Film: "Kadaram Kondan"; Cast: Vikram, Akshara Haasan, Abi Haasan and Lena; Director: Rajesh M Selva; IANS Rating: * * & 1/2 (two and a half stars)The Kamal Haasan-produced film is based on a French thriller named "Point Blank", and is not one of those run-of-the-mill, star-studded action films that are all style and no substance. It comes across as a decent attempt at giving the Tamil audience a Hollywood-style cracker of a film, with bang-for-your-bucks action and adequate twists. If there's one…

Mumbai, July 19 : Actor Vishal Aditya Singh, who is a participatant in the ninth season of "Nach Baliye", says he is trying to adapt the "carefree" dancing style of actor Govinda."I am a huge fan of Govinda sir and I look upto him when it comes to style and dancing. He has a carefree attitude and that is something I like the most about him. He is my biggest inspiration," Vishal said. Vishal is known for his acting stints in television shows such as "Begusarai" and…

Mumbai, July 19 : As the ugly spat between actress Kangana Ranaut and a section of media continues, Bollywood celebrities from Akshay Kumar and Parineeti Chopra to Siddharth Malhotra and Adah Sharma said that the relationship between the two fraternity should be based on professionalism and mutual respect."The truth is we celebrities and the media share an important relationship. We really need you people because we can reach out to the common people through your medium, and vice-versa. So I hope that the problem that…

Mumbai, July 9 : Actress Sunny Leone who has immense fan following on social media platforms has said she does not get bothered by the trolls.Sunny said this on Monday while interacting with the media during the launch of her own lingerie brand 'Infamous' at the India Licensing Expo 2019 here. Asked whether she feels bad when people troll her due to her dressing sense, she said: "I feel being a celebrity, we get trolled every day but I don't necessarily get bothered by trolls. I wear clothes of my own choice. When I…

Mumbai, July 9 : Actress Sunny Leone who has immense fan following on social media platforms has said she does not get bothered by the trolls.Sunny said this on Monday while interacting with the media during the launch of her own lingerie brand 'Infamous' at the India Licensing Expo 2019 here. Asked whether she feels bad when people troll her due to her dressing sense, she said: "I feel being a celebrity, we get trolled every day but I don't necessarily get bothered by trolls. I wear clothes of my own choice. When I…

New Delhi, July 7 : Ace fashion designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee on Sunday offered an apology after netizens trolled him over an "overdressed women" post on Instagram.Earlier this week, he shared a post on the photo sharing platform. Some of its lines like -- "If you see a woman overdressed, caked with make-up, armoured with jewellery, it is most likely that she is wounded" -- did not go down well with netizens. Some called it "ridiculous" and others questioned who was handling his social media…

Cuttack, July 19: England tried to change the script, but the Indian men brought in a twist to the tale through birthday boy Harmeet Desai to end the English hopes to lift the Host Association's Cup, while Indian women played their characters to perfection to script their win for the India Cup in the 21st Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium on Friday.The Indian men beat England 3-2 while Indian women did the impossible downing Singapore 3-0 to dethrone the defending champions.…

New Delhi, July 19: With the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) making an exception for Yuvraj Singh and giving him permission to play in the Global T20, the doors have been opened and former India skipper and coach Anil Kumble believes that having Indian players in the new T20 leagues is an immense boost not just for the growth of the leagues, but also for the youngsters who ply their trade in those leagues.Speaking to IANS on the sidelines of the Euro T20 Slam draft on Friday, Kumble -- a board member of the…

Hyderabad, July 19: A team management would always want a balanced mix of attack and defence. Having good all-rounders helps on this front which is the reason why such players tend to fetch big price tags during the player drafts. All-rounders can revive their team with their tackles or fetch raid points whenever needed.With the seventh season of the Pro Kabaddi League kicking-off on Saturday, IANS takes a look at five players who can turn a match on its head with their all-round skills: Manjeet Chillar (Tamil…

New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) Global learning platform Udacity on Friday announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to launch the "DeepRacer Scholarship Challenge", to help students expand their deep learning skills.The scholarship programme would add a free course to the Udacity-AWS catalogue that would allow students to create and train themselves in a Reinforcement Learning (RL) model that is part of the AWS "DeepRacer 3D" racing simulator. An advanced Machine Learning (ML) technique, RL is…

San Francisco, July 19 (IANS) Less and less Apple users are sticking with iPhones when it comes to replacement and are switching to Android phones, especially Samsung, a new report by BankMyCell has said.The iPhone trade-in site has been collecting data on the new device people have during the valuation and trade-in of their old iPhone. It essentially lets users sell their used phone and upgrade to a new one. BankMyCell found that 18.1 per cent of iPhone users were trading in their device for a Samsung device in June, the…

New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." As Commander Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon on July 20, 1969, his "Plantronics MS50" headset helped transmit these historic words to the Earth.When the world's powers were in a race to space in the 1960s, NASA approached Plantronics (now Poly) with a seemingly impossible task -- create a lightweight communication headset that would allow astronauts to communicate with the mission control from the Earth to the…

Cuttack, July 19: England tried to change the script, but the Indian men brought in a twist to the tale through birthday boy Harmeet Desai to end the English hopes to lift the Host Association's Cup, while Indian women played their characters to perfection to script their win for the India Cup in the 21st Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium on Friday.The Indian men beat England 3-2 while Indian women did the impossible downing Singapore 3-0 to dethrone the defending champions.…

New Delhi, July 19: With the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) making an exception for Yuvraj Singh and giving him permission to play in the Global T20, the doors have been opened and former India skipper and coach Anil Kumble believes that having Indian players in the new T20 leagues is an immense boost not just for the growth of the leagues, but also for the youngsters who ply their trade in those leagues.Speaking to IANS on the sidelines of the Euro T20 Slam draft on Friday, Kumble -- a board member of the…

Hyderabad, July 19: A team management would always want a balanced mix of attack and defence. Having good all-rounders helps on this front which is the reason why such players tend to fetch big price tags during the player drafts. All-rounders can revive their team with their tackles or fetch raid points whenever needed.With the seventh season of the Pro Kabaddi League kicking-off on Saturday, IANS takes a look at five players who can turn a match on its head with their all-round skills: Manjeet Chillar (Tamil…

Cuttack, July 19: England tried to change the script, but the Indian men brought in a twist to the tale through birthday boy Harmeet Desai to end the English hopes to lift the Host Association's Cup, while Indian women played their characters to perfection to script their win for the India Cup in the 21st Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium on Friday.The Indian men beat England 3-2 while Indian women did the impossible downing Singapore 3-0 to dethrone the defending champions.…

New Delhi, July 19: With the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) making an exception for Yuvraj Singh and giving him permission to play in the Global T20, the doors have been opened and former India skipper and coach Anil Kumble believes that having Indian players in the new T20 leagues is an immense boost not just for the growth of the leagues, but also for the youngsters who ply their trade in those leagues.Speaking to IANS on the sidelines of the Euro T20 Slam draft on Friday, Kumble -- a board member of the…

Hyderabad, July 19: A team management would always want a balanced mix of attack and defence. Having good all-rounders helps on this front which is the reason why such players tend to fetch big price tags during the player drafts. All-rounders can revive their team with their tackles or fetch raid points whenever needed.With the seventh season of the Pro Kabaddi League kicking-off on Saturday, IANS takes a look at five players who can turn a match on its head with their all-round skills: Manjeet Chillar (Tamil…