Almost Half Of The Victims In The Turkey Bombing Were Under The Age Of 14
At least 22 of the victims in a suicide bomb attack on a wedding party in the southeastern Turkish city of Gaziantep at the weekend were under the age of 14, a government official said on Monday.A...
View ArticleIran: Russia Is No Longer Using Our Air Base For Strikes On Syria
Iran said on Monday that Russia has stopped using an Iranian air base for strikes in Syria, a week after Moscow announced that its fighter bombers had flown from a base in Iran to hit targets in...
View ArticleMexican President Enrique Pena Nieto Accused Of Plagiarism
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto plagiarized nearly a third of his 1991 undergraduate law thesis, according to a report published on Sunday by one of Mexico's leading...
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This Week In India Showed Up Two Terrible Laws That Should Have Gone Home...
What a strange country we live in. In the last few days two very different entities have tripped over two archaic laws left behind by the British. That this has happened just around the grand hoopla...
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Sindhu And Sakshi Eschew Fast Food, But Pizza Brands Attempt Guerrilla...
All the Sindhus and Sakshis of India, come and enjoy a Pizza. Free, Free, Free.The Pizza Hut chain said it was a "small token of appreciation for Indian Olympians who won medals at Rio". As a marketing...
View ArticleGuns Fall Silent In Chambal As Police Shoots Its Last Bandit Head
BHOPAL -- Dacoit Bharosi Mallah, the last surviving major bandit in Chambal region of Madhya Pradesh, was killed on Sunday.Mallah was killed in an exchange of fire with the police in forests of...
View ArticleWest Bengal Allows Clubs And Bars To Serve Alcohol All 365 Days A Year
While the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar is trying hard to enforce its prohibition, the Mamata Banerjee government in neighboring West Bengal is at the other end of the spectrum, allowing alcohol to...
View ArticleA Plea To Revitalize The Study Of History
I wrote this letter back in 2011, just six months after graduating with a BA (Hons) in history from Kirori Mal College in Delhi. I never got around to posting my letter to the head of the history...
View ArticleThe Brazen Hijack Of The Anti-Globalization Agenda
The world is going through a transition that is akin to the global change set into motion post World War II. The effects of the 2008 economic crisis linger, with another slowdown expected. Inequality...
View ArticleWhat Children Really Mean When They Say 'Fuck You'
Judge me if you will, but The Catcher in the Rye remains one of my favourite reads. And of the many memorable episodes in the novel, the one that I am reminded of often as a teacher is one where Holden...
View Article7 Baking Hacks That Will Make You A Cake Master In No Time
There's no better space to experiment than in baking, but there are some things that just don't get said enough. If truth be told, nice and sugary, food is all about lip-smacking advice before anything...
View ArticleAugustus, Aurangzeb And Donald Trump: Divisive Politics And Great Falls
As a citizen of the Democratic Republic of India, America, the world's oldest democracy has always inspired me. And I know from my own professional work in international relations, that it is the US to...
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Destroying History Is Now Being Charged As A War Crime
An Islamist fighter has pleaded guilty in the Hague for destroying parts of the fabled West African trading city of Timbuktu, in the International Criminal Court's first case based on the destruction...
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Google Releases Android 7.0 Nougat For Nexus Devices
Starting from today Nexus devices will be receiving OTA (Over The Air) updates of Android's latest version 7.0 Nougat. Google announced on their official blog that the first devices which would get a...
View Article4-Year-Old Lucknow Girl From A Family Of Child Prodigies To Attend Class IX
A 4-year-old girl in Lucknow will soon start attending Class IX at a local school after permission to do so was formally granted by the education department yesterday, The Times of India...
View ArticleFor RBI's New Governor Urjit Patel To Succeed, Govt Must Respect His...
Urjit Patel, the new governor of the Reserve Bank of India, has a hard act to follow. His predecessor and former boss at the central bank, Raghuram Rajan, was eminent at home and abroad, and set a high...
View ArticleNo Legal Requirement For Insisting Upon Father's Name In Passport: Delhi HC...
NEW DELHI -- Passport authorities cannot insist upon mentioning the name of an applicant's father in the travel document, the Delhi High Court said yesterday."There is no legal requirement for...
View ArticleWomen's Equality Group Presents Gold, Silver And Bronze For Most Sexist...
The 2016 Olympic Games have seen British sport scale to new heights - but sexism in our country's media and commentators plummet to new lows.Women athletes have faced having their achievements...
View ArticleThe Morning Wrap: Govt Bans Showing Animal Cruelty On TV; Google Releases...
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 HuffPostNagraj...
View ArticleAFI Refutes O.P. Jaisha's Charges, Says Runner Herself Refused Refreshments
NEW DELHI -- Marathon runner O.P. Jaisha yesterday alleged that Indian officials did not arrange for water and energy drinks during her race in the Rio Olympics run under scorching heat despite...
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