
London: Though her father may be the US president, Malia Obama finds her father Barack very embarrassing, her mother Michelle has said. For 13-year-old Malia and eight-year-old Sasha, parent-teacher conferences are the worst because of their father's highly conspicuous motorcade, the US first lady said in an interview with CBS. Michelle said that like any children, theirs find their parents 'not cool', the Daily Mail reported. When asked by the...

10:35 AM, Jan 15, 2012

Cast: Vinay Pathak, Ria Sen, Jagrat Desai, Sasha Goradia Director: Deepa Sahi 'Tere Mere Phere' is a loud and exaggerated comedy whose opening scene sets the mood and the tone for the roughly ninety minutes that follow. A man and woman seated beside each other on a flight get into a squabble over hogging a common armrest. It leads to something of a riot in the cabin when other passengers...

11:15 PM, Sep 30, 2011

Guwahati: The second round of talks between ULFA and the Centre will be held on Saturday in Delhi where ceasefire ground rules would be discussed, while government would decide on the lines the parley would progress. "The ULFA-government meeting will decide on what lines the talks will be held and how the discussions will progress," Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi told reporters. ULFA sources said the team would discuss the ceasefire...

07:12 AM, Sep 03, 2011

Washington: US President Barack Obama, who is confident of his re-election for a four-year term in November next year, has joked that he would use his Secret Service commandos to keep boys away from his two daughters. "When I'm re-elected, what I will be getting them (his daughters Sasha and Malia) is a continuation of Secret Service so that when boys want to start dating them, they are going to...

12:35 PM, Aug 17, 2011

New York: Jacob, Ethan and Michael were the top boy names in 2010, while Isabella, Sophia and Emma were favorites for girls but celebrities are exerting a big influence of what parents chose to name their newborns. An analysis of 23 million page views of individual baby name pages on a baby names website shows that celebrities have a big impact on name selections. "Five years ago, I might have...

12:01 PM, Jul 27, 2011

ULFA starts peace talks with Centre after more than 30 years of insurgency in Assam. ...

09:42 PM, Feb 14, 2011

New Delhi: On Wednesday morning, United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) chiefs met Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi to iron out last minute glitches and then in the afternoon, the eight-member ULFA delegation flew out of Guwahati along with a 13 member-Assam government delegation and arrived in New Delhi for the much-awaited peace talks after three decades of a bloody insurgency. The ULFA delegation is being led by chairman Arabinda...

07:29 AM, Feb 10, 2011

New Delhi: The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) on Saturday admitted that the killing of NGO activist Sanjoy Ghose and the bomb blast of Dhemaji on Independence Day in which children were killed was a mistake. At a press conference in Guwahati ULFA Vice Chairman Pradeep Gogoi, Foreign Secretary Sasha Chowdhury and Publicity Secretary Mithinga Daimari, announced that the ULFA will formally start peace talks with the Indian government...

12:57 PM, Feb 05, 2011

Washington: Talk about a high level language exchange. US President Barack Obama's nine-year-old daughter, Sasha, wanted to test her developing Chinese skills this week while Hu Jintao was in town. Just whom did she want to practice them with? The Chinese president himself, according to a White House official who recounted the story on Thursday after a formal state dinner the previous night. "The president pointed out last night at...

07:13 PM, Jan 21, 2011

New Delhi: The Chinese foreign ministry has rejected spying charges against three Chinese nationals who were arrested on the Indo-Nepal border on Monday. The trio including a woman was caught taking photographs of the Sashastra Seema Bal paramilitary force at a checkpost on the Indo-Nepal border. The three claimed they had arrived in a vehicle till the border, parked it there and then entered Indian territory on foot. The Chinese...

09:51 AM, Jan 21, 2011

Guwahati: Days after chairman of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom, Arabinda Rajkhowa, was released, the outfit's foreign secretary Sasha Choudhury and finance secretary Chitraban Hazarika have also been released from Guwahati Central Jail. Sasha and Chaudhary are central council members of ULFA. Rajkhowa had appealed for their release as soon as he was released from jail. Choudhury and Hazarika were granted bail on Monday by a special TADA...

01:05 PM, Jan 11, 2011

The ULFA is demanding the release of two of their arrested leaders. ...

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