‘Prisoner of the State’ tops bestseller list again

October 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Amartya Sen's "The Idea of Justice" climbed eight steps to reach the number one spot in the non-fiction section of the bestseller list this week while "The Lost Symbol" by author Dan Brown continued to dominate the fiction category. The top 10 in each section are as follows: Non-fiction 1.

August 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The controversial book "Jinnah: India-Partition Independence" by Jaswant Singh predictably tops the non-fiction section of the bestseller list here in the first week of its release while Ali Sethi's "The Wish Maker: A Novel" continued at the No.1 position in the fiction category for the third week in a row. The top 10 in each section are: Non-fiction 1.

July 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Arundhati Roy's new book "Listening To Grass Hoppers: Field Notes on Democracy" topped the non-fiction category of the bestseller list this week while "The Wish Maker: A Novel" by Ali Sethi dominated the fiction list. The top 10 in each section are: Non-fiction 1.

June 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - "The Toss Of Lemon" by a Canada-based Indian writer tops the fiction section this week while "Prisoner Of The State" by late Chinese premier Zhao Ziyang dominates non-fiction in the bestselling list. The top 10 in each section is as follows: Fiction 1.

June 15th, 2009 LONDON - Prince Harry has topped a women's magazine's list of 50 "sexy" men, emerging as Britain's most eligible bachelor. The royal was said to have won the vote of his new girlfriend and TV presenter Caroline Flack, who formed a part of the panel for the women's magazine, Company.

April 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Aatish Taseer's book 'Stranger to History' continued to dominate the bestseller list in the non-fiction category for the third week while Paulo Coelho was the new author atop the fiction list, with his latest 'The Winner Stands Alone'. The top 10 in each group are: Non-fiction 1.

April 21st, 2009 LONDON - British Oscar winning actress Kate Winslet has topped the list of Ultimate Natural Beauty by beating movie legend Audrey Hepburn. Winslet was declared as having 'a classic English rose complexion without needing lots of make-up to look stunning'.

April 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Nearly 300 candidates with criminal records from different political parties are fighting the second phase of Lok Sabha polls on April 23, with the Congress party topping the list with 40, according to a survey. According to an analysis by an NGO, National Election Watch, of the 1,425 candidates in the fray for the second phase, 288 have criminal records.

April 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Nearly 300 candidates with criminal records from different political parties are fighting the second phase of Lok Sabha polls on April 23, with the Congress party topping the list with 40, according to a survey. According to an analysis by an NGO, National Election Watch, of the 1,425 candidates in the fray for the second phase, 288 have criminal records.

April 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Nearly 300 candidates with criminal records from different political parties are fighting the second phase of Lok Sabha polls on April 23, with the Congress party topping the list with 40, according to a survey. According to an analysis by an NGO, National Election Watch, of the 1,425 candidates in the fray for the second phase, 288 have criminal records.

April 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Aatish Taseer makes his mark on the bestseller list as his 'Stranger to History' tops the charts in the non-fiction category this week, while the king of racy fiction Jeffrey Archer tops the fiction category with his new 'Paths of Glory'. The top 10 in each group are: Non-fiction 1.

March 12th, 2009 LONDON - Girls Aloud singer and X Factor judge Cheryl Cole has landed the top spot in Tatler magzine's 'best dressed' list of 2009. Cole has become a style icon as her star has soared in the last year.

March 12th, 2009 LONDON - Using thermal imaging technology, a team of energy surveyors has determined that the Buckingham Palace tops the list of the "dirty dozen" league of London's most environmentally damaging buildings. According to a report in the Telegraph, the team labeled the palace "shocking and appalling", the biggest "central heating radiator" in the Capital and gave it a score of 0 out of 10.

January 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - There was a clutch of new entries such as 'The Story of My Assassins' by Tarun J. Tejpal, 'Scarpetta' by Patricia Cornwell and 'Silks' by D Francis & F Francis in the fiction bestseller list this week.

December 24th, 2008 NEW DELHI - While the top of the bestseller lists remained the same this week, with Nandan Nilekani's 'Imagining India' atop the non-fiction category and Aravind Adiga's 'The White Tiger' heading the fiction group, two books by US president-elect Barack Obama return to the bestseller list. The top 10 in the non-fiction and fiction lists are: Non-Fiction 1.