Tamil Nadu wants to know from Jaya: Why this kolaveri?

Why has the friendship between Jayalalithaa and Sasikala, that lasted almost 25 years, soured all of a sudden,asks Shobha Warrier It is one of the most famous and celebrated friendships in Tamil......

Delhi cops offer reward for info on rapists

With the Home Ministry breathing down their backs, the several specially constituted teams are working round the clock to crack the kidnap and rape of a woman hailing from northeast India. One of......

Stars to smile upon Shashi Tharoor after wedding

What Shashi Tharoor has done is to demonstrate that the public and private lives of politicians should remain separate and that personal happiness should take precedence over politics, says......

RTI on Naxalism: 10,000 lives lost in last 5 years

Naxal violence has claimed the lives of over 10,000 civilian and security personnel in the last five years with significant rise in the number of killings in Left-wing extremism-hit States.Out of a......

When the mutiny hits the big screen

There was hardly any shot fired in the film. There were no bloodthirsty screams. No scenes of massacres. No visuals of rape and molestation. And yet, nearly three decades after it was released,......

When Gurinder met the Coen Bros

Two years ago Gurinder Chadha was approached by a group of producersplanning a unique film-- a collection of short love stories set in Paris, to be directed by today's top international......

'Still very difficult for South Asian actors'

Life is sweet if you are Kal Penn.The Indian American actor has an important movie opening today, a teenage comedy, Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj. The film is a sequel to National Lampoon's 2002......

How The Namesake came to be

Kal Penn, who plays the sensitive, emotionally fragile son of immigrant parents in Mira Nair's The Namesake might not have paid the customary 10 percent (finder's fee) to Zohran Mamdani, 14 and his......

Asian chess: Negi, Gupta back in contention

Grandmasters Parimarjan Negi and Abhijeet Gupta got back in contention with victories over Nguyen Anh Dung of Vietnam and Irwanto Sadikin of Indonesia respectively, in the third round of Asian......

Shiva settles for silver at Czech Grand Prix

A warning in the closing few seconds cost Shiva Thapa (56kg) dearly as the promising Indian boxer settled for a silver medal after going down narrowly in the final of the 43rd men's and women's......

Shiva sails into finals, Vikas settles for bronze

Shiva Thapa (56kg) was the lone Indian boxer to make the final after Olympic-bound Vikas Krishan (69kg) settled for a bronze medal following his loss in the semi-final of the 43rd men's and women's......

Boxing: Vikas, Shiva punch their way into Czech GP semis

Olympics-bound Vikas Krishan (69kg) and Shiva Thapa (56kg) assured India of at least two bronze medals at the 43rd men's and women's Boxing Grand Prix after reaching the semi-finals of the event in......

Chennai Open qualifiers: All Indians knocked out

None of the remaining three Indians, including Rohan Bopanna, could make the main singles draw of the Aircel Chennai Open. All of them suffered defeats in the second round of the qualifying event,......