The court of metropolitan magistrate GM Patel on Thursday sent five persons, accused in the 26/7 Ahmedabad serial blast case, to seven-day police remand. The five, identified as Nasir Ahmed Patel, Sakil Ahmed Mali, Nadeem Abdul Syed, Dr Astaullah HA and Mohammed Sami Raj Ahmed, were produced before the court after the city crime branch [...]

What would happen if you combined television’s hottest new shows Rakhi Ka Swayamvar and Sach Ka Saamna? The reason I’m asking is because often, when I watch Rakhi Sawant on television, I wonder: who exactly is she trying to fool? Don’t get me wrong, I’m as addicted to the show as all of you [...]

CNN-IBN’s sister channel Viacom 18’s General Entertainment Channel Colors celebrates its first anniversary on Tuesday, July 21. Colors made an impressive entry by heavily promoting Akshay Kumar’s first small screen appearance in Khatron Ke Khiladi. Within a year, it has cemented it’s position with reality shows like Bigg Boss 2 and daily soaps like [...]

The Lahore High Court today adjourned the hearing of controversial pacer Shoaib Akhtar’s 18-month ban and fine case till tomorrow after listening to arguments of legal counsels of both the parties. Justice Imtiaz Siddique adjourned the hearing till tomorrow because Akhtar’s legal counsel, Abid Minto, had to appear before a bench in connection with [...]

Finally, my hunch has come true. How can a choosy hottie like Rakhi actually marry someone on a TV show? Ofcourse, it’s a first on Indian television and makes for some riveting entertainment (in parts), but I was not able to reconcile with the fact that the finalists on the show happened to be [...]

Manas Katyal, Chittiz Jain, Elesh Parujanwala and Manmohan Tiwari in the final race to win Rakhi’s heart. Rakhi visits their respective houses to get close to their family and friends. The countdown has finally begun…the journey that began with sixteen prospective grooms has now culminated to the final four. All eyes are now glued [...]

Kambli is the first celeb contestant on the show. Kambli, we hear, has answered tough and edgy questions with poise. Host Rajeev Khandelwal put across personal questions about his cricketing career, his well-known friendship with his pal of 26 years – master blaster Sachin Tendulkar – and more. As usual controversy has followed Kambli [...]

Two new reality shows, “Sach Ka Saamna” and “Iss Jungle Se Mujhe Bachao”, have hit the Indian small screen in quick succession, adding to the list of programmes adapted from tried and tested international formats. Industry experts say it isn’t lack of originality that makes producers and creative heads of channels adapt foreign formats; [...]

What is common between Jagdish Tytler, Vinod Khanna, Renuka Chowdhury, Ram Vilas Paswan and Shakeel Ahmed ? All of them are among 36 former MPs who are unauthorised occupants of government accommodation in Delhis Lutyen’s zone, a Right to Information (RTI) application has found out. The RTI application was filed by Delhi-based activist Subhash Chandra [...]