London: Parents could be putting their children at risk if they upload digital photos that are automatically "geotagged" by their camera, a study reveals. Geotagging is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media, including photographs. The tools are often built into camera and camera phones and either use the mobile networks or global positioning system (GPS) to pinpoint a given photo. Researcher Joanne Kuzma from the University...
12:15 PM, Feb 12, 2012
New Delhi: Union Home Ministry has issued a country wide advisory to states and enforcement agencies to track missing children and step up anti-trafficking drills. The advisory came on a day when the Home Ministry took serious note of the plight of two-year-old battered baby Falak and sought a report from Delhi Police on the probe related to the child, terming it a case of human trafficking. "Ministry of Home...
07:21 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Nitin Sawhney, who has composed music for Deepa Mehta's 'Midnight's Children' is in India to perform for the first time. ...
05:23 PM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delhi: Do not to divide the movie industry based on regions, urges multilingual actress Shriya Saran and requests people to refer to filmdom as 'Indian cinema'. "I feel films can be used as cultural instincts, so let's call it Indian cinema... Dividing it in north, south, east and west will cause nusance and it will divide the industry. We are one big family and let's be like that," Shriya...
05:30 PM, Feb 04, 2012
Bangalore: The world belongs to children of today, but there is little done to save this world for them. Instead, children are nailed to produce essential commodities such as food items, textiles and electronics, with everyone's support, assuming that wealth is being created. But what part of this wealth do the children get back? Every year, India is spending only Rs 3.69 per head on education, but a whopping Rs...
11:43 AM, Feb 04, 2012
Mumbai: Canada-based Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta, who is making a film on Salman Rushdie's bestseller 'Midnight's Children', says the author was lied to and discouraged from attending the Jaipur Literature Festival. But she is confident that she would be able to release the movie without any trouble in India. Excerpts from an interview: Q: Your friend and creative collaborator Salman Rushdie was not allowed to attend the Jaipur Literature Festival....
11:49 AM, Feb 03, 2012
London: They may have become a necessity in today's world, but a new study has found that mobile phones are exposing children as young as eight years to smut. The study, conducted by YouGov, has revealed that around 1.2 million children in the UK have looked at violent or pornographic websites on their smartphones, The Daily Telegraph reported. The study, based on a poll of over 1,000 children aged eight...
05:44 PM, Jan 30, 2012
Los Angeles: Late pop star Michael Jackson was immortalized in cement on Thursday when his three children stamped the 'Thriller' singer's glove and shoe prints in the hallowed concrete courtyard of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Well over a hundred fans of the King of Pop and celebrities including Justin Bieber and Jackson family members watched the song and dance spectacle and listened to the three children talk about the...
12:59 PM, Jan 27, 2012
President Pratibha Patil interacts with a group of children from across the nation at the Rashtrapati Bhawan. ...
05:27 PM, Jan 26, 2012
In a CNN-IBN exclusive, children from all over the country got a chance to interact with the President. ...
09:51 PM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: Aiming at providing them exposure to democracy and its benefits, the Indian embassy in Kabul has sent a group of 20 children from Afghanistan who will also witness the Republic Day parade on Thursday. The embassy there has sent these 20 children to see India. They will see both ancient and modern structures such as the metro rail to get a feel of how democracy helps in development...
05:17 PM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: Writer Mark Tully on Tuesday slammed the government for not coming clean on the Salman Rushdie issue, saying if someone has offended religion sentiments then there is law to deal with it. "Salman Rushdie should have been allowed to enter in this country because that is the law of the land. Government is not coming clean on the issue from the very begining. This is very sad indeed...
04:54 PM, Jan 24, 2012
When the idea was proposed to President Pratibha Patil, there was a lot of excitement at the Rashtrapati Bhawan. One thing that President Patil insisted upon was that children from all the strata of society are invited and that there is a particular emphasis on the female child. ...
12:10 PM, Jan 24, 2012
During the shooting of CNN-IBN's Republic Day special show, 'All the President's Children', President Pratibha Patil revealed to the students that she was scared of mathematics when she was in school. Of course, a lot of children knew what she meant and identified with her. Watch the R-Day special show with President Pratibha Patil at 12.30 and 8 pm on Jan 26. ...
10:58 AM, Jan 24, 2012
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