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The Draft National Policy For Women 2016 Is Deafeningly Silent On Marital Rape
The Women and Child Development Ministry unveiled the draft of the National Policy for Women, 2016 today. The draft, which was prepared by the Vajpayee government in 2001, had been lying in the cold...
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Stray Dog Bounces Into IPL Match, Brings The Game To A Grinding Halt
It was a hilarious sight to behold when an Indian Premier League match between the Rising Pune Supergiants and the Delhi Daredevils was interrupted because a lively mutt bounced into the field. Looking...
View ArticleHere's An Insanely Cool Review Of Raman Raghav 2.0 Rapped By 'Gandu' Director Q
Director of the cult film Gandu (2010) Qaushik Mukherjee (or Q as he likes to call himself), is at the ongoing Cannes film festival. He ended up watching Anurag Kashyap's serial-killer drama, Raman...
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Divorced Via Speed Post, Muslim Woman Moves SC Demanding Ban On ‘Triple Talaq'
A Muslim woman has approached the Supreme Court seeking a ban on the ‘triple talaq’ system after she was divorced over speed post. Afreen Rehman got married two years ago and had been living with her...
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Congress Workers Pelt Stones At Rishi Kapoor's House For His ‘Baap Ka Maal'...
Offended by Rishi Kapoor’s comments against the Gandhi family, Congress workers on Wednesday staged a protest outside the actor's Bandra house. The workers pelted stones and shouted slogans protesting...
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Dozens Feared Dead, Hundreds Missing After Torrential Rains Lash Sri Lanka
Forty have been feared dead and hundreds buried in landslides in Sri Lanka after torrential rains and flash floods lashed the island country over the last two days. With the disaster forcing people out...
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Nokia Will Make A Comeback To Mobile Business With Android Phones
HELSINKI -- The Nokia name will return to the mobile phone market after a company backed by one of its former executives teamed up with manufacturer Foxconn to buy the rights to the brand for mobile...
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Nine Rebel Congress MLAs From Uttarakhand Join BJP
The nine rebel Congress MLAs in Uttarakhand led by former Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna, who were disqualified from the state assembly under the anti-defection law, on Wednesday joined the BJP...
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Who Is Sarbananda Sonowal? The Incredible Rise Of Assam's Next Chief Minister
Sarbananda Sonowal was only 30 when he became the president of the All Assam Students Union (AASU), the youth wing of the state's regional party, the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP). Today, 23 years later,...
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WATCH: Overawed Men Fall At Jayalalithaa's Feet To Congratulate Her
As Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa returned to power for a second time on Thursday, ecstatic AIADMK supporters took to the streets, beating drums, breaking into dance and song and chanting her...
View ArticleSri Lanka Landslides: Hopes Fade For 150 Feared Buried
ARANAYAKA, Sri Lanka -- Hopes faded on Thursday for the survival of about 150 people trapped under the mud and rubble of two landslides in Sri Lanka, as heavy rain hampered rescue operations and the...
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Allo Messenger, Echo Rival: 9 Key Announcements From Google IO
Google's annual developer conference had more than its share of big announcements this year. This was Sundar Pichai's first IO after becoming CEO. Senior Google executives discussed trends and...
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Things You Don't Mind Running For
Okay, we know all of you are not the runner sorts and would do anything to ditch running. You don’t need a major reason to avoid it… it just isn’t your thing. But there are a few things for which we...
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Don't We All Love Surprises? Here's One For You
We all love a surprise and if it’s in a box, even better. The excitement of the unknown, that curiosity of what’s inside it is thrilling, but we all love it. After much of the ‘aawww’ and ‘wow’...
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Tie-Up With Congress Didn't Work, Result Setback To Left: CPI
The Left parties today underlined the need for a "serious introspection" in West Bengal where Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress is set to return to power even as they said that their impressive...
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Braving A Lifetime Of Electoral Reverses, O Rajagopal Becomes First BJP MLA...
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again" — this old proverb seems fitting for the Bharatiya Janata Party's O Rajagopal, who on Thursday became the first BJP candidate to win a seat in the...
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Assembly Election Result 2016: Big Comeback For Mamata, Jaya, BJP Wins Assam;...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday won power for the first time in the northeastern state of Assam, a victory that will help his right-wing nationalist...
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In 7 Kerala Seats, BJP Finished 2nd; Tally In Bengal Goes From Zero To Three
BJP has made clear inroads into Kerala, though LDF has won the state with a whopping majority. Not only has it won its first seat in that state, thanks to 86-year-old O. Rajagopal, it has finished...
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Pulse Detected In Woman Just Before Her Cremation
In a bizarre incident, the family members who had gathered for the last rites of a woman in Mysuru were in for a pleasant shock when a relative detected pulse on her, moments before she was to be taken...
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Four Indian Peacekeepers Honoured Posthumously With UN Medal
Four Indian peacekeepers, who laid down their lives while serving in UN peacekeeping operations, were honoured on Thursday along with 124 other military, police and civilian personnel with a...
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