New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) Director Tarun Mansukhani made his debut with the hit “Dostana” under Karan Johar’s banner and he has no plans to shift to any other production house despite being flooded by offers. He says his loyalty to Dharma Productions is “too strong” to be bought.
“I received several calls from several producers (post ‘Dostana’)… But everyone in the industry knows my loyalty to Karan is too strong. No amount of money or fame can buy that,” Mansukhani told IANS in an e-mail interview.
Manila, Aug 1 (DPA) Philippine democracy icon and former president Corazon Aquino died Saturday after battling colon cancer for more than a year, her family said. She was 76.
Cory, as people fondly called her, had been hospitalized in the Makati Medical Centre in Manila since late June after her health deteriorated and the cancer spread to other parts of her body.
New York, Aug 1 (DPA) A federal jury in Boston Friday ordered a graduate student to pay $22,500 per song to four record labels, who sued him for illegally downloading and sharing music.
Joel Tenenbaum, 25, was found to have illegally downloaded 30 songs and ordered to pay a total of $675,000 to the plaintiffs.
New York, Aug 1 (DPA) US stocks closed mixed Friday to end one of its best months in years, after government figures showed a smaller-than-expected contraction of the world’s largest economy in the second quarter of the year.
The economy shrank at a 1-percent annual rate April-June period, according to a preliminary estimate by the US Commerce Department. The figure signals that the longest US recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s has eased.
Manila, Aug 1 (DPA) Philippine democracy icon and former president Corazon Aquino died Saturday after battling colon cancer for more than one year, her family said. She was 76.
Cory, as the people fondly called her, had been hospitalized in the Makati Medical Centre in Manila since late June after her health deteriorated and the cancer spread to other parts of her body.
San Francisco, Aug 1 (DPA) Internet surfers have downloaded the open source Firefox browser more than one billion times, the software’s distributor, the Mozilla Foundation, said Friday.
The browser is the strongest current rival to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, which once controlled over 90 percent of the browser market but has seen its dominance steadily eroded by Firefox.
Kolkata, Aug 1 (IANS) The Congress Friday bowed to the Trinamool Congress’ demand and agreed to concede both the seats in the coming West Bengal assembly by-polls to the Trinamool.
The Congress, which earlier demanded one of the two seats in Kolkata – Bowbazar and Sealdah – which are slated to go to the polls Aug 18, agreed to withdraw its candidates from both the constituencies following instructions from the party high command.
Kolkata, July 31 (IANS) Former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly Friday made his debut in cricket administration – questioning several decisions of the Jagmohan Dalmiya regime during a nearly hour-long address at the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) Annual General Meeting (AGM) here.
Dalmiya, as expected, was elected uncontested for another term of the cash-rich body. He later said the CAB was planning to come out with a masterplan under Ganguly’s guidance on making full use of the services of former players for the benefit of Bengal cricket.
Brussels, July 31 (DPA) European Union (EU) member states should ban leaders of the coup in Honduras from travelling to Europe, EU diplomats agreed in Brussels Friday.
“Each member state will monitor that (EU) policy is closely adhered to, including the possibility of restrictions to the entry into their territories by senior officials of the de facto government in Honduras,” a statement from the Swedish government, which currently holds the EU presidency, said.
London, July 31 (IANS) Hollywood legend Robert Redford has revealed he had to struggle to work with young actress Scarlett Johanson on the sets of his 1998 movie “The Horse Whisperer” as she she “frustrated” him.
The actress was 13 when director Redford cast her to star in the film, and although he acknowledges her acting talent he found it difficult working with her, reports imdb.com.