Bond in life and beyond

BANGALORE: Filial affection is not the domain of human kingdom alone. It is found in the animal kingdom too.A mother monkey, unable to come to terms with the death of its young one, is roaming at the Lalbagh Botanical Gardens, carrying the carcass of its baby, for the past two weeks. The simian was...

Confessions Of A Shopaholic

If ‘The Girl with the Green Scarf’ (remember the colour of money) can write for Successful Saving, a firm that advises people to spend their money wisely she must be hiding something behind her back that...

No. of Women Never Touch 50 in Parliament

New Delhi: So much for woman power. The number of women MPs in India's 545-member Lok Sabha has never touched 50, the Election Commission said on Friday. "The nearest when women members could reach this mark was in the 13th Lok Sabha in the 1999 elections when 49 women candidates were elected. It...

Salim Must Die

Salim Must Die By: Mukul Deva ISBN: 9788172238193 Cover Price: Rs. 225.00 Format: Paperback Extent: 280 pages Mukul Deva, an alumnus of La Martiniere College, Lucknow, the National Defence...

Indian businessman arrested for suspected Fritzl-like incest crime

NEW DELHI, March 19 (Xinhua): In a suspected incest crime similar to that of Joseph Fritzl in Austria, a 60-year-old Indian businessman was arrested Wednesday in Mumbai for allegedly raping his daughter for nine years, reported local TV network Times Now Thursday. The 21-year-old elder daughter of...

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

The film is based on the memoir of ‘Vanity Fair’ writer Toby Young. Simon Pegg plays Sidney Young, a self proclaimed righteous entertainment journalist working for New York’s top lifestyle magazine ‘Sharps’...