The Real Question About The Bank Crisis: Why Do We Need So Many Public Sector...
The Times of India reported on Saturday that Jayant Sinha, the minister of state for finance, had indicated to public sector bank chiefs that they were wasting public funds. Sinha said this at an...
View ArticleTribunal Bars Mallya From Accessing $75 MN From Diageo Deal
In a major setback for liquor baron Vijay Mallya, the Debt Recovery Tribunal (DRT) on Monday barred him from accessing $75 million (Rs 515 crore) exit payment from Diageo till the loan default case...
View Article'Not Fit' Season 1 Review: Fame Fame, But Different
Sudev Nair is a Malayalam and Hindi film actor who has won a Kerala State Film Award for his performance in MB Padmakumar’s My Life Partner (2014). According to his Wikipedia page, he is also a trained...
View ArticlePresident Pranab Mukherjee To Skip Art Of Living Event
President Pranab Mukherjee will not attend a festival being organised by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar of Art of Living in the wake of the controversy over holding the three-day cultural function on the Yamuna...
View ArticleMan Who Offered Rs 11 Lakh Reward To Shoot Kanhaiya Kumar Arrested
The Delhi Police on Monday arrested the man who offered a reward of Rs 11 lakh for shooting Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students’ union president Kanhaiya Kumar. Adarsh Sharma, who claims to be...
View Article9 Judgments That Made Indian Women Really Proud This Past Year
NEW DELHI -- Over the past year, the Supreme Court has countered traditions and practices which have stigmatized and isolated Indian women for centuries, and rendered them socially as well as...
View ArticleCentre, Punjab Spar Over Bill Of Pathankot Operation
Punjab government has refused to pay a bill of Rs 6.35 crore to the Center for deployment of paramilitary forces during and after the terror attack at Pathankot air force base. In a communication to...
View ArticleFriends Spat Over Greatest Footballer Ends In Murder Of Man On His Birthday
One of the biggest debates among football fans across the globe has always been about who's a better player: Is it Barcelona's Lionel Messi or Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo? On Sunday morning, one...
View ArticleShiva Tattoos That Are All The Rage On Instagram This Shivrati
Popularly referred to as the ‘God of Cool’, Lord Shiva holds his own in the world of Indian tattoos that also celebrate the ubiquitous Om, Gayatri Mantra and Lord Ganesha. He has played the perfect...
View ArticleNalini Sriharan Granted 24-Hour Parole To Attend Father's Memorial Service
CHENNAI -- Nalini Sriharan, serving life sentence in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, was today granted one-day parole by the Madras High Court for attending the 16th day obsequies of her father,...
View ArticleMumbai's First Test Tube Baby Becomes A Mom On Mahashivratri
MUMBAI -- Twenty-nine years after she became famous as Mumbai's first test tube baby, Harsha Chawda Shah is now herself a proud mother of a baby boy. Notably, Harsha's caesarean-section at the Jaslok...
View ArticleTelugu Desam Party Forced To Apologize For MLA Nandamuri Balakrishna's Sexist...
Faced with outrage on social platforms for Telugu actor and Telugu Desam Party legislator Nandamuri Balakrishna's sexist comments directed at his women colleagues, the TDP on Tuesday was forced to...
View ArticleThis Woman Lawmaker Rode A Harley To Parliament Today
NEW DELHI -- It was a sight not seen often when woman MP Ranjeet Ranjan today rode to Parliament on an orange Harley-Davidson motorcycle to make a statement on Women's Day. The 42-year-old Lok Sabha...
View ArticleThe World Culture Festival Is An Exercise In The Art Of Living Irresponsibly
We are a country sorely lacking in perspective. While some of us have been up in arms about the “subsidized” PhD students at JNU, the Indian army has been mobilized to build pontoon bridges for a...
View Article9 Kickass Women Inventors Of The Tech World
In the world of technological innovations, men might have the numbers but women have not only caught up, but also led from the front, often in skewed working spaces. From the first programmer in the...
View Article6 Indian Websites That Have Recently Been Taken Down By Hackers
Last Tuesday, militant organisation Al-Qaeda hacked the Indian Railways' website to display its cyber prowess, as per news reports. They hacked the page of Bhusawal division of Personnel Department of...
View ArticleWATCH: Soni Sori Raises The 'Azadi' Battle Cry Right In The Heart Of JNU
If you thought a bodily injury would stop the indomitable Soni Sori from making her voice heard in the face of oppression, you probably don't know her well. Her face was blackened with a chemical in...
View ArticleMan Bites Devotee's Ear In Order To Squeeze Inside A Crowded Temple
THANE -- In a bizarre incident, a 40-year- old man bit a devotee's ear in his bid to enter into core area of a temple here to offer prayer following which he was arrested, police said today. Shivaji...
View ArticleWomen MPs Demand Financial Inclusion, Education
From riding a motorbike to the Parliament House and demanding introduction of the Women's Reservation Bill to allowing women's entry to temples for worship, women members in Lok Sabha today said...
View Article'Hip Hip Hurray' Reboot Cast Members Share Behind-The-Scenes Pics
As you may have heard, a reboot of the hit '90s TV show Hip Hip Hurray is on the cards. Slated to be a digital-only show, it boasts of a fresh cast that includes Shweta Bajpai, Anshuman Malhotra, Rohan...
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