Dubai: India-born Rohan Sampath knew he would do well in his Grade 12 exams but becoming the ICSE topper worldwide with 99.5 per cent marks was unimaginable. The 17-year-old now looks forward to joining Stanford University and unlike many brought up in Dubai, he really hopes he can return to India some day. "My first reaction was disbelief. I thought it was a typo. I didn't expect it," Rohan, a...
03:36 PM, May 22, 2012
Washington: Caught on the wrong foot over the detaining of Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan at a US airport twice, Washington has asserted it was not a case of racial profiling or a pattern. Suggesting that Khan was not 'detained', but 'simply delayed', State Department spokesperson Mark Toner told reporters Friday: "I wouldn't necessarily look at this as some sort of pattern but rather two separate incidents." "Obviously, we've expressed...
03:51 PM, Apr 14, 2012
Chicago: When India's star actor Shah Rukh Khan was detained and questioned for two hours at the Newark International Airport in August, 2009, the action could well have been a result of the random selection parameter built into the U.S. immigration's security system rather than only racial profiling. With Khan reliving that experience on Thursday at a small airport in New York state, the question whether that parameter was designed...
03:39 PM, Apr 14, 2012
New York: America's prestigious Yale University, which had invited Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan, on Saturday said that his detention was "unfortunate" but things were sorted out in the end. "As SRK himself would tell you, what is most important in his movies is how they end rather than how they begin. And yesterday, things began in an unfortunate manner, but ended in a way that left everyone happy," Yale's Assistant...
12:40 PM, Apr 14, 2012
Washington: The US on Saturday ruled out any pattern or racial profiling in the detention of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan twice in the US in the past three years. "I wouldn't necessarily look at this as some sort of pattern, but rather two separate incidents," State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters at a news conference. Khan was detained at a New York airport for over two hours by...
09:57 AM, Apr 14, 2012
Shah Rukh Khan was detained for over two hours at New York's White Plain airport on Friday. ...
08:48 AM, Apr 14, 2012
New Delhi: India has refused to accept the US apology for Shah Rukh Khan's two-hour detention at a New York airport on Friday and has summoned the US Deputy Chief of Mission. "I was detained at the airport as always for an hour and a half, which was nice. Whenever I start feeling too arrogant about myself, I always take a trip to America. The immigration guys kick the star...
07:20 AM, Apr 14, 2012
New Delhi: In response to the criticism over the detention of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan at the New Yorks White Plain airport, the US on Friday apologised, saying that many Americans were fan of the superstar. Addressing a press conference, US Embassy spokesperson Peter Vrooman said, "Many Americans are fan of Shah Rukh Khan. We apologise for the inconvenience experienced by him." This came even as External Affairs Minister...
10:52 PM, Apr 13, 2012
Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan was detained for over two hours at a New York airport on Friday, triggering a strong reaction from India. ...
03:20 PM, Apr 13, 2012
New Haven: Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan enthralled the students of Yale University as he came to the Ivy League institution as a Chubb Fellow, one of its top honours. A crowd gathered outside the Shubert Theatre early in the afternoon and as the day went on the line snaked around the corner. Fans travelled from as far as Alabama and California to join with members of the New Haven...
01:17 PM, Apr 13, 2012
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Friday talked tough on the Shah Rukh Khan detention case at a New York aiport, saying that such incidents could not continue anymore. "It has become a habit these days to first detain and then apologise. This can't continue," said Krishna, who is in Moscow currently. Meanwhile, India has asked its Ambassador to the US, Nirupama Rao, to take up the issue...
11:27 AM, Apr 13, 2012
New York: Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, who arrived in the US to visit the Yale University, was detained for over two hours at a New York airport. Khan was to address the students at the Yale University, which is three hours from New York. The Bollywood actor was reportedly miffed and said that he was "detained" at the airport "as always happens". Khan, who has been named a Chubb...
08:24 AM, Apr 13, 2012
Washington: Two Indians are among 16 people selected by the prestigious Yale University in 2012 as its World Fellows, bringing the total number of fellows from India to 11 since the programme started in 2002. "Two of the 16 Yale World Fellows for the year 2012 are from India," the university said in a statement. Ayush Chauhan co-founder and managing director, Quicksand and Ruchi Yadav, senior programme officer, The Hunger...
04:33 PM, Apr 05, 2012
Washington: It's known that women find it a bit harder to kick the butt than men. Now, a new study has found why - it's because their brains respond quite differently to nicotine than male smokers. When a person smokes, the number of nicotine receptors in the brain - which bind to nicotine and reinforce the habit of smoking - are thought to increase in number. Researchers at the Yale...
10:40 AM, Apr 05, 2012
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