'Help Yourself': How Maharashtra Admin Failed Sangli Boat Accident Victims
SANGLI, Maharashtra — Seventeen people drowned to death on 8 August 2019 in Sangli district’s Bramhanal village when their boat capsized in swirling floodwaters.These deaths, which included 12 women,...
View ArticleGovt. Arresting Children In Kashmir, Says Activist Kavita Krishnan After Fact...
Ten days since Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government shut down all mobile services and the internet in Jammu & Kashmir, making it harder to understand how Kashmiris feel about...
View ArticleHow Multilevel Marketing Companies And Cults Use The Same Mind Control...
Caitlin Ruiz, a 30-year-old resident of Tucson, Arizona, first got involved in multilevel marketing companies in her early 20s. Also known as MLMs, businesses such as Mary Kay, Tupperware, Amway,...
View ArticleKaty Perry's 'Teenage Dream' Co-Star Accuses Her Of Sexual Misconduct
Katy Perry’s co-star in the video for her 2010 hit “Teenage Dream” is accusing her of sexual misconduct.In a candid Instagram post published Monday, model and actor Josh Kloss says that Perry exposed...
View ArticleHere's Why Auto Sales Are Down. And Yes, You Should Be Worried
Automobile sales in India saw their sharpest decline in nearly 19 years in July, dropping 18.71% and leading to 3.45 lakh job cuts, auto industry body Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM)...
View ArticlePunjab Dalits Question Centre's Move To Demolish Ravidas Temple
CHANDIGARH, Punjab — The destruction of a Guru Ravidas temple and its holy idols by the Delhi Development Authority in the national capital’s Tughlaqabad region has prompted protests across Punjab’s...
View ArticleKashmir: Shah Faesal Arrested in Delhi Sent To Srinagar
Shah Faesal, Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer turned politician, was stopped from boarding a flight to Boston at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi and sent to Srinagar earlier...
View ArticleHow A Running Joke Saved This Flood-Hit Maharashtra Man’s Life
SANGLI, Maharashtra — 42-year-old Pramod Jagdale of Brahmnal village in Sangli district of Maharashtra never dared enter water, so he could never learn how to swim.But when a boat rescuing him from...
View Article'Game Of Thrones' Bosses Pulled Fake Script Prank On Alfie Allen That Backfired
“Game of Thrones” star Alfie Allen has revealed how the creators of HBO’s epic fantasy drama once pranked him with a fake script that prematurely killed off his character Theon Greyjoy.But the joke...
View ArticleIndia, China Not Developing Nations, They Take Advantage Of Tag At WTO:...
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump has said that India and China are no longer “developing nations” and were “taking advantage” of the tag from the WTO and asserted that he will not let it happen...
View ArticleA Partition Reading List: 12 Of The Best Novels In Translation
The Partition of India in 1947 resulted in a mass migration that left millions of people dead, displaced and dehumanised in the quest to carve out two nation states divided on arbitrary sectarian...
View ArticlePehlu Khan Lynching: All Six Accused Acquitted By Rajasthan Court
A Rajasthan court on Wednesday acquitted all six accused in the Pehlu Khan lynching case. 6 accused in the Pehlu Khan lynching case (2017) in Alwar have been acquitted by a Rajasthan court....
View ArticleEvery Single Fruit And Veggie You Should (Definitely) Eat Every Day
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away” is great advice, since there are serious nutritional benefits to eating apples. But the saying ends before it mentions what else to eat. To learn which other...
View ArticleGreta Thunberg Explains Why She Won't 'Waste Time' Talking To Donald Trump
Greta Thunberg, the teenage Swedish climate change activist, has no plans to meet or talk with US President Donald Trump when she attends the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York next...
View ArticleAmarinder Singh’s Eid Lunch Shows Congress Need Not Be Defensive On Article 370
CHANDIGARH — While the Congress leadership in Delhi has struggled to articulate a coherent political response to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s decision to nullify Jammu and Kashmir’s...
View ArticleMission Mangal Review: A Promising Entertainer That Suffers From Too Much...
Since Bollywood doesn’t do an awful lot of films on rocket science, it’s obvious that the filmmaker who’s helming one of the first films on the subject would feel the need for oversimplification.In the...
View ArticleOne Parent In Jail, The Other Enslaved By Debt: The Lost Children Of Assam’s NRC
DARRANG, Assam — Two days before Eid, Alekha Khatun smiled and waved her younger children goodbye as they headed out of the meeting block in Tezpur Jail. She then turned to her older daughter Taslima...
View ArticleOn Independence Day, Read These Books That Question The Very Nature Of Freedom
August 15, 2019 marks India’s entry into the 73rd year of its independence, an event to be commemorated with passionate speeches and tricolour-festooned WhatsApp forwards celebrating freedom. It also...
View ArticleFamilies Of Kashmir Detainees Don't Know Where They Are Or Why They Were Taken
PULWAMA — Eleven days after authorities began detaining hundreds of local leaders and activists in Kashmir, fearing violence after the region’s special status was withdrawn, it is unclear in many cases...
View ArticleGround Report: As India Celebrates Independence Day, Kashmir Shaken By...
SRINAGAR,Jammu and Kashmir — Ten days into an extraordinary suspension of civil rights and liberties in Kashmir, Indian authorities have refused to put a precise figure to the number of opposition...
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