Chennai: "It is a rebirth! Only god saved us", were the comments that gushed out of survivors of the ill-fated Italian oceanliner Costa Concordia on reaching here on Thursday. Nine survivors hailing from Tamil Nadu reached Chennai airport on Thursday night. "Only god saved us," shouted Vaithiyanathan Arjunan into TV channels' mikes. He is one of the survivors who was airlifted by the external affairs ministry. Union Minister of State...
12:56 PM, Jan 20, 2012
Rome: A young Moldovan woman, who says she was called to the bridge of the stricken Costa Concordia to help evacuate Russian passengers, defended the embattled captain on Thursday, saying he worked tirelessly and "saved over 3,000 lives." Domnica Cemortan, who says she was translating Capt Francesco Schettino's orders during the frenzied evacuation, has emerged as a potential new witness in the investigation into the officer's actions the night the...
04:48 AM, Jan 20, 2012
The survivors of the Italy boat capsize and their family members speak about their ordeal. ...
09:20 PM, Jan 19, 2012
Mumbai: "Standing at the edge of the deck, I left everything in the hands of the Almighty, and just jumped," said Jason D'Silva. And the Almighty must have been listening, as it was this very leap of faith -- off the capsizing Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia and onto a teetering lifeboat tossing in the choppy waters -- that miraculously saved the crew member's life last Friday. Jason spoke to...
12:19 PM, Jan 18, 2012
New Delhi: Bonding with Karan Patel backfired for Priyanka Bassi, who was lately eliminated from the show 'Survivor India'. Except her 'close friend' Karan, everyone else in her team was relived to see her go. Priyanka is better known as Cadet Naina Singh Ahluwalia from TV show Left Right Left. The Catan team lost the immunity task and now there was turn for one of them to go out of...
07:20 PM, Jan 16, 2012
New Delhi: Well known TV actor, producer and now Survivor India contestant, JD Majethia is finding it extremely difficult to survive on the island while shooting for STAR Plus' latest reality show. The contestants have been marooned on an island with almost nothing with them to survive. Majethia is having a tough time coping up with the difficult situations on the island. His fellow contestants are also not too fond...
06:28 PM, Jan 13, 2012
New Delhi: To encash the popularity of reality shows among audiences, television channels keep rolling out one show after the other. Bigg Boss 5 of Colors where 14 celebrities were locked inside a house for three months has just wrapped up. TV actress Juhi Parmar won the show and walked away with Rs one crore prize money. Now, Star Plus has come up with the Indian version of US adventure...
07:12 PM, Jan 11, 2012
New Delhi: Well-known TV actor-producer JD Majethia, who is currently braving the hardships of hunger, discomfort, living in the open and much more in the reality show Survivor India, says Indian people are not so open to adventure, and therefore there are not many original adventure shows on TV. "Our country is not adventure prone. So that's why we don't get such original concepts. But television industry has been growing...
07:31 PM, Jan 09, 2012
Sagarika Ghose discusses with a panel of experts as to who deserves to be CNN-IBN's Indian of the Year for Public Service. ...
11:52 PM, Dec 15, 2011
Mumbai: Survivors who lost their near and dear ones in the 2008 Mumbai attacks have been dealing with their terrible loss in different ways. While some have been moving to Mumbai to stay close to the memory of their lost ones, others have been planning to leave the country to move forward. "My husband and daughter died here, and that's what's keeping me back in Mumbai," said Kia Scherr, a...
08:43 AM, Nov 26, 2011
New Delhi: The trauma and the terrifying experience of Sunday's earthquake continues to haunt the people of Sikkim. The children of a boarding school spoke to CNN-IBN about how they spent their nights huddled up together in fear. The young survivors of Sunday's earthquake that shook Sikkim are praying to god for courage. The 113 students of the boarding school spent their nights huddled together in four rooms - they...
07:45 AM, Sep 23, 2011
New Delhi: Pema Choden, a survivor in Sikkim walked for 13 hours from the worst quake affected Lachung to Pengong to meet her 5-year-old daughter in Gangtok. Recounting the horrific tail after reuniting with her daughter, she said that she heard on her way that many army personnel and rescue workers have died. Here the excerpts of the interview done by Priyanka Gupta of CNN-IBN with Pema Choden: Priyanka Gupta: ...
05:37 PM, Sep 21, 2011
New Delhi: Pema Choden, a survivor in Sikkim walked for 13 hours from the worst quake affected Lachung to Pengong to meet her 5-year-old daughter in Gangtok. Recounting the horrific tail after reuniting with her daughter, she said that she heard on her way that many army personnel and rescue workers have died. Here the excerpts of the interview done by Priyanka Gupta of CNN-IBN with Pema Choden: Priyanka Gupta:...
05:37 PM, Sep 21, 2011
New Delhi: The Sikkim earthquake severed all communication links in the initial hours, causing many across the country who have family in Sikkim to fear the worst. Some have still not been able to contact their loved ones in the quake-hit areas. In seconds, several lives lost, livelihoods destroyed and altered forever in the quake that jolted the North-East. But some like Devendra Jain were lucky though. His son and...
07:42 AM, Sep 20, 2011
CNN-IBN spoke to Rupen Doshi whose childhood friend died during the siege at Oberoi hotel in 2008 Mumbai attacks. ...
01:37 PM, Jun 10, 2011
It has been thirty years since the disease that would later be called AIDS was discovered, CNN Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen spoke to the woman who has been living with HIV for 20 of those 30 years. ...
10:07 AM, Jun 07, 2011
Sex trafficking survivors push for more stringent laws to be put in place across Asia. ...
11:16 AM, Apr 06, 2011
Japan disaster survivors now face major challenges especially the children. ...
10:47 AM, Apr 06, 2011
