A Trinamool Congress minister told his party workers last month not to marry members of the opposition Communist party. His diktat bordered on the draconian, but raised a question: Can couples overcome deep political differences? Here’s what some said.
Sanal Edamaruku faces arrest for offering a scientific explanation for a ‘miracle’ at a Mumbai church. It’s a price he’s willing to pay, he says, to continue his campaign against superstition. Vrushali Lad writes.
Comic book fans will be able to get their hands on a piece of superhero history when the suit late actor Christopher Reeve wore as 'Superman' will go under the hammer in Australia.
The Grand Theft Auto series has made its debut on the Nintendo DS with Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. The new game is situated in the series’ fictional hub populated with the most GTA tales to date — Liberty City.
Soggy sandwiches will soon be history, for the world's first non-leaking tomatoes are about to go on sale in the UK.
Mansi Bhatia, 7, was briefly the cynosure of all eyes at the prime minister's residence at 7, Race Course Road on Monday evening after she figured on the jacket of a book authored by IT icon N. R. Narayana Murthy.
Technology is looking to Indian tradition for newer inspirations. Forget car chases and rocket attacks, a new set of games for Playstation is based on
kabaddi,
kho-kho, gilli danda, patang bazi and
chausar.The best humour blogs of India may be far and few in between, but the ones that are there are a laugh riot, writes Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan.
Prema K talks to Jyoti Tanna about ‘Each One Teach One’, the NGO she set up 25 years ago.
Think birds are just some “high-flying, cute looking” species? Well, it’s time you jiggle your thinking and respect their mental abilities, for a new study has found that jackdaws can interpret looks and gestures in the same way as humans.
Prema K meets a 49-year-old man who’s passionate about his autograph collection.
The success story of a Bihar-based coaching institute will be telecast by Discovery Channel this weekend, showing how its underprivileged and marginalised students make their way to India's premier Indian Institutes of Technology.
Wikilengua.org, the Internet site on practical use of the Spanish language, is celebrating its first online birthday, having achieved 4.5 million page visits.
An art house in Switzerland will auction off this summer the doctorate diploma issued to Albert Einstein from the school of mathematics and natural sciences at Zurich University.
Lessons learned in video games like World of Warcraft, Guitar Hero or Mario Kart, can easily influence real life choices, says a new study.