Cahill in talks with Jamshedpur FC to join Indian Super League

SOCCEROOS great Tim Cahill is reportedly in advanced talks with Jamshedpur FC to play in the Indian Super League. The 38-year-old announced his retirement from international football in July but ruled out the prospect of an A-League return saying he intended to live in America, prompting speculation the striker was looking to move back to […]

Photos show the destruction from flooding in the Indian state of Kerala, killing at least 350 people

Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times via Getty Images At least 350 people have been killed and more than 800,000 residents are displaced after torrential rains led to mass flooding in the Indian state of Kerala. Record monsoon rains have brought the coastal southern state to a standstill since late May, triggering landslides and flooding that engulfed […]

Stanley Johnson makes Indian Maharaja gaffe on The Real Marigold Hotel – watch here

Episode two of the BBC show saw the group of celebrities continue their travels around India to see whether retirement would be more rewarding there than in the UK. The group received a grand invitation from the Maharaja and were invited to mingle with Udaipur’s high society at the City Palace. While there, they enjoyed […]

Google engineer beaten to death, 3 critical in Indian lynch mob attack fueled by ‘kidnapping’ rumor

One man has been killed and three are fighting for their lives after an angry mob of 200 ruthlessly beat them, responding to a public call for “help” in which the group of men was misidentified as suspected child kidnappers. Google software engineer, Mohammad Azam, was beaten to death while three others, including a Qatari […]

Child dies in horror Indian Ferris wheel crash (GRAPHIC)

A young girl has been killed and at least six others injured in a Ferris wheel crash in India. The wheel operator was arrested after the fatal incident and stands accused of negligence. The accident happened Sunday night in the town of Anantapur in the state of Andhra Pradesh, reported the Times of India. A cabin […]

‘Venus’ Review: A Delightful, Cross-Cultural Transgender Comedy [New York Indian Film Festival]

I’m going to spoil Venus for you up front: it’s a film that ends happily. This isn’t so much a spoiler, though, as much as it is a reassurance of what becomes amply clear mere minutes in. It’s a family comedy – in tone, structure and everything else – and thus, it’s a queer narrative […]

‘The Hungry’ Review: Shakespeare’s Bloodiest Play Becomes an Indian Crime Drama [New York Indian Film Festival]

The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus is one of the harder-to-adapt Shakespeare plays. Its ultra-violence can border on self-parody if mishandled, and losing that element of the story leaves it somewhat limp. Even when juggled deftly, it’s simply grotesque. Though as with any transposition of the Bard to a modern setting – in this case, […]

Think Pink: A First Look at the Sands Hotel & Spa in Indian Wells, California

First Look: the Sands Hotel & Spa in Indian Wells, California Advertiser Disclosure The credit card offers that appear on the website are from credit card companies from which ThePointsGuy.com receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site (including, for example, the order in which they appear). This site […]

Indian states squabble over how to share out federal cash

THE population of Uttar Pradesh is over 220m, enough to make the northern Indian state the world’s fifth-most populous country. But statistics still used by bureaucrats in New Delhi put it at less than 85m. Antiquated census data are used to split everything from federal funding to seats in the national parliament. A proposal to […]