Coalgate: Court to award punishment to ex-coal secy, others on Dec 5

A Delhi court on Monday reserved for December 5 its order on sentencing of former coal secretary H C Gupta, convicted in a corruption case relating to allotment of coal blocks in West Bengal during......

Coalgate: Ex-secretary, 5 others convicted

A Delhi court on Friday convicted ex-coal secretary H C Gupta in a corruption case relating to allotment of coal blocks in West Bengal during the previous United Progressive Alliance regime at the......

WTF News: It's Weird, True and Funny

Here's this week's collection of wacky and funny stories from around the world.  1) College students break world record for largest pillow fight   UC Irvine students, mostly freshman and......

Tarun Tejpal's mother passes away

Tehelka founder editor Tarun Tejpal's mother Shakuntala Tejpal passed away after being ill for sometime, his lawyer said on Monday. She was 87. Shakuntala was suffering from brain tumour and was......

Ex-secretary gets bail in coal block allotment case

Former coal secretary H C Gupta was on Tuesday granted bail by a special court New Delhi in connection with a case related to alleged irregularities in the allocation of a Chhattisgarh-based......

America's backdoor layoffs

The latest US Labor Dept. job-loss figures came out Friday, Mar. 27, and they were predictably grim: Seven states now have unemployment rates of 10% or higher. And Friday, Apr. 3, economists......

How H-1B visa dreams went sour

Urbandale is a thriving residential suburb of Iowa's capital city, Des Moines. Go to its Web site and you'll see a picture of a charming gazebo and the claim that Urbandale is "a growing city that......

Tighter US oversight comes to H-1B visa programme

As the unemployment rate in the US rises, the federal government is tightening its oversight of a controversial visa program that allows companies to bring in skilled workers from overseas. The......

Ishaan-Janhvi take Dhadak to Jaipur

Travelling the world with Bollywood. Even as Karan Johar, Kiara Advani and folks associated with Lust Stories celebrated the Netflix flick's success, other Bollywood folk attended to pressing work.......

Gurinder Chadha brings Mountbattens to India

The Viceroy's House features Lord Grantham playing Lord Mountbatten :) Gurinder Chadha is set to arrive in Jodhpur to begin shooting her new film The Viceroy's House, August 31 onwards. The......

Karan Johar reviews Raja Sen!

Since this Friday's release Good Night, Good Morning has our regular critic Raja Sen on screen, we thought it would be interesting to get it reviewed by a filmmaker Sen has critiqued not-too-kindly......

The Lion King blu-ray hits stores worldwide tomorrow

Seventeen years after it became a huge worldwide hit, The Lion King was released in theatres in North America and half a dozen countries in Europe and South America in a glorious 3D version......