The World's Largest Climate Change Summit Starts Today. Here's What's Happening.
Representatives from nearly 200 countries gather at the United Nations’ 23rd climate change conference beginning Monday, an annual effort to tackle global warming and its impacts already inflicting...
View ArticleNo Compensation For 'Human Shield' Farooq Ahmed Dar: J&K Government
The Jammu and Kashmir government has declined to give Rs 10 lakh compensation to Farooq Ahmed Dar, the "human shield" tied to an Army jeep and taken around the Srinagar parliamentary constituency...
View ArticleName Alcohol After Women, See Demand Surge, Says Maharashtra Minister,...
Under fire for suggesting that the use of feminine brand names would boost liquor sales, Maharashtra minister Girish Mahajan on Monday apologised for his remarks and said he did not intend to hurt the...
View ArticleAfter Horrific Attack On Swiss Couple, Now Attempt By Locals In Bihar To Rob...
Two persons have been arrested here for misbehaving with a couple from the United Kingdom and trying to rob them of their belongings, police said today.Matthew and Jessie were travelling by a motorboat...
View ArticleDelhi Air Quality Remains Critical, Indian Medical Association Declares...
The pollution level in the national capital remained critical on Tuesday morning.Visibility early in the morning remained low due to smog, which also caused problems in the movement of traffic.The Air...
View ArticleHasmukh Adhia, The Man Behind Demonetisation, Made Finance Secretary
NEW DELHI -- Revenue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia has been designated as the new Finance Secretary, an official order said today.Adhia is a 1981 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre.The vacancy was caused...
View ArticleSia Releases A Nude Photo Of Herself Before A Creep Can Sell It
Sia does not have time for anyone’s nonsense. The singer released a nude photo of herself on Twitter on Monday after seeing that someone was attempting to sell the picture to her fans. Sia clearly was...
View Article'We’re As Hidden As Our Clitorises': How Nancy Friday Liberated Women's...
I was at a sleepover and up past midnight, itself a transgression, when my friend ― a whole year older than me and thus infinitely wiser ― pulled a book off the highest shelf: My Secret Garden: Women’s...
View ArticleMP Govt. Responds To Bhopal Gang Rape By Asking Coaching Centres To Close At...
On October 31, a 19-year-old college student, who was returning home from her coaching class, was gang raped in Bhopal. NDTV has previously reported that the college student was ambushed at around 7:00...
View ArticleA Year After Demonetisation, It’s Safe To Say That Modi's Ambitious Gamble...
What do you say about a man who invalidates 86.4 percent of a country's currency overnight, and then keeps coming up with explanations over the next one year to tell the citizens that it was a...
View ArticleIn 'Gas Chamber' Delhi, Schools Shut, Parking Hiked To Cope With Smog
NEW DELHI -- A combination of smoke from stubble burning in Punjab and Haryana and moisture turned Delhi into a "gas chamber" today, prompting authorities to announce a series of preventive measures...
View ArticleSyria Vows To Sign Paris Agreement, Leaving U.S. Alone In Climate Denial
Syria took a break on Tuesday from its gruesome six-year civil war to announce plans to sign the Paris climate agreement, leaving the United States as the only country to reject the emissions-cutting...
View ArticleBodies Of 26 Female Teenage Migrants Found In The Mediterranean
The latest search and rescue operation in the stretch of sea separating Libya and Italy highlights some of the brutal treatment that female refugees and migrants are subjected to.More than 2,560 people...
View ArticleDemonetisation Has Brought Down Flesh Trade In India, Says Union Minister...
On the eve of the first anniversary of demonetisation, Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today claimed that flesh trade and trafficking of women had reduced substantially in the country due to the...
View ArticlePeople Like Sanjay Leela Bhansali Understand The 'Language Of Shoes', Says...
Opposing the upcoming release of Hindi film 'Padmavati', the BJP MP of Ujjain, Chintamani Malviya, has said that those like Sanjay Leela Bhansali, the director of the film, only understands the...
View ArticleShocking Video Shows IndiGo Staff Members Pinning Passenger To The Ground,...
A video allegedly showing security staff of India's IndiGo airline manhandling a passenger went viral on Monday, prompting the government to launch an investigation into the incident involving the...
View ArticleClass 11 Student Arrested In Ryan International School Murder Case
NEW DLEHI -- The CBI has detained a Class 11 student of Ryan International School in Gurugram in connection with the September 8 murder of a Class 2 student, official sources said on...
View ArticleWhy Modi's Government's Apathy Towards The Suffering Caused By Demonetisation...
When onion prices were going through the roof in 2013, Congress leader and at that time Delhi chief minister, Sheila Dikshit, had lamented that she too was having bhindi without onions."After weeks I...
View ArticleNational Green Tribunal Says Yes To Odd-Even Scheme For 5 Days In Delhi To...
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Saturday gave its nod for the implementation of the Delhi government's odd-even car rationing scheme for five days from November 13 to tackle high pollution level,...
View ArticleNeed For More Fighting Spirit To Take On BJP: Chidambaram
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram has said that the BJP of today was not the one of the Vajpayee-Advani era, and his party workers need to exhibit a more vigorous fighting spirit to take on it.He...
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