Midnight's Children: Two Authors in Search of a Film

Rushdie and Mehta’s Midnight’s Children promises a doubled up feast for thought and senses before the theater goes dark.

This Could Devastate India’s Prized IT Sector

India's prized $108 billion information technology (IT) services sector is on a "knife edge" in the face of a looming vote on the U.S. immigration reform bill

Indian Media: A Very Strict Gandhi

Senior Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi's warning to his colleagues over discipline and more controversies in the Indian Premier League (IPL) are making the headlines in Indian newspapers.

Meet Gen Y: Exhibitionist, Idealistic and Hooked on Social Media

The mantra by which the youth live is “I tweet, therefore I am”.
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Long Wait For a Green Card Could be Ending

The bill would make it much easier for science, math and engineering graduates of US universities to become permanent residents.
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Start and Sell: India’s New Valley Success Stories

This breed thrives by soaking up the Valley's can-do culture, and by turning ideas into startups that attract the attention of the big fish.

Bollywood Goes Overboard With Cannes Fashion

As the world celebrates 100 years of Indian cinema, Indian stars, it seems, went a little overboard in projecting the ethnic, oriental look at the Cannes red carpet
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12-year-old Indian-origin Boy Wins National Geographic Bee Contest

Indian-American children have dominated both the geography bee and the Scripps National Spelling Bee in recent years.

Global Gastronomical Delights Enticing Foodies

We foresee India as a market with huge potential which is re-enforced by Indians' traditional love for spices.
Friday, May 24, 2013 05:33 EDT

56,700 Indians Face Deportation from Saudi Arabia

As many as 56,700 Indians face deportation from Saudi Arabia in the next one-and-half months.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 09:31 EDT

Indian Guest Workers Sue US Company

Put simply, plaintiffs had been deceived into taking on life-altering debt for something that was never going to happen

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 09:19 EDT

For the Elderly in US, Poetry Blunts the Pain of Isolation

Some senior immigrants refer to their life in the US as living in a "golden cage" attributable to their ignorance of the language, lack of mobility and social contacts.

Tuesday, May 21, 2013 10:18 EDT

Indian-American Invents Device That Can Charge Phone in 20 Seconds

n 18-year-old Indian-American girl has invented a super-capacitor device that could potentially charge a cellphone in less than 20 seconds.

Thursday, May 23, 2013 06:16 EDT

Manmohan a Failure: Urban Indian Voters’ Verdict on UPA 2

On UPA-2′s fourth birthday – due tomorrow – the public mood is distinctly sullen with adjectives such as ‘very poor’, ‘poor’ and ‘average’ defacing Honest Manmohan Singh‘s report card.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 09:45 EDT

Why is India's Dr Kotnis Revered in China

Every time a Chinese leader visits India, he usually meets the family of an Indian doctor who died while treating wounded Chinese soldiers in the conflict with Japan in the 1940s.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 08:44 EDT

India, US Seek Elimination of Terror Havens

India and the US have called upon all nations - without naming any country - to take effective steps to work toward eliminating sanctuaries and infrastructure that supports terrorism and to increase efforts to counter violent extremism.

Monday, May 20, 2013 08:51 EDT

How the World Looks From India

Indians are anxious about Chinese policies and capabilities, but a new survey finds as many prefer partnering Beijing as those who favour joining hands with other countries to contain it

Friday, May 24, 2013 05:39 EDT

Delhi's Iconic Signature Bridge to be Ready in 2014

The capital, which has so far basked in the glory of historic monuments and edifices built by the Mughals and Edward Lutyens, will boast of an iconic structure of its own in the form of the Signature Bridge

Thursday, May 23, 2013 06:24 EDT

India to Lobby Foreign Agencies for Improving University Rankings

India is set to lobby international ranking agencies and seek their expertise on improving the poor showing of the country’s higher educational institutes in the global league tables.

Thursday, May 23, 2013 05:56 EDT

Indian Media: Spot-fixing Investigation

Spot-fixing allegations in the Indian Premier League (IPL) tournament continue to make headlines in India.

Thursday, May 23, 2013 06:12 EDT

Coffee Addiction: Do People Consume Too Much Caffeine?

US officials are investigating the safety of caffeine in snacks and energy drinks, worried about the "cumulative impact" of the stimulant

Friday, May 24, 2013 04:21 EDT

Decoding the Great Indian Real Estate Ponzi Scheme

A perfect Ponzi scheme is one where money brought in by the newer investors is used to pay off older investors. In this case money brought in by newer investors is used to build homes for the older investors.

Friday, May 24, 2013 04:04 EDT

Google Faces New Federal Antitrust Probe

US regulators are in the early stages of an antitrust probe into whether Google Inc, the top player in Web display advertising, breaks antitrust law in how it handles some advertising sales

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 09:29 EDT

Rajat Gupta vs Raj Rajaratnam: The 21st Century Great Gatsby

The story of Raj Rajaratnam versus Rajat Gupta is playing out in the media like F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous novel – about old money East Egg, new money West Egg and rotten eggs all around.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 09:25 EDT

How iGate Rewarded Sexual Misconduct

what’s a wee charge of sexual harassment compared to the lucrative potential of a corporate genius credited for taking Infosys’ US revenues from $7 million to $700 million in a decade.

Friday, May 24, 2013 04:43 EDT

India at Cannes: Cola Without the Fizz?

Prominent filmmakers cite the race for clicking at the box office rather than aesthetics as the reason for the dismal performance by one of the most prolific film-producing nations in the world.

Monday, May 20, 2013 07:54 EDT

Costume Catastrophe at Cannes

ooks like it is time to lament Indian fashion

Saturday, May 18, 2013 01:33 EDT

Bollywood's Fashion Disaster on Day 2 of Cannes

The Bollywood entourage makes the fashion police run for cover as they seem to be dressed for a big, fat Indian wedding at one of the most fashionable events of the world.

Thursday, May 16, 2013 07:18 EDT

Sanjay Dutt: India Bollywood Actor Returns to Jail

Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt has returned to jail to serve his sentence for firearms offences linked to 1993 blasts which killed 257 people in Mumbai.

Saturday, May 18, 2013 01:17 EDT

At 104, Noida Man is World’s Oldest to Get a Heart Stent

Not only did he successfully undergo an angioplasty but, at 104 years of age, also became the oldest person in the world to do so.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013 03:28 EDT

Passenger Booted from Flight for Singing Non-stop

A passenger was booted off an American Airlines flight en route from Los Angeles to New York Monday when she would not stop singing Whitney Houston's hit "I Will Always Love You".

Monday, May 13, 2013 02:56 EDT

A Strip of Cloth That Makes Dry Cleaners Shudder

Some women go further — waiting until they travel to India to take care of their soiled saris. Assuming that saris are made there, they reason, Indian dry cleaners should know what they are doing.

Monday, May 13, 2013 01:44 EDT

Boy Genius Diagnosed with Autism Found to Have IQ Higher Than Einstein

A 14-year-old boy from Indiana, who was diagnosed with moderate to severe autism at the age of 2, has an IQ of 170, which is higher than Einstein’s, and he is now on the road to winning a Nobel Prize.

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Globalizing the Indian Diet

The 21st century Indian professional is a global citizen. Well read, well travelled and yes, well fed! She knows her blue cheese from a feta, pita bread from a naan, dim sum from a momo. T

Is the Sheen Rubbing Off The National Film Awards

“The National Awards, sadly, are no longer what they used to be, with the favoritism, regionalism,politics and quid-pro-quo rampant. However, compared to the scores of others they are still streets ahead.

Canned in Cannes

The awkward fact remains that although Bollywood is the world’s largest movie factory, we don’t register even a hiccup in this gala, global, mega feast. Historically we have been conditioned and programmed to believe that it’s not the winning or losing, but participation that is the key.

Are Writers Performers

In a world awash with new tools for communication and engagement, the symbolism, mystique and magic of anonymity, however seductive, is losing ground to new anthems celebrating the spirit of contact, connection and interaction.

Lone Gray Wolf: Black & White’s Last Stand

The scene is a sidewalk just beyond the rather overdone Hawa Mahal in Jaipur, and the camera in question is less instrument, more living fossil — built by the Carl Zeiss company in 1860, it is nearly three times as old as independent India.

B-School for Rural Indian Women

The women who have been educated at MDBS have little in common with the well-heeled students in MBA programs around the world. They are an eclectic mix of ages ranging from 19 to 50. They include a potter, a spice and noodle maker, a seamstress, a goat and sheep herder, a farmer, a homemaker and a bangle vendor.

Seeking Silence

In this interview Iyer spoke on an unusual topic — the value of silence and stillness amid the rush of business.
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