NEW DELHI: Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas was today accorded a grand ceremonial welcome by his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here."...all the time when we come here, we receive warm reception and at the same time, we get everything we ask for, because we believe that we are friends. We are close friends, since a long...
LONDON: Indian writer Jeet Thayil's first novel 'Narcopolis', described as a compelling tale of Mumbai's hazy world of opium addiction, has made it to the six-author short list for the Man Booker Prize 2012 announced today.Apart from 53-year-old Kerala-born Thayil, authors on the short list are Deborah Levy, Hilary Mantel, Alison Moore, Will Self and Tan Twan Eng.The winner...
Shah Rukh Khan, who was shooting for Yash Chopra's untitled directorial project in Kashmir, has wrapped up his schedule there and says he is taking back home some important things that he learnt during his short sojourn in the valley.SRK wrote on Twitter as he bid adieu to Pahalgam: "Leaving Pahalgam. Learnt life's lesson in my forefathers land. Only...
It was reported that Bipasha Basu was mobbed by fans in Ahmedabad while promoting "Raaz 3" and was irritated with the chaos. However, the actress denies such reports."Even I don't know what happened. I have got a lot of love from everywhere, be it Jaipur, Ahmedabad, and Kolkata. So I don't know from where this news came, though there...
After the success of "Jism 2", porn star and Bollywood newcomer Sunny Leone now aims to establish herself as one of the successful mainstream actresses of B-town by dabbling in different kinds of roles in the near future."My full concentration is now on Bollywood. I want to do different and all kinds of roles, especially playing meaningful characters. I...
Priety Zinta is happy that her debut production "Ishkq In Paris" is wrapped up and she thanked the cast and crew for their support."Finally we wrap 'Ishkq In Paris' shooting! Movie is finally over. Cannot believe it! Thank you everyone," tweeted the 37-year-old.Directed by Prem Soni, who earlier worked with Preity Zinta in the Salman Khan-starrer "Main Aur Mrs....
All three Sonakshi films and her next two are driven by male dominant roles. Sonakshi hardly had anything to do with the films except for a few dances and a few scenes in the film. Doesn’t she want to do challenging roles? Or does she feel it’s just the start?“See, if you see other actresses who are on the...
She debuted with hit film 2005 "Kalyug" and after two years Smiley Suri is likely to make a comeback with a sequel.After "Kalyug", which was about the porn film industry, she featured in a couple of more projects and her last release was "Crook" that came in 2010.Sharing her future plans, she says: "I will make a comeback soon...
Children who use inhaled steroid drugs for asthma end up slightly shorter at their full adult height than children who don't use the drugs.
This is the finding from a comprehensive asthma study, which has Robert C. Strunk, MD, the Donald Strominger Professor of Pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis as the senior author.
The study involved more than...
Children who are exposed to smoking in the womb are likely to have an increased risk for adolescent obesity, according to a study.
And the risk is possibly related to subtle structural variations in the brain that create a preference for eating fatty foods, the study found.
"Prenatal exposure to maternal cigarette smoking is a well-established risk factor for obesity, but...