Chinese Swimmer Gives Zero F**ks About Being On Her Period At Rio
Last week, the world saw red after a leisure centre banned women from using the swimming pool while menstruating.But now a Chinese Olympic swimmer has blown period taboos out of the water, after she...
View ArticleKejriwal Made India Look Bad By Snoozing During Modi's Independence Day Address
India celebrated its 70th Independence Day on 15 August, 2016. A lot has happened since the year 2014, when the BJP government took power at the Centre and Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal left...
View ArticleI Said No To Kanyadaan And All Hell Broke Loose
With my wedding a few months away, I started taking greater interest in the rituals that are a customary part of traditional Hindu nuptials. I have always loved the idea of a traditional wedding but...
View ArticleWhy We Need To Pay Attention To Tharoor's Push for Presidential-Type City...
India's cities are a mess because local governments are totally inept and unaccountable. The 74th Amendment's attempt more than 20 years ago to establish urban local bodies as institutions of...
View ArticleHow Artificial Intelligence Is Gearing Up To Enhance Your User Experience
Consider this scenario: You switch on your TV at 8pm every day, look through the channels and select BBC. This is a daily routine. Now, imagine a different scenario, where your TV understands you, and...
View Article'Rustom': Akshay Kumar Is The Saving Grace Of This Bumbling Drama
Directed by Tinu Suresh Desai, the courtroom drama Rustom is loosely based on the infamous Nanavati trial of 1959, wherein Naval Commander Kawas Manekshaw Nanavati was tried for the murder of Prem...
View ArticleThere's Shobhaa De... And Then There's The Rest Of Us
The other day there was a huge uproar on Twitter when our very own Jackie Collins of India, Shobhaa De, made certain uncharitable remarks mocking the Indian contingent at the Rio Olympics. It is not...
View ArticleRio Olympics 2016: PV Sindhu Beats World No. 2 To Enter Badminton Semi Finals
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Shuttler PV Sindhu raised serious hopes of breaking India's long-awaited medal quest in the Rio Olympics by storming into the semifinals of the women's singles event with a stunning...
View ArticleKite String Slits Three People's Throats In Delhi, Govt Imposes Ban
NEW DELHI -- Two children and a youth died on Independence Day as Chinese kite string (manja), coated with powdered glass, slit their throats in separate incidents across the national capital,...
View ArticleLeEco, CoolPad Launch Cool 1 With Dual Camera Setup
LeEco and Coolpad announced their first joint gadget in the smartphone market named Cool 1. This comes after LeEco acquired a controlling stake of 28.6% in Coolpad. The phone which has been launched in...
View ArticleThese Farmers Are Using Science To Fight Food Waste And They Need Our Help
If you belong to the tribe that cringes at La Tomatina, that annual festival in Spain when colossal quantities of tomatoes are flung around and squashed just for the fun of it, then read on. You will...
View ArticleThe Morning Wrap: 3 Killed In Militant Attack In Baramulla; Abhinav Bindra...
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 HuffPostModi is not...
View ArticleOla Is Shutting TaxiForSure, Laying Off Up To 1,000 Employees: Report
Cab services company Ola is winding down its TaxiForSure division, less than two years after it bought the company for $200 million because of resource crunch, according to a report by VCCircle which...
View ArticleAIB Comic Rohan Joshi's Story Of Getting Bullied By A Professor Sounds...
Sushant Rohilla was a 21-year-old BA LLB student of Amity University, who was allegedly debarred from college due to low attendance. On Sunday, his mother came back home and found Sushant hanging from...
View ArticleThis Video Talks About Accepting Homosexuality In The Coolest Way Possible
A new video released on India's independence day makes a case for the freedom to love who you want through the figure of a Punjabi aunty talking to her friend about a mutual acquaintance's gay son...
View ArticleCisco To Cut 14,000 Jobs In Massive Global Cull: Report
Networking equipment maker Cisco Systems will cut about 20 per cent of its global workforce, laying off about 14,000 employees, tech news site CRN reported citing sources.Cisco will announce the cuts...
View ArticleSo, Simone Biles Finally Met Zac Efron And He Gave Her A Kiss
Simone Biles finally got to meet longtime celebrity crush Zac Efron after months of flirting on Twitter. It looks like it was magical. We'll let the photos speak for themselves:As if this week couldn't...
View Article15-Meter-Long Bunker Found Below Raj Bhavan In Maharashtra
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View ArticleNargis Fakhri Robbed Of Rs 6 Lakh In Credit Card Fraud
Actor and model Nargis Fakhri has lost Rs 6 lakh to fraudulent credit card transactions made in the United States, according to news reports.The actress, who was recently seen in Dishoom, discovered...
View ArticleSri Sri Event Completely Destroyed Yamuna's Floodplain, Says Expert Panel
The massive 'World Culture Festival' held on the banks of the river Yamuna in Delhi by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's Art of Living (AOL) has "completely destroyed" the Yamuna floodplain, a group of experts...
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