Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen. It is an honour to be delivering the Dilip Sardesai Memorial Lecture this evening in front of an audience with a deep love and great knowledge of cricket. Much like the late Dilip Sardesai. It was because of this deep love and knowledge of theRead More

* State Gatka team to be selected for national championship Chandigarh,  Punjab Gatka Association is going to organize its 2nd Punjab State Women Gatka Championship at Shahi Physical Education College  Jhakrodi, Samrala in district Ludhiana on September 27 and 28. Disclosing this here on Sunday, Association president Harcharn Singh BhullarRead More

Palembang, Young Indian shuttler H. S. Prannoy clinched the maiden title of his career after winning the USD 1,25,000 Indonesian Masters Grand Prix Gold, following his straight-game victory over local favourite Firman Abdul Kholik in the finals in Indonesia on Sunday. In a 43-minute battle, fifth seed Prannoy, who finishedRead More

Prior work commitments will keep actress Sonam Kapoor away from the promotions of her forthcoming film “Khoobsurat” in Pakistan, the home country of her film’s co-star Fawad Khan. She says she would love to visit the country sometime in future. Despite her absence from the film’s promotions, Sonam plans toRead More

Actor Aamir Khan said that if he is offered a nomination to the Rajya Sabha, he will “think” about it. Asked whether he would like to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha like cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and actress Rekha, Aamir said, “I won’t comment on what they are doing. TheyRead More

Prem Chopra, best remembered for his villainous roles in Hindi cinema of the ’60s and ’70s, feels baddies in Bollywood now-a-days are better written and are not just about having menacing laugh and feisty one-liners. The 78-year-old actor terrorised the audience in films like ‘Aaj Ka Arjun’, ‘Do Raaste’, ‘Bobby’,Read More

In a freewheeling conversation with one of his favourite screen idols Naseeruddin Shah, writer-director-actor Rajat Kapoor finds out about Shah’s complicated relationship with his father and how he came to write his memoir In the preface to your memoir (And Then One Day, Hamish Hamilton), you mention how the bookRead More

Vancouver,  The New Democrats are promising to bring back the minimum wage for employees who work in federally regulated sectors. NDP leader Tom Mulcair announced on Saturday that if the NDP forms the next government it would set a minimum wage of $15 an hour for those who work in companiesRead More

Toronto, Last-minute Toronto mayoral candidate Doug Ford won’t hit the campaign trail until Monday, but his political rivals were already on the offensive this weekend. Mayoral candidates Olivia Chow and John Tory slammed Doug Ford’s track record as a city councillor on Saturday, while offering their best wishes to hisRead More

Winnipeg, When Canada’s newest national museum opens next weekend, it will mark the end of a 14-year journey sparked by one family’s desire to have Canadians learn about the struggle for — and the fragility of — freedom. The road to create the Canadian Museum For Human Rights has not alwaysRead More