The absence of Railway Minister Lalu Prasad in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday forced adjournment of the house for the day with an angry opposition demanding his resignation over Tuesday's train......
With the state in the grip of dengue, ratand viral fevers that have together claimed nearly 100 lives in the last three weeks, the Kerala government has turned to the Centrefor help deal with the......
The Hindu's correspondent in China Pallavi Aiyar will release her book Smoke and Mirrors: An Experience of China, published by Harper Collins India, this week. For the last five years, Aiyar has......
On Thursday, this correspondent began to travel northwards from Kanyakumari to Chennai along the coast of Tamil Nadu that was on December 26 battered by tsunamis.In Kanyakumari, tourists rise......
Mumbai resident Navin Shetty wasvacationing in Pondicherry with friends when tsunamis struck the east coast of India on December 26.Hesurvived the ordeal and called up his family at 9.30 am, just......
Protocol hiccups continued for the second day as Putin arrived about 15 minutes behind schedule for the ceremonialreception.In the normal course, the programme is fine-tuned in such a manner that......
The Sensex opened the week in the positive region. On Monday it ended on a high note, with a gain of 400 points. On Tuesday it ended down, and on Wednesday it has remained extremely volatile.......
Goodbye makes ordinary places, ordinary people and ordinary events become interesting, observes Mayur Sanap. Film-makers love to see the excruciating beauty in human grief. Using the backdrop of a......
Twenty years ago on June 15, 2001, Director Ashutosh Gowariker and Aamir Khan gave us a film that not only made it to the Oscars ,but won millions of hearts. Lagaan, starring Aamir and Gracy Singh......
All the action on Day 2 at the Cannes Film Festival. Timbuktu denotes remoteness, even myth, in English. It is actually a town in Mali. It is also a riveting film in the high-fenced competition......
This is how we do it, baby! Just like the rest of us, Bollywood stars love clicking selfies as well. And some of them are pretty good at it. We take a look at some of the best star selfies: ......
According to The Telegraph report, Twilight Saga's latest installment Breaking Dawn was the most searched film on Google in the UK this year. The film enjoys a huge fan following all around......
Ronaldo won and converted a hat-trick of penalties to give Brazil a 3-1 victory over Argentina in World Cup qualifiers on Wednesday while Colombia lost again, going down 2-1 to Ecuador. The Real......