India's Quest for Gold
Viren Rasquinha, the ex- Indian Hockey team captain and Arjuna Awardee is the CEO of Olympic Gold Quest, a non profit organization helping India in its quest for a Gold medal in the Olympics. The...
View ArticleRK Pachauri Sexual Harassment Case: Delhi High Court Issues Notice To RK...
NEW DELHI -- The Delhi high court has sought a response from the government, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and its director general RK Pachauri on a woman's complaint that her allegations...
View ArticleWhat Nepal Can Learn From India, What India Can Learn From Nepal
It is as if the constituent assembly of Nepal was unable to resolve competing demands and decided to promulgate the Constitution anyway, leaving incomplete its task, abdicating some of its...
View ArticleLalu Prasad Yadav Dares BJP, RSS To End Reservations
Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav has dared the Bharatiya Janata Party to end quotas in education and jobs. He was reacting to RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's call for review of India's...
View ArticleA Vexing Issue, Finally Answered: How To Pronounce Dengue
A massive outbreak of Delhi in New Delhi means that the nasty viral infection comes up in conversation all the time. Someone you know has just come down with it. But before you can go very far, you...
View ArticleFor The Journalist Behind The Viral Photo, The Scoop Of A Lifetime
NEW DELHI -- It was his decision to take a tea break that landed Ashutosh Tripathi the biggest story of his life. It was while he was sipping tea near the Lucknow General Post Office around noon on...
View ArticleThis Nurse In Assam Faked 85 Pregnancies In Six Months
A nurse at a government hospital in Assam has been caught faking 85 pregnancies — in a span of six months. Lily Begam Laskar allegedly faked these pregnancies to take advantage of a government scheme...
View ArticleProposed Cyber Law Wants To Bring Your Email Password Under Police Lens
Barely after the NDA government weathered a backlash over a Luddite attempt to police internet pornography, it has stoked a fresh storm by mulling a law that--almost impossibly--encumbers every citizen...
View ArticleThe Morning Wrap: Centre Plans To Privatize Urban Water Supply; Indian...
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 It was a...
View ArticleRSS Had Supported Indira Gandhi Government During The Emergency, Claims...
NEW DELHI -- Former Intelligence Bureau (IB) chief T V Rajeswar has claimed that the RSS had supported several measures taken during the Emergency and the then chief of the organisation Balasaheb...
View ArticleAnonymous Caller Allegedly Threatens Elderly Typist Whose Typewriter Was...
LUCKNOW -- After a police sub-inspector was suspended for stamping on his typewriter with his boots, the photos of which went viral on social media, the 65-year-old typist Kishan Kumar today allegedly...
View ArticleOnline Backlash Forces Centre To Cede Ground On Planned 'Encryption Policy'
Swiftly responding to an online backlash over a proposed law, called the National Encryption Policy, the government has now freed several popular communication apps from scrutiny. Though still hazy, it...
View ArticleWATCH: 5 Times Politicians Cried On TV
When Ram Vilas Paswan's son-in-law Anil Kumar Sadhu was denied a ticket in the Bihar elections, the Lok Janshakti Party chief may not have expected the heartbroken leader to go on national television...
View Article'Saturday Saturday' Singer Indeep Bakshi All Set To Return With A Whole Bunch...
Singer-composer Indeep Bakshi, best known for last year's mega-hit 'Saturday Saturday' (from Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania), is all set to rule the radio and air waves all over again. It's not as though...
View ArticleIIT Madras Student Commits Suicide
A 23-year-old student of IIT Madras allegedly committed suicide on Monday. Nagendra Kumar Reddy was found hanging in his hostel room last evening after he did not leave his room for lunch or dinner...
View ArticlePeople Will Cut Off Tongues Of Those Who Malign Hindu Gods: Sri Rama Sene
A state convener of the right-wing, fringe group Sri Rama Sene, has issued a threat to rationalists -- people will cut off their tongues if they dared malign Hindu gods -- the latest attack on writers...
View ArticleWATCH: Deepika Padukone And Ranbir Kapoor Display Effortless Chemistry In...
The trailer for Imtiaz Ali's highly-awaited Tamasha, starring Deepika Padukone and Ranbir Kapoor, was uploaded online on Tuesday evening. Kapoor plays a jaded corporate employee who recounts an...
View ArticleIndian Soccer League Has A New Star-Studded Promo Featuring Footballers As...
Ranbir Kapoor, Hrithik Roshan, Virat Kohli and John Abraham decide to face-time. And the nice people that they are, they let us and Abhishekh Bachchan in on their little bro-time. Keeping with the...
View ArticleNikhil Wagle Says Threats Are Routine But Level Of Intolerance Is Worrying
NEW DELHI -- Threats from right-wing groups are a matter of routine for Nikhil Wagle, but the Marathi journalist has never been more worried than now about the "intensity" of intolerance, which...
View ArticleA Guy Is Petitioning The Government To Ban Vegetables On Eid, Because 'Plants...
A Bengaluru-based man has decided to call for his own ban after the government imposed a meat ban in several parts of the country during the Jain ‘Paryushan’ festival and Hindu celebration of Ganesh...
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