For normal pre-teens, the learning curve has just begun and there is a long path to tread before they can actually make any significant contribution to the world. Well, the case is not the same for 12-year-old Indian origin Tanmay Bakshi from Canada; he is already one of the youngest developers in the world. Reaching out toward attaining his dream at a tender age of five, he has worked very […]

The third part in the Masti film series, Great Grand Masti is about to hit screens, and its posters look somewhat like this. Not the best piece of art, definitely. Also, it’s objectifying women AF! Considering these fine qualities about the film’s posters, and in the wake of the recent Udta Punjab issue, the audience couldn’t help but wonder whether the Censor Board will take any necessary actions now and […]

  TORONTO, ON (June 17, 2016) – Festival of South Asia is getting ready for one of the best summer celebrations in the city of Toronto and will announce the exciting line-up for performers in the next four weeks. This year the principal Master of Ceremonies include multiple award winning, popular Indian stand up comedian, Vasu Primlani, will be seen co-hosting this year’s Festival of South Asia. Well known for […]

A special court on Friday convicted 11 perpetrators to life imprisonment, 12 others to seven years and one more to ten years in jail, in the 14 year old Gulbarg society massacre case. 69 people along with Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, were killed in the communal violence, that took place on 28 February, 2002 in Gujarat post the Godhra riots. As the court ruled out death sentence for the convicts, […]

The alleged killer of British lawmaker Jo Cox was a “dedicated supporter” of a neo-Nazi group based in the United States, a civil rights group reported Thursday. The Southern Poverty Law Centraid that the man named by British media as the attacker, Thomas Mair, had a “long history with white nationalism”. According to records obtained by the Southern Poverty Law Center Mair was a dedicated supporter of the National Alliance […]

Udta Punjab’ will be released tomorrow as scheduled with the film clearing one last hurdle when the Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed a petition against it today. Hours before it hits theatres, producer Anurag Kashyap has made an appeal in a Facebook post. “All downloaders of Udta Punjab , I urge, wait till Saturday till you decide to not pay for the film, don’t download and share, curb the […]

Mark Zuckerberg would like you to know he is not a shape-shifting lizard person bent on world domination. The billionaire technologist hosted his first Q&A townhall using Facebook’s live video streaming program, to field questions from the giant social media network he built. Jerry Seinfeld blew in for a brief cameo and talked about breakfast foods. Amid queries about Facebook’s artificial intelligence and Zuckerberg’s entrepreneurship, someone wanted to know if […]

Scientists claimed to have discovered a berry which holds cancer-fighting ingredients. As per a study led by Dr Glen Boyle from the QIMR Berghofer medical research institute in Brisbane, a compound in the rainforest berry could kill head and neck tumours as well as melanomas within minutes. In the pre-clinical trials, an experimental drug produced from the seeds of the rainforest plant, Blushwood tree (Hylandia Dockrillii), has been shown to […]

Until 1981, Manjula Vaghela, now 60, used to work as a paper picker on the city streets for a living, earning Rs 5 per day. On rainy and cold days, this measly income would also elude her. Today, Manjula heads a cleaners’ cooperative with 400 members that provide cleaning and housekeeping services to 45 institutions and societies in Ahmedabad raking in a turnover of Rs 1 crore per annum!Manjula recalls […]