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Budget Hotel Owners in Delhi Say They Are Banning Chinese Nationals

The Delhi Hotel and Restaurant Owners’ Association, which claims to represent more than 3,000 hotels, guesthouses and restaurants in Delhi will also boycott all Chinese products.
Shamani Joshi
6.26.20
News

An Indian Yoga Guru’s ‘COVID-19 Cure’ Invited Controversy, a Criminal Complaint and State Bans

The company's founder, Baba Ramdev, claims the product enjoys a success rate of 100 percent. Two state bans and a criminal complaint suggests otherwise.
Pallavi Pundir
6.26.20
India

During the Pandemic, an Outbreak of Violence Amid Orchards in Kashmir

After a period of relative peace, Shopian district is again turning into a hotbed of militancy in the strife-torn Kashmir valley. A quarter of the 134 militants killed in the region this year died within the district.
Hanan Zaffar
Raashid Hassan
6.26.20
Space

Astronomers May Have Seen Colliding Black Holes Spark Up For The First Time

Usually, when black holes collide, they create gravitational waves that may be detected from Earth. But now, a flare of light has changed that.
Satviki Sanjay
6.26.20
Coronavirus

A Psychologist Explains Why We’re All So Obsessed With Board Games Once Again

No, we’re not just playing games like Ludo King, Scrabble and Monopoly because we’re bored.
Shamani Joshi
6.26.20
Space

NASA Will Give You $20,000 If They Like Your ‘Lunar Loo’ Design

It should also be able to contain ‘500g of diarrhea per event’.
Satviki Sanjay
6.26.20
Black Lives Matter

How The Black Lives Matter Movement is Impacting India’s Obsession With Light Skin

In a country where people spend more on skin-whitening creams than on tea, cosmetics companies are scrambling to move with the times.
Shamani Joshi
6.25.20
labour rights

International Fashion Houses Are Leaving Millions of Asians Jobless. The Workers Are Now Protesting

Garment workers in India, Bangladesh, Cambodia and Sri Lanka are protesting brands that have a history of exploitation.​
Pallavi Pundir
6.25.20
Food

Please Stop Messing With Our Childhood Foods

How do Chyawanprash ice cream and chocolate Maggi even sound like a good idea to you?
Satviki Sanjay
6.25.20
LGBTQ

Queer Indians Review Queer Bollywood Characters

“Not all of us who are effeminate are vulgar and cheap and will rub our butts in your faces.”
Satviki Sanjay
6.25.20
The VICE Guide to Right Now

You Can Now Swim with Robot Dolphins to Save the Real Ones from Captivity

An animatronic dolphin created by a special effects company is a step towards solving the ethical issue of keeping wildlife in caged spaces.
Shamani Joshi
6.24.20
Science

Scientists Just Discovered a Mysterious Object in Space That Could Change What We Know About Black Holes

It falls right in the puzzling “mass gap” where no other object has been found yet.
Satviki Sanjay
6.24.20
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