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I am not an exemplary parent but I do think often of how I will bring up my child. I offer these thoughts, not to teach parents more capable than I, but just to share the impulses of an ordinary, everyday sort of father. 

High oil prices have made us all miserable. Optimists expect them to fuel alternative lifestyles, especially in oil-dependent United States. The New York Times just reported an increase in use of mass transit systems, for example. 

London, May 10 (ANI): One might call it an obsession or a ritual, but a man making a 275-mile round trip every week, just for having his favourite Sunday lunch has to be something more than that. 

Ramanathapuram (TN), May 10 (PTI) A 21-year old youth from this district of Tamil Nadu has created a new Guinness record by blowing off 151 candles in a single breath. 

On Thursday night, Zee News announced that it was going back to 'real news.' The slightly surly but honest answer to that would be: 'About time. 

With bad governance and civic distress making us distraught and thoughts on Buddha Purnima (May 19) arriving already for Inner Voice, do let us recall Buddha's famous follower, Emperor Ashoka, whose Dharma Chakra pulls our hard-won flag together. 

NEW DELHI (AP) _ The Wadhwas were enjoying a nap after lunch when a team of overzealous New Delhi officials padlocked their gate, trapping the elderly couple inside and inadvertently bringing them to the center of a heated debate about zoning laws and illegal businesses. 

New Delhi, May 7 (PTI) Scientists at Hyderabad-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) have tweaked a gene to alter the sex life of a plant, a move that could lead sustained 

London, May 7 (ANI): A British musician is desperately looking forward to a cure for his hiccups - which have been going on for 15 months. 

She predicts Bollywood's reigning superstar Shah Rukh Khan to make a shift to politics soon. The Indian Premier League is 'cricket on cocaine', she thinks. As for the controversy surrounding cheerleaders, her answer is short and simple - 'Fans are not complaining, only the politicians. 

London, May 7 (ANI): A British musician is desperately looking forward to a cure for his hiccups - which have been going on for 15 months. 

She predicts Bollywood's reigning superstar Shah Rukh Khan to make a shift to politics soon. The Indian Premier League is 'cricket on cocaine', she thinks. As for the controversy surrounding cheerleaders, her answer is short and simple - 'Fans are not complaining, only the politicians. 

The father of the 'problem child' has left for a trip to the other world. 

At around four in the afternoon on April 26, Erik Kurzweil, counsellor in the German embassy, witnessed an incredible sight in the first-floor guestroom of his Malcha Marg bungalow - a huge bird sitting on the bed and flapping its giant wings. 

She's the London-based heiress and philanthropist who paid Bill Clinton a whopping $4,50,000 to speak at the fund-raiser of her Fortune Forum in London. 

New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) India has surplus water and one of the richest traditions of managing it, but still water crisis has reached a critical level in the country, says the author of a new book on the subject. 

Delhi's always been famous for its 'parking' culture - young couples coochie-cooing unhindered in public gardens. But now there's another option for Delhiites - autos. 

Shiv, a 33-year-old engineer, advertised for a partner in the matrimonial column of a national daily. He is looking for a girl - widow, divorcee or single - of any caste and he won't ask for dowry. Shiv is HIV positive, and his only criteria is that anyone interested in him be HIV affected too. 

Kannur, Apr 22 (PTI) Powered by sheer self-confidence, a local woman has embarked upon the unusual task of plucking nuts from coconut trees, so far a male bastion. 

English poet Rupert Brooke wrote: 'A young Apollo, golden-haired/Stands dreaming on the brink of strife/Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.' So 'What is the big dream in your life?' I asked my class of undergraduate second year students at IIT Madras. 

Every tradition has terrible stories about the consequences of anger and this one from Indian mythology haunts me.