Mumbai: Mumbai police late Friday night arrested Gurunath Meiyappan, son-in-law of Indian cricket board chief N. Srinivasan, in the IPL spot fixing scam after three hours of intense interrogation, an official said. Questioned at the office of the Crime Branch, Meiyappan was confronted with the evidence against him and arrested around midnight. His name [...]
By Natalia Ningthoujam New Delhi: Just when will Bollywood ever get it right? 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 that saw Sonam Kapoor, Vidya Balan and Sherlyn Chopra either going big on [...]
By M.R. Narayan Swamy Under unrelenting attack on more than one count, one would expect Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to be wilting. No way! On the night he released his government’s report card, nine years after he came to head the world’s largest democracy, Manmohan Singh was visibly cool. Nothing in his body language betrayed [...]
New Delhi: Socialite Paris Hilton wore Indian designer duo Falguni and Shane Peacock’s creation at the amFar (The American Foundation for AIDS Research) Cinema Against AIDS Gala in Cannes. Paris was spotted wearing a customised baby pink coloured full-length gown with feather embellishments at the bottom. “Paris has always loved our clothes and we have [...]
Toronto: The third annual Career, Education & Settlement Fair takes place 11 am onwards at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on Tuesday June 25. Presented by Canadian Immigrant and Scotiabank, in association with Centennial College, the free day-long fair, will see Ontario Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Michael Coteau as the guest of [...]
Mumbai: The hoopla over Indian celebrities and films at Cannes overshadows the harsh reality that it has been 19 years since any Indian film has made it to the Palme d’Or or the Golden Palm section of the prestigious film fest. Prominent filmmakers cite the race for clicking at the box office rather than [...]
By Binoy Thomas I just got back from India, and am happy to report that things are hot like hell back in apna bharat. The sun has been blazing as never before in living memory, according to local residents, and add to it power cuts and water shortages. The one bright spot for me was [...]
New York: He was one of India’s brightest and best contributions to the world of IT. Phaneesh Murthy, among the original team that founded Infosys, and later left to start out on his own, is now in a state of disgrace. In a May 20 press release, the Board of iGate Corporation (a company that [...]
New Delhi: FICCI Friday called for regulating sports betting in India in the wake of the cricketing spot fixing scandal. Despite several attempts to ban it, betting is continuing in an underground way, the business lobby said in a statement. The middle way out “is it should be regulated in a way” to reduce this [...]
Ottawa: Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney was recently in Silicon Valley to promote Canada’s new Start-Up Visa, the first of its kind in the world. “The message was delivered loud and clear to the entrepreneur community in Silicon Valley that Canada is open for business,” said Kenney. “The new Start-Up Visa will help [...]
