Crossings

Mala Nagarajan and Vega Subramaniam are the first Same-Sex Indian Couple in the US to be married as per traditional Hindu rituals.

Oscar-winning British actor, novelist and playwright Peter Ustinov dies at 82. His multi-hued career had an Indian aside when Indira Gandhi was assassinated just feet away from his TV crew.

Ireland has become the first country in the world to Ban Smoking in all its restaurants and pubs.

British broadcaster Alistair Cooke meets his final deadline at 95. He had left BBC only recently after 58 years on the trot of A Letter from America.

Jan Sterling, the wily blonde of Hollywood noir films of the ’40s and the ’50s, dies at 82.