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Cryonics: Will to relive?
While there hasn't been much speculation about the foreign concept of cryonics, there's a 'surreal' amount of myths surrounding it. An extensive fantasy has devised quite a few times about a…
Repeating emergency lessons wrapped in saffron paper, that’s how NaMo lies on Black Day
Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) is celebrating ‘Black Day’ today nationwide. ‘Black Day’ against emergency, imposed 43 years ago on this day by the Indira Gandhi-led Congress government. The…
Vijay Mallya undermining Enforcement Directorate orders, tries to mediate through PM
Vijay Mallya clearly seems to be in a mood for redemption. The former Rajya Sabha MP, industrialist and socialite, Vijay Mallya who once enjoyed being India’s Richard Branson has now been…
Kalyani Sharan: It was the father who was responsible for the gangrape
Mounting pressure from the media and the National Commission for Women have forced the Jharkhand state administration to pull up its socks in the gangrape case of five women activists in…
Sushma Swaraj- A modern day Jack-O-Lantern
The recent episode of Sushma Swaraj’s woes, reminded me of the Irish folklore of ‘Jack –O Lantern’ a man, who made a deal with The Devil and then could not either be allowed in Heaven nor…
Saudi Arabia: Women can finally drive as the woman driver ban ends
Women in Saudi Arabia are finally able to drive legally after a long-standing ban which was removed by a royal commandment. After more than 60 years spent stuck in the passenger seat, the…
Advice to Mr Lal: Stop being a ‘Halogen Bulb’ of politics
Eminent journalist Shujaat Bukhari was brutally murdered by ‘unknown’ terrorists a day before ‘Eid’, this year in the Valley, which is termed as ‘Paradise of Earth’. A paradise where ‘half…
Why Didi’s ‘militant organisation’ jibe against BJP is death of irony
Mamata Banerjee in a press meet, has termed the BJP (Bhartiya Janata Party) as a militant organisation. She accused of BJP of dividing people along religious lines and dared it to attack her…
Bank of Maharashtra Scam: Tip of an iceberg!
I remember my grandmothers’ old idiom. She used to say in Bengali – 'Oti lobhe tanti nosto' (More greed spoils Tant - which is cloth fabric). The meaning of this idiom was simple – don’t be…
No one is safe in Kashmir, say scholars
President Ramnath Kovind has imposed Governor’s rule in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, after the three-years-long alliance between the People’s Democratic Party and Bharatiya Janata party…
Cow dung effect: Netagiri tries to topple Babugiri in Haryana
As Spiderman says, “With great power, comes great responsibilities.” Looks like Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled Manohar Lal Khattar took this message way too seriously. But wait, not for the…
Digvijaya Singh- Is he struggling to get back to the Congress fold?
Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh is at it again. This time again he has targeted the BJP's parent outfit Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) for…