Protests Hit Retail Ahead of Durga Puja

West Bengal is home to 43,000 Durga Pujas, and the business around it is a major economic driver. IMAGE: People perform a street play during a protest condemning the rape and murder of a trainee......

Amid war, hundreds join Yoga Day celebrations in Israel

Over three hundred people from across Israel rolled out yoga mats and performed asanas as they participated in International Yoga Day celebrations at the Peres Centre for Peace and Innovation in......

NEET Case Kingpin's Political Ambitions

Sanjeev Kumar alias Sanjeev 'Mukhiya', an alleged kingpin behind the NEET paper leak, was not only minting money but wanted to become an MP or MLA. IMAGE: All India Students Association members......

10th International Yoga Day celebrated worldwide

Thousands of yoga enthusiasts from across the world rolled out their yoga mats as they joined day-long sessions of the ancient Indian practice to commemorate the 10th International Day of Yoga on......

Segregated Saudis flirt via Bluetooth

The restaurant, like all Riyadh eateries, has taken precautions to prevent its male and female diners from seeing or contacting each other.Circular white walls surround each table in the family......

IIT-Madras director on IITs and Pan-IIT event

Prof Madaboosi Santanam Ananth is one of the most vocal academicians in the country. He has been the director of IIT-Madras since 2001. Prof Ananth joined as faculty in the department of chemical......

At 17, she has built a million-dollar web site

Late last year, Ian Moray stumbled across a cotton-candy-pink Web site called Whateverlife.com. As manager of media development at the online marketing company ValueClick Media, he was searching......

Make money doing what you love

Answer this honestly: Do you work because you have to? Or because you want to? The majority of us would, reluctantly, have to plump for the former. However, an increasing number of Indians are......

'KBC reinvented Mr Bachchan's image'

'With approximately 600 episodes that I have been involved in, it does seem like the enactment of a lifetime.''But I have never felt the years go by.' IMAGE: Amitabh Bachchan on Kaun Banega......

'I am a huge Shah Rukh Khan fan'

'An actor is someone who fills the space between the director and the audience.''So when I see a script, I ask myself: Will the audience like this story?' IMAGE: Sharafudheen spreads his arms a la......

The Kader Khan interview you must read

'I went away from the industry because all the people I enjoyed working with, like Manmohan Desai and Prakash Mehra, are no more.''They left this world and went away, so I lost interest in my......

Kamal Haasan presents screenwriting workshop

Kamal Haasan, in association with the Indian Institute of Technology- Madras (IIT-M) will present a first-of-its-kind international workshop and seminar on screenwriting in the IIT campus in......

When India Hosted The First Asian Games

Seventy two years ago, a newly independent India ventured to hold the the first Asian Games in Delhi with meager resources. IMAGE: A glimpse of the Chinese city of Hangzhou, the venue for the......

PHOTOS: Raina weds childhood friend in star-studded ceremony

Cricketer Suresh Raina and Priyanka during their wedding ceremony in New Delhi on Friday. Photograph: PTI Photo/Twitter India’s star cricketer Suresh Raina tied the nuptial knot with fiancee......

Dangal's real-life hanikarak bapu: Mahavir Singh Phogat

For a few more minutes of shut-eye.For a few less minutes of training.The man who inspired Dangal tells Saurabh Duggal how the quest for an Olympic gold began.While his daughters reveal how they......

Who invented football?

Who really inventedfootball -- Native Americans? South American Indians? Was it Mexicans, Florentines, Chinese, Japanese or Eskimos?As Germany gears up for this month's World Cup, the "Fascination......

'Indian cricket's colourful story is still being written'

'What is true khadoos? Stubborn? Dogged? Unyielding? Relentless? Or something in between that? Or all of it together?' 'Just like you can't translate it, you can't teach a kid to be khadoos either.......