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From ICV2:The manga ninja dynamo that is Naruto dominated A.C. Nielsen's BookScan list of the top 20 Bestselling Graphic Novels of 2008. Fueled by the buzz over the upcoming release...

Fresh NewsAkshay, Aishwarya awarded the Padma ShreeNDTV.com, India - 3 hours agoIt is a proud day for Bollywood. The 60th year of the Indian republic saw top civilian honours awarded to two immensely popular actors. ...Akshay Kumar can't believe he has won Padma Shri Khabrein.infoAishwarya And Akshay Get Padma Shri Himalayan TimesAishwarya, Akshay, Helen in Padma Shri list HinduEconomic Times - BreakingNewsOnline.all 91 news articles

WASHINGTON: Danny Boyle's acclaimed film 'Slumdog Millionaire' has taken home two more major US film industry awards over the weekend, winning the top prizes from both the Screen Actors Guild and the Producers Guild of America. ( Watch ) Bollywood ...

Go! Comi wants to introduce more readers to the shojo manga stories of You Higuri. To kick things off, they're running the 'Higuri Manga Bundle' contest to give away copies...

TV News: Jon Hamm, Matt Weiner fete show's success -- Winning is becoming old hat for the cast of AMC's 'Mad Men' on the kudos circuit. Another awards gala, another trophy. Saturday's PGA Awards ceremony at the Hollywood Palladium was no different with the show's producers Matt Weiner and Scott Hornbacher taking the Norman Felton Producer of the Year award for TV drama.

Katie Stam was crowned Miss America for 2009 on Saturday night. Didn’t know that the Miss America Pageant was still around? Neither did I. On TLC’s website, Katie lists her passions as promoting community service and involvement and says that her scholastic ambition is to obtain a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication. [...]

Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire, a raw peek into the life of an abused teenager in 1980s Harlem, was the big winner at the Sundance film festival at the weekend, taking the two top prizes at the annual celebration of independent film-making. Lee Daniels' film took both the grand jury award and the audience award - only the second time this decade that one movie has grabbed both prizes. Star Mo'Nique also won a special jury award for her performance as an abusive mother. Gabourey Sidibe has been garnering rave reviews for her portrayal of Clareece 'Precious' Jones, a struggling teen pregnant with her father's child for the second time, although she did not win any prizes.The top British film at the festival was the coming-of-age tale An Education, starring Carey Mulligan as a 16-year-old suburban teenager who falls for an older man in 60s London. It took both the world cinema audience award and the world cinematography award in the dramatic category.Other big winners were Sin Nombr

British fantasy author Neil Gaiman has won American's most prestigious children's fiction prize, the Newbery medal, for his novel The Graveyard Book.Gaiman was asleep in bed in Los Angeles this morning when he was phoned by the award's committee and told he had won. 'You are on a speakerphone with at least 14 teachers and librarians and suchlike great, wise and good people, I thought. Do not start swearing like you did when you got the Hugo. This was a wise thing to think because otherwise huge, mighty and four-letter swears were gathering. I mean, that's what they're for,' Gaiman wrote on his blog after the call.Gaiman's The Graveyard book is the story of Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, who lives in a graveyard and is raised by ghosts. The Newbery, which picks 'the most distinguished American children's book published the previous year', has been criticised in recent weeks for being out of touch with its readers; the choice of Gaiman - a perennial bestseller - as winner, pu

Paul Blart: Mall Cop successfully defended its No 1 position at the US box office at the weekend, but it was Danny Boyle's Oscar-tipped Slumdog Millionaire that made the real impact as a wide release combined with awards buzz to give the feelgood film the highest per-screen average in the top 10.The tale of a teenager from the slums of Mumbai who finds himself one question from winning the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? took nearly a fifth of its tally so far - $10.5m (£7.5m) out of an 11-week total of $55m - to rocket up five rungs and claim fifth spot, with an average haul of $7,476 from each of the 1,411 locations.Up until this weekend it had only been possible to see the film in limited US locations as studio Fox Searchlight opted to hold back from a full release in hopes of an awards season boost. That gamble more than paid off when the British film grabbed 10 Oscar nominations last week to add to its four Golden Globe wins. It was also honoured at the Screen Act

Nobel Prize-winning biologist Harold Varmus, one of President Obama's science advisers, talks about his memoir, The Art and Politics of Science. The book recounts Varmus' journey through science and science policy.