Veteran Actor Om Puri Passes Away After A Massive Heart Attack
NEW DELHI -- The deep, masculine and baritone voice of Om Puri will no more be heard in person as the veteran actor breathed his last, at the age of 66, on Friday. Reportedly, he passed away after a...
View ArticleUnable To Bear Expenses For Son's Treatment, Man Writes Letter To PM,...
AGRA -- A labourer in Uttar Pradesh's Agra city has sought permission from Prime Minister Narendra Modi to euthanise his son who is suffering from aplastic anaemia, a rare blood disorder. Raju, has...
View ArticleDid Not Find Any Sign Of Molestation In Footage From 60 Cameras, Says...
The Bengaluru police said on Thursday it has gone through hours of footage from at least 60 surveillance cameras but failed to find any evidence of molestation on New Year's eve. Police Commissioner...
View ArticleMichelle Obama Selects Indian-American Swetha Prabakaran For Education Campaign
WASHINGTON -- US First Lady Michelle Obama has selected 16-year-old Indian-American Swetha Prabakaran to serve in the inaugural Student Advisory Board of an education campaign which seeks to provide...
View ArticleFour Men Chopped Off A Girl's Ears In UP For Repeatedly Resisting Their...
BAGHPAT (UTTAR PRADESH) -- In a shocking incident, as many as four persons in Uttar Pradesh's Baghpat allegedly attempting to rape a girl chopped off her ears as she repeatedly resisted against it. The...
View ArticleAbu Azmi Does It Again, Says Those Who Allow Women To Wear Short Clothes Are...
NEW DELHI -- It seems like Abu Azmi still hasn't learnt from his past mistakes, as the Samajwadi Party leader on Friday stirred a fresh controversy with his derogatory remark stating that people...
View ArticleWhen IIT Students Brought The Internet of Things To Dharavi
In Mumbai, Dharavi is not the first place that comes to mind when looking for great examples of tech based innovation. But students from the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) and Indian...
View ArticleSC Refuses Urgent Hearing To A Petition Demanding Postponement Of The Budget
NEW DELHI -- The Supreme Court on Friday refused to give an urgent hearing to a plea filed by lawyer Manohar Lal Sharma in which he demanded the budget be presented in March. An apex court bench headed...
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Mulayam Darth Vader And Akhilesh Luke Skywalker Duke It Out In Open...
Remember when India Today brought out the super meme-worthy cover of Baba Ramdev and the Internet just could not handle it? Truly, no one can recover from that image any time soon. Now, the Open...
View ArticleAkhilesh vs. Mulayam: Reality Or Scripted Drama?
The politics of Uttar Pradesh has often kept political pundits and expert analysts on their toes. It is as interesting as it's unpredictable. Indeed the current political scenario in Uttar Pradesh can...
View ArticleCase Against BJP MP Ananth Kumar Hegde For Assaulting Two Doctors
BENGALURU -- A suo motu case has been registered against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ananth Kumar Hegde on charges of assaulting a doctor. Hegde, who is the MP from Kanara constituency, had on...
View ArticleRJD Slams Nitish Kumar For Seating Lalu In The Audience During An Event
PATNA -- The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) on Friday slammed Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for seating its party supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav in the audience during the event held yesterday to celebrate...
View ArticleMob Attacks Cops Who Tried To Stop Two Men From Molesting Woman In Delhi
The Bengaluru mass molestation was not the only shameful incidence of violence against women to have happened on 31 December. According to the police, an incidence of molestation occurred in Delhi too....
View ArticleMastermind Of Dhaka Cafe Attack Killed In Shootout With Police
DHAKA -- One of the masterminds of Bangladesh's worst terror attack at a popular cafe here and another top militant behind the murder of a Hindu priest were killed on Friday in a gunfight with police...
View ArticleUttarakhand Congress Turns To Prashant Kishor For Last-Minute Leg-Up In State...
The Uttarakhand Congress has reportedly roped in poll strategist Prashant Kishor in the run-up to the state elections for a last-minute boost to their campaign. Kishor has been brought in at a time...
View ArticleOm Puri: An Acting Giant Of Parallel And New Wave Cinema
A giant of parallel and new wave cinema, Om Puri delivered some stellar performances in Ardh Satya, Aakrosh and Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron while being equally at home with Bollywood potboilers and Hollywood...
View ArticleA Journalist Recounts Chasing Om Puri For An Interview That Was Never Bound...
MUMBAI -- After several failed attempts to interview Om Puri in the past two weeks, an interaction was finally scheduled at 11 AM on Friday, but fate had other plans as the veteran actor breathed his...
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Indians Sent 14 Billion Messages On WhatsApp On New Year's Eve
NEW DELHI -- On New Year's Eve, 14 billion messages were exchanged through WhatsApp in India, 32 per cent of which were in some form of media, the instant messaging app said on Friday. The number of...
View ArticleShivpal Yadav Meets Akhilesh, Mulayam Singh Yadav Over 'Compromise Formula'
LUCKNOW -- In their first one-to-one meeting since the vertical split in Samajwadi Party, Shivpal Yadav on Friday held talks with defiant nephew Akhilesh at his residence in Lucknow on a "compromise...
View ArticleMadras HC Dismisses PIL Seeking Bharat Ratna For Jayalalithaa
NEW DELHI -- The Madras High Court on Friday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking direction to the Centre to announce Bharat Ratna for late Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa....
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