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Bollywood lowdown: What we think of Kangana’s ex-BF Adhyayan’s hot interview

By Amrita Mukherjee on April 29, 2016 in Asia Times News & Features, India

Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut’s ex-boyfriend Adhyayan Suman, gave an explosive interview to India’s DNA news service yesterday saying how he was physically and emotionally abused by Kangana while they were in a relationship in 2008. This came after Bollywood superstar Hrithik… Read More ›

Sports: West Indies beats India, makes it to T20 finals

By AT Editor on March 31, 2016 in Sports

(From AFP) The West Indies clinched their place in the final of the World Twenty20 on Thursday with a stunning seven-wicket victory over the hosts India at Mumbai s Wankhede stadium. Lendl Simmons top-scored with an unbeaten 82 as the West… Read More ›

Modi: None of Allah’s 99 names stands for violence

By Raja Murthy on March 18, 2016 in Asia Times News & Features, South Asia

In what some consider one of the most inspiring anti-terrorism speeches made recently by a world leader, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has emphasized how much Islam has been misinterpreted, misunderstood, horribly distorted and thereby violently misused worldwide. Addressing the… Read More ›

Kabaddi player shot dead: CCTV captures murder

By Anusha Venkat on March 17, 2016 in Video

A national-level kabaddi player, Sukhvinder was shot dead by two men while he was returning home from practice in his village in the Indian state of Haryana. This CCTV footage shows him talking on his phone and walking when he… Read More ›

Meet the Menstruation Man!

By Anusha Venkat on March 10, 2016 in Video

Arunachalam Muruganantham is an award-winning social entrepreneur from India, better known as the nation’s ‘Menstruation Man’. Disturbed by the unhygienic menstruation practices among the rural women who could not afford sanitary napkins and instead used dirty rags, Muruganantham took it… Read More ›

Being a Sandman for 25 years!

By Anusha Venkat on March 2, 2016 in Video

Hans Raj from Uttar Pradesh in India has been eating sand everyday for the last twenty-five years due to which he has been nicknamed Sandman. Not just this, the 45-year-old feasts on bricks as well. Despite his intake of hard… Read More ›

Video: Car gate-crashes Restaurant in India

By Anusha Venkat on February 24, 2016 in Video

Diners at a restaurant in Ranchi, India, had a lucky escape as a car crashed through the window of the restaurant. CCTV footage captures the moment an out-of-control car ploughed through the window of a restaurant. This CCTV footage shows… Read More ›

Will bring back jobs from China, India, Vietnam and Japan: Donald Trump

By AT Editor on February 23, 2016 in Asia Times News & Features, China, India, Japan, South Asia, Southeast Asia

(From PTI) Controversial Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has alleged that countries like China and India are taking away jobs from the US and vowed to bring them back for Americans. Trump made the remarks while predicting that he will… Read More ›

The nuclear deterrence game: Promises and pitfalls

By AT Editor on January 29, 2016 in Asia Times News & Features

By Michael Rühle During the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, the famous US movie director Stanley Kubrick decided to move to Australia. He reckoned that in a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union the nuclear fallout would… Read More ›

Cow dung patties selling like hotcakes on Amazon

By Anusha Venkat on January 11, 2016 in Video

Holy cow, here’s yet another proof that you can get almost anything online! Farmers from India are selling cow dung cakes through online retailers and promise to deliver the product anywhere across the globe. Mixed with hay, cow dung patties… Read More ›