With the concluding book of his Shiva Trilogy, "The Oath Of The Vayuputras" now flying off bookshelves, banker turned author Amish Tripathi has managed to clinch a landmark deal of Rs 5 crore with Westland Books as advance towards his next series, even though he still hasn't decided what it will be all about. ...
06:30 PM, Mar 05, 2013
Police in Bihar are searching for eight doctors charged with dereliction of duty following complaints they abandoned survivors who needed medical assistance during devastating floods more than four years ago, police said. ...
05:52 PM, Mar 05, 2013
Shares in Natco Pharma Ltd surge 5.3 per cent after an Indian patent appeals board upheld on Monday a decision to allow the company to sell a generic version of Bayer AG's cancer drug Nexavar. ...
12:35 PM, Mar 05, 2013
Tension gripped Shivpuri town on Monday as police fired in air to disperse a mob that went berserk after word spread about the body of an abducted boy lying in nearby Amola forest, police said. Utsav Goyal, a class VI student of a local school, was allegedly kidnapped by unidentified persons on March 2 from Vivekanad Colony when he was on his way for a tuition class, official sources said....
08:27 AM, Mar 05, 2013
In Tarn Taran, Punjab, a young woman and her father were beaten up mercilessly by policemen after they complained of sexual harassment. ...
09:50 PM, Mar 04, 2013
Barr came agonisingly close to a maiden Asian Tour title at last year's event losing out to India's Anirban Lahiri. ...
05:54 PM, Mar 04, 2013
Shiv Sena leader Suresh Prabhu cancelled his visit to Wharton University to protest against cancellation of Narendra Modi's address at the university. "To deny an entry and to insult a person like this, I think is something which is an extremely odd behaviour and that is why I thought I will also not go there," Prabhu said. ...
04:20 PM, Mar 04, 2013
A baby girl born with HIV was cured in Mississippi, US after doctors administered three anti-viral drugs, raising hopes of an early stage cure in new born babies. ...
03:08 PM, Mar 04, 2013
Shiv Sena leader Suresh Prabhu has decided to cancel his visit to Wharton as a mark of protest against the cancellation of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's keynote address at the Wharton Indian Economic Forum. Prabhu, a former NDA power minister, is a member of the India Economic Forum at Wharton. Prabhu said he regards the university's volte-face on Modi an insult to the country. ...
12:15 PM, Mar 04, 2013
Bestselling author Amish Tripathi has just signed a whopping Rs 5 crore deal for his next series. This comes as his final book of the Shiva trilogy releases. ...
09:30 AM, Mar 04, 2013
A baby girl in Mississippi who was born with HIV has been cured after very early treatment with standard HIV drugs, US researchers reported on Sunday, in a potentially ground-breaking case that could offer insights on how to eradicate HIV infection in its youngest victims. The child's story is the first account of an infant achieving a so-called functional cure, a rare event in which a person achieves remission without...
08:52 AM, Mar 04, 2013
National Archives has lived up to the expectations of President Pranab Mukherjee by getting a 200-year-old historical book presented to the then British Viceroy Lord George Curzon in 1904 restored in good condition for Rashtrapati Bhavan library. ...
09:03 PM, Mar 03, 2013
BJP National Executive has become a platform for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to be showcased by his party. All eyes will be on Modi as he addresses the conclave on Sunday in New Delhi. Many BJP leaders including party President Rajnath Singh on Saturday praised Modi's leadership. ...
07:37 AM, Mar 03, 2013
Nearly 18,000 of litres of scotch whisky worth half a million pounds have been flushed down the drain by accident by workers during night shift at a Chivas bottling plant in Scotland, forcing the company to order a probe. ...
12:38 PM, Mar 02, 2013
Bollywood actor Nana Patekar has appealed to estranged cousins, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray and MNS boss Raj Thackeray, to patch up and work together. ...
06:12 PM, Mar 01, 2013
SSP Chowrasia, Shiv Kapur, Gaganjeet Bhullar and title holder Anirban Lahiri will lead India's challenge. ...
04:01 PM, Mar 01, 2013
Dismayed by how veteran actor Sadashiv Amrapurkar has aged, the much in-demand Nawazuddin Siddiqui has decided to take a sabbatical after he finishes his current assignment. Nawazuddin, who suddenly finds himself inundated with quality work, will take a few months break as soon as he wraps up shooting for Buddhadeb Dasgupta's 'Anwar Ka Ajab Kissa'. ...
03:48 PM, Feb 28, 2013
The talented duo enjoyed memorable seasons last year with Bhullar securing two victories while Lahiri won the SAIL-SBI Open. ...
03:53 PM, Feb 27, 2013
Facebook is building a vast new "cold storage" facility in the US to archive all the messages, photos and other postings that its over billion users do not need every day but want to retain for future reference. ...
11:36 AM, Feb 26, 2013
