Author: Starvision Desk

New Delhi, Sep 24 (IANS) As mobile gaming explodes in India with rising number of smartphone users (over 650 million as of now), a top executive of US-based Niantic, the developer behind popular Pokemon GO game, said on Sunday that the company aims to make India among their top 5 markets globally while increasing the user base in the country 10 times in the next three years.Omar Tellez, VP of Emerging Markets, Niantic, shared big plans with IANS on how to take augmented reality (AR)-based Pokemon GO to more users in the country.“My objective is to increase 10 times the…

“Jasprit Bumrah did not travel with the team to Indore for the 2nd ODI against Australia. He has gone to visit his family and given a short break by the team management. Fast bowler Mukesh Kumar has joined the team as Bumrah’s replacement for the 2nd ODI.”The BCCI also mentioned that Bumrah will join the team for the final ODI in Rajkot,” it said in a statement.The 29-year-old picked one for 43 in the first ODI in Mohali and started off his spell with two maiden overs.Bumrah, who became a parent earlier this month, missed India’s Asia Cup opening fixture…

Dev Anand was born Dharamdev on September 26, 1923, in the Shakargarh tehsil of Gurdaspur district of Punjab. His father Pishori Lal Anand was a successful advocate and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi. Dev, the third of four brothers, graduated with English Honours from Government College, Lahore. He moved over to Bombay to join his older brother Chetan, who was trying to get a break in films.Both brothers got involved in the progressive Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA). Chetan made ‘Neecha Nagar’ in 1946 and went on to win the Grand Prix at the inaugural Cannes film festival.Dev told me…

To quench his thirst, he ordered a glass of sugarcane juice from a stall near the Golden Temple. When the vendor took a closer look at him, he exclaimed that Dev Anand had the sun on his forehead, foretelling greatness.The prediction did come true — Dev Anand did become a star that burnt bright across an over six-decade-long career.With his undeniable charm, fast diction, the slight lopsided gait, trademark nodding to add emphasis, the winning winsome smile, and the flamboyant sartorial style, Dev Anand sparkled in a career that began before Independence and lasted into the second decade of the…

Her favourite was Dilip Kumar and a close second was Dev Anand. Dev Anand lit up the screen with his perfect groomed hair, perfectly fitted clothes and the aura he gave off of wealth and sophistication other stars of his time lacked. Dev Anand could be playing an alcoholic and he would have not a single hair out of place like in “Sharabi” (1964).When I went to Government College University Lahore for my MPhil, my mother’s response was: “Dev Anand went to Government College.” How cool was I!Dev Anand did his BA in English from the college – and fell…

In the process, Dev Anand ended up being paired against at least three generations of heroines, if not four, as he transitioned from his early days where his female co-lead was the bigger star to a time when most actresses were keen on working with him as he sauntered from success to success with that charming demeanour and the winning smile.While most of his early heroines, say, Kamla Kotnis, who was cast against him in his debut “Hum Ek Hai” (1946), Kamini Kaushal, the heroine of his first hit “Ziddi” (1948), Khursheed Bano or Nimmi or Shakila will only be…

When I called from my little corner at the ITC hotel in Mumbai where I was the Master Chef, he answered the phone himself, and his soulful “Dev bol raha hoon” still echoes in my ears. And my hands, which were shaking then, still shake at the memory of our first handshake!Imagine the flood of emotions when my heartthrob Dev Anand accepted my invitation for dinner together. I can’t remember how many times I pinched myself to assure my fevered heart that it was really happening!We talked about his food habits so that I could prepare a menu after his…

The film was ‘Taxi Driver’, a lightly noirish urban romance featuring Dev Anand, Kalpana Kartika, and Sheila Ramani, and especially bittersweet for its hero both professionally and personally, beyond its commercial success. It was not the sole film to feature taxi drivers that year, with Dev Anand’s friend Guru Dutt also releasing his own ‘Aar Paar’, having a similar focus and largely the same storyline, but neither film overshadowed the other.Dev Anand, in his autobiography ‘Romancing With Life’, reveals that the suggestion for the film came from an old friend he met at a recording studio while working for one…

While speaking at a conclave here, the Congress leader said that the BJP wins elections by “distracting” and not allowing us to construct our narrative.He said that Congress is probably winning Telangana, certainly winning in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh and we are very close in Rajasthan which we think we’ll be able to win.”That is what BJP is also internally saying,” he said.“We learned a very important lesson in Karnataka, and the lesson was that the BJP wins elections by distracting and not allowing us to construct our narrative,” Rahul Gandhi said at ‘The Conclave 2023’ organised by Pratidin Media…

The team from University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and Harvard University uncovered a crucial component for restoring functional activity after spinal cord injury.The neuroscientists showed that re-growing specific neurons back to their natural target regions led to recovery, while random regrowth was not effective.In a 2018 study published in the journal Nature, the team identified a treatment approach that triggers axons — the tiny fibres that link nerve cells and enable them to communicate — to regrow after spinal cord injury in rodents.But even as that approach successfully led to the regeneration of axons…