Adam Saleh Is Making Life Harder For Muslims Facing Discrimination
I have a healthy disregard for religious intimidation masquerading as multiculturalism or acceptance. Yet, undeniably, people of different faiths, races, castes and creeds, especially Muslims, face...
View Article7 Kick-Ass Lessons About Team Work From 'The Avengers'
By Neeraj Deshpande, head of team-building The Avengers gave us a bunch of superheroes with unique abilities, motivations and sparkling personalities—and they had to work together for a common cause....
View ArticleWhat Kind Of Content Will Get Your Free Minute In 2017?
We reach for our smartphones every time we have a free minute. Or even in between conversations that we are not really tuned into. From the time we wake up, our smartphone is an intimate companion....
View ArticleIndia's The World's Sixth Largest Economy—But Can It Stay There?
In February this year, India surpassed China and achieved the label of the fastest growing economy of the world. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicts that India would hold the castle in the...
View ArticleFrom Demonetisation To Surgical Strikes, 2016 Has Been A Dark And Dismal Year
There is palpable despondency in the air as India concludes one more calendar year under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Following Modi's abrupt announcement of the withdrawal of high denomination...
View ArticleDecoding The 'New Normal' Of 2016: Social Media, Empathy And Warfare
As the year comes to a close, there are very few things worth celebrating as far as global politics go. This was the year where some very strange things became the "norm", in part thanks to the very...
View ArticleJet Airways Flight With 161 On Board Skids Off Runway At Goa's Dabolim Airport
A Jet Airways flight with 161 people on board veered off the runway at Dabolim airport in Goa while aligning for take off to Mumbai early today, with 15 passengers suffering "minor" injuries during...
View ArticleGujarat Teenager Kidnapped, Imprisoned In a Pit, Raped For A Month
A sixteen-year-old in Gujarat was kidnapped by eight men, imprisoned in a pit and raped for over a month. The teenager is from Kotda Nayani village and this heinous act is suspected to be a fallout of...
View ArticleThe Morning Wrap: Opposition Loses Steam On Demonetisation; India Needs Lower...
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 The one...
View ArticleShiv Sena Bullies IIT-B Into Removing A Hanuman Mural From Their Cultural...
Students of the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) were reportedly forced to remove a mural resembling Lord Hanuman -- part of their cultural festival 'Mood Indigo' -- and made to apologise...
View ArticleSamsung Galaxy S8 Rumors: A 6-inch Variant, 8 GB RAM And No Headphone Jack
Samsung seems to be compensating for its Note7 debacle with a probable Galaxy S8 Plus device in the offing next year. Galaxy S8 will sport an almost bezel-less 6-inch display, says a report from the...
View Article70-Year-Old Dies After Being Forced To Stand On One Leg To Atone Death Of Calf
In another shocking incident of cow vigilantism, a 70-year-old farmer from the Bundelkhand region died, reportedly after he was made to stand on one leg for the death of a calf. According to a report...
View ArticleSushma Swaraj Assures Release Of Abducted Indian Priest In Yemen
NEW DELHI -- Responding to a plea by Father Thomas Uzhunnalil, a Catholic priest under Islamic State's captivity in Yemen, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday asserted that the...
View ArticleWhy The Scrapped ₹500 And ₹1,000 Notes Are Selling For ₹550 And ₹1,100 In...
In the aftermath of demonetisation, there were vendors who were willing to accept the scrapped ₹500 And ₹1,000 notes from their customers, but they would take a cut of ₹100 or ₹200. Old notes could...
View ArticleAfter Looting ₹10 Lakh From Cash Van In Delhi, Accused Went And Took A 'Holy...
A week after three armed assailants robbed a cash van outside an ATM outlet in east Delhi's Pandav Nagar, the Delhi Police on Monday claimed to have solved the daylight robbery case. The three men were...
View ArticleShivpal Yadav Reinstates Expelled SP MLA Rampal
LUCKNOW -- In what could be a fresh irritant to Akhilesh Yadav, his warring uncle and state SP chief Shivpal Yadav on Monday took back in the party fold MLA Rampal Yadav, who was expelled by the chief...
View ArticleBarack Obama Says He Could Have 'Mobilized A Majority' If He'd Been Able To...
President Barack Obama may not have been able to run for a third term, but he thinks he would have had a good shot at drumming up support if it had been possible. Just weeks before the end of his...
View ArticleThe Truth Behind The Riots In Bengal That The Media Doesn't Report
"How did you manage to come here?" Dr Amalendu Das asked me, as I walked into his medicine store at Howrah's Dewanghat, approximately 37 km from Kolkata. "Journalists were not allowed to enter this...
View Article'Indica: A Deep Natural History Of The Indian Subcontinent' Is More...
Despite the many stories of creation enshrined in Indian mythology and religion, there was one waiting to be told by the very rocks, mountains, rivers and species that lived and died here long before...
View ArticleAn Afghan Street Artist Boldly Brings Women's Stories To Life
At 22 years old, Shamsia Hassani became interested in graffiti ― spray painting the surreal visions fostered in her imagination onto empty city walls. Her family was supportive yet worried, and...
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