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'India's Rape Epidemic' among Time's top ten stories

VeenaDecember 5, 2013

by VeenaDecember 5, 201301961

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

Books

Indian-American author wins bad sex in fiction award

VeenaDecember 4, 2013

by VeenaDecember 4, 201303104

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

City News

Natkhat Rangeeley: Giving Wings to Children

VeenaDecember 4, 2013

by VeenaDecember 4, 201302984

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

Bollywood

Dad hasn't accepted I can have girlfriends: Ranbir

VeenaDecember 4, 2013

by VeenaDecember 4, 201302472

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

VeenaDecember 3, 2013

by VeenaDecember 3, 201302683

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

Baby of the Week

Congratulations to our Baby of the Week, Nina Payne

VeenaDecember 3, 2013

by VeenaDecember 3, 201305824

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:

Business

New search tool identifies faces in untagged photos

VeenaDecember 3, 2013

by VeenaDecember 3, 201303252

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

NRI News

Huffington Post removes Sonia Gandhi's name from richest leaders' list

VeenaDecember 3, 2013

by VeenaDecember 3, 201302510

Washington, Dec 3 (IANS) Days after naming Congress party president Sonia Gandhi among the world’s richest leaders, an American news site has removed her from

City News

GATA Celebrates Diwali with Stars and Fireworks

VeenaDecember 2, 2013

by VeenaDecember 2, 201303381

(Click on photos for high-resolution view. Photos by Sridhar Vakiti.) Atlanta, GA: GATA celebrated Diwali with great grandeur on Nov 9 evening at Berkmar High

Wipro buys US mortgage firm for $75 million

VeenaDecember 2, 2013

by VeenaDecember 2, 201302278

Bangalore, Dec 2 (IANS) Indian IT bellwether Wipro Ltd Monday announced it had acquired Opus CMC, a US-based leading mortgage firm, for Rs.75 million (Rs.467