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A Muslim man who does not eat pork himself, wants to take out for lunch others who do, to make a point about personal freedom, tolerance and harmony in these divisive times.
Here's the million dollar question: What would an arranged divorce look like? Turns out it can be as ceremonial as the average Indian wedding.
Piyasree Dasgupta says that the Hindutva brigade is attacking every facet of India's pluralism; from music to dancing.
On the Indian Air Force's (IAF) 83rd anniversary, Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha announced that the IAF will induct women as fighter pilots.
Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for works that the prize judges called "a monument to suffering and courage."
Main News
A forensic test has proved precisely that the meat found in the murdered Mohammed Akhlaq's fridge was mutton, not beef.
Beverage giant PepsiCo has sent a notice to the Indian cricket board expressing its intention to withdraw from the IPL as title sponsor because of the controversy surrounding the spot-fixing case.
Dalit children in Jodhpur recount stories of being abused by the relatively-higher-caste Jats, for cases as trivial as 'touching plates.'
India has sought 'strict action' and 'severe punishment' from Saudi Arabia against a Saudi national who chopped off the right hand of a domestic worker from Tamil Nadu after she complained about poor working conditions last week, the Ministry of External Affairs said.
The government could derecognise 13 orphanages run by Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity after it refused to give children up for adoption to single, divorced or separated people.
Off The Front Page
A Spanish Jesuit priest, Fr Federico Sopena Gusi, who will turn 90 next March, has a strong desire "to die as an Indian citizen on Indian soil''.
The Gujarat government has told the High Court that Hardik Patel, leader of the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti, may have staged his own abduction.
Firebrand BJP leader Sangeet Som, along with two others, purchased land for a meat processing unit in Aligarh in 2009, reveal registry documents accessed by Hindustan Times.
Opinion
Pratap Bhanu Mehta says that the Trans Pacific Partnership, could significantly impact the balance of global economic power, but India "...hide(s) behind our international disengagement to disguise the incapacities of our own state. "
Anup Surendranath says that though the Supreme Court has held total animal slaughter as unconstitutional, its reasoning for doing so is being misused. "...The elite have never really protested because there is a comfortable indifference among their part about these infringements, an indifference that arises from a misplaced belief that those will not come to haunt them..."
Ashutosh, of the Aam Aadmi Party, justifies the Delhi government proposal to increase the salary of MLAs. "A salary hike is important for honest politics and clean politics. A salary hike is important for an honest MLA if we want him to live with dignity and self-respect."
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