" By Joe Leahy in Mumbai Published: August 21 2008 20:58 | Last updated: August 21 2008 20:58 India’s inflation rate shot up to its highest level in more than 16 years this month, increasing...
This was very tragic...Parents who apparently infected HIV in Bombay hanged themselves after poisoning their three children. The incident happened after discovering that their only daughter had also contracted the virus. " The couple, who lived in a middle-class district...
Stocks market in India have given thumping welcome to government's victory in Parliament. Markets opened sharply today morning as ruling UPA government won trust vote yesterday. Strong US market on the back of...
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" As many as five million Indian lorry drivers went on strike today to protest against a surge in fuel prices, dealing what may prove a fatal blow to the country's beleaguered Government. Congress, the biggest...
"Hospital authorities in India have ordered an independent inquiry after a baby was declared dead, only to make an apparently miraculous return to life. The baby girl - born in the city of Mumbai (Bombay) - was...
I just learned the other day, (through a very bad movie, whose title I won't tell you), that there are actually two Statues of Liberty in the world - one in New York and one in Paris. Well, now there may be one off...
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Karnataka: latest: B.J.P Govt for the first time was sworn in today afternoon,When the c B.S.Yeddyurappa took oath as chief minister of Karnataka. the 66 year old Yeddyuruppa was elected fom shikaipura for 6th...
"CANNES, France —61st Cannes Film Festival awarded the French film "The Class," a story about classroom life using real students and teachers (amateur actors) at a junior high school, with Palme d'Or, the most...
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Flamingoes in Mumbai.. do not die of pollution.....they thrive on it...........Just like Mumbaites.They are reported to be killed here only due to illegal poaching at one place and they gradually shifted their...
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Extensive usage of diclofenac drug is killing Indian vultures and experts warn that they may be extinct in less than 10 years. Drug causes kidney failure in these birds. "Despite a 2006 ban on veterinary...
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"Veteran actor Om Puri is the new Chief of NFDC One of India's most celebrated actors Om Puri of 'East is East', 'Ardh Satya' and 'Paar' fame has taken over as Chairman, National...
I had no idea, until this morning, that Bollywood movies were banned from being screened in Pakistan. Having only allowed three Indian films to be shown in Pakistan, back in 2006, today's announcement proposes that...
""" It would be a mistake to look only at the photos in this new book on Bollywood.
The real eye candy is not the photographs but the writing. ""In Bollywood Today, Kaveree Bamzai entertainingly combines good-prose with insightful-analysis. Details are contemporary...
There are always lessons to be learned but rather than do that through travel disasters, why not do our homework before heading for the airport. That's why the Been There Guide to Business Etiquette caught my eye. Let me share a few elements I gathered from this article.
The grim work of trying in court the 13 men accused of carrying out the July 2006 Mumbai bombing, has begun. "A total of 187 commuters were killed and more than 700 people wounded in the seven co-ordinated...