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Usha Thakur, a BJP MLA from Indore, recently announced that people become terrorists, traitors or Naxals due to the negligence of their mothers. Commenting on the recent row surrounding JNU and its students' union leader Kanhaiya Kumar, Thakur said that his mother had clearly failed to teach him about patriotism.
On International Women's Day, feisty Kalki Koechlin appeared for an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit to talk about feminism, LGBTQ rights, fairness creams and more.
Bengaluru security analyst Anand Prakash earned $15,000 from the Facebook's bug bounty program for finding a vulnerability. The bug could potentially have threatened lots of Facebook users' accounts as it was related to the password system of Facebook.
Main News
Liquor baron Vijay Mallya, who is facing legal proceedings for allegedly defaulting loans of over ₹9,000 crores from various banks, left the country a week ago, government today informed the Supreme Court. "What can be done now," asked the bench as petitioners appealed.
Indian Space Research Organisation is all set to launch India’s sixth navigation satellite 'IRNSS-1F' on PSLV rocket at 4 PM (IST) on Thursday. The satellite, with a design life span of 12 years, will transmit navigation service signals to the users.
The World Twenty20 match between India and Pakistan scheduled for 19 March has been shifted from Dharamsala to Kolkata but Pakistan continue to delay their departure for the tournament as Pakistan Cricket Board's response has not been prompt.
Off The Front Page
Anshu Agarwal a 25-year-old photographer has created a series of beautiful photographs of children playing Quidditch from the Harry Potter series/films. Agarwal, who is also a teacher at an NGO created the surreal effect through Levitation Photography in a Himalayan village in Garhwal .
While it's easy to turn a corner and make a new beginning, it's very difficult to find a toilet around the corner. Now, a new app called Find x Toilet helps you answer nature’s call by telling you the location of the nearest loo in Delhi.
George Martin, the music industry legend who worked on nearly every Beatles recording, died on Tuesday night. The music producer, who 'passed away peacefully in his sleep' had also worked with Elton John, Cheap Trick and Celine Dion.
Opinion
A column by Shailaja Bajpai in The Indian Express takes a look at the intense competition between news channels and media agency which led to the airing of the doctored videos of JNU students' president Kanhaiya Kumar. "Kanhaiya has made a lot of people hot under the collar and there are many flushed faces on TV these days as they battle it out among themselves. Unprecedented. Unbecoming," Bajpai writes.
An editorial in The Telegraph says that it is a good sign that the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has finally allowed its secretary in West Bengal to contest a proper election where people vote. "This step shows that the CPI(M) is gradually becoming an important part of the democratic polity of India, instead of seeing itself as a participant in some world revolutionary movement," says the article.
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