Sunday, August 26, 2012

Anti-Obama documentary highlights weak Hollywood newcomers

Anti-Obama documentary highlights weak Hollywood newcomers


Anti-Obama documentary highlights weak Hollywood newcomers

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 11:36 AM PDT

Hollywood may have run out of summer hits, but an anti-Obama documentary is helping to fill the gap.


Arvind Kejriwal detained, released; water cannons, tear gas used on protestors

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 11:16 AM PDT

Arvind Kejriwal: The Delhi Police used tear gas, water canon and lathi-charged Arvind Kejriwal and his supporters as the anti-graft activists attempted to 'gherao' the residences of Prime Minister Man...


Anna Hazare targets both Congress and BJP on corruption

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 10:46 AM PDT

Targeting both the Congress and the BJP, anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare today said those whose hands are "blackened" with corruption are levelling allegations against each other and that they ca...


Your Call with Agatha Sangma: Full Transcript

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 10:24 AM PDT

India's youngest Minister of State, Agatha Sangma, who is also one of the few politicians from the North-East at the Centre, talks to NDTV's Sonia Singh about the recent mass exodus of the North-Easte...


Coal deadlock in Parliament: Ahead of all-party meet, BJP hardens stand

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 09:11 AM PDT

Coal-gate: Ahead of an all-party meet on Monday called by the Speaker to try and end the impasse in Parliament over the alleged coal scam, the furore over what's also being called as Coal-gate refuses...


Palestine's first women racing team finds freedom behind the wheel

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 07:07 AM PDT

In Palestine, The group of six women car racers, Muslims and Christians from their 20s to mid-30s, have battled sceptical parents, the realities of the Israeli occupation and a sometimes disapproving ...


Class 9 student commits suicide by hanging himself in Delhi

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 06:24 AM PDT

A 14-year-old boy has allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself at his home in New Delhi.


India beat New Zealand by an innings and 115 runs

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 06:13 AM PDT

Having raised visions of a stirring fightback, New Zealand imploded for the second time in as many days to slump to an embarrassing innings and 115-run humbling in the first Test against India.Through...


A K Hangal cremated; Bollywood biggies miss funeral

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 06:05 AM PDT

With prayers on their lips, friends and family members bid a tearful adieu to distinguished character actor A K Hangal at his funeral here. Incidentally, none of the prominent Bollywood personaliti...

2 Pussy Riot members flee Russia to escape arrest

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 04:43 AM PDT

The Russian punk band Pussy Riot says two activists who were being sought by police have left the country. Five members of the feminist group took part in a provocative performance inside Moscow's ...

Prince Harry, give him a break, tweets Rupert Murdoch

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 04:43 AM PDT

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch came to the defence of Britain's Prince Harry on Sunday, urging critics to "give him a break" over photographs of him frolicking naked in a Las Vegas hotel suite.


Ground Zero report: In Kokrajhar, the foreigner debate revisited?

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 04:22 AM PDT

Just when it seems that the troubled parts of lower Assam would finally get back it's normal routine, hopes are belied. Last evening, when a group of people were returning to their village, they were ...


Actor AK Hangal dies at 95

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 04:15 AM PDT

Bollywood's distinguished character artist A K Hangal, who endeared himself to the audience by playing the role of the lovable old man in films like Sholay, Shaukeen and Namak Haram, died today follow...


Noida Extension: Housing prices to go up by at least 25%

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 03:53 AM PDT

Real estate developers expect home prices to rise by at least 25 per cent in Noida Extension as the government's approval to Greater Noida master plan has paved the way for start of construction, whic...


Man mistakes son for monkey, shoots him dead

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 03:18 AM PDT

A farmer in southern Nepal mistook his son for a monkey trying to steal his crops and shot the 12-year-old dead, police said on Sunday.

Syria accused of 'massacre' as hundreds of bodies found

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 03:08 AM PDT

Several hundred bodies have been found in a town near Damascus after a ferocious assault by the Syrian army, a watchdog said Sunday, as activists accused government forces of a gruesome "massacre". ...

Arvind Kejriwal detained again; Delhi Police use baton charge, tear gas and water canon to stop protest march

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 02:01 AM PDT

Activist Arvind Kejriwal was detained for the second time in the day by the Delhi Police for protesting without permission. In an attempt to stop Mr Kejriwal and his supporters from entering high-secu...


India win Under-19 World Cup, captain Unmukt Chand decimates Australia

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 01:13 AM PDT

Unmukt Chand led from the front with a magnificent hundred as India Under-19 lifted their third World Cup title after beating formidable defending champions Australia by six wickets in the final o...


Who is Unmukt Chand?

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 01:10 AM PDT

By the time Unmukt Chand hit host and defending champions Australia out of the ground several times to notch up an unbeaten 111 and help India win the Under-19 World Cup 2012, it was expected of t...

A K Hangal, Bollywood's favourite character actor

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 11:53 PM PDT

'Itna sanata kyun hai bhai' – this was one of Hindi cinema's best remembered dialogues from the 1975 blockbuster film Sholay, delivered by one of Bollywood's favourite character actors Avtar Kishen ...

Famous lost word in Neil Armstrong's 'mankind' quote

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 11:40 PM PDT

Was the walk on the moon one small step for man, or a man? Neil Armstrong's first words from the moon were heard all over Earth, and Earth heard this: "That's one small step for man, one giant lea...


China's chaotic health care drives patient attacks

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 11:19 PM PDT

Dr. Chen Yuna had just eaten her lunch and was seated at her desk updating patients' medical records when a masked man entered her office. He pulled out a dagger and stabbed her 28 times in her neck, ...


Plane crash lands, strikes two cars, injures two

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 10:53 PM PDT

Authorities say a small plane has crash-landed in a business district in Southern California's San Fernando Valley, striking two cars and injuring the two people on board. Nobody on the ground was h...


Raghuram Rajan, the new chief economic adviser, to take charge on August 29

Posted: 25 Aug 2012 10:32 PM PDT

Raghuram G Rajan, former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief economist, will assume office as Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) in the Finance Ministry on August 29.


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