Here's A Rocking, Heavy Metal Tam-Brahm Wedding
Most of us know what a traditional South Indian wedding looks like — they are rich with oodles of flowers and women draped in precious silk saris sporting tonnes of gold jewellery. Akshaya and Sriram's...
View ArticleSebi Bars Wilful Defaulters From Fund-Raising, Board Positions
In a multi-pronged clampdown on 'wilful loan defaulters', stock market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Saturday barred them from raising public funds, as also from taking...
View ArticleBoys Made To Stand Naked Outside Coaching Centre In Mumbai; Two Booked
A minor boy was made to stand naked outside his coaching class here as a punishment, while another underage student accompanied him wearing just a T-shirt, leading the police to book two persons for...
View ArticleHema Upadhyay Murder: Police Files Chargesheet Against Chintan Upadhyay, 4...
MUMBAI -- Mumbai Police has filed a charge sheet arraigning artist Chintan Upadhyay as the main accused in the killing of his estranged wife and installation artist Hema Upadhyay and her lawyer Haresh...
View ArticleVijay Mallya Defaulted On Loans For Several Reasons, Says Raghuram Rajan
NEW DELHI -- Reserve Bank of India ( RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan on Saturday said that there were a variety of reasons why loans went bad in the case of Vijay Mallya, adding that the focus should be...
View ArticleAYUSH Ministry Rejects RTI Reply, Claims No Bias Against Recruiting Muslims
NEW DELHI -- The AYUSH Ministry yesterday rejected as "fabricated and mischievous misinformation" a purported RTI reply that had claimed that the government does not recruit Muslims in the ministry as...
View ArticleVijay Mallya Is Not Interested In Speaking To The Media
NEW DELHI -- Liquor baron Vijay Mallya, who is currently in the United Kingdom and is being sought out in India over charges of money laundering, asserted on Sunday that all the efforts by the media...
View ArticleVijender Singh Clinches Fourth Successive Knockout Win In Liverpool
LIVERPOOL -- There was no stopping Indian boxing star Vijender Singh as he notched up his fourth successive knockout professional win by pummelling Hungary's Alexander Horvath in under three rounds...
View ArticleHyderabad Court Issues Non-Bailable Warrant Against Vijay Mallya
NEW DELHI -- A Hyderabad Court has issued non-bailable warrants against Vijay Mallya and defunct company Kingfisher Airlines' Chief Financial Officer A Raghunath and directed that the duo should be...
View ArticleUP Polls: Major Political Parties May Soon Announce CM Nominees
NEW DELHI -- With the success of Nitish Kumar in neighbouring Bihar fresh on their minds, major political parties may announce their chief ministerial candidates ahead of the assembly polls in Uttar...
View ArticleAmitabh Bachchan To Star In Shoojit Sircar's Next Film 'Pink'
NEW DELHI -- Filmmaker Shoojit Sircar's next production venture starring Amitabh Bachchan finally has a title and its Pink. The 73-year-old Wazir actor revealed the titled of the project on his...
View ArticleRajat Gupta Released After Completing Two Year Prison Term
NEW YORK -- India-born former Goldman Sachs Director Rajat Gupta has been released after completing his two-year prison term, weeks after a US court agreed to rehear his appeal to throw out his 2012...
View ArticleRSS Supports Women's Entry To Temples, Changes Uniform From Khaki Shorts To...
Women seeking entry into the sanctum sanctorum of various Hindu temples in India have found an unlikely ally in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. The right-wing ideological organisation signalled a...
View ArticleWill Pay ₹5 Crore As 'Development Fee', Not Fine, Says Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Changing an earlier stand of not paying a penny to the National Green Tribunal for holding a mega Art of Living event on the Yamuna flood plains, spiritual leader and AOL founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar...
View ArticleHow A Group Of Sex Workers In Kolkata Found Inspiration In An Irish Woman
KOLKATA -- Sex workers living in the Sonagachi red light area, Asia's largest, are now seeking inspiration from an Irish lady who left the trade for want of a dignified life and her son's future. As a...
View ArticleShahid Afridi Should Be Ashamed Of Praising Indian Fans Over Pakistan: Javed...
KARACHI -- "Shocked and hurt" by Shahid Afridi's comments that Pakistan's cricketers were loved more by Indians than the fans here, former captain Javed Miandad has said that players making such...
View ArticleClean Ganga: No Environmental Clearances Granted In The Last 2 Years
NEW DELHI -- No environmental clearance has been granted to any project on river Ganga in the last two years, government told Rajya Sabha today. When members during Question Hour expressed concern over...
View ArticleThat Glorious Moment When A Human Defeated Google's AI Program AlphaGo
Google's AlphaGo tasted defeat for the first time at the hands of human Lee Se-dol on Sunday when the Korean grandmaster defeated the AI program in a match which lasted almost 5 hours. This was the...
View ArticleA Month Before State Polls, Sting Operation Shows Trinamool Leaders...
NEW DELHI -- Commotion broke out in West Bengal politics on Monday, with less than a month to go for State Assembly Election, as a sting operation unveiled in Delhi showed key leaders of the Trinamool...
View ArticleSwedish Daughter Tracks Down Indian Mother After 42 Years In An Emotional...
"I always wondered about my mother in India. Who was she? How was she? Why did she leave me?" These questions have hounded Elisabet Purve-Jorendal who was born in India and given away for adoption in...
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