Girish Rao

"'I was definitely not expecting to win a National Award for my directorial debut.But as a director, I was hoping against hope the film should get an award for its content and subject treatment,'' said .

Journalist Girish Rao has a small role in the film

The actor will return to television with Chitte Hejje

NEW DELHI: Consumer durables major BPL on Saturday announced the launch of a slew of new products in the colour television, refrigerator and washing machine segments to coincide with the festival season.

Tension gripped people attending a wedding at TTD Kalyanamandapam in Himayatnagar when an anonymous person made a phone call to the police control room saying that a bomb was placed at the marriage hall on Sunday morning.

Budding journalists will get to interact with noted names in the field of journalism.

A 'very very urgent' land measurement facility was inaugurated in Pimpri recently by Pimpri-Chinchwad mayor Vaishali Ghodekar.

The QS World Grad School Tour - a graduate education fair for aspiring candidates - saw universities from the USA, UK, Australia, Canada, Italy, Germany and others offering students varied courses.

Four more persons filed habeas corpus petitions in the Gujarat high court on Tuesday and sought the court’s directions to the police and child welfare authority to produce their children, living at the Yogini Sarvajnapeetham in Ahmedabad before the court.

Soccer mania sent sales of colour TV sets soaring, with major manufacturers selling the highest number of TVs in June.

BANGALORE: India may be a developing country in terms of infrastructure, but if the pressure on margins faced by the financial services sector is taken into consideration, the country qualifies to carry a `developed' economy tag.

The three-day state annual conference organised by the Association of Maxillofacial Surgeons of India saw many eminent experts sharing their views on head and neck cancer, dental implants, facial trauma, tumour of face and jaws with special focus on methods of treatment beneficial to large

Five persons moved the Gujarat high court on Monday seeking transfer of investigation from Vivekanandnagar police station to an independent agency in the complaints filed against the Nithyananda ashram authorities.

Leading developers like Rahejas and Shapoorji Pallonji have tied up with consumer durable companies.

Konkani Kutam Bahrain, a voluntary forum formed in 2000 for promoting Konkani language, literature and culture, will confer this year’s 18th Konkani Literary Award on Karnataka Konkani Sahitya Academy Award winner JF D’Souza from Attavar here.

Indians are feeling more secure than ever and splurging on personal and home fashion.

NEW DELHI: Colour television makers dream run is likely to continue. The cricket world cup in February 2003 is already upping the expected sales figures for January-March 2003 and for the entire year.

The promoters are targeting to build the country's largest mid-tier business hospitality chain of some 1,000 hotels across 100 cities and towns over a span of ten years.

An Intermediate student died and his classmate sustained injuries when a home guard carelessly opened the door of a parked Rakshak vehicle from inside which led to the students' vehicle crashing on to the police vehicle.

While NITK received Rs 20 crore under phase I of TEQIP, the Union government under a World Bank funded programme has sanctioned Rs 12.5 crore for setting up these centres of excellence and already released Rs 6 crore for the purpose.

Shell India Markets Private Limited is keen to leverage strengths of students in technical institutions across the state who are keen to make a foray into experimental research and development.

With big names in the insurance industry buying equity interest in TPAs, general insurance companies are planning to withdraw their business from them.

NEW DELHI: The Indian cricket team is not the only one failing to notch up numbers. The colour TV sellers too are failing to score with their customers. The market, it appears, refused to respond to the World Cup.