Chennai, April 23 (IANS) Popular star Vijay Sethupathi on Thursday exercised his democratic right to vote in the intensely contested elections to the 234-member Tamil Nadu Assembly. The actor, who cast his vote at the Chennai High School in Kilpauk Garden, proudly displayed his inked finger to the media soon after casting his vote.Several stars from the Tamil film industry too cast their votes in their respective constituencies.Actress Trisha turned up at the St Francis Xavier Middle School to c…
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Barabanki, March 28 (IANS) In a gruesome incident, a 21-year-old youth was allegedly beheaded in Uttar Pradesh’s Barabanki district, police said on Saturday.The incident took place in the Tikaitnagar police station area of Barabanki district.According to officials, after beheading the victim, the accused attacker picked up the severed head and carried it to his house.The victim’s head was later recovered by the police during a search at the house of the accused.The victim has been identified as …
Hyderabad, Feb 25 (IANS) A young YouTuber died by suicide after alleged failure in love with another YouTuber in Hyderabad. They had a break-up a year ago and she was reportedly under emotional stress after that and had allegedly attempted suicide six months ago also.Komali (21), who hails from Visakhapatnam, hanged herself at her uncle’s house in Chitrapuri colony in Manikonda under the limits of Raidurgam Police Station, police said on Wednesday.The incident came to light after Komali’s fa…
Kolkata, Feb 20 (IANS) Eminent Bengali writer Mani Shankar Mukherjee, who was popularly referred to as ‘Shankar’ in the literary circles across West Bengal and the country, died at a hospital in Kolkata on Friday at the age of 92. He was admitted at a Kolkata hospital for quite some time due to age-related ailments and finally breathed his last at that hospital. The Bengali writer is survived by his two daughters.Besides being an eminent writer, Mukherjee had led the corporate communications dep…
Chennai, Feb 19 (IANS) If rumours doing the rounds in the industry are to be believed, ace director Shankar has apparently approached Tamil star Dhanush for one of the pivotal roles in his dream project, ‘Velpari’. For the unaware, Shankar’s dream project ‘Velpari’ is a a dual hero subject. Sources in the industry claim that the ace director made enquiries about Dhanush’s date availability for the project. Interestingly, they also point out that Shankar had participated in the pooja function of …
Chennai, Feb 13 (IANS) Actor L K Akshay Kumar, who played one of the leads along with Vikram Prabhu in director Suresh Rajakumari’s critically acclaimed superhit film ‘Sirai, chose to celebrate the film’s completion of 50 days in theatres by cutting a cake on the sets of his next film, ‘Raawadi’. Interestingly, both films are being produced by the same production house, Seven Screen Studios. The production house took to its X timeline to share pictures of the cake cutting celebration and wrote, …
Chennai, Jan 30 (IANS) If rumours in the industry are to be believed, ace director Shankar is now considering making his dream project, ‘Velpari’, a dual hero subject and is mulling the possibility of casting Tamil star Vikram and Bollywood star Ranveer Singh in the lead. It is a well established fact that Shankar has for long maintained ‘Velpari’ to be his dream project. The film is to be based on the book ‘Veera Yuga Nayagan Vel Pari’, a historical novel penned by well known Tamil writer Su Ve…
Chennai, Jan 25(IANS) Cricketer Dinesh Karthik has now showered praise on debut director Suresh Rajakumari’s critically acclaimed Tamil film ‘Sirai’, featuring actors Vikram Prabhu and LK Akshay in the lead. Taking to his X timeline to share his thoughts on the gripping cop drama, which went on to emerge a superhit, Dinesh Karthik wrote, “Watched SIRAI yesterday. Such a lovely movie. So well shot. Realistic and relatable with a heart warming love story. I’m sure the director would’ve done extens…
Kochi, Jan 6 (IANS) The Special Investigation Team (SIT) has submitted a detailed report to the Kerala High Court, “exposing” a meticulously planned conspiracy behind the Sabarimala gold smuggling case. According to the report, the accused had orchestrated a large-scale theft, with key players including prime accused Unnikrishnan Potti, Pankaj Bhandari, and Bellary-based gold trader Govardhan.The investigation describes the crime as organised and executed with elaborate planning to evade detecti…
Chennai, Dec 30 (IANS) Ace director Shankar has showered praises on debut director Suresh Rajakumari’s critically acclaimed film ‘Sirai’, saying that the film “really moved him to tears in many places.” Taking to his X timeline, Shankar, who is considered one of the leading directors in the Tamil and Telugu film industries, wrote, “#Sirai- Such a good film. Really moved me to tears in many places. Loved all the characters and their performances which stayed with me after the film.”The director t…