Directed by Ang Lee, 'Life of Pi' is based on Canadian author Yann Martel's Man Booker Prize-winning novel of the same name. ...
12:24 PM, Jan 14, 2013
Dense fog on Monday returned to Delhi affecting the schedule of over 150 flights at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, including diversions of eight to other cities. Flight operations at the airport came to a standstill for around one-and-half hours, between 5 am and 6:30 am, as the runway visibility was less than 50 metres on both the runways, main (28/10) and third (29/11), airport sources said. ...
11:15 AM, Jan 14, 2013
NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul feels that public humiliation by the press may have driven Indian nurse Jacintha Saldhana to take her own life. Participating in a debate on Lord Justice Leveson's report on the culture, practices and ethics of the press on Friday evening in the House of Lords, Lord Paul offered his sincere condolences to the bereaved family. ...
02:17 PM, Jan 12, 2013
Today (January 12, 2013) is the 150th birth anniversary of one of India's most revered philosophers and religious leaders. One of the landmarks of Swami ...
01:47 PM, Jan 12, 2013
On Swami Vivekananda's 150th birth anniversary, here's the full text of his famous Chicago speech through which he introduced Hinduism at the Parliament of the World's Religions, Chicago in 1893. ...
12:48 PM, Jan 12, 2013
The digitisation change in the Indian TV landscape brings to fore Darwin's theory of natural evolution by natural selection. Natural selection is a gradual, non-random process by which biological traits become either more or less common in a population as a function of differential reproduction of their bearers. ...
12:34 PM, Jan 11, 2013
Indian singer Bombay Jayashri won her first Academy Award nomination for writing the lyrics for the lilting 'Pi's Lullaby' in Ang Lee's ship-wreck story 'Life of Pi'. She is competing with five other contenders for the Music (Original Song) category. ...
10:54 AM, Jan 11, 2013
An Indian-origin woman hailing from Ahmedabad was allegedly shot dead by her Pakistani husband in Karachi in December, her family members on Thursday claimed. ...
01:55 AM, Jan 11, 2013
Operations at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here remained normal even as the area witnessed shallow fog on Wednesday. No flights were delayed or cancelled due to fog at the airport. ...
10:27 AM, Jan 09, 2013
A company has made a digital pen to allow people to use Windows 8 on their old monitors for less than the cost of buying a new touch-enabled computer. ...
01:54 AM, Jan 09, 2013
An Indian-origin mother, who beat her 7-year-old son to death for failing to memorise the Quran, was on Monday sentenced to life for killing him and setting his body on fire to hide evidence after applying barbeque gel. ...
08:57 PM, Jan 07, 2013
Indian-Americans in Chicago, led by students of two leading universities, held a protest meet and candlelight vigil in memory of the Delhi braveheart victim and sought change in India's rape laws and strict conviction of the accused to help reduce crime against women. Indian students pursuing graduate studies at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University organised the meet on January 4 to condemn the brutal gangrape of the 23-year-old...
01:17 PM, Jan 06, 2013
Legendary actors Dilip Kumar and Saira Banu, his wife, left for the annual Haj pilgrimage at Mecca in Saudi Arabia. ...
01:38 PM, Jan 03, 2013
It was another chilly day in the capital with the mercury remaining below 5 degree Celsius in the morning hours. The minimum was recorded at 4.4 degrees as against the minimum of 4.8 degrees on January 2. ...
11:30 AM, Jan 03, 2013
Dense fog enveloped the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi on Tuesday, disrupting the schedule of around 30 flights. ...
11:22 AM, Jan 01, 2013
Flying out of Delhi would become cheaper from Tuesday, with the development fee (DF) charged by the operator of IGI airport being reduced by Rs 100 for domestic and Rs 700 per international passenger. ...
03:47 PM, Dec 31, 2012
Expressing shock and sorrow at the death of an Indian man Sunando Sen last week, Indian Americans have asked the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to separately track hate crimes against various religious communities in the country. ...
12:27 PM, Dec 31, 2012
Braving chilly weather, Indian-Americans gathered at the Gandhi Statue in Washington to hold a candle light vigil for the 23-year-old Delhi gang rape victim, who died after battling for life for 13 days, as US media slammed the "reprehensible crime" saying half of India's population "lives in fear of unspeakable violence." ...
04:27 AM, Dec 31, 2012
Two men and a woman have been arrested in Britain after a pig's severed head was left at the doors of a Muslim place of worship, British newspaper the Daily Mail reported Friday. Police were called after the head was found at the entrance to the community centre in Thurnby Lodge area of Leicester. The centre is used by a local Muslim group. ...
07:36 PM, Dec 29, 2012
