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Colombo, Sri Lanka: The death toll in the multiple explosions here and in other parts of the Island nation on Sunday morning has crossed 200, Sri Lankan police has said. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj informed through her Twitter…

When it comes to alcohol consumption, rural households can put their urban counterparts to shame. A joint study by AIIMS and Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) has found that, on an average, rural households in India spend Rs 278 crore a…

New Delhi: Menaka Guruswamy and Arundhati Katju, who spearheaded the legal challenge to strike down the law challenging consensual gay sex, have been named by TIME magazine in its list of 100 most influential people of 2019. The list also…

New Delhi: In a huge embarrassment for the Congress, its spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi quit the party and joined Shiv Sena on Friday. Priyanka had expressed\deep resentment after Congress let off some party workers, who reportedly…

New Delhi: A factor called Testosterone Deficiency Syndrome (TDS) is playing havoc with the sex lives of men over 40 in India. A study conducted on 745 patients by a team of researchers from Sir Ganga Ram Hospital says every third person…

New Delhi: Sajjan Kumar, convicted in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, will now be part of Tihar Jail’s horticulture wing, effectively becoming one of the many gardeners there. A report in The Hush Post quotes Tihar authorities as saying…

New Delhi: A shoe was hurled at BJP MP GVL Narasimha Rao during a press conference at the BJP headquarters in Delhi on Thursday. According to some reports, the shoe was hurled by an advocate. The motive, however, remained unclear. …

Asking customers to pay a fee for paper bags will end soon as a consumer court has directed Bata India to provide them free of cost. The direction came as the court in Chandigarh slammed Bata for asking a customer to pay Rs 3 for a paper…

Bengaluru: Almost 50 lakh men lost their jobs between 2016 and 2018, a report published by the Azim Premji University has said. The report said the "beginning of the decline in jobs" coincided with the government's demonetisation exercise…