Tier-2 Cities: The Development Promise That Remains Mostly Unfulfilled For the past decade, development experts have touted Tier-2 cities—Pune, Surat, Lucknow, Chandigarh, Indore—as India's next growth frontier. They off...

The New Indian Middle Class: Aspirations, Anxieties, Consumption This article examines the new indian middle class: aspirations, anxieties, consumption in contemporary India and its global implications. Context and Overv...

The OCI Dilemma: Why India's "Lifetime Visa" Falls Short for the Global Indian The Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) card was created in 2005 as a compromise for Indians who acquired foreign citizenship or for those se...

Modi's Second Term: What the First 100 Days Reveal Prime Minister Narendra Modi's third term began in June 2024, yet the first hundred days of his new cabinet reveal a government focused more on consolidating economic ga...

Make in India: Semiconductors, Batteries, Electronics Push This article examines make in india: semiconductors, batteries, electronics push in contemporary India and its global implications. Context and Overview Make in...

India's Space Programme: Chandrayaan Success and Beyond This article examines india's space programme: chandrayaan success and beyond in contemporary India and its global implications. Context and Overview India's Space...

The Indian Farmer: Why Prosperity and Crisis Coexist The Indian farmer's paradox: agriculture sector data shows production records, productivity improvements, and export growth. Yet farmers report declining incomes, incr...

Indian Education System: Producing Engineers, Losing Thinkers This article examines indian education system: producing engineers, losing thinkers in contemporary India and its global implications. Context and Overview In...

India's Semiconductor Gamble: Why Making Chips Matters More Than Ever India announced its semiconductor ambitions in 2021: attract global chipmakers, build local capability, establish India as an alternative to Taiwan an...

India-China Border: Five Years After Galwan, Normalisation Remains Elusive Five years after the June 2020 Galwan Valley clash that killed 20 Indian soldiers, the India-China border remains tense. Recent meetings between...

The H1B Crossroads: Why Indian Tech Workers Face an Uncertain Future The H1B visa program, long a pathway for skilled Indian professionals to work in the US, faces unprecedented pressure. Policy changes, labor union oppo...

Chennai-Kochi Industrial Corridor: South India's New Growth Story This article examines chennai-kochi industrial corridor: south india's new growth story in contemporary India and its global implications. Context and Ove...

It began with a speech. In 1977, Queen Elizabeth II stood before Canada’s Parliament. Dressed in regal blue, she marked 25 years on the throne with calm words and a steady presence. But the timing of her visit wasn’t jus...

As summer approaches and the air grows heavy with heat, appetites shrink and the search for light, refreshing meals begins. Around the world, from New York rooftops to Mediterranean courtyards, meals turn cooler, fresher...

Few foods have traversed the landscapes of history, culture, and medicine as gracefully as the almond. Revered by ancient civilizations and validated by modern science, this unassuming nut carries a legacy that is both r...

In the 20th century, oil ruled the world. It fueled economies, triggered wars, and shaped global superpowers. The United States rose to dominance by securing a powerful oil alliance with Saudi Arabia, exchanging military...

The observable phenomenon that women generally age more gracefully than men has intrigued scientists and laypeople alike. Recent research has shed light on the biological underpinnings of this disparity, particularly foc...

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) are principles aimed at fostering fair treatment and equal opportunities within organizations. Diversity refers to acknowledging and valuing differences among individuals; Equity en...

My curiosity about my haplogroup and its origins led me on an unexpected journey—one that took me deep into the heart of Iran's ancient history. I was surprised to discover that my genetic lineage traced back to Iran, bu...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., recently appointed as the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Donald Trump, has swiftly initiated a series of controversial health policy reforms. His actions encompass a cr...

The Shackled Dreams: Indian Deportations Amidst Trump-Modi Relations In recent weeks, multiple deportation flights have returned undocumented Indian immigrants, primarily from Punjab, to Amritsar. These individuals, havi...

Mid-week—a gathering? And yet I had looked forward to the evening. Evening was promised to no-filter-chats, evening was promised to no-posing-for-photographs, evening was promised to no-talk-about-which-party-you-are-goi...

Does anybody else think this time the town is lit more than usual?” I wondered aloud in the car. When my family nodded in agreement, I knew I was right. My family otherwise revels in a debate; we seldom agree on anything...

We got group-messaged from a friend if one of us had sent her a gift. We hadn’t and as we told her I was a bit embarrassed because till now I have not purchased any gifts for my children as well! My friend is still tryin...

Most of you in Naperville know PASHA Orthodontics. We have known them for the past eight years. When my oldest got his braces, things were routine. He went for his appointments, heard the doctors tell him over and over a...

In the little town that I live in, some folks here make it a party town. Women take off from work in the afternoons to attend a party; props and decor are flown from India for a theme party ; couples shop for matching ou...

Convicts that were leased like property even after slavery had ended. In light of the recent, much-needed discussion of this country’s racial problems, it’s important to explore the problematic loophole of the Constituti...

Sushant Singh’s Rajput’s murder/suicide which was once dismissed as a case of nepotism, now remains a puzzle. Various online social groups, discussions in closed circles, Arnab’s Republic World, and recently SSR’s family...

Daisy Ad Daisy Ad or Peace Little Girl Ad was aired only once during the 1964 election from the offices of incumbent President Lyndon Johnson, but went viral and proved effective. ( President Lyndon Johnson’s opponent wa...

Amitabh Bachchan’s retweet caught my eye today when he called out on Times Now for reporting news about his illness as fake and incorrigible. Times Now released a video stating Mr. Bachchan was Covid-19 negative now. He...

IvyOdds.com is a tool to help students with the college applications process. With its simple interface and accurate backend, the tool hopes to take out the stress that afflicts high schoolers every year, all over the wo...

The new series on Netflix— “Indian Matchmaking” made it to the top 10 US list. A few weeks ago, another series called ( with an Indian American protagonist also cut to the top ten. As an Indian American living in the US...

The 1970s left a definite mark on Indian apparel. This influence began when the actor Amitabh Bachchan became the biggest star of the Indian cinema. His eclectic sense of style appealed to many. Fashion designers, depart...

Maxwell with Clinton at the door of Evil Epstein's Lolita Express Jet Maxwell at Chelsea Clinton's wedding Maxwell with Trump Trump denies knowing Maxwell Epstein's private plane took President Bill Clinton, actor Kevin...

A few moms were wrangling with each other on social media whether it was safe to go to the gym. 200 odd comments from various viewpoints: result is more confusion. This pandemic has left us confused, to say the least. Be...

If we can all put the debate about masks vs. no masks, real virus-vs unreal virus aside, we can draw some conclusions from the pandemic that lies before us, and the spanish flu of 1918. Strangely, I was researching Spani...

It’s a lockdown Saturday evening, “The West Wing” is playing on the television, and my mind is off to Lat Mai Paneer. Lat Mai Paneer is known by various names - Dry Chilli Paneer, Dry Schezwan Paneer. But they all mean p...

Alia Bhatt doesn’t matter–Sushant Singh Rajput does. Today, not yet half a week after Sushant Singh Rajput committed suicide, the national conversation of India has conveniently shifted from talking about the foils of ne...

I found out about the news from a stray tweet by Shah Rukh Khan, and I was shocked into disbelief. Sushant Singh Rajput, the 34 year-old actor, was dead. Amidst this global pandemic I had thought it was due to a COVID-19...

Wives beating their husbands with frypans, rolling pins and brooms-these images have given us a good laugh. A friend pointed out if such images were confined to Indian culture and while I believed it otherwise, but I cou...

I watched Thappad last night, it came highly recommended by a friend ( Thank you Aruna). I had watched the trailer, and I thought this movie would be about domestic violence. I have seen a few of my friends, who belong t...

By: Rishaan S., Student of The Study Huddle. I have been home due to the Coronavirus(COVID-19). The Coronavirus has impacted many lives and more people are catching it. At home we try to maintain a safe distance if we ar...

Newspaper article from 1957 Asian Flu as it is popularly called started in the early months of 1957, and in a span of two years it had advanced to the entire world. An epidemic becomes a pandemic when the illness crosses...

This is perhaps the most interesting of all epidemics. A disease that can be attributed to a single person, and the outbreak can be controlled by quarantining the person. Mary Mallon was born in Ireland in the year 1869....

Written by ( We don’t know where it started – but it most likely started in Europe or Asia. However – it spread all around the world – taking 50,000,000 people’s lives. People started thinking that taking thirty grams of...

1793 It was the month of August in the year 1793. Philadelphia was the country’s largest city and the capital of the USA. Philadelphia housed 50,000 people in tight houses that were laid out near the river. French Refuge...

Written By : Ruhaan Jain, Student @ The Study Huddle The thought of COVID-19 is a very scary thought for some people. It has infected a lot of people, and it is very easy to catch. The symptoms of this virus are similar...

The Indian way of living is easy and requires minimal things. One of the oldest and most evolved cultures of the world, Indian pantry staples can last for years. Yoga can be done without any equipment - and due to Corona...

The following is a breakdown of how symptoms progress based on both separate Wuhan hospital studies and other sources. Day 1: Patients experience a fever and may also experience fatigue, muscle pain and a dry cough. A sm...

Devi Sridhar, a professor of global public health at the University of Edinburgh, tweeted: “We had the data. We had time. We should have learned from this data in early Jan and anyone looking at this from a public health...

The following is a breakdown of how symptoms progress based on both separate Wuhan hospital studies and other sources. Day 1: Patients experience a fever and may also experience fatigue, muscle pain and a dry cough. A sm...

We have laughed, ridiculed, staggered- yet the TOILET PAPER CRISIS is real. People are reading news, social media and messages from friends & family, and they are still hoarding toilet paper. I now understand the crisis...

We have it very well under control." "We pretty much shut it down." "The numbers are going to get progressively better." "We’re going very substantially down, not up." "One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear."...

The March 2020 announcement that Governor J.B. Pritzker of Illinois and Governor Mike DeWine of Ohio were ordering bars and restaurants to close — limiting them initially to carry-out and delivery service — was one of th...

When I first saw ( on Nas Daily about this vegan village in Israel, I was intrigued. It is so difficult to follow any specific diet, but if the whole village is adhering to a diet, it’s a chosen lifestyle. The Black Hebr...

As if a beauty contest for camels wasn’t enough, botoxing the camels so that their lips look pouted was indeed the need of the hour. And no prizes for guessing where this contest is held. Of course, it had to be Saudi Ar...

I wonder if I am a misfit When friends want to eat Why is it that I want to sit And read a book When there is a party And mindless chatter all around How am I not able to see the joy in the countdown to the next Louis Vu...

I am a thirty-five-year-old modern woman. My friends call me a feminist and I accept that I am one. I believe women of this era are intelligent, independent, strong and sensible professionals in several areas, sometimes...

I work with kids from ages five to fifteen, teaching them robotics, writing, and science experiments. All of them, every single one of them that I have come across has the desire to do well, whether they want to put in t...

Aarthi asked me to read this book. For the past five days, I have been reading and living the life of Tara Westover. Aarthi's review of the book is apt and very well written. ( What a story! I think this may be the first...

Compiled and written by Ananya, Aria, Ayana, Diya and Maya One in six car accidents is due to drowsy drivers. Sleepy workers are 70% more likely to cause a factory accident. Yet sleep deprivation is treated lightly. An o...

We strongly condemn the barbaric attack in India on Feb 14 that resulted in killing of 40 innocent and wounding 44 by the terrorists. Indian community in Chicago area is grieving and sending condolences to the families o...

Dr. Richard A. Friedman, psychiatrist and a contributing opinion writer on NYT writes about the neuroscience behind rocking the baby to sleep. He also points out the research that proves rocking to sleep works for adults...

If you have watched Marie Kondo getting America organized on Netflix, I am sure you would have cleaned at least one drawer ( I sure did). Some of the things that Marie Kondo says make sense, while some - maybe not. I am...

The hottest hair color of the moment is gray ( I have mixed feelings about this, meshed with joy, relief, and doubt. Joy and relief because finally I can leave the grays alone and save myself save myself from the endless...

TEENS DRINK LESS THAN EVER, SURVEY FINDS Preliminary 2018 Illinois Youth Survey data collected in the spring from our students contains good news! In the District 203 & 204 High Schools Additional Questions Report (N...

My daughter Maya came back from school yesterday, carelessly threw her backpack on the couch, and while taking her shoes off without untying the shoelaces asked me- “what is one word that is going to define what you do t...

I have definitely NOT achieved the best career, or the best body or the best lifestyle. Notice the number of “bests” that are still unachieved. But I am feeling better than I have felt in all the milestone birthdays. In...

Remote worker? Tulsa will give you $10,000 to move there Source @Chicago Tribune By Hamza Shaban Entrepreneurs and those who work remotely who agree to move to Tulsa, Okla., and stay for at least one year will receive ca...

The origins or Saree is fuzzy, but we do know it is one of the oldest garment of the world. Right from Indus Valley Civilization to the robotic era, women love sarees. Indian women love this mesmerizing long piece of clo...

Chinese scientist says he modified embryos’ DNA to prevent HIV infection Source @The Washington Post PHOTOS BY MARK SCHIEFELBEIN/ASSOCIATED PRESSLEFT: Chinese scientist He Jiankui claimed Monday that he had edited the DN...

For those celebrating Thanksgiving today, at some point there will come a time where you is simply too full to move. At this point, the sensible action is to sleep it off before rising later in the day, groggy and disori...

At the end of this week, most children would have gone back to school, college, easing into their normal routines. After three months of summer, we(parents) are also readjusting to routines. Over all these years of being...

Yama learning is excited to announce their all day summer camps in 2018. This summer your kids can become an engineer, coder, writer, or doctor by joining in YAMA summer camps offered at Waubonsie Valley High School or M...

Having lived in the US for 17 years, we should assume that now I should know the etiquettes and behavior local to here. Nah! Not so much. I am better now than what I was 17 years ago, but still learning. 17 years ago if...

When I first walked into Labs, it looked like a gymnasium in Manhattan. Not to say that Naperville is not cool. Labs is unlike any gym that I have seen. The rings, inside running track, state-of-the-art equipment, cyclin...

It’s no longer cool to say that we are working 24/7, no time for family, books or entertainment. Many companies are recognizing the value of time off. To be productive and creative, absolute shut-off from work is warrant...

A perfect 3-year-old dies during a dental procedure. The dentist had sedated her so her tooth could be pulled out. A crown implant was also in order. The three year old didn't complain or move so the dentist could do the...

When we log on to Facebook ( considering you are one of those few people who don’t have Facebook always logged on) it prompts you to tell the world what you are up to today. For most of us the day is ordinary. Work email...

YA-MA Learning Inc. Summer Camp Don’t just play with robots, create them! Dates: July 17- July 20 Contact : (mailto:yamalearning@gmail.com/) 630-815-2162/ 312-498-3372 Fees: $200/3hours/4days Locations : Gregory Middle S...

Bill Cosby, once one of the most beloved figures in American entertainment and a towering symbol of Black success and respectability, was scheduled to stand trial on sexual assault charges — the culmination of a legal pr...

Townhouse Books and Café is a hidden gem in St. Charles- about 35 minutes drive from 95th street in Naperville. We decided to have lunch there a few weeks ago and are sharing our review. Townhouse café and bookstore is h...

Keystone pipeline is a designed pipeline of 1,179-mile (1,897km) that would carry 830,000 barrels of oil from the oil sands of Alberta, Canada, to Nebraska. In Nebraska the pipeline would join an existing pipeline. The p...

I belong to a culture that values family values, education and a conservative outlook towards life. That’s what I thought before. Now having lived in Naperville for almost a decade, I have changed my opinion. Few years a...

YA-MA Learning Center LEGO Robotics and Engineering (STEM) Come and learn the basics of engineering and programming. The program uses STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) as the building blocks. Children lea...

Former Tata Consultancy ServicesBSE -1.96 % vice-chairman S Ramadorai has resigned as the Chairman of National Skill Development Agency (NSDA) in the rank of a Cabinet Minister and also the as the chief of National Skill...

It seems there is a mystery around why Ratan Tata took over from Cyrus Mistry as the interim Chairman of Tata sons. The compelling reason why though In July of 2016, Manu Joseph ( Radia Tape fame) wrote an article on ( a...

Filicide, a parent killing his own child is gruesome, disturbing, unreadable but a fact. In US about 500 innocent children are murdered by their parents. The numbers of filicide that occur in India are not available but...

A smartphone attached to a balloon took to the skies on Monday in an attempt to set a record for the highest livestream from such a device. The Huawei Honor 8 phone was attached to a weather balloon also carrying a camer...

Sunidhi Chauhan, India’s Sensational Vocalist to Headline the Event NAPERVILLE, IL, July 13, 2016, Naperville Indian Community Outreach in association with City of Naperville and Indian Consulate General will be hosting...

Most days I feel elated about being a working mother. But there are days when the guilt of not having spent enough time with my kids makes me miserable. All of us – mothers (working and non-working), let’s face it- we ar...

Kidz Learn: Engineering and Robotics (STEM) Come and learn the basics of engineering and programming. The whole program uses STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) as the building blocks. Children will be learn...

An Indian software engineer working with Infosys has been reported as missing in Brussels following the bomb blasts that shook the Belgian capital on Tuesday. Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj confirmed in a tw...

Understanding Chicago area folks join for a happening Holi, April 16 @ Prisco Center The topic "Chicago area folks join for a happening Holi, April 16 @ Prisco Center" addresses an important contemporary issue or experie...

For another woman or man....... Says he/she found love...... Will he/she live in peace? The one who is left behind obviously can’t because the thought that while she/he was faithfully working on the marriage, the other w...

Martha DeVries got tired of hearing rants against Muslims. Martha DeVries is a high school counselor in North Kansas City, Missouri and is a practicing Christian. She says she got tired of anti-Muslim sentiment. She is a...

Count It All Joy: Life’s Lessons from a Child with Special Needs by Kathleen Murray, PhD is an inspirational book for families and professionals who have a person with special needs in their lives. It is a mother’s perso...

This Native American food is filled with so much nutrients that you must eat at least one portion of it daily. They are packed with potassium, calcium and vitamins A and C. It’s a very good source of fiber. A medium size...

Last Saturday morning the Yellow Box Community of Naperville had a full house. These were not regular churchgoers but were little children passionate about Science and Technology and especially interested in robotics. (...

Be in the Know! Join a Parent Conversation Circle KNOW – Get new information and strategies for everyday parenting. SAY – Gain clarity about what to say to kids in challenging parenting situations. DO – Find support to t...

Surgeons in Cleveland say they have performed the nation's first uterus transplant, a new frontier that aims to give women who lack wombs a chance at pregnancy. In a statement Thursday, the Cleveland Clinic said the nine...

Cancer has been crippling us, killing us, causing pain since decades. New Study done on mice suggests that the way forward to cope with cancer is to kill it in small doses, rather than attempting it to kill completely. C...

Memories are what make us. It is the memory of the experiences we have had that determines our actions and reactions. But when memories are bad, we become nervous when in a similar situation. A boy who had a rotten boile...

Frugal Billionaires Billionaires who can spend millions on themselves and still not feel a pinch choose to lead a simple style. The reasons could be many ranging from habit to simple lifestyle. They are an example for al...

Rosemary Johnson was a budding violinist, a member of the Welsh National Opera Orchestra. She was expected to great things. She had a road accident 27 years ago and in the fatal car crash she lost her ability to move and...

is producing a one-act play in Hindi called "Inspector Matadin Chand Par". It is a rip-roaring satire by one of Hindi’s best-known satirists - Shri Harishankar Parsai. It narrates the story of how the police on Moon are...

writes on ( It torments the young and terrorizes the old. It carved “caverns” in Emily Dickinson’s soul and left William Blake “bereaved of light.” Loneliness, long a bane of humanity, is increasingly seen today as a ser...

The Japanese lettuce production company ( believes the farmers of the future will be robots. So much so that Spread is creating the world's first farm manned entirely by robots. Instead of relying on human farmers, the i...

Dr. Carey Andrew-Jaja is a gynecologist at Magee-Women’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. All the babies that he delivers see the world in a special way. He sings to the babies, the moment the babies are out. He told ABC News, “I...

I believe in you: Trust is fundamental for any relationship. Telling your child right from beginning that you trust him/her- sends a positive signal to their brain. Chances are they will not be lying to you even in a tri...

Stress levels have gone up. In the last thirty years, ( The most stressed group being between the age group of 33-47 year-olds. This seems logical. This is the group that has the most worries, kids, jobs, careers and hor...

Facebook aka fakebook gets people depressed. What is Facebook for? It was created for harmless fun and to get connected with each other-but it has become more than that. It is viewed as a private space to share your life...

Lori Sheppard a 28-year-old woman from Arkansas couldn’t pacify her ten-month-old infant. It seems her infant was suffering from teething pains. She called her mother up who advised Lori to rub some alcohol on the baby’s...

A 28-year-old Chinese man who is diagnosed with terminal cancer wanted to experience the joys of wedding ceremony but did not want to leave a grieving widow. So he chose not to marry a human but instead marry a sex doll....

In Karnataka school, every day she writes in midday meal diary: ‘No one ate today’ Every day Radhamma takes out a diary she is required to maintain as part of the mid-day meal scheme in government schools in Karnataka an...

For the past 150 years, London black cab drivers have been walking, talking (and occasionally swearing) navigational systems, successfully delivering passengers to their destinations since G, P and S were just three more...

Mosaics Community Café in the Chicago area operated on a model that was, by the standards of the restaurant industry, radical in its simplicity: there were no prices on the menu. Diners paid what they could afford, what...

The Story of Sureshbhai Patel Sureshbhai is a 57-year-old man from Gujarat. He came to Alabama, US to help out his son’s family. His son had a premature baby and his only intentions were to help out the family. One day h...

Jonathan O'Callaghan writes on ( Picture the scene: You’re in a self-driving car and, after turning a corner, find that you are on course for an unavoidable collision with a group of 10 people in the road with walls on e...

Police have discovered the body of a man who likely has been ( Livingston County deputies checked in at the home of Gary Richard Buys, 69, around 7:30 a.m. ET Friday at the request of a neighbor who watches his cabin in...

I met Meera at our local YMCA. We took the same group exercise classes and bonded over the one hour of physical training classes. Meera has started her new venture of teaching Mixed Media Art classes to adults and kids....

Vinayak Lohani is the founder of Parivaar Education Society in India. He will be visiting Chicago from October 28th to November 2nd. He will be giving a talk on "Creation and Achievement of a vision of social transformat...

Have you ever thought that you might be reading hundred scholarly and journalistic articles on the Syrian Crisis, but the one that remains with you would be the opinion of a friend who shared it on his Facebook update? Y...

Posting selfies on social networking sites is one way to document what you do, but is it also a barometer of who you are? From popularity to net worth, some say the self portraits of the millennial generation say it all....

A man who tips the scale at close to 800 pounds says he has nowhere to go after being kicked out of a hospital weight loss program for ordering pizza. Now he rides in the back of an SUV while his father drives the roads...

The Chicago South Asian Film Festival's fall edition offered audiences five days of cinema spanning the full range of contemporary filmmaking from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and the global South Asian...

Donald Trump is blunt and people are beginning to tolerate him a bit more. He is not shocking anymore. People are used to his ridiculous jokes, racist comments – let’s just say he does not shock us anymore. He has won mi...

A social media campaign launched by three US activists to denounce the stigma surrounding abortion has gone viral as women have shared their experiences, though pro-life campaigners have hit back. The hashtag "#ShoutYour...

Chicago people beware, robbers are posing as Uber drivers. ( The incidents were reported earlier this month in River North and Old Town. In both of those incidents, police say two men in a black car pull up and invite th...

We thought we knew the basics. Boil water in a large pot. To make sure pasta doesn't stick together, use at least 4 quarts of water for every pound of noodles. Salt the water with at least a tablespoon—more is fine. The...

She was afraid to open the door. She knew it was Preeti knocking. She had asked her to come to her house for chai. At the time, she didn’t know that today would be one of those days she dreads. She had taken the yellow d...

A 17-year-old girl out on a morning walk was allegedly abducted and gangraped by two people in Outer Delhi’s Aman Vihar area Sunday, police said. Locals claimed to have found the Class XI student almost 12 hours after sh...

We are in no way advocating killing Muslims but we do want to point out the key differences between Sikhs and Muslims. Not all Muslims are terrorists. Most Muslims are like normal people, want to earn money, care for the...

When people look at MUSIC They just see the notes. In Sam Smith's hit single, his melody is repeated over and over again. It hasn't become iconic yet, (and I'm not sure it will ever be) but if you sing it, anyone around...

Indian political framework built after independence is losing its relevance to govern a complex and diverse country. Six and a half decade of democratic exercise has generated more hypocrites than true leaders. Voters ha...

Rati Agnihotri has filed for divorce filing for a case of domestic violence against her husband of almost two decades. In an interview with Mumbai Mirror, she has revealed her darkest secrets. Earlier last month, on Marc...

In some states, school is yet to start but in Midwest the schools have begun. It’s not easy for the kids and the families to switch from the summer mode to regular school mode. The numerous late nights during the summer,...

The Happy Feet Walker’s Club was founded by friends for friends. Their mission is to give the members support toward developing and maintaining daily physical activity in a fun way while developing the friendship factor....

Starbucks rolls out “Starbucks Evenings” This week Starbucks rolled out Starbucks evenings in seventy locations countrywide. After 4 P.M, you can walk into Starbucks for a glass of carefully selected wine with small plat...

Anjali Varghese, performed solo for three hours at her Arangetram on Saturday, Aug. 1 at The Hemmens Cultural Center in Elgin. Anjali, who just turned 18, recently graduated from Maine East School and has been training u...

A school tradition called Senior Salute and what it stands for has come under the microscope. The Senior Salute is a tradition followed by the school since the late 1970’s. The seniors are supposed to woo the incoming fr...

About the book : Set amidst the art, music and poetry of Tagore's Santiniketan, “Fall Winter Collection"​ is the journey of an orthodox Indian sculptor, as he secretly works on an ambitious project ​carving Krishna's​Wom...

An Angel by Choice …… ( How far will a kind human being go to help those in need is the question ..... Will cross all limits , Will leave no stone unturned , is the answer. That is the thought that came to my mind when I...

Look no further than a company called “( a company who ( who are experts of ( to provide the illusion of support for a candidate. Nothing draws a crowd, ( The company who has provided its services for athletes, artists a...

Roti Ghar in Kanchgar Galli Hubballi serves North Karnataka style thali for one rupee. The joint is only open between 12 noon and 3P.M. The customers come from all walks of life ranging from street peddlers to retail sto...

Delhi will soon get "aam aadmi canteens" a la Tamil Nadu where "good quality, hygienic and nutritious food" will be available for up to Rs.10, it was announced on Thursday. A Delhi Dialogue Commission (DDC) proposal in t...

A little-known party has sought permission to show US President Barack Obama the differences between a man and a woman through a nude protest. The peaceful demonstration against homosexuality will begin at 10 am at the F...

A video of a Canadian groom singing "Tum Hi Ho," the emotional ballad from Aashiqui 2, for his Indian bride at their wedding went viral in 2013, accumulating millions of views and generating media coverage across India a...

A 16-year-old boy, who wanted to purchase a mobile handset, allegedly killed his sister and brother-in-law and looted Rs 36,000 from them in a village in the district, police said here on Wednesday. The 16-year-old boy c...

A bologna sandwich: That’s what students of Shelby County Schools in Memphis, Tenn., received for lunch if they forgot to bring the $2 or so to pay for their food. Nothing: That’s what some impoverished students (80 perc...

Ringleader Of Extortion Ring Sentenced To More Than 14 Years In Manhattan Federal Prison For Massive “Call Center” Fraud Scheme The Ring Collected More Than $1 Million By Impersonating FBI and IRS Officials Preet Bharara...

Kamal Haasan's recent statement in an interview that he went bankrupt after his divorce with danseuse Vani Ganapathy, doesn't seem to have gone well with his ex-wife. The danseuse, said in an interview to Economic Times,...

There is a fine line between involved parents and over involved parents. When parents start making every decision for the child, it is no longer parenting. A helicopter parent decides the clothes, the subjects to study;...

America is the land of immigrants. Carnegie Corporation of New York has saluted the legacy of Andrew Carnegie and other immigrants every July 4th since 2006. This year the corporation ( thirty countries. These immigrants...

A couple who took their children out of school without permission to visit their sick grandfather in India are being taken to court this week as part of the government’s continuing crackdown on term-time absence. Shahnaw...

Interview with Shaan Patel, founder 2400 SAT. Tell us one unique thing about yourself? I grew up in my parent’s budget motel in Las Vegas far from the glamor of the strip.And I went to urban public schools in the worst s...

Whole Foods- Whole paycheck. People pay a premium to shop at Whole Foods, believing the price is just for the health benefits the store’s supposedly superior groceries and produce have. Truth? Not so much. The 24 Whole F...

Attention: Naperville Residents. ( that helps manage life events better by synchronizing all your calendars (Facebook, Google, Phone etc.) into one calendar is hiring interns. Sign-up for WotNow app summer internships Si...

In Conversation With Anupam Kher Thursday, June 18 at 7:00pm (doors open at 6:30pm) Film Row Cinema 1104 S. Wabash Avenue, Chicago, IL 60605 ( Eye on India is proud to present a conversation with internationally acclaime...

A woman in Gujarat who was abducted and gang raped now has to go through the purification process. She is pregnant and wanted to abort the baby of rape. But the village courts of Gujarat ruled against the abortion becaus...

PASHA Orthodontics invites high school seniors to apply for their scholarship. Details 1st Place: $450 2nd Place: $350 3rd Place: $250 1. Please write a bio about yourself describing you, your interests, and your strengt...

The public shaming video a dad did for disciplining his daughter led to the girl committing suicide. The original video was removed but a friend of the victim videotaped on her phone and put it on YouTube. Isabel Laxaman...

A video showing a car attempting to park but actually plowing into journalists might have resulted from the Volvo’s owner not paying an extra fee to have the car avoid pedestrians. The video, taken in the Dominican Repub...

Pizza Hut and Taco Bell are the new companies to join the real food revolution. They will be getting rid of artificial flavoring and color from most of their products. Instead of black pepper flavoring they will start to...

The idea of your nice little green grass getting lots of water every day — that’s going to be a thing of the past,” said Gov. Jerry Brown. California has been struggling with water problem for many years now. Water and l...

Wi fi is making some people sick. Yes, it’s true. It could be a psychological phenomenon but sure has the potential to create havoc in 5% of the people. ( in her apartment and all of a sudden she developed brain fog. She...

A 12-year-old asks on ( what could he do now to secure his place in world’s top universities. Yes, you read that right a 12-year-old! My thoughts were divided on his question. On one hand I thought a self-motivated kid l...

is advertising for eight new executioners, recruiting extra staff to carry out an increasing number of death sentences, usually done by public beheading. No special qualifications are needed for the jobs whose main role...

By ( 16 May 2015 In the book “Mumbai Fables – A History of an Enchanted City”, in Chapter 3, author Gyan Prakash (professor of History at Princeton University) talks about the seduction of Bombay and how in the backdrop...

Fueled by immigration, America's Hindu population has reached 2.23 million, an increase of about one million or 85.8 percent since 2007, making Hinduism the fourth-largest faith, according to estimates based on wide-rang...

There are so many reasons to love Naperville and among them one that stands out is budding women entrepreneurs. So much talent in this small town! Today we write about Niketa Jhaveri, a Naperville Momtrepreneur who devel...

Films with father-daughter as the central characters are quite rare in Bollywood. “Daddy” (1989) and “Khamoshi The Musical” (1996) are two of the most memorable ones. Films discussing bowel movements in all its glory are...

One of the states to have a lowest girl/boy ratio is Haryana. There are some villages in the state where males remain unmarried or one woman is married to several males, yet the attitude of the state still wants the male...

WotNow is a social local calendar app that helps manage life events better. This is the brainchild of Deepa Salem (Founder/CEO). Anand Sivaraman ( Chief Technology Officer) and Vidhya Iyer, (Communications & Marketing),...

A ( at school. Her folly? She brought Oreos to school as snack. The mother is angry; she feels it is her decision to choose food for her own kid. She is also upset that her child went hungry during the school hours. She...

A Texas A&M Galveston professor says he hit a “breaking point” as he failed an entire class of students in his management course that he said required “security guards” for him to feel safe teaching. In a scathing email...

Tyronne a 9-year-old boy has been living in Australia with his mother for eight years. He is an autistic kid. Maria Sevilla his mother has been working in Australia as a skilled worker. After they moved from Philippines,...

A group of researchers at IIT Kharagpur have turned farmlands near the campus into a ‘laboratory’ to experiment with new agricultural technologies and help farmers whose land they have “adopted” to improve their yield. A...

When I got a call to attend a charity dinner, I was skeptical. I thought it might be just another charity, members and attendees would discuss all and sundry and then everyone would go home and continue with their daily...

In a house in Kanpur, calorie counting has been abandoned for a large box of mithai after Ayush Sharma, 17, discovered that he has been accepted at the world-famous Massachusetts's Institute of Technology or MIT. A schol...

A 70-year-old nun was raped at her convent in the eastern part of West Bengal. Some men broke into the convent, mugging and breaking the catholic house and added the rape to it to increase the atrocity of the situation....

Why Everyone Remembers Differently? “You said that, and not this.” This statement is often met with “I don’t remember this, I remember saying this.” While note keeping and journal entries can help establish the fact chec...

This past November, my husband and I adopted our Mackenzie from foster care. She was only 6 months away from her 18th birthday and had spent more than half her life in the care of the state. “Mom, we need to do something...

The state of J&K led by Mufti Mohammad Sayeed PDP-BJP has announced the government will contribute 1000 rupees per month for every girl child that is born in the state till she reaches 14 years of age. The girl child wil...

A bicyclist was injured and is at Edwards hospital in Naperville. He was struck by 2009 Chevrolet van on Monday evening at the intersection of 75th street and Modaff road. Details of the crash are still fuzzy. The police...

A group of middle school basketball players walked off the court in the middle of a game when they heard bullying coming from the stands directed at cheerleader, Desiree Andrews, who has Down syndrome. “One of the kids s...

An Indian bride walked out of her wedding ceremony after the groom failed to solve a simple math problem, police said Friday. The bride tested the groom on his math skills and when he got the sum wrong, she walked out. T...

The killing of an Indian-origin woman in Sydney — stabbed to death in circumstances that were investigated as a domestic homicide — joined a string of cases that had made the safety of Indian migrants in Australia a matt...

Mukesh Singh the rapist, who brutally molested the girl in 2012 in the gang rape scandal, shows no remorse for his actions. He is appealing against his death penalty and blames the victim for the crime. In an interview f...

A Swedish Study claims that the men who are heavy drinkers are also the ones with low IQs. Study surmises that men with high IQ choose healthier lifestyles. The study conducted by ( researched the patterns of 49,321 Swed...

As more and more people are getting allergic to fruits and vegetables, we are left wondering if it is safe to consume them. Many times it’s not the fruit/vegetable that causes the allergic reaction but the antibiotic use...

Is it possible to be in a relationship and not lie at all? Is it possible to be honest all the time, without hurting the love in your life? Does lying and loving coexist? New ( on an average in a ten-minute conversation....

Gurgaon is joining Delhi and Mumbai and launching a cab service for women by the women.This is the initiative of Gurgaon administration so as to keep the women safe.In the next 100 days 50 Tata Nano vehicles will be on r...

Inspired by the video done by a woman in NYC who walked the streets of New York to test the male outlook,Zvika Klein the Jew journalist from NRG tried a similar thing in Paris. He walked for straight ten hours,wearing Je...

by Psychologist Arthur Aaron and few others goes to prove that love is an action to be done.Love doesn’t happen, it needs to be created.The group devised a set of 36 questions which could be a breakthrough to falling in...

Ekjut recently staged their maiden Hindi romantic comedy play called "Pyar ka panchnama" which entertained a full house with lots of laughter. EKJUT provides a platform for adult enthusiasts and local community for drama...

Women seduced the guards at a Brazilian Jail facility, got them intoxicated, and fled the jail. 28 prisoners escaped from Nova Mutum public jail with the help of three fantasy police women. These fantasy policewomen sedu...

An enterprising group of ten volunteers at IIT-B, which created a research tool in November with the specific purpose of trawling tens of thousands of social media posts to measure public opinion, has helped shape the Aa...

Accusing three teachers of Salt Lake's Kendriya Vidyalaya II for abetting the suicide by his daughter Kamalika, Kishalay Das said the letter was sent to the minister on January 27. "We want nothing but justice and punish...

A Vatican document called plastic surgery a burqa made of flesh, earlier this week. A summit to be held in Rome later this week will be discussing women’s issues, and ways and means of advancement of the fairer sex. Surp...

It Is None Of My Business ’’……….Somehow I keep hearing this sentence a lot these days……It seems like , It is the ‘’ En Vogue ‘’ statement now . As if to be with the crowd you have to know these magic words and using them...

US Attorney Preet Bahara has successfully alleged Assemly Speaker Sheldon Silver with charges of corruption since 2000. Silver Sheldon is charged with corruption, extortion , fraud and could face a 20 year jail term. The...

Each country, religion, group have had their own set of superstitious beliefs. Even though innately we may be aware that these beliefs have no meaning or truth to it, we still follow it. It could be because life is fille...

Deepika Padukone was diagnosed with depression and she talks bravely of her journey to fight the disease. She talks about how it was difficult for her to shoot for the climax scene of Happy New Year. She didn’t feel like...

I find this letter of Ayn Rand rich with life's advice while showing clarity and lucidity of thought and words. This letter has gone viral over the last few days, most of them calling Ayn Rand a horrible aunt with no fee...

Colorado cake case pits religion against tolerance DENVER | Colorado baker Jack Phillips was found guilty of discrimination for refusing to prepare a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, but his attorneys said Monday that...

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Saudi business magnate, investor and the member of the Saudi royal family says oil will never be at $100/ barrel. In an interview with Maria Bartiromo for USA TODAY he enlists his reasons for d...

Belly fat, potbelly, abdominal fat, or medically called as central obesity is a cause for many illnesses. From cardiovascular diseases to Alzheimer’s, belly fat –whether visceral or subcutaneous easily is the number one...

Having been kept as a sex slave for over a month, the already clouded tourism industry of India is under fresh, dark clouds. A Pakistani cleric allegedly strangled a 6-year-old boy to death after sexually molesting him....

Expressing serious concern over the religious conversions taking place in the country, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday urged Prime Minister ( to break his silence over the issue and give a strong statement against th...

A monthly shower of Bollywood previews, reviews and my unsolicited views By Arup Raha, 19 December 2014 To end the year 2014, as in 2013 (Dhoom 3) and in 2012 (Talaash), we had an Aamir Khan movie to look forward to. Man...

IF all goes according to plan, I’ll turn 44 soon after this column appears. So far in my adult life, I’ve never managed to grasp a decade’s main point until long after it was over. It turns out that I wasn’t supposed to...

The conservative Christian Social Union (CSU), in Germany is under a lot of fire and fury when it suggested that the immigrants should be speaking German in public and at home. The policy paper stated: “People who want t...

Preet Didbal was sworn in, last Tuesday with her mother and daughter by her side. Teary eyed, during the ceremony, she was the first in her family to go to college. \ She comes from a family of farmers. Limited by means...

The body maintains a delicate acid-alkaline balance. Everything from healthy cells to cancer cells to soil quality and ocean life is affected by pH. The term pH stands for “potential hydrogen” which is the measure of hyd...

Olivier Lafont, who wowed audiences and had them in splits with his hilarious role as Suhas Tandon in 3 Idiots, is showing more of his artistic talent with the publication of an epic fiction novel Warrior, published by P...

Religious leaders from a half-dozen faiths signed a new Vatican initiative Tuesday to end modern-day slavery by 2020, declaring that human trafficking, organ trafficking and forced labor and prostitution are crimes again...

Scientist makes the most advanced age defying serum of the world. Professor Chris Toumazou, Regius Professor at Imperial College, London, has invented ‘Geneu’ – pronounced ‘gene you’ which claims to reduce wrinkles and a...

A young woman on a mission, making Earth cleaner, environment green. Lauren Singer, has not made any trash in the last two years, yes you heard it –no trash whatsoever. Her blog Trash is for Tossers chronicles her journe...

The social experiment video genre — in which ordinary citizens, researchers, or activists design staged scenarios to document how bystanders respond to staged situations — had found in Delhi's streets a particularly char...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's estranged wife, Jashodaben, has filed an RTI application asking for an explanation of the sort of security that she gets from the government. After Mr Modi was elected in May, Jashodaben wa...

Managing anxiety in order to tackle a big project, managing anger in order to work through a marital conflict, managing fear in order to apply for a job -- the ability of a human being to manage his or her emotions in a...

Koral Dasgupta’s book POWER OF A COMMON MAN - Connecting to Consumers the SRK Way is a unique book analyzing the consumer behavior and marketing techniques through the journey of the immensely successful King Khan. The b...

Amanda Froelich, writes on ( McDonalds is one of the ( the world, the average distance from any one point (in the US) being about 115 miles away. While the price tag on any menu option or meal is relatively cheap, its fo...

A man who is going deaf can now 'hear' Wi-Fi wherever he walks. London-based science writer Frank Swain, 32, was first diagnosed with early onset hearing loss when he was in his 20s. In 2012, he was fitted with hearing a...

A delegation of 22 Brahmins has been flown from India to Muscat for the well being of the current Sultan Of Oman. He is suffering from colon cancer and has been receiving medical care for a while. 72-year-old Sultan Qabo...

Watch the video Antibiotic drugs save lives. But we simply use them too much — and often for non-lifesaving purposes, like treating the flu and even raising cheaper chickens. The result, says researcher Ramanan Laxminara...

A few weeks ago, a hidden-camera video of a woman walking through various neighborhoods of New York City captured international attention. The footage documented more than 100 instances of street harassment — catcalls, u...

Cities are increasingly getting tough on food distribution programs for the homeless. According to the ( a 90-year-old activist and two pastors from two churches in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., were arrested at a park on Sunda...

All of us have been there , we want to change our ears , forehead, big butt , flabby arms , thin lips …..probably grow more hair ….the list is endless. With the burgeoning influence of social media and photos being taken...

MPs have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a motion declaring that sex-selection abortion is illegal. They voted 181 to 1 for a motion brought forward by a cross-party alliance of MPs in an effort to end uncertainty over...

Kardashian Kids line evokes “bad behavior” says a Kansas Mom and wants the label removed from Babies r us . ( , a mom says , she does not want her children to be a sex –tape star. Kardashiamn Kids as a label does nothing...

The Ugly Indian, a Bangalore-based group that began operating around 2010, took a deliberately provocative approach to the chronic problem of public space degradation in Indian cities: instead of petitioning authorities,...

LAHORE: An enraged mob beat a Christian couple to death and burnt their bodies in the brick kiln where they worked on Tuesday for allegedly desecrating a copy of the Holy Quran, police said. The incident took place at th...

Babar Ali is an ( student and teacher from ( in ( He was called the “youngest headmaster in the world” by BBC in October 2009, at the age of sixteen. Babar Ali is still a student himself, enrolled at the government-run R...

How many times in a week do you come across a Facebook update like this “ I am so proud of my son/daughter, he got ….” , The list to the dots is endless. It could be about the 4 year old painting a tree or being the socc...

writes on how the advertising world should change, making women the focus, not just as a sidekick but a very important decision maker. We see too many ads on TV showing women rejoicing over a pair of shoe that she might...

So much has been written about this movie. Every critic has passed judgment on Vishal Bharadwaj and his gang. I am no critic. I don’t even write regularly. But after watching the movie, I felt this urge to voice my opini...

whose only symptom was pinkeye, makes us wonder if it was because of a weak immune system as he was a child. Immune system’s job is to protect your body against disease generating organisms. When we are born, our immune...

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Mann Ki Baat — his monthly radio address to the nation — in October 2014, it was a deliberate choice of medium that said something about his communication instincts and his poli...

DALLAS — The number of possible contacts with the Ebola patient in Dallas has risen to 80, said Zachary Thompson, Dallas County Health and Human Services director Thursday. He also said a control order has been issued to...

Yelp’s motto is “Real People Real Reviews”. We have always wondered how true is that. There has been many times when we have walked into a restaurant, which had 5 star reviews, only to discover that the restaurant was a...

The tradition of short video content addressing women's empowerment — produced by NGOs, government campaigns, corporations, and individuals — had become substantial by the early 2010s, as YouTube's reach made video an ac...

Zuckerberg will be on India from Oct.9-10 to attend and address the summit Internet.org. Internet.org ‘s aim is to make Internet affordable to the 5 billion people across the globe. Internet.org is a group that Zuckerber...

PIO card holders will get lifelong visas, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Saturday to thousands of cheering Indian diaspora at Madison Square Garden here. "Happy?" he asked as the crowd cheered his announcement wi...

The White Widow Samantha Louise Lewthwaite, born and raised as a Christian, converted to become a Muslim at the age of 17 is one of the deadliest terrorist alive today. Media has called her the “The White Widow” after he...

It’s a common thing to worry about children when they are just being children, not listening to instructions, not doing homework or throwing a tantrum about a toy or a piece of candy. But what if you are raising a precoc...

Emma Watson's United Nations speech on gender equality became one of 2014's most-shared videos, drawing millions of views within days of its release and reigniting global conversation about feminism. Watson, 24, delivere...

The White House have launched their new ’It’s on Us’ anti sex-assault campaign aimed at encouraging young men to intervene when they witness situations that could lead to a sexual assault. Jon Hamm, Kerry Washington, Ros...

Turmeric is one the most thoroughly researched plants in existence today. Its medicinal properties and components (primarily ( have been the subject of over 5600 peer-reviewed and published biomedical studies. In fact, o...

Written by ( If you weren’t living under a rock, the Bollywood aficionados among you have read about Deepika Padukone’s recent outburst on Twitter. She accused TOI of publishing photos of her cleavage and showing utter l...

JANANI INC. It is one of a kind round the block Indian grocery store that does not restrict itself to the needs of Indian population alone. Americans, Asians and Hispanics have developed immense fondness for the store, w...

Town in Washington State bans body odor The town of Burien, Washington has banned body odor. Visitors to public places including libraries and parks are not only advised to dress properly and use proper language but also...

With running pain is inevitable, either the knee or the foot or the calf muscles will be in pain at some point or the other. That is a reason to take extra rest but not to give up. Running is the best cardiovascular exer...

Close to 200 schools in Bangalore have been charged with non-compliance of safety rules by the police. The memory of ( have not faded, which prompted the residents of Bangalore to understand the safety rules. 80% of the...

Ravi Jagadeesan to be Awarded $50,000 as a 2014 Davidson Fellow Laureate Twenty bright young people named as 2014 Davidson Fellows exemplify the extraordinary work that can be accomplished by U.S. students who are given...

Children’s Cancer Doctor Pleads Guilty to Numerous Sexual Abuses Myles Bradbury, a pediatric haematologist at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing children whom he was supposed to be...

Exercise only focuses on the body. Turns out, exercise is the single most important factor which can boost and grow the brain cells. A fit mind after all truly lives in a fit body. ( It’s the single most proven way to ge...

Facebook testing “disappearing posts” feature like Snapchat Facebook is testing a “snapchat” like feature where you can schedule a post to expire in due time. Snapchat, is a social networking service where chats disappea...

The annual four-day CSAFF festival kick starts on Thursday, Sept. 18. As always, the festival is being hosted at Showplace Icon Theaters and Film Row Cinema (150 West Roosevelt Road, Chicago IL) The opening day’s highlig...

It’s not fair that foods that we love are dense in calories and devoid of nutrients .Our list of five foods that we wished were calorie free Pizza: Every family’s quick dinner, kids’ favorite -a slice of pizza packs clos...

SOMPRIYA FINE SPIRITS, LLC Announces the Launch of SOMRUS, The Original Indian Cream Liqueur A first of its kind product to roll out in Illinois, New Jersey & New York CHICAGO, IL – SEPTEMBER 2014 – Chicago-based SomPriy...

Back to school is stressful, for some kids it could be a nightmare , the fear of getting teased because they don't fit in , insensitive teachers because they don't follow instructions well-the list is a mile long. A supp...

Martine Rothblatt, the highest-paid female CEO was born a male. To be specific, she belongs to the category of trans genders. Roughly five percent of the Fortune 500 companies are run by female CEOs and those five percen...

Flunking the pretest has huge benefits A scientific study revealed, that its not the study mode but the test mode that helps students learn better. If a student were to take a pretest before actually studying, when the t...

Some resources for the young minds ( : Various choices of digital and print magazine selection can be found here. Prices range from $17 to $50 for a monthly subscription. Magazines are fun, exploratory for the kids in th...

Nigeria's Richest Woman Folorunsho Alakija is proud to say that she never went to university. This businesswoman is worth $2.6 billion by FORBES. While addressing the students at University of Lagos she revealed that she...

Schools have opened and most days you are filling one form or the other. Pay special attention to the form that asks the parents to lists qualities about their kid- this is done once a year in the beginning of the school...

More schools dropping Michelle Obama’s Lunch Program Another state to join the group that is ditching Michelle Obama’s Lunch Program is New York. Its not that schools don’t want kids to eat healthy and low carb meals, bu...

The Preferred Destination for Assisted Suicide Whoever thought, the place which Bollywood movies serenaded romance, could ever be the suicide destination. Turns out, it is legal to do or get assisted suicide in Switzerla...

Food allergies are severe and people who have never experienced don’t realize the fatality of it. A 13-year-old, Katelyn Carlson , student of a Chicago Public School died after she suffered from severe allergic reaction...

Indian Government to open five new IITs and few more IIMs The next academic session ( in full function. The IITs will come us in Chattisgarh, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Goa and Jammu. From the ( "We have already written to...

Digital Detox A new age term-Digital Detox, describing when one takes leave from social media and in many cases from Internet. Today, everyday life, is synonymous with Internet, Facebook, Instagram, Hangout and so on. Bu...

Naperville Ribfest: July 3-6 Enjoy Naperville’s most popular festival-food, rides, music –ribfest has everything for everybody. Go to ( for more details and tickets. Naperville Municipal Band Concerts: July-August Come t...

My name is Nrupendra Shah and I am a semi -retired anesthesiologist associated with the The Art of Living, the largest Non-profit organization in the world. I currently teach a course called the Happiness Program. The Ar...

This post originally appeared on ( but now is deleted but it can still be found on the ( Turns out, the guy in the relationship wanted to date and have relationship with other women because his girlfriend was “big” and h...

Electromagnet Hypersensitivity or EHS is a term used for a disorder caused by exposure to wifi.4 % of the people in US and UK gets affected by it. While some may suffer mild health problems, like headache, there are othe...

A monthly shower of previews, reviews and my unsolicited views, Vol 16 By Arup Raha When a symbol of romance like Eiffel Tower gets used in one of the scenes of Queen to symbolize the horror of betrayal, you know you hav...

A monthly shower of previews, reviews and my unsolicited views Volume 15, By Arup Raha Highway has too many detours 2014 has started well with two fabulous movies in the first two months, Dedh Ishqiya and Hasee Toh Phase...

Gianni Cristini, now 10 years old has been hearing voices in his head since he was 4 years old. He claimed his stuffed toys spoke to him, in many occasions he had wanted to kill himself. His parents have always been guil...

A Tennessee couple is charged with the murder of a five –year-old daughter. The couple forced the little girl to drink lot of water and soda-forcing her to drink 2 liters of liquid in less than an hour. She drank two gra...

the first or perhaps the only themed international park opened in April 2013 in Khopoli on Mumbai-Pune expressway. Today it had a major accident in one of the rides –several injured, many hurt. Mainstream media is yet to...

Another shameful, daily-occurrence story of a God-Man. He is the suspended Chief Priest of Badrinath Shrine Temple of Uttarakhand. ( in detail how the woman was called by the priest to a hotel in Delhi where he tried to...

A signature event brought to you by ThinkGlobal Arts Foundation. Around the World in 8 Folk Tales is a grand theatrical production for families and children of all ages that will magically transport you to countries arou...

The Ox-Bow Incident When the law takes the law into its own hands… Slice and dice it anyway you want, but majority is just a number. Its voice has volume, but it may not necessarily be valid. It has might, but it may not...

AK45 and AAP- a new brand of politics in India written by ( There are certain times in any nation's history which define and change its direction and today is definitely one of those for India. What we are seeing today i...

Sunanda Pushkar death has been confirmed due to drug overuse. The autopsy report has concluded that the untimely death was due to drug overuse. A sad end to a sad life of Sunanda Pushkar. This was her third marriage and...

A new app called “FIXED” helps top fight parking ticket fees. Right now it is only available in the San Francisco area. San Francisco is one of the cities, which has very strict parking guidelines. Once a person gets a p...

School of Rock Naperville has figured out a new way for parents and their children to connect via an old method: Music. “The #1 thing that people say when they walk through our doors is “I wish I had a program like this...

In Bangalore a woman was attacked in an ATM when she was trying to make a withdrawal. This happened at 7: 30 AM not in the wee hours of night. The CCTV camera of the ATM has full footage of the man attacking the woman af...

An afternoon with Vinayak Lohani and Nimesh Sumati Saturday, November 16, 2013 2:00 – 4:30 PM Glenview Library Community Room West, 1st Floor 1930 Glenview Rd, Glenview, IL 60025 After graduating from IIT and IIM Kolkata...

Saudi women protest against “no driving for women” Some have been fined, warned but the protest is on. The Saudi women are protesting the ban by simply driving and posting videos and pictures of them driving on the Inter...

Bad breath – nobody talks about it, nobody points it out and sometimes you are not even aware that you are possessed by it. Bad breath is a social taboo. It is hard to be around a person who has bad breath and much harde...

Best-selling author and award-winning journalist, Rahul Pandita will be on a US tour from October 21 to November 5, 2013. He will be in Naperville on Thursday, October 24. Rahul is the author of "Our Moon Has Blood Clots...

Every year thousands of married Hindu women fast from dawn until moonrise to celebrate Karva Chauth, a festival to celebrate for the long-life and well-being of their husbands. On the 4th day of the full moon in the Kart...

Book of the month: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn * Cheers! We have completed an entire year of our book-club, “Chai, Chat with Books”. We had our very first meeting in September 2012 hosted by Vasavi Chaka. This was followe...

The 80-year-old man along with his 77-year-old wife can no longer live in their house. The cabin that they own is on the property of the federal government. As long as the government is shutdown they will have to live so...

After writing three books, has the writing taken on a new role, has it become a more creative thing for you or are you still focused solely on the philosophy? For me my stories have a core philosophy, the story is only t...

Understanding Coolest way to quit a job-make a video! The topic "Coolest way to quit a job-make a video!" addresses an important contemporary issue or experience. Rather than simple answers, thoughtful engagement require...

The festival season starts from the month of October . Starting from Durga Puja to New Year’s Eve – there is a celebration almost every fifteen days. Festivals have become synonymous with food . Research has proved that...

Once in a while every house would have a clogged toilet . Boy! That’s ugly! Unclogging toilets are a pain –tools and chemicals are abundant in the marketplace for unclogging them. The best one though is baking soda-which...

French government moved to ban child beauty pageants. What an incredible step! This French revolution of banning pageants started when a magazine in Vogue put the picture of a 10-year –old girl in high heels , sexy outfi...

This edition of Bolly Volley is not about Bollywood! It is in fact about celebrating that section of Indian and other South Asian cinema that does not get labeled as “Bollywood”. These are the movies that not many people...

describes in detail how sugar should actually be treated like a drug. According to the head of Amsterdam's health service sugar is the worst form of addiction a person can have. Its addiction levels are comparable to tob...

An article in ( talks about the impact of having breakfast on weight loss. Numerous studies are out there which prove that having breakfast in the morning helps with weight loss. But, this particular article says that li...

Wishing for a real life ? A website called ( is hugely popular these days –their mantra? You can say anything here, even the things you cannot tell your best friend because as it turns out Internet has made us “game face...

Munich Revenge tastes sweetest, till we realize that we are inevitably diabetic… As individuals, as groups, or as nations, the urge to respond with force to an act of evil is very real and natural. Let’s not be naïve, or...

Learn Spanish at FRY YMCA Naperville What: Spanish lessons for kids 3-5 years When: Tuesdays 10:30 AM- 11:15 AM How Long: 09/03/13-10/22/13 Cost: $ 42 for the whole program Location : 2120 , 95th Street, Naperville , IL...

In-Sattva™, in partnership with Veranda8, will be sharing Indo-fusion Fashions and Contemporary Indian Art at a two-day event at The Silver Room, in Chicago, on September 7th & 8th, 2013. The event will run from 11 am –...

A 72-year-old sadhu is accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl. Police go to his ashram for interrogation- baba makes the police wait for almost eight hours! Baba claims he is in meditation and the police listened....

Facebook friends could change credit score A new trend – lenders would be giving loans not just on your credit score but also on the kind of friends you have on Facebook. Simply put, if you have friends that show irrespo...

NSA employees were spying on their significant others by using the NSA’s “eavesdropping programme” “Eavesdropping unit” of NSA has used the program to spy on their wives and husbands who have been living abroad. They cal...

Celebrity trainer Bob Harper said the magic words ( Bob Harper is a trainer at the ( He has been shown to push contestants out of their comfort zone and train harder. Yes, to get thin diet is the only key. For the simple...

Another gang-rape in Mumbai A young journalist has been gang raped in Mumbai. This 23-year-old woman was with a male colleague shooting for an assignment. She works for an English publication in Mumbai. On the pretext of...

Desperate times calls for desperate measures. People waited for Christmas and Thanksgiving to buy the things they wanted at a bargain – well ,now there is no need to wait . ( reported on ( “Even before the school bells a...

Yesterday Patrick McConlogue’s post on ( made waves in the virtual world. He blogged about how he wanted to help the homeless guy that he saw on his way. He didn’t want to just give him money and then forget about it. He...

In a private school in New Delhi, a teacher slaps a student so hard that the student loses his hearing. Crime of the student- he was doing English homework in the Political Science class. The student is from Meerut, Utta...

Who would think Oprah Winfrey will be a subject to racism? On a recent trip to Zurich, Switzerland to attend ( Oprah stopped by at ( one of the most expensive streets of the world. A $40,000 handbag caught her attention....

Have we forgotten how to live in the present? Image Source : ( School reopens (USA) in a few weeks time –for some next week and for others much later. By September, though all the kids will be in school –I know many moms...

On August 2nd & 3rd (Friday & Saturday), Motifs Handcrafted Jewelry is holding its summer Exhibition/Sale event. Peacocks & Paisleys and Sterling are the two collections being presented at the event. Peacocks & Paisleys...

Real to Reel to Real Life (Part 2 of 2) Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin If you haven’t read Part 1 yet, ( Now that the name of the movie is out of the bag, let me start Part 2 with the results of the guessing game from Part 1. Ma...

Book of the month : Paris Wife by Paula McLain Summer season was heralded by a hot discussion on the book of the month, ‘Paris Wife’. The book’s theme is the joys, trials and tribulations shared by Ernest Hemingway and h...

In a recent group interview actor Ranveer Singh has been ( to say that he does not like “tags”. In his case he was being tagged as a flirt –which he has no issue with but he has a problem with being tagged or typecast be...

Does punishment really work? The easiest thing to do when the kid is misbehaving is either to give him a time-out or spank him. Anger is the immediate response to the kid’s misbehavior. Parents often say that kids need t...

Our lives are becoming more public than we realize. Facebook, twitter, pinterest, have all made us more connected to people that we know and sometimes more than we want or need. We are sharing everything on Facebook –bir...

When we hear the term sex-offender- most likely only a male sex offender comes to mind. Male sex-offenders outnumber the female sex-offenders by large numbers-but they do exist … In a ( 36-year-old woman had sex with an...

Young girls entering the film industry are often exploited . Debutant director ( is making a movie inspired by Jiah Khan’s death. This film will tell the story of three young girls who come to Bollywood to make a career....

Paula Deen is sorry for using racial slur Chef Paula Deen is apologetic for her racial slur. Earlier today she had released a video asking forgiveness for her racial slur. But, ( .She has always been full of drama and co...

As a designer of custom closets, offices and other functional built-in cabinetry, I was recently asked, “Why should I go with Cambridge Closets instead of a large closet company?” I passionately answered, “Because I plan...

Is praise necessary for the kids ? Is there a right amount of praise ? Are we praising our kids for anything and everything these days ? Whether they swim well or not , whether they played soccer well or not or for that...

One of the most famous restaurants of Chicago Charlie Trotters closed down last year because the Chef Charlie Trotter wanted to study law. Looks like there was a reason to study law. Two New Yorkers who are pressing char...

Silk Road Rising, the Chicago-based theater company dedicated to producing works that center South Asian, Middle Eastern, and other Asian and Asian-American perspectives and stories, presented a staged reading of Confere...

TOI writes that ( … While ( writes his favorite breakfast is protein shake, oats and eggs ( also says Salman eats a breakfast of egg whites and protein shakes … Hard to know what Salman is eating for breakfast –unless he...

Amish Tripathi the author of “The Shiva Trilogy “ is coming to Naperville. You must all know the story of this IIM Calcutta graduate who left his successful career in banking to write books. Boy, aren’t we glad he did th...

Lindsay Mill the beautiful ballerina girlfriend of Edward Snowden knows that marriage is no longer on the cards . She wrote on her ( My world has opened and closed all at once. Leaving me lost at sea without a compass. S...

The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA's history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended on hiding in the shadows The individual responsible for one of the mos...

There are a number of reasons why partnering with WebPundits will bring out the best in your project but let's just focus on the most crucial points. Expertise in latest web technologies Experienced design, development a...

Tongue Stapling, another way to lose weight ( This method, called “tongue patch”, made by Dr. Chugay in Venezuela, makes it almost impossible to eat solid foods. Your tongue suffers greatly by having this patch in. You l...

To my friends who live outside of Turkey: I am writing to let you know what is going on in Istanbul for the last five days. I personally have to write this because at the time of my writing most of the media sources are...

Assisted Transition is an organization that helps seniors find housing and care. It is completely a free service. All of us know how hard it is to find a place suitable for the ageing dad, or the distant aunt who is in n...

Chicago: The third edition of the annual Eye on India Festival will take place from June 7th to July 14th, 2013 throughout Chicago and the Chicago-land areas. The festival will run for 3 weeks and will include a series o...

Actress Jiah Khan committed suicide at her Juhu residence on Monday night. She hung herself, it has been reported. The 25-year-old actress, who worked with Amitabh Bachchan in Ram Gopal Varma’s ‘Nishabd’ was apparently d...

This time too the Scripps Spelling Bee Champion is a 13-year old Indian boy from New York. Arvind Mahankali became the national champion last Thursday. He had been getting the 3rd place for the last two years. In the pas...

A monthly shower of Bollywood previews, reviews and my unsolicited views Volume 13, By Arup Raha, Monday 27-May-2013 My decades of waiting for an opportunity to operate a movie projector ended last year in the sophistica...

Father put the six-week old baby in the freezer to stop her from crying. Stupid or mentally unstable? Hard to say. The child may survive but has a broken hand, broken leg, head injury and blisters on the feet due to extr...

Real to Reel to Real Life (Part 1 of 2) Art mirrors life, but when life portends art… To twist things a bit, let me tell you the story about a movie before I tell you the story of *the movie. What follows though, is a tr...

This British girl was on her first ever-foreign trip to India. This now is the last trip of her lifetime. The eight-year-old girl was visiting her grandparents in Punjab, India. She was admitted in a hospital for dehydra...

This Mom from Charlotte, NC has her 13-year-old boy arrested for stealing pop tarts from her. ( Latasha Renee Love, the 37-year-old mom called the police on Monday night to have her son arrested for stealing $5 worth of...

Boy Scouts of America has voted to allow openly gay boys into its troupes. It took ( to lift this ban. It has been not easy to fight this ban. Conservative parents and churches are of the view that this is ( There has be...

A white father walks into Wal-Mart with his black children only to be followed by police and asked to prove if the children are his. Turns out, the children are black because the mum’s black! Joseph, the white dad, has b...

The Lake Effect is a 90 minute drama staged by three incredible actors. Pulitzer finalist Rajeev Joseph wrote a simple but a very strong drama. The tale of how an Indian origin family is trying to reason out and console...

The appearance of Javed Akhtar and Shabana Azmi in the Chicago area for a cultural event drew the kind of attention that visits by prominent figures from Indian arts and letters reliably generate in communities with larg...

Among many other things, Indians first need to unlearn what they believe are the rights of women and give back their right to live freely, without biases, without being judged … ( yes it is definitely painful but not rea...

Award winning Chicago-based theatre company, Silk Road Rising, is producing the World Premiere of Jeff Awards Recommended play, “The Lake Effect,” by Indian American playwright Rajiv Joseph. The cast of “The Lake Effect”...

A r g o Here’s the kind of movie that makes movie-watching worth its while. “Based on a true story.” That ubiquitous line from many a movie’s beginning never sounded truer or more authentic than from Argo (2012). If you...

ventilator," Verka, who was instrumental in securing visas for four members of Sarabjit's family from the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi on Saturday, told media. Sarabjit's lawyer Awais Sheikh told a news channel...

A driver of a school bus was arrested for allegedly raping a 15-year-old girl in Bikaner, police said today. The girl, a class X student of a private school here has charged her school bus driver with raping her and lodg...

Restaurants and washrooms may have provided the ambience for some brilliant ideas, but for telecom operator Uninor, the flicker of inspiration came when a top executive was on his way home in an autorickshaw. Uninor Maha...

The Rhode Island medical examiner’s office says a body found in Providence is that of a Brown University student missing since last month. Health Department spokeswoman Dara Chadwick says the body of 22-year-old Sunil Tr...

A Utah man who claims he has saved a McDonald's hamburger since 1999 has gone public with his at-home experiment. The sandwich looks nearly identical to when David Whipple bought it. He went on the television show The Do...

Nirbhaya's sacrifice, that rocked the entire nation, seemingly went in vain as her own home district Ballia witnessed abduction and gang rape of a girl. A 15-year-old local girl was allegedly kidnapped and gang raped by...

A teenaged "illiterate" boy was arrested from Bihar in the wee hours on Monday for allegedly raping a five-year-old girl in Delhi which he described as a "big mistake", two days after his friend was apprehended in the ca...

Union home ministerSushilkumar Shinde on Monday made a statement in both the Houses of Parliamentgiving details of the rape of a five-year-old girl as well as the police response to it. However, he sought to underline th...

Saying that she was "shocked" about the rape of a five-year-old in Delhi, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha ( demanded the girl should be immediately shifted to AIIMS. "I am terribly shocked to know about the details...

was reported by some as Boston bombing suspect number two on Thursday night. Tripathi is a 22-year-old Brown University student who went missing mysteriously on March 16. Tripathi, of Indian origin, was first suggested a...

Video footage of a man being ignored as he begged for help following a road accident that killed his wife and child has led to accusations of "shameful" public apathy in India. Police said Kanhaiya Lal's appeals were ign...

If you’ve watched Sridevi’s—Bollywood actress of the 80s—latest release ‘English Vinglish’ you’ll understand what the plight of being an outcast means – when you’re out-casted by your family. Let’s face it, in India, if...

Campaigners for Muslim women's rights said while short term 'contract marriages' are illegal in India and forbidden in Islam, they are increasing in Hyderabad, in southern India, where wealthy foreigners, local agents an...

After the Delhi gangrape incident, the television media in India hasn’t stopped portraying itself as the saviour of women; as the one entity that asked all those tough questions without which crimes against women would h...

The FBI yesterday arrested a 39-year-old man for allegedly molesting a sleeping female passenger on an American Airlines flight en route from Miami to Regan National Airport in Virginia. Saurabh Agarwal was named today i...

In a first, the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow on Friday reduced the fees for its post-graduate programme in management for the academic term 2013-2015. The IIM's director Devi Singh said the fees were being slas...

A 20-year-old woman was gang-raped in a moving car by her husband and his two relatives here, police said Thursday. All attackers have been arrested. The incident came to light late Wednesday evening when the woman was f...

Western DuPage Special Recreation Association (WDSRA) is looking for runners and walkers to join their team in the 2nd Annual DuPage Human Race. The Human Race is a 5K Run/Fitness Walk that benefits DuPage non-profit org...

Increasingly teachers are speaking out against school reforms that they believe are demeaning their profession, and some are simply quitting because they have had enough. Here is one resignation letter from a veteran tea...

Newly married, my husband, Eric, and I moved to a new home with our kids. Now we would start trying to blend our families. From the beginning, it was total chaos. There were endless chores, to say nothing of the logistic...

Minority Report Is a crime committed before it’s committed if you stop it before it’s committed? A paradoxical, circular question like that sends your brain into a tizzy, doesn’t it? But then, what human conundrum doesn’...

In a desperate bid to save his life, convicted Ohio baby killer Steven Smith has asserted that he never meant to murder his girlfriend’s six-month-old daughter – only to sexually assault her. The girl, Autumn Carter, of...

EDUCATION MATTERS: Secure our kids' future - Drive them to Succeed Dear Friends, Naperville School District 204 is faced with tough decisions which will have significant impact on both the education of our children and c...

Young adolescents who begin dating at an early age do worse at school as well as being more likely to smoke, drink and take drugs, a study has revealed. Researchers from the University of Georgia found that over seven ye...

Everyone agrees the United States needs to improve its education system dramatically, but how? One of the hottest trends in education reform lately is looking at the stunning success of the West's reigning education supe...

I froze in front of the television. I couldn’t believe that Jorge was the Pope!” confessed the 77-year-old lady with white hair and spectacles outside her home at 555 Membranilla Street in the Flores district of Buenos A...

Days after ( (WIEF) dropped Gujaratchief minister Narendra Modi as its keynote speaker, ( chairman, Manipal Global, turned down the invitation to speak at the annual event, saying that he is upset at the way India is tre...

holder of a Harvard M.B.A., protégé of Clinton Treasury Secretary ( former vice president at ( ( chief operating officer at ( ( and mother of two young children—believes women are holding themselves back. In "Lean In," s...

A California preschool teacher is facing felony charges after she allegedly drugged toddlers with a sleep aid. KTVU reports 59-year-old Deborah Gratz was arrested on child endangerment charges after she was fired from he...

Italy and India seemed headed for a standoff on Monday after the former declared that two of its naval guards who are being prosecuted for killing two Indian fishermen in Indian waters while on anti-piracy duty, will not...

Facebook reveals secrets you haven’t shared The increasing amount of personal information that can been gleaned by computer programs that track how people use Facebook has been revealed by an extensive academic study. Su...

Excuse me while I play the cranky feminist for a minute, but I'm disheartened every time I sign into Facebook and see a list of female names I don't recognize. You got married, congratulations! But why, in 2013, does get...

Two investors who bought a dilapidated cottage for $300,000 are set to make a $30million profit on the deal after discovering an amazing haul of lost artwork by a previous resident. Thomas Schultz and Larry Joseph snappe...

Asia's most prominent Roman Catholic leader knows how to reach the masses: He sings on stage, preaches on TV, brings churchgoers to laughter and tears with his homilies. And he's on Facebook. But Philippine Cardinal Luis...

Best Buy Co. said Monday it has ended its program that allowed corporate employees to control their schedules and how often they showed up at the company’s Richfield headquarters. Known as Results Only Work Environment (...

Santa was out delivering presents to all the children. Santa looked at the sky, and he was very surprised. The sky was starting to get light; the sun was coming up! Santa was very worried because he still had to deliver...

Bear Paddle swim school - their motto "unleash your paddle power!" This is one of a kind swim school perhaps anywhere in the world, well certainly in Naperville. My daughter started swimming here about three months ago....

Living in the Midwest, there are just too many reasons to be glad to get past the February bump. I usually enter March pirouetting around the yard chasing birds and plucking flowers, at least in my head, and tearing pink...

This is the third wave of test results received by the FSA, which has now received a total of 5,430 test results. Meanwhile, new tests conducted on beef retail products revealed no new cases of horsemeat adulteration, th...

Young Electronics Engineer commits suicide - was maybe asked to spy by the chinese government On June 24 last year, the body of a young US electronics engineer, Shane Todd, was found hanging in his Singapore apartment. P...

WDSRA :The development of individuals through recreation. Dreams come in all shape and sizes –dreams are not limited. Whether you are an able-bodied person or someone who needs a little help – all of us dream –dream to l...

Cops probing the case of a 16-year-old girl in Ulhasnagar, who claimed her parents forced her to have sex with a man to whom they owed Rs 50,000, booked her parents and the man for rape on Saturday. While the victim's fa...

It's perhaps motherhood's dirtiest little secret: Favoring one child over another. Favoritism is usually not intentional and can happen for a variety of reasons. Maybe one kid is the most well-behaved in the brood, espec...

Titan boss Maurice Taylor tells French they have 'beautiful women' but 'no idea how to run a business' An American tyre tycoon has fired off a second virulent missive to France's industry minister, saying his country has...

The feds are descending on downtown Los Angeles to combat a dangerous outbreak of a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis. KCAL9's Jeff Nguyen went downtown in search of people who may have been exposed. John Williams st...

12 Angry Men “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.” The man who said that, Abraham Lincoln, knew a thing or two about all three – adversity, character, and power....

You know all the times that men complain about women talking too much? Apparently there's a biological explanation for the reason why women are chattier than men. Scientists have discovered that women possess higher leve...

The rape and murder of three young sisters in Maharashtra has shocked the state. "The incident is extremely deplorable and painful. I appeal to the people to maintain calm and cooperate with the law-enforcers," Chief Min...

Google looks to cut funds to illegal sites The web search giant, which is embroiled in a long-running row over the way it deals with pirated material, is considering the radical measure so that it can get rid of the root...

China could be considering relaxing its harsh one-child policy because of women like Hu Yanqin, who lives in a village at the edge of the Gobi desert. Hu lives in the Jiuquan region in Gansu province, one of the rare pla...

This week the scandal over horsemeat in hamburgers and lasagne has spread beyond Britain, revealing cracks in the Continent's food supply chain. Authorities are now trying to trace the meat's circuitous path across Europ...

Anoushka Shankar, daughter of legendary sitarist Ravi Shankar, on Wednesday said she was a victim of sexual abuse as a child, at the hands of a man her parents trusted implicitly. Sagarika Ghose(IBN) discusses with a pan...

is being rattled by a bizarre series of early morning 911 calls made from a home phone registered to her dead husband, police sources said. Every Tuesday at 2 a.m., Jay Monahan’s phone dials 911. And each time, a patrol...

Book Of The Month : “The White Tiger” by Aravind Adiga “Go to Old Delhi, and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundreds of pale hens and brightly colored roosters, stuffed tightly into wire-mesh cag...

Anoushka Shankar, daughter of legendary sitarist Ravi Shankar, has thrown her weight behind an online campaign demanding an end to crime against women, in the wake of the Delhi gang rape. The 31-year-old sitarist has inv...

I read an article in the Wall Street Journal last week and that really got me thinking. Walmart has been having a ball of a time now that it's gained entry in the Indian market. For many US-returns they get a slice-of-US...

Justice Bhaktavatsala , a Karnataka High Court judge was in limelight when he had said -( The case involved a 28 year old woman getting beaten by the husband on a regular basis . He told the wife to go home because the h...

Schools Superintendent Jennifer Gray said she expects school board members to meet within the next two weeks to determine if disciplinary action is warranted for a teacher who made slurs about first lady Michelle Obama a...

Pittsburgh police said a determined 6-year-old girl didn't hurt anyone when she crashed her mother's car while trying to drive across town to visit her father. Police haven't released the name of the girl whose mother wa...

Comedy and humour is a refreshing lemonade one likes to have after a tiring and dry day. What would you say if this comes in the form of a television series? Awesome… Bingo… The more the merrier… This must have been the...

Like poetry for software Open source programme creators cater to the highest standards and give away their work for free, much like Ghalib who wrote not just for money but the discerning reader Mirza Ghalib, the great po...

The "sandwich generation" — a term coined in the 1980s to describe adults simultaneously raising children and caring for aging parents, squeezed between the demands of two generations of dependents — had long been associ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a trove of skulls in Mexico that may have once belonged to human sacrifice victims. The skulls, which date between A.D. 600 and 850, may also shatter existing notions about the ancient cultu...

A rare and candid account emerged from a scientist who had voluntarily worked in the sex industry during her graduate studies — not out of desperation but as a deliberate economic choice — offering a perspective that cha...

HUNGRY parents in North Korea have been caught eating their CHILDREN to avoid starvation, according to reports. One father is said to have been executed by firing squad for killing his two kids for food. And it has spark...

Workers who boast that they can multitask are actually the worst at doing several things at once and at focusing on single jobs, according to a new study. Serial multitaskers end juggling two activities at once not becau...

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Surmounting all odds, Prema Jayakumar, daughter of a Mumbai-based autorickshaw driver, has topped the all India Chartered Accountancy (CA) examination. Residing in a crammed one-room chawl in suburban Malad with her pare...

As recently as 2006, when I first visited India and China, the economic race was on, with heavy bets being placed on which one would win the developing world sweepstakes. Many Westerners fervently hoped that a democratic...

David Coleman Headley was sentenced to 35 years in federal prison Thursday primarily for his role in planning the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks that killed more than 160 people, including six Americans. Mr. Headley, a Pa...

Lance Armstrong has finally come clean. Armstrong confessed to doping during an interview with Oprah Winfrey taped Monday, just a couple of hours after a wrenching apology to staff at the Livestrong charity he founded an...

Cuba's Public Health Ministry on Tuesday acknowledged 51 new cases of cholera in the capital amid growing concerns about the illness' spread and disappointment in the diplomatic community over the government's lack of tr...

Islamist groups with ties to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb pledged retaliatory attacks on French soil following France's military intervention in Mali, where French forces had deployed in January 2013 to halt the advan...

Two gunmen shot a 14-year-old boy several times Friday night as he stood on his porch, leaving him to die in the front hallway of his Humboldt Park home, authorities said. The shooting came just hours after a 15-year-old...

A Chicago man who won $1 million in the lottery and then dropped dead a month later was poisoned, cops say. Urooj Khan, 46, hit the jackpot last June on a scratch-off ticket he bought at a 7-Eleven on the city's north si...

The National Father's Day Council named Bill Clinton its Father of the Year in 2013, an honor the former president received with characteristic grace even as the selection drew predictable commentary from those who found...

The group that equated Muslim radicals with savages in advertisements last year has put up another set of provocative ads in dozens of New York City subway stations. The American Freedom Defense Initiative purchased spac...

Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...

Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...

The statistic was stark and it circulated widely in Indian and international media: a rape was reported in India every 22 minutes, according to National Crime Records Bureau data. The figure, troubling enough in itself,...

Anju Gattani, fiction author, international freelance journalist and former news reporter, has been published world-wide for over 2 decades in leading Asian and US publications. Indian-born, Anju grew up in Hong Kong and...

Piers Morgan Calls Pro-Gun Advocate 'Unbelievably Stupid,' 'Dangerous': 'You Shame Your Country' CNN's Piers Morgan has been on a rabid anti-gun rant since July's Aurora, Colorado, shootings that has gotten even more ven...

Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...

You're going to have Christmas and Hanukkah': Heroic teacher's promise to her first grade class that she saved from school massacre gunman - by hiding them in bathroom Among the tragic victims of the Sandy Hook massacre...

At the very start of their lives, the schoolchildren are remembered for their love of horses, or for the games they couldn't get enough of, or for always saying grace at dinner. The adult victims found their life's work...

Retro Reel is a column about movies, but not about the latest box-office releases. There will be aspects of review, but the column is intended more as a recommendation of good movies of different genres, with the sense o...

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Pandit Ravi Shankar, the best known contemporary Indian musician, died Tuesday evening in San Diego, Calif. He was 92. The sitar star's website announced his death. "Shankar had suffered from upper-respiratory and heart...

The Sunday Times, a South African newspaper, quoted an unnamed person close to the Mandela family as saying: "He has not been talking ... he is not looking good. It's clear that something is troubling him." Mr Mandela, t...

A nurse duped by a prank phone call at the hospital treating the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge has died in a suspected suicide. Jacintha Saldanha, 46, who has worked at the hospital for four years, was found dead at an a...

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A monthly shower of Bollywood previews, reviews and my unsolicited views by Arup Raha If there still are people who think Bollywood is all about the loud and pointless variety of cinema that cannot be perceived by their...

Economic Policy and Development: India's Evolving Path India's economy has undergone dramatic transformation in recent decades. Understanding this transformation and ongoing debates is essential for informed citizenship....

Residents in a Newhall senior apartment complex are protesting an order from management to remove their beloved Christmas tree from the community room because, they were told, it's a religious symbol. On Tuesday, Tarzana...

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Entertainment and Culture in India Entertainment and culture reflect and shape societies. Understanding popular culture provides insight into values, anxieties, and aspirations. The Role of Entertainment Entertainment pr...

The showdown between global steel giant ArcelorMittal and France over its Florange plant hit new heights on Monday as a minister said the company was no longer welcome in the country. A source close to the matter said co...

Two Mumbai women were today ordered by a court to 14 days in jail for their post on Facebook on the shutdown of Mumbai on Sunday, the day of Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray's funeral. However, they were bailed within hou...

After Savita Halappanavar's death, the brutal irony of 'pro-life' is exposed Anti-abortion groups' response to a young woman's tragic death in Ireland exposes their scant regard for women's lives Anti-abortion campaigner...

Rumors about Barack and Michelle Obama's marriage — specifically, claims that divorce papers had been filed at some point, or that the marriage had experienced serious crises that nearly ended it — circulated periodicall...

Anju Gattani, fiction author, international freelance journalist and former news reporter, has been published world-wide for over 2 decades in leading Asian and US publications. Indian-born, Anju grew up in Hong Kong and...

Workers at a Philadelphia polling place, after being ordered by a judge to cover up a mural of President Obama, slapped up a few pieces of paper that only partially covered his image -- while leaving the Obama campaign l...

During a surprise campaign stop at a field office in Chicago, President Obama congratulated Mitt Romney on a hard-fought campaign. The president's congratulatory comment was not meant to be a premature concession. He sai...

A Naperville family was torn apart by a horrific act of domestic violence when two children — a boy and a girl — were found stabbed to death inside their home, with investigators describing a scene of extraordinary bruta...

Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...

A student at the National Law School of India University in Bangalore was raped on the university campus, in a crime that highlighted the persistent safety failures at India's most prestigious educational institutions an...

A London teenager has beaten scientific geniuses Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein to be invited to join Mensa with the highest possible IQ score. Fabiola Mann, 15, of Harrow-on-the-Hill, scored 162 on the IQ society's...

The CID on Monday arrested a software engineer, Sai Kumar, 28, employed with Mahindra Satyam in the US, when he arrived at Shamshabad airport, for defaming his former colleague by hacking into her email IDs and creating...

Veteran Bollywood singer Asha Bhosle's daughter Varsha, who was suffering from depression, today committed suicide by shooting herself, police said. A singer and columnist, Varsha, 56, shot herself in the temple with a p...

Guardian is collecting stories on Steve Jobs through readers comments . Steve Jobs changed the tech world and for the better ... but people generally knew him as a selfish and self-centered person. Some stories will amaz...

Victims of Salman Khan's reckless driving have not been paid . In 2002 he had run over some people , while driving his land cruiser .This had resulted in killing one person and severely injuring three people. It had take...

Scientists have created a genetically modified (GM) cow that produces milk with low levels of a protein known to cause allergic reactions in a significant proportion of children. The researchers believe it could one day...

Outraged Tunisians took to the streets by the hundreds Tuesday, angrily protesting the treatment of a woman who was allegedly raped by police officers -- and then charged with public indecency when she filed a complaint....

The question of whether Islam is systematically misunderstood by Western audiences—and by some Muslims themselves—sits at the center of one of the most contested debates of the early twenty-first century, with scholars,...

In the weeks following the mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado on July 20, 2012 — in which twelve people were killed and seventy injured during a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises — survivors a...

Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has come out with an autobiography called "Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story.". He is promoting his book and will be on 60 minutes this Sunday. He talks about his wife and sa...

The Southern California man who wrote and produced the controversial anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims" was ordered detained without bail by a federal judge for allegedly violating the terms of his probation. Citing...

Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...

Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...

For cancer patients navigating the physical and psychological demands of diagnosis, treatment, and recovery, an unexpected source of therapeutic support has accumulated an impressive body of research behind it: companion...

Chai, Chat with Books" is a small group of eight ladies who share their passion for reading over a cup of tea and lots of chaat/snacks. Our book club meeting is a time away from the daily grind of life...

Former President Bill Clinton addressed the recent unrest in the Muslim world over a U.S.-made film insulting the prophet Muhammad, saying that while the underlying message is offensive, "you can't react every time you'r...

Understanding Virgin Mobile Users Vulnerable To Account Hijacking The topic "Virgin Mobile Users Vulnerable To Account Hijacking" addresses an important contemporary issue or experience. Rather than simple answers, thoug...

France announced Wednesday it will close 20 embassies across the Muslim world on Friday after French weekly Charlie Hebdo published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed naked, amid growing unrest over an anti-Islamic film th...

Henna Bakshi was awarded the Geeta Chopra award, the nation's highest award for bravery shown by girls when she was 12 year old . A decade ago, she was in news for getting the highest bravery award, today again she is in...

The Chicago South Asian Film Festival returned for its annual showcase of cinema from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and the South Asian diaspora, bringing to the city some of the most compelling and critically...

Pratish Datta's achievement in topping the IIT Joint Entrance Examination among visually impaired candidates was a story that resonated far beyond the competitive examination ecosystem for what it revealed: that the barr...

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Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...

Aseem Trivedi, the political cartoonist who was arrested in September 2012 on charges of sedition and obscenity for cartoons he had drawn in support of the India Against Corruption movement led by Anna Hazare, became an...

The attempt by Matthew Heimbach, then a student at Towson University in Maryland, to form a White Student Union on campus in 2012 attracted national media attention and placed university administrators in a delicate posi...

The father of Hannah Truelove, 16, who was found dead behind her mother's apartment complex on August 24, has spoken out for the first time about the horrific ordeal.Gainesveille, Georgia, officials have refused to go in...

Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...

India trains more doctors than almost any country on earth, and loses a significant proportion of them to emigration — to the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, and other destinations where compensatio...

Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...

Obama is more likeable, but trust Romney more to handle the economy It's official: With President Barack Obama's( both the Republicans and Democrats have chosen their nominees for the 2012 presidential election. Let the...

Indian-Americans vote Democratic at rates that would seem puzzling on the surface. Here is a community that is, by most measures, economically successful — among the highest-earning ethnic groups in the United States, wi...

Over a dozen suspected workers of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) allegedly ransacked a theatre here today, protesting against the screening of a Bhojpuri film, district police said. According to police, the group o...

Paul Ryan's false claim about his marathon finishing time — stated during a radio interview in August 2012, shortly after he became Mitt Romney's vice presidential running mate — became a surprisingly revealing episode i...

Self-Driving Cars Approved by California Legislature In California, it's illegal to talk on a cell phone handset while driving your car. The reasoning is pretty simple: with one hand glued to your smartphone, not only ar...

So many Indians apply to study at London Metropolitan that a few years ago the university opened recruitment offices in Delhi and Chennai. But on Thursday both branches had been shut down. In the Delhi towerblock where t...

A senior police officer and a crucial witness in Aarushi-Hemraj murder case on Thursday deposed before a special CBI court here that he faced pressure to suppress the rape angle in the postmortem of the teenager. Former...

Taliban militants beheaded 17 people in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province after discovering them at a mixed-gender party where music was being played and people were dancing — a gathering that violated the Taliban'...

The Income Tax Department's decision to strip the Patanjali Yogpeeth Trust — the charitable organization associated with yoga guru Ramdev Baba — of its charitable status sent a clear signal that the exponential commercia...

Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...

Apple Inc. on Monday gave a federal judge a list of eight Samsung Electronics Co. products it wants pulled from shelves and banned from the U.S. market, including popular Galaxy model smartphones. U.S. District Judge Luc...

Ann Romney has recalled how her husband would "curl up in bed with me" as she battled depression and the onset of multiple sclerosis, revealing a tender side to the man who will formally accept the Republican presidentia...

Govt increases SMS limit to 20 with immediate effect After checking the use of SMSes to prevent spreading of rumours which had led to mass exodus of northeastern people from certain states, the government on Thursday inc...

A monthly shower of Bollywood previews, reviews and my unsolicited views by Arup Raha Olympics 2012 is over. Except those who get opportunities to appear on TV commercials, Indian medal-winners and other athletes who com...

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A daycare facility in Delaware became the subject of national outrage after workers were arrested on child endangerment charges following the discovery that employees had been encouraging toddlers to fight each other and...

Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...

Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...

In a shocking case, a 20-day-old baby girl died after her father allegedly fed her donkey's milk laced with poison at Nelamangala taluk in Bangalore district, police said today. The 25-year-old man, a mechanic, was arres...

Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...

Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...

Almost 60 hours after they fled Bangalore fearing attacks by Muslims, the first batch of about 7,000 passengers from the Northeast arrived at the Guwahati railway station this morning. The two special trains and the regu...

Retro Reel is a column about movies, but not about the latest box-office releases. There will be aspects of review, but the column is intended more as a recommendation of good movies of different genres, with the sense o...

Authorities are investigating whether the massacre at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee could be linked to last year's unsolved murders of two elderly Sikh men in Elk Grove, Calif. Elk Grove detectives have been in contact wi...

Understanding Health and Wellness Health is multidimensional—physical, mental, emotional, and social. True health requires attention to all dimensions. The Interconnection of Health Factors Physical health influences men...

Understanding Health and Wellness Health is multidimensional—physical, mental, emotional, and social. True health requires attention to all dimensions. The Interconnection of Health Factors Physical health influences men...

Google's announcement of significant workforce reductions—concentrated in its hardware, recruiting, and certain product divisions—reflected the technology industry's broader recalibration following years of aggressive hi...

Na janu apne mann ki main, Ab kya kaha kab kaun banu, kuch bhi bana, ya kuch na bana, bus... baithi rahu tere dar pe main (I don't know what my heart says; what, where, whom I will become; make me something, or don't mak...

Mitt Romney's selection of Paul Ryan, the Wisconsin congressman and House Budget Committee chairman, as his vice-presidential running mate in August 2012 was unusual in that it generated something rarely seen in politica...

Amid increasing cases of violence and lack of security against their community, 60 Hindu families from Balochistan and Sindh have decided to migrate to India,...

Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...

Seventy members of an Islamist sect who have been living in an underground bunker without heat or sunlight for nearly a decade have been discovered living on the outskirts of the city of Kazan in Russia....

Understanding A Cafe in Turkey Renamed After Salman Khan The topic "A Cafe in Turkey Renamed After Salman Khan" addresses an important contemporary issue or experience. Rather than simple answers, thoughtful engagement r...

Attacked With Acid If Females Are Found Wearing Jeans Posters put by an outfit in the Jharkhand capital have threatened acid attacks on girls and women who wear jeans or do not wear a dupatta. The police said it could be...

This is a tale of love , religion and corrupt politics of India. Such a shame to see Anuradha Bali's life end this way. =========================================================================================== Fiza Moh...

Seven dead, including gunman, at Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek, hostages taken At least seven people were killed in a shooting at a Sikh Temple outside of Milwaukee, with the presumed gunman among the dead, accor...

Many American companies have been lauded for their rapid rise to greatness, a process that sometimes takes less than a decade. These firms become leaders in their industries, are renowned for innovation, phenomenal growt...

Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with the late Steve Jobs, predicted "horrible problems" in the coming years as cloud-based computing takes hold. Wozniak, 61, was the star turn at the penultimate performance in Washin...

Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...

Maruti Seeking Vaastu Expert Advice Maruti Suzuki appears to have suddenly realized that the root cause of all its problems at its Manesar plant is Vaastu defects. How else can one understand the fact that Maruti Suzuki...

Grids supplying electricity to half of India's 1.2 billion people collapsed on Tuesday, trapping coal miners, stranding train travellers and plunging hospitals into darkness in the second major blackout in as many days....

This offer is sure to vex all the Obama campaigners who think they alone are on the cutting edge of voter outreach. "While I won't be breaking any news today, I wanted to let you know how to be the first to get the VP sc...

In the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case, a forensic lab scientist told a special court in Ghaziabad on Tuesday that the blood stains found on the teen's clothes and her bed's mattress matched her blood group. He said a...

Randi Zuckerberg — older sister of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, former director of market development at Facebook, and briefly a reality television producer — made news in 2012 when it emerged that she had joined Go...

Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...

On Monday, James Holmes, the lead suspect in the Colorado shooting that killed 12 people, made his first public appearance in court, where the presiding judge gave prosecutors a week to formally charge him. His hair dyed...

The Syrian regime threatened to use chemical and biological weapons in the case of an external attack yesterday, in what appeared to be a chilling warning to Western and Arab nations pushing for intervention in the count...

McDonald's made one of the most improbable brand pivots in fast food history when it invested heavily in upgrading its coffee program, launching the McCafé platform with espresso drinks and specialty beverages that posit...

Dark Knight' showing halted in Bergen County because of unusual activity near emergency door About 100 moviegoers in Edgewater were evacuated from a showing of "The Dark Knight Rises" tonight after a patron saw someone o...

German court bans Samsung from selling its Galaxy Tab 7.7 across the European Union, but allows Samsung to continue selling its Tab 10.1N. The patent war between Apple and Samsung rages on. The latest victim is Samsung's...

Food, Nutrition, and Health: What Research Really Shows Food is far more than calories and taste—it's medicine. Every meal either contributes to disease or helps prevent it. Yet in modern consumer culture, we often eat m...

Aurora, Colo., shooting spree: A day of tears for victims and of twists in case Two days after a shooting rampage killed 12 people and wounded 58 in a movie theater, President Obama flew in to praise victims and survivor...

When Oprah Winfrey visited India in 2012 and aired an episode of Oprah's Next Chapter featuring Indian families and culture, the response from many Indians was not the warm reception her producers might have expected — i...

Amar Jyoti Kalita, the main accused in the Guwahati molestation case which shocked the nation earlier this month, has surrendered before the police in Varanasi. He is presently in the custody of Uttar Pradesh police, TV...

A robust and self-sustaining U.S. recovery is not on the cards, and we should now expect below trend growth for many years to come, according to Nouriel Roubini, the economist famed for his bearish views. Roubini, best-k...

The software industry in India's technology capital, which has been a beneficiary of benign government neglect, is concerned that the malevolent gaze of arcane rules and regulations may be falling upon it. Employers in B...

Relationships and Human Connection Humans are fundamentally social creatures. Strong relationships are central to happiness, health, and meaning. Multiple Relationships A fulfilling life typically involves multiple types...

The aggregating Web site RottenTomatoes.com suspended user comments on movie reviews of "The Dark Knight Rises" after commenters reacted harshly to negative reviews of the film and made profane and threatening remarks ab...

Mitt Romney's tax returns had nothing to do with Sen. John McCain's decision to choose Sarah Palin as his running mate in 2008, according to the Arizona Republican, saying he chose the former Alaska governor because she...

Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...

RTI activist and Team Anna member Akhil Gogoi today claimed that the recent molestation of a girl allegedly instigated by the reporter of a local news channel may have been part of a greater conspiracy to tarnish the ima...

Last week, the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) took the unusual step of removing from service a Maharashtra cadre IAS officer, L V Nilesh, who has been on unauthorised leave for over a decade and is now worki...

Recent data released by National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) rates Delhi as the most unsafe place for children. A total of 33,098 cases of crime against children have been reported in the country in 2011 as compared to 26...

An Indian-American couple has been charged by U.S. federal authorities for running a healthcare fraud scheme in which they claimed over $8 million through false medical bills. Usha Shah and Deepak Shah, both 63, of Michi...

Allegedly upset over her techie-husband's upcoming assignment in the US, homemaker H Sowmya Vishwanath, 25, hanged herself at their house in Channasandra, near Whitefield, on Monday night. Sowmya, a native of Bijapur, ma...

Wrestler-turned-actor Dara Singh died at his home in Mumbai, his family said on Thursday. He was 84. The former wrestling champion was battling for his life at the Kokilaben Hospital for the last four days and was shifte...

Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...

The Brain Through Life: Understanding Cognitive Aging The human brain is remarkable—capable of learning, memory, adaptation, and growth throughout life. Yet all brains change with age. Understanding these changes helps u...

Jane Pitt, mother of actor Brad Pitt, has been scared into silence by the hate-filled, vulgar and even violent reaction to her public assertion that Barack Obama is...

FINS: Facebook to Launch Job Postings Board--Sources Facebook Inc. (FB) is planning to launch its own job board later this summer, said people familiar with the matter. The board will aggregate the job postings of third-...

Gunned down with an AK47 as baying villagers cheer in delight, this is the shocking moment a burqa-clad woman was executed in Afghanistan for her part in a Taliban love triangle. The 22-year-old woman, said to have been...

The death of eight more people in Chicago over the weekend have been attributed at least in part to heat-related causes, bringing the total of heat-related deaths in Cook County to 18, surpassing the total from last year...

Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...

The Mumbai police crime branch will try to convince a Delhi court once again on to give them the custody of 26/11 handler Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal. They had failed to convince the court last week....

The story of contemporary India is the story of coming to terms with the legacy of two families: the Gandhis and the Ambanis. Taken literally, this statement is, of course, absurd. But it is often a summary way of thinki...

Apple has paid $60 million to settle a dispute in China over ownership of the iPad name, a court announced Monday, removing a potential obstacle to sales of the popular tablet computer in the key Chinese market. Apple's...

An Indian couple received one of the largest personal injury settlements in Illinois history after a 2007 traffic accident left the husband with severe and permanent disabilities, in a verdict that drew attention to both...

In July 2012, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper publicly confirmed that he is gay in an email to Daily Beast columnist Andrew Sullivan, which Sullivan published with Cooper's permission. The statement was characteristically dir...

No Country on earth is in the same league as the U.S. when it comes to the quantity of immigrants who have come here and the quality of their contributions. But lately, in our generally sour mood, Americans have been que...

The Aakash tablet, developed through a partnership between the Indian government and the Canadian company DataWind and manufactured in India, was presented in 2011 and 2012 as a technological breakthrough that could tran...

The arrest of an Indian-origin student in the United Kingdom on charges of computer hacking was one of several cases in the early 2010s that illustrated both the growing sophistication of young hackers operating outside...

The death of a Cognizant Technology Solutions employee found unresponsive in a US hotel room drew attention in India both because of the circumstances — a young Indian IT professional working abroad, far from family — an...

A pointed critique of Google's digital advertising business model made waves in the tech and marketing world, arguing that the search giant systematically profits from "accidental clicks" — interactions that generate rev...

In several Afghan provinces the fight to curb the growing of opium poppies seems to be a losing battle. In 2011 a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime survey said opium poppy cultivation rose by 7% overall from the p...

The research on fatherhood that accumulated through the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries overturned, gradually and then quite decisively, the model of paternal involvement that had been dominant for most o...

The conviction of Rajat Gupta in June 2012 on four counts of securities fraud and conspiracy marked the end of a legal proceeding that had captivated both the business world and the Indian-American community — not becaus...

Cottage cheese has quietly become one of the most recommended foods among nutritionists and fitness enthusiasts, offering an unusual combination of high protein, low fat, and culinary versatility that processed diet food...

When Sachin Tendulkar was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 2012, becoming one of the very few sportspeople to receive a nomination to the upper house of India's Parliament, the question of his entitlements as a Member of...

The proposal to establish a new Indian Institute of Technology Delhi campus in Haryana reflected a broader expansion effort that had been underway across India's premier technical education system, as the government and...

It's before sunrise, and the janitor at Burns High School has already been down the length of a hallway, cleaning and sweeping classrooms before the day begins. This particular janitor is painstakingly methodical, even a...

Removed from the maddening roads and the moral police, Cubbon Park once offered love-struck couples unbeatable serenity, privacy and a refreshing silence. But then, the City’s explosive growth invaded the green expanse,...

Federal and state public health officials investigating an E. coli outbreak that had spread across six states in 2012 undertook the kind of epidemiological detective work that food safety investigations require: tracing...

In the category of small human kindnesses that cut through the noise of a difficult news cycle, the story of New York City subway workers who stopped a train to retrieve a little girl's dropped stuffed animal landed with...

The partnership of Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza delivered one of the more satisfying results for Indian tennis fans in recent memory when they won the mixed doubles title at the 2012 French Open, defeating compatriots...

Barnes & Noble has apologised to a 73-year-old man who was kicked out of one of its stores for browsing the children's section on his own. Dr. Omar Amin, from Scottsdale, Arizona, said he was asked to leave after a femal...

The attackers behind the complex Flame cyberespionage toolkit, believed to be a state-sponsored operation, used an extensive list of fake identities to register at least 86 domains, which they used as part of their comma...

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Sachin Tendulkar to take oath as Rajya Sabha member today Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar will on Monday take oath as Rajya Sabha member in the chambers of RS Chairperson Hamid Ansari. Sachin was nominated to the Upper H...

Bolly Volley A monthly shower of Bollywood previews, reviews and my unsolicited views Volume 10, By Arup Raha, Sunday 3-Jun-2012 This edition of Bolly Volley has taken a little longer than usual. The joy of being lazy ma...

The conversation about inequality in America has increasingly centered on a distinction that was, until relatively recently, obscured by the broader category of "the rich": the difference between the merely affluent — do...

There is a particular kind of cognitive trap that researchers in judgment and decision-making have documented extensively: the feeling of clarity. The sense that you already know the answer, that the question is simple,...

HC reduces prison term for man who sodomised baby The Bombay High Court has reduced punishment for a man convicted of sodomising a 10-month-old girl child, accepting his contention that he lost control over himself as he...

In the wake of the Andhra Pradesh High Court order striking down the 4.5 per cent sub-quota to minorities within OBC reservation, IITs have decided to abide by the ruling, "ignoring" the quota provision till further lega...

On the surface, Thomas Langenbach had it all. A $2 million home with a killer view high up in the hills of San Carlos, California; a wife; two children; a nanny; and a prestigious job at technology giant SAP. But when po...

India's Supreme Court ruled that sex obtained through a false promise of marriage constitutes rape under the Indian Penal Code, a judgment with significant practical implications for how consent is understood in a societ...

The India-Myanmar-Thailand Trilateral Highway, a 1,360-kilometer road project connecting Moreh in Manipur to Mae Sot in Thailand via Myanmar, has been under construction and repeated revision since its formal agreement i...

Egypt to pick Islamist or military man as president CAIRO- Egyptians must choose between a Muslim Brotherhood candidate or an ex-military man in a presidential run-off that highlights the stark rifts in a nation united i...

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Indra Nooyi, the PepsiCo CEO whose career trajectory from Chennai to one of the most powerful positions in global business became a touchstone story in discussions of Indian-American achievement, has spoken in various in...

The speculation about whether Hillary Clinton might be tapped as Barack Obama's running mate for the 2012 election — replacing Joe Biden on the ticket — circulated periodically through 2011 and into 2012, driven partly b...

When IBM banned employees from using Siri, Apple's voice assistant, on company devices, the technology press reported it with a mix of amusement and raised eyebrows. The concern IBM articulated was data privacy: conversa...

Gina Rinehart, the Australian mining magnate who by 2012 had become the world's richest woman with a fortune estimated at over twenty billion dollars, represented an unusual figure in the global conversation about wealth...

Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...

Big Tech and Society: Power, Responsibility, and the Path Forward The technology companies that shape modern life—Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon—wield unprecedented influence. Understanding this influence and its implic...

The Parliament today approved a Bill to protect children below 18 from sexual abuse, set up special courts for speedy trial of cases against them and provide stringent punishment extending up to life term for offenders....

In Anand district in Gujarat, a village school made national news for what was, in the context of rural Indian education, a remarkable amenity: air-conditioned classrooms. In a country where many rural schools lack funct...

A French prosecutor on Monday opened a preliminary investigation into allegations of rape in a Washington hotel by former IMF chief and one-time French presidential hopeful Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The move by the prosecu...

Billionaire Indian industrialist Mukesh Ambani's wife Nita describes their 27-storey Mumbai house Antilla as a "modern home with an Indian heart" and the "only home we have in the world." The ultra-luxurious 400,000 sq f...

In a city where women's public presence had been systematically erased under Taliban rule and where the years since 2001 had brought uneven and fragile progress, Shakila Naderi ran a driving school in Kabul — and her stu...

Facebook's experiment with charging page owners in New Zealand to "promote" posts to their own followers drew sharp criticism in 2012, exposing tensions between the social network's business model and user expectations b...

SEC subpoenas Chipotle in hiring probe Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc on Friday said it received a subpoena from the Securities and Exchange Commission as part of that agency's investigation into the burrito chain's hiring p...

A shift in polling data from April 2012 caught the attention of both campaigns in the presidential race: after weeks of trailing Barack Obama significantly among women voters — a gap that had widened during debates over...

The 'jealous' First Lady: How Michelle orders women close to Barack watched and has shunned Oprah because she 'hates fat people' Michelle Obama orders women close to her husband to be watched in case he cheats on her lik...

Although companies have focused greater attention on the need for ethical practices over the past few decades, male business professionals who self-report high ethical character earn, on average, 3.4% less than their pee...

Scott Thompson's tenure as Yahoo CEO lasted approximately four months. He departed in May 2012 after it emerged that his official biography — circulated to investors, employees, and the public — contained a fabrication:...

It was an eye opener-this Sunday's Satyamev Jayate. 53% of kids are sexually abused. We have to hear our kids -when they are saying something-about being uncomfortable, about not wanting to interact with certain individu...

Mom, you are an eagle, gracefully flying and free, always watching me. Mom,you are a rose gentle and fragrant, looking beautiful. Mom,you are the great ocean, vast and ever-changing...

Subhash K Jha : This show was such a well researched show. I never knew government of India had supported female foeticide once upon a time. It is always hard to make a change especially a change like this because the to...

A Washington Post investigation published in May 2012 described an incident from Mitt Romney's days at Cranbrook, the elite Michigan prep school he attended in the 1960s: Romney, then a senior, allegedly led a group of b...

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, whose novels have mapped the interior lives of Indian and Indian-American women with a precision that has won her millions of readers across languages and continents, spoke in an interview abo...

The argument has a certain seductive logic: raise taxes on the wealthy, and they'll simply leave — taking their capital, their businesses, and their economic activity with them, leaving behind a smaller tax base and, ult...

A remark attributed to a Bombay High Court judge — that a wife should be like the goddess Sita, devoted, patient, and self-sacrificing — ignited a sharp debate about the place of religious and mythological ideals in judi...

Scientists say an epidemic of myopia, or nearsightedness, is sweeping through Asian children, and is likely due to students' spending too much time indoors studying and not enough time outside in the sunlight. It has lon...

When a six-year-old boy in the United States was suspended from school for singing the LMFAO song "I'm Sexy and I Know It" to a female classmate, the incident generated the kind of widespread bewilderment that only a sto...

Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...

When blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng sought refuge at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing in April 2012 after escaping from house arrest, he created one of the most delicate diplomatic crises of Hillary Clinton's tenure a...

Among the many institutional legacies that independent India inherited from its colonial past, few were as persistent or as quietly corrosive as the "buddy system" within the Indian Army — a practice in which senior offi...

For a nation with over a billion people and a railway network that carries more than 20 million passengers every day, the announcement that Indian Railways was exploring free internet service for passengers represented s...

Bill Gates has been cast as many things over the decades — college dropout turned tech visionary, ruthless monopolist, philanthropist attempting to rewrite his legacy, global health crusader. But a comic book hero? That...

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The program is for kids 5 - 11yrs old. This free session runs for about 2 hrs. Your child will be introduced to the abacus and our math program in first hour. The second hour will be an information session for the parent...

Understanding Sachin Tendulkar the The topic "Sachin Tendulkar the " addresses an important contemporary issue or experience. Rather than simple answers, thoughtful engagement requires nuance and multiple perspectives. M...

Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...

Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...

The Summer Writing Program will end on July 26. There has been a lot of queries for providing the lessons all year along . We are still thinking about it ..... Please keep emailing and calling us -we might actually start...

Kindergartner throws tantrum at school, is handcuffed by police The news coming out of Georgia today revolves around a 6-year-old kindergartner who threw such a violent tantrum that school officials called police, who ha...

The joy of seeing a child smile because of a book he or she receives through your generous donation!* Bookwallah is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose vision is to transform the lives of children who have undergon...

For decades, the common-sense assumption was that living together before marriage would reduce divorce rates — that couples who tested their compatibility under the same roof before making a legal commitment would be bet...

About 150 Afghan schoolgirls were poisoned on Tuesday after drinking contaminated water at a high school in the country's north, officials said, blaming it on conservative radicals opposed to female education. Since the...

A quiet but growing trend emerged in the early 2010s: more Americans than at any previous point were formally renouncing their United States citizenship, and taxes were a central reason why. The numbers, while still smal...

In a case that exposed the intersection of child marriage, bureaucratic rigidity, and institutional indifference to victims, a young woman in India was denied entry into the civil services not because of her own failings...

India's successful test launch of the Agni-V ballistic missile on April 19, 2012, marked a significant moment in the country's strategic defense posture. The missile, developed by the Defence Research and Development Org...

When Dhiraj Kumar wrote "The Asocial Networking," he tapped into a tension that millions of Indians quietly recognize: the growing chasm between the curated self we project online and the person we actually are in our li...

Barack Obama's comment that the family "didn't have the luxury" of Michelle staying home when she was earning $316,000 a year in her role at the University of Chicago Medical Center sparked a predictable storm — one that...

Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn resigned abruptly, with the company announcing that an internal investigation had found evidence of an "inappropriate relationship" with a female employee. The departure was swift and the circumst...

The special CBI court in Ghaziabad had issued the warrant against Nupur for failing to appear before it. The judge has fixed April 18 as the next date of hearing and directed that Nupur be produced before the court on th...

A criminal case that became a kind of grimly efficient catalog of bad decision-making unfolded in a nine-hour period during which a single individual accumulated ten separate felony charges. The case attracted attention...

Naperville, Illinois — home to one of the largest Indian-American communities in the Chicago metropolitan area — launched a Hindi language immersion summer program through its school district, responding to both the heri...

ISLAMABAD: Hafiz Saeed, the Islamist leader who had a 6 million pounds American bounty placed on his head this week, has been helping Pakistan de-radicalise militants under efforts to stabilise the strategic US ally, a t...

She was the United States Senator for New York for eight years and yet Hillary Rodham Clinton is guilty of committing the ultimate fashion faux pas for 'any self-respecting New York City woman.' In spite of the claim mad...

Understanding Health and Wellness Health is multidimensional—physical, mental, emotional, and social. True health requires attention to all dimensions. The Interconnection of Health Factors Physical health influences men...

Volume 8 finds us in late spring, when the produce is finally cooperating and the question is no longer what to cook to stay warm but what to cook to stay light — meals that are satisfying without being heavy, that taste...

The indictment of a prominent fundraiser for Barack Obama's presidential campaigns on federal fraud charges created political complications for an administration that had campaigned on ethics and transparency, and renewe...

The King of Twitter is now the King of Apple, as "Two and a Half Men" star Ashton Kutcher is attached to play Steve Jobs in the indie pic "Jobs," which Joshua Michael Stern ("Swing Vote") will direct from a script by Mat...

Ann Romney's emergence as one of Mitt Romney's most effective campaign surrogates in 2012 reflected a recognition within the Republican campaign that she possessed qualities her husband demonstrably lacked—natural warmth...

When it comes to disorders of the mind, our society has a tendency to seek out the safety of clear-cut categories. We want there to be a bright line separating normal from abnormal, health from sickness. Alas, the human...

Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...

A Mexican national said he has been barred from entering the United States to bury his 10-year-old son, a U.S. citizen who died Tuesday in a house fire in northeastern Pennsylvania that killed three other people. Attorne...

The third installment arrives with a menu built for a rainy spring Friday — the kind of evening where you want something that requires actual cooking, that fills the kitchen with good smells, and that rewards the attenti...

Electronic tablets like the iPad are a revolutionary educational tool and are becoming part of childhood, but should be watched carefully so that overuse doesn't lead to learning or behavioral problems, experts say. "It'...

Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was charged in France on Monday with "aggravated pimping" for his alleged participation in a prostitution ring, prosecutors said. He is not allowed to have...

Research in developmental psychology has increasingly supported what many experienced parents and teachers have long observed: kindness is not simply a character trait that children either have or don't — it is a skill t...

Moves toward international recognition of Indian engineering degrees — the BTech qualification awarded by Indian universities and institutions — represented a significant development for Indian graduates seeking employme...

As I sat down to face my mom, I sensed she was unhappy about something. "Joe, I am disappointed in you.Your writing scores are terribly low.You need to work on this. I have bought a diary for you. I want you to write a j...

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A monthly shower of Bollywood previews, reviews and my unsolicited views by Arup Raha Someone recently asked me which movie I am looking forward to, now that the earlier favorites for the year, Paan Singh Tomar and Kahaa...

TRAIN TO PAKISTAN Chatto and Windus published Khushwant Singh’s novel “Train to Pakistan” in 1956. It’s a 181-page novel and is available in both paperback and hardback. It’s a novel, which catches your attention from th...

Volume 6 arrives with a menu that leans into the season — or rather, into the specific pleasure of cooking for early spring when the impulse is to lighten up but the evenings are still cool enough to want something warmi...

On March 16, 2012, in Mirpur, Bangladesh, Sachin Tendulkar reached a number that no cricketer had reached before and that may never be reached again: his 100th international century, a milestone that seemed almost prepos...

The light was on in Megan Miller's bedroom late that January night inside her family's Naperville home. Paul Miller walked in and was startled to find his 18-year-old daughter curled into a ball, face down in front of he...

A widely circulated essay by physician Ken Murray posed an observation that had been quietly noted within the medical community but rarely discussed publicly: doctors, when they themselves are dying, typically choose far...

Reports and photographs documenting Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump posing with slain wildlife during a hunting trip to Zimbabwe — including images with an elephant, a crocodile, and other animals — generated a significa...

A would-be suicide bomber was arrested before he could carry out an attack targeting U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta during a visit to Afghanistan, in an incident that underscored the persistent security challenges f...

India's Supreme Court rejection of Novartis's patent application for Gleevec—a leukemia drug that costs tens of thousands of dollars annually in Western markets—represented the most significant assertion of a developing...

A disturbing discovery in Hawaii — a child's severed fingers found in a residential trash receptacle — prompted an immediate investigation by local authorities and generated significant public concern and media attention...

Volume 5 of the Friday cooking column arrives with a menu built around the principle that the best weeknight food often comes from the pantry rather than the produce aisle — dishes where the deep work has been done by so...

The death of a young Indian Police Service officer under circumstances that official accounts struggled to explain satisfactorily prompted investigative journalists and civil society organizations to look harder at what...

Apple's third-generation iPad arrived with specifications that seemed designed to answer every criticism of its predecessors simultaneously. The headline feature was the Retina display — a 2048 x 1536 pixel screen with 2...

A Michigan man filed a lawsuit against AMC Theaters challenging the legality of the chain's policy prohibiting moviegoers from bringing outside food and beverages into the theater — a policy that, in his view, amounted t...

Plans to construct the world's largest Hindu temple in Bihar, modeled on the magnificent Angkor Wat complex of Cambodia, were announced by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and associated organizations, sparking both enthusiasm...

Vladimir Putin's emotional public display following his victory in Russia's March 2012 presidential election—tears reportedly visible as he addressed supporters in Moscow's Manezhnaya Square—became one of the most analyz...

Food, Nutrition, and Health: What Research Really Shows Food is far more than calories and taste—it's medicine. Every meal either contributes to disease or helps prevent it. Yet in modern consumer culture, we often eat m...

Understanding Harry Potter The topic "Harry Potter" addresses an important contemporary issue or experience. Rather than simple answers, thoughtful engagement requires nuance and multiple perspectives. Multiple Perspecti...

When Aamir Khan announced he would host Satyamev Jayate — a television program addressing serious social issues including female infanticide, child sexual abuse, honor killings, and discrimination against people with dis...

J.K. Rowling's announcement of her first novel for adults — titled The Casual Vacancy — landed with the kind of anticipatory weight that only applies to writers who have achieved genuine cultural saturation. Having creat...

The simple act of eating in public — at a sidewalk café, on a park bench, while walking down a street — carries different meanings in different cultures, and navigating those meanings can be one of the more interesting s...

All the New Year festivities and gatherings have given me many memories. There is a lot to ponder upon including the extra kilos that I picked up from delicious, mouth-watering platters that seemed hugely impossible to d...

Le Siam, Naperville My husband, AS, was craving Thai. He had a sore throat and wanted to have some warm and spicy Thai soup. So we headed to Le Siam in Naperville, recommended by one of our friends. The restaurant was pr...

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Meryl Streep's appearance at the Academy Awards was never merely a ceremonial duty — it was an event. With more Oscar nominations than any other performer in the award's history, Streep occupies a singular position in th...

Holi, the festival of colors that marks the arrival of spring and the triumph of good over evil, falls on March 17 this year — a Saturday, which means the weekend timing offers the rare gift of celebration without the sh...

Prem Ganapathy arrived in Mumbai from Tamil Nadu in 1992 with almost nothing. The story of how he built Dosa Plaza — a chain with dozens of outlets across India and abroad, generating revenues in the tens of crores — is...

A study from Tel Aviv University produced a counterintuitive finding that generated significant popular attention: participants who ate a protein- and carbohydrate-rich breakfast that included a dessert item — chocolate,...

Eleven children were removed from the home of a registered sex offender after authorities responding to a welfare call discovered multiple children in distressing conditions, including some who had been physically restra...

Easy Breezy Bhindi! One of my favorite vegetables, this is one of the easiest okra recipes ever! The bhindi dish, fondly called Sorshe-Posto Bhindi in Bengali, can be prepared in a jiffy and yet it...

Victoria Beckham 'working round the clock' as Cameron Diaz, Gwyneth Paltrow and Charlize Theron request Oscars gowns For a fashion designer to be handpicked by the world's top stars to be worn at one of the most importan...

A monthly shower of Bollywood previews, reviews and my unsolicited views by Arup Raha In this edition, I have quite a few recommendations from movies to be released in the next one month or so. Before that, however, let...

Shaun Wild died trying to save a buddy on a Naperville nightclub dance floor. The recent North Central College graduate was fatally stabbed while attempting to stop a man from attacking his former football teammate...

The winter of 2011-2012 was, across much of the Northern Hemisphere, conspicuously absent. In Chicago, where winter typically announces itself with conviction in November and doesn't release its grip until April, residen...

Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...

When an apple fell on Newton’s head , he did not just consume it to satisfy his hunger , au contraire he used it as an excuse to get into the depth of the process to learn more , there by discovering Gravity . It is basi...

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A video of a Texas family court judge repeatedly beating his teenage disabled daughter with a belt—recorded on her bedroom computer's webcam and uploaded to YouTube in 2011—generated millions of views, law enforcement in...

A father allegedly punished his 12-year-old daughter by binding her hands and feet with duct tape, shutting her in a dog cage, then threatened to electrify the crate. James Tapke, 41, was charged Thursday with child enda...

We are What We Choose" Remarks by Jeff Bezos, as delivered to the Class of 2010 Baccalaureate May 30, 2010 As a kid, I spent my summers with my grandparents on their ranch in Texas. I helped fix windmills, vaccinate catt...

MUMBAI: While parents struggle to pay annual school fees between Rs 12,000 and 18,000, a south Mumbai family outsourced a single Std X project for Rs 26,000. The cost of outsourcing projects has skyrocketed over the year...

Veteran playback singer Asha Bhosle will be felicitated with lifetime achievement award at an award ceremony. The 78-year-old singer, who recently entered the Guinness World Records for the most number of single studio r...

A Naperville family of four lost their lives Friday while on vacation in India. The family, active members of the Ismaili Muslim community in Naperville, were killed after the vehicle they were traveling in lost control,...

The hydrogen bomb — the thermonuclear weapon that dwarfs the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki the way those bombs dwarfed conventional explosives — represents the apex of human destructive capability. Under...

Love really can be a drug, according to new research that shows feelings of intense love can relieve pain. Researchers from Stanford University studied the link between love and pain by scanning the brains of 15 college...

Female elementary school teachers who are anxious about math pass on to female students the stereotype that boys, not girls, are good at math. Girls who endorse this belief then do worse at math, research at the Universi...

1. Homeopathic Flu Remedies 2. Credit-Card Payment Insurance 3. Dirt-Cheap Paper Towels 4. Bottled Water 5. Premium Gasoline 6. Super-High SPF Sunscreen 7. Auto Service Warranties 8. 100-Calorie Packs of Snack Foods 9. L...

In a small community in the Chicago suburbs, a story unfolded that cut against the grain of the cultural moment: a Muslim family and a Christian family, neighbors, had developed not just a cordial coexistence but a genui...

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The challenge of finding reliable childcare is one that most working parents know intimately — the anxiety of leaving a child with someone unfamiliar, the guilt of not being present, and the logistical complexity of coor...

Dear Santa, I know you're very busy this time of year, what with the list-checking and the global logistics operation that would make Amazon executives weep with envy. But if you're reading this somewhere in the North Po...

The intersection of high-pressure professional environments and personal behavior emerged in an uncomfortable way in a case that circulated in financial industry circles: a banker, reportedly under significant stress fro...

This summer, I met a principal who was recently named as the administrator of the year in her state. She was loved and adored by all, but she told me she was leaving the profession. I screamed, "You can't leave us," and...

The remarkable success of Indian-origin executives at the helms of global companies — from Microsoft to Google to IBM to Pepsi — has generated considerable analysis about what, if anything, distinguishes their leadership...

Aamir Khan and his wife Kiran Rao announced the birth of their son Azad, who was born via IVF using a surrogate mother. The disclosure was handled with characteristic thoughtfulness by Khan, who acknowledged the process...

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On July 24, 1959, in the depths of the Cold War, Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev stood face-to-face, close enough to smell each other's breath. Dozens of journalists and dignitaries crow...

The Penn State abuse scandal, which revealed how institutional silence had allowed serial child sexual abuse to continue for years, had a ripple effect beyond the university: it prompted parents, schools, and families ac...

Patrick Kennedy's advocacy for STEM education funding brought him to Capitol Hill in 2012 as part of a broader push by business leaders, educators, and political figures who had concluded that the United States was falli...

Gratitude, when expressed by a child, carries a clarity that adults rarely achieve. Children haven't yet learned to be self-conscious about sincerity, and their lists of what they're thankful for tend to have an honesty...

A monthly shower of Bollywood previews, reviews and my unsolicited views By Arup Raha As I start writing this new edition of Bolly Volley trying to recall what I liked and disliked about the two major Bollywood films rel...

Our lives are like streams that fall over rocky cliffs before they can reach the ocean" and "then all the struggle and hardship suffered bleeds into a wash , just like watery ink on paper ‘’-- pearls of wisdom by SAYURI...

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles developed a mouthwash that functions like a "smart bomb" — targeting and eliminating the specific strain of bacteria responsible for the vast majority of dental ca...

The revelation that Jerry Sandusky, a longtime assistant coach at Penn State football, had sexually abused multiple boys over a period of years — and that university officials including head coach Joe Paterno had known a...

In the expanding landscape of Indian day spas and wellness destinations, a new generation of urban retreats has emerged that takes its cues from ancient beauty traditions while delivering the polish and professionalism o...

Black Bean and Cheese Burrito The best part about burritos is that there are no rules; you can fill them with anything that suits your desire or nutritional eating plan. "Women's Health" magazine recommends a lunchtime b...

NSW Police and the Fair Trading Department continue to seek the operators of a company organising school formals who have gone to ground owing a six-figure sum, most of it to school leavers. Students from at least 15 sch...

Andreas Gursky's photograph Rhein II sold at Christie's in November 2011 for $4.3 million, setting a new record for the highest price ever paid for a photograph at auction and igniting a predictable media cycle about whe...

Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...

An explosive sex abuse scandal and allegations of a cover-up rocked Happy Valley after former( defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, once considered Joe Paterno's heir apparent, was charged with sexually assaulting eight...

Dinner with Ehsaan Noorani A dream come true for some of us living on the other side of the globe. Ehsaan was in US on vacation and had done skydiving that day. There was a dinner in the evening at our friend's home and...

Recently I met with Mrs ( when she was launching the PFA (People for Animals) mugs. As part of the launch, she talked for an hour and it was quite impressive....

In a coordinated development that reflected concerns about civil unrest and security conditions, the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand — the five members of the intelligence-sharing allian...

When Pandit Bhimsen Joshi died in January 2011 at the age of 88, India lost one of the last great masters of the Kirana gharana and arguably the finest khyal vocalist of the 20th century. The Bharat Ratna, India's highes...

Turmeric's active compound curcumin has been the subject of hundreds of clinical studies investigating its anti-inflammatory properties, with results promising enough to make it one of the most researched plant-derived c...

In the Hi-Tech world of today, revenge is but a hop , skip and a jump away. Technology has opened up many doors for us to give vent to our feelings [ I will say many windows also ]. If you are angry at someone or someone...

A monthly shower of Bollywood previews, reviews and my unsolicited views by Arup Raha Ah, Diwali is less than a week away! It always brings back memories of the days when it was okay to burst a loud...

Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...

The mustache has had a complicated century. Once a marker of authority, virility, and distinction — worn by presidents, generals, and philosophers — it fell from fashion so completely that by the 1990s it had become almo...

I went to the doctor because I had a fever, I made a mistake and punched Justin Beiber I went to Walgreens to get a visa, I made a mistake and got a pizza :) I went to school to learn the alphabet, I made a mistake and g...

Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...

The owner of an Iowa convenience store chain has been called "the boss from hell" by a former worker who claims he offered prize money to employees who predicted which of their colleagues would be fired next. A judge dec...

Some people seem to absorb new skills and information with remarkable speed while others struggle to make the same progress despite equal time and effort. The reasons are more varied — and more actionable — than most peo...

At some point in almost every fitness journey, the routine that once produced results stops working. The body adapts. The same miles on the same route, the same machines in the same order, the same weight class — they st...

In case you needed further proof of the American education system's failings, especially in poor and minority communities, consider the latest crime to spread across the country: educational theft. That's the charge that...

Listeria in Cantaloupes: Deadliest Outbreak in a Decade At Least 13 People Have Died From Cantaloupes Tainted With Listeria Bacteria The CDC says 72 people have been sickened and 13 have died as a result of eating cantal...

Reebok learned an expensive lesson about the gap between marketing promises and product reality when it agreed to pay $25 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it had made false and unsubstantiated clai...

Friend lose a job? Hallmark wants to help With unemployment numbers staying high, there's a new way to reach out to someone who may have lost their job. In the business of selling sentiments, there's a card for everythin...

Family Festival: Celebrate Diwali! Join us on Saturday, October 29, between 10:30 am - 3 pm for a free Family Festival to celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights! Create a workk of art inspired by Indian tradition...

The kingpins of the city's underworld have either fled, been killed in encounters or called it aday. But GenX is stepping out of their parents' feared shadows in search of a new identity in Mumbai as bankers, doctors, en...

On the evening of April 6 this year, John Halford packed his suitcase and left it outside the door of his cabin on the cruise liner Thomson Spirit. It was the last day of a week-long Egyptian cruise and the ship was due...

A convicted child molester who is one of America's most wanted sex criminals has been secretly living in London. American Shawn Sullivan has been wanted in the U.S. since 1994 for allegedly molesting two 11-year-old girl...

Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...

If you've noticed that you seem a little shorter than you used to be, you're probably not imagining it. Research confirms that most people lose measurable height as they age, and the process begins earlier than most of u...

Actor-filmmaker Farhan Akhtar was bowled over when superstar Shah Rukh Khan gave him a sneak peek into the 3D trailer of his mega-budget project "RA.One". "@iamsrk showed us two songs and the trailer of 'RA.One' in 3D la...

THE latest bad but unsurprising news on education is that reading and writing scores on the SAT have once again declined. The language competence of our high schoolers fell steeply in the 1970s and has never recovered. T...

When will adults get mature enough to know what gifts to give to their children . In another incident in the Chicago area -one wealthy but immature set of parents had gifted a Porsche to his 16 yr old! The child was driv...

Seven women were admitted to hospital burn units across Pakistan within a two-day period after separate acid attacks — a grim cluster of violence that human rights organizations said was consistent with patterns they had...

Venkat Subramaniam Adishankara Tanikaburla (VSAT), needless to say, from Andhra, while studying engineering, falls in love with Anjali Cariappa, a Coorgi girl, whose father is a retired colonel and who believes that good...

Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s in India, the period that witnessed increased urban female participation in the labor force with a simultaneous shift in social acceptance and strong encouragement for a working woman, t...

By now, it is well established that more and more employees are increasingly using their mobile handsets for work related tasks. There is no dearth of statistics on the web that will reinforce this if you are not yet con...

You wake up suddenly in the middle of the night, sweaty, little out of breath, a tad confused, maybe you’ve been dreaming, you have experienced a roller coaster ride of emotions; you are nervous, tense, and anxious. You...

A monthly shower of Bollywood previews, reviews and my unsolicited views Volume 4, By Arup Raha, Thursday8-September-2011 I am ready with a new edition of Bolly Volley (late again!). I know many are eager to watch the ma...

Once a Leader, Yahoo Now Struggles to Find Its Way ( has been one of the most-visited sites on the Internet since its glory days as a Web portal. Yet as the rest of the Internet moved on to social networks and mobile dev...

The question of why marriages fail has occupied psychologists, sociologists, theologians, and divorce lawyers for as long as marriage has existed as a legal and social institution. What the research over the past half-ce...

US falls to 5th in global competitiveness, survey shows The U.S. has tumbled further down a global ranking of the world's most competitive economies, landing at fifth place because of its huge deficits and declining publ...

Google marked what would have been Freddie Mercury's 65th birthday with a stunning animated doodle — a fitting tribute to one of rock's greatest showmen. But how many fans know that Freddie Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsa...

Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...

Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...

Research on the role of early maternal attachment in male development has accumulated substantial evidence that the quality of the mother-son relationship shapes social competence, emotional regulation, and long-term out...

Delhi is one of the world's great cities of becoming — a place that has reinvented itself so many times across its long history that the question of what it is becoming now carries particular weight. As India's economic...

Father slit throats of three daughters in 'honour killing' after they were raped by Gaddafi's troops Human rights group uncovers widespread war crimes by loyalist forces Investigators told children perched on top of tank...

CrossFit has been the fitness industry's most contentious success story for the better part of a decade — a methodology that inspires genuine devotion in its adherents and fierce skepticism in its critics, and that has g...

ThoughtfulIndia has always been built on the conviction that ideas matter — that thoughtful people engaging seriously with the questions of our time is not a luxury but a necessity. This feature celebrates a gathering of...

We often encounter situations in life where we do not know what to do. These are the times when really need guidance. However, often we don...

The notion that a car dealership could be a genuine social destination sounds improbable, but Lexus of Naperville appears to have achieved something close to it — establishing itself as a gathering place for the area's S...

Groupon Stumbles in China, Closes Some Offices SHANGHAI - A wave of layoffs at Gaopeng.com, the Chinese arm of US-based Groupon Inc, signals a dramatic turnaround for a company that just months ago aimed to dominate Chin...

Fashion's perennial promise of the universally flattering garment is, in most cases, marketing fiction. Bodies differ too much in shape, proportion, and coloring for any single cut or silhouette to serve everyone equally...

Newborn babies tend to have more fat in their bodies, including in their liver, if their mothers had a higher body mass index (BMI) prior to falling pregnant, new research has found. "This study demonstrates that a woman...

By the time he reached the White House, Bill Clinton's appetite was legend. He loved hamburgers, steaks, chicken enchiladas, barbecue and french fries but wasn't too picky. At one campaign stop in New Hampshire, he repor...

A study claiming that women spend an average of five hours per day gossiping has made its way through the press cycle with the velocity that gender-confirming statistics reliably achieve, which makes it worth pausing to...

Yoga is a way of life, an integrated system of education for the body,mind and inner spirit. The art of right living was perfected and practiced in India thousands of years ago but, since Yoga deals with the universal tr...

Rihanna's envious red tresses come at a hefty price tag, as it was revealed that she spends a whopping $23,000 per month to get her hair to that perfect shade. The 23-year-old Barbadian beauty has enlisted the help of ce...

Picture a religious Jew. Now picture a devout Muslim man. Now an Orthodox Sikh or a Hindu sadhu. The beard — long, full, grown deliberately and tended with care — appears across each image as a mark of faith so consisten...

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, "It's a girl." -Shirley Chisholm The very words “It’s a girl” are considered inauspicious and are a source of disappointment f...

Bolly Volley A monthly shower of Bollywood previews, reviews and my unsolicited views Volume 3, By Arup Raha, Sunday 31-July-2011 Yes, I am late with this edition. After all it has been a busy month for...

If you use Internet Explorer, your IQ might be below average--at least, according to one study. AptiQuant, a "psychometric consulting" firm that provides hiring exams for businesses, gave online IQ tests to more than 100...

What did Larry Summers really think of the Winklevoss twins? "Rarely, have I encountered such swagger, and I tried to respond in kind," the former president of Harvard said in an interview at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech co...

The sleepover question. The curfew question. The car question. The question of when to stop asking where you're going and who you'll be with — or whether to ever stop asking. Parenting a teenager is, at its core, a negot...

Happy Rogers, age 8, stands among her classmates in the schoolyard at dismissal time, immune, it seems, to the cacophonous din. Her parents and baby sister are waiting outside, but still she lingers, engrossed in convers...

I'd Like To Teach my dog some Kung Fu, turn all the bullies blue Live the life as Will-I-Am ,Throw objects like chocolate or ham Be a hero like Harry or Percy Have every world leader at my mercy Get rid of the job of a t...