The flawless looks about to be unveiled on the Oscars red carpet have been months in the making and require an army of experts.With perhaps the highest concentration of cameras anywhere in the world that night,

Only a small fraction of Army women say they'd like to move into one of the newly opening combat jobs, but those few who do say they want a job that takes them right into the heart of battle, according to preli

Suddenly, a group of monks, with heads clean shaven and wearing saffron & red robes, emerge out of nowhere on a dark street in Colombo. Armed with machettes, stones and other weapons, and their faces deform

The energetic and frenetic Chief Minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal has finally resigned after being in a roller-coaster political ride for 49 days. Ever since taking up the reins of power in Delhi in the last w

Nagas are going through a rough transitional period. The issue of unabated taxation has stirred up a lot of awkward but relevant subjects that have been bottled up for so long by the masses, unable to express t

Our cities are a mess. Rapid urbanisation is one of the signs of economic development, but filthy overcrowded, unsafe and unhygienic cities are not necessarily a corollary to development. In this era of inverte

You've just spent two weeks of your life watching things you won't even think about for another four years. Worth it? Perhaps, though putting up with Bob Costas in nerdy glasses wasn't an Olympic moment to reme

Nobel Laureate Betty Williams started her speech to a peace forum at the U.N. headquarters on February 21 with perhaps the last thing the audience would expect her to say.She urged them to stop glorifying worki

Protests by various groups and organizations in Punjab are going sky high - literally, that is! People are now clambering up water tanks to hold protest.In recent years, tower-type community water tanks have be

Most fathers, if not all, when asked, ‘what grades their kids are in?’ have a fairly strong chance of getting it wrong, so much for “best dad in the world.” Statistics show that mothers

Rahim Ali’s son Saddiq is a brilliant student. A well- mannered lad, he made us all proud a few years ago, when he stood sixth in the Senior Secondary examination of our State. Currently pursuing his furt

The last session of the 15th Lok Sabha brings to an end one of the most disappointing periods in the short parliamentary history of India.The numbers tell part of the story: this Lok Sabha saw over 800 hours, o

Manisha Koirala, who hails from Nepal and emerged a star in Bollywood and then survived cancer, does not approve of the kind of portrayal that cancer patients get in Hindi films where they are invariably shown

In the wake of unprecedented Islamist explosions and attacks across North Africa, the foreign ministers of 19 countries - including France and much of North Africa - launched an equally unprecedented response.

Native American Christians dressed in traditional regalia. FOR GENERATIONS, Native North Americans and other Indigenous peoples have lived the false belief that a fulfilled relationship with their Creator

Fear is rising. Many people in the West are terrified that activist cells from Asia could cause chaos in urban areas using small, portable weapons of mass destruction. Yes, I am talking about durians. Recent ev

While much of India slept Thursday morning, one news of a big-time sale spread in minutes through the country, on Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp, long before the mainstream media picked it up. Facebook was buyi

In the recent weeks, one news item that caught my eye and attention was the five-day trip of Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio to Myanmar. As per the news in the local dailies, Mr. Rio and his delegation bega

She never thought of joining politics. But 38-year-old Soni Sori, brutally tortured by police in Chhattisgarh for her alleged links with Maoists, has joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in her desperate bid to cha

Sri Lanka’s war-battered Northern Province had reason to celebrate when the results of a countrywide exam were announced last December. Of the 16,604 students from the province who sat for the exam, 63.8