LONDON: Shuttler Parupalli Kashyap on Wednesday became the first Indian man in history to reach the quarter-finals of the Olympic Games after securing a hard-fought 2-1 victory over Sri Lanka's Niluka Karunaratne at the Wembley Arena here.The 21th ranked Kashyap had to bring in all his experience and craft into play to quell the strong challenge of his rival,...
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan government has formally informed India that evidence provided by New Delhi in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks case is not admissible in a Pakistani court as defense lawyers were not allowed to cross-examine Indian officials, a media report said today.Pakistan's Interior Ministry has informed the Indian government that the evidence is not admissible in the trial...
NEW DELHI: Two decades of economic reforms and drum beating about inclusive growth seem to have failed to change the face of rural India as 10 per cent of the population lives on less than Rs 17 a day.According to a government survey released for 2011-12 on household consumer expenditure, "The poorest 10 per cent of India's rural population...
LONDON: Indian archers' dismal show came to an end at the London Olympics today as world no. 1 and medal hope Deepika Kumari bowed out of women's individual event after suffering an upset defeat against Amy Oliver of Great Britain in the opening round.Deepika was completely off color today and was no match for her British rival, who easily...
An enlightened person who is free from the contamination of material desire does not consider himself to be the performer of bodily activities; rather, he knows that in all such activities it is only the senses, born of the modes of nature, that are contacting sense objects born of the same modes of nature.
An unintelligent person situated within the body...
The modern mind has exiled from its practical motive-power the two essential things, God or the Eternal and spirituality or the God-state, which are the master conceptions of the Gita. It lives in humanity only, and the Gita would have us live in God, though for the world in God; in its life, heart and intellect only, and the...
She is not even one film old, but the half-Indian half-German Evelyn Sharma, who made news as Bollywood`s latest fashionista sometime ago, seems to be emerging the first foreigner after Katrina Kaif to get a good grip on Bollywood.The newbie hasn’t even completed a year in the industry yet, but has just tucked her fifth film in her over-flowing...
Anushka Sharma and John Abraham have topped the list of best bikini and beach body in India while Jessica Alba and David Beckham dominated internationally, according to a survey.The Band Baaja Baraat actress received 11 percent votes to top the list. Jism 2 star Sunny Leone and actress Deepika Padukone came in second with 9 percent votes each.Bipasha Basu...
The success of Cocktail has left Ms. Dee flying high and happy. And of course, her much talked about 'patch-up' with Ranbir Kapoor (on the sets of Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani) has her grinning from ear-to-ear.Recently, while chatting with Zoom, she made a candid confession about wanting Ranbir back. On screen that is. "If I were Imtiaz Ali, I'd...
Sunny Leone may be in news for her steamy love-making scenes with co-stars Randeep Hooda and Arunoday Singh in her debut film Jism 2. But if you thought that the adult film star had no apprehensions about shooting such intimate scenes, well you are mistaken.Apparently Sunny (in spite of being a porn star) had certain reservations about shooting intimate...