Pop star Remo Fernandes received a Padma Shri in 2007 but he became a Portuguese citizen nearly 14 years earlier, the lawyer of a teenage girl who was allegedly verbally abused by the musician said on Wednesday....
The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court on Wednesday rejected Delhi University professor G.N Saibaba's bail plea, directing him to surrender within two days, and also ordered criminal contempt proceedings against author Arundhati Roy for an article on Saibaba's arrest published in a magazine in May....
As part of a constitutional reform, the French government would submit a law aimed at revoking dual citizenship of all nationals, including those who were born in France and were convicted on terrorism charges, Prime Minister Manuel Valls announced on Wednesday....
India has significant talent and expertise in traditional head and neck surgical procedures and the country is poised to take a giant leap with robot-assisted surgeries for head and neck patients in the days to come, a leading US robotic surgeon has said....
Alarmed over fundamentalists eclipsing democracy in his country, eminent Bangladeshi educationist Ajoy Roy, the father of slain secularist writer-blogger Avijit Roy, on Tuesday called upon the youth to stand up against the threat....
Since the 1970s, he has collaborated with musicians as diverse as John McLaughlin, Mickey Hart and Bill Laswell on a plethora of genre-defying fusion projects. Yet, tabla maestro Zakir Hussain doesn't like being called as the "flagbearer" of fusion music, which he says has "existed in India for a thousand years"...
The Justice A.S. Naidu Commission of Inquiry, set up by the Odisha government to probe the 2008 Kandhamal riots, presented its report to the state government on Tuesday....
Material purchases, from sweaters to tablet computers, provide more frequent happiness over time, whereas experiential purchases, like a trip to the zoo, provide more intense happiness on individual occasions, says a study....
Sitaram Yechury, in his new avataar as the CPI-M general secretary, may face a piquant situation in the forthcoming plenum of his party in Kolkata as a sizable section of the West Bengal unit is likely to press for electoral adjustments with the Congress in the coming state assembly election, a move which is certain to be opposed by the Kerala unit. ...
Compassion shapes our behaviour towards a person wronged and a wrongdoer and may lead us to help the wronged than to punish the wrongdoer, researchers have found....
