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Glaciers On Mount Everest Shrink By 28% In Last 40 Years Due To Climate Change
BEIJING -- Glaciers on Mount Everest, source of major Asian rivers like Brahmaputra, have shrunk by 28 per cent over the past 40 years due to climate change, according to a report. The glacial...
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Dawood Ibrahim's Assets To Be Auctioned Today
MUMBAI -- Once owned by underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, an eatery on the narrow Pakmodia Street in South Mumbai, a green sedan and tenancy rights to a property in suburban Matunga will today go under...
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The ‘Beatles Ashram' In Rishikesh Is Now Open To Public As A Tourist Spot
If you are a Beatles fan in India, this piece of news will cheer you up. Abandoned since 1997, the ashram in Rishikesh where the Beatles stayed, learned transcendental meditation from Maharishi Mahesh...
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CBI Files Chargesheet In Jiah Khan Suicide Case
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), on Wednesday, filed a chargesheet in the 2013 Jiah Khan suicide case. The chargesheet has been filed in a special CBI court in Mumbai. The case was...
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Russian Diplomat Hits Biker With Speeding Car, Assaults Police Official
NEW DELHI -- A diplomat from Russian Embassy allegedly hit a biker with his speeding car, rammed into a barricade and later assaulted a police official at south Delhi's Moti Bagh area today. Police...
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Trafficked 18-Year-Old Woman Unable To Sit, Walk Or Talk After Being Raped...
An 18-year-old girl is currently battling for her life in Delhi’s Guru Tej Bahadur Hospital after being sexually assaulted allegedly 10 times a day for over six months, according to reports. Unable to...
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Salman Hit-And-Run Case: Bombay HC Says Ravindra Patil A 'Wholly Unreliable'...
MUMBAI -- The Bombay High Court today doubted the evidence of Ravindra Patil, former police bodyguard of Bollywood star Salman Khan and witness in the 2002 hit-and-run case, observing that he was...
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This Organic Producer Is Sowing Seeds Of Hope In Delhi By Encouraging Kitchen...
Kapil Mandawewala, the founder and CEO of Sajeev Fresh, never imagined that he would leave a high-flying career in San Francisco to farm a 22-acre plot in a small village in Gujarat. Yet the fruits...
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Congress Loyalist V. Narayanasamy Offers His Own Slippers To Rahul Gandhi In...
A day after Jharkhand chief minister Raghubar Das suspended a government official for walking past him on the podium mid-speech, a video has now emerged showing a former Congress minister placing his...
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Osmania University Students Set To Defy Court's Stay Order On Beef Festival
Defying a civil court's stay order on the planned beef and pork festivals scheduled to take place on Thursday, students of Hyderabad's Osmania University consumed beef biryani and kebabs on Tuesday....
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India Extends Friendly Hand To Pakistan, Says It's Time To Display Maturity
ISLAMABAD -- India today extended a hand of friendship to Pakistan, saying it was time the two countries display "maturity and self-confidence" to do business with each other as the world was rooting...
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Narendra Modi To Visit Pakistan Next Year: Geo TV
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Pakistan next year to attend the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj told Geo TV on...
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IITs And IIMs Are In A Bad Position, Says Former HRD Minister Murli Manohar...
NEW DELHI -- Premier institutes IITs and IIMs are in a "bad position" as they only contribute to transfer of capital to developed nations, senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi today said, claiming...
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The Delhi Middle Class' Real Estate Obsession Defies Logic
I was recently in Delhi to attend a few family functions. And as often happens in Delhi, when you want to make a conversation with someone you don’t know that well or you meet only once in a few years,...
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Sushma Swaraj Meets Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
ISLAMABAD -- External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today called on Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, amid efforts by both countries to revive the stalled dialogue process to improve ties. The...
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Chennai Floods: Government Begins Survey To Determine Compensation
The Tamil Nadu government has initiated a house-to-house survey to find and compensate the residents of houses that sustained damages during the floods so that they can be compensated. “We’ve just...
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Park Street Gangrape Case: 3 Convicts Sentenced To 10 Years Imprisonment
KOLKATA -- The Sessions Court here on Friday sentenced the three convicts in the Park Street gang rape that took place on 2012 to the 10 years' imprisonment. The Court had on Thursday convicted the...
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Humour And Hashtags: The New Tools In Fight Against Menstrual Taboos
This article is from Open Magazine. By Aanchal Bansal Twenty-year old Nikita Dutt had never heard of the Sabarimala temple in Kerala. Not until she read about the comments made by the current president...
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Three Drives, Three Stories And One Bleak Reality
I visited Mumbai after almost two years last week. In spite of what others say about the city, I love the energy, the cosmopolitan culture and the wonderful local delicacies such as pav bhaji, misal...
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Why Paris Must Not Repeat Kyoto's Mistakes
World leaders and climate negotiators from 195 countries are in Paris for the 21st Conference of Parties Summit (COP21), with the intention of hammering out a new international climate deal. Over the...
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