Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is entering the Indian newspaper space in association with Chennai-based Kalanithi Maran, owner of the Sun group. The Sun, the flagship publication of Murdoch’s News Corporation, is in talks with Maran’s Sun group to launch an English tabloid in the country. Sources close to the development said the tabloid was likely [...]
It looks like hot and happening director Anwar Rasheed has run out of luck. He was shot to fame overnight with his very first film Rajamanikkam becoming a big blockbuster. People in Kollywood were keen to get the remake rights of this comic flick starring Mammootty, Padma Priya and Sindhu Menon. Anwar was supposed to [...]
Mohanlal is undoubtedly one of the most talented actors in Indian cinema. He has several hit films under his belt and had won National Awards for best actor twice for his performance in Bharatham and Vaanaprastham. He had also been conferred India’s highest civilian honour Padma Shri Award for his contribution to Indian cinema. His [...]
Presidency College will offer B.Com and BCA programmes exclusively for hearing-impaired candidates from the coming academic year. “Applications will be issued in the third week of May. We will take 15 students for each course,” Presidency College Principal S. Ramanathan said. The courses, to be offered in Tamil, will be taught free of cost. Teachers [...]
The University of Madras will hold an educational exhibition from May 9 to 12 to inform students and parents about the courses on offer. Vice-Chancellor S. Ramachandran will inaugurate the exhibition at 10 a.m. on Wednesday. Details of admission requirements and salient features of courses offered by various departments will be displayed on the posters. [...]
HCL Infosystems Limited, an information enabling company, plans to set up 100 career development centres (CDC) across the country in the next 12 to 15 months.  Addressing the media here, STM Eswar, associate vice-president (technical support and services) of the company, said 20 centres were already operational in seven cities and the company planned [...]
According to the Kollywood sources, Rajini has accepted to do his next film after Shivaji, which will be a joint venture of Kavithalaya – Sathya Movies. There is a possibility for the inclusion of Panchu Arunachalam’s P.A.Art production also in this project. This may be a thanksgiving project of Rajini for the stalwarts like K.Balachander, [...]
It’s the teaming together of the director – hero duo who had given us a lively entertainer like ‘Adithadi’. ‘Adavadi’ was earlier titled ‘Reel Number 15’ and has since undergone a title change. The director, too, who was earlier called Shivraj has now re-christened himself Bharathanna. The backdrop to the story is the film world, [...]
Though the film Paruthi Veeran has become a big engrosser at the box office, the director of the film Ameer is still waiting for the reimbursement of his own money spent on the film after the producer dropped the project half-way. When Ameer launched the project with Actor Sivakumar’s son Karthi, K.E.Gnanavel Raaja came forward [...]
 Malavika is all set to make an entry in small screen. Buzz is that the actress has agreed to compear a chat show in a prominent Tamil satellite channel. In the recent past, the number of big screen artistes taking a plunge into the small screen has risen. The likes of Gowthami, Sangeetha and [...]
A 15-member Indian cricket team, led by captain Rahul Dravid, left this morning for Dhaka to play three one-dayers and two Test matches in Bangladesh. Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Wasim Jaffar, V V S Laxman, Anil Kumble, Rajesh Pawar, V R V Singh and Ramesh Powar, who are included only in the Test squad, will [...]
Asked whether Nokia plans to invest further to ramp up its capacity, Mr Peterson said, “I expect that we shall increase the capacity. But how much and when and what what will be the investment, we are looking at all these issues.† Having shipped more than 25 million phones in one year, Finish mobile [...]