Ahead of the hearing on the custody row involving two NRI children in Norway, two senior Indian officials are leaving for the country. The two ministry of external affairs officials are heading to......
India on Wednesday summoned Norwegian Ambassador Ann Ollestad to seek an expeditious solution to the custody row involving two NRI children, who have been kept in foster care by the authorities of......
US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns is scheduled to visit New Delhi next week to discuss a "whole gamut" of relationship with top Indian leaders. On his maiden trip to India as the Deputy......
India has the largest number of stunted children below the age of five in the world, according to the latest United Nations Children's Fund report. Approximately 200 million children, under the age......
Highlighting that safe disposal of faeces is critical for reducing the number of diarrhoea cases, United Nations on Thursday stressed on the need for hygienic sanitary practices to combat the......
The lines for the eagerly awaited The Avengers will be very long, and the May 4 US release could gross as much as $150 million in its first weekend in North America alone.But a number of well......
Anne Hathaway in a suit and James Franco in drag? To think that these two actors almost turned down the chance to host the Oscars (apparently, the duo had rejected the offer but their 'chemistry'......
Not unlike the finest early morning dreams, some teams are too good to be true. Disney backing a revisionist take on Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, with mad scientist Tim Burton......
When Indiana Jones And The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull became a mammoth hit worldwide, many commentators pointed out how Harrison Ford, who is in his mid 60s, could open a film very big. This......
Her wedding is supposed to be the biggest day of a girl's life. She is supposed to feel beautiful, loved and in every way possible she is supposed to feel like the most special person in the world......
The flame for the London Olympics burned brightly on British soil on Friday after David Beckham stepped off a special flight from the Games birthplaceof Greeceto light a cauldron with a golden......
Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi won the Asian continental chess championship despite losing to A R Saleh Salem of UAE in the final round that concluded in Ho Chi Minh City on Sunday. Negi finished the......
Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi scored his sixth victory on the trot, disposing of Oliver Barbosa of Philippines to retain his half-point lead with just one round to go in the Asian individual chess......
Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi went through the defences of Yu Yangyi of China to emerge sole leader after the sixth round inthe Asian Continental Chess Championships in Ho Chi Min City, Vetnam, on......
Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi continued his winning ways and dumped Megaranto Susanto of Indonesia to jump to joint-second after the end of the fifth round in the Asian Continental Chess championship......
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