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The Morning Wrap: Hrithik Roshan's Cyber Ordeal; Railways To End VIP Culture
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 HuffPostActor Hrithik...
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The Caste Politics Curse That India Just Can't Shake Off
Maratha Kranti Morcha, a rallye for Marathi castes demanding respect of their rights in Mumbai last year. Mhidanesh/Wikimedia, CC BY-NC-SAAfroz Alam, Maulana Azad National Urdu UniversityIndia is still...
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The Blatant Sexism Hidden Behind College Dress Codes
Pakistan is at quite a bizarre juncture. Seventy years on, the country is still clinging on to its colonial roots that find leadership in neckties, beauty in light skin, and brains in the English...
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Debunking Some Key Mutual Fund Myths
A myth is defined as a widely held, but false, belief or idea. For example cracking knuckles can give you arthritis, or that the full moon can affect human behaviour. Some myths are dumb, some are...
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Extreme Weather Conditions Are Rising, But Are We Ready To Cope?
Climate change is happening. In recent years average temperatures across the globe have increased, with significant impact on humanity's most precious resource, the environment. Water systems are being...
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Indian-Origin Man In US Gets 20 Years In Prison For Killing Wife
NEW YORK -- A 48-year-old Indian-origin man in the US has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing his wife by stabbing her nearly 40 times after she told him she was having an affair.Nitin P...
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Wife Roxna Paints Subramaniam Swamy As A Wronged Superhero In Book She Says...
Over a crackling line from Delhi, Roxna Swamy assures me that everything in her new book is true – except for one fact. "I won't tell you what it is," she says, with the hint of a giggle. "You have to...
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UGC Panel Suggests Dropping 'Muslim' From AMU And 'Hindu' From BHU: Report
A committee set up by the University Grants Commission (UGC) has suggested removing the words "Muslim" from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and "Hindu" from Banaras Hindu University (BHU) to reflect...
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Lord Shiva Gave Me Strength To Digest Poison And Serve The Nation, Says...
VADNAGAR -- On his first visit to his birthplace since occupying the top post, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday held a roadshow and visited his school in Vadnagar and said the town had taught him...
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Bihar Hospital Makes Aadhaar Mandatory For Patients
A hospital in Patna, Bihar, has made is compulsory for patients to furnish an Aadhaar card before they can be admitted for treatment. According to a report in The Telegraph, the Indira Gandhi Institute...
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SC Bans Sale Of Firecrackers In Delhi And NCR
NEW DELHI -- The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that there will be no sale of firecrackers during Diwali, as it restored a November 2016 order banning the sale and stocking of firecrackers in Delhi and...
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Godhra Train Burning Case: Gujarat HC Commutes Death Sentence Of 11 Convicts...
GANDHINAGAR -- The Gujarat High Court on Monday commuted the death sentence to 11 convicts, in connection with the 2002 Godhra train burning case, into life imprisonment.On 1 March, 2011, the special...
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Dove Apologized For A Skin Tone-Deaf Ad, But India's Fairness Industry Has No...
Obviously Dove was not thinking very straight when it released a Facebook advert that showed a black woman pulling off her T-shirt to reveal a white woman underneath. The white woman then pulls off her...
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Growth Important, But Not At The Cost Of Inflation, Says Urjit Patel
MUMBAI -- Fostering monetary conditions conducive to economic growth were a constant consideration for Indian policymakers, but would not take priority over achieving the central bank's inflation...
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Padmavati Trailer: Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Period Drama Will Stun You With...
Earlier today, Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Padmavati trailer was unveiled online.With Bhansali, who is known to weave magic with his visuals, one expects nothing but a stunning canvass, and with Padmavati,...
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Faced With ₹100-Crore Defamation Case, Journalist Who Reported On Jay Shah's...
Journalist Rohini Singh, who investigated into the alleged irregularities in business enterprises run by Jay Amitbhai Shah, BJP President Amit Shah's son, for The Wire, has stood up for herself after...
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Waiting For The Postman’s Knock On World Post Day
Today is World Post Day. Its purpose is to remind the world about the Post's role in the everyday lives of people and businesses and its contribution to global social and economic development. This was...
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U.S. Economist Richard Thaler Wins Nobel Economics Prize
STOCKHOLM -- U.S. economist Richard Thaler won the 2017 Nobel Economics Prize for his contributions in the field of behavioral economics, showing how human traits affect supposedly rational markets,...
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Nigerian National Brutally Assaulted In Delhi's Malviya Nagar On Suspicion Of...
In a gruesome incident that has come to light on Monday, a Nigerian national was allegedly tied to a post and beaten mercilessly in South Delhi's Malviya Nagar and all of it was caught on...
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If Farhan Akhtar Thinks Hrithik Roshan Was Discriminated Against, He Needs To...
The Kangana-Hrithik affair, imagined or otherwise, can only be likened to an interminably long nine-course dinner. The first couple of courses were fun, tickling the taste buds of an audience sniffing...
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