Tezpur: Over 16 million children are not attending schools in the country and the government has taken all possible steps to make them literate within this decade, Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Friday said. "Globalisation has led to much improvement in the field of education and the country is ready to compete with the rest of the world, but we cannot ignore the many children who are...
08:56 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Los Angeles: Hollywood star Brad Pitt has said that his kids aren't allowed to Google either him or partner Angelina Jolie. The 48-year-old actor said that he and Jolie went through each of the children's computers and blocked their own names from the Google search to prevent their children from obsessing over other people's opinions of their actor parents, reported People magazine. "On all the kids' computers we had our...
08:31 PM, Jan 30, 2012
The NRI couple in Norway fighting for the custody of its children, said on Wednesday that they were happy with the out-of-court settlement reached between the two countries whereby the children will be handed over to their paternal uncle. ...
10:33 PM, Jan 25, 2012
A bus driver ran amok in Pune on Wednesday morning, killing nine people and injuring 27. ...
10:30 PM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: There was finally some good news with the end of an ordeal for an Indian couple in Norway. Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya's two children, three-year-old Abhigyan and one-year-old Aishwarya, who were taken by the Norwegian authorities after allegations of poor treatment by parents, will now finally return to India. The Norwegian government has agreed to return the children to their uncle Arunabhash Bhattacharya, but will take assurance from...
08:41 PM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: NRI couple Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya's children, who are in the custody of Norway's Child Welfare Services, would be handed over to Anurup's brother Arunabash Bhattacharya. The lawyer of the couple told the Indian Embassy in Oslo that Arunabash would take custody of the children. He would travel to Norway when the custody case came up for hearing in the court. Arunabash said that he had not spoken...
03:21 PM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: India is 'actively' pursuing with Norway the matter of the separation of two children from their natural parents, an NRI couple, by the Norwegian Childcare Services which placed them under foster care. External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Sunday spoke to Indian Ambassador in Norway, asking him to meet Norwegian Foreign Minister and demand for release and handover kids to their parents. "If at any cost it can't...
12:42 PM, Jan 22, 2012
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Motherhood certainly stirs and awakens things in you which you didn't know about earlier. Besides the usual love for your child, sacrifice, patience and other ...
01:21 PM, Dec 16, 2011
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Last week, the school announced that they would be taking the little toddlers for a picnic to Joggers Park in Bandra. This one announcement evoked ...
01:05 PM, Nov 21, 2011
New Delhi: Captain Navin Gulia from Gurgaon is a source of inspiration and is helping many spread their wings despite being confined to a wheelchair. Gulia has been instrumental in giving a new sense of freedom to many differently-able and underprivileged children. At the special centre ADAA, 'Apni Duniya Apna Aashiyana' in Gurgaon, there are many differently-abled and underprivileged children waiting to take their first steps of freedom. In 1994,...
08:44 AM, Nov 03, 2011
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So, we are back from Udaipur, the city of lakes. We were there for Diwali at my in laws' place and the trip was like ...
11:27 AM, Oct 31, 2011
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My trips to India over the last few years since I shifted to Singapore have been few and far in between. However, every time I ...
11:14 AM, Oct 31, 2011
London: Brad Pitt wants more children, even though he already raises six kids with partner Angelina Jolie. The actor is the father of Maddox, 10, Pax, seven, Zahara, six, Shiloh, five, and three-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne. While the couple is in no hurry to add to their brood, 47-year-old Pitt admits it will probably happen in the future. "Probably. Most likely. Parenthood is the greatest and most important endeavour...
11:51 AM, Oct 23, 2011
London: Actress Gwyneth Paltrow says acting became unimportant to her when she had kids with husband, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin. The 39-year-old, who has two children - daughter Apple, seven, and five-year-old son Moses - said she lost her sense of being an artist after she gave birth, reported Daily Mail. "When I first had my kids, I just didn't want to be anywhere else. Now they are older, I...
12:32 PM, Oct 22, 2011
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Recently, I was reading 10 important statements of wisdom from a well known ex-cop. And one of the pearls of wisdom was: "Do not have ...
02:18 PM, Oct 03, 2011
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