A Maharashtra School Had A Question About Virat Kohli's Girlfriend In An Exam
Fans of Bollywood will be aware of Indian batsman Virat Kohli's relationship with Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma. They will also know how the two met -- on the sets of a shampoo brand they jointly...
View ArticleAny Interference In Muslim Personal Law Will Not Be Tolerated, Says Muslim...
MUMBAI -- Scholars and clergymen from different Muslim sections, under the banner of All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat, on Monday registered their protest against the Law Commission's consultation...
View ArticleTwitter, 'A Graveyard Of Bullies', Will Close Down In Five Years, Says Chetan...
Bestselling author Chetan Bhagat, who has often been the target of social media trolls, feels Twitter has become a "graveyard of bullies". Hitting out at Twitterati who gang up against celebrities, he...
View ArticleKapil Sharma Challenges BMC Demolition Order In Bombay HC
MUMBAI -- Standup comedian Kapil Sharma has approached the Bombay High Court challenging a notice issued by BMC directing razing of an illegal structure allegedly constructed by him at his flat in...
View ArticleAuto Guy Hands Actress ₹100 In Monopoly Money, Drives Off Into Sunset
Every time someone hands us a ₹500 or a ₹1,000 note, we spend a good amount of time making sure it is legit and not counterfeit. But we do not bother with the ₹100 note because, really, why would...
View ArticlePatna Is The Top User Of Google's Free Wi-Fi At Railway Stations, Mostly For...
Update: RailTel, which has partnered with Google, to work on this project has denied this and called it 'completely false'. Read the story here. Earlier this year, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that...
View ArticleHackers Post Dating Links On CEA Arvind Subramanian's Twitter Account
Your social media accounts might feel very secure and practically 'unhackable' but truth is that they are not. At least not in 2016. On Monday, Indian economist and the Chief Economic Adviser to the...
View ArticleArnab Goswami To Get 'Y' Category Security Cover After Threats From 'Pakistan...
Following a threat from "Pakistan-based terrorist groups," and a threat perception analysis by the Intelligence Bureau, the editor-in-chief of Times Now, Arnab Goswami, will be provided security by the...
View ArticleDevelopment Versus Environment Is A 'False Choice' For India, Says UN Green...
NEW DELHI -- Earlier this month, HuffPost India met with Erik Solheim, head of the United Nations Environment Program, for a freewheeling discussion on issues ranging from the clean up of the Ganga to...
View ArticleFive Books By Pakistani Writers That Deserve To Be Celebrated More Often
Since the attack on the Indian army headquarters in Uri by terrorists from Pakistan, followed by India's "surgical strikes" along the Line of Control (LoC), artistes from across the border have become...
View ArticleUnion Minister Mahesh Sharma Is Visiting Ayodhya To Inspect Land For A...
Tourism Minister Mahesh Sharma will visit Ayodhya on Tuesday to inspect the proposed site for setting up a Ramayana museum, a move seen as an attempt to woo pro-Hindutva elements ahead of assembly...
View ArticleCome And Debate Us On Soumya Rape Verdict, Supreme Court Tells Markandey Katju
The Supreme Court has summoned former Supreme Court judge, Justice Markandey Katju, to explain how the apex court had "erred" by commuting the death penalty for the man convicted in the 2011 Soumya...
View ArticleRSS Teaching At The Core Of Surgical Strikes, Says Defence Minister Manohar...
AHMEDABAD -- Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Monday appeared to give credit to "RSS teaching" for the decision to launch cross-LoC surgical strikes even as he slammed those seeking proof for the...
View ArticleWe Have No Way Of Knowing If Free Wifi Users Are Surfing Porn: RailTel
Earlier today, a report said that most users of free Wi-Fi at the Patna railway station use it to visit porn sites. A RailTel spokesperson has now denied it, calling the story 'completely false.' The...
View ArticleAt Least 17 Dead In Major Fire At A Private Hospital In Odisha
BHUBANESWAR -- At least 17 patients died and around 12 others injured in a fire that broke out at the Sum Hospital here this evening, in one of the worst such incidents involving a medical facility....
View ArticleAkhilesh Yadav Will Be SP's CM Face In 2017: Samajwadi Party
Seeking to put at rest the controversy raised by SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav's statement that the legislature party will decide on its next chief ministerial candidate, party vice-president Kironmoy...
View ArticleWhen Chess Grandmaster Nazi Paikidze Said No To The Hijab, She Also Unveiled...
Georgian-American grandmaster Nazi Paikidze's decision to boycott the Women's World Chess Championship in Iran—due to the requirement for players to wear hijabs—has had a strange, unintended...
View ArticleBob Dylan's Writing A Novel To Prove Naysayers Wrong
Bob Dylan is all set to publish his first novel to prove to the purists of social media that he deserves the Nobel Prize. On 13 October 2016, when Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature...
View ArticlePlease Throw Away Your Muffler This Winter, Mr. Kejriwal
They say god works in mysterious ways, but to me there's no greater mystery than our very own aam admi, Arvind Kejriwal. Arvind Kejriwal is turning out to be a man full of so many complexities that...
View ArticleNot A Charity: Khusi Hona Shows People How To Make Themselves Smile
Artisans at Khusi Hona's Lotus Center in Goa. Photo credit: Geet Sharma I first met Matthew van Rooyen, 35, in the outskirts of Kathmandu, under the eerie shadows of the damaged Boudha Stupa, three...
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