Hyderabad: Hyderabadis may be facing water woes but a good number of them, particularly youngsters with pocketful of money, are guzzling beer like theres no tomorrow. Beer sales, say wine dealers, are shooting up at the same pace as the mercury, creating new records. The dealers hold individual records, so to speak but statistics furnished by the Andhra Pradesh Beverages Corporation Ltd (APBCL) give a good overall picture. According to...
12:56 PM, May 21, 2012
Films are dangerous. Ask the person who named 'Kali-Ma', the beer named after the Hindu goddess Kali. The beer, by the Burnside Brewing Company based ...
11:16 AM, May 16, 2012
Washington: An American brewery company has apologised for naming a beer after Hindu goddess Kali and said it is currently scrambling to rename the product, amidst protest in the Indian parliament. The 'Kali Ma' beer which was scheduled for launch on Tuesday has now been postponed till the Portland-based company Burnside Brewing Co finds a new name to it. "In response to pleas from the Hindu community we have decided...
08:25 PM, May 15, 2012
New Delhi: Strongly objecting to a US company launching a beer brand named after Goddess Kali, a demand was made in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday that US Ambassador to India should be summoned and asked to apologise for it. Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Ravi Shankar Prasad (BJP) said it is a serious and sensitive issue that a Portland-based company Burnside Brewing has launched a product titled Kali-Ma beer,...
02:32 PM, May 15, 2012
Author Niven Govinden's 'Black Bread White Beer' captures the inner lives of this thirty something, upwardly mobile couple as it deals with festering, unaddressed issues-mixed-race marriages, parental pressures, the tension between humanism and organized religion-and the loss of their unborn child. With Amal and Claud on the verge of true commitment and true adulthood, 'Black Bread White Beer' casts a critical eye on a society in which, despite never-ending advances...
05:20 PM, May 10, 2012
Raleigh: The image of slain University of North Carolina Chapel Hill student body president Eve Carson has turned up in an unlikely place: adorning billboards in southern India. The News & Observer of Raleigh reports that Carson's picture is being used to advertise a company called Jubeerich Consultancy, which offers study opportunities and job placements in Western countries. It's not clear how the company came across the photo of the...
11:06 AM, Mar 22, 2012
Lucknow: Other than colour, Holi in this part of the country is time for bacchus lovers to let their hair down. But as other places have moved to beer and other forms of alcohol like wine, vodka and Scotch, the elder generation in Lucknow is still hooked to the traditional thandai - a concoction of chilled milk, sugar syrup, almonds, cashewnuts, rose petals, fennel seeds, pepper and cardamom. The old...
09:19 AM, Mar 08, 2012
Kolkata: The website of the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal was on Wednesday restored, a day after it was hacked reportedly by a Bangladesh-based group. Party sources said the US-hosted website www.aitmc.org was hacked more than once on Tuesday evening but was fixed on Wednesday. The party's website was remodelled before the last assembly election by Hotmail founder Sabeer Bhatia. "It was blocked for a few hours but there...
06:39 PM, Feb 15, 2012
Washington: Sex, politics and beer-drinking appear to be among the top day-to-day activities of people in ancient Mesopotamia, according to a newly translated tablet dating back more than 3,500 years ago. The tablet, which seems to be written by an inexperienced hand, possibly a student, reveals a series of riddles about the lifestyle of Mesopotamian civilisation widely considered to be the cradle of civilisation. The text was written in Akkadian,...
04:36 PM, Jan 27, 2012
New Delhi: The father of Pakistani actress Veena Malik, embroiled in a scandal over a nude photo on the cover of a popular men's magazine, has disowned her and said she needs to be punished if found guilty as an example to other women. Malik's father, Malik Mohammad Aslam, told the daily Mirror in London in what the daily described as an emotional outburst that he has disowned her. "I...
03:17 PM, Dec 08, 2011
New Delhi: The popular Indian 'For Him Magazine' has refuted accusations by Pakistani actress Veena Malik that her photo was morphed to make her appear naked on a cover issue with the letters ISI written on her arm. Malik has sued the magazine for 100 million rupees. The actress was quick to claim it wasn't her in the photograph after the Pakistan government threatened to take strict action against her...
05:26 PM, Dec 06, 2011
When Anna Hazare began his protest against the governments refusal to accept the Jan Lokpal Bill, phones across the country were inundated with SMSes gathering support for the next march or demonstration. SMS GupShup, a group messaging service, was responsible for sending several of these messages. GupShup groups like Anna, Jaibhim, newsb and JagoHaryana each with more than 50,000 members along with a bunch of smaller groups, sent out over...
11:43 AM, Sep 05, 2011
London: Scientists have identified a new species of yeast from forests in South America that was behind the discovery of lager, a type of beer brewed and stored at low temperatures. The species was isolated from a beech tree in the frozen forests of Patagonia, where the minimum temperature hovers around minus-2 degrees Celsius, BBC reported. The new yeast species has been named "Saccharomyces eubayanus", says the report in the...
12:21 PM, Aug 25, 2011
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