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Amazon Bows To Pressure, To Delist Items In 'Animal Specimen' Category
A wildlife body today claimed that online retail giant Amazon has agreed to remove snares and traps from its website after it urged the portal to do so on compassionate grounds. Wildlife SoS had...
View ArticleJayalalithaa, 28 Cabinet Ministers To Be Sworn In On 23 May
CHENNAI -- AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa will be sworn in as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister for a second consecutive tenure along with 28 ministers, including her confidant O Panneerselvam, on May 23. The...
View ArticleCongolese Man Beaten To Death In Delhi Over Auto-Rickshaw Spat
NEW DELHI -- A 23-year-old Congolese national was allegedly beaten to death by a group of men following a brawl over hiring an auto-rickshaw in south Delhi's Vasant Kunj area, police said today. One...
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BCCI Elects Anurag Thakur As New President
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) elected its former secretary, Anurag Thakur, as the new President of the cricketing body on Sunday morning. The BCCI Board took the decision today...
View ArticleISRO's First 'Made In India' Space Shuttle To Take Off On 23 May
BENGALURU -- The first technology demonstrator of indigenously made Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV), that can launch satellites into orbit around earth and then re-enter the atmosphere, will be flight...
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25 Passengers Miraculously Escape After Bus Teeters On Collapsed Bridge In...
Twenty-five passengers aboard a bus had a miraculous escape in Junagadh, Gujarat after a bridge collapsed just as the bus was passing over it, reported ANI. Even as half of the rear end of the bus...
View ArticlePM Modi To Sign 3-Nation Chahbahar Port Pact During Iran Visit
TEHRAN -- Ahead of his maiden visit to energy- rich Iran, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said enhancing connectivity, trade, investment and energy partnership will be his priority with the...
View ArticleBJP Protest Outside CPI(M) Office In Delhi Over Party Worker's Killing, 600...
NEW DELHI -- BJP workers today staged a demonstration outside the CPI(M) headquarters here, broke police barriers and damaged their signboard in protest against the murder of a party worker allegedly...
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Anurag Thakur Wants To Implement The 'Practical' Lodha Committee Recommendations
MUMBAI -- Newly-elected President Anurag Thakur today vowed to carry on the reforms process in the BCCI, insisting that the Board would not run away from implementing the "practical" recommendations of...
View ArticleBJP Started The Violence By Attacking A Victory Procession, Alleges Sitaram...
NEW DELHI -- Hitting back, CPI(M) today blamed BJP and RSS for the violence in Kerala, alleging that their workers had attacked the victory processions of Left leaders as the saffron outfits were not...
View ArticleKiran Bedi Appointed As The New Lt Governor Of Puducherry
NEW DELHI -- BJP leader and former IPS officer Kiran Bedi was today appointed as Lt Governor of Puducherry, a post which was under the additional charge of Lt Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Island for...
View ArticleIndia Launches Its First Reusable Space Shuttle
SRIHARIKOTA (Andhra Pradesh) -- India launched its maiden indigenous winged Reusable Launch Vehicle, RLV from Sriharikota spaceport in Andhra Pradesh today. The RLV Technology Demonstration (RLV-TD),...
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Horror On The Everest: Two Indian Climbers Missing, One Frost-Bitten
KATHMANDU -- Two Indian climbers have gone missing on Mount Everest even as nearly 40 climbers including an Indian woman have developed frostbite during this Himalayan climbing season which saw about...
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JNU Student Arrested For Allegedly Sexually Assaulting Woman Classmate
NEW DELHI -- A 23-year-old JNU student has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman classmate, police said yesterday. Both the complainant and the accused (names withheld) are pursuing...
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Camel Bites Owner's Head Off After Being Made To Stand In Heat All Day In...
A camel, who was tied outside its owner's house in the heat all day, killed him when the man finally remembered to untie the animal. The incident was reported in Barmer in Rajasthan on Saturday. It...
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The Morning Wrap: Tata Motors To Set Up JV In Iran; Anurag Thakur Not The...
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 A recent...
View ArticleDehradun Temple To Hold 9-Day 'Cleaning' Ritual After BJP MP Leads Dalits Inside
Temple authorities in Dehradun will allegedly conduct a nine-day 'purification' ceremony to cleanse the place after Rajya Sabha MP Tarun Vijay led a group of Dalits inside, according to the Times of...
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PHOTOS: Aryan Khan And Navya Naveli Nanda Celebrate Graduation Day
Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan and Amitabh Bachchan's granddaughter Navya Naveli Nanda (daughter of Shweta and Rahul Nanda) celebrated their high-school graduation over the weekend in London. Posts on...
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Is Prashant Kishor Helping Congress Relaunch Rahul Gandhi?
NEW DELHI -- Prashant Kishor, the election campaign manager brought in by Congress party to reverse its declining fortunes, knew his real work would begin when the party hit rock bottom. It looks like...
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Where Is The Hindu Social Reform Movement?
Hindutva organisations answer the problem of caste and untouchability by seeking to give Hindu pride to Dalits and OBCs. The effort has seen mixed results, but can’t be called successful by any...
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