Pahlaj Nihalani Wants To Make A Film Titled 'Sanskari'
Pahlaj Nihalani has reportedly placed a request with the Indian Motion Pictures Producers Association (IMPPA) to register the title of a movie to be made under his production banner. Guess what the...
View ArticleBudget 2016: Modi To Focus On India's First Major Crop Insurance Scheme For...
NEW DELHI -- India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi will recalibrate budget priorities in 2016 to focus on social initiatives, such as the country's first major crop insurance scheme, while capping...
View ArticleFacebook Is Asking You To Sign Up For 'Free Basics', Which Is Just Another...
Facebook has sneakily--without any announcement-- launched its Internet.Org service across India, asking people to send an automated email to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), letting them...
View ArticleMaharashtra Government Justifies Its Beef Ban To HC Saying There's No Right...
MUMBAI -- Maharashtra government today justified in the Bombay High Court its decision to impose the ban on beef contending that the state was empowered to take such a step under the directive...
View ArticleChennai Flood: Madras HC Forbids Encroachments And Garbage Dumping In Water...
CHENNAI -- Coming down hard on encroachments on and along water bodies, which allegedly led to flooding in many areas of Chennai, the Madras High court today made it clear there should be no further...
View ArticleAkshay Kumar Replaces Arnold Schwarzenegger As The Villain In Rajinikanth...
Well, it was clearly too good to be true. Back in October, reports had surfaced confirming that Hollywood action star Arnold Schwarzenegger — best known for the Terminator series — would be making his...
View ArticleSniffer Dog Lalu Beats Disease To Win Silver At The All India Police Duty...
The handlers of Lalu, a police sniffer dog from Karnataka, were told that the canine only had a few months to live. It was discovered that the doberman suffered from prostatic hyperplasia, a condition...
View ArticleCornered AAP Goes All Guns Blazing After Arun Jaitley's Resignation
Backed into a corner after severe criticism of their leader Arvind Kejriwal's vitriolic attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Twitter after raids by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the...
View ArticleBhajan Album 'Bhakti Without Borders' Gets A Grammy Nod
The moment when German-origin music producer Madi Das got a text from a friend telling him that his album was nominated for the 58th Grammy Awards to be held in Los Angeles next year in February, he...
View ArticleWATCH: Comedian Biswa Kalyan Rath Nails This Epic School Memory That All...
If there's one thing every Indian has done at school, it's drawing that a scenery in art class. The one with two mountains, a sun, a river and a tiny house (don't you dare look away. You did it too)....
View ArticleObama Nominates Indian-American Survivor For US Advisory Council On Human...
WASHINGTON -- US President Barack Obama has nominated an Indian-American, a survivor of human trafficking, to a key administration post that deals with the issue. Harold d'Souza from Vadodara in...
View Article9 Fun Facts Google's India-Born CEO Sundar Pichai Wants You To Know About...
Google's India-born CEO Sundar Pichai on Thursday had a hall filled with students laughing and joking during a lively townhall at the Shri Ram College of Commerce at the Delhi University. Talking on a...
View ArticleThis Photographer Climbed To The Top Of India Gate To Get Some Spectacular...
Majestically standing in the heart of the national capital, the India Gate is abuzz with people from dawn to dusk. A photographer has beautifully captured the bustle around the monument that houses the...
View Article'Court' Is Officially Out Of The Oscar Race
The wait is over, and the news is heartbreaking. Chaitanya Tamhane's Court, India's submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 88th Academy Awards, has not made the short-list of nine...
View ArticleIndian Tech Company iYogi Denies Scamming Accusations By Washington State
PORTLAND -- An Indian-based tech support company on Thursday denied accusations by the Washington state attorney general that it scammed consumers and said it remains interested in creating jobs in the...
View ArticlePakistan Not Focused On Terror Groups Targeting India: US Official
WASHINGTON -- Pakistan is not focusing on taking action against terror groups operating on its soil, that pose a threat to both India and Afghanistan, a top US official has said. "They (Pakistan) have...
View ArticleMother Teresa To Be Made A Saint Of The Roman Catholic Church In September...
VATICAN CITY -- Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the Nobel laureate who dedicated her life to helping the poorest of the poor, will be made a saint of the Roman Catholic Church in September 2016, an Italian...
View ArticleA Pakistani Man Wants To Be Friends With The Whole World, On Facebook
Recently, one young man from Pakistan--Atif--was breaking the internet after he broke up with his friend, Mudasir, to announce to the world that Salman has taken his place. All the announcements were...
View ArticleCall Money Scam: AP Assembly Suspends 58 Opposition MLAs
HYDERABAD -- The Andhra Pradesh Assembly saw the suspension of 58 Opposition MLAs including YSR Congress Party president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday. The Members of Legislative Assembly were...
View ArticleUttar Pradesh Government Bans Polythene Bags
LUCKNOW -- Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Friday banned polythene bags in the state citing environment degradation as a major reason for the same. "The Polythene ban in the state is...
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