The world’s longest fashion show will be held in Goa in August, and will go on for 100 hours (4 days) without a break. Over 100 fashion designers, about 1000 male and female models, 35 choreographers, 150 make up artistes, 100 stylists and 50 photographers are expected to participate in the event to create a […]
49% of Indians are supporting the five time-champions Brazi, while Argentina and Germany share the second spot at the list with 15% each support from the country, according to a survey conducted by Skyscanner, a global travel search site. Messi is the hottest star according to female football fans. 7% of Indians support Netherlands, while […]
Congratulations have been pouring in to Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party on their victory in the general elections 2014. Some associations, such as the real estate builders association, have used the occasion to ask for urgent reforms to be put in place to save the Indian economy. The following are some of the […]
After the success of Ragini MMS 2, American adult film actress Sunny Leone has been roped in to host MTV’s dating cum couple reality show Splitsvilla. She, along with Nikhil Chinapa, will be the host of the seventh season of MTV Splitsvilla. “A sizzling Sunny will be seen co-hosting this immensely exciting season of the […]
Kerala is the only state in which the population of scheduled caste sections has fallen in India between 2001 and 2011, according to the latest census numbers. In Kerala, which has arguably the highest living standard in India, scheduled caste population fell by 2.7% in the ten years to 30.4 lakh from 31.2 lakh in […]
Rajdeep Sardesai, Editor-in-Chief of IBN News Network flagged what he called “supari journalism” at a conference today about activism and media even as several of his colleagues highlighted the pulls and pressures that media houses are subjected to. The editors pointed out that several people or organizations with deep pockets often entered the media business […]
Despite a clarification by the Department of Telecom, several consumer disputes redressal fora in India continue to reject billing and service related disputes against telecom operators. The Department of Telecom had issued a clarification on February 4 this year that private telecom companies cannot be identified with the “Telegraph Authority” of India as defined in […]
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) remained the top IT firm in the country last year while HP did the most business in the Indian market, according to the 2th annual Dataquest survey of the Indian IT industry. While India’s IT services exports went back to their high-growth ways in the last year, the BPO numbers provided […]
Not everything contained in the US diplomatic cables leaked by Wikileaks is news. However, many cables are interesting not because they reveal new information about their subjects, but they give a clue about what interests the American government, what it keeps tabs on and how it views developments. The American government has great interest in […]
India lobbied the US against imposing sanctions on Iran for trying to develop nuclear weapons, considered a US suggestion to put troops on the ground in Afghanistan and was concerned about Bangaldesh and the Gulf emerging as new terrorist routes into India, according to Wikileaks documents. The revelations have come in the latest batch of […]
The following is the full text of the statement from Sahara Group on the arrest of its chairman and founder Subrata Roy. “We are meeting at a time when our organization has been very wrongly interpreted and presented in public against the backdrop of the ongoing Sahara – Sebi case. As the matter is Sub-judice, […]
The United States reassured India that its plan to withdraw its military forces from Afghanistan by 2014 did not mean it was totally abandoning the war-torn country. In a meeting between the US Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry and the Indian foreign secretary Nirupama Rao, the former reassured the latter that withdrawal will […]
India was sorely disappointed by the Government of Pakistan’s failure to take “visible” steps against the Lashkar e Toiba militants accused in the Mumbai terror attacks, but the US consoled it by pointing out that the Pakistani civilian government was powerless before its own army. According to a US diplomatic cable written in February last […]
Muslims in China’s Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) are increasingly becoming more aware of their Isamic heritage, thanks to more liberal policies followed by the Chinese government in the last three decades, according to an on-the-ground report from David Brown, the Consul General of Chengdu in Sichuan, a province adjoining the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR). However, […]
The hard-line Deobandi school of Islam has the support of only around 20% of India’s 16-18 crore Muslims and most Indian Muslims prefer Sufi flavored versions, Timothy Roemer, the then Ambassador to India, told Farah Pandit before her first visit to India as Obama’s Administration’s ‘Special Representative to Muslim Communities.’ In a thorough analysis of […]
Home Minister P Chidambaram’s assent to the formation of a Telangana state in December 2009 showed the Congress party as “weak and feeble.. easily bullied and intimidated by threats,” the then US ambassador to India, Timothy Roemer wrote to Washington on the next day. The Congress Party came was being portrayed as “weak and spineless, […]
While it has always been known that talks between Chinese and US officials are not always cordial, the stormy nature of some of these meetings is revealed in cable written by US embassy in Beijing in October 2007. The cable described the unusually aggressive and blunt feedback from the then Chinese foreign minister Yang Jiechi […]
The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) tried to prevent the emergence of Nepal as a republic in 2008 as it wanted to retain it as the World’s last ‘Hindu Kingdom’, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) felt. Krishna Mahara, a member of the Maoist Central Committee of Nepal expressed the fear in a letter written to […]
Is the famed ‘Kerala Model’ of development — characterized by high government spending on health and education — unsustainable in the long run? Even the state’s then ruling Communists were not sure it was, according to a detailed report of a visit by US officials to the South Indian state in late 2007. The visit […]
The coming to power of Mayawati, India’s most powerful Dalit leader, in Uttar Pradesh has instilled fear in the minds of criminals and improved law and order, the US embassy to India felt after a review at the end of 100 days of her rule in UP in 2007. While she may not be “up […]
