Shabana Ansari Dna

• Maharashtra Navnirman Sena objects to film on North Indian divide

  A film based on a real life incident about the Maharashtrian-North Indian divide has invited the ire of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS). Taking offense to the promos of '332 Mumbai to India', MNS activists have demanded that the film should be cleared by the party leader Raj Thackeray before it hits cinema halls. The movie is based on the hija...

• We were not drunk during accident, says Indian Idol Abhijeet Sawant

  Singer Abhijeet Sawant has denied that he and his colleagues were under the influence of alcohol when one of them rammed a scooter on Tuesday night, injuring two teenage riders."Reports being flashed on news channels that we were drunk and were racing our cars for fun are untrue. We are shocked at this kind of irresponsible reporting," said Sawant,...

• Survivors gather in city to pay homage to terror attack victims

  On his first visit to the city, Sameer Narula has a fixed itinerary. The Agra-based software engineer, who is staying with his cousins in the Western suburbs, plans to visit Gateway of India, Taj Mahal and Oberoi hotels and Leopold Cafe. "It may sound absurd and insensitive but I am on terror tourism to Mumbai," admitted the 23-year-old, a tad apol...

• Mumbai: Mothers in city to work for communal harmony

  Egged on by the belief that mothers and movies have the power to change the world, a Mumbai-based organisation has tied up with an international women's advocacy group to create awareness about the need for religious tolerance and communal harmony in these troubled times."As mothers, we have the power to influence our children positively. We are ho...

• Michelle's hairdos are a cut above the rest for Mumbai's fashionistas

  Tired of meeting the same person in the mirror for years, software engineer Deepika Saha decided to try a new look this Diwali. And who better to draw inspiration from than US First Lady Michelle Obama, who is scheduled to visit the city this weekend. "The Obamas are everywhere these days - on TV, in the newspapers, even on billboards. The hype sur...

• Mumbai youth unaffected by Sena's burqa ban order

  Every morning before she leaves for her swanky Bandra office, Nafisa Khanum, 23, checks her mail, updates her Facebook status and tweets about her daily routine. Then the software engineer, who lives in a non-descript bylane in Byculla, zips off to work on her scooter, burqa firmly in place.Defying the stereotype, but still adhering to tradition, y...

• Mumbai: Income tax raids on Bollywood personalities

  The Tax Deducted at Source (TDS) wing of the Income Tax department conducted surveys at the residences and offices of filmmaker Yash Chopra, producer Sajid Nadiadwala, and proprietor of Baba Films Govardhan Tanwani. The searches, started on Thursday morning, continued on Friday, I-T sources said.While Chopra was unavailable for comment, Nadiadwala ...

• This Muslim youth is an ace dandiya crowd-puller

  After offering his evening namaaz and thanking the Almighty for a life of love and contentment, Musa Paik gets ready to invoke the Divine Mother. Known for his devotional songs and Gujarati numbers, the 55-year-old singer is a crowd-puller at the dandiya event at the Mhada Grounds in Kandivli."This happens only in India," says Paik, referring to th...

• Shopping sprees, crash diet, dandiya class: A reveller's list

  It's going to be a lavish Navratri this year for Roma Ashar, a 23-year-old technical writer who recently travelled to Gujarat to buy jewellery and traditional clothes for her dandiya outings in Mumbai."I went with two friends and between the three of us, we spent nearly Rs 20,000," says Ashar, a regular at some of the biggest dandiya events in the ...