Skin colour looms grimly over adoptions, keeping babies and would-be parents away from each other.
Twitter was flooded with photos of dads with their daughters after PM Modi's Mann ki Baat.
In the present, employee-centric environment, most organisations are open to the concept of an office spouse.
"Unfortunately, there are six more Indians taking the toll to 35," External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted.
The Chess Players' Association of India is upset because 10 per cent is being deducted from the players' prize-money.
The song has a primarily Caribbean beat with an Indian touch. The Indian flavour to the single is lent by Trinidadian singer/songwriter Nisha B. The female vocalist sings for Carib band 'Karma'.
Indian eves cruised to an emphatic 2-1 victory over eighth seeds France in the eighth round of the 36th Chess Olympiad.
The Indian GM beat over compatriot WGM Nisha Mohota in the first round of the Masters' section in Abu Dhabi chess festival.
Maitri, which provides free and confidential services to South Asian-American families facing domestic violence, at its 23rd annual gala raised half a million dollars. Ritu Jha reports
Sonam Kapoor opened the India International Jewellery Week 2015 in Mumbai.
What the Indian economy looks like next January will influence her view on India, not her genetics, notes Shekhar Gupta.
Indian eves came up with yet another emphatic performance in the 10th round of the women's section of the 36th Chess Olympiad.
Indian men registered a massive 3.5-0.5 win over Costa Rica, while the Indian women beat Cuba 2.5-0.5 in the second round of the 36th Chess Olympiad.
'No Indian citizen should be humiliated by the US authorities.' 'And Shah Rukh Khan happens to be one of India's most well known citizens.'
The Delhi swimmer led the Indian women's 4x100m medley relay team to a new SAF Games record.
The Forbes 5th annual '30 Under 30' list features 600 women and men.
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A top Obama administration official on Thursday said that though some progress is being made in the implementation of the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal, it is going to be a long and tough road to work through the issues related to India's nuclear liability law.
The United States has been successful in engaging with India on tracking money used by radical groups to penetrate into the country, the Barack Obama administration has said as it praised Indian Muslims for demonstrating a great deal of "resilience" against overtures by terrorist groups.
The top seed needs just a victory tomorrow against Kruttika Nadig of Maharashtra to clinch the Nat. A women's chess title.\n\n
The reigning Asian women's champion beat Tania Sachdev to lead the field in the Nat. women's 'A' chess championship.
'I am hopeful that you will see more focused attention on this relationship,' former US assistant secretary of state Nisha Desai Biswal tells Alokananda Chakraborty.
The United States is looking forward to welcoming the new Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Washington, but refrained from making any announcement on the possible trip in September.
The two Grandmasters have 3.5 points each after four rounds in the National 'A' men's chess championship.
'When the United States and India make common cause there's really no challenge that we can't tackle, there's no mission that we can't overcome,' believes senior US official Nisha Desai Biswal
This was Apurvi's second ISSF World Cup gold of the year followed by a world record score in New Delhi in February.
Nisha Sharma called the police when Munish and his parents allegedly demanded more dowry at the time of her wedding on Sunday night.
Nisha Millet and Mandar Divse won silver medals in the women's 400m and 1500m freestyle events at the Afro Asian Games.
Hitting back at the Congress after its Saharanpur leader Imran Masood threatened to chop Narendra Modi to pieces in a hate speech, Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje said the Lok Sabha results will clearly show who will be cut to size and who will be the winner.
The Grandmaster won on time basis against Prathamesh Mokal to emerge sole leader in the men's National 'A' chess championship.
India on Thursday hit back at China for its statement that Nuclear Suppliers Group membership can't be a "farewell gift", saying it was not seeking the membership to the 48-nation grouping as gift but instead based on its non-proliferation record.
'India will soon have the world's largest and youngest population -- just imagine what tomorrow's citizens of India will be able to accomplish, given the right education, training, and opportunity.'
'... For the India-US relationship to continue its positive trajectory, it will require India to adapt to a different approach.' Nisha Desai Biswal -- who as the Obama administration's point person for South Asia was in the inner circle of all the Obama-Modi Summits -- tells Rediff.com's Monali Sarkar why she is hopeful that India and the US are on an irreversible forward course.
The Padma Bhushan awardee is the latest addition to a growing list of men who have been named.
What has really alarmed the police, and also the families of young drug abusers, is the entry of "chitta" -- a highly refined white powdery semi-synthetic substance (mainly heroine) -- into the drug scene and has spread like wildfire among the state's youth. Ashwani Sharma reports.
