Wherever he is from, a man favours a mate who is younger and physically attractive, says a study involving participants from 33 countries....
"I know of no foreign soaps better than Godrej's and I will make a point of using it." Well, the words are not of a beautiful woman endorsing a toiletry rather of a polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music and composed the national anthem of India, as also the one Bangladesh adopted after it came into being....
Urging that the execution of 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case convict Yakub Memon shouldn't be politicised, BJP parliamentarian Udit Raj said on Thursday that the issue of judicial accountability more than the death penalty needs to be discussed....
Amid ruckus and disruptions in the Rajya Sabha, the government on Thursday moved a bill to amend the Prevention of Corruption Act making the giving of bribe also a crime along with receiving it....
An Indian-origin restaurateur in the Scottish city of Aberdeen, was fined for breaching food hygiene standards two years ago, a media report said....
Even as the government has said Internet Service Providers were free not to block any of the 857 websites suspected for pornographic content unless they were abusive of children, the industry body of the ISPs said on Wednesday that the directive was "vague and unimplementable"....
An Indian-descent rugby coach has been named Personality of the Year for guiding his team to its first title in last five years....
A Malaysian of Indian-origin has been absolved of drug smuggling charges after the high court ruled that he did not know anything about the drugs found in the car he was driving. ...
Terming Prime Minister Narendra Modi a "transformative figure", former foreign secretary Krishnan Srinivasan on Tuesday said the BJP leader faced a "herculean" task in changing the mindsets of political parties and bureaucrats. ...

India's proposed gold monetisation scheme can prove a win-win for all stakeholders -- government, people and industry -- if it is incentivised and marketed well, even as the yellow metal will remain an attractive asset, according to the World Gold Council....