Frugal Billionaires Billionaires who can spend millions on themselves and still not feel a pinch choose to lead a simple style. The reasons could be many ranging from habit to simple lifestyle. They are an example for al...

A 17-year-old girl out on a morning walk was allegedly abducted and gangraped by two people in Outer Delhi’s Aman Vihar area Sunday, police said. Locals claimed to have found the Class XI student almost 12 hours after sh...

Kamal Haasan's recent statement in an interview that he went bankrupt after his divorce with danseuse Vani Ganapathy, doesn't seem to have gone well with his ex-wife. The danseuse, said in an interview to Economic Times,...

A woman in Gujarat who was abducted and gang raped now has to go through the purification process. She is pregnant and wanted to abort the baby of rape. But the village courts of Gujarat ruled against the abortion becaus...

A 12-year-old asks on ( what could he do now to secure his place in world’s top universities. Yes, you read that right a 12-year-old! My thoughts were divided on his question. On one hand I thought a self-motivated kid l...

A 63-year-old woman living alone on the first floor of her parental house was rescued by an NGO, Prabh Aasra, and Chandigarh Police on Tuesday. The woman, Sukhi, was immediately taken to Government Medical College and Ho...

Another reason to be kind to your in-laws- if the reason that they are your spouse’s family isn’t enough! The NRI in this case had filed for a divorce on the grounds that his wife was ill-treating his family. In one inci...

Ekjut is the performing wing; this provides a platform for like minded adults with interest in theater/drama. Ekjut staged play “Pyar ka Panchnama” on Jan 31 which was a huge success in a full house. Ekjut is getting rea...

In a house in Kanpur, calorie counting has been abandoned for a large box of mithai after Ayush Sharma, 17, discovered that he has been accepted at the world-famous Massachusetts's Institute of Technology or MIT. A schol...

A 70-year-old nun was raped at her convent in the eastern part of West Bengal. Some men broke into the convent, mugging and breaking the catholic house and added the rape to it to increase the atrocity of the situation....

Ekjut recently staged their maiden Hindi romantic comedy play called "Pyar ka panchnama" which entertained a full house with lots of laughter. EKJUT provides a platform for adult enthusiasts and local community for drama...

Some of history's most peculiar structures were built not for shelter, beauty, or profit, but for revenge. Spite houses — homes constructed specifically to annoy, inconvenience, or harm a neighbor — represent one of arch...

19 -year- old black woman was shot dead this Saturday by a white resident in a suburb of Detroit. Renisha McBride got into a car accident in Dearborn Heights last Saturday. Her cell phone had run out of battery so she th...

The 80-year-old man along with his 77-year-old wife can no longer live in their house. The cabin that they own is on the property of the federal government. As long as the government is shutdown they will have to live so...

Once in a while every house would have a clogged toilet . Boy! That’s ugly! Unclogging toilets are a pain –tools and chemicals are abundant in the marketplace for unclogging them. The best one though is baking soda-which...

5 % of real estate buyers are Indians in the USA for the year ending March 2013. They are also the second out of the 5 foreign nationals buying houses in USA. The other 4 foreign countries are Canada, China, Mexico and U...

While speaking at wives of African leaders in Dar es Salaam on Tuesday, Michelle Obama said living in the White House is confining, prison like. She was in a conversation with Laura Bush and was reflecting on how difficu...

Gloria C. MacKenzie the 84-year-old woman has won the Powerball lottery jackpot of $ 590 million, largest in history. All her life she has lived with modest means and amenities in a tin-roof house in Zephyrhills, Florida...

40% of breadwinners are now mothers. Stay-at home dads are more common now. Even though it’s hard to let go of the stereotypical image of the man to bring the money home rather than taking care of the children and family...

A teenaged "illiterate" boy was arrested from Bihar in the wee hours on Monday for allegedly raping a five-year-old girl in Delhi which he described as a "big mistake", two days after his friend was apprehended in the ca...

In a desperate bid to save his life, convicted Ohio baby killer Steven Smith has asserted that he never meant to murder his girlfriend’s six-month-old daughter – only to sexually assault her. The girl, Autumn Carter, of...

Two investors who bought a dilapidated cottage for $300,000 are set to make a $30million profit on the deal after discovering an amazing haul of lost artwork by a previous resident. Thomas Schultz and Larry Joseph snappe...

A scam targeting the elderly causes a man to give away $400,000 in six years after he says he was told he’d receive more than a million dollars in prizes. Rochelle Ritchie explains–that man is warning others not to follo...

Santa was out delivering presents to all the children. Santa looked at the sky, and he was very surprised. The sky was starting to get light; the sun was coming up! Santa was very worried because he still had to deliver...

Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...

Veteran Bollywood singer Asha Bhosle's daughter Varsha, who was suffering from depression, today committed suicide by shooting herself, police said. A singer and columnist, Varsha, 56, shot herself in the temple with a p...

Chai, Chat with Books" is a small group of eight ladies who share their passion for reading over a cup of tea and lots of chaat/snacks. Our book club meeting is a time away from the daily grind of life...

An Indian woman, who left her country and religion to marry a Pakistani man but was betrayed and virtually imprisoned by him for 13 years, finally has hope of returning home, with the human rights commission here taking...

Seventy members of an Islamist sect who have been living in an underground bunker without heat or sunlight for nearly a decade have been discovered living on the outskirts of the city of Kazan in Russia....

Gunman kills 12 in Colorado movie theater A heavily armed gunman attacked an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater early Friday, tossing tear gas before opening fire on the terrified audience and killing 12 and wounding 38, au...

Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...

Allegedly upset over her techie-husband's upcoming assignment in the US, homemaker H Sowmya Vishwanath, 25, hanged herself at their house in Channasandra, near Whitefield, on Monday night. Sowmya, a native of Bijapur, ma...

She Sees Clutter, He Sees Treasures Not long after she remarried two years ago, Karen Steele realized the look of her Roseville, Calif., home had changed. The problem is her husband's office. It has become a catchall for...

The concept of "lucky skin" — the kind that seems to age gracefully, maintain its clarity through dietary indiscretions and weather changes and stress, and require minimal intervention to look healthy — tends to create t...

The foraging movement—which has grown from a fringe interest of back-to-the-land enthusiasts into a mainstream culinary practice embraced by Michelin-starred restaurants and urban farmers market vendors alike—rests on a...

Billionaire Indian industrialist Mukesh Ambani's wife Nita describes their 27-storey Mumbai house Antilla as a "modern home with an Indian heart" and the "only home we have in the world." The ultra-luxurious 400,000 sq f...

The world's most expensive home is lying unused and abandoned because its billionaire owners believe moving in will bring them bad luck. The 27-storey, billion-dollar tower in Mumbai, called Antilia, is said to have fall...