Everything you need to know about Girish Avenue Po: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Girish Avenue Po: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Mumbai, May 20 (IANS) The looks of Girish Taurani, new kid on the block, are being compared to Saif Ali Khan and he says it's normal to be compared with a senior actor.
New Delhi, May 20 (IANS) It will be a double bonanza for actress Tannishtha Chatterjee at the ongoing 66th Cannes International Film Festival as the theatrical promo of her another film "Jal" will be unveiled there.
Melbourne, May 19 (ANI): Winona Ryder, who was arrested in December 2001 for shoplifting at Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills, has finally opened up about her brush with the law and how it forced her to take a much-needed break from acting.
Mumbai, May 18 (IANS) Filmmaker Prabhudheva, who has cast Shruti Haasan in "Ramaiya Vastavaiya", says he is no one to "relaunch" the daughter of veteran actress Kamal Haasan.
Bangalore, May 18 (ANI): Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday inducted 28 members into his five-day-old cabinet.
Bangalore, May 18 (ANI): Karnataka Chief Minister K. Siddaramaiah will expand his ministry on Saturday, amid demands that "tainted" legislators be kept out.
Mysore, May 17 (IANS) Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said Friday he will induct 29 members to his ministry Saturday, four days after he took office.
New Delhi, May 17 (IANS) "Rockstar" actress Nargis Fakhri has bagged a "key" role in Varun Dhawan-starrer "Main Tera Hero".
Bangalore, May 17 (IANS) Four days after taking over as Karnataka chief minister, Congress leader Siddaramaiah will expand his ministry Saturday amid demands that "tainted" legislators be kept out as the party wrested power from the BJP on an anti-corruption plank.
Mumbai, May 17 (IANS) Sonu Sood confesses that he was so eager to work with filmmaker Ramesh Taurani that he gave his nod for "Ramaiya Vasta Vaiya" without even having read the script.
Mumbai, May 16 (IANS) Actor-filmmaker Prabhudheva, whose action directorials "Wanted" and "Rowdy Rathore" turned out to be box office successes, says he was happy when he was offered to helm a love story like "Ramaiya Vasta Vaiya".
Mumbai, May 16 (IANS) After a two-year gap, Shruti Haasan returns to Hindi movies with "Ramaiya Vasta Vaiya" and clarifies that the Prabhudheva directorial venture can't be tagged as her comeback movie.
Mumbai, May 15 (IANS) Actor Girish Taurani, son of producer Kumar Taurani, who is debuting with "Ramaya Vastavaiya", says his journey was not easy despite coming from a film background.
Toronto, May 15 (IANS) An Indo-Canadian real estate agent has been charged with stealing from listed homes he claimed he was showing to potential clients in the city of Brampton in the Canadian province of Ontario.
Mumbai, May 4 (IANS) The fire accident on the sets of Prabhudheva's "Rambo Rajkumar" earlier this week here was not as minor as it is being made out to be. Shahid Kapoor is said to have got burn injuries on his back and hand, and he would need some time to recover fully.
New York, April 28 (ANI): Scores of Sikhs participated in their 26th annual parade here over the weekend, with an aim to spread awareness about Sikhism, the Sikh martial arts and an exhibition of sword dancing during the 'Nagar Kirtan'.
Film: "Hardware Software Kya Yaaron"; Cast: Imran Ahmed Khan, Snehadhar Penta, Ranbir Chakma, Sanjeev Nair, Juby Devasia, Adithi Kalkunte, Vishal Nair, Sweta Desai, Saleem Ahmed, Monish Nagraj, Shannon McDonnell, Jun Fujitha, Yuko Fujita, and Arvind Kamath; Director: Rabi Kisku; Rating: ** 1/2
Mumbai, April 23 (IANS) The opening weekend collection of Emraan Hashmi-starrer "Ek Thi Daayan" is approximately Rs.18.07 crore and trade pundits are calling it satisfactory business, keeping the unconventional theme of the movie in mind.
Dubai, April 22 (IANS) The condition of an Indian woman in Bahrain, who sustained severe burn injuries during a clash between police and protesters April 19, is said to be improving, reports said Monday.
Mumbai, April 21 (IANS) Actor Sonu Sood has just finished dubbing for director Prabhudheva's upcoming film "Ramaiya Vasta Vaiya" and says the movie looks "fabulous".
Thiruvananthapuram, April 15 (IANS) An Australian High Commission delegation from New Delhi, headed by high commissioner Patrick Suckling, visited Technopark here and met Kerala IT officials to forge a mutually beneficial relationship between Australia and Kerala.
Mumbai, April 15 (IANS) Actress Jacqueline Fernandez has rubbished reports that there are problems between her and director Sajid Khan.
London, April 3 (ANI): Harrison Ford says that whether or not he gets to don Indiana Jones' fedora again, he's satisfied just to have acting jobs.
New York, March 30 (ANI): Marilyn Monroe's suicidal letter to mentor Lee Strasberg, Dwight D. Eisenhower's heartfelt missives to his wife during World War II and John Lennon's angry message for Paul McCartney are among hundreds of historical documents being offered in an online auction.
New York, Mar 29 (ANI): Hermes'100 percent crocodile skin T-shirt has been put for sale at the luxury brand's Madison Avenue flagship.
Kollam (Kerala), Mar 25 (ANI): Several men dressed up as women turned up at Kollam to worship Hindu goddess Bhagavathy as they carried lamps in their hands followed by a procession during an annual temple festival yesterday.
Washington, March 23(ANI): New York City prosecutors will not be charging Lindsay Lohan for allegedly fighting at a Manhattan nightclub in November, her attorney has revealed.
Mumbai, March 22 (IANS) Proceedings in the Maharashtra assembly were repeatedly stalled Friday as members demanded suspension of two police officials who allegedly entered the Vidhan Bhavan complex without proper passes to arrest two legislators two days ago.
London, Mar 16 (ANI): The Mid Devon District Council has outraged guardians of the English language by proposing to ban apostrophes from new street names - as one of a number of measures aimed at "reducing potential confusion."
Chandigarh, March 11 (IANS) Police have arrested a pharmacist who used to conduct authenticity tests of drugs for international drug smugglers from Ludhiana in Punjab, police sources said.
Thiruvananthapuram, March 9 (IANS) The Kerala IT pavilion is getting an excellent response at the world's biggest information and communications technology event - CeBIT 2013 - being held in Hanover, according to an IT official.
London, Mar. 7 (ANI): An investigation has been launched in London to probe reports that a Liberal Democrat councillor was hosting sex parties at his home.
Kolkata, Feb 18 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court Monday vacated the interim stay on the winding up order of tyre manufacturer Dunlop India and asked the official liquidator to take possession of the company's assets.
Islamabad, Feb 15 (IANS) One person died and another was injured when a US embassy vehicle knocked them down in Islamabad, the embassy confirmed Friday in a statement
Mumbai, Feb 9 (IANS) Actor-filmmaker Prabhudeva is happy with the initial response to "ABCD - AnyBody Can Dance" and gives full credit to director Remo D'Souza and producers UTV Motion Pictures.
New York, Feb. 9 (ANI): A 12 1/2-foot-tall statue of the iconic raising of the US flag at Iwo Jima in 1945 is expected to fetch about 1.8 million dollars this month at a New York auction dedicated to World War II artifacts.
New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) After Varun Dhawan, Ekta Kapoor has signed on the second "Student Of The Year" actor Sidharth Malhotra to play the lead in her new film "The Villain". The onscreen lover boy will showcase his dark side in the new project.
New Delhi, Feb 8 (IANS) International designer Tommy Hilfiger is looking forward to his show at Park Avenue Armory as part of the ongoing New York Fashion Week (NYFW) and says the place has a distinct charm.
New Delhi, Feb 7 (IANS) Following a ban in Tamil Nadu, Kamal Haasan's controversial movie "Vishwaroopam" finally hit the screens in the state Thursday. Tickets are sold out for the weekend already and business is robust, says an official from Balaji Motion Pictures, distributors of the film in the northern region.
Mumbai, Feb 7 (IANS) After proving himself as an actor and filmmaker, Prabhudheva's next goal is to open a dance institute and the actor-filmmaker admits it won't be easy to fulfil the dream.
Mumbai, Jan 26 (IANS) Emraan Hashmi and Kareena Kapoor have been finalised to feature in Karan Johar and Ekta Kapoor's first co-production. The romantic drama will go on floors in September.
New Delhi, Jan 25 (IANS) Three Indian Air Force officers have been conferred the Vayu Sena Medal (gallantry) on the occasion of then Republic Day, a Defence Ministry release said late Friday.
Jhargram, Jan 24 (ANI) The West Bengal Police arrested a suspected Maoist sympathizer, accused of killing a farmer, from Jhargram district of the state.
London, Jan 22 (ANI): After passing away last November from a year long battle with cancer, Larry Hagman's estates in Santa Monica and Ojai, California have been sitting unused.
Washington, Jan 21 (IANS) Four years after making history as the first African-American president of the US with a promise of "hope and change", Barack Obama Monday renewed his oath to take the nation "forward" over the next four.
Washington, Jan. 20 (ANI): When US President Barack Obama takes his oath on Sunday, he will be using two Bibles - one that was owned by Abraham Lincoln, and one that belonged to Martin Luther King, Jr.
Washington, Jan. 15 (ANI): A Hyde Park man has been accused of spitting at the face of a Secret Service agent guarding President Barack Obama's Chicago home last month.
Film: "Gangster Squad"; Actors: Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn, Emma Stone, Robert Patrick, Micheal Pena, Anthony Mackie, Giovanni Ribisi, Nick Nolte and Mireille Enos; Director: Ruben Fleischer; Rating: **1/2
Paris, Jan 9 (IANS) Rapper Kanye West has taken his three months pregnant girlfriend Kim Kardashian for a vacation to Paris to celebrate their baby news.
New Delhi, Jan 8 (IANS) Ekta Kapoor is bringing father-son duo David Dhawan and Varun together for a new project - the Hindi remake of Telugu hit "Kandireega".
Washington, Jan. 2 (ANI): Nine people have been shot in the New York City since the city welcomed in 2013, police said.
Sydney, Dec 27(ANI): One of Australia's finest batsman, Neil Harvey's bronze statue will be placed outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground next year in the latest episode of the Avenue of Legends.
London, Dec. 24 (ANI): Chantelle Houghton was spotted browsing sexy underwear in a lingerie store recently.
Film: "Yaare Koogadali"; Actors: Cast: Puneet Raj Kumar, Bhavana, Yogi, Smitha, Girish Karnad, ,Sindhu Lokanath, Ravishankar, Malavika, Shobharaj and Rakesh Adiga; Director: Samuththirakani; Producer: Parvathamma Raj Kumar; Camera: Sukumar; Music Director: Hari Krishna; Rating: ***1/2
New York, Dec. 8 (ANI): Lindsay Lohan has a new off-screen role - as a groupie of the English-Irish boy band The Wanted.
Los Angeles, Dec 4 (IANS) Actress Lindsay Lohan's close friends are worried about her and feel she is on a downward spiral.
London, December 3 (ANI): Lindsay Lohan, who made headlines after it emerged that she is allegedly sinking two bottles of vodka a day, is apparently refusing even though she has been charged with misdemeanour assault after allegedly hitting a woman in a Manhattan night club.
Los Angeles, Dec 3 (IANS) Singer Max George says the scuffle between actress Lindsay Lohan and fortune teller Tiffany Mitchell has been blown out of proportion.
New York, Dec 1 (IANS) Actress Vanessa Williams is worried her career is over.
New York, Dec 1 (IANS) Lindsay Lohan's personal assistant feels the troubled actress is in desperate need of help.
London, Nov 30 (ANI): Lindsay Lohan has been arrested after allegedly punching a blonde psychic at a New York nightclub in the early hours of Thursday morning, in a row over Max George from The Wanted.
New York, Nov 29 (IANS) Actress Lindsay Lohan has been arrested on charges of an alleged altercation with a woman at a nightclub here.
Mumbai, Nov 27 (IANS) The buzz around Aamir Khan's "Talaash", releasing Friday, is so strong that certain theatres opened their ticket counters on Nov 25 itself and they are ovewhelmed by the response.
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 26 (IANS) An 11?member delegation from Ethiopia paid a visit to Kerala's premier Technopark here Monday to understand the IT industry's role in empowering women and youth in the state.
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 22 (IANS) The state?of?the?art twin tower of one million sq. ft built?up area, the third phase of Technopark, is nearly ready for inauguration.
Fort Lauderdale, Nov 18 (ANI): A US man was reportedly sentenced to prison after he was found guilty of allowing his dog to attack a cat.
New Delhi, Nov 11 (IANS) The interpretation of Salman Rushdie's "Satanic Verses" changed with the fatwa against the author, Man Booker Prize-winning writer Ben Okri had famously said in India earlier this year.
Kolkata, Nov 10 (IANS) Thespians in West Bengal are aghast at playwright and actor Girish Karnad calling Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore a "mediocre playwright".
Mumbai, Nov 8 (IANS) Filmmaker Ekta Kapoor has joined hands with Bejoy Nambiar to co-produce quirky comedy "Kuku Mathur Ki Jhand Ho Gayi".
Los Angeles, Nov 8 (IANS) Actress Lucy Liu says she grew up as a tomboy, and so she is easily charmed by men who praise her good looks.
Chicago, Nov 6 (IANS) "I'm calling with President Obama's grassroots campaign... We wanted to remind you about the upcoming election on Tuesday, Nov. 6." For up to six hours a day, Jennifer Beasley, a blonde volunteer at a Chicago office of US President Barack Obama's re-election campaign, made hundreds of phone calls like this to voters in Illinois and neighbouring states via a computer-based automatic dialing system.
New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) Activist-artist group SAHMAT Monday came out in support of theatre personality Girish Karnad, who had called Nobel laureate writer V.S. Naipaul "anti-Muslim".
Mumbai, Nov. 3 (ANI): Veteran actor and contemporary writer Girish Karnad on Saturday poked fun at Nobel laureate and India-origin author V.S. Naipaul, and called him a 'tone-deaf'.
Mumbai, Nov 3 (IANS) Author Girish Karnad's outburst questioning an award conferred on Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul here four days ago elicted a mixed bag of reactions here Saturday. Karnad had called Naipaul anti-Muslim.
London, November 3 (ANI): Tamara Ecclestone, whose favourite pastimes if undoubtedly shopping, looked positively thrilled as she indulged in a bit of retail therapy in New York City.
Mumbai, Nov 1 (IANS) Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul has flatly declared he would no longer write about India or its people, giving a shock to the who's who of Mumbai's literary circles and glitterati at the ongoing five-day literary festival here.
Washington, Oct 26 (IANS) A man who scaled the fence of the Russian embassy to flee police after crashing his car has been arrested.
Washington, Oct. 23 (ANI): The New Yorker has announced its endorsement for President Barack Obama ahead of the 2012 presidential election.
Panaji, Oct 23 (IANS) Goa wants to do an 'Amul' in the IT sector. Backed by technocrat Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, the state's leading trade body wants to do to Goa's fledging IT industry what the late Verghese Kurien did to the dairy sector in Gujarat.
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 22 (IANS) The recently concluded Gitex Technology Week in Dubai turned out to be a huge success for Kerala IT companies, according to state government officials who attended it.
Chennai, Oct 20 (IANS) As many as 50 films from 18 countries will be screened at the Seven Islands International Film Festival (SIIFF), to be held here Oct 26-29. The theme of the festival is 'Women rising, against all odds'.
Lucknow, Oct 19 (IANS) In a shocking incident, a crowd tried to set afire a senior Uttar Pradesh government official, police said.
Washington, October 17 (ANI): The Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) has recently unveiled "the greenest street in America", which is paved with smog-eating cement.
New York, Oct 16 (ANI): Donald Trump took a dig at Alex Rodriguez's on-field struggles on Twitter because the Yankee is moving out of Trump Park Avenue.
Mumbai, Oct 15 (IANS) Actor Sonu Sood has teamed up with Prabhudeva for "Ramaiya Vasta Vaiya", a Hindi remake of a Telugu movie and says that he is playing a positive role in it.
Melbourne, Oct 9 (ANI): Passersby in Australia took off with 12-cartons of beer in less than a minute after the crates fell off a truck in Surfers Paradise.
Moscow, Oct 6 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The world may know him as a bloodthirsty Soviet dictator responsible for millions of deaths, but to many people in his hometown of Gori in eastern Georgia, Joseph Stalin was simply a local boy.
New York, Oct 2 (ANI): Lindsay Lohan has vowed to get her revenge on the congressional aide, Christian LaBella, she had accused of choking her at the W Hotel on Park Avenue South in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Kolkata, Sep 28 (IANS) The bullet-riddled body of a man was found in West Bengal's West Midnapore district with a few Maoist posters lying beside him, police said Friday.
London, Sep 27 (IANS) An Iranian diplomat was escorted from a New York street by police after he was surrounded and threatened by angry protesters near the UN headquarters, a media report said.
New Delhi, Sep 27 (IANS) Thailand could be well on the way to host a Formula One race in 2014.
Chennai, Sep 27 (IANS) India's largest chain of bakers, The French Loaf, will create a 100 meter long photo cake of 1,000 kg by compiling 1,000 photographs of maestro Ilayaraja on it.
Beijing, Sep 25 (IANS) A WalMart store in China has been fined 100,000 yuan (about $15,800) for a discount hoax, an official said Tuesday.
London, September 24 (ANI): Eva Longoria was spotted out and about with footballer boyfriend Mark Sanchez as they explored apartments on Park Avenue in New York on Saturday.
Washington, Sep 22 (ANI): Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been allowed to stay at a luxury New York hotel after a US judge rejected an Israeli suicide bombing victim's bid to claim the reservation made by the leader.
New York, September 21 (ANI): The historic Plaza Hotel on Fifth Avenue is close to getting new fashionable partners as Indian hotelier Vikram Chatwal along with designer Tommy Hilfiger and restaurateur Sean Largotta are nearing a deal to take over it.
Pune, Sep 18 (IANS) Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare Tuesday admitted to differences with Arvind Kejriwal and other members of the India Against Corruption (IAC) group on various issues.
Ralegan-Siddhi (Maharashtra), Sep 17 (IANS) Unhappy with the manner in which the anti-corruption movement has been floundering for the past few months, its chief proponent Anna Hazare has decided to take some drastic steps to put it back on track, an official said here Monday.
Washington, September 14 (ANI): Sarah Jessica Parker and his husband Matthew Broderick have put their New York City townhouse on the market for 25 million dollars.
London, Sep 14 (ANI): The White House's West Wing may have emerged from a 86 million-dollar makeover that took two years to complete, but apparently it didn't seem as if anything about the landmark building had actually changed.
