Everything you need to know about Chakunta: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Chakunta: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Washington, May 17(ANI): Emma Watson has said that she is proud of her work in 'Harry Potter' and is even happier that she is now getting opportunities to explore new roles.
London, May 15 (ANI): Leonardo DiCaprio and director Baz Luhrmann's latest venture together 'The Great Gatsby' will open the annual Cannes film festival.
Los Angeles, April 29 (IANS) At 82, actor-filmmaker Clint Eastwood, who rose to fame with TV series "Rawhide" and later won the best director Oscar for his movie "Unforgiven", dreams of making films for two more decades.
Los Angeles, April 29 (IANS) Actor Chris Pine is reportedly single again after splitting from model-girlfriend Dominique Piek.
London, Apr 26 (ANI): Formula One team Mercedes has revealed that they are about to use more than half their workforce on to their 2014 Formula One car to make their star driver Lewis Hamilton a strong contender for the trophy next season.
Washington, Apr. 19 (ANI): Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg has been named as the one of the most influential person in the world in Time Magazine's list.
Washington, April 17 (ANI): Drawing inspiration from pinecones, which close their scales when wet and open them again once they have dried out, researchers have produced synthetically a composite material with comparable properties.
Moscow, April 7 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Tough FIFA rules mean it could cost nearly $800 million to make Moscow's vast Luzhniki arena fit to host the 2018 World Cup final, the Russian capital's top construction official has said.
London, Apr. 4 (ANI): Mario Balotelli's former girlfriend Raffaella Fico has pleaded to the footie ace to meet his baby daughter, whom he hasn't seen since she was born four months back.
London, Mar. 24 (ANI): US rockers My Chemical Romance have announced that they are splitting up after remaining together for 12 years.
Washington, March 05 (ANI): Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who premiered his directorial debut 'Don Jon's Addiction' at the Sundance Film Festival in January, has landed his first honour as a director.
London, Mar. 1 (ANI): Steven Spielberg will be leading this year's Cannes Film Festival jury, it has been announced.
Washington, February 20 (ANI): A multidisciplinary team of researchers has married together the fossil record and the embryonic development process to investigate how the whale got its teeth.
Los Angeles, Feb 5 (IANS) Actor Ashton Kutcher says he knew he would face some kind of criticism when he decided to work in "Jobs", a biopic based on Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
Los Angeles, Feb 5 (IANS) Actress Megan Fox says after giving birth to son Noah last year, she has noticed improvement in her obsessive compulsive disorder.
Moscow, Jan 31 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russia will pay special attention to the development of aircraft construction and shipbuilding as well as radio-electronic, space and nuclear industries in the next few years, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday.
London, Jan. 29 (ANI): The oldest reigning Dutch monarch, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands has announced her abdication in a sudden move three days before her 75th birthday.
Washington, Jan 24 (ANI): Despite being one of the most glamorous women in the world, Angelina Jolie is more concerned with bath mats than red carpets when at home with her kids.
Los Angeles, Jan 22 (IANS) Actress Angelina Jolie says she never planned to don the director's hat for a movie.
Washington, Jan 21 (IANS) Some malaria parasites can wreak havoc by hijacking their host's natural cellular processes. Now, US scientists have identified a new way to trap them.
London, Jan 21 (IANS) British actor Daniel Radcliffe is reportedly dating his "Kill Your Darlings" co-star Erin Darke.
Buenos Aires, Jan 21 (IANS/EFE) Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi donated nearly 1 million pesos (about $202,000) to a sports facility used by children from low-income families in his hometown of Rosario, Argentina, his foundation said.
Algiers, Jan 19 (IANS) As many as 31 workers, including 19 foreign nationals, who were taken hostage by an armed group in a gas field in Algeria, have been killed since the beginning of the Algerian army's rescue operation, Xinhua reported Saturday.
Kaliningrad, Dec 13 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Design work for the 45,000-seater 2018 football World Cup stadium here is to cost 849.8 million rubles ($27.8 million).
Los Angeles, Dec 10 (IANS) Actor Brad Pitt says his life isn't that remarkable, but he is extremely grateful for the wonderful movie roles he's taken on.
London, Nov 22 (IANS) Actors Jude Law and Michael Gamron will be honoured at the British Independent Film Awards for their contribution to British cinema.
Washington, Nov 18 (ANI): Taylor Swift has reportedly written a song on her former boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal, which will feature in her new album 'Red'.
Rome, Nov 14 (IANS/EFE) Campari is using its traditional calendar to test the superstitions of Penelope Cruz, who appears in this edition along with black cats, the number 13, broken mirrors and surrounded by ladders.
London, Oct 23 (IANS) Actor Javier Bardem says he grew up dreaming of the possibility to star in a James Bond film and is surprised that he has finally got a part in it.
London, October 22 (ANI): Kris Humphries is said to be moving his mother into his apartment complex.
Buenos Aires, Oct 19 (IANS/EFE) Argentine star Ricardo Darin and Spain's Belen Rueda will star in "Septimo", a mystery set to begin shooting next month in Buenos Aires, the film's producers said.
Los Angeles, Oct 15 (IANS) Actress Kristen Stewart is not upset with the "Twilight" franchise coming to an end.
Los Angeles, Sep 25 (IANS) Actress Gwyneth Paltrow stays in great shape because she follows a strict fitness regime, says celebrity workout guru Tracy Anderson.
Washington, Sep 13(ANI): The mayor of Philadelphia, Michael Nutter, has started a campaign to raise money for local hero and boxing great Joe Frazier's statue.
Washington, Sept 12 (ANI): Emma Watson recently revealed too much, as her dress slipped out of place at the Hollywood premiere of 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' on Monday.
Washington, Sept 8 (ANI): Kristen Stewart is cuddling up to her stuffed toys for security and comfort, hoping that they'll help her get over any nerves she has about appearing in public, after her cheating scandal surfaced.
London, September 1 (ANI): A baby girl, who was born with multiple complex heart defects and is kept alive thanks to daily doses of Viagra, took her first steps two months ago.
Washington, August 29 (ANI): Colin Farrell has admitted that he is drawn to play emotional characters in his movies, which really challenge him.
Los Angeles, Aug 23 (IANS) Actor Richard Gere will be honoured with a special award at the Zurich Film Festival, set to begin Sep 20.
Washington, August 21 (ANI): Scientists at MIT have genetically modified a humble soil bacterium to persuade it to make fuel - specifically, a kind of alcohol called isobutanol that can be directly substituted for, or blended with, gasoline.
Washington, August 13 (ANI): Rihanna, who has tweeted a glamorous photo of Beyonce, is going gaga over the star's beauty.
Beijing, Aug 10 (IANS) A pet dog in China has survived a fall from an 18th floor apartment when its owner dropped it from the window after getting mad at the animal.
London, July 21 (ANI): After much speculation about the appearance of a three-breasted hooker in the new 'Total Recall', the mutant actress was officially unveiled at the Comic-Con convention last weekend.
Film: "The Intouchables"; Actors: Omar Sy, Francois Cluzet; Director: Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano; Rating: ****
Washington, July 5 (ANI): Robert Pattinson has admitted that girlfriend Kristen Stewart is the only person who understands him, as they both know what the other is going through.
Film: 'Prometheus'; Cast: Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Charlize Theron; Director: Ridley Scott; Rating: ***1/2
Film: 'The Grey'; Actors: Liam Neeson, Frank Grillo, Dermot Mulroney; Director: Joe Carnahan; Rating: ***1/2
Washington, Sept 6 (ANI): Colin Firth has claimed that filmmakers 'underestimate' viewers by not giving them enough intelligent and thought provoking movies.
Washington, Sept 4 (ANI): Christina Hendricks, best known for her portrayal of Joan Holloway in hit TV series 'Mad Men' is all set to star in Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn's upcoming film 'Drive'.
Washington, Sept 2 (ANI): Madonna's latest film 'W.E.' that premiered at the Venice Film Festival, has been slammed by critics, who found it 'extraordinarily silly' and 'insubstantial'.
Washington, Sept 2 (ANI): Taylor Lautner has revealed that he feels he lives "two lives"- one in the spotlight and one with his parents and friends.
Washington, Sept 2 (ANI): Kate Winslet has revealed that she was thrilled to star in Roman Polanski's new comedy 'Carnage' because she has always been a fan of the legendary filmmaker.
London, Sept 2 (ANI): Kate Winslet has revealed that she suffers for her art.
London, August 15 (ANI): A team of scientists has found significant new clues to the development of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other autoimmune disorders including type 1 diabetes, lupus and Graves disease.
Washington, July 23 (ANI): Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn has said that 'Mad Men' star Christina Hendricks is perfect for the role of 'Wonder Woman'.
London, July 14 (ANI): A furious Porto president Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa has accused the club's ex-manager Andre Villas -Boas of rejoining Chelsea just for money.
Washington, July 4 (ANI): Danish director Lars Von Trier has said that he regrets making "foolish" comments about Nazism at the 'Melancholia' press conference at the Cannes Film Festival in May, and blamed his native country's humour for the same.
Washington, May 31 (ANI): Scientists have pinpointed a small RNA that spurs cells to manufacture a particular splice variant of a key neuronal protein, potentially promoting Alzheimer's disease (AD) or other types of neurodegeneration.
London, April 15 (ANI): The new Pirates of the Caribbean film will be screened at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
London, Mar 24 (ANI): Chinese researchers have identified a chemical in the brain that controls sexual preference in mice.
Washington, Mar 3 (ANI): Experts predict that permanent hair dyeing will become longer lasting with more natural-looking dyes and gene therapy to reverse the gray.ost permanent hair colouring technology uses a 150-year-old approach that uses p-phenylenediamine (PPD), a chemical that produces darker, browner shades when exposed to air.
Washington, Feb 10 (ANI): Scientists are reporting the development of a key advance that could provide a fast, simple test to detect the toxin that causes cholera.
London, Jan 18 (ANI): Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi has been accused of paying a 'significant' number of women to have sex with him at parties he hosted last year.
London, Jan 12 (ANI): A study on illegal traffic levels on 43 file-sharing sites has found that they attract more than 53 billion visits per year.
London, Dec 9 (ANI): A team of researchers at UCSF has engineered E. coli with the key molecular circuitry that will enable genetic engineers to program cells to behave like computers.
Melbourne, Nov 20 (ANI): England got a perfect boost for the first Test when they beat Australia A at the Bellerive Oval.
Melbourne, Nov 20 (ANI): England got a perfect boost for the first Test when they beat Australia A at the Bellerive Oval.
Sydney, Nov 12 (ANI): Many youngsters in the UK think that kissing, toilet seats or a kick in the genitals can lead to cancer, according to a study.
Sydney, Nov 11 (ANI): Miranda Kerr, who is expecting her first child with husband Orlando Bloom, has revealed that she will not rush back to work after giving birth insisting her career is no longer her biggest priority.
Washington, Nov 4 (ANI): 'He's Just Not That Into You' actor Justin Long met with a minor car accident in Los Angeles recently.
Washington, Oct 23 (ANI): New ways that may help maintain fertility in women who want to delay bearing a child may not be too far, as Princeton scientists have discovered genes responsible for controlling reproductive life span in worms.
Sydney, Oct 6 (ANI): Rupert Grint has revealed that he had trouble doing the low-budget films after working on the 'Harry Potter' movies.
London, Oct 1 (ANI): Scientists have developed an important tool to prevent twin birth due to in vitro fertilisation (IVF).
Washington, Sep 22 (ANI): Scientists have discovered several molecularly and cellularly different cortical areas in Broca's language region, the motor centre for speech-a finding that shows that our faculty of speech is actually embedded in a much more differentially developed brain landscape than we have believed for the past 150 years.
London, Sept 20 (ANI): Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe is said to be taking his latest role very seriously.
London, Sept 8 (ANI): Scientists have said that termite mounds can be used to predict ecological shifts from climate change in the African savannahs.
London, Sept 4 (ANI): Kelly Brook is promoting the Ultimo Icon bra, which calls itself the '21st century solution to saggy boobs'.
London, Aug 29 (ANI): A Scottish patient suffering from both multiple sclerosis (MS) and dystonia for the last 15 years has been given a new lease of life with a groundbreaking surgery that will now let him live pain free.
London, Aug 28 (ANI): Diaspora, an open alternative to Facebook, is set to be launched, say developers of the project.
Washington, Aug 20 (ANI): A team of Rutgers-Camden biologists is working to engineer cold tolerant fruit flies and ultimately human cells within the next three years.
London, August 20 (ANI): Hollywood veteran Ernest Borgnine will receive lifetime achievement award next year, Screen Actors Guild (SAG) organisers have announced.
Washington, July 28 (ANI): Scientists have discovered a protein, the lack of which can result in a smaller skeleton during development and sets the stage for a more fragile bone framework lifelong.
Washington, July 20 (ANI): "Runaway" development in the brain is a potentially significant factor in age-related loss of function, found a new study.
Washington, Mar 29 (ANI): Taking a leap in diagnosing ailments, researchers have now developed tiny probes comprising gold-coated particles that can be implanted into patients and tell how a disease is progressing.
London, March 8 (ANI): MIT chemical engineers have developed a new sensor array that can detect single molecules of hydrogen peroxide emanating from a single living cell.
London, Feb 22 (ANI): Love-cheat Ashley Cole's mistress number 5 has revealed that the footie ace bedded her on the night he first went public about his relationship with Cheryl.
London, Feb 22 (ANI): Michelangelo's sketches, which he made for a younger man he is believed to have fallen in love with, are being displayed at London's Courtauld Gallery.
London, February 17 (ANI): Fans of singer Carly Simon have been offered the chance to create the first ever video for her song You're So Vain in a talent competition.
Washington, January 30 (ANI): Drinking with Brad Pitt can lead to "alcohol poisoning," believes his 'Inglourious Basterds' co-star Samm Levine.
London, Jan 29 (ANI): Inspired by Superman's ability to see through walls and doors, scientists have found a way to transmit simple images through opaque objects using ordinary light.
London, Jan 23 (ANI): Supermodel Naomi Campbell is set to tie the knot with her Russian lover Vladimir Doronin, it has emerged.
London, Jan 6 (ANI): Actor Kevin Bacon is to be honoured for charity work at the Critics Choice Movie Awards.
Washington, Dec 3 (ANI): Scientists suggest that fruit flies can prove to be an effective research model for studying the effects of cocaine and other drugs abuse on the brain.
Washington, December 3 (ANI): Scientists are reporting the first identification of substances involved in the Jekyll-and-Hyde transformation that changes harmless marine bacteria into killers that cause "coral bleaching."
Washington, Oct 1 (ANI): Scientists claim to have identified a crack in the armor of a common microbe that causes stomach ulcers and other diseases.
Washington, Aug 22 (ANI): British pop star Lily Allen has gone public with her romance and confirmed that she's going out with contractor Sam Cooper.
Cannes, May 23 (IANS) Socialite heiress Paris Hilton, who is having 'the best time' of her life in France with beau Doug Reinhardt, may marry the baseball player soon.
Washington, May 22 (ANI): British TV star Myleene Klass is wanted by a film industry power player to star in a thriller about a woman who eats her boyfriend.
London, May 21 (ANI): After staying away from the limelight as a couple for three months, actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were clicked together at the Cannes Film Festival.
London, May 21 (IANS) Pop legend Michael Jackson has postponed his live comeback shows.
