Top BCCI officials Shirke, Jagdale quit

New Delhi: Two top BCCI officials — secretary Sanjay Jagdale and treasurer Ajay Shirke — on May 31 quit from their respective posts in a bid to put pressure on beleaguered Cricket Board president N. Srinivasan in the wake of the IPL spot-fixing and betting scandal.

Jagdale said he quit from his post as he was deeply hurt by the current crisis that has hit Indian cricket. "Yes, that's true, I have resigned from the post of honorary secretary of BCCI," Jagdale said.

He, however, refused to divulge the detail...

US students fall in love with Indian culture

Washington, DC: Highly impressed by the rich diversity of Indian culture, four American high school students say their year-long stay in India has been a life-changing experience, which taught them family values and serious work ethics.

One year ago, Ryley Conway, Magie Alexander, Rowan Croswell and Mila Loneman - coming from different parts of the US — had a very little knowledge about India.

In fact all of them were anxious about their year-long stay in India, which they had earned under Kennedy-Lugar YE...

New AAPI chief vows to fight childhood obesity in US

Chicago: Dr. Jayesh Shah, who took over as president of American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI), at its 31st annual convention held at the prestigious Sheraton Hotel and Towers  of Chicago for five days from May 23 to May 27, vowed to deal with child- hood obesity in the US by adopting 100 schools in all its 50 states.

He received the symbolic gavel from outgoing president Dr. Narendra Kumar at the gala banquet on May 26.

13-year-old Arvind wins National Spelling Bee

Oxon Hill, MD: Thirteen-year-old Indian-American Arvind Mahankali scripted history by winning this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee as children from the community dominated the prestigious contest for the sixth year in a row, grabbing the top three slots.

Arvind, who is from New York, won the contest by correctly spelling German word “knaidel,” which means a small mass of leavened dough, to win the 86th version of the competition on May 30.

This is the sixth consecutive year that an Indian-American has...

Centenary of Indian cinema What auto industry can teach our movie moguls

Filmwallahs can learn many lessons from the Indian auto industry — like the success of the small car. There is also a lesson to learn from the Chinese who, while protecting their industry from the Hollywood onslaught, grew their own cinema and made Jackie Chan a global name.

Indian cinema is 100 year old this year. It now needs to grow up. As we raise a toast to a century of Indian cinematic excellence, the opportunity to take global center stage has never been better.

India's demography and domestic size...

It’s raining dons!

The audiences love to see good triumph over bad and gangster tales offer an unrepentant evil that the good guys have to take down, or the underdog, who fights an unfair system and helps others. In either case, the gangster is the source of conflict and drama, ideal to draw attention. Also these works introduce us to the lives and world of people like Haji Mastan, Karim Lala and Dawood.

By Nidhi Sethi

Gangsters and organized crime have always fascinated storytellers. While some of the biggest books and mov...

36 years of publishing excellence All love India Tribune

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India Tribune is now 36 years old and it is heading for Golden Jubilee. During these 36 years of publishing journey, India Tribune did face ups and downs, but thanks to our loyal readers, staunch patrons and supportive  advertisers, we have been able to overcome obstacles from time to time. In the last three years, over 14 major mainstream newspapers have filed bankruptcy due to morbid economy, but India Tribune continues to withstand this fiscal strain. Support from our readers and adverti...

Senate approves Srinivasan's nomination to a top US court

Washington DC: Indian-American Srikanth Srinivasan inched closer to scripting history as the first South Asian judge after a key Senate committee confirmed his nomination to the DC Circuit Court, America's second highest.

Described as "trailblazer" by US President Barack Obama, Chandigarh-born Srinivasan's nomination to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit was unanimously approved by the 18-member Senate Judiciary Committee on May 16.

He was first nominated to the post by Obama near...

Sanjay wants to be shifted from anda cell

Mumbai: Actor Sanjay Dutt, sent to the Arthur Road Central Jail here, spent a restless night reading spiritual books, while his lawyer on May 17, requested the TADA court to shift him from the high-security egg-shaped cell where he felt suffocated, seeking permission to move him to Pune’s Yerwada prison.

“The ‘anda’ (egg-shaped) cell does not have enough light and Dutt felt suffocated due to insufficient ventilation,” his lawyer Rizwan Merchant told the TADA court. Dutt had been sentenced under Arms Act ...

Sree, Chavan ‘confess’ to spot-fixing

New Delhi: More players, including two foreign cricketers, have come under the scanner of the Delhi Police in connection with the Indian Premier League (IPL) spot-fixing scam even as six bookies were held in Tamil Nadu in connection with another IPL betting racket.

The police claimed that Indian pacer Sreesanth and Ankeet Chavan — two of the three arrested Rajasthan Royal (RR) players — have "confessed" to the spot-fixing charge.

The role of more players whose names cropped up during the interrogation of ...