In the highest-level contact between India and Aung San Suu Kyi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday held talks with Myanmar's democracy icon in Yangon and handed over to her an invitation......
Trashing Tamil Nadu's bull-taming festival, Dr S Chinny Krishna, vice chairman Animal Welfare Board of India, say that Jallikattu is not just unjust to the bulls but is also illegal the way it is......
On March 20, Tibetans voted to elect a new prime minister of the government-in-exile headquartered at Dharamshala. This contest assumed significance as the Dalai Lama stuck to his decision of......
When the renowned Mount Sinai Hospital in New York refused to perform surgery on a 15-month-old boy, son of an Indian-American couple, with choked arteries due to the high risk factors involved,......
I feel blessed to be part of Dr Cherian's team. I feel blessed to be doing this work," says Delhi-born Dr Inder D Mehta, director, paediatric cardiovascular surgery, MCV Campus, Richmond,......
AGS Entertainment's Tamilmovie Bale Pandiya directed by Sidharth Chandrasekhar promises to be a riot of comedy and romance. Piaa Bajpai and Vishnu of Vennila Kabaddi Kuzhu are the lead pair. Music......
If you're thinking that the three words of the Telugu film titled Kousalya Supraja Rama has anything to do with the first three words from the sloka in Venkateswara Suprabhatam, then you're......
The successful team of the superhit Tamil film Gilli is back again. Director Dharani, actors Vijay and Trisha, and music director Vidyasagar are coming together once again in the forthcoming Tamil......
There are times when a product fails to live up to its glossy advertising. A case in point is the Tamil film Thoondil (lure/bait) directed by K S Adhiyaman.But first the story, which is about an......
Indian artist M F Husain, a self-confessed fan of Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit, has booked an entire show of her comeback film Aaja Nachle, releasing in theatres in the UAE on Thursday. The......
A round-up of the first day's action of various Ranji Trophy Super League matches across the country.Rahane hits century as Mumbaidominate Bengal Ajinkya Rahane started his Ranji season in style......
While everybody is going gaga over thesuccessful hosting of the Commonwealth Games, former athletes MilkhaSingh and India's sprint queen PT Usha are upset. They are unhappy about the raw deal they......
Former internationals Rohan Gavaskar, Deep Dasgupta and Hemang Badani are among 101 cricketers who have severed links with the rebel Indian Cricket League and applied to the Board of Control for......
Cash rewards to the tune of Rs 1.66 crore and other goodies were showered on India's first Olympic individual gold medallist Abhinav Bindra, whose historic feat at the shooting range in Beijing......
Sumit Bhatia:I firmly believe that Saurav and Wright have been instrumental in "making" this Indian team such that people now expect it to win all the time it goes out to play rather than making......
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