Everything you need to know about Kali Talawali: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Kali Talawali: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Islamabad, May 19 (IANS) Though Hindus have richly contributed in the economic prosperity and development of Pakistan's restive Balochistan province since pre-partition days, they are today faced with the dilemma of survival and living "dangerously".
New Delhi, May 14 (ANI): Ranbir Kapoor, who is playing the role of a travel videographer in his upcoming film- 'Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani', revealed some of his travel secrets while promoting the film in Mumbai.
Lucknow, May 13 (IANS) Ram Kali, 107, Uttar Pradesh's oldest prisoner, died late Sunday at the Bulandshahr jail, 403 km from here, police said.
Jaipur, May 10 (IANS) The second edition of Rajasthan Fashion Week (RFW) 2013 began at the Fairmont here Friday with Mumbai-based designer Vikram Phadnis showcasing Rajasthan's traditional outfits and accessories for both men and women.
Kolkata, May 10 (IANS) The over 200-year-old Kalighat Kali temple, one of the city's landmarks visited by tens of thousands of devotees and tourists every day, is set for a makeover, thanks to the intervention of the judiciary.
Ranchi, May 10 (IANS) A senior constable was arrested in Jharkhand's Dhanbad district on charges of trying to sacrifice two girls, police said Friday.
New Delhi, May 7 (IANS) Busy schedules of parents are increasingly deprieving their children of their company and hence, they are growing up cocooned in their own world. A study by Assocham Ladies League (ALL) shows that over 65 percent of youngsters between the age of eight and 24 get to spend less than one hour with their parents.
Mumbai, April 29 (IANS) Bollywood's famed Kapoor family has made a lot of contribution to the film industry, and it is keeping up with the times, says late superstar Shammi Kapoor's actor son Aditya Raj Kapoor, awaiting the release of his project "Parents".
New Delhi, April 18 (ANI): Hundreds of devotees in Delhi offered special prayers at temples on the occasion of the Maha Asthami on Thursday, which marks the penultimate day of the nine-day Navratri festival, dedicated to Hindu mother goddess.
Siliguri (West Bengal), April 15 (ANI): Hindu devotees in Siliguri pierced their bodies and hung from metal hooks while paying homage to Lord Shiva to mark the end of the Bengali calendar.
Kolkata, April 15 (IANS) Devotees thronged the temples of goddess Kali at Kalighat and Dakshineshwar and people greeted each other with sweets as West Bengal ushered in the Bengali new year 1420.
Mumbai, April 14 (IANS) Contrary to his big screen image of a villain, in real life Pran is a "gentleman" with an immense attitude to "professional behaviour", says Amitabh Bachchan and adds that he is happy that the 93-year-old has been named for the Dadasaheb Phalke award.
Mumbai, April 14 (IANS) Actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha feels that the Dadasaheb Phalke award has come to Pran, an actor par excellence, "too late" but adds that the 93-year-old deserves the honour and it is "better late than never".
Mumbai, April 13 (IANS) The Dadasaheb Phalke Award has come in late for Bollywood's iconic villain Pran, says his daughter Pinky. Members of the film fraternity too feel the same.
Tonk (Rajasthan), April 11 (IANS) A few years ago, Shadima Bi, like many other children in Hajipura village in Rajasthan's Tonk district, would feel embarrassed going out in the open to defecate. These days, the morning ablutions do not occupy her thoughts as her village is now open defecation free (ODF).
Kolkata, Apr 9 (ANI): Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will interact with the industry captains on the issue of 'vibrant growth model' here on Tuesday.
Johannesburg, Feb 15 (ANI): The upcoming Indian film Kai Po Che, a film about cricket, politics and love, has wowed the audience at the Berlin film festival on Thursday.
New Delhi, Jan 25 (IANS) Veteran actress Sharmila Tagore has been named for the Padma Bhushan on the eve of 64th Republic Day.
Islamabad, Jan 11 (IANS) Unidentified gunmen Friday shot dead a man and his son in Pakistan's Quetta city, a day after three deadly blasts killed at least 84 people, a media report said.
Bangalore, Dec 25 (IANS) In a pulsating contest typical of any encounter between the arch rivals, Pakistan beat India by five wickets in the first T20 tie in a jam-packed Chinnaswamy stadium here late Tuesday.
Mumbai, Dec 19 (IANS) Shocked over gang-rape of a 23-year-old woman in the capital, Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan says it is "atrocious and unforgivable" and that "even an animal would not behave so".
Siliguri (West Bengal), Nov.16 (ANI): A small group of Indians, who had travelled to Bangladesh for a Hindu fair, returned through the Indo-Bangladesh border gate at Pirijpur village in Siliguri district of West Bengal on Friday.
Kolkata, Nov 14 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee distributed Kali Puja 'prasad' and greeted guests from various parts of the state and abroad as long queues of people were seen at her residence here Wednesday.
Amritsar, Oct.23 (ANI): Pakistani rights activist and former minister for human rights Ansar Burney performed the Kumari Puja here.
Kolkata, Oct 18 (IANS) Former India cricketer V.V.S. Laxman who has played many a memorable innings at the city's hallowed Eden Gardens Thursday attributed his success to goddess Kali at the Kalighat temple.
Kolkata, Oct 15 (IANS) Hundreds of kites dotted the sky above the sprawling Brigade Parade Ground here Monday at the one-day International Kite Festival which kicked off the Kolkata Tourism Festival organised by the West Bengal government.
The Hague, Sep 17 (IANS) PSV Eindhoven suffered a shock 0-1 loss at FC Utrecht, while leaders FC Twente maintained their perfect record in the Dutch football's Eredivisie.
Srinagar, Aug 28 (IANS) People have started calling it the Shah Rukh Khan factor -- Kashmir perhaps could not have had better brand ambassador than the Yash Chopra film unit shooting in the valley.
New Delhi, Aug 28 (ANI): President Pranab Mukherjee and Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari today greeted the nation ahead of the auspicious occasion of Onam, which marks the beginning of the harvest season.
Directed by Rajan Khosa under the banner of Children's Film Society-India, Gattu is a story of small child who is very poor but his dreams are bigger. Gattu cant afford to go to school but always sees the slogan 'Truth with victory in the end' in the school where he lives.
Mumbai, July 6 (IANS) Nandita Das says that "Gattu" is the first work by Children's Film Society, India to be released commercially.
Mumbai, June 12 (IANS) Dibakar Banerjee's "Shanghai" has broken even and the director says his aim was to create a profit-making venture and not a blockbuster.
New York, June 9 (IANS) A US court has issued a temporary order of protection against a Long Island pharmacist following his alleged assault on the president of New York Kali Mandir Hindu Temple, an elderly, disabled left-leg amputee.
New York, May 29 (IANS) "Gattu", a film about a street kid's ambition to be a kite flying champ, made a mark at the New York Indian Film Festival by winning two awards - best film and best young actor award for child artist Mohd. Samad.
Kolkata, May 27 (IANS) An American brewery faced widespread criticism and protests from the Hindu community after it named its latest drink after goddess Kali, but ironically enough liquor is one of the essential offerings made to a deity widely worshipped throughout Bengal and symbolises femnine energy.
London, May 24 (ANI): British stuntman Gary Connery has become the world's first skydiver to leap 2400 feet and safely land without deploying a parachute.
Washington, May 15 (IANS) A US brewer says it is "scrambling" to rename its new beer "Kali-ma", after the Hindu goddess Kali, following an outpouring of criticism from Hindus with the issue being raised in the Indian parliament.
New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) The issue of a beer named "Kali-Ma", after the Hindu goddess Kali, being sold by a company in the US was raised in the Rajya Sabha Tuesday with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) demanding that the government immediately summon the US ambassador.
Kathmandu, May 14 (IANS) At least seven Indians were among those killed when an airplane carrying 21 people crashed on a cliff in western Nepal, less than seven months after 10 Indian tourists were killed in an aircrash.
New Delhi, May 2 (IANS) After its nominees won the mayoral elections unopposed in the east and north municipal corporations in the national capital, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday scored a triple bagging the vaunted post in south Delhi also.
BJP has clinched all the three mayor seats in the trifurcated MCD in Delhi.
New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) An increasing number of women are now stepping out in the world of literature to shape up the voice of feminist authors, feel well-known women authors and publishers.
Kolkata, April 20 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court Friday banned the entry of devotees to the 'Garbha Griha' (sanctum sanctorum) of Kalighat Kali Temple, saying the large number of visits was defacing the shrine.
Film: 'Hate Story'; Cast: Paoli Dam, Gulshan Devaiah, Nikhil Dwivedi; Director: Vivek Agnihotri; Rating: ***1/2
Kolkata, April 14 (IANS) People greeted each other with a warm 'shubho nabo borsho' and exchanged sweets or visited temples to pray for a good year as West Bengal Saturday celebrated the Bengali new year 1419 or 'Poila Baishak'.
Kolkata, April 8 (IANS) Two army personnel rescued four people from drowning in river Hooghly after they were caught in a high tide here Sunday. Soldiers of Inland Water Transport (IWT) Operating Unit of the Corps of Engineers were involved in the rescue act.
Margao, March 31 (IANS) Defending champions Salgaocar Sports Club relied on a solitary penalty strike from Ryuji Sueoka to scrape past Air India in a 22nd round I-League clash at the Nehru Stadium, Fatorda, Saturday.
New Delhi, Sep 8 (ANI): The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, has greeted the nation on the auspicious occasion of Onam.
New Delhi, Sep 8 (ANI): Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansai has greeted the people of the country on the auspicious occasion of Onam.
New Delhi, Sep 8 (ANI): President Pratibha Devisingh Patil has greeted the nation on the occasion of Onam, which is being celebrated tomorrow.
New Delhi/Mumbai, Aug 14 (ANI): President Pratibha Devisingh Patil has condoled the death of Bollywood's legendary actor Shammi Kapoor, who passed away at the Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai on Sunday morning due to chronic renal failure.
Nevada (US), July 18 (ANI): The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) in Cleveland (Ohio, USA) is presenting images of various Hindu deities in an exhibition 'Indian Kalighat Paintings' through September 18.
Kathmandu, Mar 1 (ANI): A previously unknown Himalayan cave culture has been uncovered through gruelling archaeological research in upper Mustang, Nepal.
Mir Ali, Nov.26 (ANI): Pakistani intelligence officials said a suspected US missile strike killed four alleged militants in Pir Kali village in North Waziristan.
Mir Ali, Nov.26 (ANI): Pakistani intelligence officials said a suspected US missile strike killed four alleged militants in Pir Kali village in North Waziristan.
Shimla, Nov.7 (ANI): A number of devotees in Himachal's Shimla district participated in a unique stone-pelting festival this week.
Allahabad/Varanasi/Ayodhaya, Oct.8 (ANI): Thousands of devotees across Uttar Pradesh took holy dips in rivers on the first day of a nine-day long Navratri festival on Friday.
Shimla, Sep 17 (ANI): People thronged to witness a traditional buffalo fight, which was organized to praise god Saturn and goddess Kali here recently.
Nevada (US), June 1 (ANI): Upset Hindus have asked for the immediate withdrawal of "Kali Mints" sold by a Washington (USA) based firm, calling it inappropriate.
Nevada(US), Apr 24 (ANI): Hindus are upset over the depiction of their gods in "Hammer of the Gods" episode in the "Supernatural" TV series reportedly aired on April 22 and say that such trivialization of their sacred deities was disturbing.
Chennai, April 10 (ANI): As part of an age-old ritual, hundreds of religious-minded walked over embers in a pit and pierced their body parts with iron rods here as part of an annual thanksgiving festival to appease deities on Friday.
Kochi, Mar. 31 (ANI): Devotees at Kerala's Aaryyankavu Bhagwathi Temple have devised a new way of performing the banned ancient Thookkam, or body-piercing ritual.
Washington, Mar 16 (ANI): Contrary to stereotypes, young people of today are not self-centered antisocial slackers and generally just as industrious and outgoing as young people in generations past, according to a new study.
London, February 11 (ANI): Singer Cheryl Cole appeared to resemble the Hindu goddess Kali during the filming of her new single, Parachute.
Shimla, Jan. 23 (ANI): Buddhists have been demanding the legal possession of a monastery in Rampur town of Shimla district from the Himachal Pradesh Public Works Department (PWD).
Kuala Lumpur, Jan 19 (ANI): Cops have arrested dozens of foot masseuses from China and Indonesia for being allegedly involved in prostitution racket.
Butterworth (Malaysia), Jan. 16 (ANI): Malaysian-Indian Tamil farmers bathed their cows and bulls and garlanded them with bells tied around their necks, as part of a centuries-old traditional Ponggal celebration.
Kuala Lumpur, Dec. 11 (ANI): A Hindu temple in Malaysia's Perak state will decide in a week whether or not it will vacate the temple premises, as per the district council's order.
Kuchipalli (Orissa), Oct. 22 (ANI): In a significant development, tribals of Kuchipali village in Orissa's Bargarh District have shunned their old practice of animal sacrifice and instead opted to offer a mixture of puffed rice and jaggery a.k.a Jugar to the Hindu Goddess Kali.
Kolkata, Oct. 12 (ANI): Hundreds of devotees gathered at the historical Dakshineshwar Temple near Kolkata to observe 'Kali Puja.'
Tarapeeth (West Bengal), Sep 24(ANI): Devotees and 'tantriks' (exorcists) offered prayers at a crematorium at Tarapeeth in West Bengal during the ongoing nine-day Navratri festival dedicated to the Goddess Durga.
Muzaffarnagar (UP), Aug 27 (ANI): A unique temple in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district is dedicated to cattle.
Abohar, Aug.24 (ANI): The Punjabi Durbar programme of Radio Pakistan has chosen to hurt the feelings of Hindus in border areas by calling the Goddess Kali as "bloodthirsty".
New Delhi, July 3 (ANI): President Pratibha Patil has condoled the passing away of the renowned artist Tyeb Mehta.
New Delhi, July 3 (ANI): Vice President Hamid Ansari has deeply condoled the demise of Tyeb Mehta, renowned artist and recipient of Padma Bhushan.
Mumbai, July 2 (ANI): Noted artist Tyeb Mehta passed away at his residence here on Thursday morning.
Washington, June 22 (ANI): A new research points out that the Tlaltecuhtli Cult in ancient Mexico was meant exclusively for priesthood.
Washington, June 22 (ANI): A new research points out that the Tlaltecuhtli Cult in ancient Mexico was meant exclusively for priesthood.
Kathmandu, May 30 (IANS) After a 48-hour closure, Indian tobacco major ITC's NRS 25 crore, state-of-the-art garment factory in southern Nepal has reopened with the management appeasing the Maoist trade union that flexed its muscle.
Maluti (Jharkhand), May 20 (ANI): Maluti, a village 55 kilometres from Dumka in Jharkhand and bordering West Bengal, is famous for centuries old 108 temples.
New Delhi, May 1 (IANS) A 21-year-old cleric of a madrassa was arrested Friday for allegedly sodomising a 10-year-old boy in the national capital, police said.
Chandigarh, April 22 (ANI): Balbir Singh Seechewal, a college dropout till yesterday, has today become Punjab's most recognized eco-activist, spearheading an anti-river pollution campaign. Today, he is an inspiration to many.
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) From Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan to cricketer Sourav Ganguly and former IPS officer Kiran Bedi - they all love their daughters and say the girl child is precious. They are urging parents not to see daughters as a bane but bring them up with care and make them independent.
Mumbai, April 10 (IANS) The image of the coy beauty seated primly in a makeshift kotha singing 'Raina beeti jaye' in Lata Mangeshkar's soulful voice pervades our senses as now. The gorgeous Sharmila Tagore, who played the prostitute in Shakti Samanta's 'Amar Prem', is deeply grieved by the death of the maker of some of the most sensitive romantic cinema of the 1970s.
Mumbai, April 10 (IANS) Bollywood has lost another veteran filmmaker in Shakti Samanta, known as the wizard of entertainment after giving pure entertainers like 'An Evening in Paris' and 'Kashmir Ki Kali'.
Mumbai, April 9 (IANS) Veteran filmmaker Shakti Samanta died at a hospital here Thursday evening. He was 83.
Srinagar, Apr 6 (ANI): Tourists visiting Jammu and Kashmir are appealling filmmakers to come back and start shooting films in the state once again.
New Delhi, April 4 (IANS) It was a green victory of sorts when an environmentalist in Punjab managed to bring two political adversaries together - and all for the cause of fighting water pollution.
Kolkata, March 18 (IANS) Legendary Bengali singer Ramkumar Chattopadhyay, known for popularising the 'shyama sangeet' and 'tappa' genres in West Bengal, died at a private hospital here Wednesday, hospital officials said. He was 89.
Kathmandu, Jan 15 (IANS) Already under fire for a crippling daily blackout and the recent brutal murder of a young woman journalist, Nepal's Maoist government faces more brickbats in the days to come with a media report that it has given a berth on its reshuffled central committee to an absconding man wanted for the savage beating to death of a trader last year.
Bhubaneswar, Jan 5 (IANS) Maoist rebels have killed a trader in Orissa's Koraput district as they suspected him to be a police informer, officials said Monday.
`Kolkata, Dec 17 (IANS) Three people died and one was seriously injured when a speeding truck collided with a car Wednesday in a West Bengal town, the police said.
New Delhi, Nov 23 (IANS) She gurgles happily, blissfully unaware that hours ago she escaped near death -- flung out of a moving car, a hungry dog shaking the polythene bag she was wrapped in, then miraculously spotted by a woman and saved by police. All at the tender age of six days.
Bodhgaya, Nov 21 (ANI): Thousands of Buddhists from across the world congregated at Bodh Gaya for Krodhi-Kali ceremony for world peace on Thursday.
London, Nov 14 (ANI): German supermodel Heidi Klum has posed for America's latest Got Milk? campaign with a milk moustache on her face.
Kathmandu, Nov 10 (IANS) Nepal's first Maoist Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda will hold bilateral talks with his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh in New Delhi Wednesday.
Kolkata, Nov 8 (IANS) Three people were killed and 13 others injured when a truck hit a bus in West Bengal's Birbhum district Saturday, police said.
Melbourne, Nov 5 (ANI): Heidi Klum has poked 'naked' fun at Hollywood actor Tom Cruise's air guitar scene from a 1980s movie 'Risky Business' in a new commercial for Guitar Hero: World Tour.
London, Nov 4 (IANS) German supermodel Heidi Klum has spoofed Hollywood actor Tom Cruise's air guitar scene from a 1980s movie 'Risky Business' in a new advertisement for a series of music video games Guitar Hero.
New York, Nov 4 (IANS) Supermodel Heidi Klum has stirred a controversy by dressing up as Hindu goddess Kali for a Halloween party, with some Hindus seeking an apology from her and others asserting that she did nothing objectionable.
