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  • UK plane-spotters 'admit monitoring aircraft' in India
  • Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010
  • Two UK plane-spotters have admitted illegally monitoring aircraft in India, the MP fighting for their return home said. Stephen Hampton, 46 and Steven Ayres, 56, both from Bristol, have been released on bail after being charged with intercepting communica...
  • Tendulkar sets record as Bangladesh make India struggle
  • Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2010
  • Another Sachin Tendulkar batting record was the high point of a far-from-convincing Indian display on day one of the first Test against Bangladesh. When bad light stopped play India were 213-8 as Shakib Al Hasan and Shahadat Hossain took four wickets each...
  • Biofuel bus driver bailed after India sat phone arrest
  • Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2010
  • An environmental campaigner on a world tour in a bus powered by biofuel has been bailed after he was held in India for illegally using a satellite phone. Andy Pag, 35, of Croydon, south London, was arrested in Ajmer, in Rajasthan state, on suspicion of be...
  • Lindsay Lohan to front BBC child trafficking film
  • Date: Saturday, January 9, 2010
  • Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan is to front a new BBC Three documentary which will focus on child trafficking in India. Lohan has travelled across the continent interviewing the people involved in trying to find solutions to the illegal trade. The channe...
  • India hit by new state protests
  • Date: Wednesday, December 30, 2009
  • Large parts of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh (AP) have shut down in a strike called by the supporters of a new state. Strict security has been imposed in 10 districts of the state and more than 100,000 security personnel deployed. Fearing v...
  • India pace bowler Sree Santh has swine flu
  • Date: Saturday, December 12, 2009
  • India pace bowler Sree Santh has been taken to hospital in Chandigarh after contracting swine flu. The 26-year-old had already missed the first Twenty20 international against Sri Lanka with what was thought at the time to be a viral infection. "He w...
  • India nuclear leak 'inside job'
  • Date: Monday, November 30, 2009
  • A "disgruntled" worker could be behind the leak of a radioactive substance into drinking water at an atomic power plant in southern India, police say. Preliminary investigations suggested it was an "inside job", a senior police officer...
  • Mumbai attacks: One year on
  • Date: Sunday, November 29, 2009
  • Ceremonies have been held in Mumbai (Bombay) to mark the first anniversary of a series of devastating attacks on the Indian city by militants. Police have paraded in the city, a memorial has been inaugurated and candle-lit prayer services held. The attac...
  • India spinners seal emphatic Test win over Sri Lanka
  • Date: Sunday, November 29, 2009
  • India earned their 100th Test victory by comprehensively beating Sri Lanka by an innings and 144 runs in Kanpur. The margin was India's biggest over Sri Lanka, surpassing the previous best of an innings and 119 runs in 1994. Resuming on 57-4, Sri Lanka w...
  • India launches ballistic missile
  • Date: Tuesday, November 24, 2009
  • India has test-fired its intermediate-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile, Agni-II. The surface-to-surface missile was test-fired off an island in Orissa state in eastern India, officials say. With a range of more than 2,000km (1,250 miles), the miss...
  • India unveils plans for massive solar power boost
  • Date: Saturday, November 21, 2009
  • India has approved plans for a huge increase in the amount of electricity it generates from solar power. It aims to boost solar output 1,000-fold over 12 years from its current negligible level. Its 20 gigawatt target would power several big cities. The...
  • India's unique record breaking cricketers
  • Date: Saturday, November 21, 2009
  • When a school boy and a grandfather in India break cricket records separately, the game truly cuts across generations. Twelve-year-old school boy Sarfaraz Khan batted almost 10 hours to pile up 439 runs in a school match in western Mumbai city a fortnigh...
  • Dravid steals Tendulkar limelight
  • Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009
  • India legend Sachin Tendulkar was overshadowed on day one of his 20th anniversary Test as Rahul Dravid and Mahendra Singh Dhoni stole the show. Tendulkar, who made his Test debut on 15 November 1989, made only four in the first innings of the first Test a...
  • Indian elephants to go from zoos
  • Date: Monday, November 16, 2009
  • The Central Zoo Authority in India has confirmed to the BBC that zoos and circuses in the country will no longer be allowed to keep elephants. A spokesman for the authority said a binding directive had been issued by the authority for the animals to be se...
  • Restaurants demand 'Curry College'
  • Date: Monday, May 11, 2009
  • Restaurateurs and ministers are gathering to discuss a staffing crisis in curry kitchens, following a tightening of immigration rules last year. Alongside the G20 summit and only slightly overshadowed by it, the government is holding an "ethnic chef...
  • Multilingual service for schools
  • Date: Monday, May 11, 2009
  • A new multilingual service to help primary school children learn English is to be introduced in a town in Essex. The English Schools Induction Service (ESIS) includes a collection of 21 short films about school life. The films are aimed at helping four ...
  • Mamata Banerjee's Bengal comeback
  • Date: Monday, May 11, 2009
  • Thousands of billboards and posters of West Bengal's opposition leader, Mamata Banerjee, line the streets of Calcutta. The poster blitzkrieg by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and its leader could represent the waning powers of West Bengal's leftist governm...
  • Father denies Slumdog child sale
  • Date: Monday, May 11, 2009
  • The father of a Slumdog Millionaire child actress has denied trying to sell her in what he called a "dirty" undercover operation by a UK newspaper. Rafiq Qureshi said he had not accepted a deal to sell nine-year-old Rubina Ali into adoption. T...
  • Festival cancelled due to funding
  • Date: Monday, May 11, 2009
  • An annual multi-cultural event has been cancelled by council chiefs this year because of a lack of funding. Oxford City Council said it could not afford to put £8,000 towards the Oxford Mela because it needed to make savings of £5.3m this yea...
  • Coming of age of Rahul Gandhi
  • Date: Monday, May 11, 2009
  • One of the more significant developments of the ongoing Indian elections is the coming of age of Rahul Gandhi - the governing Congress party's heir apparent and the fourth generation scion of the famous Nehru-Gandhi dynasty. As campaigning for the Indian...
  • Antulay issue forces adjournment in both Houses of Parliament
  • Date: Monday, December 22, 2008
  • The Antulay issue once again caused uproar in Parliament on Monday as agitated BJP and Shiv Sena members stormed the well in both the Houses demanding sacking of the Union Minister, forcing their brief adjournments. While Rajya Sabha was adjourned twic...
  • Believe it or not, there is a smugglers' tunnel under the border
  • Date: Monday, December 22, 2008
  • In a shocking breach of security, the existence of a cross-border tunnel underneath the fencing along the international border (IB) in Rajasthan has come to light through which drugs and fake currency were smuggled into Indian territory. The sensationa...
  • Indian navy foils another attack by Somali pirates
  • Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008
  • Even as the world's largest supertanker the Saudi Sirius Star continues to be in the grip of pirates of the coast of Somalia, the Indian navy appears to have taken the lead in the fight against pirates. An Indian warship deployed in the Gulf of Aden fo...
  • Cut prices: FM's message to auto, realty, airlines
  • Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008
  • Calling upon the automobile manufacturers, realty firms and airlines to reduce prices, finance minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday promised to consider excise duty cut for the sectors which are facing the heat of global financial meltdown. "Hotels m...
  • Singh is King
  • Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008
  • Yuvraj Singh clobbered his second successive century and then scalped four key wickets as India maintained their stranglehold over England by winning the second ODI on Monday by 54 runs. The Indians rode on Yuvraj's scintillating 118 to post a competit...
  • Indian probe touches down on Moon
  • Date: Saturday, November 15, 2008
  • India's first unmanned lunar spacecraft, Chandrayaan 1, has placed a probe on the surface of the Moon. The probe, painted with the Indian flag, touched down at 2034 (1504 GMT), the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said. It will perform vari...
  • Kidnap attempt foiled, but assailants snatch bike to flee
  • Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008
  • It was one chase straight out of a Bollywood flick. And just like in our Hindi movies, the high-tension drama ended with criminals giving the police the slip. According to sources, an Afghani refugee and his 11-year-old nephew were abducted on Thursda...
  • Barclays Launches Hindi Website
  • Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008
  • Barclays, a leading global financial services providers, has launched its global retail and commercial bank's India website in Hindi. With this launch, Barclays has become the first ever foreign bank in India to have a website in the Hindi language. &q...
  • Obama sought Indian votes through Hindi, Malayalam leaflets
  • Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008
  • Barack Obama, who scripted history by becoming the first black President of America, had projected himself as a "powerful" spokesman for rights of minorities and a crusader against discrimination as he wooed the Indian- Americans in their vernac...
  • Thousands in Kashmir enjoy train ride
  • Date: Friday, October 31, 2008
  • Over 74,000 people took joy rides in less than three weeks after inauguration of the train service in Kashmir valley which has earned about Rs 7.5 lakhs for Indian Railways. "In just 19 days after inauguration of the train service in Kashmir valle...
  • 2004 tsunami was not the first one in Indian Ocean!
  • Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008
  • Scientists have found evidence which indicates that the 2004 tsunami that inundated Indian Ocean coastlines, leaving behind a trail of destruction, was not a first-time occurrence, as the mega waves have repeatedly washed over a Thai island during the las...
  • India cannot remain silent spectator: TN BJP
  • Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008
  • The BJP in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday said India had the "moral right and responsibility" to intervene in Sri Lankan Tamils issue and should not remain a "silent spectator" to the sufferings of the civilian Tamils in the island. New De...
  • What happened on route 332: A reconstruction
  • Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008
  • At around 9.25 am, the bus crossed the Sakinaka signal. I was issuing tickets to passengers on the upper deck when a youth came up the stairs and sat on the backseat, which is meant for women. There were only around 15 passengers in the bus and seats were...
  • Accused benefits if eyewitness statement inconsistent: SC
  • Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008
  • The Supreme Court has held that inconsistencies in statements of the so-called eyewitnesses can be a ground for acquittal of the accused in murder and other cases. "In the instant case not only there is discrepancy as regards the place of occurren...
  • McCain wants India to be part of extended G-8
  • Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008
  • US Republican presidential nominee John McCain wants India to be a member of the expanded G-8 format but feels its claim to a permanent membership of the UN Security Council was difficult due to complicated equations, says McCain's adviser. "Senat...
  • France woos Indian tourists
  • Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008
  • France is hard-selling itself to India as a viable tourist destination with new locales and two new campaigns specifically for the Indian holiday crowd. The campaigns are "France with Family" for families and "Romantic France" for h...
  • Chandrayaan-I launched successfully
  • Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2008
  • Carrying over a billion hopes, India's maiden lunar mission Chandrayaan-I began its historic journey to the moon today when an indigenously developed rocket placed the spacecraft into the Transfer Orbit "perfectly". India becomes the sixth na...
  • MNS chief Raj Thackeray arrested
  • Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008
  • Mumbai police have issued a gag order under section 144 against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray banning him from addressing a press or public gathering, or carrying out any procession for the next two months. Police today resorted ...
  • Choose jobs or lawlessness, Tata to West Bengal
  • Date: Friday, October 17, 2008
  • Two weeks after he moved out the Nano plant from West Bengal, Tata Motors chairman Ratan Tata has warned the state of the consequences of letting history repeat itself and asked a series of searing questions in an open letter explaining why he was compell...
  • AI mulls leave without pay to 15,000 staff for 3-5 yrs
  • Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008
  • State-owned Air India on Thursday many as 15,000 workers go on leave without pay for 3-5 years, but it would be voluntary action on the employees part. "We are planning to offer leave without pay for three to five years. We can consider it for abo...
  • PIL in HC seeking security for those who work night shifts
  • Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008
  • Television producer Soumya Vishwanathan's killing in the wee hours while returning home from office has prompted a petitioner to approach the Delhi High Court seeking better security for people working late into night in the Capital and adjoining areas. ...
  • MAN VS MACHINE MUMBAI TRAFFIC CHALLENGE
  • Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008
  • The time you spend stuck in traffic in this city is not funny. But you can always trust some dry wit to see you through. And one of the oft heard lines is: I could reach faster if I were to walk. You know they say that if a lie is repeated ad nauseam, peo...
  • Priyaranjan Dasmunsi's health improves
  • Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008
  • The condition of information and broadcasting minister Priyaranjan Dasmunsi, who was admitted to the AIIMS here following a severe heart attack, has improved considerably, doctors said on Wednesday. "He has shown considerable improvement. He is no...
  • Indian author Aravind Adiga wins Man Booker Prize 2008
  • Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008
  • India's first time novelist Aravind Adiga on Wednesday won the 50,000 pounds ($87,000) Man Booker Prize 2008 for his novel, The White Tiger. Young Indian writer Aravind Adiga is one of the two first-time novelists on the 2008 Man Booker's shortlist o...
  • Now get your passport in three days
  • Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008
  • Applying for and getting passports will be as easy as 1-2-3, with the government on Monday awarding a Rs 1,000 crore e-project to software company TCS for issuing the travel document to citizens in just three days. Passports applied for under the 'tatk...
  • India improves on hunger list, but still worse than Nepal, Pak
  • Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008
  • India appears to have made some progress in tackling the hunger and malnutrition issue, but the situation remains "alarming" in the country on this front, according to the Global Hunger Index released on Tuesday. India ranks 66th on the 2008 ...
  • Samsung Innov8 launched in India
  • Date: Monday, October 13, 2008
  • Samsung Mobile has strengthened its foothold in the multimedia phone segment by launching the Samsung INNOV8 - an 8 MP camera phone, in the Indian market. Focusing on mobile handset photography and a richer multimedia experience, Samsung INNOV8 offers hig...
  • From Budgam to Islamabad
  • Date: Monday, October 13, 2008
  • As the first ever train in Kashmir with 75 onboard passengers honked its departure whistle at 7.25 am Sunday and started chugging towards south Kashmir’s Islamabad district joy filled central Kashmir’s Budgam railway station. Chief Area Manag...
  • Costly festivities, but who's complaining?
  • Date: Friday, October 10, 2008
  • As the Navaratri and Puja celebrations in Bangalore get bigger, brighter and better, so have the logistics that go behind organizing nine nights of non-stop music and masti. From costumes to cultural events, it calls for elaborate planning, coordinatio...
  • Global meltdown hits hiring in India
  • Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008
  • The global financial meltdown claimed its first casualty in Los Angeles on Tuesday with a 45-year-old NRI killing five members of his family before taking his own life. That’s an indicator of the turmoil that families are going through owing to e...
  • Indian Air Force turns 76 today
  • Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008
  • The Indian Air Force (IAF) is celebrating its 76th anniversary today. An air display by 52 aircraft will form part of the Air Force Day Parade-cum- investiture ceremony at Air Force Station, Hindon. Aircraft will fly at heights from 60 metres to 300...
  • Gujarat cabinet approves land for Nano plant
  • Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008
  • Tatas have decided to roll out the Nano from Gujarat, according to TV reports. The Gujarat cabinet has approved allotment of land for Nano project. Decks have been cleared for transfer of 1,000 acres of land to the Tatas. Modi's council of ministers me...
  • Faith makes you better, with a rider
  • Date: Monday, October 6, 2008
  • Religion makes people helpful and honest, but mainly when it bolsters their reputation or when religious thoughts get freshly activated in their minds, new research suggests. Two psychologists in Canada, who reviewed decades of research from anthropolo...
  • Report on armed forces grievances expected in two weeks: Navy Chief
  • Date: Monday, October 6, 2008
  • Rubbishing reports that he was censured by Defence Minister A K Antony for his "defiance" over the Pay Commission report, Navy chief Sureesh Mehta on Monday said he expected the ministerial committee looking into the "core issues" rais...
  • Pak to review Sarabjit's case
  • Date: Monday, October 6, 2008
  • Pakistani Law Minister Farooq Naek on Monday met Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh at the Lahore's Kot Lakhpath Jail to review him. Naek said that he has asked for Sarabjit's file from the jail superintendent and added that he would study his ca...
  • Health insurance cover for poor spreads to 11 states
  • Date: Friday, October 3, 2008
  • A national health insurance programme, under which people below the poverty line (BPL) pay only Rs 30 and become entitled to treatment of up to Rs 30,000, has just become operational in 11 states. Launched in the Capital in April this year, the health ins...
  • Finally, it's done: India back on the nuclear train
  • Date: Thursday, October 2, 2008
  • Three decades of nuclear apartheid that New Delhi had been subjected to, ended, appropriately enough, on Gandhi Jayanti (day) in India. Ejected from the train of nuclear elites and their submissive groupies following its experimental 1974 nuclear test, an...
  • Turbans are an issue: Singh tells Sarkozy
  • Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008
  • Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said French President Nicolas Sarkozy had told him that he had an "open mind" on the issue of Sikhs wearing turbans in France and would have a relook at it. Dr Singh, who the was speaking to mediaper...
  • UP cops put cyber cafes, PCOs under surveillance
  • Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2008
  • The recent spurt in terrorist activities and links connecting many of the suspects to Uttar Pradesh have brought cyber cafes and telephone booths across the state under police surveillance with the former asked to install CCTVs. "Police officials ...
  • India can’t remain untouched by global financial crisis: PM
  • Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2008
  • Hinting that India cannot remain untouched by the financial turmoil in the US, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said the nation's capacity to finance development will be affected and exports compromised if major economies go into recession. In an inte...
  • 177 feared dead in temple stampede in Jodhpur
  • Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2008
  • In one of worst tragedies in Rajasthan, 177 people are feared dead, mostly men, and several injured in a stampede that took place when thousands of devotees gathered at a 15th century temple in Jodhpur on the occasion of Navaratri festival on Tuesday. ...
  • Petrol, diesel shortage looms large
  • Date: Monday, September 29, 2008
  • If you thought petrol and diesel were going to get cheaper thanks to falling crude prices, think again. In fact, thank your lucky stars if there is no shortage in the next 2-3 months. The three companies supplying these fuels — IndianOil, Hindust...
  • Dasmunshi urges Singur resolution
  • Date: Monday, September 29, 2008
  • Information and Broadcasting Minister P R Dasmunshi on Sunday called for fresh efforts to solve the tangle around the Tata Motors small car project at Singur. He said an all-party meeting should be called to discuss the impasse where attempt should be ...
  • Don't leave West Bengal: Buddha urges Tata
  • Date: Friday, September 26, 2008
  • West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has written to Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata urging him not to shift the Nano car project from Singur. The chief minister in his letter to Ratan Tata said no more disruptions will occur. “We ass...
  • Police told to end open defiance
  • Date: Friday, September 26, 2008
  • Even while Maharashtra is on tenterhooks fearing where the next blast might take place and the state police force is trying to thwart terrorists, the 1.75 lakh policemen have been told to take up another responsibility, that of booking people who defecate...
  • India to open consulates in Seattle, Atlanta
  • Date: Friday, September 26, 2008
  • India will open two new consulates in the United States in Seattle and Atlanta, foreign secretary Shivshankar Menon announced on Thursday. Briefing journalists on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's meeting with US President Bush at the White House, Menon ...
  • Special Task Force to implement smoking rules in Goa
  • Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008
  • Goa government will form a special task force to ensure implementation of new amendments in the Smoking in public places Rules 2008, that are being enforced from October 2. State Health Minister Rane said that the Goa cabinet would resolve to give more...
  • Five Indian Mujahideen men arrested from Mumbai
  • Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008
  • In yet another pointer to suspected SIMI-Indian Mujaheedin involvement in terror attacks in Delhi and other parts of the country, Mumbai Police claimed to have arrested five people, including the man who made bomb circuits used to carry out blasts in the ...
  • Marriott bombing: Al Qaeda, affiliate suspected
  • Date: Monday, September 22, 2008
  • A suicide bomb attack that killed 53 people at the Marriott Hotel in Pakistan's capital bore the hallmarks of an operation by al Qaeda or an affiliate, Pakistani and US intelligence officials said on Sunday. Searchers combing the burnt shell of the hot...
  • Yamuna level rises, Delhi on alert
  • Date: Monday, September 22, 2008
  • With the water level in Yamuna rising alarmingly, the Delhi Government has asked people living on the river bed to evacuate their homes. The water-level in the river on Sunday touched 204.60 metres, just 23 cm away from the danger mark, as Haryana rele...
  • Indian sailors onboard ship hijacked by Somalian pirates safe
  • Date: Friday, September 19, 2008
  • Eighteen Indian sailors on board a cargo vessel that has been hijacked by pirates off the Yemen coast are safe, an official here said Wednesday. 'As per the information received, all crew on board are safe and the vessel is being taken to Somalia,' the...
  • India mulls rules for kids on TV
  • Date: Friday, September 19, 2008
  • The Indian government has proposed new guidelines to regulate children's participation in reality TV shows. Among them is a suggestion to fix the minimum age limit of contestants to 12 years. Once approved, all broadcasters will have to follow the guid...
  • Election arrangements reviewed in Kashmir Valley
  • Date: Friday, September 19, 2008
  • Jammu and Kashmir Chief Electoral Officer B.R. Sharma Thursday reviewed with the district election officers of the Valley the arrangements for the forthcoming elections to the 87-member state assembly. There would be 9,113 polling stations for 6.54 mil...
  • Britain's first Hindu school to begin term
  • Date: Monday, September 15, 2008
  • Britain's first Hindu school, which receives its spiritual guidance from the Hare Krishna movement, opens in London on Monday with a batch of 30 students. The 'bhumi puja' (ground breaking ceremony) of the Krishna Avanti Voluntary Aided Primary School ...
  • Hindi-Chini, hai-hai
  • Date: Thursday, September 11, 2008
  • The Indian elephant has a deep-seated and chronic inferiority complex vis-a-vis the Chinese dragon. Way back in 1950, after the Chinese communist revolution, the US offered China's UN Security Council seat to India. Jawaharlal Nehru turned down the offer,...
  • Cyber Sutra: India's online eroticism
  • Date: Thursday, September 11, 2008
  • Now known for strict conservatism, India was the birthplace of erotica, famed for its sensual literature and carvings. Andrew Buncombe looks at a modern expression of an ancient urge India's cultural gifts to the world include the Kama Sutra and the se...
  • Top Bollywood stars swept up in nativist politics
  • Date: Thursday, September 11, 2008
  • By Tony Tharakan NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A surge of nativism in India's most cosmopolitan city, Mumbai, is leading to an uneasy relationship with one of its best-known institutions -- Bollywood. Some of its top stars have been caught up in the anti-im...
  • Delhi University gets ABVP president after 8 years
  • Date: Saturday, September 6, 2008
  • NEW DELHI: Nupur Sharma of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) - the student wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) - was elected the president of the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) for 2008-09 here on Saturday. Sharma, who is a stu...
  • UPDATE 1-India says nuclear suppliers' approval "momentous"
  • Date: Saturday, September 6, 2008
  • By Krittivas Mukherjee NEW DELHI, Sept 6 (Reuters) - India hailed as "momentous" a global atomic cartel's decision on Saturday to lift a 34-year-old ban on nuclear trade with New Delhi, a crucial step to sealing a controversial U.S.-India civ...
  • US-India nuclear accord approved
  • Date: Saturday, September 6, 2008
  • The group of nations which regulates the global nuclear trade has approved a US proposal to lift restrictions on selling nuclear technology to India. The controversial deal now needs to be ratified by the US Congress before it can be implemented. In...
  • Warner 'sues over Puttar movie'
  • Date: Friday, September 5, 2008
  • Harry Potter maker Warner Bros is suing an Indian film company over the title of upcoming film Hari Puttar - A Comedy Of Terrors, according to reports. Warner Bros feels the name is too similar to that of its world famous young wizard, according to tr...
  • Making Hindi interesting for students
  • Date: Friday, September 5, 2008
  • Our national language has been neglected for long or so believes Srijan Publishers, a Delhi-based publishing house. They today organised a workshop on 'Hindi shikshan ki chunautiya' (Challenges in Hindi education) for the teachers of the steel city an...
  • Grandmother Gives Birth to Twins in India
  • Date: Monday, July 7, 2008
  • Omkari Panwar, 70, has become the oldest mother in the world after giving birth to twins. The twins, a boy and a girl, were born a month premature and weighed just 2lb each, but are thought to be healthy. Mrs Panwar, along with her husband Charan Sing...
  • Primark Fires Indian Child Labour Firms
  • Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2008
  • The UK-based discount clothing store Primark has sacked three of its Indian suppliers after discovering that they used child labour to finish their goods. Primark has proven to be a big hit on the high street thanks to its mixture of low prices and cuttin...
  • Gujjar Tribespeople Cause Chaos in New Dehli
  • Date: Thursday, May 29, 2008
  • Thousands of members of the Gujjar tribe brought New Delhi to a standstill today after blocking major roads, squatting on train tracks and burning car tires in order to protest for better treatment. They have also threatened to halt essential milk and veg...
  • Guilty Verdict in High-Profile Delhi Murder Case
  • Date: Thursday, May 29, 2008
  • A court in Delhi has found Vikas Yadav guilty in a high-profile murder case. Yadav, who is the son of the influential Uttar Pradesh politician DP Yadav, was found guilty of abducting and killing Nitish Katara after a wedding six years ago. It is believed ...
  • Bayern Munich Arrive in Calcutta
  • Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2008
  • German football team Bayern Munich have arrived in Calcutta, where they will become the first big European club to play in India. The team’s visit signifies the increasing popularity of football in a country that is generally known for its love of c...
  • Douglas and Zeta-Jones Make Film in India
  • Date: Friday, May 23, 2008
  • Over two decades after the original, Michael Douglas is making a sequel to his 1984 film Romancing the Stone, along with his Welsh actress wife Catherine Zeta-Jones. The couple will be relocating their whole family to Mumbai, Kolkata and Jaisalmer in orde...
  • Bollywood Boss Makes Hollywood Movie Deal
  • Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2008
  • Reliance Big Entertainment, which is owned by Anil Ambani - the world's sixth richest man – has announced that it will be making 10 Hollywood movies at a cost of one billion dollars. Reliance has signed deals with the production firms of Nicolas...
  • India Shows its First Pakistani Film in 40 Years
  • Date: Wednesday, April 9, 2008
  • Not content with being one of the most successful Pakistani films of all time, Khuda Kay Liye has just become the first Pakistani film to be given a wide release in India for over 40 years. The film was very well received at its Indian premiere in Mumbai ...
  • Two British Holidaymakers Drown in Goa
  • Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2008
  • A Foreign Office spokesperson has confirmed that a British man and woman drowned off the coast of Goa on Sunday. The spokesperson said: “We can confirm that two British nationals drowned at Morjim beach in Goa on April 6. We have informed their next...
  • India Pledge Money to Africa
  • Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2008
  • Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that he will invest heavily in Africa to boost India’s economic ties with the country. He pledged more than $500m for African projects while speaking at the India-Africa Forum Summit, which was arranged&...
  • Baby with Two Faces is a ‘Gift from God’
  • Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2008
  • The family of a baby girl in India who was born with two faces have said that the child is a gift from god, despite her disability. The child’s father, Vinod Kumar, told the press that he was happy with his baby the way she was. He said: &ldquo...
  • Bird Flu Returns to India
  • Date: Monday, April 7, 2008
  • According to reports, a new outbreak of bird flu has been found in poultry in Tripura, India. Around 3,000 birds were reportedly found dead of the illness and the authorities are struggling to contain the virus. The outbreak was discovered after samples o...
  • Will Madonna Adopt an Indian Baby?
  • Date: Monday, April 7, 2008
  • According to reports, pop star Madonna, 49, is to adopt a baby from India. The star is thought to have decided to adopt an Indian child after taking a New Year holiday in the country with her film director husband Guy Ritchie, 39. While in the country, t...
  • Actors Fast to Protest Against Film Ban
  • Date: Monday, April 7, 2008
  • Actors have gone on a one-day fast in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu to protest against the ban on screening Tamil films in the neighbouring state, Karnataka. The top Tamil actor Rajnikanth is thought to be among the film stars who has decided to fast. T...
  • Indian Prime Minister Inducts Seven New Ministers
  • Date: Monday, April 7, 2008
  • The Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, expanded his cabinet on Sunday by making seven new ministers take oath of office. President Pratibha Patil administered the oath of office and secrecy to the new Ministers at Rashtrapati Bhavan. The Prime Min...
  • India to Face Food Crisis?
  • Date: Monday, April 7, 2008
  • According to economists, India could soon be facing a major food crisis. Rising inflation in the country - currently around 7% - is thought to be the result of a rise in food prices and it’s causing economists to worry. In Delhi, the cost of ...