Too Big To Ignore? Ailing Indian Public Banks Will Need ₹1.2 Trillion Capital...
India's top state-run banks will need more than double the capital the government plans to inject into them due to their weak asset quality and levels of profitability, Moody's Investors Service said...
View ArticleShenaz Treasurywala Tries To Freak Men Out By Staring At Them
Actor Shenaz Treasurywala decided to shoot a prank video. Following a format which has been experimented with by YouTubers in the West several times, Treasurywala, decided to ogle at men in public...
View Article10 Minimal Games You Can Play In Your 5-Minute Break
Step into a bus or a train in India and you will find any number of people glued to their mobile devices. There is a fair chance that many of them are playing light games such as candy crush or...
View ArticleWay To Live: Sky Bungalows Are The New 'Mansions'
Mumbai has a huge population but a finite amount of land. Yet, irrespective of the fact that the available land for sprawling residences that too in upscale locations are hard to come by, some of...
View ArticleZidane Regrets Headbutting Materazzi In 2006 World Cup Final
Ten years after his infamous headbutt on Italian defender Marco Materazzi which earned him a red-card, retired France football great Zinedine Zidane today expressed regret over the incident in the 2006...
View ArticleBuying Predator Drones From The US Could Cost India Heavily
One of the highlights of Prime Minister Modi's latest US trip was the admission of India in the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR). Apart from being a stepping stone to NSG membership, it is...
View Article3 Reasons Why Pak's Growing Nuclear Arsenal Is Not Giving India Sleepless Nights
Last week, the architect of Pakistan's nuclear program, A Q Khan made an ominous-sounding statement about Pakistan's capability of nuking New Delhi in five minutes from Kahuta. While this veiled threat...
View ArticleTortured And Blinded By Angry Mob, Tribal Youth Fights For Life In Assam
By Monjib Mochahari At a time when people across Assam are celebrating the BJP's electoral victory, people in the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) area are witnessing a tense situation following an...
View ArticleCorsets Are For Flaunting, Not Hiding
The horses were mesmerizing. There were seven of them beneath the chandeliers, prancing to music. The curtains fell back. Second-skin black leather pants and a range of fluid full-length skirts marched...
View Article2 Dead, 2 Injured On Board INS Vikramaditya After Gas Leak
NEW DELHI -- At least two people, including a civilian, were yesterday killed and another two injured following leakage of toxic fumes from the sewage plant on board Russian-made aircraft carrier INS...
View ArticleNarendra Dabholkar Murder Case: CBI Arrests Hindu Janajagruti Member Virendra...
MUMBAI -- CBI has arrested Hindu Janajagruti Samiti member Virendra Singh Tawde in connection with the murder of noted rationalist Narendra Dabholkar in Pune in 2013, the first in the case by the...
View ArticleBrock Turner And Tarun Tejpal Aren't Victims, So Why Are Some Hearts Bleeding...
Sometimes it’s just 20 minutes of action behind a dumpster. Sometimes it’s just the time it takes to go up and down an elevator. But lives are “deeply altered” nonetheless. The father of a former...
View ArticleKerala's Syrian Christian Orthodoxy Didn't Let Priyanka Chopra Fulfil Her...
Priyanka Chopra doesn’t need a reason to trend, but on Friday she topped the social media charts because of an unusual situation: from a celebrated actor, she had suddenly become the victim of the...
View ArticleFreedom Of Expression My Foot: Mukesh 'Shaktimaan' Khanna Defends Nihalani...
Mukesh Khanna, best remembered for playing Shaktimaan, the Indian superhero, has come out in support of CBFC chief Pahlaj Nihalani amid the ongoing controversy over multiple cuts in Shahid Kapur's Udta...
View ArticleA Man Lost His Macbook On A Mumbai Local. A Railways' Housekeeper Went Out Of...
It was rather a sad day for Amborish Roychoudhury when we he returned home only to find out that he has lost his bag along with his Macbook in a Mumbai local. Roy lost all the hope of finding it as it...
View ArticleVeteran Journalist Inder Malhotra Passes Away
NEW DELHI -- Inder Malhotra, a highly respected journalist, columnist and political commentator, whose career spanned four decades, passed away on Sunday at the age of 86. Malhotra, who started his...
View ArticleThe Fears That Are Churning American Politics
This has to be the most exciting time for watchers of American politics, and it also has to be the more fearful time. As I write this, in early June, the politics of the country is in tumult, with...
View ArticleAre Pakistani Film Awards An Elaborate Hoax?
Sarmad Khoosat and Nimra Bucha in Manto. Courtesy: A & B Productions Pakistani award shows are deliciously seasoned with all the necessary ingredients of a blockbuster commercial entertainer --...
View ArticleWhat Every Career Woman Should Figure Out Before Having A Baby
Over the past few years, a lot has been written about women in the workforce, about how they should not quit, how they should "lean in" and the rest of it. After having followed the classic...
View ArticleMy Father Lost His Battle With Depression. I'm Still Fighting Mine
Sometimes, the past takes control of your future... I love the monsoons. The smell of wet mud, trees shuffling in torrential bursts of rain, the crackling of thunder and the glimpse of lightning...
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