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Rape joke on Fox cartoons draws attention

September 24, 2014 0

NEW YORK (AP) — The Fox network isn’t responding to suggestions that it edit its upcoming crossover episode of “The Simpsons” and “Family Guy” to remove a joke where the punch line is “your sister’s being raped.”

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B4U enters film distribution with ‘The Best Of Me’

September 24, 2014 0

New Delhi, Sep 24 (IANS) B4U, one of the leading Bollywood film and television networks, is entering into film distribution in collaboration with Relativity Media, a next-generation media company, with Hollywood film “The Best of Me”.

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‘I’ event one of the best I have seen: Schwarzenegger

September 24, 2014 0

New Delhi, Sep 24 (IANS) Hollywood action star Arnold Schwarzenegger has thanked producer Aascar Ravichandran for his hospitality and making his Chennai visit “incredibly successful”. He also praised the filmmaker’s forthcoming Tamil romantic-thriller “I” as a “dynamic film”.

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Mars mission ‘massive achievement’, says B-Town

September 24, 2014 0

Mumbai, Sep 24 (IANS) India Wednesday created space history by becoming the first country in the world to enter Mars’ orbit in its maiden attempt. Expressing their joy, Bollywood stars say that it is a “historic” moment for all Indians.

India successfully puts spacecraft in Mars’ orbit

September 24, 2014 0
Screens show Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeting Indian Space Research Organisation scientists and other officials after the success of Mars Orbiter Mission at their Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network complex in Bangalore, India, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014. India triumphed in its first interplanetary mission, placing a satellite into orbit around Mars on Wednesday morning and catapulting the country into an elite club of deep-space explorers. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

NEW DELHI (AP) — India triumphed in its first interplanetary mission, placing a satellite into orbit around Mars on Wednesday morning and catapulting the country into an elite club of deep-space explorers.

India triumphs in maiden Mars mission

September 24, 2014 0
Indian security personnel walks in front of PSLV-C25 carrying the Mars orbiter before its launch in Sriharikota

By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s low-cost mission to Mars successfully entered the red planet’s orbit on Wednesday, crowning what Prime Minister Narendra Modi said was a “near impossible” push to complete the trip on its maiden attempt. The Mars Orbiter Mission cost $74 million or about three-quarters of the amount to make the Oscar-winning movie ‘Gravity’ about astronauts stranded in space. …

India successfully puts spacecraft in Mars’ orbit

September 24, 2014 0
FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2013, file photo, Indian engineers work on the Mars orbiter spacecraft at the satellite center of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in Bangalore, India. The Indian spacecraft is due to slip into Martian orbit Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014 (Wednesday morning in India). It's India's first interplanetary mission, and no nation has been fully successful getting to the red planet on its first try. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi, File)

NEW DELHI (AP) — India triumphed in its first interplanetary mission, placing a satellite into orbit around Mars on Wednesday morning and catapulting the country into an elite club of deep-space explorers.