Ketan Mehta and Deepa Mehta organised a filmi do at the Courtyard by Marriott with much fanfare.

I had featured one of my images from Nandi Hills a few days ago on paintedstork facebook page. Browsing through the page this morning, I realized that many of my pictures from Nandi are scattered across several posts on my blog. Nandi Hills has many moods that vary with the season. It may look like a dull rocky hill with scrub forest and a few gardens during the first visit. At least that’s what I thought about it. But subsequent trips revealed many interesting faces of the hill.

Chandigarh, Sep 3 (IANS) The Haryana assembly was adjourned for the day Friday - the first day of its monsoon session - following an uproar in the house by opposition parties who were seeking a discussion on the recent floods in the state.

The UAE says it will block BlackBerry e-mail, messaging and Web services on October 11 unless authorities can gain access to the data traffic.

The body found in the Lakhisarai jungles late Friday morning (September 3), has been identified as being that of sub-inspector Lucas Tete, one of the four policemen captured and held hostage by Maoists. The body was identified by Tete's colleague, Devnath Paswan. The body was accompanied by a letter in which Maoists warned that the remaining three hostages would also be killed unless the Bihar government accepted their demand for release of 8 of their arrested leaders.