Bollywood can now hope to breathe easy. In a landmark decision, the Delhi High Court on Friday struck down the Centre's October 2006 notification banning smoking scenes in films. The HC said that the onscreen smoking is a part of the artist’s creative licence.
While lecturing on this, Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul said, “Director of films should not have multifarious authorities breathing down their necks when indulging in a creative act.”
Option N.V has made announcement about the launching of its new 3G wireless router, named GlobeSurfer III in the market.
The router, specifically designed for mobile operators, valued added resellers and distributors, can easily be connected to external hard drives via its USB interface, which permits users to share and transfer different files and documents.
Country’s esteemed Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas has added another feather to its cap. On Thursday, the LCA Tejas programme logged a remarkable landmark accomplishing 1002 flights.
With this, the Tejas team has become a role model for executing large R&D programmes in the country.
Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) said that the maneuver lasted about 30 minutes and was carried out by Group Captain JA Maolankar, chief test pilot of the National Flight Test Centre.
India is all set to make its first ever 3D videogame, which will be based on Aamir Khan’s record-breaking movie ‘Ghajini’, a hugely popular thriller about a man with short-term amnesia.
There are great expectations that India’s first 3D video game would transform the country’s slow-growing animation and gaming market all the way up to $1.3 billion this year.
While making the announcement, Mr. Sashi Reddy, head of FX labs, which developed the game stated, “There are no Indian games so we wanted to bring Indian games to the audiences here and we built India's first 3D game.”
The 30 share index, Sensex lost 649.24 points to 8,674.35 during the week ended Jan 23, 2009. In contrast, the broad based NSE Nifty tumbled 149.9 points to 2,678.55 in the same period.
Sensex remained choppy throughout the week chasing weak global cues. Meager corporate earnings of top companies dragged the index in the negative zone.
On Monday (Jan 19), Sensex belled the week at 9,381.78 after making a gain of 58.19 points in line with global peers.
Latest Bollywood flick and India’s first made-in-China film, Chandni Chowk to China, has got another reason to be back in the news. The film, this time, has angered the people of Nepal for its false and deceptive references over the birth place of Lord Buddha.
While speaking on this, Nepalese Information and Communication Minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara said, “Nepal's Council of Ministers headed by Prime Minister Prachanda decided to direct the Foreign Ministry to take up the issue with the agencies concerned in India.”
Bollywood can now hope to breathe easy. In a landmark decision, the Delhi High Court on Friday struck down the Centre's October 2006 notification banning smoking scenes in films. The HC said that the onscreen smoking is a part of the artist’s creative licence.
Option N.V has made announcement about the launching of its new 3G wireless router, named GlobeSurfer III in the market. 
Country’s esteemed Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas has added another feather to its cap. On Thursday, the LCA Tejas programme logged a remarkable landmark accomplishing 1002 flights.
India is all set to make its first ever 3D videogame, which will be based on Aamir Khan’s record-breaking movie ‘Ghajini’, a hugely popular thriller about a man with short-term amnesia.
The 30 share index, Sensex lost 649.24 points to 8,674.35 during the week ended Jan 23, 2009. In contrast, the broad based NSE Nifty tumbled 149.9 points to 2,678.55 in the same period.
Latest Bollywood flick and India’s first made-in-China film, Chandni Chowk to China, has got another reason to be back in the news. The film, this time, has angered the people of Nepal for its false and deceptive references over the birth place of Lord Buddha.
