This Indian Version Of The Friends Theme Song Is Pretty Great
It's been 12 years since F.R.I.E.N.D.S. ended, but it's still playing on our television sets and somehow, the show never gets old. If you're one of the (millions!) of fans who start humming the theme...
View Article127 Dead In Bihar, Lakhs Hit By Floods In Northern And Eastern India
NEW DELHI -- Ten people were killed and lakhs affected due to floods in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal where major rivers are flowing above the danger mark. Two boys were also feared dead after...
View ArticleDo India Or Pakistan Have The Moral Ground To Decry Human Rights Violations?
Former Pakistan Ambassador to the US, Husain Haqqani recently tweeted about the human rights violation in the two major disputed areas of India and Pakistan:Dear Indians & Pakistanis, Human rights...
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'Coalgate': Corruption, An Honest Bureaucrat And A Deeper Malaise In India
Nayanika Mathur, University of Cambridge"Corruption. It's like a demon sitting on my brain and eating it with a fork and knife." So bemoans a character in the novelist Aravind Adiga's Between the...
View ArticleIf It's The Dalits In India, It's The Aborigines In Australia
On the night of 25 July 2016, ABC TV showed images of horrific violence against Aboriginal children in a detention facility in Northern Territory, Australia. The practices, which appear to be in...
View ArticleIndia Could Lose 1.3 Lakh Lives To Climate Change Unless We Act Now
By Pranav PrakashWith sprawling beaches just a bus ride away, lush pockets of greenery and a plethora of cafes and condos peppering the East Coast Road all along the route leading to Pondicherry,...
View ArticleWhy We Might As Well Broaden The Reach Of The Sedition Law
When Mahatma Gandhi was charged with sedition for writing articles challenging the British government, he welcomed it saying that people should be free to express their disaffection toward the...
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Colombia And FARC Rebels Reach Historic Peace Deal After Bloody War
HAVANA, Aug 24 - Colombia's government and leftist FARC rebels unveiled a final peace deal on Wednesday to end a 50-year-old guerrilla war, one of the world's longest conflicts which took the...
View ArticleDelhi Gangrape Convict Vinay Sharma Attempts Suicide Inside Tihar Jail
Vinay Sharma, one of the convicts sentenced to death for gangrape, torture and killing of a young medical student in 2012, attempted suicide on Wednesday night in Tihar jail.Sharma reportedly consumed...
View ArticleSmriti Irani Was Denied A Job At Jet Airways For 'Lack Of Good Personality'
NEW DELHI -- "My application for cabin crew position was rejected by Jet Airways, which felt I didn't have a good personality," Union Minister Smriti Irani said yesterday.At her witty best, the...
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Scientists May Have Just Discovered Another Earth
An Earth-like planet is orbiting the sun closest to ours, scientists announced Wednesday.The planet, called "Proxima b," orbits a star called "Proxima Centauri" and has a temperature that would allow...
View ArticlePhotos Of Burkini Ban Enforcement Show Frightening Reality Of Policing...
Photos began circulating Tuesday evening showing four armed policemen approaching a woman resting on the beach in Nice, France and apparently asking her to remove her outer garments.The woman, who...
View ArticlePollution Levels And Crime Rate Are Making People Leave Delhi, Says HC
NEW DELHI -- People of the national capital were probably leaving the city due to pollution levels and the crime rate, which the authorities appeared unwilling to control, the Delhi High Court said...
View ArticleCar Rental Service Zoomcar Shifts Gears With $24 Million In Fresh Funding
Car rental service, Zoomcar, which lets users geolocate a car and drive off through an app booking, has raised $24 million in fresh funding aimed at boosting the company's new "marketplace" model that...
View ArticleThe Morning Wrap: Nirbhaya Case Convict Attempts Suicide In Jail; Linux Turns 25
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 HuffPostIndia has...
View ArticleJNU Scholar Accused Of Raping Fellow Student Surrenders
NEW DELHI -- JNU PhD scholar Anmol Ratan, accused of raping a 28-year-old fellow student, yesterday night surrendered before the police, hours after the victim recorded her statement before a...
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YouTube Might Soon Let You Post Text And Photos Alongside Videos
YouTube is surely world's biggest platform for the video consumption. But it is facing a stiff competition from Facebook. And one of the biggest advantages Facebook has is that a video content maker...
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Before-And-After Shots Reveal The Devastation Of Italian Earthquake
Yesterday they were three charmingly historic towns in central Italy, tracing their heritage back at least as far as the Middle Ages. Then a deadly 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck the region early...
View ArticleIndian-Origin Muslim Siblings Hauled Off Plane Over ISIS Claims In UK
LONDON -- Three Indian-origin Muslim siblings, including two hijab-clad girls, have claimed that they were hauled off a plane at an airport in London and questioned on the tarmac by British policemen...
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This Muslim Family From Kanpur Will Celebrate Janmashtami For The 30th Year...
KANPUR -- A Muslim family in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, has become an epitome of communal harmony as they have been celebrating Krishna Janmashtami for the last 29 years.Dr S Ahmed, his wife and three...
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