Former BSP Leader Swami Prasad Maurya Joins BJP
NEW DELHI -- BJP's aim to capture power in Uttar Pradesh today received a shot in the arm with Swami Prasad Maurya, an OBC leader in Uttar Pradesh who had recently quit BSP, joining it today.Former...
View ArticleRio Olympics 2016: 'A Medal Will Be The Best Birthday Gift For Dipa'
AGARTALA -- Parents of Dipa Karmakar are very happy as this morning at around 6.30 they came to know that their daughter, only a day before her 23rd birthday, has created history by becoming the first...
View ArticleWives And Mothers Of Indians Working In Gulf Are Unaware Of The Migrant Crisis
KALPAKKAM, India -- Inside her blue-walled house, E. Bhagyam sits with a faded wedding album and talks about how much she misses her husband, who works as a welder in the Gulf.Unaware of the recent...
View ArticleWe Regret To Inform You That Cow Dung Will Not Save You From Radiation
In a recent interview with The Indian Express, Shankar Lal, president of Akhil Bharatiya Gau Sewa Sangh, an outfit associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), claimed that dung produced by...
View ArticleWhy Is The PM Cribbing About Being Held Responsible?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has done it. Over the weekend, he blasted cow vigilantes not once but twice, and called for an end to the persecution of Dalits. This time around, Modi was neither vague...
View ArticleJNU Withdraws Kanhaiya Kumar's Security Cover
NEW DELHI-- Jawaharlal Nehru University withdrew the private security cover provided to JNU students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar who is out on bail in a sedition case.The varsity, has sent a notice...
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When Pahlaj Nihalani Complained About 'Senseless' Censorship
Irony has shot itself in the foot and is bleeding profusely — with not an ambulance within earshot.Pahlaj Nihalani, chairman of the Central Board of Film Certification, has spent the last 20 months...
View ArticleWhy The Death Vault That Propelled Dipa Karmakar To Olympics Final Is So...
It was not until 1999 that a woman gymnast could successfully complete a handspring double front vault. And when she did, the vault came to be known as the Produnova vault. Russian gymnast Yelena...
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Bhopal Bookshop Owner Arrested Following Complaints Against Article In Urdu...
BHOPAL-- A Bhopal-based bookshop owner was arrested for selling an Urdu weekly whose contents were deemed objectionable by some right-wing activists in the city. Shahid Khan, who runs Yashika Book...
View ArticleLok Sabha Passes GST Bill, Modi Says It Will End 'Tax Terrorism'
The Lok Sabha, on Monday, passed the Goods and Services Tax Bill with all 443 members voting in favour of the bill, ratifying last week's nod by Rajya Sabha members, who also unanimously passed the...
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Rio Olympics 2016: Bindra Misses Medal By A Whisker, Hockey Men Lose In Final...
Rio de Janeiro-- It was a tale of missed opportunities for India at the Olympic Games as star marksman Abhinav Bindra narrowly missed a medal and the men's hockey team slumped to a 1-2 defeat to...
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Rio Olympics Day 3: Heartbreak For India, Tennis Ace's Elevator Pains
Day 3 did not bring cheer to Indian fans. But as Rio puts up the greatest show of athleticism on the planet, on somewhat shaky legs, there is a lot going down there.Heartbreak in seconds: It was a...
View ArticleWhy There Was Nothing 'Surprising' About Assam's Kokrajhar Attack
The intelligence inputs gave more than a hint of what was to come. On 29 July 2016, a week before suspected National Democratic Front of Bodoland-Songbijit (NDFB-S) militants killed 14 civilians in...
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Chivda: From The Shahs To The Queen [PODCAST]
If you belong to the Kannada, Maharashtrian or Gujarati community, or have had the opportunity to get to know people from them closely, we bet you've heard of chivda. Whether as an accompaniment to...
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Why Didn't We Ring The Tiger's Doorbell, Mom?
Some time back, I took my four-year-old daughter to Jim Corbett National Park, hoping to relax in the lush surroundings away from work and deadlines. Since I'd shown my daughter pictures of the...
View ArticleGet Set Go... The Olympics Are Here And It's Patriotism Time
Here is how it will unfold.One of our Indian athletes will win a medal. Doesn't matter which athlete or which medal. That is when it will begin.The deluge of tweets, hashtags, FB posts and messages....
View ArticleWhy Modi's Lambasting Of Cow Vigilantes Was Mere Lip Service
India was ripe for a political change in 2014. The Congress party, over its extended tenure in government, had severely underperformed and remained (and still is) unashamedly apologetic about its...
View Article3 Reasons Why PM Modi's Rhetoric Won't Cut Ice With Dalits
Prime Minister Modi has finally broken his silence on atrocities against Dalits and the gau rakshaks or cow protectors responsible for several such cases. Speaking at a Hyderabad rally on 7 August, Mr....
View ArticleAs The World's Longest Hunger Strike Ends Today, Many Questions Remain About...
As Irom Chanu Sharmila today ends her 16-year-long hunger strike, called to protest the draconian Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, there are many questions hanging in the air about the fate of the...
View ArticleRaghuram Rajan's Final Policy Review Is Also His Last Chance To Curb Prices
With less than a month to go on the job, Indian central bank governor Raghuram Rajan can do little more than offer an honest outlook on inflation and advice to his successor when he reviews policy for...
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