The only two Indian-American delegates representing the host state of Colorado at the Democratic National Convention--the mother-daughter combination of Mona and Monisha Merchant,both Hillary Clinton delegates -- have said they will heed Clinton's impassioned plea to help elect Barack Obama to the White House.
Will it be Mona Wasu, Anaida or Chetan Hansraj?
Marc Robinson tells us about the toughest part of being on the reality TV show.
Paris is suffering the worst flooding in more than 100 years on Saturday forcing the Louvre to evacuate 250,000 pieces of art to safety from its basements.
Republican Party stalwart Narender Reddy, from Georgia, has been elected as alternate-delegate-at-large to the GOP National Convention in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota, which will be held from September 1 to September 4. The mother-daughter team of Mona Merchant, 61, and Monisha Merchant, 31, of Lakewood, Colorado, have been elected as Hillary Clinton's delegates to the Democratic National Convention, between August 25 and 29 in Denver, Colorado.
Gyani Gurbachan Singh, the Jathedar Akal Takht (highest Sikh temporal seat), expressed shock over the behaviour of Sikh cricketer Harbhajan Singh, who danced on television dance show, Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena with Mona Singh, wearing a tilak and dressed as Ravana.
I'The entire display is a lesson in how to turn a mountain of a collection into a molehill, notes Anjuli Bhargava after a visit to the Albert Hall Museum in Jaipur.
Indian women's cricket team will be eager to pile further misery on South Africa
The Indian cricket fraternity has lauded the women's national team for starting its campaign in the ICC Women's World Cup on a winning note in the United Kingdom.
When the two sides met in the inaugural edition of the ICC Women's Championship in Bengaluru in November 2014, South Africa had won the series 2-1.
Media-buying and advertising agencies are a worried lot. The last quarter was bad for them with overall advertising, across all media, dipping by 10-20 per cent.
The robot can hold long conversations, track the child's mood and is controlled from an app on the parents' smartphone
Even a peaceful, fun task like clicking a selfie couldn't happen smoothly thanks to the one and only annoying person of the house.
The hosts cannot afford to take England lightly, as the visiting team boasts of some of the big names in women's cricket.
The much-hyped women's exhibition IPL T20 match between Supernovas vs Trailblazers witnessed an exciting finish but failed to attract sizeable crowd at Mumbai's Wankhede stadium on a sultry Tuesday afternoon despite the presence of the world's top women cricketers.
An inquiry had been launched with officials under fire for issuing CNICs without legitimate documentation.
A look at this week's hits and misses.
We should not be compared to male cricketers, says Mithali Raj
Indian agencies have been engaged in countering Pakistani cyber-attacks on social media platforms for a very long time. But just like the fight against the coronavirus, only through the active participation of ordinary citizens that this war on fake news can be won, suggets Colonel S Dinny (retd).
The end of the 35-year-old desginer came late on Saturday night following a multiple-organ failure, her family and doctors said.
A number of schools in Australia were put under lockdown and students evacuated after "numerous threats" made to them as they opened on Friday after the long Christmas holiday period, sparking multiple police operations.
Swami Om has been the most annoying person on the show, but the makers have been going soft on him. Divya Nair wonders why.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Monday questioned former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda in connection with alleged irregularities in the allotment of 14 industrial plots at Panchkula, by Haryana Urban Development Authority.
Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent has claimed responsibility for the murder of an American blogger Avijit Roy in Bangladesh.
'After living in a country with hazy skies and a billion people, it is breathtaking when the sky is blue, the air crisply clean and there is drinking water in the taps. And, joy of joys, hardly any people.'
The AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships is taking place in an indoor stadium from Thursday through to November 24 but teams are complaining about a toxic smog hanging over the city, caused by seasonal burning of crop stubble and emissions from vehicles and industry.
Onir has got what it needs to make sensible, thought-provoking, entertaining cinema, feels Prasanna D Zore.
Malkit (Mona) Singh has won the Truman Scholarship.
The real head turners at Met Gala 2019.
Six out of 11 Narmada Bachao Andolan activists called off their hunger strike following an appeal by their leader Medha Patkar who, however, is continuing with her fast.
India have four wins in five games but, unfortunately for a team high on potential, it haven't looked like they have identified the brand of cricket that consistently works for it.
Doug Adler, commentating on the African-American 13th seed's second-round match against Switzerland's Stefanie Voegele on Wednesday, provoked outrage on social media when he was taken to have described Williams charging "like a gorilla". Adler, a former tennis professional, said he had said "guerrilla".
We should have anticipated it on August 5 last year, when we made the big changes in J&K. Amit Shah left nothing to chance when he told Parliament that 'we will bring back Aksai Chin even at the cost of our lives'. 'Then, there were the new maps, objections to the CPEC going through Indian territory, the weather reports.' A broad territorial status quo had existed in Ladakh-Aksai Chin since 1962. India made its intention to change this public, notes Shekhar Gupta.
Maria Sharapova's US Open preparations took a major blow with the Russian World No 2 forced to withdraw from next week's WTA event in Toronto.
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