Bangalore: In a country where marriage is widely considered sacred, the traditional is bumping up against the modern. More urban Indian couples are using state-of the art forensics to settle marital tiffs.
Kochi (IANS): Popular Malayalam film actress Kavya Madhavan Saturday filed petitions for divorce and domestic violence here. She filed the divorce petition with the Ernakulam Family court while another one in the Ernakulam First Class Magistrate Court is against her husband and in-laws under the Domestic Violence Act for causing mental stress.
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New Delhi: A total of 144 doctors and still counting. The Sabharwal family could well be in Guinness World Records for its five generations choosing to become doctors & the sixth generation following suit. It all began in the 1920s when influenced by Mahatma Gandhi’s talks on education and health, Lala Jeewanmal Sabharwal, a station master on the railways in Lahore decided to serve society.
Mumbai, India – Gurgaon-based Olive Telecom announced the launch of a new tablet PC. The Olive Pad is touted as India’s first 3G tablet PC.The tablet also doubles up as a smartphone that allows users to make voice and video calls.
Mumbai, India – The days of reaching the airport in the nick of time and skidding through the check-in counter just before the aircraft doors shut are over.Strict norms enforced from this week mean that if flights miss their scheduled time of departure for any reason, they’ll face huge delays. That’s translated to airlines making sure everyone is on board well before departure time.
Despite millions spent on drug research and development, one of the more promising treatments for Alzheimer’s disease (a progressive brain disorder that affects more than 5 million Americans) is found in a substance widely known for its ability to spice (and color) food.
London (AFP) – Sachin Tendulkar’s blood is to be used in a special edition of a huge biography of the Indian cricket legend, its publishers said Monday. A giant deluxe book, the Tendulkar Opus, is coming out in February, with 10 copies being printed using his blood.
You can now download the Indian Rupee Symbol Font and use it on your computer/laptop keyboards. It is very easy to install and can be used directly from Microsoft Word. Please read the full article to download and usage instructions.
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Mumbai: A male HIV positive patient takes his marital partner, a widowed HIV positive patient, in a first, guided by Mumbai’s first AIDS clinic. This week, a 31 year-old MBA grad will exchange marital vows with a 32 year-old widow, who holds an MA.
On a day when India finally got a symbol for the Rupee and joined a select club of countries whose currencies have an unique identity, CNN-IBN spoke to D Udaya Kumar, a postgraduate student of the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, who had designed the symbol.
An Indian startup company Hidden Reflex has launched first ever web browser from India. Epic has been stuffed with many features and applications. It has something which we have never heard of before, an integrated antivirus protection in a browser. The built in antivirus and antispyware is powered by ESET.
Diplomats like to stress that Afghanistan is not a zero-sum game, that if only the many regional players – including Pakistan and India – can settle their differences, they can find common cause in seeking a political settlement that will offer stability.
33 year-old British journalist Vanessa Able trashed every myth about a lone foreign woman travelling across India when she traversed the world’s ’scariest’ roads in a tiny Tata Nano. Her experiences have been documented in the quirky www.nanodiaries.com. She tells SOWMYA RAJARAM she’ll be back in India this October, to take her Nano up to Rajasthan. More Pictures
Amritsar: A young Indian medical student, returning from Turkmenistan, gave birth to a baby aboard a plane and tried to flee after leaving behind the newborn in the toilet. She was later arrested, police said on Wednesday. According to the airport police, the woman was identified as Amandeep Kaur Mann, a resident of Punjab’s Hoshiarpur town.
Delhi: The Organising Committee is playing fence-sitter on the issue of serving cow meat at Commonwealth Games. To be(ef) of not to be(ef) is the question Commonwealth Games organisers are not ready to answer unambiguously, at least for now it seems.
Ahmedabad: A beggar on Saturday proved that charity only needs a big heart rather than deep pockets. Khimjibhai Prajapati, 64 and a beggar in Mehsana for a decade, donated clothes to 11 poor hearing and speech-impaired girls at the Shrimati Kesarbai Kilachand School for the Deaf.
DEHRADUN: Rapid-fire batting and a passion for fast bikes. That’s long been the Mahi way. And on Sunday, the Indian cricket captain’s love for speed was once again on display. Within a day of Dhoni’s engagement to Sakshi Singh Rawat, the couple got married at Vishranti Resort, located in the usually sleepy Lower Kandoli village, around 25km from Dehradun.
Passport fraud case is tip of iceberg for forged documents in India, authorities say. NEW DELHI, India — When an Air India Express flight from Dubai overshot the runway in Mangalore, India, and burst into flames, killing 158 passengers and crew, the Indian press was abuzz with stories about airline safety, the national carrier’s recent troubles and its many mistakes.
Bangalore: At Sundeep Medicals, a busy drugstore at one end of Bangalore’s prominent Brigade Road, two teenage girls breeze in and ask for the iPill, and then argue over whether they should buy one or two. “Buying emergency contraceptives has become like buying candy bars,” said Shreyansh Sankhla, who owns the store.
Mumbai – In his forthcoming film, ‘Ra One’, superstar Shah Rukh Khan is preparing to drive the world’s fastest car, the Bugatti Veyron.Its been rumored that a special technical team that has also worked in the Johnny Depp starrer ‘The Pirates of the Caribbean’, is all set to teach Shah Rukh the nitty gritties of driving the world’s most fastest production car.
Bangalore: There’s a ray of hope for Salman Pasha (16) who weighs 165 kg. After visiting several hospitals for weight-loss treatment, a city hospital will now treat him for free. Salman Pasha (16) had little idea that he’d stand to gain kilos, that too, from a dose of bad medicine.
New Delhi: The elegant Indian scarf known as a "dupatta" is a symbol of female modesty, but in the right hands it is also an effective weapon to combat the unwanted attentions of men. "Fling it over the attacker’s neck, pull him, go for the final thrust and he will be thrown on the ground in front of your eyes," shouts a police officer.
Washington: Sattaru Umapathi, a police officer who has led numerous operations across India to rescue victims of human trafficking, has been hailed as a hero by the US state department. Umapathi, the anti-human trafficking officer of the Andhra Pradesh Crime Investigation Department, is among nine heroes "around the world who have devoted their lives to the fight against human trafficking".
New Delhi: The government has lifted the ban on Indians travelling for work or academics to Iraq. The ministry of external affairs felt the situation in Iraq had stabilised and at least some parts of the country were safe. The ban was imposed in 2004.
Mumbai — An Indian property group on Tuesday unveiled plans to build the world’s tallest purely residential tower in Mumbai, the country’s booming financial capital. Lodha Developers said the tower would be 117 storeys high and would be designed by New York-based Pei Cobb Freed and Partners, the architects of the Louvre Pyramid in Paris and the Bank of China building in Hong Kong.
