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Indian-American Gets $1 Million For Selling Record Jackpot Ticket
WASHINGTON -- An Indian-origin convenience store owner in the US has become a celebrity overnight and received a windfall of USD 1 million after he sold one of the three Powerball winning lotteries...
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India Had The Highest Number Of Selfie Deaths Last Year
It seems Indians are, quite literally, dying to take self portraits. According to a report in the Washington Post, the most number of selfie deaths in the world occurred in India. Of at least 27...
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DDCA Defamation Case: Delhi HC Suspends Kirti Azad, Seeks Response From Kejriwal
NEW DELHI -- The Delhi High Court today sought response from Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and suspended BJP MP Kirti Azad in a civil defamation suit filed by DDCA for their alleged remarks against...
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These Are Actor Rajesh Vivek's Most Memorable Roles In Bollywood
Originally a theatre actor, Rajesh Vivek, who was seen in many Bollywood hits such as Lagaan (2001) and Jodhaa Akbar, (2008) died of a heart attack yesterday in Hyderabad. He was 66. His role of...
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22-Year-Old Single Mom, Who Drives An Auto, Aspires To Be An IAS Officer
For this woman autorickshaw driver, the traffic jams of Bengaluru are not the only things she has to battle. Yellamma, a single mother who is trying to ace the civil services examinations, faces...
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Former Union Law Minister Hansraj Bhardwaj Alleges He Was Asked To Influence...
NEW DELHI -- Former union law minister Hansraj Bhardwaj on Friday alleged that some of his Congress Party colleagues, especially former HRD Minister Arjun Singh, had asked him to influence the...
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Jamia Millia Islamia Is Not A Minority Institution: Attorney General
NEW DELHI -- The Attorney General has told the government that Delhi-based Jamia Millia Islamia is not a minority institution as it was created by an Act of Parliament, days after he told the Supreme...
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Sunanda Pushkar Died Of 'Unnatural' Causes: Delhi Police Commissioner
Sunanda Pushkar, late wife of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, died of 'unnatural' causes, confirmed a viscera report by the All India Institute Of Medical Science (AIIMS). However, Pushkar did not die of...
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Mallika Dua Is Making The World A Funnier Place, One Dubsmash At A Time
Roughly a week back, India discovered a new internet star. She starred in a video that got people hooked and spawned self-doubt among the hordes of hagglers in Mumbai's Linking Road and other...
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Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Next To Be On Poet-Lyricist Sahir Ludhianvi
MUMBAI -- After the stupendous success of his last film Bajirao Mastani(2015), director Sanjay Leela Bhansali is all set to commence work his next project based on noted poet-lyricist Sahir Ludhianvi....
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Congress Rejects Hansraj Bhardwaj's Allegations, Says Can't Imagine...
NEW DELHI -- The Congress party on Friday outrightly rejected former union law minister Hansraj Bhardwaj's allegation that his party colleagues had asked him to influence the judiciary during his time...
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WATCH: 9 Things You Should Stop Telling Homosexuals Because It's Just Annoying
A lot of gay men may have found their first non-judgmental friends in women. Probably that's why TV shows and movies love to show the "gay best friend". A flamboyant gay sidekick for the progressive,...
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'The Danish Girl': A Story Of Changing Gender And Unchanging Love [Film Review]
In The Danish Girl, which releases in India on Friday, painter Lili Elbe, born male as Einar Wegener, transitions to a woman. This is Copenhagen, right after the First World War, and there is no...
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101 Eminent Academics Write To EPW Board Over Editor's Departure
There is a cold war brewing at the venerable Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) and since it involves some very eminent scholars, academics and editors, the tussle is all very genteel and after...
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Kangana Ranaut Says She Was Physically Abused By Man 'Old Enough To Be Her...
Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut said on Friday that she had been hit by a man when she was 17 years old. The man, who she claimed was old enough to be her father's age, had apparently been stalking...
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I'm A Celebrity And So Are You: The Fictional World Of Social Media
With the advent of 2016, I've been subjected to a deluge of party photos and New Year selfies on my Facebook feed. For someone who is a millennial and is supposed to be mobile, social and what not, I...
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AAP MLA Parmila Tokas' Husband Held For 'Assaulting' Govt Employee
NEW DELHI -- The husband of an Aam Aadmi Party MLA was today arrested in connection with an incident in which a central government official was allegedly obstructed from discharging his duty and also...
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Why Alabama Police Officer Charged With Assaulting Unarmed Indian Grandfather...
HUNTSVILLE -- A federal judge on Wednesday threw out a civil rights case against an Alabama police officer accused of using excessive force on an Indian man. U.S. District Judge Madeline Haikala...
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Odd-Even Rule: Delhi Govt Collects Over Rs 2 Crore From Challans Issued By...
NEW DELHI -- The Delhi Government has collected over Rs 2 crore from the over 10,000 challans issued by traffic police, transport department and Sub Divisional Magistrates to violators of odd-even...
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New Juvenile Justice Act Comes To Force
NEW DELHI -- Juveniles aged 16 to 18 years would now be tried as adults in cases of heinous crimes like rape and murder with a new law in this regard coming into force from today. The Juvenile Justice...
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