Upcoming Aerial Ropeway Might Be The Solution To Kolkata's Traffic Congestion...
Ever thought of travelling on ropeway in Kolkata? The wait may get over soon as a company is all set to introduce Curvo, the world's first non-linear aerial ropeway, for second tier urban commutation...
View ArticleSupreme Court Says Settlement In Rape Cases Is A 'Spectacular Error'
NEW DELHI -- A week after the Madras High Court gave bail to a man convicted of raping a teenager in 2002, and ruled that he should have a "mediation" session with the survivor, who gave birth to a...
View ArticleBJP Leader Subramanian Swamy Thinks Homosexuals Are 'Genetically Handicapped'
NEW DELHI — While the world united in celebrations after the American Supreme Court granted same-sex couples the right to marry in a judgement seen as a milestone for gay rights movement, in India a...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg Holds Facebook AMA, Stephen Hawking And Arnold Schwarzenegger...
When Mark Zuckerberg planned his Facebook 'Ask Me Anything' session, he probably wasn't expecting to be put on the spot by the world's most famous physicist and the 'Terminator'. Zuckerberg, in a...
View ArticleHousing.com Sacks Founder And Mercurial CEO Rahul Yadav
Rahul Yadav, co-founder and chief executive officer of Housing.com and a mercurial executive whose public antics have surprised and amused observers in recent weeks, was fired from the company after a...
View ArticleIAS Officer Smita Sabharwal Sends Legal Notice To Outlook For Sexist Article...
NEW DELHI — A woman IAS officer, one of the youngest to have cracked the tough civil services exam in 2001, has sent a legal notice to a weekly news magazine for a blatantly sexist article that...
View ArticleLalit Modi's Job Offer To Sushma Swaraj's Husband Is 'Quid Pro Quo', Says...
NEW DELHI — The Congress Party stepped up its attack on the BJP, which is mired in a fresh controversy on Wednesday, after media reports indicated that former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi allegedly...
View ArticleNew York Times Mistakenly Publishes Politician Digvijaya Singh's Leaked Photo...
It's a blooper that has Indians on social networking sites howling with laughter, despite a sombre and prompt correction. In an article published on June 29, the New York Times highlighted Prime...
View ArticleAirtel Ready For Mobile Number Portability, To Meet July 3 Deadline
The wait for national number portability is over. And Airtel, India's largest mobile operator, is stepping up. Airtel now ready for National mobile number portability. Customers across India can retain...
View ArticleThe Real Reason Why Coldplay's Chris Martin Is In Delhi
NEW DELHI — This morning, the Indian social media had a meltdown after it discovered that Coldplay’s lead singer Chris Martin paid a surprise visit to Summer House Cafe in Delhi's Hauz Khas Village and...
View ArticleDarjeeling Landslides Kill 38, Major Rescue Operations On
DARJEELING (West Bengal) — Rescue operations are underway in three subdivisions of Darjeeling district where multiple landslides have claimed 38 lives besides washing away highways and damaging homes....
View ArticleFabFurnish Founders Step Down After Investor Rocket Internet Reshuffles...
NEW DELHI — Online home furniture and furnishings retailer FabFurnish.com became the second company in less than a day in which investors asked the founders to step aside. Co-founders Vikram Chopra and...
View ArticleWATCH: Stalin Slaps A Passenger In The Chennai Metro
Indian politicians are behaving exceptionally badly, this week. After Union Minister Kiren Rijiju forced passengers to deplane so that he could get a seat on an Air India flight in Leh, DMK leader M.K....
View ArticleTrailer Of Madhur Bhandarkar's New Film Is Out, But It's Nothing You Haven't...
If you've been waiting to see the trailer of Madhur Bhandarkar's new film 'Calendar Girls', this is as good time as any to tell you not to hold your breath. Here's why. Featuring five fresh faces who...
View ArticleHow Gangster Chhota Shakeel Nearly Managed To Bump Off Chhota Rajan Earlier...
The rivalry between Rajendra Sadashiv Nikhalje alias Chhota Rajan and his former boss Dawood Ibrahim is legendary in Mumbai's underworld. In the past few years, their respective gangs have planned...
View ArticleMadrasa Students Will Be Considered 'Out-Of-School', Says Maharashtra Govt
The Maharashtra government has said that the children studying in madrasas (Islamic educational institutes) qualify as "out-of-school" and the state education department will conduct a one-day general...
View Article7 Things You Should Know About Modi's Digital India Programme
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Digital India programme is like a giant umbrella under which several big projects will run, aiming to bring broadband speeds to India's rural areas, which suffer from...
View ArticleKashmir Human Rights: India Has Failed Its Own Constitution, Says Amnesty...
In a damning report, Amnesty International has said that no member of the security forces in Kashmir has ever been tried for human rights abuse in a civilian court since 1990, when the Armed Forces...
View ArticleKiren Rijiju Apologizes After 3 Passengers Offloaded To Make Way For...
Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Kiren Rijiju, has apologized to the passengers who were offloaded from a Leh-Delhi Air India flight to make way for him, another minister and an aide. "I am...
View ArticleAmazon Leads Rs 375 Crore Investment In BankBazaar
Amazon.com Inc. has led a $60 million (Rs 375 crore) funding round in online financial products retailer BankBazaar.com. The Chennai-based company sells third party financial products such as credit...
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