A festival that binds more than half of our nation, known as Ugadi or Gudi Padwa is the New Year according to Hindu calendar. The first month of the year is called Chaitra and the first day of Chaitra is known as Ugadi. This festival holds utmost importance in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. One festival, different names: This day is celebrated with different names and for different reasons. In […]
A large number of US colleges are reporting a decline in applications for admission from international students, including from India and China, because of concerns and anxieties about the Donald Trump administration’s travel orders and a growing perception that the United States has become less welcoming of foreigners, according to a new survey. “Nearly 40% of US colleges are seeing declines in applications from international students, and international student recruitment […]
All your favourite DC superheroes have united and the result is unimaginably awesome. Yes, you guessed it right! Here, we are talking about the recently released trailer of upcoming Hollywood film ‘Justice League’. The trailer starts with the shots of snow-capped mountains accompanied by voice-over from Bruce Wayne aka Batman, telling Wonder Woman that `there is an attack coming,` to which she replies, “not coming, Bruce, it is already here.” […]
Canada-based South Asian wedding magazine has sparked a debate online with its cover photo featuring a Tamil bride in a saree with a thigh-high split. A photo of the ‘Jodi’ magazine cover, shared on March 13, has provoked wide-ranging views on Facebook. While some have called the cover “a mockery of culture,” others find it “tasteful and beautiful”. The cover has model Thanuska Subramaniam sitting on a chair decorated […]
A fantasy sci-fiction, ‘Life’, is a simple, engaging outer-space horror thriller that occasionally shows sparks of brilliance in an otherwise ordinary fare. In many ways it is similar to the 1979 released “Alien”. Director Daniel Espinosa’s film is the tale of a parasite-predator, who is brought to life in a spaceship. How the team of astronauts and scientists are forced to fight for their lives against the evolving alien life […]
A Shiv Sena MP repeatedly hit an elderly Air India officer with sandal in a brazen burst of fury over being unable to travel business class despite having insisted on boarding an all-economy flight. Ravindra Gaikwad, the Lok Sabha MP from Maharashtra’s Osmanabad, slapped and, by his own claim, hit 60-year-old duty manager Sukumar 25 times with his sandal when the official went to persuade him to disembark after he […]
Neerja director Ram Madhvani screened his short film This Bloody Line, based on the India-Pakistan partition, at India Today Conclave 2017 on Saturday. Ram Madhvani was one of three directors – the other two being Nandita Das and Sudhir Mishra – who presented their short films as part of the ‘India Tomorrow’ series, brought to you by India Today. This Bloody Line showed how Cyril John Radcliffe (Martin Bishop), the […]
Do you miss the chirruping of sparrows outside your window when you wake up in the morning? We’re sure you must have noticed how sparrows have slowly vanished from view since the past few years. Once found in huge numbers across the world, the small bird is slowly making its way to the endangered list and looks like humans are to blame. March 20th is a day designated to celebrate […]
The makers of the upcoming action drama Katamarayudu have finally released the theatrical trailer of the film, which has powerstar Pawan Kalyan in the lead. A remake of the Tamil blockbuster Veeram, Pawan Kalyan will be seen reprising the role played by Ajith Kumar in Tamil. Going by the trailer, it looks like the makers have tweaked certain elements to work well for the Telugu audience. Apart from Kalyan’s electrifying […]
The Uttar Pradesh police has increased security around the Taj Mahal after a new poster doing the rounds on the internet claims that the Islamic State has set sight on Agra’s famed monument. Warning of attacks in India, terror outfit Islamic State has released a graphic depicting Agra’s famed Taj Mahal as a possible target. According to reports, the graphic image showing an image of Taj Mahal in the backdrop […]
