Pak Summons Indian Envoy For The Fourth Time In A Week Over 'Ceasefire...
ISLAMABAD-- Pakistan today summoned India's Deputy High Commissioner for the fourth time in just over a week and lodged a strong protest over alleged "unprovoked ceasefire violations" by Indian forces...
View ArticleHere's Why You Must Teach Your Kids To Not Fat-Shame Other Students In School
It was an afternoon class when a group of people from an NGO came to school to teach the students how to keep themselves safe during an earthquake. Since Assam was and still is a high risk zone -- Zone...
View ArticleRemoval Of Cyrus Mistry Was 'Absolutely Necessary' For Our Success, Ratan...
MUMBAI-- As ousted Tata Group Chairman Cyrus Mistry stepped up attack, Ratan Tata today hit back saying his removal was "absolutely necessary" for the future success of the Tata Group. "The decision...
View ArticleBhopal Muslim Clerics Question SIMI Men Encounter, Call It 'Highly Suspicious'
BHOPAL-- Leading Muslim clerics in Bhopal on Tuesday expressed doubts over the veracity of the encounter in which eight SIMI operatives were gunned down near Acharpura in the outskirts of Bhopal on...
View ArticleBetween Internet Ban And Burning Schools, Normalcy Is Slipping Further From...
Around 26 schools in Kashmir have been burned down in the last 4 months — 115 days, to be precise — according to a report in The Times of India. The situation is so dire that a division bench of Jammu...
View ArticleWith Bhopal SIMI Encounter, All Suspects Of 2014 Pune Blast Case Now Dead
PUNE -- Three among eight members of SIMI who were killed in an alleged encounter by Madhya Pradesh police after they escaped from Bhopal Central Jail on Monday, were the suspects in a 2014 bomb blast...
View Article'Vasco Cop Made Me Strip, Clicked My Naked Pictures,' Alleges 21-Year-Old Youth
PANAJI -- A 21-year-old youth has claimed that he was made to strip and his photos were clicked by a sub-inspector while in custody of Vasco police. The youth, accused of not returning ₹9,000 which he...
View ArticleSlain SIMI Men Buried In Madhya Pradesh, One Taken To Gujarat By Family
BHOPAL -- Bodies of seven of the eight SIMI activists, who were killed in an alleged police encounter following a daring prison break here, were today laid to rest in different parts of Madhya Pradesh...
View ArticleRatan Tata To Form New Group Management Structure Within Days
MUMBAI -- Ratan Tata, interim chairman of India's Tata Sons conglomerate, will outline a revamped top management structure for the $100 billion group within days, a person close to the company told...
View ArticleSo, Junior Home Minister Kiren Rijiju Thinks Questioning Authorities Is 'Not...
As a controversial video of the Bhopal encounter started doing the rounds on social media and was played out on television channels through the day yesterday, questions have been raised on what exactly...
View Article6 Things That A Background Check Will Sniff Out About You
Looking for a job? Here's the good news. If a company is conducting a background check on you then the chances of you getting the job are quite bright. By and large companies screen candidates that...
View ArticleWhy The Community Must Raise A Stink To Make India Free Of Open Defection
To make India open defecation-free (ODF), collaboration between government bodies, civil society organizations and community-based volunteers is essential. Evidence from development...
View ArticleThe Muslim Dewans Of Banares: Stories From My Family
Stories of kings and queens fascinate all children and we were no different. We never grew tired of hearing Amma tell us stories about the Kashi Naresh (king of Banares) and her life in Ramnagar, in...
View ArticleFrom A Fun Idea To Getting Published: A 5-Chapter Journey
We are often lied to that there is nothing known as a time machine. I prove those people wrong by presenting them with a book. These individual words strung together are time travellers and...
View ArticleBhopal Killings: Fake Encounters Should Be Punishable By Death
An Allahabad High Court judge, Justice A.N. Mulla said in a judgment in 1960 or so, "I say it with all sense of responsibility that there is not a single lawless group in the whole country whose record...
View ArticleThe Morning Wrap: SIMI Killings Under Scrutiny; Schools Burn In Kashmir
The Morning Wrap is HuffPost India's selection of interesting news and opinion from the day's newspapers. Subscribe here to receive it in your inbox each weekday morning. Essential HuffPost A day after...
View ArticleThirty Years After Photographing The 1984 Riots, This Delhi Man Took Photos...
After Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards on 31 October, 1984, riots broke out in different parts of Delhi and the city witnessed a violent bloodbath. At least 2,000...
View ArticleOdisha's Japanese Encephalitis Death Toll Reaches 80
BHUBANESWAR -- The death toll due to the deadly Japanese Encephalitis virus in Odisha's Malkangiri district reached over 80, with three more children deaths yesterday. The death toll has reached 80 in...
View ArticleThank You Naveen Patnaik, For Doing Something About The 'Living Sati' Of Our...
It is not very often that I indulge in the ardent regionalism which seems to affect my countrypeople. I have always considered myself "Indian'' first and not really got down to being Odiya. At times,...
View ArticleThree Dead, Ten Injured In Fire In Delhi's Shahdara
NEW DELHI -- Three persons were on Wednesday charred to death and 10 others injured after a major fire broke out in a house in northeast Delhi's Shahdara area, officials said. A call was received at...
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