What We Know And Don't Know About Stephen Paddock And The Las Vegas Massacre
Between law enforcement updates and growing media accounts, a hazy picture has emerged of Stephen Paddock, the 64-year-old retiree who police say unleashed a fusillade of gunfire at a country music...
View ArticleBoys Wearing Makeup On Instagram Are More Popular Than Ever
In 2010, a little app called Instagram made its debut. The founders had no idea at the time but they were about to become a vehicle to change damaging and ingrained social norms.The photo sharing app...
View ArticleThe Answers To The Baby Snooze Questions Every Sleep-Deprived Parent Has
"The 5 S's."If you've had a baby in the past 15 years, you've likely had someone whisper these three little words to you as you stood helpless in the face of your baby's crying.The phrase, which comes...
View ArticlePM Modi Promises Steps To Reverse GDP Slowdown, Says Situation Exaggerated By...
NEW DELHI -- Lashing out at critics of his economic policies, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the Indian economy was on firm footing and that he will never jeopardise the country's...
View ArticleThe Morning Wrap: India's Tryst With Death Penalty; Aadhaar's Murky Secrets
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 HuffPostIndia voted...
View ArticleJagmeet Singh Is Already Earning The Weirdest Descriptions In Politics
This is Jagmeet Singh, the new leader of the federal New Democrats.The 38-year-old's victory in his party's leadership race has been hailed as a win for diversity and representation in politics. He's...
View ArticleWhy We Need More Celebrities Like Prakash Raj To Stand Up Against Saffron Raj
On October 2, Prakash Raj, a celebrated actor who has dabbled in multiple film industries, minced no words when he called out Prime Minister Narendra Modi for choosing to remain silent on the murder of...
View ArticleMaharashtra Govt Issues Notification Allowing Homeopaths To Continue...
A notification issued by the Maharashtra government on 27 September have left allopathy doctors fuming. Mumbai Mirror reports that the state's Medical Education and Drugs Department recently announced...
View ArticleIndia's Ambitious New Plan To Conquer TB Needs Cash And Commitment
Madhukar Pai, McGill UniversityTuberculosis (TB) kills more people today than HIV and malaria combined.In 2015, there were an estimated 10.4 million new TB cases worldwide and 1.8 million TB deaths,...
View ArticleAnger Is a Small Thing, Don’t Let Your Ego Help It Grow
'Anger rooms' are all the rage, according to an article this August in New York Times Style section that mentions three such places where people go to smash things. As one proprietor put it: "That's...
View ArticleA Divorce Case Can Feel Like A Living Entity.
When a divorce is being bitterly contested we forget everything else, except the case. The case consumes us, and we live, eat, and breathe it. Initially, the divorce case seems like a distinct entity,...
View ArticleJean Drèze’s 'Sense And Solidarity: Jholawala Economics for Everyone',...
Jean Drèze is a familiar name for social science students and researchers. His contributions unarguably have helped improve the state of social programmes in India and have motivated several students...
View ArticlePraise For Modi For Keeping A Used Tissue Paper In His Pocket Speaks Volumes...
The followers of Prime Minister Narendra Modi are praising him to the skies after a video of him — balling up a used tissue and putting it in his pocket after the aarti on Dusshera at New Delhi's...
View ArticleBHU Tried To Hush Up The Gangrape Of A Male Student On Campus Last Year
The outcry over the molestation of a woman student on campus at Banaras Hindu University has opened a can of worms. But in the long and sordid history of sexual violence at the institution, outlined by...
View ArticleGujarat HC Rejects Zakia Jafri's Plea Against PM Modi In 2002 Riots Case
AHMEDABAD -- The Gujarat High Court on Thursday rejected Zakia Jafri's plea challenging a lower court order upholding SIT's clean chit to then chief minister Narendra Modi and others on allegations of...
View ArticleI Was Requesting Her To Leave, Claims Delhi SHO After Photos Of Radhe Maa...
Taking no lessons from several cases involving the self-styled woman, the Vivek Vihar SHO, this Dussehra, accorded a warm welcome to controversial spiritual guru Radhe Maa at the police station.In a...
View ArticleHrithik Roshan Has Finally Broken His Silence On His Alleged Affair With...
The Kangana Ranaut-Hrithik Roshan drama, which seemingly started off as a fight about a relationship gone awry, soon took a legal turn. Throughout the controversy, where Kangana claimed that the two...
View ArticleHow Modi Cherry-Picked Data To Build A Positive Narrative On The Economy
Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a speech yesterday assured the nation that All is Well with the Indian economy, and that there was no reason to worry.He offered data to sell his argument. Let's go...
View ArticleWhy BJP's Polarisation Ploy Will Not Work In Kerala
For years, the BJP has been desperate to make electoral inroads to Kerala, but has been unable to find a breakthrough because politically the party has nothing new to offer, except a continuum of bogus...
View ArticleEnglish Author Kazuo Ishiguro Wins The 2017 Nobel Prize In Literature
English author Kazuo Ishiguro has won the Nobel Prize for Literature for uncovering “the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world,” the Swedish Academy said on Thursday on awarding...
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