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Nirav Modi Apparently Applied For Vanuatu Citizenship Last Year And Was Rejected
Fugitive billionaire Nirav Modi applied for citizenship of island nation Vanuatu last year, around three months before the Rs 14,356 crore fraud at Punjab National Bank (PNB) came to light, The Indian...
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Former ISRO Scientist Nambi Narayanan Awarded Rs 50 Lakh Compensation By...
NEW DELHI -- The Supreme Court on Friday held that former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan was "arrested unnecessarily, harassed and subjected to mental cruelty" in a 1994 espionage case and ordered a...
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RK Pachauri To Be Charged In Sexual Harassment Case
A court in Saket, Delhi, has ordered on Friday that charges be framed against former TERI director RK Pachauri in a sexual harassment case, news agency ANI reported.ANI said that the matter will next...
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DUSU Elections: NSUI Claims ‘Faulty’ EVMs Were Not Privately Bought
The Delhi University Students' Union elections, held on Wednesday, were marred by issues of EVM malfunctions, followed by allegations that the EVMS were tampered with. Soon after, the office of the...
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Modi’s ‘Diwali Gift’ To Anganwadi, ASHA Workers Does Not Address Basic...
NEW DELHI — On 11 September, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a hike in the remuneration of Anganwadi and ASHA workers by over 50%. The move, which will come into effect from October, has been...
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Adrija Bose Wins Laadli Award For Three 'HuffPost India' Stories
Journalist Adrija Bose has won the best web feature award at the Laadli Media and Advertising Awards for Gender Sensitivity 2017 for three HuffPost India stories published in 2017.Bose, who is...
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JNU Students' Union Elections: United Left Panel Sweeps All Four Seats,...
The united left panel won all four students' union seats in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) elections on Sunday after a counting process that had been interrupted by threats of violence.The...
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A Song Of Ice And Fire: Chicago Lights Up Train Tracks To Battle Cold
No, this Chicago fire is not one to be nervous about ― but it does look really cool.Social media has been entranced and a little concerned over viral images and videos of Chicago train tracks on fire...
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England's Alastair Cook To Retire From International Cricket
LONDON — England batsman Alastair Cook is to retire from international cricket after the fifth Test against India at The Oval this week, the 33-year-old said on Monday.Cook, who will play his 161st...
View ArticleModi Is Batman, At Least According To BJP's Twitter Handle
On Wednesday evening, AgustaWestland co-accused Rajiv Saxena and lobbyist Deepak Talwar were extradited to India from Dubai. While they were produced in court today, the BJP, as expected, gave full...
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In Chigozie Obioma's 'An Orchestra Of Minorities', A Poultry Farmer Fights...
Set in Umuahia, Nigeria, in the 2000s, Chigozie Obioma’s An Orchestra of Minorities is the story of a poultry farmer whose day is interrupted by a woman contemplating suicide on a highway bridge....
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Interim Budget 2019: Relief For Farmers To Tax Cuts, Here's What To Expect
The government will unveil its budget for the 2019-20 fiscal year on Friday, with investors expecting increased investment in areas such as agriculture, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi tries to woo...
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Rahul Gandhi Attacks 'Fuhrer' Modi Over Unemployment Data, BJP Hits Back With...
NEW DELHI — After Rahul Gandhi threw the “fuhrer” barb at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP likened the Congress president to Mussolini, saying he has a myopic understanding of issues like the...
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When Your Partner Is More In Love With A Pet Than They Are With You
When you realize your significant other is more in love with your pet than they are with you, it can be a tough pill to swallow. Can you blame them, though? Our beloved cats and dogs are so stinkin’...
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NITI Aayog Claims NSSO Report Wasn't Released As Data Is Still Being Processed
Amid a row over a not-yet-published NSSO survey on India’s unemployment, NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar on Thursday said that the government did not release the report because the data is still...
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Interim Budget 2019: Basic Income Won't Fix Underlying Problems, Bold Policy...
The past few weeks, building up to the interim budget, have been exciting for observers as well as participants of economic policy making. First, some version of a “universal basic income” (UBI) seems...
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Rajkummar Rao: Impartial Probe Needed In Rajkumar Hirani Sexual Assault...
Rajkummar Rao, who is awaiting the release of Shelly Chopra’s Ek Ladki Ko Dekha To Aisa Laga, told HuffPost India in an interview that a fair investigation needs to be conducted into the sexual assault...
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Big Budget Promises Can’t Mask Modi Govt’s Poor Economic Performance
From 2016-17, India’s finance ministry began providing two pie charts in its “Budget at a Glance” document—these depict where a budgeted one rupee comes from (revenue) and where it goes (expenditure)....
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What The Falling Investment Rate Says About The Jobs Crisis
Everyone now knows at least something about the big problems in the Indian economy: slow or no employment growth and growing youth unemployment; farmers’ distress; increasing inequality. But one...
View ArticlePriyanka Chopra To Play Ma Anand Sheela In Next Hollywood Film
Priyanka Chopra made a wild announcement on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” Wednesday.The “Quantico” actress said she is developing a film adaptation of the 2018 Netflix documentary “Wild Wild Country,”...
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