Saturday 12 January 2013
'Ek Thi Daayan' trailer: Emraan Hashmi reveals the dark side of the human mind
'Ek Thi Daayan' trailer: Emraan Hashmi reveals the dark side of the human mind
The first trailer of 'Ek Thi Daayan' is out. Directed by Kannan Iyer, the film stars Emraan Hashmi, Konkona Sen Sharma, Kalki Koechlin and Huma Qureshi in the lead roles. The film is scheduled to be released on April 18, 2013. Have a look at the trailer
The first trailer of 'Ek Thi Daayan' is out. Directed by Kannan Iyer, the film stars Emraan Hashmi, Konkona Sen Sharma, Kalki Koechlin and Huma Qureshi in the lead roles. The film is scheduled to be released on April 18, 2013. Have a look at the trailer
'Besharam' First Look: Ranbir Kapoor teams up with 'Dabangg' director
'Besharam' First Look: Ranbir Kapoor teams up with 'Dabangg' director
The first look of director Abhinav Kashyap's 'Besharam' is out. The first poster shows Ranbir Kapoor in colourful clothes and suggests that the film could be a quirky story. This will be Abhinav Kashyap's second film after Salman Khan starrer 'Dabangg'.
19th Screen Awards: Ranbir, Irrfan win the Best Actor, Vidya receives Best Actress
19th Screen Awards: Ranbir, Irrfan win the Best Actor, Vidya receives Best Actress
Ranbir Kapoor and Irrfan have jointly won the Best Actor award for 'Barfi' and 'Paan Singh Tomar' at the Screen Awards, Vidya Balan won the Best Actress.
Katrina Kaif has won the Screen Awards in the Most Popular Actress category while Salman Khan won the same prize in the male category.
'Gangs of Wasseypur' wins the award for the Best Ensemble Cast at the 19th Colors Screen Awards. Directed by Anurag Kashyap, 'Gangs of Wasseypur' has been appreciated as international platforms as well.
Javed Ali won the Screen Awards for the Best Male Singer. Music director Pritam won two awards. He has won the prize in Best Music category for Barfi. His music also got him the award for the Most Popular Music.
The award also brought happiness for Abhishek Bachchan. He and Annu Kapoor have been declared the winners of Best Comic Actor. Big B received the special award at the 19th Screen Awards.
Director Sujoy Ghosh's 'Kahaani' won the award for innovative Sound Designing.
The organisers have introduced a new award this year which is called as the Best Marketing Award.
Late Yash Chopra's wife Pamela Chopra received the Lifetime Achievement Award given to her husband.
Ayushmann Khurrana and Ileana D'Cruz win in the Most Promising Debut category.
The Best Screenplay Award went to Sanjay Chauhan and Tigmanshu Dhuliya for 'Paan Singh Tomar'. They win over nominees Anurag Basu for Barfi!, Gauri Shinde for English Vinglish, Habib Faizal for Ishaqzaade and Sujoy Ghosh for Kahaani.
Delhi rape accused lived on margins of India's boom
Delhi rape accused lived on margins of India's boom
In a village in Uttar Pradesh, a woman sits hunched on the ground in a green shawl, visibly weak and shivering in the January cold. She says she has not eaten for days, and neither have her five young children.
She has never heard of Manmohan Singh, India's Prime Minister, having never ventured further from her village than a nearby market town, and ekes out a living working in potato fields on other people's land.
Her eldest son left home when he was 11. He never returned, and the woman thought he was dead. The first news she got of him was when police from New Delhi turned up at her brick hut to say he had been arrested for the gang rape and death of a student, a crime whose brutality stunned India.
In an interview with Reuters, the mother of the juvenile, the youngest of six members of the gang accused of the attack, recalled the son who left home five or six years ago for the bright lights, and seemed stunned by the accusation against him.
"Today, the infamy he earned is eating me up," his mother said as villagers stood and stared. "I can't even sit with two other people in the village because of the shame that my son has brought to the family."
A 23-year-old physiotherapy student was beaten and raped on a moving bus in the Indian capital on December 16. She was left bleeding on a highway and died two weeks later from internal injuries.
The five men who have been charged with rape and murder are all expected to plead not guilty. One says police tortured him.
The sixth member of the gang, the woman's son, is being processed as a juvenile and has not been charged. He will be tried separately.
Police have said they are conducting bone tests to determine his age as they suspect he may be over 18 years old. Reuters is withholding his name for this story.
The trial of the five men is due to start within weeks.
"BLACK MAGIC"
It is from a life of rural penury that the youth sought to escape, one of about two million Indians who migrate to cities every year, chasing an economic boom that has propelled India for the past two decades but has trickled down slowly to its poor.
Conversations with relatives, neighbours and police show the extent to which the accused lived on the margins of the city's emerging prosperity, holding menial jobs and living in a slum.
Their lives stand in contrast with that of the victim.
She was also from a humble background but funded her studies by taking a job in one of the call centres that are a hallmark of modern India's economy and have helped build an aspirational new middle class.
According to his mother, the youth joined a group of other village boys travelling to New Delhi, found work in a roadside eatery and - for the first year - used to send Rs 600 a month back to his family.
After he stopped sending money, his mother never heard from him again. At first she thought he might have been forced into bonded labour. Later, she presumed he was dead. A couple of months before the rape, she consulted a Hindu holy man about her son, whom she remembered as a good boy.
"The holy man told me that someone has practiced some black magic on him, but that he would come back," she said.
Living on the breadline and with a husband who is mentally ill, the mother works in fields with her daughters to feed her family. Halfway through the conversation with Reuters, she fainted, apparently from hunger, and had to be carried to bed.
About half of her village are landless labourers, and about a quarter of all men migrate to cities in search of work, according to farmer Vijay Pal.
Apple's 27-inch iMac faces production issues
Apple's 27-inch iMac faces production issues
Redesigned from the inside out, the new iMac is built of an aluminium and glass enclosure with up to 40 percent less volume than its predecessor and an edge that measures 5mm. As per an official statement by the company, the new iMac also features a completely re-engineered display that reduces reflection by 75 percent while maintaining colour and contrast. In the new design, the cover glass is laminated to the LCD and an anti-reflective coating is applied using a plasma deposition process. Apple claims that every iMac display is individually calibrated using an advanced spectroradiometer.
The new iMac features third generation quad-core Intel Core i5 processors that can be upgraded to Core i7. According to the official statement by Apple, the NVIDIA GeForce processors found here deliver up to 60 percent faster performance needed for gaming and graphics intensive apps. Every new iMac now comes with standard 8GB of 1600 MHz memory and a 1TB hard drive. Customers can choose to configure their iMac with up to 32GB of memory and a new 3TB hard drive or 768GB of flash storage. With two Thunderbolt and four USB 3.0 ports, the new iMac offers further expandability and support for high-performance peripherals.
The 21.5-inch iMac is available with a 2.7GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 with Turbo Boost speed of up to 3.2GHz and NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M for a suggested retail price of Rs 85,900, and with a 2.9GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 with Turbo Boost speed of up to 3.6GHz and NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M for a suggested retail price of Rs 99,900 including taxes (VAT).
The 27-inch iMac comes with a 2.9GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 with Turbo Boost speed of up to 3.6GHz and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M for a suggested retail price of Rs 122,900. Another variant of the 27-inch iMac with a 3.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 with Turbo Boost speed of up to 3.6GHz and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX is available for a suggested retail price of Rs 134,900.
Apple's 27-inch iMacs seem to be facing a lot of issues. According to Apple's online store, the 27-inch iMac is expected to ship in 3-4 weeks, a long time compared to the 21.5-inch iMacs, which are available to ship in 7-10 business days. According to a report by DigiTimes, this is because LG Display is facing problems in the mass production of the 27-inch iMac. The problem seems to come from full lamination issues when producing the panels. While Apple is able to ship 300,000 to 400,000 units of the 21.5-inch iMac, it is only able to ship 100,000 units a month of the 27-inch iMac.
The latest iMacs were launched back in November. At an event in October, Apple unveiled the completely new iMac with a new design, improved display with reduced reflection, third generation Intel quad-core processors, NVIDIA graphics and a new storage option termed as Fusion Drive. Apple has stressed that the new iMac is the most advanced desktop Apple has ever made.
The latest iMacs were launched back in November. At an event in October, Apple unveiled the completely new iMac with a new design, improved display with reduced reflection, third generation Intel quad-core processors, NVIDIA graphics and a new storage option termed as Fusion Drive. Apple has stressed that the new iMac is the most advanced desktop Apple has ever made.
Facing mass production issues thanks to the screen lamination
Redesigned from the inside out, the new iMac is built of an aluminium and glass enclosure with up to 40 percent less volume than its predecessor and an edge that measures 5mm. As per an official statement by the company, the new iMac also features a completely re-engineered display that reduces reflection by 75 percent while maintaining colour and contrast. In the new design, the cover glass is laminated to the LCD and an anti-reflective coating is applied using a plasma deposition process. Apple claims that every iMac display is individually calibrated using an advanced spectroradiometer.
The new iMac features third generation quad-core Intel Core i5 processors that can be upgraded to Core i7. According to the official statement by Apple, the NVIDIA GeForce processors found here deliver up to 60 percent faster performance needed for gaming and graphics intensive apps. Every new iMac now comes with standard 8GB of 1600 MHz memory and a 1TB hard drive. Customers can choose to configure their iMac with up to 32GB of memory and a new 3TB hard drive or 768GB of flash storage. With two Thunderbolt and four USB 3.0 ports, the new iMac offers further expandability and support for high-performance peripherals.
The 21.5-inch iMac is available with a 2.7GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 with Turbo Boost speed of up to 3.2GHz and NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M for a suggested retail price of Rs 85,900, and with a 2.9GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 with Turbo Boost speed of up to 3.6GHz and NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M for a suggested retail price of Rs 99,900 including taxes (VAT).
The 27-inch iMac comes with a 2.9GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 with Turbo Boost speed of up to 3.6GHz and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M for a suggested retail price of Rs 122,900. Another variant of the 27-inch iMac with a 3.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 with Turbo Boost speed of up to 3.6GHz and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX is available for a suggested retail price of Rs 134,900.
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