A Group Of Painters Wants To Turn Strife-Torn Kabul To The World's Graffiti...
Aqela is hunting for a job again. Women like Aqela in Kabul usually earn a living by working as daily wage labourers, cleaning homes and offices, doing laundry for people, washing dishes. Clad in her...
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India's Climate Promises Hang On Solar Push
India's commitment do its bit to limit global warming implies an unprecedented fillip to solar power, but also raises key questions about how speedily can the government move to arrange the mammoth...
View ArticleCBI Grills Mayawati For Likely Role In Multi Crore Rural Health Scam
Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has been questioned by the CBI for her alleged involvement in the multi-crore National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam after the agency claimed to have got...
View Article'Revival' Plan Of Congress Includes Recalling 81-Year-Old Buta Singh
Buta Singh was a well-established veteran in the Congress and eased out after swirling corruption allegations that involved family members. And yet, the Congress re-inducts him.
View ArticleIndia's Sugar Export Plans May Be An Epic Fail
India's bid to compel producers to export millions of tonnes of surplus sugar will fail without significant subsidies or at least penalties for failing to comply, trade and industry sources told...
View ArticleDadri Lynching Incident Blame Has To Fall Entirely On Modi: Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Contributing editor to The Indian Express and President, Centre For Policy Research, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, excoriates BJP MP Tarun Vijay on the editorial pages of the paper and laments that the MP's...
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Squeamish Government Moots Restricting Condom Ads To 'Late Night Hours'
First the government came for pornography and the brouhaha caused it to backtrack. Now, the Telegraph finds that the Centre is examining a proposal to confine television ads for condoms to late-night...
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Delhi CM Kejriwal Stopped From Entering Fractious Dadri Village
Delhi CM, Arvind Kejriwal claimed to be waylaid by Uttar Pradesh's police and administration and prevented from entering Bisada village in Dadri when he and his AAP colleagues went to visit Mohammad...
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Gold Makes Year's Biggest One Day Comeback
Snapping its five-day falling streak, gold rebounded by Rs 660, its biggest one-day surge this year, to trade at Rs 26,810 per ten grams at the bullion market today. The precious metal, after five...
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Dadri Lynching: Local BJP Leader's Son, UP Homeguards Constable Reportedly...
The son of a local leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party and an Uttar Pradesh Homeguards constable were reportedly arrested by the police for their alleged complicity in the grisly lynching of a Muslim...
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Marriage In Boomtime India
To hell with the simpering heroine lamenting the hero who "betrayed" her, misery personified with quivering lips and tears rolling down her pancaked cheeks. Now girls in India walk hand in hand with...
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Those Damned Low-Rise Jeans
Fashion is such a beautifully weird thing. And I speak with all the authority of someone who spent hours watching Fashion TV when it first launched. Of course, I must confess that this had less to do...
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Dating In The Gay World: The 'Executive'
We decide to meet at the local art festival, one fresh February afternoon. The festival is being held at an unused car park in the city's heritage precinct because art festivals usually happen in...
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Japanese Man Shot Dead In Bangladesh, ISIS Claims Responsibility
DHAKA — A 66-year-old Japanese man, known for philanthropic work, was today shot dead by the Islamic State militants in Bangladesh, the second foreigner to be gunned down in a week after an Italian aid...
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Coal Scam: Ex- Coal Secretary, 5 Others Booked By Special Court
NEW DELHI -- A special court today framed charges against former coal secretary H C Gupta and five others in a coal scam case pertaining to alleged irregularities in allocation of a coal block in...
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BJP President Amit Shah Says Party MLA Sangeet Som Shouldn't Have Gone To Dadri
A week after the Uttar Pradesh police charged BJP leaders Mahesh Sharma and Sangeet Som for violating prohibitory orders in Dadri, where a 52-year-old Muslim man was allegedly lynched by a Hindu mob,...
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Ashok Chavan Asks Maharashtra Govt To Withdraw Its Decision On Counselling...
MUMBAI -- The Maharashtra unit of Congress has threatened to hold a statewide agitation if the government does not withdraw its decision to provide psychological counselling to farmers. "The Congress...
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Pharmacists On Strike Citing Headache By Online Retailers
Close to 850,000 Indian pharmacies have commenced a pan India strike on Wednesday. Leaders of the strike say they haven't ruled out an indefinite protest and cite the "illegal pharmacy business by IT...
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The Shameful Double Standards Of India's Intelligentsia On Secularism And...
The growing chorus of high-decibel protest from Sahitya Akademi awardees against the perceived rise of intolerance and a threat to free speech in the country serves to underline the crass hypocrisy,...
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India Wants To Regulate Cough Syrup Abuse, Pharma Companies Reduce Supplies
NEW DELHI -- Indian regulators are privately pressuring major drug firms to better police how they sell popular codeine-based cough syrups to tackle smuggling and addiction, a move that is reducing...
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