On Thursday afternoon, Bollywood is all set to take over the media capital of America -- Times Square in New York City -- in celebration of Asian American Heritage Month.
That Sivakasi has also killed over time, albeit very slowly, numerous child-workers engaged in matchbox production is scarcely registered on the national conscience, says Shreekant Sambrani
India batting legend Sachin Tendulkar will become the first Indian sports personality to be portrayed at Madame Tussauds, in London. His wax figure was launched at the Taj Lands End Hotel in Mumbai on Monday.
Goa's Churchill Brothers leapfrogged to the top of the I-League table with a come-from-behind 3-2 victory over Mumbai FC in a thrilling 19th round tie at the Cooperage ground on Sunday.
Bollywood's heartthrob Salman Khan came face to face with his wax version on Tuesday at London's Madame Tussaud wax work museum, where the figure was unveiled.
The first trailer of Ajay Devgan-Kajol's new film is out.
There are huge opportunities for US companies to invest in India, he said in Washington, DC.
The wax statue of Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar will be unveiled at Madame Tussauds Museum in April, the first Indian sportsperson to be featured in one of London's famous tourist attraction.
Given the debilitating effects of the economic slowdown on various industry sectors and indeed on the nation's GDP growth, the government would have been well within its right to push through a populist budget under the garb of not letting the country's economy drift till such time as a new government is put in place after the general elections.
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Salman Khan will be immortalised in wax early next year.
Music has always enjoyed an important place in most Mukesh Bhatt productions, the new Raaz, though not in the league of Gangster, Woh Lamhe or Kalyug, does have its moments.
Did the actor want to keep away from Ash's wax figure?
There was no trace whatsoever of their stormy past as S Sreesanth and Harbhajan Singh -- the main protagonists in the 2008 Slapgate episode -- hobnobbed like long lost mates brought together by the ongoing second India-Sri Lanka second Test match in Kanpur on Thursday.
'Hazare is not the issue, and the government should not make him into one. Rather, it should focus on the issue he has voiced: Corruption that is depriving people of the mind-boggling welfare funds but for which India would already be a member of the Comity of Nations the prime minister often speaks about.'
It is not clear, however, if Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who ended his visit to India on Friday, bit the bullet and told Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that he would work on his Labour Party back home and convince them to slowly withdraw its ban on the sale of uranium to India.
Cairn India, which found India's largest oil field in Rajasthan in over 30 years, has discovered a saline water reservoir near its oil field that will help pump crude oil to the ground level and enhance production.
The actress' wax figure will be launched in August.
Doctors have advised people not to neglect even the slightest pain in the ear during this season as it can be a severe infection called Otomycosis. The infection may be sub-acute or acute and is caused by wax accumulation in the ear, bathing in dirty water like in ponds and unclean swimming pools and living in unhygienic conditions.
Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe is the youngest actor to make it to Madame Tussauds.
A plunge in beehive population has been reported from different parts of Kerala and if measures are not taken to check mushrooming of mobile powers, bees could be wiped out from Kerala within a decade, environmentalist and Reader in Zoology, Dr Sainudeen Pattazhy says in his study.
The Uttar Pradesh government, which had made budgetary allocation of crores of rupees for installation of statues of Chief Minister Mayawati and her mentor Kanshi Ram in the state, has said it is a wrong notion that only statues of dead persons can be installed.
Waxworks of Churchill and Hitler stand close to each other at Berlin's new Madame Tussaud's wax museum, which will open to the public on Saturday, July 5.
English singer songwriter Amy Winehouse is being immortalised in wax at the world famous Madame Tussauds museum. The wax model, which was created by a team of 20 sculptors for some months, costs 100,000 pounds.
Victory is watchable because of its contemporary social theme. Director Ravi C Kumar wants to tell people to unite and fight for what is rightfully theirs. Nitin does a decent job, while Mamta looks glamorous.
It has been the poor man's Madame Tussads for years but the private wax museum, a star tourist puller in the hill resort town of Udhagamandalam (Ooty), is on the verge of 'melting down' following lack of patronage and 'indifferent' attitude of local authorities.
The music of Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic starts of magically enough. But two-three compositions later, it runs out on its supply of pixie dust. And so it's 2 and a half stars only.
A quarter-century after Canada's worst terrorist attack, an inquiry commission will present its much-awaited report into the Air India Kanishka bombing on Thursday and is likely to recommend new sweeping powers for the national security adviser to prevent such tragedies in future.
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Indian commentators are inclined to view the country's relations with its neighbours almost exclusively through the prism of the ascendancy of China's diplomacy in South Asia, says M K Bhadrakumar.
Mukesh Ambani, who runs India's most-valued business empire Reliance Industries group, also saw the highest fluctuation of about $35 billion in his net worth over the past year, even as he trailed his estranged brother Anil as the world's second-biggest wealth creator. Mukesh, however, managed to maintain a slender lead of $1 billion over Anil in terms of net worth, as per a Forbes billionaire list released on Thursday. Forbes has ranked Mukesh as world's 5th richest man.
The couple celebrated their union at a get-together party at Seijo, one of Mumbai's trendiest restobars, a day after solemnising their marriage according to Hindu rituals.
For how many more years will the annual Budget circus continue in its current form? This is a question often asked at post-Budget seminars held across the country every year around this time.
Salman Khan's father, Salim Khan's on his son's wax statue.
The actor will join the likes of Amitabh Bachchan, Ash and SRK.
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