Conrad Sangma sworn-in as Meghalaya CM

Backed by the Bharatiya Janata Party and regional parties, National People's Party chief Conrad Sangma was on Tuesday sworn in as the chief minister of Meghalaya, heading a 12-member cabinet and......

12 BIZARRE photos from around the world

These photos prove that we live in a rather strange world.   Two women practice yoga next to trees covered in frost at the Tianmen Mountain resort in Zhangjiajie, Hunan province. Photograph:......

Najeeb Jung: The man who may run Delhi

If an elected government had been sworn in, Jung's tenure and the government would have been more or less co-terminus and Jung would have been just the ceremonial head of Delhi. Now, he will run......

Pak's first sect-free mosque calls for end to discrimination

Amid a string of sectarian attacks in Pakistan, a newly built mosque in Islamabad's Margalla foothills is calling upon its followers to stop discriminating along sectarian lines and to start......

The Internet is 40 years old!

It may sound surprising, but the Internet is actually 40 years old today. Len Kleinrock, a computer scientist and his team at UCLA began experiments, laying the foundation of what later became the......

Indian CEO says US grads are 'unemployable'

We've all heard the mostly negative stereotypes about Indian IT types. They're smart, they're driven and they work for a pittance compared to their Western counterparts, we're told. Yet they lack......

Revisiting Back to the Future

What could be a big difference between Back to the Future, and a current big budget blockbuster? The latter will surely have elaborate stunt scenes, high technology and kinetic speed. But Back to......

King Kong will rule our hearts!

Part I: King Kong may be a monster hit!How big a hit will King Kong be? Read on...Universal and Jackson's box office is destined to be huge -- Rings or even Titanic huge,' says the influential......

Forget Hogwarts, go to Sky High

Let's get this straight off the bat: If you can sit through Harry Potter, you have no business sneering at this quintessential Disney film. Even if most people in the ticket line are half your......

Cat purrs to the top

The kid friendly Dr Seuss' The Cat In The Hatopened with a roaring $40 million in three days despite a barrage of negative criticism. Few big budget films received such scornful reviews this year......

Sports Shorts: Cueist O'Sullivan blasts new snooker record

Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday IMAGE: Englishman Ronnie O'Sullivan became the first player to compile 1,000 career century breaks. Photograph: Alex Pantling/Getty......