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...

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 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...

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....

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...

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...

What happened to the phrase “beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder “ Looks like its extinct –at least in South Korea. One in five girls go through some kind of surgery to improve their looks. Girls as young as twelve a...

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...

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...

Born on March 13, 1980, Feroze Varun Gandhi is the only son of the late Sanjay Gandhi and Maneka Gandhi. Varun was 100 days old when his father died, and 4 years old when his grandmother, then Prime Minister Indira Gandh...

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...

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...

The 'surprise' birthday party of actor Hrithik Roshan, who turned 39 today, was no surprise to him, thanks to the media. A few papers said that Hrithik's wife Suzanne had organised a surprise yacht party for her hubby la...

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...

Fears that the end of the world is nigh have spread across the world with only days until the end of the Mayan calendar, with doomsday-mongers predicting a cataclysmic end to the history of Earth. Ahead of December 21, w...

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...

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...

Eyebrow lift Rs 5,000 and upwards, a relatively complication-free procedure, but can lead to numbness, nerve damage Eye lift Rs 20,000-60,000, can lead to dry eyes, change in vision and difficulty in blinking Lip plumpin...

As a recent college grad in New York, Barack Obama fell in love with a young white woman named Genevieve Cook. Passages from her diary appear in a new biography of the president. It could be anybody...

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...

Street smarts — the cluster of skills that allows a person to read situations accurately, recognize danger before it materializes, communicate with a wide range of people, and navigate unfamiliar or difficult environment...

Molly Barker, 51, and Caitlin Boyle, 27, devote their lives to promoting the ideals of health, confidence and empowerment among young girls. But on realising that by wearing make-up and following extensive beauty regimes...

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...

The observation that people with more moles on their bodies tend to show fewer signs of skin aging — fewer wrinkles, more youthful-looking skin — had been noted by dermatologists for years before researchers at King's Co...