Ahead of Republic Day and the release of his upcoming film Airlift, actor Akshay Kumar has paid a beautiful tribute to the many unsung heroes of India. In a video released by YouTube channel Being Indian, Akshay urges his compatriots to be more than just “armchair patriots” and “step out and do more and truly prove what it means to be an Indian.” “Saare jahan se accha, Bharat desh hamara,” […]
Tony Singh is a Sagittarius, born in Punjab and then migrated to Canada. He spent his childhood in Toronto playing percussions in different bands. He also loved playing street hockey in Greek Town just like the movie Wayne’s World 🙂 So, the Canadian culture is part of his life. Meet Tushar Unadkat in conversation with Tony Singh Tushar Unadkat(TU): Why Sirens of Shanti? Tony Singh(TS): Well, Shanti means peace… Sirens […]
Everybody’s favourite and the Bollywood heartthrob, Salman Khan has raised his voice against intolerance. Salman has finally broken the silence and has spoken bluntly on the matter. In an answer to the question on intolerance, Salman Khan replied, “My father’s name is Salim Khan and my mother’s name is Sushila. We all are Indian and there is no difference.” In response to the question on Shiv Sena’s protest against Ghazal […]
There have been a spate of deaths in India’s nuclear and atomic energy sector which are worrying but the government hasn’t given any security cover to the scientists working on its strategically important projects; in fact it describes the incidents as routine accidents and refuses to investigate any further. As per the latest data provided by in government of India’s Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), between 2009 and 2013, 11 […]
Avtar Singh Mauni, 60-year-old resident of Patiala, is on the verge of a world record courtesy his 100 pound turban. When unwrapped, Mr Mauni claims, it stretches to 645 metres – almost the same length as 13 Olympic-sized swimming pools. If validated, he will break the existing Guinness World record of Major Singh, a Nihang Sikh, whose 400 metre long turban weighs around 77 pounds. Mr Mauni didn’t always wear […]
Washington: Know who is the inventor of e-mail? The credit goes to an Indian American V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai who received official recognition as the inventor of the computer program for electronic mail system from the US government Aug 30, 1982. Studying at Livingston High School in New Jersey, Ayyadurai began his work on the email system for the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. In 1978, he developed […]
BANGALORE: India has become a major ingredient in Apple’s secret sauce, and the scale may surprise many. It is estimated that a third of the $171-billion company’s engineering staff is Indian, and that a large and increasing proportion of its enterprise software, service and support work is done by Indian IT vendors. Apple filed 1,750 H-1B applications during the 10-year period 2001 to 2010, but the number increased sharply to […]
Around 100 customers of the government-owned State Bank of India (SBI) were recently targeted by a group of hackers from Canada who cloned their gold debit cards and siphoned off Rs 1.26 crore from their accounts. The SBI fears that this figure will increase as many complaints are still pending. On Friday, the SBI lodged a complaint at the Delhi Police’s Cyber Cell saying that so far more than 100 […]
Candidate Narendra Modi is spoofed using an iconic scene from Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator A barrage of political spoofs on the internet and TV is ensuring that every Indian politician is cut down to size, writes Jay Mazoomdaar. For a people not known to take themselves lightly, a surprising number of Indians are laughing their way to the general election. A generous dose of irreverent political humour is now […]
Within touching distance of her family just hours before they were due to fly back to India. But moments later this 17-year-old girl vanished in the middle of Oxford Street… and has not been seen since Emaan Shah was out shopping with her parents when she went missing The family have been left ‘frantic with worry’ since disappearance on Monday The family were on holiday in the UK and were […]
