Americans, defying curfews in several cities including New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Washington DC, protested, in some cases violently, against the custodial killing of African-American......
Ten images that prove we live in a odd, odd world! A woman touches a giant face-shaped pillar outside the Dotonbori Hotel in Osaka, Japan. Photograph: Kim Kyung-hoon/Reuters A DJ performs......
Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner’s business ties with a Chinese financial behemoth are raising concerns over potential conflict of interest as he prepares for a role in White House,......
In super-human actions of valour, Havildar Abdul Hamid personally knocked out five tanks over two days, effectively derailing the enemy offensive in the 1965 Indo-Pak War. 'Decades later, I......
India is committed to getting back to a sustainable growth path of 8 to 9 per cent, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said, adding that such a target is achievable because the fundamentals of the......
Indian-American hotelier Sant Singh Chatwal has entered into a global agreement with Wyndham Hotel Groups under which the latter will have exclusive rights to franchise and manage the Chatwal......
Sant Singh Chatwal did not exactly bootstrap his way up America's lodging industry by starting at a modest roadside motel, as have so many immigrants. His first fixer-upper hotel was in Manhattan,......
India's Finance Minister P Chidambaram said Wednesday that India can raise its GDP to 9 percent if the country is able to develop its infrastructure and mobilize the investment. "Money is flowing......
Here was this filmmaker, who has won so many awards, including a couple of Oscars, and there was not an ounce of arrogance in him, says Aseem Chhabra.It was the fall of 1984. I had to pick up a......
In the mid 1980s, Swaroop Sampat Rawal was at the peak of her acting career with Kundan Shah's hit television sitcom Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi, where she played Renu, the wife of the late actor Shafi......
As the audience ushered into the Theatre Row's auditorium for the performance of writer Ayub Khan-Din's new play Rafta, Rafta, I had a very strong sense of dj vu, as if I had walked onto the sets......
Bombay Jen and her friend Paul Meidinger were insistent. I had to go with them to the lobby bar of a hotel in midtown Manhattan to watch the stars of Karan Johar's Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna.They had......
A month ago walking in Times Square late in the evening, I saw an unusual number of desis hanging outside the Air Force Recruitment Center, between Broadway and Seventh Avenue. A closer look......
IMAGE: James Blake of the United States during the 2013 US Open. Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton apologised on Thursday to former US......
File picture: James Blake in action during the Connecticut Open in August 2014. Photograph: Elsa/Getty Images Former tennis star James Blake was slammed to the ground, handcuffed and detained for......
Promoter Don King, who built a boxing empire with the aid of hyperbole, bluster and spin, filed a $2.5 billion lawsuit on Wednesday against sports channel ESPN over a biography of him he said was......