidated building housing a cold storage  [ Read More ]

Mahesh Bhatt posted this picture of Vikram Bhatt directing Bipasha Basu for the first shot. After lunch, the lead actor of the film, Emraan Hashmi joined the shoot. The director explains a crucial scene to the actors. Mahesh Bhatt’s daughter has joined Vikram’s team as an assistant director. Bhatt tweeted, “My daughter Shaheen begins her  [ Read More ]

Mahie Gill and Randeep Hooda, who shared sizzling chemistry in their film Sahib Biwi Aur Gangster, will once again be seen together in Satish Kaushik’s next film titled Mayanagari. Mayanagari is based on Surendra Varma’s book Do Murdon Ke Liye Guldasta. The film also stars Prashant Narayanan as a gangster. While Randeep plays a male  [ Read More ]

Chanduli, Uttar Pradesh:  Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav today did a U-turn on his comments on rape victims in Uttar Pradesh, saying he had only spoken about justice to the rape victims and not about providing government jobs to them. “We spoke about justice to the rape victims, this (providing jobs to them) has  [ Read More ]

Mumbai, Jan 30 (IANS) A Mumbai sessions court Monday acquitted four accused in the 2007 kidnapping and murder of 16-year-old Adnan Patrawala after the prosecution failed to prove its case, a lawyer said. The victim’s father termed the verdict “shocking” and said he would appeal in a higher court. “The court has rubbished the conspiracy  [ Read More ]

Chicago, Jan 30 (IANS) The anti-outsourcing measures US President Barack Obama announced last week are unacceptable and will hurt both American and Indian economies, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said. Talking to mediapersons at the end of a two-day visit here, Mukherjee said outsourcing of jobs had helped increase the profitability of American companies and  [ Read More ]

New Delhi, Jan 30 (IANS) An estimated 70 percent polling was recorded in Punjab and 65 percent in Uttarakhand in assembly elections in the two states, the Election Commission said here Monday, and added that the figure would rise as many people were waiting in queues to cast their ballot. The poll panel also indicated  [ Read More ]

Lucknow:The Bharatiya Janata Party, which has been struggling hard to regain its pre-eminent position in Uttar Pradesh, revived the Ram Temple issue promising construction of a grand temple in Ayodhya if voted to power. The BJP’s manifesto for the State Assembly elections brought back the issue which had once propelled the party to the centerstage  [ Read More ]

New Delhi: The ongoing conflict between the Planning Commission and the Home Ministry over issuance of chip-based smart cards to all residents was put to rest on Friday as the government cleared the Unique Identification Authority of India’s proposal to enrol an extra 40 crore people in 16 States, while the biometrics in other States  [ Read More ]

Imphal, Jan 27 (ANI): An unknown person triggered a powerful blast at the residence of former Manipur assembly candidate, Dr. Chandramani Singh in Imphal, a day ahead of polls to the state legislature. The blast took place around 10.50 a.m today, in one of the toilets at the residence of Singh, a retired State Health  [ Read More ]