British actress Joanna Lumley, who is in Nepal on a five day visit after spearheading a high profile campaign to allow Gurkha soldiers and their families to settle in Britain, met President Rambaram Yadav, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala separately.
Accompanying her to the meetings held at the Singh Durbar, the [...]

You heard it right; the perfectionist known for his picky nature just signed an endorsement deal with Roohafza worth Rs. 3.5 crore. But wait, here comes the best part, the Ad won’t even air on TV. The actor was paid the whopping amount for the company’s commercial that will be used for business conferences [...]

Continuing with her trips to her prospective sasurals, television actress Rakhi Sawant visited the holy town of Rishikesh in Rakhi Ka Swayamvar to meet family members of Manmohan Tiwari. She went around and visited their family temple and also went to see the holy Ganga. Rakhi has a chat with all of Manmohan’s relatives [...]

CNN-IBN’s sister channel Viacom 18’s General Entertainment Channel Colors celebrates its first anniversary on Tuesday, July 21. Colors made an impressive entry by heavily promoting Akshay Kumar’s first small screen appearance in Khatron Ke Khiladi. Within a year, it has cemented it’s position with reality shows like Bigg Boss 2 and daily soaps like [...]

The Lahore High Court today adjourned the hearing of controversial pacer Shoaib Akhtar’s 18-month ban and fine case till tomorrow after listening to arguments of legal counsels of both the parties. Justice Imtiaz Siddique adjourned the hearing till tomorrow because Akhtar’s legal counsel, Abid Minto, had to appear before a bench in connection with [...]

Two new reality shows, “Sach Ka Saamna” and “Iss Jungle Se Mujhe Bachao”, have hit the Indian small screen in quick succession, adding to the list of programmes adapted from tried and tested international formats. Industry experts say it isn’t lack of originality that makes producers and creative heads of channels adapt foreign formats; [...]

What is common between Jagdish Tytler, Vinod Khanna, Renuka Chowdhury, Ram Vilas Paswan and Shakeel Ahmed ? All of them are among 36 former MPs who are unauthorised occupants of government accommodation in Delhis Lutyen’s zone, a Right to Information (RTI) application has found out. The RTI application was filed by Delhi-based activist Subhash Chandra [...]

There has been no appreciation in Indian rupee against US dollar during the period 2008-09 over 2007-08. In order to boost exports, arrest the impact of economic slow down and to improve liquidity, Government had announced two stimulus packages on 7th December, 2008 and 2nd January, 2009 to the domestic industry including textiles industry which [...]

The foundation of US foreign policy rests on its national interest. To make the Americans change their foreign policy, it is necessary to persuade them that this change is in their own national interest. The ideology of modern nation states is founded not on concepts such as justice but on narrow self interest. Allama Iqbal [...]

With not a minute to breathe keeping with an 18-hour packed schedule, Chief Parliamentary Secretary Harish Rai Dhanda hardly gets time to even catch up with the latest news on television. Time for recreation and watching the latest movies is hence next to impossible. But yes, he does recall the last movie he saw — [...]