Ekta Kapoor’s, Dirty Picture, has Vidya Balan cross her boundaries to take on the disguise of a bold, sexy personality like Silk Smitha. The actress had to shoot for a smoking sequence in the movie, recently. Since this was the first time Vidya smoked, it was really tough for her. She started coughing due [...]
The whole point of Apple’s iOS 4.3.4 update was to put the kibosh on a serious iOS security defect that allowed hackers to jailbreak iPhones, iPads and iPod touches (as well as surreptitiously remote control them), but it seems the fix may have already yielded to hackers. Hack group ‘iPhone Dev Team’ (not to [...]
Steven Spielberg has recently made his case for Super 8. In the spirit of less-is-more, I make mine for Super 6: the list of six factors most likely to add years to our lives, and life to our years. What prompts me to focus now on my ‘Super 6′ list is a patient I [...]
This is a great thing to do with less-than-perfect peaches, especially if they have dark red skins – but is one of the only dishes I can think of which is excusable to make with good peaches too (such peaches are so hard to find it is normally a travesty to do anything other [...]
Holders Brazil were knocked out of the Copa America Sunday, after a woeful penalty shoot-out display against Paraguay in Argentina. The star-studded Brazilians missed all four of their spot-kicks as Paraguay went on to win 2-0 and earn a place in the last four of the competition. A disappointing match ended goal-less, as both [...]
Worries about Europe’s banking woes and debt problems in the US dragged global stock markets lower on Monday. The results of stress tests on European banks that were released after the close of trading Friday overshadowed the start of this week’s trading. The results did little to reassure investor confidence in the continent’s shaky [...]
Scores of Bangladeshi textile spinners are facing the spectre of international arbitration and “black-listing” after a dramatic fall in cotton prices prompted them to cancel purchase orders worth more than $500 million. Sources said Liverpool-based International Cotton Association (ICA) has written to the Bangladeshi cotton importers that the cancelled orders could prove “costly and [...]
Six students were bludgeoned to death by a mob of several hundred villagers in Aminbazar on the outskirts of the capital on Shab-e-Barat early yesterday. The reason behind the attack, which also left another person injured, remains unclear. But locals and police claimed the youths were robbers. Al Amin, the lone survivor who suffered [...]
Whistle-blower Sean Hoare, a former reporter of the News of the World, who first leaked the phone-hacking matter by his organisation, has been found dead at his home. Police are probing the possibility that Hoare has killed himself and said his death was ‘not thought to be suspicious’. His body was found at 10.40am [...]
Libyan and U.S. officials met face-to-face, but while Tripoli said it was seeking talks with no preconditions, Washington said it delivered a clear message: Muammar Gaddafi must go. The secret meeting occurred at the weekend as Libyan government forces fought rebels for control of the oil port of Brega, which the insurgents said on [...]