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A 1,000 weeks on, DDLJ’s romance with Bollywood lovers continues
It tugged at the heartstrings of the young, middle-aged and the old alike when it released way back in 1995. Even a thousand weeks after its run at the box office, Shah Rukh Khan-starrer romantic...
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Why releasing the CIA torture report will make America stronger
Even some of those who have supported the release of the Senate intelligence committee’s torture report agree that it could damage U.S. interests abroad. And opponents of the report are sure that, in...
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Online buyer nets Christie’s top lot for $2.8 million at India auction
An online buyer from New York overcame spirited bidding to grab a painting by modern Indian artist Tyeb Mehta for $2.8 million at a Christie’s auction in Mumbai, highlighting global interest in the...
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BJP MP plans religious conversions at Christmas
A Hindu priest-turned-lawmaker vowed on Friday to convert hundreds of Muslims and Christians to Hinduism on Christmas Day, despite a police investigation into an earlier round of conversions....
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Persecution of Pakistan’s religious minorities intensifies, says report
Violence and discrimination against Pakistan’s religious minorities such as Ahmadis, Christians and Hindus have intensified to a level where many live in daily fear of violence or harassment, a report...
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Desi Jihadis?: Three Indian-American teens caught trying to join IS
CHICAGO _Mohammed Hamzah Khan, 19, rose before dawn on Oct. 4 to pray with his father and 16-year-old brother at their neighborhood mosque in a Chicago suburb. When they returned home just before 6...
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BJP leader regrets Godse remarks after protests
BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj Friday regretted in the Lok Sabha his remarks eulogising Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse after vociferous protests by the opposition both inside and outside the house....
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‘Lingaa’– The hero with a thousand faces
In one of the scenes in “Lingaa”, Rajinikanth is seen reading Joseph Campbell’s “The Hero with A Thousand Faces’. The camera zooms in on the book’s title from different angles to emphasise that it was...
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Pro-IS Indian tweeter arrested in Bengaluru, had 17,000 followers
Bengaluru/Kolkata, Dec 13 (IANS) In an arrest with international ramifications, Indian business executive Mehdi Masroor Biswas, whose Twitter handle @ShamiWitness was alleged to be the most prolific...
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Pakistani pupils recall narrow escapes, carnage in Taliban slaughter
It began like any other morning in Pakistan’s Army Public School in the northwestern city of Peshawar. Students pored over their books. Teachers ruffled through their notes and gave lectures. In an...
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Taliban go on killing spree at Pakistan school, 132 students dead
At least 132 students and nine staff members were killed on Tuesday when Taliban gunmen broke into a school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar and opened fire, witnesses said, in the bloodiest massacre...
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India bans Islamic State, hunts for sympathisers
India on Tuesday declared a ban on Islamic State, days after having detained an engineer for running a popular Twitter account extolling the militant group’s military campaign. India has the world’s...
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India condemns Peshawar school attack, says against tenets of humanity
There was all-round condemnation in India, including from President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for Tuesday’s dastardly terror attack on a school in Pakistan’s Peshawar city...
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Women mourn their relative Mohammed Ali Khan, 15, a student who was killed during an attack by Taliban gunmen on the Army Public School, at his house in Peshawar December 16.
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Role reversal of fashion, films: Healthy exchange of creativity
Films and fashion go hand in hand and their relationship went a step forward in the year gone by,with designers going behind the camera to make movies and film stars taking to scissors and measuring...
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Women feel no safer in Delhi, two years after notorious gang rape
On a cold, rainy Sunday night, two policemen in khaki uniforms and fluorescent yellow jackets stand among commuters at a bus shelter in the Indian capital, occasionally stepping out to stop passing...
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Maryland CFO Pleads Guilty in Medical Kickback Scheme
An Indian-American who was chief financial officer for a group of pain management clinics in central Maryland pleaded guilty Dec. 15 to receiving kickbacks for lab test referrals from a medical...
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Girish Malik’s ‘Jal’ in the Running for 2 Oscars
Girish Malik’s National Award winning film ‘Jal’ has found a place in the Oscar contenders of 2014 in two categories — Best Picture and Best Original Score. The film, which has the backdrop of water...
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Fraud Travel Agents Dupe 200 Victims of $1 Million
Ten individuals, mostly of Pakistani origin, duped hundreds of travelers of more than $1 Million, selling them fraudulent air passages after advertizing their business in local ethnic media outlets....
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India goes on security alert weeks before Obama trip
India has put security agencies on nationwide alert for a militant strike in the lead-up to a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama next month, citing an assault on a Pakistani school this week as a...
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