Canadian national Ramanan Pathmanathan posed as a teenage boy from New Jersey and demanded victims engage in sexually explicit conduct in video chats, show court papers.
A Supreme Court order has legally empowered India's sex workers, but decades of police and societal abuse means ingrained cynicism and fear aren't going go away overnight.
Clare Bronfman, heiress to Seagram Co. liquor fortune, gave at least $100 mn to help bankroll Nxivm sex cult that forced women to engage in sex acts, according to prosecutors.
Congress leader DK Shivakumar is patient, transactional, fiercely loyal, administratively ambitious, and unafraid of power. Is Karnataka ready for the most complete expression yet of his method?
Having failed to emulate East Asia’s success with manufacturing exports, India pays for its chronic trade shortfall by writing IOUs to global investors.
An oil shock, monsoon fears, rampant unemployment, and the seeming inevitability of inflation are common to both eras. Indira Gandhi’s self-destructive responses are instructive today.
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