Muslim Survivors of Assam's Nellie Massacre Shaken By Modi Government's...
NELLIE -- Thirty-six years after losing his parents, sister and a four-year-old daughter in one of India's worst sectarian massacres, Abdul Suban says he is still trying to prove he's a citizen of the...
View ArticleFire, Fire Everywhere: The 2018 Global Wildfire Season Is Already Disastrous
Drought turned the surrounding woodland into fuel, strong winds fanned the flames and in just a few hours this week fired consumed the Greek coastal resort of Mati, outside Athens. Homes and hotels...
View ArticleSrikrishna Report: Dissent Notes Point To High Stakes Battle To Control Data...
BENGALURU — Two dissent notes at the end of the 213 page BN Srikrishna Committee report on data privacy reveal the high-stakes battle between global technology giants to process the personal, and...
View ArticleWe Are Alert And Anxious: Religious Leaders, Women's Rights Activists...
NEW DELHI — Christian religious leaders and some women rights activists have reacted with alarm to a National Commission for Women (NCW) recommendation that the practice of confession should be...
View ArticleNo, Researchers Didn't Discover A New Whale-Dolphin Hybrid Species
Scientists off the coast of Hawaii have discovered a never-before-seen hybrid sea creature ― a cross between a rough-toothed dolphin and a melon-headed whale.The animal was spotted off the coast of...
View ArticlePolar Bear Killed After Attacking Cruise Ship Worker In Arctic
A polar bear was killed on Saturday after it attacked a bear guard leading tourists off a German cruise ship near the North Pole in Norway, officials said.The unidentified man suffered unspecified...
View ArticlePregnant Goat Gang Raped In Haryana, Eight Men Booked: Report
Eight men in Haryana have been booked under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Animal Cruelty Act for allegedly gang raping a pregnant goat in Haryana, last week, according to reports.The owner of the...
View Article40 Lakh People Excluded From National Register Of Citizens In Assam
MUMBAI -- India's registrar general said on Monday that 4,007,707 people had been excluded from a draft National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, in a move that has raised fears for the future of...
View ArticleAlwar Lynching: Mahapanchayat Demands Rs 50 Lakh For Victim's Family As Meo...
A week after 31-year-old Rakbar Khan was lynched to death on suspicions of cow smuggling, a Mahapanchayat held in Nuh's Kolgaon in Rajasthan has demanded Rs 50 lakh relief for the family of the victim,...
View ArticleMercedes Driver Mows Down Two-Year-Old And Speeds Away, Child Dies In Delhi
A Mercedes driver mowed down a two-year-old in Delhi and then sped away, The Times of Indiareported today.Anushka, the daughter of a daily wage labourer, was playing on the road when she was hit by the...
View ArticleNRC: No Clarity on What Awaits the 40 Lakh People Excluded from Assam's...
GUWAHATI, Assam — At 9.45am on Monday, July 30, in a room full of television cameras in the Guwahati office of the National Register of Citizens (NRC), state officials and local journalists stood up...
View ArticleTwitter's Lock On Users With Elon Musk's Name Means A Nazi Ban Is Possible
If you’re on Twitter and you change your unverified account’s display name to Elon Musk, the social media platform will lock you out.According to numerous reports, Twitter took this step because...
View ArticleDemi Lovato's Friends Break Silence On Overdose: 'Send Her Love During Her...
After Demi Lovato’s hospitalization due to an apparent overdose, friends and family members kept quiet about her condition, apart from a statement confirming that she is awake and surrounded by loved...
View ArticleBeyoncé-Approved Tyler Mitchell Is The First Black Photographer To Shoot A...
Tyler Mitchell, a 23-year-old artist from Atlanta, will be the first black photographer to shoot a cover for Vogue in the magazine’s 126-year history. Beyoncé chose Mitchell to photograph her upcoming...
View ArticleA 6-Year-Old Homeless Rape Survivor's Story Reveals How The Death Penalty Law...
NEW DELHI — One winter afternoon in a shelter for the homeless in December 2013, Tabassum* awoke to the screams of her 14 month old daughter to find a man pushing her bawling toddler off his lap."He...
View ArticleAlwar Lynching: Give Cow Smugglers A Couple Of Slaps, Tie Them To Tree Before...
Even as the Meo Muslim community demanded his arrest for "conspiring" in the lynching of Rakbar Khan in Alwar a week ago, BJP MLA Gyan Dev Ahuja has said that cow smugglers should be arrested and tied...
View ArticleSong Tiled 'Acche Din Kab Aayenge' Changed To 'Acche Din Ab Aaye Re'...
A song titled Acche Din Kab Aayenge was changed to Acche Din Ab Aaye Re after the makers of Fanney Khan, the film which it was a part of, received calls from 'high places,' a Mid-Day report said.The...
View ArticleWomen Reportedly Ostracised In Rajasthan For Carrying Father's Body On Their...
The elders of a village in Boondi district Rajasthan have threatened to ostracise four women who honoured their father's last wish and carried his body on their shoulders for cremation. In orthodox...
View ArticleSpelling Mistakes, Missing Documents, 'Weak' Papers: This Graphic Novelist...
SONITPUR, Assam — The local councilor estimates that only 20% of the residents of the neighbouring Panibhoral and Suaguri Biswanath panchayats made it to the first draft list of the National Register...
View ArticleTwitter Users Describing Famous Films In 5 Words Is Hilariously Spot-On
Someone should give the people who run the Oscars an award for best Twitter suggestion.On Tuesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences set Twitter ablaze with one simple post:Share the plot...
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