Chennai Rains: Govt To Replace Lost, Damaged Passports For Free
NEW DELHI -- The government on Monday announced that those who have lost their passports or got them damaged due to the floods in Chennai can have them replaced free of charge. "If your passport is...
View ArticleStrong Tremors Felt In Delhi As Earthquake Measuring 7.2 Magnitude Strikes...
NEW DELHI/ALMATY -- An earthquake measuring 7.2 magnitude struck Tajikistan on Monday, shaking buildings as far away as the Indian capital of New Delhi and in Pakistan, the U.S. Geological Survey and...
View ArticleSushma Swaraj To Visit Pakistan Tomorrow, Expected To Meet Nawaz Sharif
Two days after the National Security Advisors of India and Pakistan met in Bangkok, the government has confirmed that External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will travel to Islamabad tomorrow on a...
View ArticleSatyajit Ray's Son Sandip Is Making A Film Featuring His Father's Iconic...
Satyajit Ray's iconic fictional sleuth Feluda will re-appear on the silver screen towards 2016 end as the maestro filmmaker's son Sandip gets set to bring together two stories of the detective in a...
View ArticleJapanese PM Shinzo Abe To Visit India For Annual Summit Talks
New Delhi, Dec 7 (PTI) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will arrive here on Friday on a three-day visit to hold annual summit talks with Narendra Modi with a focus on forging greater synergies...
View ArticleGrammy Awards: Indian-Origin Artistes Anoushka Shankar, Asif Kapadia Nominated
LOS ANGELES -- Sitarist Anoushka Shankar and 'Amy' director Asif Kapadia are among the Indian-origin names featuring in the nominees list at the 58th Grammy awards, which were announced here on Monday....
View ArticleHere's Why BJP MP Chandan Mitra Is The Most Hated Person On Twitter Right Now
It's not an easy task to keep your followers happy especially if you have millions of them on social media. Ask the The Bharatiya Janata Party. On Monday evening, BJP MP Chandan Mitra, called the...
View ArticleMaharashtra Sex Workers Survive On Single Meal A Day To Donate 1 Lakh For...
MUMBAI -- Sex workers from Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar district dipped into their savings and survived on just one meal a day to collect Rs 1 lakh as a donation towards relief work in rain-ravaged...
View ArticleHrithik Roshan's Next Project Is Mired In Legal Troubles
Scripts circulate around Bollywood a lot and there is always this possibility that someone might either buy it off (including credit — which writers are sometimes fine with if it means they get paid...
View ArticleJapan Expects To Win Right To Build India's First Bullet Train
TOKYO -- Japan is expected to win the right to construct India's first bullet train, after losing an Indonesian high-speed rail deal to China, the Nikkei business daily reported on Tuesday. Japan will...
View ArticleNational Herald Case: A Chronology Of Events
NEW DELHI -- Following is the chronology in the National Herald case in which Congress President Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul's pleas challenging summons issued to them by a trial court were today...
View ArticleThis Woman Announced On Facebook That She Has Called Off Her Wedding. Here's...
Remya Ramachandran, a resident of Thrissur, Kerala took to Facebook to announce something we usually don't expect to be be shared on social media. And that was the news of her wedding being called off....
View ArticleI Don't Sleep At Night, I Work 16 Hours A Day, Says Priyanka Chopra
MUMBAI -- Top Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra says she works 16 hours a day to get recognition and money and has no time to enjoy life. The national-award winning actress has become a household name...
View ArticleWATCH: The Weirdest Stuff The Censor Board Deleted From 'Angry Indian Goddesses'
Well played, Team Angry Indian Goddesses . HuffPost India had previously written about how the recently-released film, starring an ensemble cast of seven actresses, had faced the wrath of the Central...
View ArticleNational Herald Case: Sonia, Rahul To Appear Before Court On Dec 19
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday said she feared no one and her party dismissed as "petty vendetta of the BJP" the politics surrounding the National Herald case. A Delhi court fixed December...
View ArticlePakistani Woman Suspected In California Shooting May Have Travelled To India:...
NEW YORK -- The Pakistani woman suspect in the California mass shooting may have travelled to India from Saudi Arabia once in 2013, a year before she came to the US with her husband, a media report...
View ArticleGovernment Lays Out Series Of Steps To Check Spread Of ISIS In India
NEW DELHI -- The government has initiated a series of steps to check the spread of ISIS in India, including the launch of a counter-radicalisation and de-radicalisation strategy, the Lok Sabha was...
View ArticleWATCH: Actor Siddharth Does Not Want To Be Called A Hero, But Twitter Disagrees
As Tamil Nadu struggles to get back on its feet after the worst flooding it has seen in decades, actor Siddharth, who is being hailed as a hero for his tireless relief efforts in the state, has painted...
View Article1984 Anti-Sikh Riots Case: Proceedings Involving Sajjan Kumar To Be Video...
NEW DELHI -- A Delhi Court today directed that video recording of all the proceedings should be done in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case involving Congress leader Sajjan Kumar. "In the Sajjan Kumar's...
View ArticleWith $51 Billion Siphoned Out Per Annum, India Ranks Fourth In Black Money...
India ranks fourth in black money outflows with a whopping USD 51 billion siphoned out of the country per annum between 2004-2013, a US-based think-tank's report said today. Notably India's defence...
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