'I Will Not Rest Till I Get Sarabjit Back' 22 years on, there seems no end in...
Dalbir Kaur beside security fence at the Indo-Pak border near Khalra villageDalbir Kaur razed her 65-year-old family home in Bhikiwind, Punjab, three years ago, when a priest prophesied her...
View ArticleSarabjit killed in attack planned by ISI, says former Indian spy - PTI Kolkata
A former Indian spy, who had spent some time with Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari behind the bars in a Pakistani jail, feels Sarabjit Singh may have been killed in an attack planned by the ISI."I...
View ArticleAnurag Kashyap opens up about Bombay Talkies and breaks his silence on Big B-...
Anurag KashyapAs India celebrates 100 years of cinema, Anurag Kashyap is one of four leading filmmakers collaborating on a Bollywood project that shows what the movies have meant to them.Bombay...
View ArticleFrom a quiet girl to Sudipta Sen's queen bee, Debjani Mukherjee and the...
Sudipta Sen (left) and Debjani MukherjeeOn April 23, when the long arm of the law caught up with West Bengal's chit fund scam kingpin Sudipta Sen, it was the veiled young woman with him, who drew...
View ArticlePakistan Human Rights Activist demanded Rs. 25 Crore to release Sarabjit Singh
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View ArticleBhutto murder-case prosecutor shot dead in Islamabad
The attackers were on a motorcycle when they sprayed Chaudhry Zulfiqar's car with bulletsGunmen have shot dead the prosecutor investigating the murder of Pakistan's ex-leader Benazir Bhutto who was...
View ArticleSarabjit Singh: Convicted Indian 'spy' cremated
Thousands of mourners lined the streets for the funeral of Sarabjit SinghSarabjit Singh, the Indian convicted of spying in Pakistan and killed in a Pakistani jail last week, has been cremated in...
View ArticleBollywood cinema: 10 lesser-known facts
Indian cinema began 100 years ago with the first "Bollywood" film, although the term was only coined many years later. The vibrant song-and-dance routines have millions of fans but here are some...
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The CID yesterday took into custody former Deputy Mayor of Colombo Azad Salley, from his daughter’s residence in Kolonnawa, for questioning. UNP parliamentarians Harsha de Silva, K. Swaminathan and...
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Why target dummies?May 2, 2013, 10:45 pmPresident Mahinda Rajapaksa has made a virtue of necessity. On May Day, he promised that the latest power tariff hike would not apply to the low users of...
View ArticleForeign interference in SL Muslim problem
May 2, 2013, 12:00 pmFrom the very moment that the BBS became prominent in Sri Lanka, there has been speculation about sinister foreign forces operating behind it. There is certainly a Norwegian...
View ArticleAzath Salley arrested
May 2, 2013, 9:36 pmby Lal GunesekeraLeader of the Muslim-Tamil National Alliance (MTNA) Azath Salley was arrested by a team of CID officers yesterday morning from his daughter’s residence at Gamini...
View ArticleIndian Pot call the African Kettle Black
Sanjeev Gupta Brings plain old common sense and home grown insights into corporate strategies in Sub Saharan AfricaDuring my last trip to Mumbai, I had lunch with two very attractive ladies.One, the...
View ArticleMaharashtra Drought: The Worst Man-Made Disaster in Years
Image: Anirudha Dutta FIGHTING A DROUGHT Villagers in Akoladev are putting together a project at their own cost to draw water. It’s cheaper than buying one month’s quota of water from tankers....
View ArticleThe Reinvention of Paul Reed Smith Guitars by Karsten Strauss
Image: David Yellen for ForbesPaul Reed Smith, 57, began building guitars as a teenager in his bedroom with parts from a Washington Guitar overlord Paul Reed Smith is so fanatical about quality that he...
View ArticleThe Evolving Role of Writers in Tamil Cinema by N.S. Ramnath
Angadi Theru, written by Jeyamohan, is a story about the lives of young salespeople in discount retail outletsIn My Years with Boss at Gemini Studios, Ashokamitran recounts a poet’s visit. “He was a...
View ArticleIndian Films Should Now Look to the Far East by Meenakshi Shedde
Ang Li’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden DragonIt is believed that if you keep repeating something long enough, people will believe you—even if it’s true! So, as I reflect on Indian cinema in the next 100...
View ArticleJhunjhunwalas buy 25 lakh shares of SpiceJet for Rs 10 cr
Ace investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala and his wife Rekha on Friday picked up 25 lakh shares of budget carrier SpiceJet for an estimated nearly Rs 10 crore. According to merchant banking sources,...
View ArticleWhy they arrested Azath Sally?
| by Mangala Samaraweera ( May 3, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) We were gravely disturbed to learn of the arrest of former Deputy mayor of Colombo and Muslim Tamil National Alliance leader Azath...
View ArticleThe Land of Miracles
April 28, 2013Posted by Sri Lanka GuardianThe Land of Miracles| by Tisaranee Gunasekara“I think we are blind….. Blind people who can see, but do not see”- Jose Saramago (Blindness)( April 28, 2013, Sri...
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