I had a friend from school that died of a freak accident some four years ago. I was shocked and saddened. But every year even after she is dead I have wished her happy birthday on her Facebook page and sometimes, just go...

How many times in a week do you come across a Facebook update like this “ I am so proud of my son/daughter, he got ….” , The list to the dots is endless. It could be about the 4 year old painting a tree or being the socc...

Schools have opened and most days you are filling one form or the other. Pay special attention to the form that asks the parents to lists qualities about their kid- this is done once a year in the beginning of the school...

Every time an airplane takes off with even one unfilled seat, an airline is making less money than it could. Selling that seat to someone at some price — even not very much — would be better than leaving it empty. But an...

Veteran filmmaker Yash Chopra, who has given several golden hits to Indian cinema including 'Waqt', 'Deewar', 'Silsila', 'Dil Toh Pagal Hai' and 'Veer Zaara', will end his directorial innings with the upcoming Shahrukh K...

India trains more doctors than almost any country on earth, and loses a significant proportion of them to emigration — to the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, and other destinations where compensatio...

So happy: Jennifer Aniston said 'yes' to Justin Theroux's proposal during his birthday dinner on Friday night in New York City Jennifer Aniston has been filming her latest movie for the past few weeks in North Carolina....

In July 2012, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper publicly confirmed that he is gay in an email to Daily Beast columnist Andrew Sullivan, which Sullivan published with Cooper's permission. The statement was characteristically dir...

Living in separate bedrooms the reason for divorce Katie Holmes today emerged for the first time since filing for divorce from her husband Tom Cruise last week. The 33-year-old actress, who has looked decidedly tense and...

In several Afghan provinces the fight to curb the growing of opium poppies seems to be a losing battle. In 2011 a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime survey said opium poppy cultivation rose by 7% overall from the p...

She debuted the ring in a subtle fashion after stepping out at a museum event. But it appears that Angelina Jolie is getting used to wearing her huge engagement diamond and was seen holding it up for all to see as she he...

Amy Chua's Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, published in January 2011, detonated a cultural conversation that had been building pressure for years — a direct challenge to Western parenting orthodoxy from a Yale law profe...

Laughter yoga, the practice of inducing the physiological benefits of laughter through deliberate, sustained, voluntary laughing rather than through genuine humor, has been one of the more successful wellness exports of...