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This movie’s USP is clearly about authenticity – the eye for detail in it is stunning. Its art direction recreates the late 70s, early 80s so perfectly that…

May 2, 2013 · 6 min read

Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh lay on a ventilator in a Lahore hospital after a jail attack, with conflicting reports over whether he was brain dead.

April 30, 2013 · 1 min read

A school bus driver was arrested in Bikaner for allegedly raping a 15-year-old student; a hostel warden in Jaipur was also held in a separate case.

April 29, 2013 · 1 min read

Uninor trained auto drivers, milkmen and newspaper vendors to sell SIM cards door-to-door in Maharashtra — an industry-first sales experiment.

April 26, 2013 · 3 min read

The body of missing Brown student Sunil Tripathi was found in Providence waters and identified on April 25, 2013, through dental records.

April 25, 2013 · 1 min read

A 15-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by five youths in Ballia district, Uttar Pradesh, in April 2013. Police said three were detained.

April 23, 2013 · 1 min read

Police arrested a second suspect in the rape of a five-year-old in East Delhi, as the child continued treatment at AIIMS.

April 22, 2013 · 1 min read

Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde's remark that rapes happen across India, made after the Delhi child rape case, drew sharp criticism from the opposition.

April 22, 2013 · 1 min read

A five-year-old girl was allegedly raped in East Delhi in April 2013, sparking protests and renewed scrutiny of police handling of sexual assault cases.

April 19, 2013 · 1 min read

Brown student Sunil Tripathi was wrongly named online as a Boston bombing suspect in April 2013. He was never a suspect in the attack.

April 19, 2013 · 1 min read

In Jaipur, Kanhaiya Lal begged for help for 40 minutes after a truck rammed his motorcycle, killing his wife Guddi and their infant daughter.

April 17, 2013 · 2 min read

English Vinglish showed what it costs not to speak English in India; Anju Gattani on Shashi's quiet stand for her own worth.

April 17, 2013 · 3 min read

Hyderabad's illegal ‘contract marriages’: wealthy foreigners paying for one-month ‘wives’ — a racket exposed by teenager Nausheen Tobassum.

April 16, 2013 · 3 min read

Four NALSAR students say Hyderabad TV crews filmed them against their will, then aired edited ‘anti-pub culture’ stories painting them as drunk.

April 16, 2013 · 4 min read

Saurabh Agarwal of Sterling, Virginia, was arrested by the FBI for allegedly molesting a sleeping woman on American Airlines Flight 1142.

April 12, 2013 · 2 min read

IIM Lucknow cut PGP fees 10%, from Rs 12 lakh to Rs 10.80 lakh — a first among IIMs, under director Devi Singh and chairman JJ Irani.

April 12, 2013 · 1 min read

A 20-year-old woman was gang-raped in a moving car by her husband and two relatives in west Delhi; all three attackers were arrested.

April 11, 2013 · 1 min read

WDSRA recruited runners and walkers for the 2nd Annual DuPage Human Race 5K in Downers Grove, backing programs for people with disabilities.

April 10, 2013 · 2 min read

Veteran teacher Gerald Conti's resignation letter: 27 years at Westhill High, and a farewell to a profession he says ‘no longer exists’.

April 10, 2013 · 5 min read

Blended-family chaos meets The Prince: one mom's Machiavellian experiments — Target budgets, school rivalries, and one well-timed white lie.

April 8, 2013 · 9 min read