Yet again, predictions were proved accurate when the Shahid Kapoor-Illeana D’Cruz-starrer Phata Poster Nikla Hero opened to 50 per cent footfall on Friday.

It came as a surprise to almost every film buff when a Gujrati film, The Good Road, was announced as India’s official entry for the next year’s Oscars in the Best Foreign Film category

The Uttar Pradesh government, on Sunday night issued a one-line press statement saying that the suspension of IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal had been revoked.

Around 30 bookies from across the country allegedly gathered at a Juhu-based hotel and partied before the Indian Premier League season 6, in a bid to build a rapport and earn huge sums of money during the tournament.

Almost one third of all Central Universities in the country do not currently have a functional department or school of education, despite the fact that India faces a shortage of an estimated 1.4 million trained teachers.

In what may affect several developmental activities of northeastern states, heavily armed Bodo rebels abducted a general manager of the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) from Sonitpur district in Assam.

Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa has demanded that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh facilitate a dialogue between fishermen associations in the state and Sri Lanka in December in Chennai, to discuss ways and means to avoid instances of attacks on and arrests of fishermen, particularly from Tamil Nadu, by Lankan naval personnel.

The government on Sunday said that there is no truth in the charges being levelled by yoga guru Swami Ramdev that it was behind his detention at London’s Heathrow airport.

Demanding President’s Rule in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP on Sunday sought a probe by a Supreme Court-appointed judge into the recent violence in Muzaffarnagar. BJP chief Rajnath Singh, along with senior leaders from the state unit, met President Pranab Mukherjee and submitted a memorandum.

Senior UP minister Mohammed Azam Khan has said that BJP president Rajnath Singh was prevented from visiting Muzaffarnagar on Saturday in order to maintain peace and calm in the area.