Prenups In India Should Be Legal, Says Maneka Gandhi
NEW DELHI -- Imagine deciding the terms for a divorce before signing the marriage registry. Though it may sound like an alien concept for many in India, where even the idea of a divorce carries a huge...
View ArticleBombay HC Desists From Taking Stand On Womens' Entry Into Haji Ali Sanctum...
MUMBAI -- "This is an era of intolerance", the Bombay High Court observed today while indicating that it will not decide on religious matters like the ban on entry of women in the sanctum sanctorum of...
View ArticleThis 29-Year-Old Was Assaulted With Semen In Broad Daylight
On Tuesday , Mehak Sabat, a media professional from Mumbai, experienced an assault which would leave most people at a loss for words. Sabat was traveling in an auto rickshaw when she felt something...
View ArticleImran Khan's Ex-Wife Says She Was Told To Stay Indoors And Make Chapatis
LONDON -- Two weeks after Imran Khan's second marriage ended in a divorce in just 10 months, Reham has spoken out, claiming that she was told that she should be making chapatis in the kitchen and not...
View ArticleCentre Issues Advisory To All States Of Possible ISIS Attack
NEW DELHI -- In the wake of Paris attacks, government has asked the security establishment to be on high alert and ordered stepped up protective measures at foreign missions, including that of the US...
View ArticleKerala Minister Doesn't Want Boys And Girls To Share Seats
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM -- In remarks that have triggered a controversy, Kerala education minister P.K. Abdu Rabb on Tuesday said he was not in favour of boys and girls sitting next to each other in college...
View ArticleIPL Spot-fixing: Delhi HC Issues Notice To All Accused
NEW DELHI -- The Delhi High Court has issued notices to all of the accused involved in the sixth edition of Indian Premier League (IPL) spot-fixing case after admitting the Delhi Police plea against...
View ArticleSikh Grooming Label Wants To Bring The Pride Back In The Beard
A few months ago, Charanjeev Singh Salva, a Mumbai-based Sikh, found that he was the only man in his family’s current generation to retain his long hair and beard. All of his cousins had shaved their...
View ArticleBangladesh Opposition Leaders To Hang For War Crimes
DHAKA -- Bangladesh's Supreme Court today upheld the death sentences handed down to two top opposition leaders convicted for war crimes committed during 1971 independence war against Pakistan,...
View ArticleDavid Coleman Headley Allowed By Court To Be Made Accused In Mumbai Terror...
A Mumbai sessions court has allowed Pakistan-born American terror operative David Coleman Headley, to be made an accused in the November 26, 2008, terror attacks. Headley will be produced before the...
View ArticleShooting Begins For Shahid-Kangana Starrer 'Rangoon'
MUMBAI -- Filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj has begun shooting his period drama Rangoon, which stars Shahid Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan and Kangana Ranaut. The drama, set in the 1940s during the World War II, will...
View ArticleVenkaiah Naidu Demands Congress Take Strict Action Against Aiyar, Khurshid...
NEW DELHI -- Stepping up attack against Mani Shankar Aiyar over his controversial remarks in Pakistani media, Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu today called it "sedition" and...
View ArticleWind Energy Company Gamesa Plans Solar Power Investment In India
PARIS -- Spanish wind turbine maker Gamesa is seeing booming sales in emerging markets, expects double-digit sales growth through 2017 and plans investments in solar and off-grid power generation in...
View ArticlePeople Are Tweeting Hilarious Jokes After Censor Board Cuts James Bond...
The latest James Bond flick is finally here! Or at least most of it is -- Daniel Craig's Spectre has received four cuts (two visual, and two verbal after passing through the Censor Board Of Film...
View ArticleMeet Dilpreet Kaur, The 14-Year-Old Who Just Set A Maths Record
She can solve 100 division sums in just 96 seconds and 10 times that number in 17 minutes. Meet Dilpreet Kaur, who is just 14 years old but all set to be part of the Limca Book of Records' latest...
View ArticleThis Viral Footage Of Iraq's 'River Of Sand' Is Not Actually Sand
This viral footage of a flowing "river of sand" in Iraq is breathtaking, but its not really sand. Earlier this year, the region known for its dry climate was tormented by its second bout of ice storms,...
View ArticleNitish Kumar Invites PM Modi For Swearing-In Ceremony
PATNA -- Bihar Chief Minister designate Nitish Kumar today extended invitation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the oath ceremony of his new government on Friday. Kumar talked to the PM over...
View ArticleAt Jan Swasthya Sahog, Doctors Rig Affordable Tech For Rural Health
Ganiyari, about 20 km away from Bilaspur, in Chattisgarh is far away from elementary health care services and that's precisely what's drawn a group of eight doctors from Delhi to rig up steel drums,...
View ArticleParis Attacks Mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud May Have Committed Suicide During...
Belgian jihadist Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected Paris attacks mastermind, may have committed suicide during pre-dawn raids on Wednesday by the French police at a suburban Paris apartment, according...
View ArticleGender Violence Is Not Just An Indian Phenomenon: Tina Brown
For someone who’s been called ‘Stalin in high heels’, and the ‘best magazine editor alive’ by the same team of journalists, Tina Brown has been through all that a high profiled newspaper editor could....
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