Maria Bello comes out as gay

Last Updated: Monday, December 2, 2013, 14:37

Maria Bello has revealed that she is gay and has been in a longtime relationship with another women.

INSO makes it to Guinness Book of World Records

Last Updated: Sunday, December 1, 2013, 22:27

Indian National Lokdal`s (INLD) students wing Indian National Students` Organisation (INSO) has made it to the Guinness Book of World Records by filling in over ten thousand organ donation forms within eight hours.

Apple unhappy with e-books monitor pay and power

Last Updated: Saturday, November 30, 2013, 11:08

Apple wants to rein in the pay and power of a monitor hired to watch over the company as punishment for conviction in an e-book price-fixing case.

World`s most expensive book sells for $14mn in New York

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 27, 2013, 19:18

The translation of Biblical psalms "The Bay Psalm Book" was printed by Puritan settlers in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1640 and sold at a one-lot auction in just minutes by Sotheby`s.

Woman held captive in Cleveland has book deal

Last Updated: Monday, November 25, 2013, 14:01

Michelle Knight`s memoir is scheduled to come out next spring, publisher Weinstein Books announced today.

Fatima Bhutto denies reports of Bollywood dreams

Last Updated: Friday, November 15, 2013, 18:51

Pakistani author Fatima Bhutto has shot down rumours that she had turned down a role in a big-budget Bollywood film.

`Malala`s book banned as she represents West, not Pakistan`

Last Updated: Monday, November 11, 2013, 12:59

The memoir written by teen Pakistani activist Malala Yousufzai was banned from all private schools in Pakistan as she represented the West and not her native country, said the head of schools` association.

Book fair at Patna Gandhi Maidan two weeks after serial blasts

Last Updated: Sunday, November 10, 2013, 22:33

Rocked by serial blasts two weeks ago, the Gandhi Maidan on Sunday buzzed with activity as a book fair started on the sprawling grounds under tight security arrangements, official sources said.

Malala`s book banned by private schools in Pakistan

Last Updated: Sunday, November 10, 2013, 18:37

A book by Malala Yousufzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl who fearlessly took on the Taliban, has been banned by a federation of private schools in Pakistan which said it would have a "negative" impact on students, a British daily reported Sunday.

Death mystery fuels JFK movie, book industry

Last Updated: Sunday, November 10, 2013, 15:59

The enduring mystery surrounding John F Kennedy`s assassination has drawn generations of writers, commentators and filmmakers, though some have been more successful than others.

Jon Favreau in talks to direct `The Jungle Book` adaptation

Last Updated: Thursday, November 7, 2013, 12:48

Mowgli and his friends are headed for a big screen adventure with Disney negotiating a deal with director Jon Favreau to adapt Rudyard Kipling`s India-set story.

Shakuntala Devi honoured by calculator-styled Google doodle

Last Updated: Monday, November 4, 2013, 09:36

Today Google celebrates the 84th birth anniversary of mathematical genius Shakuntala Devi with its customary doodle. Shakuntala Devi, popularly known as the "Human Computer", was a child prodigy and mental calculator who had the remarkable ability to mentally solve complex mathematical problems. Google paid its tribute to her with a calculator font and her smiling picture.