Most of the noise in India's public conversation is about things that happened last week. Here are five things that are reshaping India's position in the world over the next decade — and that aren't getting nearly enough...

If Elon Musk has his way, Tesla will soon be selling cars in a huge new market. Responding to a question from a Twitter user about when the electric carmaker would finally enter India, Musk replied that he was "hoping fo...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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....

The Key Has Turned' is Surjo's first full-length debut album, and it has 12 songs. It's a departure from his usual brand of electric guitar rock and moves into a more relaxed space with only his acoustic guitar to accomp...

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...

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...

A wickedly far-ranging view of marketing success, consumer behavior and star power in India: that sums up Koral Dasgupta’s “Power of a Common Man: Connecting with Customers the SRK Way,” whose title evokes the tag-line o...

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...

Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani has topped the Forbes magazine's list of the top 100 richest tycoons in India for the eighth consecutive year with a net worth of $23.6 billion, up $2.6 billion from last year....

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...

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...

NEW DELHI: Gay rights activists were up in arms on Wednesday against the ( that upheld a law criminalizing( calling it a "black day' for the( community and vowed to carry on the fight to restore their rights including se...

Tarun Tejpal, the highly acclaimed editor of Tehelka is under huge suspicions. The nation is watching the case with interest. He has been accused of raping a young colleague. Following the allegation, he has stepped down...

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...

University of Chicago to open an academic center in Delhi University of Chicago (U of C) will open an academic center in New Delhi early next year. The 17,000-square-foot center will be located in the heart of the city a...

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...

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...

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....

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...

Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh addressed the nation on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan to protect the girls and women of the country. He said, "The festival of Raksha Banana is an occasion to strengthen the bonds...

Jiah Khan’s six-paged letter /suicidal note to her ( It is yet to be seen if the aborted child was Suraj Pancholi’s who is under arrest since June 10. He will be in police custody till June 13 for further interrogation....

Gujarat CM Narendra Modi is made the chief of BJP campaign committee for 2014 Lok Sabha elections. It implies that Modi is certainly not the choice of the party for Prime Minister. For a long time BJP ‘s leadership has b...

They offered her a lift and she accepted. Later, they took her to an isolated spot and raped her for one hour. Medical reports have confirmed that she was raped and the (lawless) law of the land is on the look out for th...

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...

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...

The accumulation of documented rape cases in India through 2012 — each one individual, each one involving a specific woman's specific suffering — created a kind of unbearable arithmetic that the December Delhi gang rape...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Of Punjabi bhangra-pop artist Daler Mehendi, it was famously said that he built an entire entertainment career on the strength of just five nifty dance moves. Much the same can be said of actor Shah Rukh Khan. A man of a...

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...

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,...

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...

Some of the world's most appealing destinations are also some of the most complicated places to visit. Here, eight places where even the most streetwise traveler would be smart to enlist guidance. The words "group travel...

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...

An Indian radiographer has been sacked from his job at a cancer hospital after six years following a string of complaints that he could not speak clear English. Ramani Ramaswany was dismissed from The Christie hospital,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Governance, Corruption, and Institutional Strength Good governance is foundational to societal progress. When governance is weak and corruption is endemic, even well-intentioned policies fail. The Corruption Challenge In...

The Indian government's decision in September 2012 to allow foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail — permitting international retailers like Walmart and Carrefour to establish majority-owned operations in 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...

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...

Aseem Trivedi, a political cartoonist whose satirical work on corruption and the political establishment had gained widespread visibility through social media during India's anti-corruption movement, was arrested in Mumb...

A Washington Post investigation into chronic fatigue and low energy struck a nerve with millions of American readers who recognized themselves in its description of a population perpetually running on fumes — alert enoug...

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...

Another terror suspect has been arrested in Bangalore. The Bangalore City Crime Branch picked up Dr Nayueem Siddique...

In the crowded landscape of the American food industry, the story of Deep Foods stands out as a remarkable account of immigrant entrepreneurship, cultural preservation, and business acumen that transformed a small family...

It was a rare moment to see the Chairman of such a big company, delve into personal memories of an era gone by, and that too on a public platform. I am talking about Suzuki Motor Corp. Chairman Osamu Suzuki's nostalgic 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...

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...

Indian leaders appealed for calm on Friday as natives of northeastern India now living in southern cities left in droves for a third day over fears that violence in the northeastern state of Assam would spread south. Sta...

Kehar Singh Gill went to El Paso to look for a bride. A Mexican woman who worked in the cotton fields that he farmed in California's Imperial Valley had told him that she had eligible nieces there. Gill got the address w...

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...

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....

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

Pranab Mukherjee will be sworn in as the country's 13th President on Wednesday at a special ceremony in the Central Hall of Parliament. Chief Justice of India S H Kapadia will administer the oath to Mukherjee at 11.30 am...

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...

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...

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...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

A school in India that implemented height restrictions as part of its admissions criteria — requiring that children meet a minimum height threshold to be enrolled — generated the kind of baffled coverage that such polici...

India's corruption problem is not a peripheral dysfunction of an otherwise functional system. It is structural—woven into the incentive architecture of how political parties fund themselves, how government contracts are...

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...

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 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 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...

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...

Mumbai Police on Wednesday released photographs of three alleged terrorists, out of five, that it claimed belonged to banned outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and had entered Mumbai. The three, however, are present in Lahore,...

A self-proclaimed brainiac and science expert who loves to shop, this adventurous, skydiving 18 year old from Lilburn, Georgia is ready to show her family and the world her musical talent. Although Mathai loves to sing p...

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...

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...

Youth The Jobs family Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in the city of San Francisco. His biological mother was an unwed graduate student named Joanne Simpson, and his biological father was a political science or...

Anmol Singh Rajput's induction into the Indian Police Service at what was reported to be an unusually young age attracted significant media attention in 2011 — a story that touched multiple nerves in Indian public discou...

IN 2008, three young guys in Manhattan started Ignighter.com, a dating Web site focused on twentysomethings. They sought to set themselves apart by enabling members to set up group dates: One member, serving as a point p...

A story circulating in early 2011 about an underground fighting circuit operating in Mumbai — organized bouts between willing participants, conducted outside the regulatory framework of licensed combat sports, in setting...

While browsing the web recently, I got interested in the World Giving Index reportpublished by the Charities Aid Foundation, which provided information on charitable giving patterns across the world through a survey cond...

China's decision to issue stapled visas to Arunachal Pradesh residents is a good omen, observers of India-China border negotiations, said. It means China accepts people of Arunachal to be Indian citizens, which is major...

Hot topic on Twitter that nobody is willing to pay for Dada. Shaking off months of controversy, litigation and uncertainty, cricket's biggest, richest and most brassy domestic event, the Indian Premier League, sprang to...

DRESSED in a colourful sari, clutching boxes of herbal tea in one hand and a battered old Nokia mobile phone in the other, Monowara Talukder doesn't look like the average business executive. But in just six years, Talukd...

The old Roman standard — that Caesar's wife must be above suspicion, that proximity to power demands not just actual probity but the appearance of it — has been formally retired from Indian political discourse. The retir...

A WikiLeaks cable quoting Rahul Gandhi as saying that 'radicalised Hindu groups' may be a bigger danger than Islamist terrorists fetched a quick clarification from the Congress general secretary Friday that both 'terrori...

Suhas Gopinath When 14-year-old Suhas Gopinath started Globals Inc ten years ago from a cyber cafe in Bengaluru, he didn't know that he had become the youngest CEO in the world. Today, Globals is a multi-million dollar c...

Didi Contractor, the American-born architect who spent decades working in the Kangra Valley of Himachal Pradesh building homes from local materials using traditional techniques, became one of the more articulate critics...

Mr Ratan Tata, Chairman of Tata Group, on Monday moved the Supreme Court claiming that his right to privacy was violated due to the leakage of his alleged discussions with corporate lobbyist Ms Niira Radia and others. Mr...

Will the holiday season heading towards full swing, and all the recent data about the astonishing rate of adoption of the iPad (faster than any other new technology before it) we can guess that sales up to Christmas time...

I wanted to fight with Jawed Naqvi on reading his article. Who was he ? It was like kettle calling the pot black. Pakistan is known worldwide as the most corrupt nation on Earth -yet Mr Jawed Naqvi goes on and on calling...