Mamta : Suchitra Sen’s blunder !
Suchitra Sen is perhaps Bengali’s cinema’s greatest actress. Despite her rare performances in hindi cinema she left an indelible mark with Devdas , Bombai ka Babu and Aandhi . But […]
Leopard kills boy in Himachal
Shimla : Wildlife officials are trying to capture a leopard Friday after it killed a two year old boy in Himachal Pradesh’s Bilaspur district . On Wednesday night the leopard […]
To Have and Have Not , on an island with Boghart
Loosely based on Ernest Hemingway’s novel , ‘To Have and Have Not’ is set on a tiny , remote Caribbean island . Made in 1944 it followed Humpery Boghart’s most […]
India starts anti-ragging portal
New Delhi : To fight the menace of ragging in India’s educational institutions the union government on Thursday launched an anti-ragging web portal with a toll free number 18001805522 . […]
Himachal-Punjab ink 3.75 km ropeway pact
Shimla : Two well known religious shrines in Himachal Pradesh and Punjab will soon be connected by a 3.75 km ropeway to be built at a cost of Rs 85 […]
New Shimla road in a mess and nobody is bothered !
Shimla : For a change, after many years the by-pass road passing through Khalini , BCS and onwards is nice and smooth . But the moment you take the New […]
Himachal univ VC is a BJP agent : CPM
Shimla : The much publicized foundation day ongoing celebrations of the Himachal Pradesh university have taken an entirely saffron colour alleges the opposition CPM and the Congress . Senior CPM […]
A Passage to India , the last epic by David Lean
V S Naipaul may have dismissed E M Forster for not understanding Indian culture and roaming India only in search of seducing cute garden boys . But many others consider […]
Indian trains to have green toilets by 2017
New Delhi : India seems to be finally waking up to the need for having bio-toilets instead of dumping excreta directly on to tracks which is a shame . The […]
Shimla hit by blackouts on Tuesday
Shimla : For no unexplained reason Himachal Pradesh’s capital Shimla was hit by a series of power breakdowns Tuesday evening and night . Power surplus Himachal isn’t used to such […]