6 Killed, 15 Injured In Stampede At Gangasagar Fair In West Bengal
KOCHUBERIA -- At least six people were killed and 15 others suffered grievous injuries on Sunday during a stampede that took place in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas area. The stampede took place near...
View ArticleDiesel Prices Increase By ₹1.03 Per Litre, Petrol Prices Up By 42 Paise
NEW DELHI -- Petrol price was on Sunday night hiked by ₹0.42 a litre, the fourth increase in 6 weeks, and diesel rate was raised by ₹1.03 a litre, the second hike in a fortnight. The increase in rates,...
View Article5 Lessons For The C-Suite From The Wells Fargo Banking Scandal
Wells Fargo had been a darling of sorts in the financial services world. It was one of the few American banks which reported a profit increase the financial crisis. Until the news of the scandal broke...
View ArticleAI Is Set To Take Your Job—Whether You're A Doctor Or Journalist Or Customer Rep
When I search for "artificial intelligence", Google finds me 79 million relevant links, 2.24 million videos, 2 million recent news articles, and 0.74 million books. It's been a buzzword this past year,...
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What Vishal Sikka's Bumpy Infosys Tenure Shows About 'Strategy'
Recently Wipro's Azim Premji and Infosys's Vishal Sikka made joint statements about the stresses and tough times that lie ahead in the Indian IT sector and how global factors have caused immense...
View ArticleDigital Transformation: It's Do Or Die For Companies
"If you're not confused, then you are not paying attention." – Tom Peters, In Search of Excellence and Thriving on Chaos: Handbook for a Management Revolution Digital transformation. The more we talk...
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India's Blue Revolution Hinges On The Government Doing Less, Not More
The productivity of inland fisheries can be boosted massively if governments get out of the way of operations and let fish enterprises grow across India. By Sanjiv Phansalkar* For a protein-deficient...
View ArticleIndians With Dogs Not Welcome?
The relationship that India has with its animals can at best be described as ambiguous. While attitudes to animals—depending on what animal it is—range from reverence to loathing (there honestly is no...
View ArticleBattery Was The Leading Cause Of The Samsung Galaxy Note7 Fires: Report
SEOUL -- A Samsung Electronics Co Ltd investigation into what caused some Galaxy Note 7 smartphones to catch fire has concluded that the battery was the main reason, a person familiar with the matter...
View ArticleUP Man Arrested For Allegedly Raping Over 500 Minor Girls In Delhi
NEW DELHI -- A 38-year-old serial rapist was arrested from Delhi's New Ashok Nagar area for targeting minors girls aged between seven and eleven years on Sunday. The accused Sunil Rastogi, who wore the...
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These 8 Men Have As Much Money As Half The World
Just eight super-rich men hold the same amount of wealth as the poorest half of the world's population, according to an analysis from the charity Oxfam released Sunday night. Six of these...
View ArticleIndia's Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta Das Lashes Out At Amazon, Asks...
Days after Indian external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj threatened Amazon to "never issue a visa" to its officials if it sold products insulting the Indian flag, Economic Affairs Secretary...
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The Three Pillars Of Brand Modi: A Pliant Media, The Inept Leadership Of...
Demonetisation has been disastrous for the Indian economy, and has failed in its objective of extinguishing black money. That public sentiment has yet not turned against brand Modi despite such a...
View ArticleThe Morning Wrap: Army Chief Gen Bipin Rawat Warns Jawans; Delhi Man Says He...
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 India's...
View ArticleThree Militants Killed In Jammu And Kashmir's Anantnag
SRINAGAR -- Three militants were killed on Monday during a gunfight with security forces in south Kashmir's Anantnag district, police said. Pahalgam(J&K) encounter: Three terrorists gunned down by...
View ArticleSexually Abusive Teacher In Maharashtra Forces Girl Students To Bathe Naked...
A male teacher in Aurangabad's Beed district has been accused of sexually abusing several girl students in a government-aided residential school. The accused, who is on the run, allegedly forced girls...
View ArticleBJP Leader LK Advani Wants RSS To Include More Women
NEW DELHI -- Senior BJP leader LK Advani today suggested that Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) should include more women in its ranks. Heaping praise on the organisation of 'Prajapita Brahma Kumaris'...
View ArticleSoon, There May Be Seats Reserved For Women Students At The IITs
For years, students and teachers have often raised the diversity problem in IITs. There's a gender imbalance in the premier engineering institute, and one cannot deny that. However, to fix that, a...
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Trump Says Merkel Made A 'Catastrophic Mistake' With Refugee Policy
LONDON/BERLIN, Jan 15 (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said in a newspaper interview published on Sunday that German Chancellor Angela Merkel had made a "catastrophic mistake" with a...
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Donald Trump Says Refugee Crisis And Threats To UK Identity Drove Brexit
In a wide-ranging interview with the Times of London on Sunday, President-elect Donald Trump said he believes the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union "is going to end up being a great...
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