A police constable has been booked after his pregnant constable wife allegedly committed suicide in Kalwa town of Thane district. ...
12:59 PM, Dec 20, 2012
The book is about hope and maybe the understanding that at the end of the day it is all about what it is to be human - in times of war and peace. ...
05:32 PM, Dec 13, 2012
Chennai: Joining other political leaders in the state, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Friday demanded removal of "objectionable" references in the CBSE textbook about Nadar community which has produced great leaders like K Kamaraj and their contribution to the society was immeasurable. In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, she said the "incorrect" details in the textbook of class IX were "very misleading and may leave a...
12:22 PM, Nov 16, 2012
Whenever I am about to read a new collection of stories from someone who is just about trying to step foot in this genre, I get very apprehensive. I love the short-story genre. It is something else. If I could, I would have written a piece in praise of the short story. I just would have so much to say. With this, I must talk about the short-story collection I...
02:51 PM, Oct 09, 2012
New Delhi: You would have often wondered why it's so difficult to book a ticket during the festive season. An IBN Cobrapost expose has revealed that a full fledged nexus between corrupt police officials, touts and railway clerks defrauds the system. Cobrapost's undercover reporter posing as a travel agent met railway reservation clerk Kanhaiyalal at the New Delhi station reservation office. Since it came soon after an IBN Network expose...
07:21 AM, Aug 11, 2012
New York: Thousands of authors can sue Google Inc in a class-action lawsuit over its plan to create the world's largest digital book library, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. US Circuit Judge Denny Chin in Manhattan also rejected Google's bid to dismiss claims by The Authors Guild and several groups representing photographers and graphic artists, which would have forced their members to sue individually. Plaintiffs in the seven-year-old case...
12:58 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: This Friday, Hindi film 'Arjun: The Warrior Prince' will stand tall to face the big Hollywood release 'Men In Black 3' at the box office. Though the audiences have seen films such as 'Rancho' and 'Roadside Romeo' in the past, still the Indian film market is not very open about animation films yet. Bollywood actor Jaaved Jafferi expresses his opinion about the future of animation films in India,"This...
04:04 PM, May 24, 2012
Have you ever wondered what would it be like if your mother disappeared one fine day? What would you go through if you were unable to locate her? What would you go through knowing that your mother has disappeared for good? 'Please Look after Mother' by Kyung-Sook Shin is about a mothers disappearance and written with great empathy and emotion. The mother has disappeared in a crowded Seoul subway station,...
01:55 PM, Apr 18, 2012
Other than a bitter dispute that has killed thousands in the Middle-East, what's common between Yasser Arafat, Benjamin Netanyahu and Yitzak Rabin? Or Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Winston Churchill? What united the Rothschilds and the Rockefeller family in the US, despite their enormous wealth? They were all Freemasons - a fraternal and yet mysterious society with its origins in early modern Europe and which now commands a global...
05:32 PM, Mar 19, 2012
Roopa Farooki's new book is unlike anything else I have read by her earlier. Even the writing for that matter is different from her other books. 'The Flying Man' is about a man's life, lived through cities and countries and in various disguises, from where the title comes about. 'The Flying Man' did take me some time to get into, as it didn't start with the aplomb I thought it...
12:40 PM, Mar 10, 2012
New Delhi: Inhabitants of Faroe Islands catch and slaughter pilot whales (Globicephala melaena) during the traditional 'Grindadrap' (whale hunting in Faroese) near the capital Torshavn, November 22, 2011. Residents of the Faroe Islands, an autonomous province of Denmark, slaughter and eat pilot whales every year. The Faroese are descendents of Vikings, and pilot whales have been a central part of their diet for more than 1,000 years. They crowd the...
07:19 PM, Nov 24, 2011
Pop sensation Lady Gaga is hitting the headlines once again. She now features in a Coffee table book. ...
11:04 AM, Nov 24, 2011
BANGALORE: Technology may have reduced the burden of carrying the paper-backed books around on ones back, but the hard-bound still has its loyal fan following, after all, a book is a mans best companion. Testifying this is the ongoing Bangalore Book Festival in Palace Grounds " on till November 27. I am a voracious reader. I do read online, but the feeling of holding a book and breathing in the...
08:38 AM, Nov 23, 2011
Los Angeles: A photo book showing pop star Lady GaGa's life on the road and in the recording studio will be released this year, the book's publisher said on Thursday. The photo book, titled 'Lady Gaga,' will feature more than 350 pictures of the Grammy Award-winning singer taken by Terry Richardson between the Lollapalooza festival in August 2010 and the final shows of her "Monster Ball" tour this year, according...
12:48 PM, Jul 29, 2011
Here's an excerpt from CY Gopinath's The Book of Answers published by HarperCollins India. How the Ministry of Regrets was born No, no, no, no, Arindam waved my words away. You must understand. Ishwar Prasad, with barely eight months to go before the elections, this morning announced the creation of a brand new ministry, the likes of which has never been heard of before, not in India and not in...
02:30 PM, Jul 04, 2011
New York: The profane and hysterical "The Book of Mormon" took home nine Tony Awards on Sunday including the prize for best musical, a considerable achievement for a pair of first-time Broadway playwrights known more for their raunchy cartoons featuring potty-mouthed kids. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of the Emmy Award-winning "South Park," found a kindred soul in Robert Lopez, who co-wrote the Tony-winning "Avenue Q," and all three...
10:14 AM, Jun 13, 2011
London: A total of 70 books, made of lead and dating back to over 2,000 years, have been found in a cave in Jordan. These could be some of the earliest Christian scriptures, and a major discovery in Christian history, experts said. "We are looking at a very important and significant discovery, maybe the most important discovery in the history of archaeology," Ziad al-Saad, of Jordan's Department of Antiquities, was...
01:56 PM, Mar 31, 2011
New Delhi: If you can't find a particular book at your favourite bookshop, join the growing league of net savvy Indians who buy their reading stuff on the internet and get discount and free delivery right at their doorstep. "Until a few years back, getting a particular title was a hectic job involving a visit to at least four to five bookstores that were far from home. Now all I...
11:31 AM, Mar 28, 2011
New Delhi: In the early 17th century, long before the times of email and mobile phones, pigeons, barefoot runners and bullock carts were used to carry messages between one part of India to another. The postman cycle of the early 1800s, with its large front tyre, post boxes in all sizes and shapes collected from all over the country as well as the antique stamp printing presses can now be...
05:14 PM, Feb 14, 2011
