Over 30 Indian-Origin Men, Women In Forbes' List Of Super Achievers
NEW YORK -- Over 30 Indian-origin innovators, entrepreneurs and leaders have been featured in the 2017 edition of Forbes' list of super achievers under the age of 30, who seek to break the status quo...
View ArticleSheila Dikshit Favors Alliance With SP, Says Will Step Aside For Akhilesh...
NEW DELHI -- Former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Wednesday said she favours a pre-poll alliance with the Samajwadi Party led by Akhilesh Yadav, and that she is ready to step aside as Congress...
View ArticleHow BJP Enlisted Help From Beyond The Grave To Get Votes
In a rather macabre tactic to enlist votes, the Bharatiya Janata Party sent out a letter from a deceased BJP councillor to voters in the Thevally ward of Kollam district in Kerala, which saw a...
View ArticleRenowned Sitar Player Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan Dead At 88
MUMBAI -- Renowned sitar player Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan, the last survivor of the 'Sitar Trinity' of India along with late Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ustad Vilayat Khan, died in Mumbai on Wednesday after...
View ArticleM.S. Dhoni Steps Down As Captain Of India's ODI And T20I Teams
M.S. Dhoni has stepped down as the captain of India's One Day Internationals (ODIs) and the T20 Internationals (T20I) teams. On Wednesday, Dhoni informed the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in...
View Article₹14.97 Trillion Out Of ₹15.4 Trillion In Demonetised Notes Have Come Back:...
Banks have received ₹14.97 trillion rupees as of 30 December, as much as 97 percent of banned notes, Bloomberg reported today. This means that only three percent of the banned ₹500 and ₹1,000 have not...
View ArticleEveryone Is Heartbroken After Mahendra Singh Dhoni Steps Down As...
The inevitable has happened. "Captain cool" Mahendra Singh Dhoni has stepped down as the captain of the Indian Cricket Team from the ODI and the T20 formats of the game. However, he will be available...
View ArticleSuperseded General Praveen Bakshi Meets Defence Minister For The Second Time...
Eastern Army Commander Lieutenant General Praveen Bakshi, the senior most general of the Indian Army superseded for the post of Chief of Army Staff, met Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Wednesday....
View ArticleWhy Language, Perhaps More Than Religion, Is The Bone Of Contention These...
With the Election Commission of India announcing polls in five states, the implementation of the recent Supreme Court judgement declaring that "religion, race, caste, community or language would not be...
View ArticleNo, Muslims Do Not Vote Strategically To Defeat The BJP In Uttar Pradesh
Muslim voters do not vote en bloc or as told to by clerics, contrary to popular perception, and do not vote strategically to defeat the BJP, new evidence from 15 years of voting data shows. The most...
View ArticleCan India Square Emissions Targets With Energy For All?
As India assumes the mantle of the world's fastest-growing large economy, it is being forced to reconcile its need to lift hundreds of millions of its citizens out of poverty while trying to limit its...
View Article10 Scariest Horror Movies Ever Made
Horror films are not everybody's cup of tea. While some people are obsessed with them, others are freaked out at the very thought of them. But the thing with horror movies is that they can get you...
View Article7 Lessons From Dangal For A Happier Life
My dangal starts every morning at 9am—the fight against traffic to get to my destination, the fight against time to get things done, the fight against cellular services, against incompetent team...
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The Insanely Simple Tinder Hack That Got Me 20X More Matches
"Ladki patayi hai?" (Ever picked up a girl?) "Nai, sir." (No, sir.) "Phir ghanta sales hoga tujhse." (Then there is no way in hell that you can do sales!) This was how a friend's interview process at a...
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6 Totally Unexpected Ways In Which India Is Leading The World
With daily news about increasing crime against women, seemingly endless clashes on the basis of religion and caste, it's clear that this country sure has miles to go in some ways. But between all the...
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India Is Exceeding Its Paris Promise In Renewables Race
In 10 years, a majority of India's electricity will be produced from cleaner and renewable sources, putting the country ahead of promises made at the Paris Climate Summit. India will generate as much...
View ArticleDear Molester, I'm Ashamed That I Always Let You Win
Just a few days after I proudly announced to a few visiting relatives that Delhi isn't as bad as it is portrayed to be when it comes to women's safety, I was rudely made aware that I was so wrong. A...
View ArticleTRAI Issues Consultation Paper On Net Neutrality, Open For Comments Till 15...
NEW DELHI -- The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Wednesday floated a consultation paper on the much-debated net neutrality issue, seeking stakeholders view by February 15, and...
View ArticleOver 100 Clerics Arrested In Lahore For Holding A Rally To 'Celebrate' Salman...
LAHORE -- The Punjab Police has arrested over 100 clerics for attempting to hold a rally in Lahore to 'celebrate' the assassination of governor Salman Taseer on his death anniversary. Taseer, who had...
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The Morning Wrap: Goodbye MS Dhoni; Man Kills 10 Members of His Family In UP
The Morning Wrap is HuffPost India's selection of interesting news and opinion from the day's newspapers. Subscribe here to receive it in your inbox each weekday morning. Essential HuffPost MS Dhoni...
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