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Monthly archives: June 2018

 
 
 

Watch: Karthi’s Kadaikutty Singam trailer

The trailer for actor Karthi’s Kadaikutty Singam directed by Pandiraj was released on June 3. This film is Karthi’s first time collaboration with his brother Suriya’s 2D Entertainment. The trailer also has a good number of punch dialogues – “One who creates alone isn’t god. One who sows seeds is also god”, “Each person gets intoxicated by something. My addiction is only my family”, and the very well translated “Shall […]

India among top five countries in e-waste generation: Study

Despite the government`s emphasis on Swachch Bharat Abhiyaan and Smart Cities project, India continues to be among the top five countries generating e-waste, an ASSOCHAM-NEC recent study said here on Monday. The other countries topping the chart of e-waste generation are China, USA, Japan and Germany. The study was published coinciding with “Environment Day” (June 5). In India, Maharashtra contributes the largest e-waste of 19.8 percent but recycles only about […]

25 killed as Guatemala’s Fuego volcano erupts, airport closed

At least 25 people were killed when Guatemala’s Fuego volcano erupted Sunday, belching ash and rock and forcing the airport to close, the country’s disaster agency said. “The toll was 25 dead as of 9:00 pm (0300 GMT Monday),” the spokesman for the National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction (Conred) said in a WhatsApp group. Search and rescue operations for the missing and dead have been suspended due to low light […]

Shimla water crisis: Situation eases after water supply increased to 28 million litres per day; protests continue

The acute water shortage plaguing Shimla for the past 15 days eased marginally on 2 June after the supply to the Himachal Pradesh capital was increased from 22.5 million litres per day (MLD) to 28 MLD, but protests over inadequate supply continued in several areas. Taking a serious note of alleged negligence in the supply of water, Irrigation and Public Health Minister Mahinder Singh ordered the suspension of Shimla Municipal […]

12 Interesting Mango Facts Even The Non Mango Lovers Would Enjoy!

The summers are here, or should we say the season of mangoes is here. Much like all the legendary things around the world, it is only when you have had a bite of the pulpy wonder can you understand the great hype surrounding it. Indians love their mangoes. And, the love is not only rooted in the fact that mangoes could possibly be one of the oldest fruits cultivated in […]

PC Sorcar: India's 'maharajah of magic' who terrified the UK

At 9.15pm on 9 April 1956, the BBC’s switchboard suddenly lit up with calls from hundreds of viewers convinced they had just witnessed a gruesome murder live on their television screens. A mysterious-looking oriental magician had put a 17-year-old girl in a trance, laid her on a table and sliced her body in half with a massive buzz saw as if she were a slab of meat on a butcher’s […]

 
 
 

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pokes fun at his visit to India experience

Canada’s Press Gallery dinner is the annual opportunity for the country’s top politicians to do their stand-up comedy act, using it as an opportunity to score some points off their opponents as well. At the dinner , Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also poked fun at an experience he appears not to have enjoyed too much – his visit to India, for which he received some criticism in his own […]

 
 
 

Vikram plays a cop in Saamy Square trailer

The first full theatrical trailer of actor Vikram’s upcoming Saamy Square was released on Sunday. The upcoming film is said to be the continuation of Saamy. At the end of the first film, Aarusaamy (Vikram), made Perumal Pichai (Kota Srinivasa Rao), vanish from the face of the earth. The film stars Keerthy Suresh as the female lead and also has Prabhu, Soori among others in pivotal roles.Bobby Simha plays the […]

Priyank Kharge-future Karnataka Chief Minister in making

  Until he took over in mid-2016, the department of IT & BT was just an appendage of the Industries department, run largely by its secretary. What’s more, there was not much happening there policy-wise. A first-time MLA (from Chittapur in Gulbarga district), Kharge was named Minister of State in charge of IT & Tourism. In less that two years, he took so many initiatives in the IT and Startup […]

 
 
 

Peppermint trailer gets Jennifer Garner back in action

Jennifer Garner was first introduced to mainstream audiences as superspy Sydney Bristow on J.J. Abrams’ TV series Alias. Since then the action roles have been few and far between. Now, in the first trailer for the “female John Wick” film Peppermint, Garner is back to cracking skulls like she was always meant to. The screenplay was written by Chad St. John and the movie is produced by Tom Rosenberg, Gary […]