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Bride, groom, spy: India's wedding detectivesMatrimonial detectives in India are seeing a boom in business as families increasingly hire them to investigate prospective partners in lov...
Sebi fines investment advisory firm Rs 19 lakh, dismissing its defence as 'cock and bull story'The regulator accused Sai Proficient of obstructing the investigation and colluding with Shree Sai Proficient Financial Services (SSPFS), a...
Want to catch a liar in the act? Here’s how you can do itA recent study claims liars can be identified by cross checking the details in their stories.
Ashish Mishra's crime in Lakhimpur Kheri violence case grave, heinous: UP govt to Supreme CourtOn October 3, 2021, eight people were killed in Lakhimpur Kheri district's Tikunia in a violence that erupted when farmers were protesting ...
Four dead, dozens hurt as stands collapse in Colombia bullringLocal civil defense official Luis Fernando Velez said they did not know how many people were still buried in the debris, but noted that the...
View: Will Covid-19 curtail our air-conditioning addiction?We now live in a world which shows that wasn’t true. On our overheating planet air-conditioning is increasingly imperative and inescapable....
View: What differentiates a patriot from a fraud nationalistLove for one’s nation must mean love for its people. Those who don't understand this are fraud nationalists.
Kulbhushan Jadhav case: Is Pakistan army trying to strike a hard bargain?The case against Jadhav is based on flimsy evidence. Other than his “confession“, which was almost certainly forced out of him and which wo...
Eat beef in your country and then come to India, says tourism ministerNewly sworn-in Union tourism minister K J Alphons has an advice for foreigners visiting the country: Eat beef in your own countries and the...
Another chance to exchange demonetised notes likely in 15 daysThe court was a step away from ensuring an exchange opportunity when the Centre sought two weeks to respond to the suggestion.
Supreme Court ruling on note exchange window in JulySC, while entertaining petitions seeking a window, had weeded out many petitions terming their claims for missing deadline as "pure cock an...
Cyber fraud: Banks shouldn’t be able to get away with itThe shocking part of this whole affair is that during those six weeks, no thinking seems to have been done on causing the minimum inconveni...
Spectrum allocation case: Bharti Cellular says 'spare radio waves' caused gain to government"Giving me (Bharti Cellular Ltd) spectrum causes gain to government and not loss. The spectrum was not being used by the defence forces and...
Delhi High Court grants protection from arrest to Jarnail Singh till May 18The court's directions came on the plea by Singh who had moved the high court after the trial court had on May 2 refused him anticipatory b...
What a prize bull can do to economies of scaleYuvraj, a 1,400-kg Murrah bull, has been crowned champion at the town’s cattle show, and its owner reportedly refused a Rs 7-crore offer to...
IB report on NGOs comes under attack from activists including L Ramdas and Praful BidwaiRamdas said the IB report was leaked to "demean the individuals" while Subramanian, said the report should be placed before Parliament.
Hyderabad respects everybody & that will continue: K Chandrashekar Rao, TRS PresidentThe Telangana Rashtra Samithi chief is open on merger with the Congress party, but only after Parliament passes Telangana bill.
- False alarm raised on lion-killing virus in Gir
The bogey of a deadly virus that wiped out a significant number of wild lions in the African Serengeti in mid-1990s is being raised again, ...
Pakistan's ISI says linking it to 26/11 is smear attemptThe Pakistan government has acknowledged that the conspiracy behind the Mumbai attacks was hatched in the country.
- China admits 'new' missile equipment but calls Pentagon report 'cock and bull' story
China has said that Pentagon's charges about Beijing's efforts towards a missile build-up on the Indian border and cause instability in the...