There are multiple reasons for a desperate Beijing to teach India the final lesson, thereby ensuring Chinese supremacy in Asia in this century.

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Here's one: Shruti Haasan.

20th June will be the World Refugee day reminding us the plight of the forgotten.

Battered and bruised by the slowdown, real estate developers have done a mid-course strategy correction and begun to offer low-cost and affordable houses.

Azadi Square in central Iran witnessed the country's biggest protest in over three decades when thousands turned up to condemsn the alleged rigging of the recent presidential elections.

Few players in world football fit the Galactico description better than Cristiano Ronaldo and the Portuguese box of tricks appears to be on the verge of re-locating to his natural habitat at Real Madrid.

Here's a look at the celebrity bachchas.

"I don't feel 19. I don't know what it is to be 19," says Krushnaa Patil who became the second youngest Indian girl to scale Mount Everest.

Inida's top IT firm, Tata Consultancy Services, has enhanced total pay packages of its top management personnel and board members by over Rs 10 million -- in the process giving a better hike to its incoming chief executive officer than his predecessor.

A look at some truly sizzling women who haven't even hit 25 yet.

Meet the CEOs for South Africa's MTN and India's Bharti Airtel. They're the men behind what would be India Inc's largest-ever overseas transaction, at $23 billion.

Vijay Nair, a 25-year-old Mumbaikar, has worked to put India's indie music scene on the map. His hard work is starting to pay off, as recently he was named the British Council's Young Music Entrepreneuer of the Year.

Twenty-one of the 30 MPs below the age of 35 belong to families who are in Indian politics or have been MPs or legislators in the past.

Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Sharon Stone and a host of other celebs turned out for the premiere of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.

An estimated 62 per cent of the electorate on Wednesday exercised their franchise in the fifth and final phase of polling in Lok Sabha elections, bringing down the curtain on the month-long democratic exercise, the longest in the world.

Mahindra Xylo targets one bird too many with its sedan-killer strategy.

A galaxy of stars were spotted at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute's 'Model as Muse' gala.

We know our Bollywood stars really well -- sometimes, even their dark secrets. But their non-star beaus/ spouses always keep off the limelight. See for yourself -- how many interviews of Shah Rukh Khan's wife Gauri have you read? How many times have you seen juhi Chawla's businessman husband Jai Mehta in the newspapers?

While European cities dominated the top ranks in Mercer's 2009 Quality of Living survey, no Indian or Chinese cities featured in the list of top 50.

Natalie Coughlin and Aaron Peirsol blitzed to world records in the 100 meters backstroke to highlight another breathless day of action at the US Olympic swimming trials on Tuesday. Coughlin sparked the record demolition when she stormed to the wall in a time of 58.97 seconds, trimming 0.06 off her own mark to become the first woman to dip under 59 seconds.

Michael Phelps and Katie Hoff got the US Olympic trials off to a spectacular start with world records in the 400 metres individual medleys.

Elite retreats: As the world learns about 2008's most influential, most popular and richest celebrities we found out where they go to play! Enjoy

'The nation, at this critical juncture, depends on its representatives in Parliament to ensure that decisions taken today do not inhibit our future ability to develop and pursue nuclear technologies for the benefit of the nation'

Tim Henman beat Roger Federer the last time they met at Wimbeldon, in 2001 after the Swiss eliminated Pete Sampras