HIV/AIDS from an Indian viewpoint

Dr Suniti Solomon was the first to discover the AIDS virus in India in 1986. She was in New York last week to speak on 'Frontline perspectives from India: Progress and challenges in combating the......

Kerry suspends campaign for Reagan

Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has suspended campaigning till the end of the week as a mark of respect to former President Ronald Reagan, who died on Sunday. The cancelled events......

Muhammad Ali nominated for Peace Nobel

The Gandhi Foundation of USA on Wednesday nominated Muhammad Ali, three-time world heavyweight boxing champion, who is now a United Nations Messenger of Peace, for this year's Nobel Peace Prize.......

BBC apologises to Queen Elizabeth

Annie Leibowitz, widely considered to be the greatest portrait photographer of our time, in the midst of a shoot, asked Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain to take off her 'dressy' crown. The......

The top 10 challenges for India

India has huge potential for growth. But having the potential and actually achieving it are two different things. And this is where the biggest challenges lie for India. In its Global Economics......

The secret behind Hero Honda's success

On the first of every month, two-wheeler companies disclose their sale figures for the previous month. May 1 was no different.  Hero Honda, the country's largest and most valuable two-wheeler......

Discovering what we don't know

I stared at the sheaf of photocopied reading material that the instructor had distributed to our class, anger welling up inside me. "Many years had passed during which nothing of Combray . . . had......

Meet the voices behind The Lion King characters

The Lion King is back! Only this time around, we get to watch Simba and his gang in 3D. As one of the highest grossing animated series gears up for release this Friday in a reinvented avatar, we......

'Men don't care what a woman looks like naked'

Get your low down on what's happening in the world of Hollywood, right here! Julia Roberts feels that men don't care much about how naked women look. The actress, who's married to Daniel Moder,......

Brangelina's secret to successful romance

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie admits the secret to her successful romance with partner Brad Pitt is not living apart for more than three days. The 35-year-old actress insists that they 'stay......

Akshay's message for Father's Day

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Passion and trust in New York 2012 bid

Trust and passion were twin elements cited on Thursday by the head of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) evaluation commission at the end of their intense, four-day inspection of New York's......