Licensee for firearms, cinema halls now just a click away

October 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi Police Tuesday conducted a security drill at a cinema hall and two markets to measure the preparedness level of various authorities in case of any emergency. "A security drill was conducted at Vishal Cinema in Rajouri Garden and at Central Market in Lajpat Nagar and in Najafgarh area," Delhi Police's public relations officer Rajan Bhagat told IANS.

October 1st, 2009 ATF says effort helps fight flow of guns to MexicoHOUSTON — Federal agents have vastly reduced a backlog of investigative leads and increased the number of criminal cases in Houston in a four-month effort to stop the flow of firearms from the U.S. to Mexican drug cartels, officials announced Thursday.

August 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - More trouble loomed for former union minister Buta Singh's son Sarabjot Singh, arrested in a bribery case, with the Delhi Police Tuesday saying it had not found any licences for the three firearms recovered from his house during a raid. "We don't have any record of the firearms recovered from his house," Delhi Police Commissioner Y.S.

July 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - You don't have to switch on the television or get a ticket to a high-security event to follow the visit of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton - it doesn't need more than a click of the mouse. Clinton, who arrived in India Friday night on a five-day visit, will be covered on the social networking sites of Twitter, Flickr and Facebook, through accounts run by the US Department of State Bureau of International Information Programs.

May 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Radhika Sharma, a 19-year-old student has two reasons to rejoice Thursday. One, she has cast her vote for the first time and second, her inked index finger is all she needs to avail 'democracy discounts' being offered by various retail chains, cinema halls and restaurants in the national capital.

April 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The tussle between film producers and multiplexes over revenue sharing is a boon for the Indian home video business. Pegged at Rs.8.63 billion (over $160 million), the industry has been looking up as the row has led to no big movies releasing for nearly one month.

April 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Filmmaker Mani Kaul, who has made movies like 'Uski Roti' (1970), 'Duvidha' (1973), has taken over as the new director general of the Osian's-Cinefan Film Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema. Kaul succeeds film historian Aruna Vasudev, who retired after the 10th edition of the fest last year.

April 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Amod Kanth, a former Delhi police official who was Friday given a clean chit by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Uphaar fire tragedy of 1997, said the allegations against him were 'personal' and had no basis. 'There is nothing at all against me.

April 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Getting right information about loans, credit cards and insurance has now become an one-click affair. Mango Network, a leading digital advertisement and entertainment network company in India, has launched a personal finance service portal - ww.MyIndiaFinance.com.

March 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - There will be candle-light dinners, special movie screenings in cinema halls and dance performances on a lamp-lit stage, as Delhi - along with 2,000 other cities across the world - switches off its lights for an hour Saturday evening to send out a strong message against climate change. A global initiative that aims to send out the message that people are concerned about climate change and that policy makers should make it their foremost priority, Earth Hour - between 8.30 p.m.

March 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court has rejected the plea of Uphaar Cinema owners and real estate tycoons the Ansal brothers for handing over to them the cinema hall, which was sealed after a fire tragedy that killed 59 people in 1997. In their plea, the Ansals stated that they wanted the cinema hall for its productive use.

February 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Lavishing praise on 'Slumdog Millionaire' and 'Smile Pinki' for winning the much-coveted Oscars, Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Anand Sharma Monday said it was 'the finest hour of Indian cinema' on the global stage. The minister congratulated the 'Slumdog Millionaire' and 'Smile Pinky' team for winning the prestigious Oscar Awards, the information and broadcasting ministry said in a statement Monday.

February 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - 'Slumdog Millionaire', which has won as many as eight awards at the Oscars, was Monday granted entertainment tax exemption in Delhi, with Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit saying it had 'created history in the field of Indian cinema'. Dikshit expressed her pleasure over 'Slumdog Millionaire' - a film by British director Danny Boyle with India as its backdrop and at its heart - sweeping the 81st Academy Awards.

January 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi Police Commissioner Y.S. Dadwal Friday said the capital is under more terror threats this year in the run-up to the Republic Day in comparison to last year and the police have taken adequate security measures.

January 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan has slammed Danny Boyle's Golden Globe award winning underdog drama 'Slumdog Millionaire' for showing India in poor light. 'If 'Slumdog Millionaire' projects India as Third World dirty underbelly developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots, let it be known that a murky underbelly exists and thrives even in the most developed nations,' Amitabh said in a posting on his blog www.bigb.bigadda.com Wednesday from Paris, France.