Gandhian Nelson Mandela: a hero who battled apartheid
Pretoria, December 6 (IANS) South Africa’s first black president Nelson Mandela, who died Thursday, was an icon for ending the much-reviled apartheid system, a colossus
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India to set up largest public cord blood bank
Nalini Ambady New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) Nalini Ambady, the first Indian American woman to teach psychology at Harvard and Stanford universities, died of leukemia
Fresh trial in Salman Khan hit-and-run case
Mumbai, Dec 5 (IANS) In relief of sorts for Bollywood actor Salman Khan, a Mumbai court Thursday ordered a retrial of his high-profile hit-and-run case
'India's Rape Epidemic' among Time's top ten stories
Washington, Dec 5 (IANS) Time magazine has listed “India’s Rape Epidemic”, about the nationwide uproar over a number of rape incidents, especially following a shocking
Indian-American author wins bad sex in fiction award
London, Dec 4 (IANS) India-born author Manil Suri has won this year’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award by Britain’s Literary Review magazine for his book
Natkhat Rangeeley: Giving Wings to Children
BY SHILPA AGRAWAL Photos by Vinod Sharma Atlanta, GA: There are two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children, one of these is
Dad hasn't accepted I can have girlfriends: Ranbir
Mumbai, Dec 4 (IANS) Bollywood heartthrob Ranbir Kapoor may have girls drooling over him, but his father and yesteryear star Rishi Kapoor still hasn’t come
Amazon plans doorstep delivery by drones
Washington, Dec 4 (IANS) If Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has his way, instead of bombs, unmanned drones may soon be delivering from books
Congratulations to our Baby of the Week, Nina Payne
Baby’s name: Nina Payne City: Atlanta Parents’ names: Radhi & David Likes: Clapping, singing, high fiving, playing peekaboo and playing with her dog, Bella Dislikes:
New search tool identifies faces in untagged photos
Toronto, Dec 3 (IANS) Canadian researchers have developed a new program that can detect the intimacy of a relationship and identify untagged people in photographs