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Every Tuesday at 2 a.m., a landline still registered to Katie Couric's late husband Jay Monahan was dialing 911 — and the NYPD had no idea why.

February 14, 2013 · 2 min read

A Naperville book club takes on Aravind Adiga's Booker-winning 'The White Tiger' — and splits three ways over its brutal portrait of class and caste.

February 14, 2013 · 4 min read

Sitarist Anoushka Shankar revealed she suffered sexual abuse as a child as she backed the One Billion Rising campaign after the December 2012 Delhi gang rape.

February 13, 2013 · 1 min read

Author Anju Gattani on Walmart's India entry: why a retail giant's American playbook collided with Indian roads, kirana shops, and cultural walls.

February 6, 2013 · 3 min read

A 2012 remark by a Karnataka High Court judge sparked outrage — but a national health survey found 54% of Indian women themselves said wife-beating could be

February 6, 2013 · 2 min read

Schools Superintendent Jennifer Gray said she expects school board members to meet within the next two weeks to determine if disciplinary action is warranted…

February 5, 2013 · 3 min read

Pittsburgh police said a determined 6-year-old girl didn't hurt anyone when she crashed her mother's car while trying to drive across town to visit her father.

February 4, 2013 · 1 min read

Comedy and humour is a refreshing lemonade one likes to have after a tiring and dry day. What would you say if this comes in the form of a television…

February 4, 2013 · 3 min read

Why do brilliant programmers give away their best work for free? A 2013 Hindu op-ed by IIM Bangalore's Rahul De' found the answer in the poetry of Mirza Ghalib.

February 3, 2013 · 2 min read

Pew's January 2013 study found 21% of Hispanics financially support both a parent and a child — vs 5% of whites — and Indian-American families have long

January 31, 2013 · 2 min read

Archaeologists led by Georgia State's Christopher Morehart found 150+ skulls at Lake Xaltocan, Mexico — possibly the largest mass human sacrifice in ancient

January 29, 2013 · 2 min read

A rare and candid account emerged from a scientist who had voluntarily worked in the sex industry during her graduate studies — not out of desperation but as a…

January 28, 2013 · 1 min read

A University of Utah study found the people most convinced they can multitask are actually the worst at it — the most skilled multitaskers are the ones who

January 28, 2013 · 2 min read

Prema Jayakumar, 24, scored 607 out of 800 to top the all-India CA exam, studying in a 300 sq ft Malad chawl while her father drove an autorickshaw.

January 25, 2013 · 2 min read

In 2013, with growth halved and scandals mounting, the dragon-versus-elephant debate looked settled. A decade later, the race had a different leader.

January 25, 2013 · 2 min read

David Coleman Headley received 35 years in a U.S. federal prison for scouting the 2008 Mumbai targets, spared the death penalty by his cooperation.

January 25, 2013 · 2 min read

Lance Armstrong confessed to doping in a January 2013 interview with Oprah Winfrey, ending a decade of denials after USADA stripped his seven Tour titles.

January 15, 2013 · 2 min read

Cuba acknowledged 51 new cholera cases in Havana in January 2013, amid accusations that the government was hiding the outbreak's true scale.

January 15, 2013 · 2 min read

After France intervened in Mali in January 2013, Islamist groups tied to al-Qaeda pledged retaliatory attacks on French soil.

January 14, 2013 · 2 min read

Two Chicago teenagers, 14 and 15, were shot dead hours apart on January 11, 2013, in Humboldt Park and Little Village, in separate attacks.

January 12, 2013 · 2 min read