Britain sees 15 percent rise in suicides
London, May 25 Cases of suicide have risen by 15 percent since Britain plunged into recession, official figures reveal.
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Hirani, Rituparno to hold master classes in Melbourne
New Delhi, May 25 Rajkumar Hirani and Rituparno Ghosh are among the filmmakers scheduled to hold master classes at the third edition of the Indian Film Festival (IFF) in Melbourne June 11-22. Designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee will host a workshop too.
A Bollywood-style lesson for capital's cab drivers (Feature)
New Delhi, May 25 With rash driving and road rage spreading like cancer, a programme is on here to teach cab drivers road safety as well as the virtues of punctuality and etiquette. With the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimating India's loss due to road accidents at $20 billion a year, cab companies are now enrolling their drivers for the special lessons.
Indian designs, Bollywood dominate RFW opening day
Jaipur, May 25 Culture, crafts and Bollywood dominated the opening day of Rajasthan Fashion Week (RFW) here, with upcoming designers showcasing their work and actors Vivek Oberoi, Kainaz Motiwala and Zayed Khan adding the glamour quotient.
Indian-American orphan woman caught in legal tangle
Washington, May 25 United States has acknowledged that an adopted Indian American woman who faces deportation thirty years after she came here has been caught in a legal tangle, but a solution was still not on the horizon.
Norway kids in new family row
Kolkata, May 25 Within a month of their return to India, two NRI children, who were earlier taken into foster-care by the Norwegian Childcare Services, find themselves in a new controversy -- their families have filed police complaints against each other alleging threats to kill.
Indian-American teen wins US National Geographic Bee
Washington, May 25 An Indian-American boy Rahul Nagvekar has won the National Geographic Bee Championship with an educated guess about the Bavarian city that was a legislative seat of the Holy Roman Empire from 1663 to 1806.
Yogananda biography wins international award
Los Angeles, May 25 A biography of Indian yoga guru Paramhansa Yogananda and an Indian cookery book have won honours at an international book awards event here.
Kerala readies for next round of migration study
Thiruvananthapuram, May 25 The Centre for Development Studies here has started the ground work for the seventh round of the comprehensive study on international and internal emigration from the state, says the study head.
Rajat Gupta's trial: Prosecutors play FBI wiretaps
New York, May 25 Prosecutors played a series of FBI wiretapped phone conversations in a bid to show that Goldman Sachs' former Indian-American director Rajat Gupta shared confidential information with convicted hedge-fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam.