Celebrated criminal Charles Sobhraj is 64 years old now and is all set to take the plunge again, this time with a 20-year-old Nepalese stunner Nihita Biswas. It would be his second official marriage. In the 1960s, when he was running a formidable...

India-born controversial author Salman Rushdie’s ‘Midnight’s Children’ has established an unassailable lead over five other contenders in global public voting for the ‘Best of the Booker’ award. The winner will be...

Indian advertising scenario is undergoing a noticeable change. At least some advertising agencies are dishing out campaigns that are meaningful, innovative and thought provoking, a really fresh and welcome change from the gender bias and the derogatory...

The UN Security Council has said it deeply regrets Zimbabwe’s decision to go ahead with the presidential poll. It said conditions for a free and fair election did not exist, but stopped short of saying it was illegitimate. President Robert...

My college friend, who is presently staying in the US, has sent me some beautiful and heartwarming snaps of her kid’s graduation day. The point is her son is only 4 years old and he has finished his play school! He was taken to a picnic from the...

ACTORS Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have donated $US1 million ($1.05 million) for educational aid to children in Iraq and the United States, a charitable organisation said. The Jolie-Pitt Foundation has given $US500,000 ($523,000) to three groups in...

I always used to wonder (and secretly admire!) how Madonna and Guy Ritchie has maintained a stable and apparently lovey-dovey relationship for quite some time now in the big bad world of Hollywood where relations break and new associations develop at...

Many non-Gorkhas support movement for separate state: They are not Gorkhas, yet many Marwaris, Bengalis, Biharis and others who have lived in the Darjeeling hills of West Bengal for decades have been braving the rains and the government’s ire to...

Bangladesh, the most crowded nation on earth, is set to disappear under the waves by the end of this century — and we will be to blame.

Next time when you hit the beach, be careful about the amount of sunscreen you are using on yourself. According to a new study published in the US Journal Environmental Health Perspectives, sunscreen lotions used by beach-going tourists globally is a...