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Essential HuffPost
Iconic business leader Ratan Tata has acquired a stake, of unknown value, in Chinese handset maker Xiaomi, making it the first investment by any Indian in the company.
Rohan Kadam gives five sacrilegious reasons for why the growling Bullet isn’t the ultimate touring bike.
The temples of Tamil Nadu are where the gods dine on the finest. And they’re kind enough to leave recipes too…
Over Rs 1,000 crore is lying unclaimed in post offices for various savings schemes run by the postal department.
The world's first viable malaria vaccine could be available by as early as October, after final trial results showed it can potentially prevent millions of cases of the deadly disease every year.
Main News
With communication lines down and the gargantuan scale of the disaster in Nepal, India—as part of the rescue effort--is sending unmanned aerial vehicles to Kathmandu to map the destruction.
Indian cricket’s divine triumvirate of Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid are at the forefront of a committee to find India’s next cricket coach.
Reminiscent of the suicide of Rajasthan farmer Gajendra Singh, another farmer--this time from Uttar Pradesh—has committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree in front of the office of District Magistrate in Barabanki. A note said he was unable to repay a loan and “forced to sell his land.”
The earthquake in Nepal has destroyed a host of signature, cultural insignia including brick-and-wood monuments, temples and stupas that experts said would be impossible to rebuild.
Pollutants such as black carbon and changing land-use patterns have weakened India’s monsoon, according to a study by Indian scientists.
A 29-year-old model, who has accused Mumbai Police personnel of rape and extortion, has told The Indian Express about her ordeal at the police station and how it almost pushed her to suicide.
Off The Front Page
BJP party president Amit Shah has promised Indian citizenship to Hindu refugees from Bangladesh, if the party came to power in Assam in next year's Assembly poll.
HRD minister Smriti Irani wasn’t the last one to discover a ‘Peeping Tom’ camera in a changing room as another woman has discovered a similar device at a popular water park in Kolkata.
Ashish Sabharwal of Delhi rammed and wrecked his Rs 3-crore car into a tree near the Italian Embassy in Delhi on Sunday evening. The owner, Sabharwal, claimed that he had swerved to avoid a stray dog.
They made a commitment to stick together come what may, but the Nepal earthquake has managed to part India’s oldest mountaineering couple.
Opinion
Rakesh Sood, in The Hindu, says that India should urge Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani to use his influence to open up transit through Pakistan for India-Afghan trade so that Afghan farmers can rediscover their traditional market for dry fruit.
Jayant Prasad, in The Indian Express, says that Nepal’s present predicament is a reminder that its long-term development partnership with India must address investments to sustain livelihoods and the ecological rehabilitation of the deforested Churia hills.
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