London Schoolgirl Who Left To Join ISIS Killed In Syria, Lawyer Says
One of three schoolgirls who left London in February 2015 to join the Islamic State militant group has died, her family lawyer told Reuters on Thursday.Attorney Tasnime Akunjee said the family of...
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Sania, Bopanna Get Medal Hopes Up By Entering Mixed Doubles Semi Finals In Rio
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna subdued Britain's Andy Murray and Heather Watson with remarkable ease to breeze into the mixed doubles semifinals of the Rio Olympic Games.The fourth...
View ArticleRio Olympics 2016: Boxer Vikas Krishan Enters Quarterfinals
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Vikas Krishan stood a win away from an elusive Olympic medal as the Indian outclassed Turkey's Sipal Onder 3-0 to comfortably advance to the quarterfinals of men's 75kg middleweight...
View ArticleCould An Islamist-Separatist Alliance Be Brewing In Balochistan?
Another day, another senseless massacre. This time on 8 August in Quetta, provincial capital of Pakistan's sparsely populated and restive Balochistan province, where a suicide bombing at a local...
View ArticleThree 'Mucche-Gilli-Ho' Pegs With The Sardar Of Scotch
Khushwant Singh is dead. Long live his works. When he passed away at 99 in 2014, the "Sardar of Sex and Scotch" as he was notoriously known had more books, novels, short story and poetry collections to...
View ArticleWhy India Needs Private Investment In Healthcare
Over the last decade, India's disease burden has undergone a transition, with non-communicable diseases accounting for about 55% of the premature mortality in the age group of 30-69 years. Unhealthy...
View Article'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' Is Anything But Magic
One of the better terms I have come across for Jack Thorne's play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is "author-sanctioned fan-fiction." It's true -- the eighth story, 19 years later is fan-fiction that...
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18 Things We Have Learnt About Indians From Tinder
Let's face it, given that the love of all our lives is a pocket-sized gadget called the smartphone, the chances of finding a human to love depends heavily on Tinder. And if it fails, one must resign to...
View ArticleShah Rukh Khan Should Have Returned After Another Insult In The US, Says Shiv...
MUMBAI -- Superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who was detained at an American airport, should have displayed patriotic credentials and returned to India after another "insult" in the US, the Shiv Sena said...
View ArticleSC Warns Centre Over Non-Compliance Of Collegium's Decision On Judges
NEW DELHI -- Observing that justice delivery system is "collapsing", the Supreme Court yesterday sent out a stern message to the Centre over non-execution of collegium's decision to transfer and...
View ArticleBJP Supporter Killed In Clashes Over Cow Smuggling In UP
BALLIA -- A BJP supporter died when party workers clashed with police while protesting the arrest of five persons on charges of cow smuggling in Narhi area, today.While the protesters alleged that the...
View ArticleBurkinis Banned From Cannes Beach After French Terror Attacks
The mayor of Cannes has banned full-body, head-covering swimsuits worn by some Muslim women from the resort's beaches.The ban on so-called burkinis, at the height of the French Riviera holiday season,...
View ArticleIn This Gujarat Village With 99% Literacy, Dalits And Upper Castes Have...
Protests against atrocities on Dalits in Gujarat reached a flashpoint mid-July this year, however, the state has had a long history of discrimination against Dalits. For example, an article on the...
View Article20-Year-Old Woman Gangraped Twice In Maharashtra's Palghar
PALGHAR -- A 20-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped twice in a week by four persons, police said today.The incident took place near a leprosy centre on 5 August and again on 11 August, the police...
View ArticleGurbaksh Chahal, Indian-Origin Tech Mogul, Gets 1 Year In Jail In Domestic...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Internet mogul Gurbaksh Chahal who sold his startup for $300 million at the age of 25 and appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show as a highly eligible bachelor was sentenced on Friday to a...
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A Gandhi-Edhi Plea For India-Pakistan Peace On 70th Independence Day
'In the dark times/Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing/About the dark times.'These soul-stirring lines were written by Bertolt Brecht, the great German anti-Nazi poet and...
View ArticleSeparatists Counter PM Modi, Say Kashmir Isn't India's Internal Issue
NEW DELHI -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi met national party leaders on Friday to seek ways to end weeks of unrest in Kashmir, but a separatist group said there would be no peace until Indian...
View ArticleChinese Foreign Minister Calls On PM Modi, Holds Talks With Sushma Swaraj
New Delhi--Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi today called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and held talks with his counterpart Sushma Swaraj. India's bid for NSG membership is believed to have figured in...
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Who Does Meryl Streep Think Should Play Her In A Biopic?
It's hard to have a quality conversation in five minutes, but that is sometimes the nature of the celebrity junket. You can prep questions and practice power poses in the mirror all you want ― you may...
View ArticleKerala To Celebrate Adoor Gopalakrishnan's 50 Years In Indian Cinema
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM -- Dadasaheb Phalke awardee Malayalam filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan's 50th year in cinema and his 75th birthday will be celebrated by screening his films and documentaries on his...
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