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‘Paperless courts can be a reality’

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A new idea can change the course of how courts function in our country. On the occasion of Law Day recently Union law minister Salman Khurshid stressed upon the need for making court proceedings paperless. He asked, “Can we look for a paperless Supreme Court?” He commented on how Brazil has taken a

Prime time raaslila

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Bigg Boss 5 (Colors) inmates, who have been torturing and putting off viewers with their boring dishum-dishum and tuchchi bak-bak over the most inane and nonsensical issues, must have put the fear of TRPs in channel heads. Those must have been hard days, searching for BB5 in the top 10 list and not finding it anywhere. But hard times call for hard measures, and sometimes these include stars of hardcore pornographic films.

A dash of H’wood shine

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After Kylie Minogue dancing to Chiggy Wiggy and Akon lending his voice to Chhammak Chhallo, the buzz is that Hollywood hottie Nicole Kidman will put on her dancing shoes for a Bollywood flick. A news report reveals that the actor has been offered an item number and has agreed to do it if she is paid `5 crore.

Childrens’ lit fiesta bookmarks trends

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The fantasyland of stories came to life as kids shared their date with literature at the fourth edition of the ongoing Aviva Bookaroo Children’s literature festival at Sanskriti Kendra, Anandgram. The festival is bigger this year with activities like storytelling, poems, quizzes, sing-a-long, comic, graphic novel reading, music and musical stories.

Crimebusters rule...

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Kalyug main Bhagwanji ka prakop hamare paapi sansaar pe full force mein hai. Bad-bad people and their bad-bad kartootein din-ba-din increase hoti jaa rahi hain. Jahan dekho wahan khoon, Rakhi Sawant ke TV shows, Amitabh Bachchan ka hamse bar-bar bichadna (KBC 5), aur Ichcha-Tapasya ka ladna-jhagarna.

Neha treads a new path in life

No matter how much the clamour over an actor’s need for privacy, there are few things he/she can do away from the prying eyes of the media. From their professional pursuits to personal alliances, everything he/she does is in the

Abhi aims to strike a balance

It’s obvious for a father of a three-day old to be exhilarated and overjoyed and the feeling is no different with Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan, whose wife Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, gave birth to a baby girl on Wednesday. He says excitedly, “She is gorgeous.”

Lean look works for new-age actors

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Body is a medium of acting and good actors know how to cash it well. The looks and sizes keep changing with every new release, yet the bottom line remains the same —to look hot. A few years back, we saw a phase in film industry when it

Desi divas turn bold on screen

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After Emraan Hashmi, actor Vidya Balan has taken to onscreen kissing. Vidya kissed Madhavan in Guru, Arshad Warsi in Ishqiya and now she is seen kissing Tusshar Kapoor in The Dirty Picture. What more, given a chance she would love to kiss George Clooney, she recently mentioned in an interview.

Packed food boosts obesity in Indians

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Twenty five-year-old Neeti Sinha is a working professional who regularly visits her neighbourhood super market to stock up the fridge with chicken cutlets, fish fingers, French fries, mayonnaise, cheese slices, ready to eat products (dosa, paneer, idli etc), a packet of toned milk, packaged fruits and even veggies.

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.