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Indian Cricket Fans Shut Down Bangladeshi Cricketer Who Tweeted Something...
Bangladesh's wicketkeeper-batsman faced severe backlash on Thursday night after he trolled the team India for their shocking exit from the T20 cricket World Cup at the hands of West Indies. Earlier...
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Mehbooba Mufti To Be Sworn In As Jammu & Kashmir's First Woman Chief Minister...
SRINAGAR -- PDP President Mehbooba Mufti will be sworn in as the first woman Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir on April 4, a party leader said today. "Mehbooba Mufti sahiba will be sworn in as Chief...
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19 Stunning Photos Of Buildings Designed By Iraqi-British Architect Zaha Hadid
Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid, whose trademark designs were widely acclaimed and used in buildings across the world, has died of a heart attack at the age of 65. Hadid's projects included the...
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It Looks Like A Bomb Blast Site, Says Company That Constructed The Collapsed...
Yesterday the city-based IVRCL, which was constructing the flyover that collapsed in a congested part of Kolkata, faced huge backlash for saying that the incident was an "act of god". On Friday, P...
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4 April Fool's Day Pranks Played By Indian Startups That Will Make You Chuckle
Across the world, tech companies are famous for pulling off amazing hoaxes on April Fool's Day. From Amazon's retro website to Google's mirrored website and—how could we forget—the BLADE edge from...
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Investigation Team From India To Visit Pak For Pathankot Terror Attack Probe
Following the Pakistani Joint Investigation Team’s India visit to probe into the Pathankot airbase attack that killed seven Indian soldiers, an investigation team from India will now visit the...
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WATCH: This Hoverboard 'Ghost' April Fool's Day Prank Is Hilarious
What is your worst fear? Not seeing the 'salary deposited' message at the beginning of the month? Dying alone? Chipping your nail when you're about to make that grand entrance at friend's sangeet? Or...
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PHOTOS: '90s Kids From Middle-Class Families Will Relate To All Of These Things
If you grew up in the 1990s in India in a middle-class family, you'll know what it's like to join a thin bar of soap onto a new one so that no soap gets wasted. Because money doesn't grow on trees. Be...
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Dear Sitaram Yechury, You Have Betrayed The Students' Federation of India
Dear Mr Yechury, I sincerely urge you to wind up the Students' Federation of India. This is not meant to embarrass you. As one of the most important national leaders to emerge from the students'...
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It Would Have Been Nice Of The ICC To Observe Silence For Kolkata Before The...
NEW DELHI -- At half past noon on Thursday, the Vivekananda flyover in Kolkata collapsed, instantly killing an unknowable number of people (21 so far) and injuring more than 85. It terrified a city and...
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Islamic Seminary Darul Uloom Issues Fatwa Against Chanting 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai'
Joining the debate over chanting 'Bharat mata ki jai', prominent Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband has issued an edict asking Muslims to refrain from raising the slogan as it is "akin to...
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Balika Vadhu Actress Pratyusha Banerjee Commits Suicide
Actress Pratyusha Banerjee, best known for her role as Anandi in one of the most popular TV dramas Balika Vadhu, allegedly killed herself by hanging from the ceiling fan here in suburban Mumbai on...
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Kolkata Tragedy: Police File Homicide Case After Flyover Collapse Kills 23
KOLKATA -- Police on Friday opened a case of culpable homicide against the company that had been building a flyover which collapsed in Kolkata, killing at least 23 people and injuring dozens. Rescuers...
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Why An Education Without Politics Is Incomplete
After the outrage at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) earlier this year, a columnist wrote an essay titled 'Education is always political'. The columnist is Anurag Behar, the vice-chancellor of Azim...
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Can Modi Ban Caste And Give Us Manuvaad Se Azadi?
Of all the various Azadi chants in the recent JNU fracas, the one that stood out for me was 'Manuvaad Se Azadi'--freedom from caste. (I didn't care too much for the 'Punjivaad Se Azadi' since I'm a...
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India And Australia Must Extend Relations Beyond Cricket And Curry
One of the diplomatic puzzles that intrigue most foreign policy analysts is the significant lack of depth in India-Australia relations. For years, geography and history were seen as the main culprits....
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Mumbai's Dabbawalas Are Now Delivering E-Commerce Products
This article is from Open Magazine. By Lhendup G Bhutia One e-commerce giant is now tapping into one of Mumbai's most fabled and efficient distribution networks-- the dabbawalas. For over a century,...
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Modi Meets Trudeau At Nuclear Security Summit, Discusses Bilateral Ties
WASHINGTON -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi today met his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau and discussed bilateral ties, their first meeting after the latter swept to power last year. Modi and...
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Pratyusha Banerjee Suicide: Details Reveal A Tattered Love Life
The circumstances surrounding the alleged suicide of Pratyusha Banerjee, best-known for playing Anandi in the television show Balika Vadhu, have gotten murkier. On Friday, the 24-year-old actress was...
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Selfies And Local Guides: How Kolkata Flyover Collapse Site Has Turned Into A...
The man, carrying a briefcase, is shouting into the phone trying to be heard over the hubbub around him. “Hyan, bhanga dekhtey eshechhi, (Yes I have come to see the broken)”, he says. The “broken” is...
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