Mumbai: Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray has held Samajwadi Party leader Abu Asim Azmi "responsible" for Monday's mayhem in the Maharashtra assembly and said his party men would have made a "tandoori" or roast of somebody like Azmi for having hurt Marathi pride.
Hyderabad: Stunned by England's "immature" decision to pull out of the World Badminton Championship due to perceived security threat, top Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal said it would not take any sheen out of the elite event.
"It's an immature decision but I don't think it makes much of a difference to the tournament because there are no English top players in the singles event," Saina said.
Militants stormed a building used by a US-based charity in Pakistan on Wednesday, sparking heavy clashes with police and killing at least five people, police and an aid worker said.
Four Indian nationals working in a saree shop in Malaysia's southern Johor state were burnt to death in a fire early on Wednesday.
The workers died when fire broke out in the textile shop at 3 am (local time), Deputy Director of Johor Fire and rescue Department Shukor Sani Hashim was quoted by online newspapers as saying.
Myanmar's new election laws have barred opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and more than 2,000 other political prisoners from contesting polls planned this year, state media reports said on Wednesday.
Under the Political Parties Registration Law, published in state-run newspapers Wednesday, all prisoners are barred from joining political parties that register to contest a general election.
A benchmark index for Indian equities on Wednesday made a steady start and was ruling 60 points higher, about 25 minutes after the opening bell.
At 9.24 am the 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which opened at 17,072.94 points, was ruling at 17,112.55 points, 60.01 points or 0.35 percent higher than its previous close at 17,052.54 points.
Feel free, Mr Husain. Go paint Qatari leaders
Now that M.F. Husain has settled in Qatar where there is total freedom, he is free of the shackles imposed by the Indian system on freedom of expression. All those who appreciate his art would now eagerly await his imaginative paintings of the leaders of Qatari society, hopefully not artistically clothed.
Noida: Twelve people suffered minor injuries in a stampede at audition centre of a television musical talent show in the city on Tuesday, just five days after the Pratapgarh incident that claimed 63 lives.
The injured were rushed to Fortis Hospital and they were discharged after first aid.
Columbus: A shooting on Tuesday morning at an Ohio State University campus maintenance building left one employee dead and two others wounded, the university said. A suspect was taken into custody.
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Gone are the days when a single show captured the imagination of Indian viewers for years together. With competition fierce, viewers’ loyalties are fickle too.
When 13-year-old Ulka Gupta was finalised to play the title role of Manikarnika, aka Manu, in Jhansi Ki Rani, she had no inkling that the responsibility of carrying the historical would rest heavily on her slender shoulders.
The normally diplomatic Karan Johar let go of his politically correct stance on Headlines Today. He confessed that the industry may be a fraternity, but is not really united because it has become an industry now.