May 29, 2015
OXON HILL, MARYLAND — They couldn't be rattled. They couldn't be denied. Gokul Venkatachalam and Vanya Shivashankar had worked too hard and come close too many times not to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
May 28, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. – He is known as a regular who favors the gumbo and a beer at Blue 44, a restaurant in upper Northwest Washington. And he’s a good, generous tipper.
But the owner, bartender and chef at the restaurant on Connecticut Avenue said they were shocked when the patron left a really, really big tip — $2,000 on a $93 bill.
May 28, 2015
Geneva: Eureka! After about a century of research, Swiss scientists have finally cracked the mystery of the holes in Swiss cheese.
Despite what you may have been told as a child, they are not caused by mice nibbling away inside cheese wheels.
May 28, 2015
Mumbai: In a not so distant future, two teams will walk down the stairs of their building and get all set to play a gully cricket match, probably 10 overs a side, if you break the window panes you are out, if the ball hits the wall on the full, it counts for a six. People will prepare for the game by bringing out the snacks and the perfect sledging vocabulary.
May 28, 2015
Mumbai: Ecommerce companies like Snapdeal, Flipkart and Zomato have recently hired senior-level talent from varied sectors ranging from FMCG to media for different managerial positions and the trend is growing.
May 28, 2015
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government does not have any “information” on Bollywood actor Salman Khan’s 2002 hit-and-run case as the files pertaining to it were gutted in a fire at the secretariat office, an RTI (right to information) query has revealed.
May 28, 2015
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that he has consciously avoided choosing a "populist course" and had instead opted for a "more difficult path" of correcting the defective government machinery.
May 27, 2015
New Delhi: Hours after slamming the NDA government, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today met Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Singh went to 7 Race Course Road residence of the Prime Minister to meet him.
May 27, 2015
New Delhi: Amendments in the land acquisition bill in the interest of farmers, poor, village and nation will be accepted, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday asserting that along with GST bill the measure will be passed by Parliament in "a matter of time".
May 27, 2015
By Geeta Goindi
Rockville, Maryland – On May 24, Natya Bharati, the Washington area’s pre-eminent theatre group, presented an eye-opening play, ‘Lal Batti Express’ (Red Light Journey), more like a series of skits featuring girls from India who played their real life roles highlighting one of the most important issues of our time – human trafficking.
