An Indian-origin man in Singapore, along with three others, were charged on Saturday for their alleged role in conspiring to fix a South East Asian (SEA) Games football match. Singapore-based Rajendran R. Kurusamy, 55, was accused of corruptly agreeing to give S$15,000 ($11,130) to Orlando Marques Henriques Mendes — the technical director of the Football […]
Actress Shilpa Shetty, who found popularity in Britain after winning a season of “Celebrity Big Brother” in 2007, has turned into a radio jockey to talk about Bollywood with the people in London. She will be on a special show on BBC Radio 2. The actress, who is married to businessman Raj Kundra, took to […]
A detailed account on musical influences of double Oscar-winning composer A.R. Rahman found its way inside the White House in Washington through a special screening of “Jai Ho”, a documentary on his work. The 60-minute documentary was screened on Friday. The “Mozart of Madras”, who has hit the right notes with each of his compositions […]
Now a software and an app can help both residents and their housing societies to keep track of basic functions like security, plumbing, power maintenance, tracking visitors, legal paperwork and even online voting for elections. That’s what ApartmentAdda promises – easing the stress of managing a modern housing society. Founded in 2009 by engineer-duo Sangeeta […]
Any talk of birth control had once been taboo for Muslims, particularly the uneducated Muslims living in remote areas of Assam. This has changed, thanks largely to Ilias Ali, a professor of surgery at the Gauhati Medical College & Hospital, who had launched a kind of ‘jihad’ (holy war) against the misconceptions about birth control […]
Guerrillas in Kashmir have carried out three deadly attacks over three days against mobile phone operations after their communication equipment fitted on a mobile tower was seized — leaving them with poor connectivity. Two people were killed and three critically injured in the rebel attacks that were carried out on people engaged in mobile phone […]
A US court has sentenced an Indian-American student to life imprisonment for stabbing his friend to death in 2013, media reported. Rahul Gupta, 25, an aspiring biomedical engineer, was sentenced to life on Wednesday for allegedly stabbing his close friend Mark Waugh, then 23, eleven times after accusing him of cheating on Gupta’s girlfriend Taylor […]
In a major initiative to empower the community, the West Bengal government has appointed a transgender educationist as a college principal in the state — a first for India. Manabi Bandopadhyay, currently the associate professor in Bengali at Vivekananda Satobarshiki Mahavidyalaya, will take over the reins of the Krishnagar Women’s College on June 9. “She […]
he heat wave sweeping across Andhra Pradesh and Telangana claimed 87 more lives on Wednesday, taking the toll to over 1,200. There was no respite from the blistering heat as both the states recorded temperatures three to seven degrees Celsius higher than the average. While 50 people succumbed to sunstroke in Andhra Pradesh, 37 died […]
BJP President Amit Shah on Wednesday asserted that his party was not on the backfoot on the Ram temple issue and a decision in this regard would be taken at the right time. Shah’s statement came a day after he said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lacked the numbers in the Lok Sabha to address […]