The Anurag Basu film was as India’s official entry to the Academy Awards 2013, despite the fact that Pan Singh Tomar and GOW released in the same year. Barfi! was ‘our’ official entry and “artistic insight” of the Indian film industry to the Foreign Language Film category for the 85th [...]

Halifax : The waterfront here is a beautiful and popular area with both locals and tourists alike. It is actually a basin of the Atlantic Ocean, where in the days of yore a number of large ships used to come in. Now of course they do not come here, but [...]

Shimla: The Raja’s own men tried to keep him away from the throne. They fired corruption charges at him. But beating all odds, Virbhadra Singh is set for another ‘coronation’ — his sixth as the chief minister of Himachal Pradesh. The 78-year-old, popularly known as ‘Raja Saab’ as he was born [...]

Bangalore: Karnataka’s ruling BJP, battered by corruption scandals and rebellion, is gung-ho about the Gujarat assembly poll outcome, more so because the once BJP strongman Keshubhai Patel bit the dust. The party is hoping that it will not only retain power it won for the first time in May 2008 but [...]

Unlike Narender Modi, who let a disgruntled Keshubhai Patel test the electorate pulse with a new party, in Himachal the marriage of convenience between Prem Kumar Dhumal and party national vice president Shanta Kumar sealed the fate of ‘Mission Repeat’ for BJP. While the outgoing party held onto its stronghold [...]

Halifax (Canada) :  One does not seem to be lonely in Canada. From the person at the security check at Toronto airport to the assistance for moving the wheelchair of my wife spoke fluent Hindi and asked us how we were and whether they could be of any help. But [...]

Beijing: The internet should be regulated since “exposure of private data as well as illegal online activity have destroyed the positive environment of this new medium”, a state-run Chinese daily opined. An article in the Global Times said internet had “changed the world, including the lives of Chinese people. We treasure [...]

New Delhi: Narendra Modi’s third successive victory in the Gujarat assembly polls is expected to pitch him for a more prominent role in the BJP, possibly as head of its campaign for the next general elections, while some party leaders even expressed their preference for him to be projected as the [...]

Sure enough, strict punishment should be handed out to the mischievous sprites, involved in the rape of a 23 year old girl in a moving bus in Delhi. However, what we actually need is a total revamp of “patriarchal mindset” towards women in our country. India is also known as [...]

New Delhi:  Indian sport saw both its highs and its lows in 2012. If the best-ever medal haul from the Olympics in London was its high point, by the year-end its reputation was in the mud as the national Olympic committee was suspended by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for compromising [...]