Here's your weekly digest of the most weird, true and funny news from the across the globe.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities:
'If our body is able to mount a very successful immune response, we can negate the virus.'
The move comes a day after China lifted the 76-day lockdown in Wuhan, where the pandemic originated. China's National Health Commission (NHC) on Thursday reported 63 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus, including 61 imported ones taking the total to 1,104 cases.
'Was he afraid that his answers during cross-examination would land him in trouble under the new ruling dispensation?'
"That's where he drew the line," says New York model Tiffany Hirth in this animated chat.
'In Tadoba many of them have names -- Sonam, Shivaji, Maya and Tara.' 'Their territories are precisely demarcated on the map, and it is to the waterhole that we all troupe, to stay put till the lord or her ladyship deign to put in an appearance.' Subir Roy on a visit to the the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve.
She has spunk, confidence, some naughtiness and lots of style. Meet Sania Mirza, off-court
Awful religious practices need to be abolished. But through social and political reformers, not by courts, argues Shekhar Gupta.
'Governments forget that no matter how cunning they are, eventually they cannot ride on anarchy,' says Shuma Raha.
Reason must triumph over blind faith, says Praful Bidwai in this tribute to murdered rationalist Narendra Dabholkar.
Protesters demanded a permanent solution for holding the sport and raised slogans that an ordinance was only a temporary measure.
Major portfolios like home, finance and education were on Tuesday allocated to People's Democratic Party ministers by Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed who will himself hold the charge of home ministry.
Historically, Mumbai has been the cinema capital of India and for her to have a film museum of this kind was perhaps a natural happening.
'Clearly, Washington has all but given up hope following US Acting Assistant Secretary of State Alice Wells's stormy visit to Colombo last month where she read the riot act to Sri Lankan leaders to sign the pending status of forces agreement allowing American troops to use Sri Lanka as a hub for operations in the Indian Ocean,' points out Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
The chief minister stressed on more hygiene in the areas where cows were kept and gave a direction to ensure availability of green fodder to them.
Almost a century before the current Sabarimala movement -- to facililate the entry of women between the ages of 10 and 50 into the Kerala shrine -- there was the Vaikom temple movement, to throw open temples in Kerala to all castes, a movement led by among others a man whose 71st death anniversary we mark today. A fascinating excerpt from Rajmohan Gandhi's new book, Modern South India: A History From The 17th Century To Our Times.
The PM said a woman's power today underlined inner fortitude and self-confidence, which made her self-reliant.
Anjuli Bhargava finds out that an astonishing number of relatives of DGCA officials over the years are and have been employed in the airline industry.
Facebook, Airbnb, Paytm, eBay join the film's cast of brands, look to connect with young audiences.
The counsel claimed that the ground-level situation in these states was worrisome as the cow vigilante groups were resorting to violence there.
India, England cricket teams unite to unveil Khadi poppy in UK
Aseem Chhabra is impressed by Rima Das's Bulbul Can Sing, Ritesh Batra's Photograph and eight other outstanding films.
Are our ministers having fun at our expense? Any other explanation would suggest 'we are ruled by men whose judgement you cannot trust and whose grasp of reality is questionable,' says Karan Thapar.
We present our alphabet of 2020, pulling in everything you'll remember about this year we'd rather forget.
Niantic Labs, the makers of Pokemon Go, releasing the game in India, and adding more content to the game of late, should ensure another spike in the game's popularity, says Himanshu Juneja.
The awardees included one Padma Vibhushan, 11 Padma Bhushan and 44 Padma Shri.
Ved Prakash who has been working in the field of recyclable raw materials for 29 years aims to 'create value' every day.
Jaitley said a 10 per cent tax long on capital gains exceeding Rs 1 lakh made from the sale of shares has been introduced but those made till Janaury 31 would be grandfathered. A 10 per cent tax on distributed income by equity oriented mutual funds has also been proposed in the budget.
'Fear of the Other stalks our lives as it did in ancient times and the mobs are just as easy to incite as it was then,' says Arundhuti Dasgupta.
A cow that speaks, a question on patriarchy and the story of a 17th-century poet - Sanskrit filmmakers are finding new ways to revive the 'dying' language.
The Supreme Court has disapproved the practice of firing bullets during marriage ceremonies in some communities saying guns must be carried with a "sense of responsibility" and are not meant to be used in social gatherings.
All through Moothon, you can sense Mohandas trying hard to empathise with her characters; I just wish she was interested in them, declares Sreehari Nair.
It's no wonder several of her hit songs have made a comeback in remixed avatars.
'Emojis were conceived to add a dash of pizzazz to our text lives.' 'That's what they do still.' 'Hoping that they will usher social change is optimism on steroids,' says Shuma Raha.
'The new government will have to contend with slowing economic growth, weak private investment, anaemic exports and vulnerable external imbalances, a stressed financial system, mounting fiscal pressures (including high government debt-to-GDP ratios) and an exceptionally bad employment situation,' says Shankar Acharya, former chief economic adviser to the Government of India.
Two first information reports were registered by the police at Siyana police station in Bulandshahr -- one over cow slaughter and the other on the mob violence in which a village man was also killed.
Upasna Pandey spoke with parents of some artists who participated at the 'Views from Planet Autism 2015'
'What would be questioned next?' 'Will the Copernicus theory of the sun being the centre of the universe, or Newton's theory of gravity?' asks Veena Mani.
Here's your weekly digest of the most weird, true and funny news from the across the world.
