The Pravasi Bharatiya Divas on Sunday with President Pratibha Patil honouring 15 individuals for their achievements and enhancing India's image globally. Rediff.com's Prasanna D Zore spoke to these awardees on what this recognition meant to them.
The prayer service for Veeruji, who passed into the ages on May 27, was held at ISKCON, in Juhu, north west Mumbai.
'It is especially discouraging for young people in the development sector. I've noticed that many of them are actively considering other career options to escape this atmosphere.' Geetanjali Krishna reports.
Shriya Saran talks about her film on corruption, Gali Gali Chor Hain, co-starring Akshaye Khanna.
Committee of Administrators (CoA) member Diana Edulji's views did not change even after Board of Control for Cricket in India CEO Rahul Johri was exonerated of sexual harassment charges on Wednesday.
At least 20 persons, including 19 women, were killed and four others injured when the jeep in which they were travelling was hit by the Garib Rath Express at an unmanned railway crossing in Bihar's Madhubani district on Sunday, police said.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Bangladesh on September 6 and 7, his first to the eastern neighbour and the first by an Indian prime minister in 12 years, promises to take bilateral ties to the next level, reports Sheela Bhatt
Ishan Nath from Georgia, Anjali Bipin Thakkar from California, Veena Irene Patel from Iowa, Niharika Sanjay Jain from Louisiana and Aditya Attiguppe Ashok from New Hampshire are among 60 students from 54 American colleges and universities who will receive the award, which provides up to $30,000 for graduate study to students committed to careers in public service.
The Malayalam movie has a lot of promise but fizzles out in the end.
The Shiv Sena and MNS on Monday threatened to stall the run of the hit reality TV show Bigg Boss, protesting the inclusion of Pakistani artistes in the fourth season hosted by superstar Salman Khan.
Veena Kohli, mother of Captain Sumit Kohli who died under mysterious circumstances in 2006, on Saturday met Defence Minister A K Antony and demanded an independent probe into her son's death. Kohli, who was accompanied by her daughter Namrata and her advocate Major Guneep Chaudhary, appealed to Antony to provide justice to the family as she believes her son was murdered at the Army residential complex in Jammu and Kashmir by his fellow officers.
Sena spokesperson Neelam Gorhe said despite demands by the party, the Colors channel did not remove the two Pakistani participants -- Veena Malik and Begum Nawazish Ali -- from the show.
Awareness regarding cancer and its preventive strategies is low in India -- only 3 percent of Indian women undergo regular screenings.
Ravi Kapoor, key accused in murder case of journalist Soumya Vishwanathan, caused a stir in a Delhi court by taking out a knife from his pocket and charged that the policemen gave it to him to attack undertrials in Tihar jail. The court asked the jail superintendent for an explanation on Kapoor's charge.
Professionals with erratic incomes need to make lump sum decisions in terms of buying insurance and investing.
The Disciple is an ode to music and a salute to Mumbai. The city can be harsh, but it also lets the voices of struggling classical musicians exist, although often they live on the edge of society, observes Aseem Chhabra.
Sara Khan talks about her Big Boss experience
Last year, Nikhil Kamath and his brother Nithin jettisoned into a club of the country's 100 wealthiest with their net worth pegged at around Rs 24,000 crore
Recent Bigg Boss evictee gets candid with fans about the show and his Bollywood dreams.
Begum Ali talks about her elimination from Bigg Boss.
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This is the first full-scale review of VIP protectees by the Union home ministry after the Modi 2.0 government took charge.
"The need of the hour is to go back to the man-centred economics, the village-centred approach that forms the core of the Gandhian philosophy. This means following the Gandhian ethic based on simplicity, self-sufficiency and self-reliance to be achieved through gram rajya, sarvodaya and satyagraha, which has ahimsa as its core," Professor Veena Sikri, former Indian high commissioner to Malaysia and Bangladesh, said in a lecture organised by the Mahatma Gandhi Centre.
The cast also includes Manoj K Jayan, Revathy, Jagathy Sreekumar, Nedumudi Venu among others.
Is there no 'normal' background? Sure there is.
Keeping his secular credentials in mind and his love for all religions, a special prayer will be held at the Rameshwar temple and the Mohideen Aandavar Masjid.
Former pacer Shoaib Akhtar has come to the defence of Sania Mirza, saying the Indian tennis star is unlucky to find herself in the firing line of fans every time arch-rivals India and Pakistan play an international match. Sania is married to former skipper Shoaib Malik, who is currently a part of Pakistan's cricket team competing in the ongoing World Cup in England.
Many bahubalis have fielded their wives and relatives as proxies.
Pakistani singer Atif Aslam's concert in Pune on April 25 has been cancelled after strong opposition from the Shiv Sena.
'He has attacked our enemies in their own backyard.'
'I don't trust these days. Like now, everyone likes Mimi and my phone is constantly ringing. But tomorrow if I make a flop, the opposite will happen.'
Sonam Kapoor is getting married, and the celebrations have begun!
'The sapling that I planted has turned into a fully grown tree and is now giving flowers and fruits for us.'
Under-fire India cricketer Hardik Pandya's loose talk could make him a target of the match-fixing syndicates known for laying 'honey traps', believes BCCI treasurer Anirudh Chaudhry.
In a setback to CBI which maintained that there was no kickback involved in Rs 16,000-crore Scorpene submarine deal, the Delhi High Court on Thursday directed it to conduct a fresh preliminary inquiry and file a report before it.
A Division Bench of Chief Justice M K Sharma and Justice Veena Birbal said, "We do not know whether there is any dispute in AIIMS or not. But these students who are innocent should not suffer because of all these things."
Legendary Carnatic vocalist T Muktha, who enthralled audiences along with her sister T Brinda for decades, died in Chennai on Sunday after a brief illness.
