The Daily Mail Expose On Temple Elephants Is Shocking, And Wrong
At the entrance to the temple is Devi. She has been chained to this spot for 35 years. As a female, she is never taken to festivals, so has never, ever moved. Not one inch. Prof Nameer has asked the...
View ArticleMatrimony.com Joins The IPO Race, To Raise Rs 700 Crore
Matrimony.com is clearly hoping that weddings and investors are a match made in heaven. The matrimonial site which runs online match making business under 'BharatMatrimony' brand, today filed draft...
View ArticleUphaar Tragedy: Supreme Court Asks Ansal Brothers To Pay Rs 60 Crore; No Jail...
NEW DELHI—Real estate barons Sushil and Gopal Ansal on Wednesday escaped being jailed in the 18-year-old gruesome Uphaar Cinema fire tragedy in which 59 people died with the Supreme Court asking them...
View ArticleRIL, Airtel Among 11 Applicants To get RBI In-Principle Nod For Payments Banks
MUMBAI—The Reserve Bank today granted 'in-principle' approval to 11 entities, including Reliance Industries, Aditya Birla Nuvo, Vodafone and Airtel, to set up payments banks and proposed such licences...
View ArticleWATCH: Dairy Farmers Take The Ice Bucket Challenge With Milk
A year after the Ice Bucket Challenge brought motor neurone disease to global attention, protesters are raising awareness of falling milk prices in their version of the challenge. Angry at the low cost...
View ArticleAs Rapes Rise To Four A Day, Delhi Women Turn To Personal Protection Apps
India's capital Delhi is infamous for the cases of violence against women. About four women are raped every day on average, and the city's police-to-citizen ratio is among the lowest in the world,...
View ArticleForget Street Momos. Try These Delicious Apple And Banana Dumplings Instead
Something certainly feels wrong about junking the last bit of dosa batter that won't produce a full dosa after a good meal. That is why you should turn it into a sweet dumpling! Chef Saransh Goila has...
View ArticleAir India Gets Railways' Lohani As New Chief
Ashwani Lohani, an Indian Railway Service Officer, has been appointed Air India Chairman and Managing Director. Lohani is likely to succeed Rohit Nandan, whose three-year term ended last year and was...
View ArticleWATCH: Anushka Sharma's Adorably Goofy Rendition Of 'Rolling In The Deep'
We so love it when Bollywood stars let their hair down and act like real people instead of inaccessible, impossibly perfect super-beings. Which is why this candid video of Anushka Sharma (which the...
View ArticleHow Students From Hyderabad Are Using Reddit To Help A Blind, Abandoned Woman...
Sometimes, Internet can be a great, great place. A group of students from Hyderabad is trying to help an aged and abandoned woman go back to her home. And now, they have started a Reddit thread, asking...
View ArticleWatch: Human Heart On Cocaine Beats For 25 Minutes After Removal From Body
This is as cracked up as it appears to be! Recently, Loyola University Medical Centre released a video of this massive human heart that was swollen three times its size due to drug abuse. That's not...
View ArticleWATCH: Lalu Prasad's Amusing Mimickry Of Narendra Modi
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a development package of Rs. 1.25 lakh crore while campaigning in Bihar ahead of crucial assembly elections, leaders of the impoverished state should have...
View ArticleMeerut School Principal Sends Students Back Home To Spend Time With Lady Love
You may have heard of schools getting shut because of heavy rains, or too much heat, but a school in Bijnor announced a holiday for a different kind of emergency. According to a Times Of India report,...
View ArticleThe Hidden Gems Of The Andaman & Nicobar Islands
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are home to some of the world's most exotic, rare and pristine natural wonders -- small slices of paradise, or perhaps visions from a fairytale, but all very much there...
View ArticleIndia In All Her Blazing Glory
India, you will meet her, not in newspapers nor in a movie, not an idea or fantasy, not solely in her texts, nor what the journalist, moviemaker or prejudice says, nor in fables or documentaries. You...
View ArticleCBI Sends Documents To Interpol For Red Corner Notice Against Lalit Modi
NEW DELHI— The CBI has sent documents related to former IPL boss Lalit Modi, being probed for alleged money laundering in conduct of the T-20 cricket tournament, to Interpol for issuance of a Red...
View ArticleBJP Sweeps Rajasthan In Civic Polls But Faces Defeat In Vasundhara Raje's...
JAIPUR—In a neck-and-neck electoral race, ruling BJP won 1,443 out of the total of 3,351 wards while opposition parties including Congress and Independents won 1,908 wards in the Rajasthan civic body...
View ArticleDelhi Gangrape Convict Claims He Was Brutally Assaulted In Tihar By Jail Inmates
NEW DELHI—One of the four death row convicts in the 16 December gangrape and murder case on Thursday claimed in court that he was brutally assaulted by the inmates in Tihar Jail in New Delhi due to...
View ArticleGovernment-Appointed Panel Wants To Ban Sale Of Junk Food Near Schools
NEW DELHI—To deal with increasing obesity among children, a government-appointed committee has suggested a slew of measures including ban on sale of junk food in and around schools. The Committee on...
View ArticleCentral Team Lands In Pune To Solve FTII Row
A three-member delegation of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry is at the FTII campus in Pune to hold discussions with the faculty, director and agitating students to find a solution to the row...
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