By ALAN SAMUEL Prepare to learn all about the dirty secrets of one of America’s most powerful men in J.Edgar, a sensational story from Warner Brothers now exposing the truth at Empire Studio 12, Colossus and Cineplex Odeon Theatres around B.C. Fall and winter are the seasons that Hollywood’s top guns unleash their best work. […]
Anushka Sharma is looking forward to her fifth Yash Raj movie that flags off in January with Yash Chopra returning to direction seven years after Veer Zaara (2004). The actor admits that while the senior director always figured in her wish list, she wasn’t sure her dream would be realised.
WASHINGTON – The 26/11 Mumbai attacks could have been averted if the then Bush administration had taken seriously the warning and threat perception of Lashkar-e-Taiba’s global operations by renowned French judge, a media report said. Jean-Louis Bruguiere met officials of the Bush administration in 2007 to inform them about the LeT’s threat and Pakistan’s double […]
Inhabitants of Faroe Islands slaughter pilot whales during the traditional ‘Grindadrap’ (whale hunting) near capital Torshavn. Residents of Faroe Islands, an autonomous province of Denmark, slaughter and eat pilot whales every year.
Between 2007 and 2010, at least 1,730 people died in India while, or after, participating in drug trials by American, British and European drug companies. NEW DELHI -In what could be seen as a new form of colonialism, India becomes the new testing ground for drugs for American, British and European pharmaceutical firms and according […]
COLOMBO – Sri Lanka’s jailed former army chief Sarath Fonseka was today sentenced to spend three more years in prison after a court convicted him for alleging that the brother of the country’s President, Defence Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa, had ordered the execution of surrendering Tamil rebels. Fonseka, a member of Parliament, was found guilty by […]
MUMBAI – As U.S. and European countries economic growth is being obstructed, the businessmen are making plans to invest in the countries with emerging markets to churn out better profits. Countries like Brazil, Russia and Indonesia have experienced huge FDI records in 2011 which is 3 times more than last year. The business people’s assumption […]
By Subir Ghosh NEW DELHI – More than four persons per day were killed in police and judicial custody in India between 2001 and 2010. The total of 14,231 persons includes 1,504 deaths in police custody and 12,727 deaths in judicial custody from 2001-2002 to 2009-2010 as per the cases submitted to the National Human […]
ISLAMABAD – Former information minister Sherry Rehman was named as Pakistan’s new envoy to the US after the current envoy, Husain Haqqani, gave in his resignation to the prime minister on Tuesday. Haqqani resignation came in the wake of the “memogate” scandal. Analysts say that Rehman’s appointment is seen as a victory for the establishment […]
TEHRAN – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday denounced European countries that are tightening sanctions on Iran as puppets of a US master and said he was surprised at their moves to isolate Tehran’s central bank. “We have had no relations with America for the past 32 years so we had no relationship with them and […]
