No Question Of Supporting The Citizenship Bill, Says Mamata
Reacting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pitch for passing the Citizenship Amendment Bill, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said her party Trinamool Congress (TMC) will oppose...
View ArticleThe Week In Good News: Pakistan Gets First Hindu Woman Judge, Man Saves Life...
Every week, HuffPost India will bring you a carefully curated list of things to cheer for, from India and around the world. Our third installment includes Pakistan getting the first Hindu woman as a...
View Article7 Indian Hip Hop Singers Who Will Blow You Away
Ahead of the release of Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt-starrer Gully Boy, which is inspired by the underground rap scene in Mumbai, there has been a lot of media attention on Indian rappers, especially...
View ArticleModi Government Protests At US Detention Of Several Indian Students
NEW DELHI — India on Saturday said it had lodged a protest with the United States government after several Indian students were detained there in connection with their enrolment in a fake university,...
View ArticleBJP Workers Beat Up Journalist In Raipur
RAIPUR — A journalist of a Raipur-based website was allegedly beaten up Saturday by BJP functionaries while he was recording a meeting of the party’s district-level meeting here, police said.Based on...
View ArticleAt Least 7 Passengers Killed As Several Coaches Of Seemanchal Express Derail...
SONPUR — At least seven passengers died and 24 others were injured early Sunday when nine bogies of the Delhi-bound Seemanchal Express jumped the tracks in Bihar’s Vaishali district, railway and police...
View Article6 Passengers Killed As 11 Coaches Of Seemanchal Express Derail In Bihar
The Railways have clarified that only six people, including three women, have died in the train accident in Bihar’s Vaishali district early Sunday.Earlier, principal secretary, disaster management,...
View ArticleModi-Shah Trying To Organise Coup In Bengal: Mamata Banerjee
KOLKATA — Launching a scathing attack on the Centre after a CBI team made an unsuccessfully bid to question the Kolkata Police commissioner Sunday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused...
View ArticleFrom Organ Transport To Medicines, India's Drone Sector Takes Off
BENGALURU, Karnataka —“In the next five to ten years, the drone industry is going to be comparable to the computer industry in the 1980s,” said 27-year-old Mughilan Ramasamy, one of the founders of...
View ArticleCelebrities Show Solidarity With Colin Kaepernick Over Super Bowl 2019 Weekend
Celebrities, athletes and activists used social media to share their support for Colin Kaepernick before the Super Bowl on Sunday. The former San Francisco 49ers quarterback tweeted his gratitude,...
View ArticleMamata Banerjee Continues Dharna Over CBI, Kolkata Police Showdown
KOLKATA — West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who began a sit-in protest over the CBI’s attempt to question the Kolkata Police chief in connection with chit fund scams, said Monday she will...
View ArticleHow Knitting Helped Me Untangle My Chaotic Thoughts
For years, it seemed to me that people who enjoyed knitting complicated garments using nothing but needles and wool must have the patience of saints. Though I admired the seemingly effortless ease of...
View ArticleTulsi Gabbard Officially Kicks Off 2020 Presidential Campaign
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) officially kicked off her campaign for president on Saturday.In a speech in Oahu, Gabbard, 37, stressed lessons she learned while serving in her state’s National...
View ArticleRahul Gandhi Calls Mamata Banerjee To Extend Support
NEW DELHI — Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday called up West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and extended support to her, saying the entire opposition is together and it will defeat the...
View ArticleRapper 21 Savage Taken Into ICE Custody For Allegedly Overstaying Visa
Grammy-nominated rapper 21 Savage was reportedly detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement early Sunday morning after being accused of overstaying a visa.The 26-year-old artist, legally...
View ArticleNew 'Avengers: Endgame' Trailer Drops During Super Bowl And Fans Want More
If anything was going to take your attention away from the big game, it would be the new trailer for Marvel Studios’ “Avengers: Endgame.”While only 30 seconds long, the latest teaser has fans wishing...
View ArticleA Lesbian Bollywood Buff, I’ve Waited For ‘Ek Ladki Ko Dekha To Aisa Laga’...
This is not a review, this is a love letter to a film I have now watched twice in two days. If I could rate Sonam Kapoor’s Ek Ladki Ko Dekha To Aisa Laga as a cardholding lesbian, I’d give it 4.5/5.Let...
View ArticleWill Return Padma Bhushan If Modi Govt Doesn't Fulfill Promises: Anna Hazare
RALEGAN SIDDHI, Maharashtra — Social activist Anna Hazare, whose indefinite hunger strike entered the fifth day on Sunday, warned that if the Narendra Modi government did not fulfil its promises, he...
View ArticleWorld War I Grenade Discovered Among Potatoes At Hong Kong Potato Chip Factory
Hong Kong police destroyed a German-made grenade from World War I on Saturday morning after the device cropped up in a shipment of imported potatoes at a local potato chip factory. The grenade,...
View ArticleSupreme Court Gives Stern Warning To Kolkata Police Chief On CBI Plea
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to give an urgent hearing to applications moved by the CBI alleging destruction of electronic evidence related to the Saradha chit fund scam case by the Kolkata...
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