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More and more men are taking matters into their own hand in Bombay and Delhi
*** Many years ago, a young colleague was waiting for an autorickshaw at a bus stop in Delhi, when a car pulled up and the driver appeared to ask for …
Why a “beef-eater” in Bangalore kissed a Hindu techie two days after Id
The Pejawar swami’s decision to offer a vegetarian iftar breakfast to Muslims at the Sri Krishna Mutt has riled the thugs of Hindutva, notwithstanding seer’s own dubious role in the …
Some ‘bad’ things are happening in the forest, and our feminists won’t like it
The Hindu breaks through its self-imposed shackles with a sexy story from Siddapur in Coorg, where the Orange County resort is located:
Writer owns up to breaking lamp, 68 years later
From Star of Mysore: Mysore, September 6: People usually like to forget the mistakes they committed in the past and would seldom want to recall them. But here is a …
What’s in a nama? Our honour, My good lord.
From Deccan Herald: The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday adjourned a matter pertaining to anointing the deity at Melkote’s Yoganarasimhaswamy temple with a nama. The Court was hearing a petition …
It happens in Incredible India i.e. Amulya Bharat
Amarnath Tewary on the BBC website: “A Dutch couple visiting India’s Bihar state, were charged an astronomical 10,000 rupees ($204) for four samosas, the spicy potato-stuffed snack. They paid the …
Raj Thackeray st Bombay b Iqbal Abdulla 19
The under-19 Indian team which won the World Cup last Sunday had only one player from Bombay: Iqbal Abdulla. The left-arm spinner had a 10-wicket haul in Malaysia, and was …
Beware the wrath of the stolen dachshund!
TRIVANDRUM: A thief who made off with a tailor’s pet dog from Cochin a year ago has belatedly made repentance by leaving a puppy at the house and also pledging …
What Seetamma’s son could teach our netas
Two standout pieces of news from the papers today; stories that shine a light on the India id est Bharat. Item #1: Pandit Basanna Konalli, a dalit boy hailing from …
Stock brokers never wear bull bottom pants
Brokers at the Bombay Stock Exchange are clamouring for vaastu experts to be brought in to change the direction of the bronze bull statue that has been erected at the …
A movie without a casting couch or underworld
BOMBAY: The filmi ambitions of 150 producers will be realised this Friday when Humne jeena seekh liya hits the screens, reports Nitin Patil in the Indian Express. The second co-operative …
Ask Dadaji: all that glitters is really not gold
NAGPUR: The originator of HMT (Sona) rice variety Dadaji Khobragade has decided to return his Krishi Bhushan award to Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh after discovering that the 14 carat …
Not love, not exams, not stress but cricket
NADIA, West Bengal: A woman cricketer who had been a regular in the Bengal under-19 team killed herself yesterday after failing to make the State’s senior squad. Twenty-three-year-old Jhuma Sarkar—trained …
Rule 60: Don’t drink and drive your father nuts
Ananthakrishna, a widower who stabbed his son, Avinash, to death, unable to withstand his vices, and then hanged himself in Bangalore on Wednesday, has left a suicide note: “God is …
Very soon, they will move into the Last Resort
News item in Star of Mysore: Bangalore: After staying in Ramanashree Comforts and Prakruti Resorts on the outskirts of Bangalore, the MLAs of JD(S), owing allegience to H.D. Kumaraswamy moved …
No wonder everybody loves a good drought
Rajiv Gandhi it was who said that of every rupee that is benevolently sent in the direction of India’s poor, only 14 paise reaches its intended target. No wonder. New …
When the going gets good, polls aren’t far away
# New Delhi: Sharad Pawar‘s agriculture ministry approves the import of 790,000 tonnes of wheat from Australia at $390 a tonne. This works out to roughly Rs 1,600 per quintal, …
In Rama’s name, disgraceful drama in Pataliputra
Patna: The protests by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad against the Centre’s submission that there was no “historical record” to show that Lord Rama existed affected emergency services. A pregnant woman …
Maturity is in the eyes of the Bollywood beholder
NEW DELHI: Actor Sanjay Dutt, responding to a question on the controversy surrounding his reported use of a government car for his pilgrimage to the Vaishno Devi cave shrine, has …
‘Live’ and in colour, the sickness of a society
NEW DELHI: A television sting operation has bared a lady mathematics teacher allegedly filming her girl students in a “compromising position”. The girls claimed that the teacher, Uma Khurana, was …
God save IAS when a DC is as starstruck as a PC
RANCHI: Bokaro Deputy Commissioner Praveen Toppo has been issued a show-cause notice after television footage showed him touching the feet of JMM President Shibu Soren when he reached Bokaro yesterday. …
Salman Khan & Ootaram. Pravin Mahajan & Dossa
JODHPUR: Salman Khan is keeping himself busy in Jodhpur central jail reading the spiritual book God Speaks gifted to him by girlfriend Katrina Kaif. On Sunday, the actor met his …
Say hello to Union HRD Minister Arjun Singh
Police in Moradabad have registered a case against Union human resource development minister Arjun Singh, his wife Beena Singh, grandson Abhijeet Singh, and three others on charges of dowry harassment. …
All Bharat Mata gets from her sons is lip service
“For every celebrated token of women’s empowerment like the first female President and every Kiran Bedi who complains of being passed over, there’s a Sunita and a Kajal in Mother …
Six or nine, boy or girl, cutlets or cutlery
Bhubaneshwar: Police in a coastal Orissa village have arrested a daily wage earner, Ramesh Naik, who killed his six-year-old son Rakesh on Saturday after the boy ate away his father’s …