A look at the winners at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles.
A number of new IITs started functioning in 2008-09, the minister said, adding that two more IITs in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan will start functioning in 2009-10.
Keeping in mind the fundamental standards for telecast of Mumbai terror attack-like situation, the News Broadcasters Association on Wednesday came out with a fresh set of specific guidelines focusing on impartiality, accuracy, fairness and neutrality while covering such incidents.
A look at what the Bollywood stars are tweeting.
Ace shuttler Saina Nehwal walked away with the Sports Person of the Year award for 2008-09, while World billiards champion Pankaj Advani and cricketer Virender Sehwag shared the honour for 2007-08 at the ninth PSPB annual awards in Delhi on Wednesday night.
Croatian Sandra Perkovic went into the world championships as one of the hottest favourites in Moscow and duly delivered on Sunday as her 67.99 metre throw added the title to her Olympic gold of last year.
The confessions of Sabahuddin indicate that the Lashkar-e-Tayiba has been improvising its techniques constantly and terrorists are trained to use 20 different guns. The list of guns used during the training process is only an indication that the Lashkar ensures that the Fidayeen attackers becomes complete commandos.
'Like a madman, I was meeting everybody who ever knew me and getting numbers. I used to text them and ask for work.' 'I would randomly land on different sets and meet people.'
Forget logic at home and you may just enjoy this Tamil potboiler starring Rajeev Krishna and Shayali Bhagath.
Interview with Falguni Pathak about her performance this Navratri.
Two terrorists of the Hizbul Mujaheedin were gunned down by the security forces in south Kashmir's Pulwama district near Srinagar late on Saturday.
An Indian-American teenager has been sentenced to three years probation and 200 hours of community service by a court in southern California, after he pleaded guilty to one count each of felony and misdemeanour.Tanvir Singh, 18, and his fellow high-school student Omar Khan, who were together charged with 73 felony counts, including hacking into school computers, stealing tests and changing grades, have pleaded not guilty at the court.
"The acquisition will enable us to step up our strategic initiative in the CRAMS segment," Lupin Chairman Desh Bandhu Gupta said.
Australia's six-wicket victory over South Africa in the second Twenty20 international has been marred by allegations of a laser light been flashed at fielders of the visiting team forcing Cricket Australia (CA) to tender an apology. Television replays picked up a green streak of light flash across the face of South Africa pacer Wayne Parnell as he dropped a difficult catch offered by Mike Hussey.
Tanveer Mulla (31), the Students Islamic Movement of India activist, arrested in northern Karnataka two days back is proving to be a prize catch for investigating agencies who are probing the Bengaluru serial blasts. Tanveer was arrested in Belgaum two days back and the police had recovered some incriminating material from him.
Congressman John Conyers of Michigan -- Gupta's home state where he was born and raised and went to medical school -- in his letter urged his fellow Democrats to join him in 'signing a letter to President-elect Barack Obama that Dr Sanjay Gupta not be nominated for the post', arguing that the celebrity physician and medical correspondent 'lacks the requisite experience needed to oversee the federal agency that provides crucial health care assistance.'
The idea is "not easy to implement since there are many stakeholders, though the government has been able to fix a minimum wage structure for maids," Vayalar Ravi, the minister of overseas Indian affairs, told PTI. There are nearly five million Indian working in the Gulf countries, but rising inflation in the region has made the condition of the blue-collar workers difficult since they are unable to save money locally or remit them back to India.
The IRDA guidelines issued last month prohibits an insurer from investing more than 10 per cent in a company. LIC has invested more than Rs 1,300 billion in equities of different private and public sector companies. Prominent companies in which it holds over 10 per cent include Corporation Bank, Cipla, M&M, Maruti Suzuki, MTNL, Tata Motors, HPCL, Ranbaxy Labs, Oriental Bank, Dr Reddy's Labs, Tata Steel and Reliance Infra.
Terrorist groups, which were banned during the tenure of former President Pervez Musharraf, have again become active and reopened their offices in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi.
Cricket Australia bore scathing attack from its furious players and local media for bowing down to the BCCI's "money power" and letting Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh off the hook with minimal punishment.
National champion Saina Nehwal advanced to the semi-finals of the Singapore Open badminton tournament, beating Indonesia's Firdasari Adrianti 21-16, 20-22, 21-16 on Friday.
Disgraced former Communist Party leader Bo Xilai was Thursday charged with bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power by prosecutors in China's eastern Shandong Province.
The two were kidnapped when they were returning from Antagarh, about 30 km from Koyilibed on their own motorcycle after collecting their salary, police added.
Indians made a solid start to their campaign in the Singapore Open badminton tournament, the trio of Saina Nehwal, Arvind Bhat and Anup Sridhar winning their qualifying openers of the Super Series event.
The incident took place as Bangladeshi farmers entered Indian land to cut paddy.
Senior advocate Fali S Nariman mentioned the matter before a Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, which agreed to his plea for hearing Dutt's bail application on August 10
Australia fast bowler Brett Lee was reported for excessive appealing in the second Ashes Test.
The rebel chief, whose real name of Pushpa Kamal Dahal, claimed that the visit succeeded in overcoming the confusion about the Maoists and the motive of the insurgency, the party waged in 1996.
In a disappointing sixth round for Indians at the World Junior Chess Championships, the Delhi lad, Tania Sachdev and D Harika were beaten.
The book states that Gujral's approach of taking decisions on his own ignoring the Foreign Service had created a 'piquant and unique predicament'.
D Harika drew with Gu Xiaobing of China in the 11th round of the World Junior Chess Championship
Tania Sachdev beat Bela Khotenashvili of Georgia in the third round and shares the lead with three others in World Junior Girls' Chess Championships.
More than 40 per cent of China's private sector businesses are managed by women entrepreneurs, contributing much to the country's fast-paced economic growth, a top female lawmaker has said.
FC Seoul and Al Nasr inched closer to a place in the semi-finals of the AFC Champions League following comprehensive victories in their respective quarter-final first leg matches on Wednesday.
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