Find the latest breaking news from around the world on Reuters.com, including news articles on politics, technology, business, entertainment and more. http://www.reuters.com/ 2009-11-28T13:44:50+01:00 FeedCreator 1.7.2-ppt (info@mypapit.net) 2009-06-03T16:11:02+01:00 2009-06-03T16:11:02+01:00 http://www.reuters.com/article/filmNews/idUSTRE5520X220090603 Rituparna Bhowmik

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A short film about a poor Indian girl with a cleft lip fetched filmmaker Megan Mylan her maiden Oscar this year, and now she can't wait to do more films that could help improve people's lives.

2009-06-03T04:22:48+01:00 2009-06-03T04:22:48+01:00 http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE5520TO20090603 Rituparna Bhowmik

NEW DELHI (Reuters Life!) - A short film about a poor Indian girl with a cleft lip fetched filmmaker Megan Mylan her maiden Oscar this year, and now she can't wait to do more films that could help improve people's lives.

2009-03-04T14:07:52+01:00 2009-03-04T14:07:52+01:00 http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE5231X620090304 Rituparna Bhowmik

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's government intensified efforts to buy back some personal belongings of iconic leader Mahatma Gandhi from an auction in New York as a New Delhi court injunction may have failed to halt the sale.

2009-03-02T14:24:18+01:00 2009-03-02T14:24:18+01:00 http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE5211MA20090302 Rituparna Bhowmik

RAMPUR DHABAHI, India (Reuters Life!) - She's not as famous as the child actors of "Slumdog Millionaire," but Pinki Sonkar is a legend in the Indian village that once ostracized her, thanks to cleft-lip surgery and another Oscar-winning film.

2009-02-27T07:13:07+01:00 2009-02-27T07:13:07+01:00 http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE51Q15L20090227 Rituparna Bhowmik

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, India's iconic freedom hero, is appealing to Indians for money to buy some of the leader's personal belongings in a New York auction and keep them in a museum.

2008-09-26T09:15:11+01:00 2008-09-26T09:15:11+01:00 http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSTRE48P2HH20080926 Rituparna Bhowmik

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Widowed at 30, HIV- positive Chhaya Tope had resigned herself to a life of loneliness, but a website for Indians afflicted with AIDS has given her another chance at love.

2008-07-25T16:25:53+01:00 2008-07-25T16:25:53+01:00 http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSBOM3783920080725 Rituparna Bhowmik

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Thousands of users on YouTube, the popular video-sharing website, are toasting two young Indian politicians, one of them seen as a potential prime minister, after they spoke eloquently in a parliamentary debate last week.

2008-06-27T07:22:48+01:00 2008-06-27T07:22:48+01:00 http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSSP17560720080627 Rituparna Bhowmik

NEW DELHI (Reuters Life!) - Born with both male and female genitalia, a life of uncertainty seemed to await Ali and his family, but changing attitudes means hermaphrodites once-scorned in India are finding their place.

2008-05-05T13:41:47+01:00 2008-05-05T13:41:47+01:00 http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSPAR54727320080505 Rituparna Bhowmik

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Doctors have long been the butt of jokes for their illegible handwriting, but GPs in India are being urged to neaten and computerize their scrawl to prevent patients being given wrong drugs that could prove deadly.

2007-12-05T07:32:43+01:00 2007-12-05T07:32:43+01:00 http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSDEL7642020071205 Rituparna Bhowmik

NEW DELHI (Reuters Life!) - Hate your name? In India, chances are your parents, neighbors, well-meaning relatives, religious tradition, and even the Internet, are all to blame.