The Morning Wrap: Daddy Lalu Wants To Shadow Minister Sons; Days After...
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View ArticlePrakash Javadekar Finally Explains Modi's Bizarre Remarks On Climate Change
NEW DELHI -- On his foreign visits over the past year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has flagged terrorism and climate change as the gravest problems in the world. And in the run up to the climate...
View ArticlePoet Jayanta Mahapatra Returns Padma Shri As Protest Against Moral Asymmetry...
NEW DELHI -- Noted poet Jayanta Mahapatra returned his Padma Shri award on Sunday to vent his ire over what he called "the growing moral asymmetry in the country". "It is a personal decision. I have...
View ArticleFor The First Time, Gujarat CM Categorically Rules Out Quota For Patel Community
For the first time since Hardik Patel's agitation to get quotas for the Patel community took Gujarat by storm, Chief Minister Anandiben Patel has categorically ruled out their inclusion in the Other...
View ArticleFloating Jaipur Cow Helped Neither Art Nor Religion
It has finally been proven that the culture war is real and will continue until the cows come home. Or at least until they descend to the ground. The floating cow at the Jaipur Art Summit has become...
View ArticleGet Ready For Women E-Rickshaw Drivers For Safer Transport
NEW DELHI -- Women drivers in public transport system may soon become a reality with government mulling a project to support those willing to venture out in the so far male-dominated field. To begin...
View ArticleSmriti Irani Engages In War Of Words On Twitter With Journalist
NEW DELHI -- Human Resource Development (HRD) minister Smriti Irani today engaged in a twitter war with a financial daily journalist whose news report claimed that the minister had recommended over...
View ArticleISIS Considers Arab Fighters To Be Superior To Indians: Intelligence Report
Dreaded terrorist group ISIS does not consider South Asian Muslims, including Indians, good enough to fight in conflict zone of Iraq and Syria and treated as inferior than Arab fighters but often...
View ArticleDurex Calls For Creation Of A Condom Emoji Ahead Of World AIDS Day
LONDON -- Soon, the world may welcome a condom its vast collection of emojis: Condom manufacturing company Durex has launched an international campaign calling for the creation of a condom emoji ahead...
View ArticleRajyavardhan Rathore Wants To Do Away With Censorship, But Change Will Still...
Film censorship has dominated headlines over the past few days, as the whole #SanskaariJamesBond controversy (which erupted last week after the Central Board of Film Certification asked for some rather...
View ArticleModi In Singapore: Oceans, Space And Cyber World Should Not Become New...
Amid a standoff between China and some East Asian nations over South China Sea, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said oceans, space and cyber world should not become "new theatres of contests" but be...
View ArticleMy Wife Wants To Move Out Of The Country For Kids' Safety: Aamir Khan Joins...
NEW DELHI--Days after Shah Rukh Khan spoke against intolerance, actor Aamir Khan joined the chorus of intelligentsia, saying he has been "alarmed" by a number of incidences and his wife Kiran Rao even...
View ArticleThe Morning Wrap: Big Bazaar Caught In Pulses Hoarding Tangle; Boys Still...
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View ArticleAnupam Kher Lashes Out At Aamir Khan Asking Him To 'Spread Hope Not Fear'
NEW DELHI -- Lashing out at Aamir Khan for saying that he and his wife had considered moving out of the country over the alarming rise of intolerance, Bollywood veteran actor Anupam Kher said that the...
View ArticleAnupam Kher Lashes Out At Aamir Khan, Asks Him To 'Spread Hope Not Fear'
NEW DELHI -- Lashing out at Aamir Khan for saying that he and his wife had considered moving out of the country over the alarming rise of intolerance, Bollywood veteran actor Anupam Kher said that the...
View ArticleCommunal Incidents In India Are On The Rise, Shows Home Ministry Data
NEW DELHI -- Even as key leaders in the Bharatiya Janata Party government denounced the rising chorus against "intolerance" in the country as a politically-motivated process, communal incidents in...
View ArticleIndia's Inclusiveness Keeps Indian Muslims From Joining IS, Says US...
MUMBAI -- The inclusive model of the country has kept Indian Muslims from joining terror outfit Islamic State, US Ambassador to India Richard Verma said here today. "India has been a model of...
View ArticleIndians Will Keep Having Babies Until A Boy Is Born: Census Data
NEW DELHI -- Four years after former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called India's declining sex ratio "a national shame," new census data shows that the male child is still preferred in India and more...
View ArticleAamir Khan Has Disgraced The Nation By His Statement, Says BJP Leader Manoj...
NEW DELHI -- Expressing disappointment over Aamir Khan's statement that he and his wife had considered moving out of the country over the alarming rise of intolerance, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...
View ArticleAamir Khan Provided With 'Adequate' Security After Furore Over His Remarks
MUMBAI -- Under attack for his remark over concerns of intolerance in the country, Bollywood actor Aamir Khan has been provided with adequate security, a senior police official said today. "We have...
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