Sony mobiles from Chennai Sony Ericsson president Miles Flint announcing plans of his company at a press conference today. Also seen is Union Minister Dayanidhi Maran. Sony Ericsson would produce mobile handsets by outsourcing manufacturing to its global partners ? Flextronics and Foxconn, which have set up their facilities in Sriperumbudur, a city suburb. This [...]
T. Rajendar’s Veerasamy is scheduled to be released tomorrow. The veteran T. Rajendar is handling script, dialogues, direction, production, lyrics, and music. T.R. plays the title role as a criminal lawyer. Mumtaz is playing the female lead role. The roles of Aziz and Meghna Naidu are kept secret by the team in order to maintain [...]
Bollywood star and BJP leader Vinod Khanna on Tuesday threw a little poll shock when he declared here that Shilpa “after having excelled at TV show Big Brother is likely to join BJP”. Adding a dash of drama to the announcement, Khanna said the BJP was the “big brother†back home here. Insisting that he [...]
Looks like the first couple of Kollywood didnt wait for long before starting a family. Actress Jyotika is said to be in the family way and the baby is due in August. The actress, who is consulting the same gynaecologist who treated Aishwarya Dhanush, has been going for regular check-ups and is said to be [...]
Twenty-one students from the nursing school of the Stanley Medical College in north Chennai were suspended on Tuesday for allegedly ragging their first year juniors. It was alleged that the juniors were asked to shave off their moustaches, dress up as women and were also shown obscene videos. The dean of Stanley Medical College, Dr [...]
Indian corporate giant Tata Steel and Brazil’s CSN on Tuesday entered the auction ring for the prized trophy  Anglo Dutch steelmaker Corus group  amid reports the bid could go as high as £11 billion. The nine-round auction called by the UK Takeover Panel to decide the winner between the two suitors began at [...]
Windows Vista is “dramatically more secure than any other operating system released”, Microsoft founder Bill Gates has told. Almost six years after its last upgrade, Microsoft has finally unleashed `Vista’, the new version of its ubiquitous personal computer operating system, Windows. Microsoft launched Vista in London, with more than 100m computers predicted to be using [...]
Vaali, the creator of a thousand melodious songs in Tamil has been honored with the prestigious Padmashree award this year. The seventy-year-old lyricist has penned over 1,500 lyrics for Tamil feature films, second only to the late poet Kannadasan. A native of Srirangam, Vaali is not only a lyricist but also a renowned literary figure [...]
During Deepavali, seven movies were released. Among those seven four movies Varalaru, Vallavan, Thalaimagan and E are running well at the theatres after crossing 100 days. Currently, Varalaaru has crossed 100 days in 25 theatres, E in 20 and vice versa with Thalaimagan and Vallavan.†The reason behind the success of these movies is the [...]
Girl students should follow the example set by Congress president Sonia Gandhi, in public life if they were to blossom into good citizens, said Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, here on Monday. Addressing the golden jubilee celebrations of Thiagarajar College of Engineering (TCE), Mr. Karunanidhi hailed Ms. Gandhi as a “valiant woman” who abdicated power to [...]
Shilpa Shetty conquered the hearts and minds of a generation of Britons with her poise and grace in the face of bullying in Celebrity Big Brother and she did so again on Sunday night after an overwhelming 63 per cent of Britons on Sunday voted to crown her queen of the reality TV show. “Things [...]
Former AIADMK MLA V. Paneerselvam has been sentenced to three years rigorous imprisonment and asked to pay a fine of Rs 10, 000 while his two wives have been sentenced to one year RI and told to pay a fine of Rs 5, 000 each in a disproportionate assets case by a special court here. [...]