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London, Sept 8 (ANI): A record breaking 205,000 plastic ducks floated down the Thames on Sunday as part of the third annual Great British Duck Race in London.

The event shattered the previous record of 175,000 ducks in a similar race held in China earlier this year.

“The duck race is a fantastic opportunity to have some [...]

New Delhi, Sep. 2 (ANI): President Pratibha Patil on Wednesday left for a weeklong visit to Russia and Tajikistan.

Patil was accompanied by Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Murli Deora and Minister of State for Textiles, Panabaka Lakshmi.

Strengthening bilateral ties with these countries will be top of the agenda of the visit.

Patil will [...]

New Delhi, Sep. 2 (ANI): President Pratibha Patil will leave on a weeklong visit to Russia and Tajikistan from today.

She will be accompanied by Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Murli Deora and Minister of State for Textiles, Panabaka Lakshmi.

Strengthening bilateral ties with these countries will be top of the agenda of the visit. [...]

New Delhi, Sep. 1 (ANI): President Pratibha Patil will leave on a weeklong visit to Russia and Tajikistan from Wednesday.

She will be accompanied by Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Murli Deora and Minister of State for Textiles, Panabaka Lakshmi.

Strengthening bilateral ties with these countries will be top of the agenda of [...]

Washington, August 27 (ANI): Quentin Tarantino is set to be honoured with the 2009 Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film for his contribution to cinema.

The ‘Kill Bill’ director will receive the honour at a pre-event for the 2010 Santa Barbara International Film Festival, that will run from 4-14 February, 2010 in California.

“We are beyond [...]

Paris, July 14 (ANI): Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh arrived in Paris late on Monday night to participate in the National Day celebrations of the Republic of France.

Dr. Singh was received by French Justice Minister Michele Alliot-Marie and Ambassador of France to India Bonnafont. He was presented a Guard of Honour by the republican guards. [...]

Imphal, July 12 (ANI): Goura Leela, a traditional performing art form was recently staged in Imphal.

The objective of this gala show, performed over four days, was to promote and conserve the unique dance from going into the oblivion.

Goura Leela, a traditional performing art of Manipur is based on the events that took place in the [...]

London, July 9 (IANS) Soccer star David Beckham has revealed that he named his third son Cruz after his superstar friend Tom Cruise.
The soccer ace who is married to former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham became close friends with the “Top Gun” actor in 2003 and got inspired by him so much so that he named [...]

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The Macau Special Administrative Region, is one of the two special administrative regions of the People’s Republic of China, the other being Hong Kong. Macau lies on the western [...]

New York, July 1 (ANI): Senator John McCain’s daughter Meghan wants Hillary Duff to play her in a movie version of her first book – still to be released.

The blonde blogger, who began to receive media attention in 2007 for her blog, McCain Blogette, has already drawn her [...]

New York, July 1 (ANI): Madonna repeated the infamous bunny ears that she wore in May to pose for an ad campaign for luxury brand Louis Vuitton.

The Queen of Pop faced the camera for a series of advertisements for Louis Vuitton’s Fall 2009 campaign sporting romantic colours.

The singer was seen wearing the [...]

London, June 20 (ANI): Rockstars Jon Bon Jovi and Ritchie Sambora have been inducted into the US Songwriters Hall of Fame.

The gala, which celebrated 40 years of inductions, was held last night in New York.

Hugely overwhelmed by the recognition, Jon Bon Jovi said: “It’s the closest thing to immortality that we’re ever going to see [...]

Amritsar, May 30 (ANI): Many children of rickshaw-pullers, domestic helps, migrant labourers, and single or abandoned mothers in Amritsar have found an unusually young guardian who wants to transform their lives.

At first sight, the 22-year-old [...]

London, May 20 (ANI): Hollywood actress Cameron Diaz and her mother Billie were spotted enjoying a lunch date with rocker Adam Levine.

Just a day after being spotted enjoying an intimate lunch date with Adam Levine in Los Angele, Cameron introduced the former to her mother Billie, and the three seemed to have a gala time.

However, [...]

New York, May 20 (ANI): R ‘n’ B star Rihanna was recently spotted at a strip club enjoying herself to core, according to sources.

The ‘Umbrella’ hitmaker was accompanied by an army of six pals to the strip club, where the group had a gala time.

“Rihanna didn’t get any lap dances herself, but she was tipping [...]

Bhopal, May 17 (ANI): Hundreds of people visited a three-day puppet festival here in which entertaining skits were performed by various artistes.

Organised at the popular Rabindar Bhavan between May 12 to 14, the festival was a hit among the young and old alike.

Children, in particular, enjoyed the event the most, as they had gala time [...]

Bangalore, May 16 (ANI): The graduation of the creative designer students of the Army Institute of Fashion Designing (AIFD) in Bangalore was marked by a gala fashion show.

Several models sashayed down the ramp at this colourful fashion-cum-passing out parade that was aptly titled Design Dapple-2009 and provided [...]

New Delhi, May 12 (ANI): Lin Hao is no longer camera shy, for the youngest of China’s “quake heroes” to emerge from last year’s catastrophe is filming for a third television role.

The 10-year-old, who had rescued two fellow students from classroom rubble after being left with a head injury that required a hair transplant, is [...]

New York, May 9 (ANI): Jack McCollough’s reps have revealed that the head-butt, alleagedly given by actor Kiefer Sutherland, left the fashion designer with a broken nose, which even had to be operated upon.

The reps for McCollough have said that the designer required surgery for his injuries after the alleged incident.

“Mr. McCollough suffered a broken [...]

New York, May 8 (ANI): While any woman would get flattered if she they had two men fighting over her, Brooke Shields is an exception.

The ‘Lipstick Jungle’ star, who was recently at the centre of a fight between Kiefer Sutherland and designer Jack McCullough, is under stress because of the scandal.

The actress was attending the [...]