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Essential HuffPost
Softbank paid $135 million to its president Nikesh Arora, the highest among Indian-origin executives.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev says Yoga is the 'tool' for love and happiness.
Here is the late BKS Iyengarat his exercises, when 95.
Now that youâve broken a Guinness record, here are 8 Yoga poses for the smaller joy of better sex.
Main News
In its third expose, The Sunday Timesclaims that Lalit Modi sought the help of members of the UK Royal family, for aiding his travel to Lisbon.
So after all, Narendra Modi got 35,000+ to contort themselves, in full sight of the worldâs cameras, to âbreakâ a Guinness record. Russia and North Korea are now green with envy.
Peepli Live co-director Mahmood Farooqui has been arrested by Delhi Police on charges of raping a 35-year-old American, a Phd scholar from Columbia University.
Bangladesh inflicted a series-defeat on India in a three-match tournament in Bangladesh.
The insurgent commander alleged to be responsible for the ambush that killed 18 soldiers earlier this month, has returned to Nagaland after escaping an Indian Army cross-border raid into Myanmar.
In an egregious violation of privacy and decency, the Jammu and Kashmir policeâlacking a recent picture of a militant suspected in the recent Sopore killingsâthought it fit to use a picture of his âlook alike,â on âWantedâ posters, and splashed it across the state and social media. The unlucky doppelganger is a hapless shopkeeper whoâs now running to every available police station to prove that he isnât a terrorist.
Off The Front Page
Patnaâs Super 30 are usually the talk of town for cracking the IITs, but 30 students from a single school in Bihar boasts have bagged the top-10 ranks in the stateâs school examination. This is the same test, from where pictures of parents scaling walls to help their wards cheat, went viral.
Passengers in the Indian Railwaysâ sleeper coaches are likely to see a new, smartly-designed staircase that will help them climb the top berth. This comes as an alternative to the inconvenient, but legendary three-step ladder that passengers have been fearlessly negotiating for over a century.
In a first, the NALSAR Law University in Hyderabad has issued a gender-neutral graduation certificate to a student who did not wish to be identified with the honorific Mr or Ms but with âMxâ.
Opinion
Mukul Kesavan says that the deception of Rachel Dolezal, a white American who was recently caught for posing as a black person for many years, isnât black and white.
Bibek Debroy says that money allotted to the states must also factor in the varying cost of delivering goods and services among states.
Kapil Subramanian says that India shouldnât spend on big science projects such as the India Neutrino Project and instead, channelize the funds to smaller initiatives.
Mihir Sharma says Modi has the power to reform but no intent.
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