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Odds are that 2016 is already set to be yet another "hottest year on record". This week Ahmedabad, in Western India, broke a hundred-year record with reported maximum temperatures of 46.9°C (116.4°F)....
View ArticleIndians Want And Deserve A True Federation, Not A Pseudo One
The recent state elections have proven once again that the Indian people want a true federation. Above all other factors, they voted for local accountability. These results don't mean a rejection of a...
View ArticleWe Are Like This Only... But Don't You Dare Say We Are Racist Or Intolerant
South Indians loathe the "Hindikaaren" people -- that is, anyone living beyond the borders of Tamil Nadu; North Indians make fun of dark-skinned (or to use politician Kumar Vishwas's term,...
View Article'Veerappan': An Orgy Of Violence That Doesn't Quite Hit The Target
Veerappan, directed by Ram Gopal Varma, is a biopic based on the life of notorious Indian bandit and sandalwood smuggler Koose Muniswamy Veerappan. The movie follows the dacoit's rise as one of the...
View ArticleLet Go Of Your Inner Bharatiya Nari
We Indians love our food and we take our food memories with us wherever we go. This is true especially for the first generation diaspora. Food gives us comfort, as we try to navigate the unfamiliar...
View ArticleHow Housewives Could Help Shape The Future Of India
The Indian middle class is rising. This rise brings with it the comfort of outsourcing household work fairly cheaply. That has left the home-maker with little to do once the kids grow up. The...
View ArticleAlastair Cook Beats Sachin Tendulkar's Record, Becomes Youngest Test...
Chester-Le-Street, UK -- Alastair Cook became the first England batsman to score 10,000 Test runs when he made five against Sri Lanka on the fourth day of the second Test at the Riverside on Friday....
View ArticleI Want To Study, Says 15-Year-Old Girl In Letter To West Bengal CM Mamata...
A 15-year-old girl, whose uncle, a CPM supporter, was killed in front of her eyes in 2013, has made a desperate appeal to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, to help her continue her studies...
View ArticleIndia Tops Global Slavery Index With 18.35 Million People Enslaved
India has the dubious distinction of having the highest number of people in the world trapped in modern slavery with 18.35 million victims of forced labour, ranging from prostitution and begging,...
View ArticleSwiss Govt Names Lalit Modi, Wife Among Those Facing Tax Probe
Switzerland on Tuesday named Lalit Modi and his wife Minal among those about whom information and assistance have been sought from its tax department by the Indian authorities. In two separate gazette...
View ArticleThese Superhit '90s Bollywood Songs Actively Promoted Harassment And Stalking
If you are 90's kids who have turned out to be responsible citizens who don't think the only way to woo a woman is by pulling her hair, or blocking her way or do weird pelvic exercises in front of...
View ArticleWhy We Shouldn't Breathe Easy Over India's Rising Asthma Burden
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airway that affects approximately 30 million people in India. The prevalence of asthma in Indian children has continued to increase over the last decade....
View ArticleA Tale Of Three Cities: Heat Action Plans Combat Soaring Mercury
Co-authored by Jessica Korsh June is only just beginning, and we have already seen record-breaking temperatures across the globe. April 2016 was the warmest April ever recorded globally, increasing the...
View ArticleThese 4 Types Of Investors Will Woo Your Start-Up -- But Don't Bet On...
They say taking on an investor for your start-up is much like getting married. An investor's dance of seduction, giddying as it is, is about more than just the money. Like the romance of a lifetime,...
View ArticleBig B's Side Role In The Corridors Of Power
Amitabh Bachchan grew up surrounded by the elite of Allahabad. His father Harivansh Rai Bachchan was a poet and professor of renown and his mother, Teji, hobnobbed with the city's rarefied social...
View ArticleFrom Shock Treatment To Yoga, Conversion Therapy Is A Disturbing Reality...
By Amrita Singh For representation only. Reuters/Chris Helgren. "It is physical and emotional abuse and it needs to be called that, and groups should not be allowed to hide behind religious liberty as...
View Article8-Year-Old Girl Pretended To Be Dead To Escape Her Rapist In Delhi
NEW DELHI -- An eight-year-old girl, who was allegedly abducted and raped by a youth in outer Delhi's Kirari, pretended to be dead to escape from the clutches of her rapist, she has told her parents....
View ArticleAttacks On Africans Criminal, Not Racist, Says Sushma Swaraj
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has dismissed the attacks on members on African nations as "spontaneous" assaults perpetrated by "anti-social and criminal elements" and said they were not...
View ArticlePetrol Price Hiked By ₹2.58/Litre, Diesel By ₹2.26/Litre
NEW DELHI -- Petrol price was today hiked by Rs 2.58 a litre and diesel by Rs 2.26 per litre, the second increase in rates this month. Petrol will cost Rs 65.60 per litre in Delhi after the increase...
View ArticleGoans Are Not Happy With The Behaviour Of Nigerians, Says Laxmikant Parsekar
GOA -- At a time when reports of African nationals being attacked in the nation have stirred a row, Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar on Wednesday courted controversy saying that people of the...
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