Cross cultural friendship comes easy when you listen to Frederic Chopin's waltz against the backdrop of a theme inspired by Rabindranath Tagore. The occasion was the celebration of the 200th birth anniversary of Polish composer Chopin at IIC on Saturday.The magic of Chopin's music, which has struck a chord in the hearts of millions of people around the world, came ...

GET SET for a cultural extravaganza as Delhi will host a series of programmes on art, culture, cinema, heritage and cuisine in the next two months to celebrate the Commonwealth Games.On the platter are plays featuring Javed Akhtar, Shabana Azmi and Tom Alter, ghazal performances by Jagjit Singh, mushairas by Nida Fazli and Gulzar besides performances by Shankar Mahadevan, Kailash ...

BOLLYWOOD actress Priyanka Chopra is having a tough time keeping movie directors happy.She reportedly rubbed director Kunal Kohli the wrong way after turning down his movie offer. This apparently hasn't gone down well with the director who has sworn not to cast the actress in any of his future movies.Priyanka, on the other hand, has been rather busy with the ...

THE blame game over the forthcoming Commonwealth Games has finally found a satirical release. A collection of 44 caricatures by Manish Tripathi at the India Habitat Centre, strikingly captured the essence of the burlesque drama that unfolds before the public every day.From the ubiquitous ' Work in Progress' signage, which incidentally was also the title of the exhibition, to caricatures ...

AN IAS OFFICER with the Delhi government allegedly misused his official position to get more than ` 45 lakh in medical bills reimbursed.When R. K. Saxena, the HR director of the Delhi Transco Ltd ( DTL), developed medical complications five years after his first kidney transplant in India in 2003, he travelled to Singapore and had a second transplant at ...

THE Centre on Monday evaded any direct reference to the distribution of free food to the poor but submitted before the Supreme Court that there was no truth in reports pointing to a confrontation with the court on this issue.Additional Solicitor General Mohan Parasaran told the court that its order had received the " highest consideration" by the government which ...

More than one in ten fathers becomes depressed after the birth of his child, says research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) NOW THAT menopause has been accepted as a male problem as much a female one, it shouldn't surprise you to learn that men say they are also suffering from pregnancy related issues typically associated ...

Will hit RCom's plans to cut its debts of `29,078 cr ANIL Ambaniled Reliance Communications ( RCom) and India's mobile phone tower operator, GTL Infrastructure on Monday said they have called off the deal to merge their telecom tower business that could have created the world's largest independent telecom infrastructure company.In June, RCom unit Reliance Infratel and GTL had announced ...

KONKONA Sen Sharma tried hard to keep news of her marriage to boyfriend Ranvir Shorey a secret.But it didn't work and she is herself to be blamed. The couple surely managed to keep things under wraps by getting married before very close family and friends.However, two days after the reception, Konkona herself wrote in twitter: " Hey guys. Ranvir and ...

A MBIENCE Mall, Vasant Kunj threw open its doors to the public with the launch of the superpremium lifestyle retail store The Collective. And in tow were all people bright and beautiful, including Bollywood biggies filmmaker Karan Johar and designer Manish Malhotra.The retail chain, which houses some of the most desired international labels, is part of the Aditya Birla Nuvo ...

Lasik surgery offers an option for those keen to shed their glasses or contact lenses. We provide you an update KARAN VIR Arya needed glasses right from his childhood and by the time he got to college, he was tired of them. Contact lenses became the next best option.But twelve years later, he started feeling uncomfortable as the lenses began ...

THE Maoists on Monday set free all three Bihar policemen, bringing to an end a tense hostage drama nine days after they were abducted following a fierce gunbattle in the forests of Lakhisarai district.The policemen - sub- inspector Abhay Prasad Yadav, probationer sub- inspector Rupesh Kumar Sinha and Bihar Military Police ( BMP) havildar Ehsan Khan - were released " ...

PRODUCER J. D. Majethia has accused filmmaker Karan Johar of plagiarism on a social networking website.Apparently, Karan's idea of inviting television artistes to watch his film We Are Family was originally JD's idea for his upcoming comedy movie Khichdi . He has visibly disclosed the same on a networking site that " KJo has made the Parekh family cry as ...

MOTORISTS in Delhi are known to find innovative solutions to negotiate the city's daily traffic snarls.But what takes the cake is the use of foot overbridges, meant for pedestrians, by two- wheeler riders at busy intersections and on the Ring Road, such as the one near Sarai Kale Khan.The Ring Road here has long frustrated illegal U- turn attempts by ...

RANBIR Kapoor is stuck in a dilemma these days. He is confused whether he should promote Anjaana Anjaani or Do Dooni Chaar . Anjaana Anjaani is scheduled to release on September 24 while Do Dooni Chaar releases just 15 days after on October 8.While Ranbir is emotionally attached to Do Dooni Chaar, he is professionally concerned about Anjaana Anjaani.For Ranbir, ...

FASHIONISTAS have panned starlet Sonakshi Sinha even before her debut film Dabangg has hit the theatres.The reason is not just the ' behenji ' look donned by the debutant in her upcoming film, but also her conservative dressing off screen.She has been criticised for being covered from head to toe in the least fashionable outfits.The actress has made it loud ...

Unfinished Games sites, traffic jams & the fear of dengue put off potential visitors Spoke in the wheelUnfinished Games sites, traffic jams and dengue put off potential tourists Hotels may be forced to rethink the hike of 15- 20% on lean bookings THE COMMONWEALTH Games, 2010 were expected to provide a big boost to the fortunes of hoteliers in Delhi. ...

Scleroderma is arare disease that causes tightening of the skin and stiff joints and can lead to several health complications IMAGINE a condition which causes your skin to become so tight that you can't even open your mouth, swallow food or bend your fingers properly. In fact, scleroderma makes it difficult for people to even move." This is a rare ...

THE Delhi and District Cricket Association ( DDCA) finally had something to cheer about on Monday when Andy Atkinson, the International Cricket Council's ( ICC) pitch consultant, inspected the square at the Ferozeshah Kotla and said he was happy with the progress.The DDCA can heave a sigh of relief because not only did the ICC consider the pitches at the ...

A CAUTIOUS Election Commission ( EC) announced on Monday that the Bihar assembly polls would be held in six phases, starting on October 21, belying hopes that it was ready to complete the exercise in a maximum of four laps.The process would be completed in more than a month's time with polling for the last phase slated for November 20 ...

Athletes took off- the- shelf supplements without supervision IN THE recent controversy surrounding the dope taint on 12 leading Indian athletes, the role of the various national sports federations ( NSFs) and the Sports Authority of India ( SAI) in turning a blind eye to the drugs menace has gone unnoticed. It is they who have been found wanting when ...

AFTER a gap of five months, the Professional Golfers Tour of India ( PGTI) returns to the Delhi and NCR as the Rs 25 lakh PGTI Players Championships tees off at the Golden Greens Golf and Country Club in Gurgaon from Tuesday.PGTI Order of Merit leader ( OOM) Mukesh Kumar and runner- up Shamim Khan will head the 100- man ...

It is now looking to expand its drilling infrastructureTHE COST of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd ( ONGC's) hunt for oil and gas exploration has come down this year as hiring charges for drilling rigs have fallen to half of last year's levels.ONGC chairman and managing director ( CMD) R. S. Sharma told M AIL T ODAY that while ...

FOUR persons were killed and several others wounded in police firing at Palhalan in Kashmir on Monday.The police and paramilitary forces allegedly opened fire at people coming out of a mosque mistaking them to be protesters.The police said they have ordered an inquiry into the incident and seized weapons of the personnel involved in the incident to ascertain who was ...

FOURTEEN patients, including seven infants, dead since Saturday night. This is the toll exacted by the Rajasthan resident doctors' statewide strike in government hospitals of Jodhpur alone. The stir, against an alleged lathicharge on medicos in Jodhpur, has paralysed healthcare services in all hospitals attached to the state's six medical colleges.The situation worsened on Monday when even senior doctors, including ...