Did anyone say that politics makes strange bedfellows? Ah, how true. How true. Beleaguered Pakistan President and military chief Pervez Musharraf has held secret talks for a second time with his bitter foe Benazir Bhutto, the leader of the Pakistan People’s Party and former Prime Minister of the country. The secret meeting is believed to […]
Medical researchers in the U.S. have discovered that Turmeric, a key ingredient of Curry that gives the spicy Indian food its distinctive yellow color, has properties that can fight the dreaded Alzheimer’s disease. Named after the German physician Alois Alzheimer, Alzheimer’s is a disease that attacks the brain and is the most common form of dementia. […]
It usually takes a lot for the government to get moving in India. But in the case of Pooja Chauhan of Rajkot city in the western Indian state of Gujarat, it actually took a lot less. A lot less clothes, that is. Frustrated by the indifference to her complaints of dowry harassment by her husband […]
Indian news media report that in their eagerness to get their kid into the Guiness Book, a doctor couple in the town of Manaparai in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu have allowed their 15-year-old son Dileepan Raj to perform a caesarean operation. The boy is studying in the 10th grade. Several doctors were […]
Cheeni Kum is one of the better movies to come out of the Bollywood stables this summer. Featuring the talented actress Tabu and the budda (old Man of Bollywood) Amitabh Bachchan in key roles, Cheeni Kum is the charming love story of a 34-year-old woman and a 64-year-old man. Eschewing the usual Bollywood trappings of […]
Life in the Northeastern U.S. during winter is bad enough. But imagine living in numbing Arctic chill where the temperatures can range from -29C to -68C. One wrong step and you could potentially fall 12,000 feet into the cold, cold ice. After spending three days at a temporary U.S. Navy camp in the Beaufort Sea in […]