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India is not adequately safeguarding its nuclear installations, material, say US officials and experts. They believe that there are serious shortcomings in the country’s nuclear guard force, tasked with defending one of the world’s largest stockpiles of fissile material and nuclear explosives.
Facebook has sneakily — without any announcement — launched its Internet.Org service across India, asking people to send an automated email to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), letting them know that you support 'Free basics'. Here is what Facebook isn't telling you.
Google's India-born CEO Sundar Pichai would add sambhar to payasam when he was a kid, and he might name the next Android OS after an Indian mithai.
A 12-year-old Sikh boy became a victim of a racist attack in Texas and was put behind bars after a 'bully' classmate — for 'fun' — accused him of possessing a bomb. The Indian American boy, who has a rare heart condition, was sent to juvenile custody for three straight days after his principal, allegedly without any "questioning, interrogation, or notification to his parents", called the police.
Main News
Backed into a corner after severe criticism of their leader Arvind Kejriwal's vitriolic attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Twitter after raids by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday sought to strike back at the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by demanding that Union Minister Arun Jaitley resign to ensure fair probe by agencies in an alleged graft case.
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor will table a private member's bill to decriminalize homosexuality in Lok Sabha today. The move comes soon after finance minister Arun Jaitley called for reconsideration of the Supreme Court ruling on Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code that criminalizes homosexuality.
Road Transport & Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari hopes to have a lasting solution for Delhi's pollution woes in just over a year: He has promised that the Eastern Expressway on the outer periphery of Delhi will be constructed in 400 days.
The ‘call money-sex racket’ rocked the Andhra Pradesh Assembly on Thursday even as scores of victims of the extortionist practice — many of them women — thronged police stations across the State, six days after the scandal was unearthed.
Off The Front Page
The Rajasthan government has approved a Rs 4.5 crore plan for the development and conservation of Kuldhara village in Jaisalmer, popularly believed to be "haunted".
Being a widow is still "a bad omen" in 21st century Bihar — that's the message from Kalyanpur village in Gopalganj district, around 200km northwest of Patna, which has prohibited a woman from cooking midday meals at a government school.
A legendary thief is now a deity at a temple in Kerala. The Hindu shrine in Pathanamthitta district is dedicated to Kayamkulam Kochunni, a 19th century Muslim brigand, who generations had believed to be a crafty but loveable highwayman who revelled in robbing the rich to help the poor.
Opinion
Even in decline, the Congress wants the biggest anti-BJP space, writes Swapan Dasgupta in The Telegraph: "By ensuring uninterrupted disruption of the Upper House, the Congress is trying to ensure its own leadership of the Opposition."
Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh must talk about the armed forces and the Bijapur rapes, writes KumKum Dasgupta in Hindustan Times: "Intimidation and physical attacks on tribals by security forces has happened before and, unfortunately, will continue to take place even though a new provision in the Indian Penal Code provides for prosecution of rape crime by armed forces."
Rahul Gandhi's response to the ‘National Herald’ case raises questions, argues Karan Thapar in The Indian Express: "Is Rahul Gandhi justified in claiming that the National Herald case is '100 per cent pure political vendetta coming out of the prime minister’s office' or is he both factually wrong and, prima facie, guilty of casting unwarranted aspersions on the integrity and credibility of the judiciary?"
Universal coverage is the only cure for health scandals, writes Vikram Patel in Hindustan Times: "India’s healthcare system is one of the greatest stains on the conscience of our modern State, for it is one of the most regressive in the world."
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