Rome | 27 days ago
Rome diocese asks gay priests to come out
Rome, July 24 - The Catholic diocese of Rome has asked homosexual priests to 'come out' because their behaviour 'slings mud on others'.The Vicar of Rome - the office that governs the Rome diocese in the name of the Pope - Friday urged homosexual priests to renounce priesthood. It was responding to an article in Italian weekly Panorama, which claimed to have documented the lives of homosexual pries ... read more

Nagpur | 1 month ago
Nagpur airport to get advanced surveillance cameras
Nagpur, June 25 - Around six dozen Internet Protocol - mega-pixel surveillance cameras will be installed at Nagpur's Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport to enhance security as part of an ongoing modernisation programme, officials said Friday.This will be the first time that the advanced IP cameras - closed circuit television cameras which use the Internet to transmit image data and control si ... read more

New Delhi | 2 months ago
Online games help professionals de-stress - but only so much
New Delhi, June 12 - He juggles hectic corporate meetings and numerous deadlines, but 28-year-old marketing professional Rajiv Singh never fails to plough his farm and water his plants. Surprised? Don't be. He plays the online game Farmville.Singh's is just one of the mushrooming cases of online game addiction - a trend that psychologists say is a good stress buster, if not overdone. For instance, ... read more

Shimla | 2 months ago
Shimla to host film fest
Shimla, May 24 - Shimla, fondly known as the queen of hills, will host a three-day film festival from Friday, an official statement said here Monday.During the festival, 14 award-winning films in seven languages will be screened. 'The ministry of information and broadcasting's Directorate of Film Festivals in association with the state government would hold a three-day Indian Panorama Film Festiva ... read more

Hamburg | 3 months ago
Germany slams Google for mapping wireless hotspots
Hamburg, April 22 - Google, which is already under fire in Germany, faced a fresh accusation Thursday from government officials of using its camera cars to search for apartment dwellers' wireless hotspots.Johannes Caspar, privacy commissioner for the state of Hamburg, said it was illegal to gather the information. Encrypted WiFi networks or WLANs are often installed in homes to carry phone, radio ... read more

New Delhi | 4 months ago
Addicts of the virtual world could have behavioural problems
New Delhi, April 18 - Is your child hooked on to social networking sites or online gaming sites and exhibiting worrying behavioural changes? Maybe it's time you intervened and consulted a doctor.Vidushi Gupta, 16, used to spend hours on Facebook religiously following her friends and connecting to new people. In the beginning it was fun but slowly it started taking a toll on her health and her pare ... read more

Dhaka | 5 months ago
Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre opens in Dhaka
Dhaka, March 12 - The Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre - has opened in Dhaka with a display of art works by 27 renowned Bangladeshi artists.The IGCC has been set up by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations -, an arm of India's Ministry of External Affairs. It is one of the 24 being set up worldwide this year. The Bangladeshi artists featuring in the group exhibition are those who have studied in ... read more

London | 5 months ago
Move over flat images, TV to assume 3D avatar
London, Feb 27 - Soccer fans watch with bated breath as a penalty striker carefully sets the ball right, just before the kick. Like a cannon ball, the leather sails over and past the heads of the spectators, who are completely awestruck.These fans are not sitting in the stadium, but rather in front of a 3D TV, away from the hustle and bustle of FIFA World Cup football. Experts from the film indust ... read more

Berlin | 6 months ago
'Just Another Love Story' gets full house in Berlin
Berlin, Feb 19 - 'Arekti Premer Golpo' - - a daring, sensitive, layered, gay love story - got full house at the ongoing Berlin International Film Festival. Its director Kaushik Ganguly says he always dreamt of coming here.'Berlin is the Mecca of film and I always dreamed of coming here. But it was still a surprise when my film was selected,' Ganguly, who earlier explored sexuality in his provocati ... read more

Toronto | 6 months ago
Indo-Canadians annoint their first Idol
Toronto, Feb 2 - The huge Indian community here anointed their first-ever 'Indo-Canadian Idol' during belated celebrations of India's Republic Day Sunday.In sub-zero temperatures, over 10,000 people converged on the city's Pearson Convention Centre to enjoy the day-long extravaganza organized by Panorama India, a cultural body of the community in Canada. The high point of the celebrations was the ... read more