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Despite the accolades Danny Boyle is getting for His Slumdog Millionaire, there are controversies and controversies.
Latest being the parents of the kids from the slums, Azharuddin Ismail and Rubina ali were paid less than what is being paid to...
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Some call it ‘Hardly Required’, while others prefer ‘Harassing Resource’. What are we talking about? HR = once known as ‘Human...
made popular Dec 7 2009
A group of radical Sikh supporters clashed with the police in Ludhiana on Saturday protesting a public meeting of Dera Noor Mahal chief Ashutosh Maharaj.
made popular Dec 5 2009
The Government of Rwanda has welcomed the country’s entry into the Commonwealth grouping and has vowed to contribute to promote the principles of the group...
made popular Nov 30 2009
THE Ministry of Ethics and Integrity is investigating the Miss Uganda contest to verify claims that it lacks transparency, promotes immorality and does not reflect...
made popular Nov 24 2009
“It will soon be the end of the jambia,” bemoans Khaled al-Saikal, an antiques dealer in the souk of the Old City in Sanaa whose windows are brimming with...
made popular Nov 18 2009
Celebrating Christmas is really fun. The one aspect that I enjoy the most is spending time with loved ones. Of course, there is excitement filled with the aspect of...
made popular Nov 16 2009
I find this rather disturbing though I would not be quick to make any tangible comment and this to me is the stuff nightmares are made of.
I read this story in one of...
made popular Nov 10 2009
In multi-ethnic populations, issues keep rising over cultural rights, sometimes making interesting news and debate on popular media. One such issue arose recently in...
made popular Nov 3 2009
Being counsellors in an NGO like SIFF, we come across so many different types of men facing harassment in the hands of either their wives, in-laws, police, judiciary or...
made popular Nov 2 2009
The world’s largest cruise liner on Friday began its maiden voyage to Florida, gliding out from a shipyard in Finland with an amphitheater, basketball courts and...
made popular Oct 31 2009
Rahul Mahajan, son of the late BJP leader, Pramod Mahajan has a new fan following - women inmates of the Central Jail here - with nine of them wanting to participate in...
made popular Oct 29 2009
This Halloween, prepare to be scared in China.
The country’s first Halloween haunted house attraction is spooking the crowds in Shanghai, with its creators...
made popular Oct 28 2009
I am sorry for going back on my word to not write on sex for some time. But why not? Sex is not a 4 letter word, Sexy is. I am not a psychoanalyst or urologist – no...
made popular Oct 27 2009
The French President said the question implied the journalist had “a very infelicitous experience” of what being married meant.
He criticized some...
made popular Oct 24 2009
Recently while watching a beauty pageant, a colleague of mine in all seriousness remarked, “what a disgrace such contests are on women kind”. My curiosity to probe...
made popular Oct 23 2009
Serious debates are ongoing on the recent reunion of two Kenyan men in the UK over the weekend. Like any other Kenyan who came across the story as hot as it was when...
made popular Oct 20 2009
I am sure baba is going to buy mea one way ticket to the hell if not issuing a fatwa on my life. My good friend will do a mini tandav (dance of death) but as I am...
made popular Oct 19 2009
A baby’s wail echoed across the plaza. His mother’s face was etched with joy as she struggled to subdue her writhing infant. The children who had gathered around...
made popular Oct 15 2009
The bill presented in parliament seeks to prohibit sexual relations between people of same sex. It is also to prevent any competition with a the traditional...
made popular Oct 15 2009
A new controversy has risen in the fashion world after the popular German magazine, Brigitte, said that it’ll remove thin models from its pages in favor of...
made popular Oct 14 2009
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A million dollars may sound like a fortune to most people, and folks with that much cash can’t complain — they’re richer than 90 percent of U.S....
made popular Oct 8 2008
Wipro started as a cupboard-manufacturing unit to then go on to become the software giant that it is today. However, the surprise element is that a large number of...
made popular Mar 24 2008
Could you guess which city has the greatest number of millionaires in India? You, at first strike, will go for any Metro city. But it will go wrong if you go for any...
made popular Nov 16 2006
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Oscar and Lorene Stohler hold up a picture of an oil well on June 24, 2008 in Beulah, N.D. The oil well on their ranch in Dunn Center, N.D., has made them millionaires in less than a year.
