Yakub Memon Buried Amid Tight Security
MUMBAI -- The body of Yakub Menon, hanged this morning at Nagpur Central Prison for his role in the 1993 Mumbai blasts, was buried at Bada Khabristan graveyard here in the evening amid tight security...
View ArticleBJP And Congress Locked In Political Battle Over Yakub Memon Hanging
NEW DELHI -- BJP today attacked Congress leaders Digvijay Singh and Shashi Tharoor for their statements on the hanging of Yakub Memon alleging they amounted to being "anti-national" and demanded an...
View ArticleThe Morning Wrap: Dawood Aide Warns Of 'Consequences' To Yakub Hanging; Uber...
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 HuffPost While Yakub...
View ArticleThere Will Be Consequences For Yakub's 'Legal Murder', Says Dawood Henchman...
NEW DELHI -- In a chilling phone conversation with a leading newspaper, an aide to underworld kingpin Dawood Ibrahim has threatened that there will be 'consequences' for the hanging of Yakub Memon, who...
View ArticleArun Jaitley Says Shatrughan Sinha Embarrassed BJP Over Yakub Memon
NEW DELHI -- While differing opinions were expressed over the hanging of Yakub Memon during the past week, Finance Ministry Arun Jaitley has censured Shatrughan Sinha, a senior leader from his own...
View ArticleWorld's Top Medical Ethics Body To Look Into Future President Ketan Desai...
The World Medical Association, the leading international medical-ethics body, said it will look into “a number of questions” raised by a Reuters investigation of the organization’s future president....
View ArticleMahindra To Launch TUV300 Compact SUV In September 2015
NEW DELHI — Homegrown auto major Mahindra & Mahindra will launch its new compact sports utility vehicle (SUV) named TUV300 in mid September. This comes right after it launched face-lifts of Thar...
View Article4 Indian Teachers Kidnapped In Libya
NEW DELHI -- Four Indian teachers have been kidnapped in Libya, the External Affairs Ministry said on Friday morning. The Foreign Ministry's spokesperson Vikas Swarup said the Indian mission in Tripoli...
View ArticleAmerican Soul Singer Macy Gray's Cute Ode To A Vibrator Is An Empowering Watch
" He can go all night, dark until the light." That's Macy Gray paying a loving tribute to her vibrator who is also known as B.O.B. (Battery Operated Better - "cuz he's not complicated") in this cute...
View ArticleUber To Invest Rs 6,400 Crore As It Takes On Ola, Targets 1 Million Trips...
Uber is pouring in $1 billion (Rs 6,400 crore) into its indian operations to beef up its operations in the face of stiff competition from homegrown rival Ola. Uber has also set itself an ambitious...
View ArticleMissing Raghuram Rajan Signature Costs Indian Exchequer 36 Crore
The scourge of India's government ministries and Financial-Nitpicker-In-Chief, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India, has pulled up a government PSU, for printing currency notes with the...
View ArticleRahul Gandhi Meets FTII Students, Says RSS Promotes Mediocrity
NEW DELHI -- The ongoing administrative logjam at the Pune-based Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) took a political turn on Friday after Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, during an...
View ArticleAirtel Chairman Sunil Mittal Was Paid Rs 27.17 Crore, 324 Times The Median...
Bharti Airtel chairman and chief executive officer Sunil Mittal received a pay package of Rs 27.17 crore last year. That's a whopping 324 times of the median employee remuneration of the company....
View ArticleDay 9 Monsoon Session - Rajnath Singh Says UPA's 'Hindu Terrorist' Term...
NEW DELHI -- While the Congress Party showed no signs of backing down from its demand for three Bharatiya Janata Party leaders to resign before parliament can function, the Bharatiya Janata hit back at...
View ArticlePHOTOS: If Disney Characters Were Real People, This Is How They'd Look
Over time, popular Disney princesses have been cast into plenty of new roles to relate to modern women -- as plus sizes, having realistic bodies, shorter hair, acid victims and much more. But what...
View ArticleTathagata Roy Sparks Controversy With Yakub Memon Tweets
Tripura Governor Tathagata Roy sparked a controversy on Friday after he claimed that those who attended 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon's funeral were "are potential terrorists", and that...
View ArticleIndians In Libya: Two Of Four Kidnapped Teachers Freed
NEW DELHI -- Two out of the four Indian teachers who were allegedly kidnapped on July 29 by the Islamic State (ISIS) were released today. External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj said on Friday evening...
View ArticleChennai Rapper Tackles Unilever For Kodaikanal Mishap, Nicky-Minaj Style
Chennai-born rapper Sofia Ashraf has pulled a Nicki Minaj-inspired stunt to bring more attention to Kodaikanal’s burgeoning environmental issues, allegedly caused by Hindustan Unilever’s stint in the...
View ArticleWATCH: This Indian Pop Group Has Honoured Freedom Fighter Udham Singh In...
On his 75th death anniversary, Indian pop group Ska Vengers has paid tribute to legendary freedom fighter Udham Singh. The band, that has established a reputation for its socio-politically themed...
View ArticleIndia And Bangladesh Exchange 162 Enclaves At Midnight
NEW DELHI -- It will be a historic day at midnight today, as India and Bangladesh ready to exchange 162 adversely-held enclaves. It marks the resolution of a complex issue that has affected both...
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