Tales from a flooded Chennai: 'Water entered from beneath the doors and suddenly started rising'

Eighteen-year-old Abhik Thapa, a Nepalese student at a private university in Chennai, had come to India as one of the lucky survivors of the killer April earthquake and now he is heading back to......

The case for and against Jinnah

After Independence, Jawaharlal Nehru lived at Teen Murti Bhavan in New Delhi. Now, it has been converted into the Nehru Memorial and Museum Library. It was an irony that in the auditorium of this......

NRI boy wins BBC's Junior Mastermind

A 10-year-old Indian boy has emerged as the youngest champion in the history of a BBC quiz show, Junior Mastermind. David Verghese, who made it to the BBC1 show finals sailing through the heats,......

Eminent persons lobby for Mufti

While Sonia Gandhi,chairperson of the United Progressive Alliance,continues consultations on the transfer of power in Jammu and Kashmir, a powerful lobby of eminent persons is lobbying hard to see......

Telangana takes zing off revelry

The Telangana agitation is casting its shadow on New Year revelry with most hospitality players in the city planning to make it a low-key affair. A few have even cancelled events which were being......

3 Indians in Singapore's rich list

Three people of India-originhave made their way into the list of Singapore's 40 richest people, compiled bythe USbusiness magazine Forbes. Kartar Singh Thakral, who chairs the Indian garment maker......

Helming Passenger

Ranjith Shankar [inset] has every reason to smile, as he talks about his experience of making Passenger, which has become the flavor of the season. The thriller, with Dileep, Sreenivasan and......

Dinesh upsets tenth seed Takkar

Unheralded T Dinesh of Andhra Pradesh shocked tenth seeded Himanashu Takkar of Railways 15-8, 14-17, 15-9 in the second round of the 68th Senior National Badminton Championships, being held at the......