English was alien to him until he was 16; but he landed an Oscar nomination in 1979, directed pertinent Hindi films like “Parinda” and “1942: A Love Story”, produced India’s cinematic goldmine “3 Idiots”. And now, he’s ready with his maiden Hollywood project “Broken Horses”. At 62, Vidhu Vinod Chopra feels like a debutant who […]
People protested here on Thursday on the busy Mehrauli-Gurgaon road, demanding justice for a five-year-old girl who was raped after being lured with the promise of a plate of chowmein. The girl, who is under treatment at Delhi’s Safdarjung hospital, was kidnapped from a function in Chakarpur and raped on March 29. People also blocked […]
India’s premier B-school, XLRI – Xavier School of Management in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand has created a world record for the largest hand washing relay with a whopping 991 participants, a statement said on Thursday. The Guinness World Records has officially confirmed it, the institute said. The relay was part of ‘Banega Swachh India’ campaign conducted by […]
Six police officials were injured in Bihar’s Sheikhpura district on Thursday when a mob attacked them after the policemen objected to their alleged forced donation drive for organising a religious programme. A station house officer was among those injured in the mob attack on the Chabda police station, a district police official said. All the […]
Saina Nehwal has officially been anointed the No.1 woman player in world badminton. Sania Mirza is on the cusp of becoming the top-most in tennis doubles – she is No.3 right now. The two Hyderabadis are the best role models for young Indian women trying to make a mark in today’s highly competitive world of […]
Over 350 Indians were safely airlifted from strife-torn Yemen, but the returnees on Thursday were apprehensive about their future and hoped they would land jobs. India sent its biggest plane, the C-17 (Globemaster), to evacuate its nationals, 190 of whom landed in Mumbai on Thursday while another 168 went to Kochi in Kerala. Fighting has […]
The enviable record of Wall Street’s Indian-American prosecutor Preet Bhrara, known in India for his dogged prosecution of an Indian diplomat, has put him in the limelight, but some have also questioned his methods. Time magazine put him on the cover and Vanity Fair described him as “Wall Street’s most fearsome foe”. recalled the Washington […]
Nigeria’s newly elected president, Major General Muhammadu Buhari who defeated incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 election, is an alumnus of the Indian Defence Services Staff College in Wellington from where he graduated in 1973. Maj. Gen. Buhari became the president-elect after President Jonathan conceded defeat in the election and put in a call […]
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Make in India” initiative in the backdrop and a target of raising India’s exports to $900 billion by 2020, a new five-year Foreign Trade Policy was unveiled on Wednesday that recasts all external commerce programmes into two schemes. “The new five-year Foreign Trade Policy, 2015-20 provides a framework for increasing […]
A soldier was arrested for harassing a woman in a moving train in Madhya Pradesh, an official said on Wednesday. The incident occurred late on Tuesday night in the Rajdhani Express train heading to Delhi from Bilaspur when a soldier, identified as Kamlesh Prasad, attempted to molest a woman who then informed the Government Railway […]