Amrita Puris sparkling honour

As crimes against women spiral in India, Lakshmi Puri, acting head of UN Women and Deputy Executive Director and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, spoke with Indrani Basu about gender violence, its prevention - and the role mass media can ...

May is a seminal month in Karachi, an intermediary that hints of the pleasures of a South Asian summer . The searing April heat is omnipresent but in late afternoons you can hear the cuckoo's song that makes it palatable. Since youth, I have heard ...

Indian sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik has won the Danish 'grand prize' at the 2nd Copenhagen International Sand sculpture festival 2013 for his 15-foot coloured sand sculpture created on the "Go green, Save Earth" theme. Pattnaik got the award Monday ...

has posted comments on this article PTI | May 21, 2013, 03.39 PM IST RELATED NEW DELHI: Candidates appearing for the Civil Services Preliminary Examination have got a helping hand from Delhi Metro which has compiled a list of stations nearest to the ...

Iddarammayilatho has two heroines opposite Allu Arjun. Buzz is that Amala Paul steals the show with her looks as well as performance. The film might put her in top bracket as she reportedly has a better role in the film. Although Amala Paul acted in ...

RIDING a Ducati into the press conference venue, Charley Boorman later sheepishly confessed to those in attendance that while waiting outside for his grand entrance wearing a jacket, he started sweating profusely. He forgot how warm ...

The FTSE 100 managed to close Monday's session moderately higher, albeit at 12 year highs, after rising by 33 points to the 6,756 point mark. Those came as strong performances by easyJet and RBS offset heavy falls in the mining sector, particularly ...

eCommerce startups in India have been in dire situation this year for its inability to raise funds or turn profitable.Several eCommerce firms like Flipkart, Jabong and Zovi are supposedly laying off employees in a bid to cut its costs. Besides this, ...

With pressure mounting from different quarters, including opposition political parties, chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday sought Union home minister S K Shinde's intervention for early presidential assent to a proposed legislation, protecting ...