Film: “Gippi”; Music directors: Vishal Dadlani, Shekhar Ravijiani; Singers: Hard Kaur, Udit Narayan, Vishal Dadlani, Shekhar Ravijiani, Sukhwinder Singh and Neeti Mohan. Rating *** The music album of director Sonam Nair’s movie “Gippi” has five tracks. Popular musical duo Vishal-Shekhar have made it a point to deliver songs that not [...]

New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) The Aam Admi Party (AAP) Sunday said its protest march in the national capital stands cancelled as Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit telephoned a party representative and agreed to accept letters written to her by residents over inflated water and power bills. “We were planning to [...]

New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) College student Shayna John was not happy with her nose. And to give it the perfect shape, she recently underwent nose correction surgery – all this for her profile picture on Facebook. Cosmetic surgeons said an increasing number of people, especially school and college students, [...]

Guruvayoor (Kerala), April 28 (IANS) Its decades long ethnic conflict over, Sri Lanka is steadily emerging as a major competitor to Kerala’s ayurvedic system of medicine, a leading industry expert says. But officials are quick to point out that as long as Kerala sticks to its pristine form of ayurveda [...]

Baghdad, April 28 (IANS) Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has said the recent violence in the country’s Sunni province is a sign that sectarian strife is returning to the country assisted by foreign plots. “Sectarian strife in Iraq in the past was unprecedented, but now it comes back by planned [...]

New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) Akash Saxena, 55, was diagnosed with liver cancer and a transplant would have cost him Rs 17-18 lakh (Rs 1.7-1.8 million). It was at this point that he got to know about Interventional Radiology (IR) which saved his life. “I took two sittings of chemoembolization [...]

Dubai, April 28 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces have opposed Russian experts investigating a possible use of chemical weapons in the country. Last month, the Syrian government and rebels accused each other of using chemical weapons in an incident in Khan al-Assal in Aleppo [...]

Thiruvananthapuram, April 28 (IANS) Kerala headquartered State Bank of Travancore (SBT) has registered a growth of 20.49 percent in net profits in the fiscal 2012-13, crossing the milestone total business of Rs.1,50,000 crore, an official here said. The performance of the bank for the fiscal 2012-13 was taken on record [...]

Amritsar, April 28 (IANS) The family members of Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who is in coma after a murderous attack on him by fellow prisoners in a Lahore jail, will cross over to Pakistan Sunday afternoon to visit him in hospital. The family was headed for Harmandir Sahib, [...]

Moscow, April 28 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday he opposes the idea of allowing Russians to buy guns freely for self-defence purposes. “I do not support the idea of free arms distribution in Russia,” Putin told Rossiya 24 television adding: “It is dangerous to artificially stimulate this [...]