The hottest thing on the Internet is not social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter, but Flickr-the popular photo-sharing portal - and the proof is: it has topped TIME’s list of the best 50 websites this year.
One of the noticeable trends in this year’s list, which was released this week, was on-demand video services, like [...]

India’s nuclear tests shocked the world

A retired atomic scientist who was closely associated with India’s 1998 nuclear tests has said they were not as successful as was claimed.
K Santhanam said one of the tests - on a hydrogen bomb - had not worked, and that India would have to carry out more tests for a [...]

Swine flu claimed three more lives Thursday, taking India’s toll to 78, as health officials maintained that most of the deaths
occurred because the patients reported late for treatment.
R.K. Srivastava, director general of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), said one death each was reported from Bangalore, Nashik and Pune.
At least 123 people tested positive [...]

Hindu priests neck deep in vats of water pray for rain in drought-hit Mumbai on 26 August.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/south_asia_enl_1251285410/html/1.stm

Notice to my friends: I love you all dearly.
But I don’t give a hoot that you are “having a busy Monday,” your child “took 30 minutes to brush his teeth,” your dog “just ate an ant trap” or you want to “save the piglets.” And I really, really don’t care which Addams Family member you [...]

As the sun dips below the horizon, roll call begins at a boxing club in southeast Kolkata.
Standing tall, soldier-style in three lines, are 47 students — some as young as 8 years old, a few as old as 23 — who hold their positions in front of an outdoor boxing ring at the Khidderpore School [...]

The showbiz scandal that wasn’t - three ‘actresses’ were booked for employing child labour on Tuesday; one denies it all, the others aren’t even Suchitra Krishnamoorthi
actresses….
Just days after the case of ‘TV actress’ Urvashi Dhanorkar (which production she’s acted in has not yet been clarified) brutally assaulting her 10-year-old maid came to light, reports came [...]

This is Rakhi, allegedly in a topless shoot for a men’s mag
There are topless pics, allegedly of Rakhi Sawant, on the web, but it looks like the post-swayamvar Rakhi’s not having any of it. In a recent interview, she had expressed her fears, saying, “On the internet, people have morphed my pictures onto naked bodies.
Elesh [...]

In the wake of growing abuse of domestic help and minors, the Maharashtra government on Tuesday filed cases against three actresses - Bollywood star-singer Suchitra Krishnamoorthi and television stars Laxmi and Uma Khan - for allegedly employing child labour.
“We have initiated police action against them under various sections of the Child Labour & Prohibition Act, [...]

The 10-day Ganesh Chaturthi festival began on Sunday with religious fervour as people installed idols of the deity with a prayer to ward off evil.
Ganesh Chaturthi is the day on which Lord Ganesh, the son of Shiva and Parvati, is believed to bestow his presence on earth for all his devotees. Lord Ganesh is worshipped [...]