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Essential HuffPost
A Goan village has banned kissing in public, saying it causes irritation to residents.
Vikas Swarup, the author Of 'Slumdog Millionaire', will replace Syed Akbaruddin as India's new Foreign Ministry Spokesperson.
India may be out of the reckoning from the World Cup but these 5 Organizations have little to complain about.
How two women made a #100SareePact and found that sarees are better, outside moth-balled cupboards.
Virat Kohli's ill-timed pull may have accelerated India's loss to Australia but sore cricket fans went on a misogynistic offensive against girlfriend Anushka Sharma on Twitter.
Main News
If the ill-fated MH370 air crash was the most bizarre air disaster story in decades, it just got upstaged as it emerges that the co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 locked the captain out and "deliberately" crashed the aircraft killing all 150 aboard. Meanwhile closer home in India a peeved cabin crew member of the Air India flight to Kathmandu seriously breached security by disclosing the cover of the sky marshal aboard the flight.
The Government of India is arranging two ships to bring back Indians trapped in Yemen following a bubbling conflict between the government and rebel forces.
Naval divers on Thursday evening located the 16-metre-long fuselage section of the Dornier aircraft that crashed into the sea on the night of March 24 and recovered the body of Lieutenant Kiran Shekhawat, who was also part of the Republic Day contingent that marched during Obama's visit this year.
Finally, there seems to be progress in the case of the shocking case of the rape of a senior nun in West Bengal after the state CID today arrested two persons: Mohammad Salim Sheikh in Mumbai and Gopal Sarkar at Habra in North 24-Parganas, district of West Bengal.
The promised Rs 15 lakh of 'black money' may not have hit your account and the Ganga is still dirty but people have already started being booked for allegedly slaughtering calves in Maharashtra, barely weeks after a ban on beef in the state.
Given the country's craze for new IITs and IIMs, a government expert panel has recommended that such institutions now be located on smaller campuses and taller buildings after many states cited difficulties in acquiring land matching up to current norms. Currently such campuses range from 100-200 acres and the new plans recommend a 5-10 acre limit.
The intra-party fracas in the AAP showed no signs of abating after talks between the two sides failed on Thursday despite last-ditch efforts to arrive at a common ground on a number of contentious issues, including the role of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal.
Off The Front Page
Rosa alias Kunjannam, the oldest woman in the country according to Limca Book of Records, died in Thrissur, Kerala at a private hospital here on Tuesday. She was 112 and worked as a house maid until 10 years ago.
India's incurable lust for gold revealed another facet after it emerged that gold smugglers were colluding with factory units in Dubai for designing and producing new kinds of electrical and electronic gadgets that allowed easy concealing of the metal within.
A Bangladeshi restaurant owner in London, Mohammed Khalique Zaman, 52, has been charged with manslaughter - a crime just one step below murder - after one of his customers, Paul Wilson, 38, died after eating a peanut-laded takeaway curry.
Vishwambar Jagtap, a pomegranate farmer in drought-hit Marathwada, may be single-handedly aggravating an ecological crisis as he's sunk 48 borewells--some taller than multi-storey buildings--on his farm.
The video of people scaling up the walls of a school in Bihar may have gone viral but the severe shortage of staff and teaching facilities in the school is a bigger crisis there than cheating students.
Opinion
Satish Deshpande, in The Hindu says that it is time we question the equation of reservation with the redressal of caste inequality "not because reservation is no longer needed but because it is no longer enough."
Swapan Dasgupta, in The Telegraph, analyses the complexities that the European Union faces as it prepares for a future riven with changed geopolitical formations.
Abhijith Banerjee, in The Hindustan Times notes that compensating those who live off the land, without owning it, is a sticky problem but pretending it doesn't exist is retrograde.
Shyamal Majumdar, in the Business Standard, says that Apple Inc's disavowal of Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs is gross pettiness.