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Politics Business Expressions General Sports Leisure States 20 January 1998   Titanic strikes it big, bags Golden Globe for best film The epic Titanic won the best drama motion picture on in the Golden Globe awards handed out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Titanic director James Cameron was awarded for the best motion picture director. The Golden Globe awards are widely seen as an indicator of what will happen in the upcoming Oscar award ceremony.   Spain rises to celebrate 100 years of its lost empire Spain is likely to celebrate its centennial commemorating the 100th anniversary of the disaster of 1898 - the war with the United States in which it lost its last remaining colonies abroad: Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. Sathyu derailed my Train, says bitter Pamela Rooks Pamela Rooks, the young woman director who captured Khushwant Singh's celebrated novel Train to Pakistan has blaimed M S Sathyu for not selecting her movie in the Asian Cinema section of the 29th International Film Festival of India. M S Sathyu was one of the members of the selection committee which short-listed the films for the competition section. Knight on shining tower awaits the rescue of wife in distress A young man's love for his wife made him scale dizzying heights, literally. For the past four days, 22-year-old Ashraf Jamal Khan has had policemen, firemen and railway policemen at his feet as he sat pretty atop the 200-feet-high microwave tower near the New Delhi railway station.   Cast from the same dye It might seem that Manya Jethmalani has been cast in the same mould as her sister Smita Patil but she has created her own identity while keeping her sister's image alive. At the recently held Mumbai Academy of Moving Images (MAMI) film festival, one of her pet projects -- India as Location and Link...View from Abroad -- came under the limelight. Breaking the language barrier Founded by Sandeep Nulkar in 1992, Bureau of Interpretation, Translation and Language Studies (BITS), -- a translation bureau -- a one-stop language shop, has paid off for BITS. The success of BITS can be directly attributed to the flood of multinationals during the post liberalisation period.     Pope prepares ground for successor   Roving Eye   My Den/ Arun Sachdev   Face Off