Bollywood’s first superstar Rajesh Khanna passed away Wednesday following a prolonged illness, a family friend said. He was 69. “He is no more,” Vijay Zaveri, a close friend, told IANS.

A city court on Monday paved the way for the trial of Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy under terror charges from September 4.
According to the police, Ghandy was involved in setting up a new network of the banned Communist Party of India-Maoist in Delhi.

In their quest for creating a human-like robot, scientists have edged closer to their goal — they have designed one that can display several human emotions — from fear, amazement, disgust to happiness.
Roboticists from the University of Pisa, Italy, drawing on 30 years of research, built one that uses 32 motors in “her” face to simulate different expressions, to the point where a robot looks almost realistic enough to pass for a human. It has been aptly named FACE.

The Trinamool Congress will vote for UPA candidate Pranab Mukherjee in the July 19 presidential poll, party chief and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced Tuesday.

Singer Rihanna has reportedly splashed 100,000 pounds on a cruise so that she can rekindle her romance with rapper Drake.

A hostel superintendent was arrested Monday for allegedly sexually assaulting a class V student of Don Bosco School at Sagardighi in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, the police said.

After Katrina Kaif and Vidya Balan, it’s Rani Mukerji’s turn to do a lavani item number. She has done it in Aiyya and the song has been choreographed by Vaibhavi Merchant.

New Delhi, July 15: The city saw the sun playing hide and seek on Sunday but no rainfall as the maximum temperature rose three notches above average to 37 degrees Celsius.

A 25-year-old man was kidnapped from here and murdered by the husband and brother of a newly-married woman for harassing her through phone calls and text messages, the police said on Saturday.

Busy with establishing their careers, an increasing number of women are choosing to get married in their 30s and even 40s. Looking good is a must and it is a botox job that guarantees glowing skin on D-Day for many of these women.