New York: The all-star comedy The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel starring Judi Dench and Dev Patel generated a strong opening in North America as it debuted in limited release with an estimated $750,000 from only 27 theatres for a per-theater average of $27,789 – second best among all films after The Avengers. Set in [...]
Toronto: The stars are coming out for the first ever Rogers Punjabi International Film Festival (PIFF) brought to you by RBC. Neeru Bajwa, Jasbir Jassi, Mandy Takhar, Gippy Grewal, Kulbhusan Kharbanda, Rama Vij and many others will be attending and performing during the festival happening May 18-21 in Toronto, Brampton and Mississauga as part of [...]
London: The Daily Mail, a UK newspaper, recently did an investigative piece on the much-whispered habit among Pakistani, Indian and Bangladeshi Muslim men who take on multiple wives and often leave the wives and children to be taken care of by a very generous welfare system. The article has brought attention to a problem [...]
Twenty top Indian companies together hold assets worth $80 billion abroad with the top five among them holding a major share of $50 billion. Reliance Industries, Tata Group, Hindaclo, Infosys and Wipro figure among the top five transnational companies (TNCs) along with the public sector oil major Oil and Natural Gas Corporation. The total [...]
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday said his conviction of contempt by the Supreme Court does not disqualify him from the office of premier as he had not committed any criminal offence by not approaching Swiss courts to revive graft charges against President Asif Ali Zardari. “The charges against me are not [...]
New Delhi: The number of mobile phone subscribers in India rose to 919.17 million in March with Bharti Airtel alone signing 2.5 million of the 8 million new subscribers, official data showed Thursday. According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the wireless user base grew 0.88 percent with an addition of 8 million [...]
London: Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif was on Thursday released from a British jail after completing half of his one-year sentence for his role in a spot-fixing scandal. Asif, 29, was set free from the Canterbury Prison in Southeast England this morning, his London-based law firm SJS Solicitors said. Asif was jailed in November after [...]
One year on from the killing of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, al-Qaeda has revealed both a technological sophistication and a morbid creativity that nearly flummoxed intelligence officials across the West, from Germany to the United States. This week, documents obtained by CNN showed that pornographic videos seized from an Austrian terror suspect, called [...]
Srinagar: Kashmiri Separatist leader Shabir Shah has said Kashmir Valley is incomplete without Pandits and those who migrated after the eruption of militancy should return to their homeland. “Kashmiri Pandits have always been a part of our culture and our history … Kashmir is a garden and there are many flowers in here … Kashmir [...]
New Delhi: India’s Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee appears to be emerging as frontrunner in the race for President’s post within his party and outside with allies and some others backing him. Key constituents Trinamool Congress and Samajwadi Party of the ruling UPA, appear to be not averse to Mukerjee’s candidature if the Congress decides [...]
Recent Comments