Mangalore: Kudroli Gokarnanatheshwara Temple here has perhaps become the first in the country to appoint two widows from the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communities as priests to perform pujas and other rituals. Last year the temple had appointed two other widows as priests and they have been performing their duties since then. Chandravathi from Ranipur and Lakshmi from Chilimbi were appointed as priests in the historic century-old shrine on […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a saffron jacket, got a full-house reception on Sunday at New York’s Madison Square Garden, a venue that rock stars dream of packing with a sell-out audience. He thanked the crowd of about 18,000 Indian Americans who constantly chanted his name, for the rousing welcome. Here are the highlights of his speech: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at Madison Square Garden Kavita Krishnamurthy sings the […]

  One of India’s most colourful and controversial politicians, Jayaram Jayalalitha, has been sentenced to jail for four years on corruption charges in a case that has lasted for 18 years. The chief minister of the southern state of Tamil Nadu was found guilty of amassing wealth of more than $10m (£6.1m) which was unaccounted for. She has to pay a 1bn rupee ($16m; £10m) fine and resign as chief […]

New York:  Are aliens using traffic signal to cross roads on Red Planet? Fun apart, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has clicked a picture on the Martian surface that resembles a “traffic signal”. The “traffic signal” was spotted by a British UFO enthusiast named Joseph White. Curiosity, while busy scanning the surface, snapped the photo. “I have been following the images from NASA since the start and I flick through them […]

Praneeta, Shaheen and Anjali are not related, nor are they friends. Yet, fate tied these three children together in a horrible fashion. Aged between three and five, all three of them were abandoned by their parents in the face of poverty, sold away to brokers for prostitution and pornography, and simply left to be raped and tortured. Their stories, as narrated by social activist Sunitha Krishnan during her TED talk, […]

Four years after his political debut, Aditya Thackeray, son of Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray is coming of age. Back in 2010, the Thackeray scion’s coming out party was thrown by grandfather, the late Bal Thackeray at a Dussehra rally, who introduced him as the chief of the Yuva Sena. From political bargaining with the BJP over the past few days, to strategising on seat-sharing arrangement, in four years Aditya […]

 420+ Gold medals, 60+ Silver and 30+ bronze. YET Unknown, and Unsupported | Bhavisha Singh, Sharmila Gharu and Divya Kathawate. Do these names ring a bell ? We guess not.  What if we told you that these girls have won a combined total of 422 Gold medals, 61 Silver and 30 bronze in local, national and international tournaments. They have made India proud in Karate tournaments in China, Malaysia, Japan, Taiwan, Chinese […]

Kochi: Soon as Kerala-based IPS officer Merin Joseph took charge as ACP in Kochi she went viral on Facebook – for being too attractive. The picture posted by Kochi pazhaya Kochiyalla, a civic issues-related page on Facebook, of a woman called Merin Joseph with the caption New ACP of Kochi, went viral when the post asked the follower ‘How many likes for our new ACP of Kochi’ and the liking […]

SAN FRANCISCO/SEATTLE: Larry Ellison, co-founder and leader of Oracle Corp for 37 years, stepped aside as chief executive officer on Thursday, to be replaced by co-CEOs Safra Catz and Mark Hurd, raising questions about a job-sharing arrangement that has had a fraught record elsewhere. Ellison and the two new co-CEOs each stressed that nothing would change under the new management structure, with Ellison staying on as executive chairman and chief […]

Desis in Amreeka are going all out to make Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s maiden visit to the United States of America a very memorable one, according to the Economic Times. The Indian American Community Foundation (IACF) — a newly-floated body comprising 300 US-based organisations with nationalist and Sangh roots — has booked the Madison Square Garden in midtown Manhattan for a whopping $700,000. ET reports that 20,000 tickets for Modi’s […]