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OUTRAGED BY TANMAY BHAT? WATCH FAMILY GUY
It’s not been a good week for comedians. Last week, nurses were offended and protested because they were portrayed by Rochelle Rao as a hot nurse on The Kapil Sharma Show. Yesterday, there was a...
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DELHI HC UPHOLDS THE ORDER TO UPLOAD AMENDED LEGISLATIONS ON THE GOVERNMENT...
The Delhi High Court in a recent judgement upheld the order of the Central Information Commission directing the Legislative Department of the Government of India to upload all the laws enacted by...
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HOW WATER INEQUALITY GOVERNS DROUGHT-HIT MAHARASHTRA
A resident of Pune, Maharashtra’s second-most developed city, uses five times as much water as her counterpart in Latur, the district most ravaged by drought in the south-central Marathwada region....
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TEHELKA’S LAUNCHING A BENGALI NEWS CHANNEL
The Tehelka group, which has been in the news for all the wrong reasons of late, has announced that it is going to launch a Bengali news channel. In a press release dated May 26, the media group that...
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FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION VS NATIONAL HEROES
“You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it,” the great comedian and actor Robin Williams had once said. Stand-up comedian Tanmay Bhat, of All India Bakchod fame, probably hasn’t...
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THE CURIOUS CASE OF TANMAY BHAT ON PRIMETIME
During the weekend, comedian Tanmay Bhat released a Snapchat video in which he presented a conversation between Sachin Tendulkar and Lata Mangeshkar using the application’s face swap feature....
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BHUPEN KHAKHAR ISN’T INDIA’S BERYL COOK. HE’S BHUPEN KHAKHAR.
“You Can’t Please All”, Bhupen Khakhar, 1981 It’s taken 140 years, but we’ve finally done it. We’ve got a picture of the snark. On April Fools’ Day, in 1876, Lewis Carroll published The Hunting of the...
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SHAKEEL AHMAD: AAP IS NOT A POLITICAL FORCE IN PUNJAB
Rejecting the possibility of a debacle in the upcoming Punjab assembly elections, Congress general secretary Shakeel Ahmad said, “We will win comfortably in January 2017.” In conversation with...
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EAT DUST: A REMINDER OF WHAT GREED HAS DONE TO GOA
There is a sense in which we are all each other’s consequences. -Wallace Stegner, All the little live things So the Modi government is marking its two years in office and the peal of celebration...
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DELHI HAS THE HIGHEST CANCER INCIDENCE IN INDIA
A recent survey by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) revealed that bread – one of our staple food products – is probably laced with toxic chemicals such as potassium bromate/ iodate residues....
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MOST OF THE BENEFICIARIES OF THE ‘INTEREST SUBSIDY ON EDUCATIONAL LOAN’ ARE...
In 2009, the Central Government launched a scheme to provide interest subsidy on educational loans taken by students from scheduled banks. Data of the last 6 years suggests that Tamil Nadu &...
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FEES PAID, COURSES FINISHED, BUT NO DEGREES FOR FDDI STUDENTS
It’s 42 degrees of scorching heat in Noida. A wrecked college bus stands at the entrance of Footwear Design and Development Institute (FDDI). According to the academic calendar, the last week of...
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DADRI LYNCHING: DID THE MEDIA GET IT WRONG?
It’s been eight months since a man was lynched and murdered less than 50 kilometers from the national capital, and we are still talking about the type of meat because that’s supposed to be the cause....
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CHILDHOOD CANCER IS A GROWING PROBLEM
Yesterday, we had reported on the number of cancer incidences in India, according to the data released by the National Cancer Registry Program. The scares, however, don’t end there. Childhood cancer...
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AAP VS LG: THE JUNG CONTINUES
All is not well in the playground that is Delhi governance, with Aam Aadmi Party making their distrust of Lieutenent Governor Najeeb Jung public. It’s a tussle for authority between the two, with the...
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MORE THAN 700 BLACK SPOTS IDENTIFIED ON NATIONAL HIGHWAYS
More than 1.4 lakh people lost their lives in road accidents in 2014. In a bid to reduce the number of fatalities and make roads safer, the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH) has...
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INDIA RANKS THIRD IN THE WORLD AS A SOURCE OF MALICIOUS INTERNET ACTIVITIES
Cyber crimes reported in India rose 19 times over the last ten years (2005 to 2014), from 481 in 2005 to 9,622 in 2014, and India is now ranked third–after the US and China–as a source of “malicious...
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REJOICE! IT MINISTRY HAS GUIDELINES FOR MATRIMONIAL WEBSITES
Yesterday, the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecom held a press conference because it had an important announcement to make. In conjunction with the Ministry of Home Affairs and the...
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WHAT’S HAPPENING IN MANIPUR?
Photos courtesy Ranbir Mangang It hasn’t been the topic of prime time debates, which is possibly why most of India is oblivious to the fact that the restive border state of Manipur has been on the boil...
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