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Omani woman Jokha al-Harthi becomes 1st Arab author to win Man Booker Prize

Jokha al-Harthi, who wrote Celestial Bodies, has said that she will share the £50,000 prize money with her book's translator.

May 22, 2019

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Why are Muslims planning to leave this village if Modi returns to power?

Muslim residents said that they thought tensions would only worsen if PM Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wins a second term in the current general election, as exit polls released on Sunday indicate is likely.

May 22, 2019

Is Supreme Court also involved in EVM rigging: Congress leader Udit Raj

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court had dismissed a writ petition seeking 100 per cent random physical counting of EVM-VVPAT in the Lok Sabha elections.

May 22, 2019

Saudi Arabia seeks death penalty for cleric Ali al-Omari

Saudi Arabia to execute 3 influential Sunni scholars after Ramadan

Saudi Arabia killing off moderate voices in the garb of fight terror? All of the condemned opposed Qatar blockade, one had chided Osama bin Laden

May 22, 2019

Drunk man, held for attacking family, found hanging inside Kerala Police station's toilet

U Navas was arrested on the basis of a complaint filed by his brother, a transgender person, after they had an altercation. Navas had attacked his family members in an intoxicated condition.

May 22, 2019

TikTok celebrity Mohit Mor shot dead in Delhi, assailants caught on CCTV

TikTok star Mohit Mor was gunned down at a photostat shop in Delhi's Najafgarh.

May 22, 2019

Photos | Woman covers car with cow dung to beat scorching heat in Ahmedabad

The woman, identified as Sejal Shah, could not bear the heat and used an age-old method of applying cow dung to cool the temperature of the car.

May 22, 2019

US millionaire sets plane on autopilot for having sex with teen, faces jail

53-year-old Stephen Bradley Mell of Bedminster, New Jersey, pleaded guilty to federal charges of engaging in interstate travel to engage in illicit sexual conduct.

May 22, 2019

Caught on cam: Man rapes 7 cows at cattle shelter in Ayodhya, arrested

The incident took place at Kartaliya Baba Ashram where the accused Rajkumar was caught red-handed by the volunteers of the cattle shelter after he was seen getting physical with several cows.

May 22, 2019

Vladimir Putin's secret gymnast lover gives birth to twins in Moscow VIP clinic

It was after Putin's divorce in 2014 that Kabaeva's name started popping up with the Russian president.

May 22, 2019

Indian educational institutions must maintain high standards, claims VP Naidu

Venkaiah Naidu said India was poised to become a $5 trillion economy in the next few years and there was a need to remove economic imbalances, urban-rural divide, end gender and social discrimination and enhance the prestige of all institutions.

May 22, 2019

The site on on the Srinagar-Jammu highway where 20 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers were killed and 15 others injured in an audacious suicide attack by militants in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district on Feb 14, 2019.

Decoded: How Pulwama has caught the imagination of Kashmiri youth

As a new government assumes power in India, one of its first priorities will be to fix what is broken. And Kashmir sure is broken.

May 22, 2019

WATCH | Dalit body president attacked at Hyderabad Press Club

National Schedule Caste Parirakshan Samiti president Karne Srisailam was attacked while he was addressing a press conference at a Press Club in Hyderabad.

May 22, 2019