The ace Indian cricketer Sunil Manohar Gavaskar turned 60 on Friday and spent the day at the Satya Sai Baba ashram in Puttaparthi near Bangalore.
The little master was accompanied by his family members, including brother-in-law Gundappa Viswanath with whom he has shared many Indian ...

With an aim towards encouraging the self-reliance among women across the country, the government on Friday said it would allocate Rs.20 crore for extending the women self help groups (SHGs) to every block in the country.
The Women and Child Development Ministry's Swayamsidha Scheme for holistic ...

Tina Wadhwa, an Indian-American graduate of Columbia University, has bagged the prestigious Fulbright-mtvU scholarship to create a documentary based on the impact and influence of Bollywood music on underprivileged youth in Mumbai.
Wadhwa, who graduated in 2007 with a BA in Political Science and ...

 Indian born Indra Nooyi, who is CEO of Pepsico, has been ranked fourth among 15 Fortune 500 Women CEOs who "show what it takes to lead some of the America's biggest companies" from health care, to food, to retail, to technology.
Since becoming CEO in 2006, Indra Nooyi, 53, who ...

The Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray underwent an emergency angioplasty operation at the Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai on Tuesday morning. The surgery was successful and he has been shifted to the intensive cardiac care unit. He is expected to remain in hospital for the next few days.
The 83-year-old ...

Thousands of Tibetan exiles assembled in this Himachal Pradesh town Monday to celebrate the 74th birthday of their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.

"Since early this (Monday) morning, thousands of exiles, monks and well-wishers started assembling here to join the birthday celebrations of ...

Even though thousands of homosexuals across India are celebrating their freedom from the criminal tag after the Delhi High Court verdict, a group which represents the sex workers on Friday wrote a letter to Law Minister Veerappa Moily opposing this move.


The Bharatiya Patita Uddhar Sabha ...

Gay Sex in India has been legalised, creating a furore from religious leaders. They say it is an assault to God.

In a judgment that followed eight years of judicial battle, the Delhi High Court read down section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), quoting Jawaharlal Nehru to emphasise that the ...

Doctors willing to work in India's far flung areas may soon earn double of what their urban counterparts do.





In order to provide quality healthcare to people in far-flung areas sunder the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), the health ministry will spot "difficult, most ...

Several of a million people affected by cyclone Aila reside in small islands in the midst of canals and rivers in Sundarbans and the topology is making it difficult to rebuild their lives.
The damage done by the May 25 cyclone is so bad that even the best humanitarian efforts are proving to be ...

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray was on Monday arrested and released on bail soon after he was sent to judicial custody in a case connected with instigating attacks against north Indians appearing for railway recruitment exam last October.

A court in Kalyan in Thane district, ...

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray surrendered before railway police in Thane district in Maharashtra on Monday. This is in connection with a case of instigating violence against north Indian students appearing for railway recruitment exam in October last year.
He surrendered ...

In typical hill architecture style with wooden frames and a sloping tiled roof, the cottage is being built at a height of more than 8,000 feet amid thick verdant forests of pine and cedar in the Charabra area, about 15 km uphill from here, in Shimla district.
Priyanka, her children and her mother ...

The negative rate of inflation of 1.61% which was announced by the government on Thursday is similar to the case of statistics. This negative inflation rate is repeating in India after a period of 30 years.
 
India witnessed a negative inflation rate in 1978, during the reign of the Janata ...

A key Maoist leader in the troubled Lalgarh area of West Bengal has revealed that he was behind the landmine blast that narrowly missed Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's car last November as many people had given the "verdict to kill him". 
 
"The people have given ...

Former governor of Assam and parliamentarian Loknath Mishra passed away in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday (May 27). According to family sources, the 86-year-old parliamentarian died due to old age complications. Loknath Mishra had held the membership of the Rajya Sabha for three consecutive terms from ...

Former Indian Navy chief Admiral S M Nanda passed away on Monday (May 11) evening. The 94-year-old veteran naval officer was admitted to Fortis Hospital at Vasant Kunj in New Delhi and he breathed his last at around 11 pm . According naval officials, his funeral will take place at the Brar Square ...

Navin Chawla replaced N Gopalaswami as the new Chief Election Commissioner of India on Tuesday (April 21). The 63-year-old holds the office of the Chief Election Commissioner at a time when the country is in the midst of Lok Sabha election. Earlier in the month of April this year, the President of ...

In a book that brings out the family’s dirty linen, Pravin Mahajan, has called his deceased brother and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Pramod Mahajan a fixer, dealer and double-dealer. However, the Mahajan family called the allegations blatantly false. Currently, Pravin is undergoing a ...

Gandhian and noted Hindi poet and writer Vishnu Prabhakar died in New Delhi on Saturday (11th April). He was 97. The poet had been ailing for a long time. Prabhakar was best known for his famous biography of Bengali littérateur Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, “Awara Maseeha”. He was ...

A Delhi court on Thursday (9th April) deferred the hearing on the CBI's plea of closing the case against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-Sikh riot case. Thus, the court gave another chance to the complainant and the CBI to make final arguments on the report. It fixed the next ...

Veteran economist and founding Chairman of the Madras School of Economics, Raja Jesudoss Chelliah passed away at a private hospital in Chennai on Tuesday (7th April) afternoon following a brief illness. He was 86 and is survived by his wife and two daughters. Raja Chelliah was the foremost public ...

Puducherry Lieutenant Governor Govind Singh Gurjar died in New Delhi on Monday (6th April) following a brief illness. Puducherry Chief Minister V. Vaidyalingam informed the media about the sad demise of Mr Gurjar. Mr. Vaidyalingam told the media that, the lieutenant governor passed away in New ...

Bollywood Superstar Amitabh Bachchan on Tuesday (31st March) released the 20th edition of Limca Book of Records at a function in New Delhi. He was also felicitated for being among 20 luminaries who have made India proud. Amitabh was accompanied by his daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai to this event. ...

One of the greatest Indian scientists and former Indian President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam has been chosen to receive the prestigious 2008 Hoover Medal. He was chosen for his outstanding service to humanity. This announcement was made in New York on Friday (27th March). The citation said that, at a ...

Gujarat Minister of State for Women’s Welfare Mayaben Kodnani on Friday (27th March) resigned from the Narendra Modi Cabinet and surrendered before the Special Investigation Team (SIT), following the cancellation of her anticipatory bail by Gujarat High Court on February 5.

Ms. ...

Today, Sister Mary Prema is declared the new head of the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata. With this, the German-born nun replaces Sister Nirmala Joshi, who was re-elected for the third time on 13 March 2009. Miss Joshi has led the congregation since 1997, following the death of Mother ...

Veteran Communist Party of India, Marxist (CPI-M) leader and trade unionist Prabhakar Sanzgiri, has died after ailing for two years, Sugandhi Francis, a Mumbai district CPI-M committee member, told the media on Tuesday (10th March). He was 88 at the time of his death. Sanzgiri died late Monday (9th ...

The US business publication Forbes has included four Indians in its list of ' 48 Heroes of Philanthropy'. The Indians who have made into the Forbes' list include telecom czar Sunil Mittal, NRI businessman Anil Agarwal, HCL Technologies chairman Shiv Nadar and Rohini Nilekani, wife of Infosys ...

The 79-year-old Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee has announced his retirement from active politics. Yesterday (February 26) was the last day of the 14th Lok Sabha and Chatterjee also sat on the prestigious chair of speaker for the last time. While announcing his retirement from political realm, ...