He has taken a big leap, straight into Hollywood. Ayush Tandon, 12, stars as the child version of protagonist “Pi” Patel in director Ang Lee’s new film even as another Indian boy plays his teenaged avatar. The Mumbai boy has wrapped up his part for the 3D Hollywood movie, Life of Pi. He shot in places like Taiwan and Pondicherry (now renamed Puducherry).

The ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has asked the Prime Minister to dissolve the National Commission for Women, which, they alleged, was working like a frontal organisation of the Congress.

Gone are the days when young men knew their minds! After much hesitation over whether he would or would not be playing the lead in Milan Talkies, Prateik Babbar has finally assented to the project, being produced by Balaji Motion Pictures.

The National Commission for Women (NCW) has demanded an immediate CBI inquiry into the Bhatta Parsaul firing incident in Greater Noida on May 7. Acting NCW chairperson Yasmin Abrar alleged that grave atrocities like rape and murders were committed in the two villages by the Uttar Pradesh police.

Shah Rukh Khan certainly seems to have learned all the right lessons from the failure of his earlier productions: Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani, Asoka and Paheli. After having scalded his hands with projects that were based on great ideas, but couldn’t hold the audience’s interest, SRK now requests a “prototype” of what the final film will look like before he takes it under the wing of his production house Red Chillies Entertainment.

Even as the Bhatta Parsaul land acquisition controversy refuses to die down, the Supreme Court has laid down guidelines for fixing of the compensation to the farmers preferably on the basis of hard evidence about the market value of their land rather than the “guesstimated” price.

Dance should be a mirror to society. It should definitely serve a purpose,” says Mrinalini Sarabhai, the lady who gave a new meaning to Bharathnatyam in its purest form is happy as she looks back. At 93, Mrinalini is still going strong. “I can’t wait for my next performance,” says the danseuse who feels age is just an aspect of one’s mind,

New state finance minister Amit Mitra fell ill after midnight and was admitted to a private nursing home in early hours of Saturday with acute abdominal pain.
“His condition is stable now and there is no cause for concern,” said Pradip Tondon, chief executive officer of the Belle Vue Clinic where Mr Mitra has been undergoing treatment at the intensive therapy unit.

This season Prada paraded a bevy of stripes in all hues and variations on the Milan catwalk. And it didn’t take long for the fashion world, that’s always on a diligent lookout, to embrace good ol’ stripes as the ‘it’ trend of Spring Summer 2011. Hailed and nicknamed as Prada stripes, they are currently a rage among fashionistas.

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who had already announced that she would not travel in an official bullet proof car, on Saturday again proved that she was a “common person” by insisting on following traffic rules like other citizens. She has asked the police department not to bring the entire traffic to a halt from wherever his car passes.