'...it didn't make sense to me.' 'If the character was not adding (to the story), I wasn't interested.' 'The reason why I chose to act is because of the way it makes me feel when I'm acting, not for the fame and money.'
Chindu Sreedharan, PhD student in the UK, shares his experiences living abroad. He emphasises the beneficial aspects of studying abroad -- new perspectives, new people and new cultures.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Tuesday
"As we look to 2050 we see climate change with unprecedented levels of CO2 in the atmosphere, a looming water crisis that governments across the globe are failing to acknowledge, and a health and poverty disaster with 65 per cent of the world's projected 8.5 billion population living in mega-cities," he said.
Ozil called minority Uighur Muslims 'warriors who resist persecution', has not gone down well with China. China is EPL's most lucrative overseas market. Could Arsenal suffer fallout?
Nisha Singh is not a stereotypical politician looking for votes. This councillor from Ward 30 in Gurgoan has an MBA from the London Business School -- with over eight years experience in the corporate world -- with no political backing or background.
'What I'm really worried about is that the day this lockdown ends, we will all rush to work and we'll kill the lovely environment we are seeing now.'
In an online chat with readers, overseas education consultant NNS Chandra addressed queries related to international admissions.
The Islamic State terror group may have developed a nuclear device by using radioactive uranium stolen from Iraq's Mosul University after seizing control of the city last June, according to a British media report.
'Why would Destiny play such a cruel game?'
''Even without major reforms, with a business as usual scenario, and with current inflation trends, we should be clocking around 11 to 12 per cent nominal growth.' 'That is not happening and is a source of worry,' Rathin Roy tells Arup Roychoudhury.
Pitching for "progressive steps" to de-legitimise nuclear weapons, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said a meaningful dialogue was needed among countries having atomic weapons to build trust and reduce the dangers of their accidental or unauthorised use.
We asked our readers How to avoid trouble in the UK in the wake of the murder of Indian student Anuj Bidve in Salford, Greater Manchester on December 26. Here's Aruni Mukherjee's response.
Tyson Gay is sleeping well these days, and that is a good sign. The pain of a year in which America's best sprinter did not make it to the track until a couple months ago because of hip surgery is slowly subsiding and Gay can turn his attention to making the US team for the London Olympics in the 100 meters.
'All of our lives are going to be changed in a permanent way...' 'We just have to ride out the tide right now and we will see a rainbow at the end of this.'
The race to get your hands on the flagship iPhone is on.
The 27-year old Lakshmanan, who bagged a gold medal at the recently concluded Asian Athletics Championships in Bhubaneswar, has already qualified for the World Championships to be held in London next month.
A keen understanding of the way our brain functions is essential to building sustainable routines and habits that set us up for success, says Jay Kumar Hariharan.
'The brainless 'fidayeen' you have been breeding are going to hell to rot and not to any heaven.' 'No one can get away after messing with the Indian Defence Forces,' Major Mohommed Ali Shah, an Indian Army veteran, tells the Jaish e Mohammed.
Banks can collapse, markets can be rigged, investment instruments can become worthless overnight, auditors can fail to blow the whistle, board directors can be asleep, and regulators can be incompetent, notes T N Ninan.
They won for their analysis of markets with search frictions.
He also picked that knock over the monumental 375 and 400 not out against England, and he had his reasons.
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari had a secret meeting with a group of senior Taliban operatives in April last year during which he expressed the Pakistan government's "support for their mission", a researcher studying developments in Afghanistan has alleged.
She will replace US Supreme Court Judge Justice Brett Kavanaugh who was nominated by President Donald Trump for the top post.
A total of 100 students from 70 universities across the world are expected to arrive at Infosys Technologies as part of its global internship programme, 'InStep', officials of the Nasdaq-listed company, said on Friday.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on Saturday, left London for home after a three-day visit to Britain during which he participated in the G8 Summit.
Franois Englert and Peter W Higgs were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 on Tuesday for the theory of how particles acquire mass.
This makes him corporate India's biggest donor to society.
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Ahmedabad's Indian Institute of Management and four other business schools from Asia have figured amongst the world's top 100 management schools in a survey published by the prestigious London-based weekly Economist's Intelligence Unit.
The iPhone could soon replace the doctors' best friend, the traditional stethoscope, thanks to a free application created by a University College London researcher.
'If better sense prevails, Muslims should offer the disputed land in Ayodhya back to the government.'
British scientists have outlined a 20-year master plan for the global renaissance of nuclear energy, which they say will fill an energy gap as old nuclear, gas and coal fired plants are decommissioned.
The 27-year-old younger daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York -- the monarch's younger son -- and Sarah, Duchess of York, will marry her nightclub manager boyfriend later this year at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, the same venue as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding on May 19.
An Iranian court has reportedly sentenced a 25-year-old British Iranian woman to a year in prison for trying to watch a men's volleyball match.
On December 31 this year, a "leap second" will be added to the world's clocks at 23 hours, 59 minutes 59 seconds Coordinated Universal Time, the United States Naval Observatory has announced.
China's top graft buster followed up a series of inspections of elite sports training centres by reiterating its warning against corruption in the run-up to the Rio Olympics on Monday.
As the China factor enters the body politic of India with greater potency, its consequences will certainly be far-reaching, note Harsh V Pant and Vinay Kaura.
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