A 14-year-old Chennai teen Advay Ramesh has won the prestigious Google Community Impact Award from Asia for creating a device that enhances fishermen’s safety and productivity, announced Google India on Wednesday. Advay, a class 10 student from Chennai’s National Public School, has also added another feather to his cap by[Read More…]
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Islamist militants ambush Mali army base, kill 17
Islamist militants attacked an army base in Mali on Wednesday, killing 17 soldiers and wounding 35 others. According to government sources, militants fired on troop positions and burned buildings in an attack that is being termed as one of the biggest in past few months on the army in Mali. “It is also an indicator[Read More…]
Google shows PM Modi as ‘top criminal’ in search, Allahabad court orders FIR
A district court in Allahabad has issued a notice to global search giant Google, its CEO and its India head for portraying Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a controversial search query. The query which became the topic of discussion back in June 2015, showed an image of PM Modi (among[Read More…]
First look of Shah Rukh Khan and Alia Bhatt’s Dear Zindagi movie revealed
Shah Rukh Khan’s upcoming film after Raees is Dear Zindagi directed by Gauri Shinde. Alia Bhat, the female lead the movie, shared the first look of the movie on July 19, 2016 on her official twitter page posing a question to Shah Rukh Khan. The actors had continued their conversation[Read More…]
JNU blocks registration of Kanhaiya, Umar and 19 others
The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) administration has blocked the registration of all 21 students related toFebruary 9 sedition issue in JNU campus. Their registration for next semester has been blocked and the circular was signed by JNU registrar Pramod Kumar. The list of 21 students includes JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar,[Read More…]
Watch: First trailer of ‘xXx: Return Of Xander Cage’
The Vin Diesel and Deepika Padukone-starrer, ‘xXx: Return of Xander Cage’, trailer has been released. The action-packed preview begins with a voiceover “guns, girls, global domination”. In the trailer Diesel can be seen performing life-threatening stunts, while Deepika is seen spinning blades. Vin Diesel returns as Xanger Cage after playing[Read More…]
Gujarat Dalit stir: Arvind Kejriwal and Rahul Gandhi to pay a visit
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and Congress’s vice- president Rahul Gandhi will visit Una, Gujarat, where a Dalit family was flogged by self-proclaimed ‘Gau Rakshaks’ (cow vigilantes) for skinning a dead cow last week. The incident was captured in a video which went viral on the internet. Since the incident[Read More…]
Civil society demands recognition of political rights of Kashmiris
New Delhi: Civil society raised its voice to break the silence on Kashmir and bring the voices of the Kashmiris in the limelight. In a press conference-cum-public meeting held in New Delhi on Tuesday by Campaign against Fascist Attack on University (CAFAU), noted journalists, filmmakers and academics unanimously demanded that[Read More…]
Rise & Decline of China’s Soft Power
Hu Jintao highlighted soft power in his political report to the 17th Party Congress of October 2007, stressing the urgency of building China’s cultural soft power sufficiently to meet domestic needs and increase international competitiveness. Hu Jintao, Former President of PRC Power in ordinary usage is understood as an ability,[Read More…]
Trump campaign releases statement on Melania’s “plagiarism” row
The Donald Trump campaign has released a statement on plagiarism accusations against his wife, Melania Trump. Her speech during the Republican National Convention on Monday has been compared to that of Michelle Obama’s 2008 Democratic National Convention. Trump has said Melania took notes on her “life’s inspirations” and included her[Read More…]
Karti Chidambaram’s lawyers question ED’s jurisdiction
Lawyers representing Karti Chidambaram have questioned the Enforcement Directorate’s jurisdiction in issuing summons to Karti. “ED does not have unfettered powers to call anyone. We have responded to the summon, seeking the basis for such a move,” a close associate of Karti told Newsd. Last week, ED had issued a[Read More…]
Apologise or face trial: Supreme Court tells Rahul Gandhi
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi has been directed to either tender an apology to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) for his defamatory remarks or face trial. The apex court said Rahul should not have resorted to collective denunciation of the right-wing group, when, back in 2015, he alleged “RSS people” killed Mahatma[Read More…]
Green Warrior Piyush Sethia allegedly beaten up in jail
Environmental activist Piyush Sethia was allegedly beaten up in police custody after being denied bail on July 14 citing previous cases which also includes sedition. Sethia was arrested on July 8 by police as he protested against ongoing construction of the Mulvadi bridge in Salem. According to a LiveMint report,[Read More…]
Lives lost, Kashmir still burning
Another day of curfew, another day of violence, another day of uncertainty, another day of horror, another day of miseries…that’s what the fate of the people of Kashmir has become these days. Can you imagine living in a place where you will go out of your house but you are[Read More…]
Home Minister asks for 3-month extension for Ishrat probe officer, Prime Minister gives two
Prime minister Narendra Modi has reduced the extension period sought into the probe of Ishrat Jahan missing files by home minister Rajnath Singh. Senior IAS officer, BK Prasad who probed the case and was recently in news for “tutoring” a witness will now get two months instead of the three-month[Read More…]
Navjot Singh Sidhu quits BJP, likely to join Aam Aadmi Party ahead of Punjab polls
Former cricketer and senior BJP leader Navjot Singh Sidhu resigned from the Rajya Sabha on Monday, July 18. He and his wife, Navjot Kaur, who is a parliamentary secretary for the Punjab government will be joining hands with Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party. Speculations are rife that Sidhu may be[Read More…]
Dalit girl raped again by the same men 3 years later; Haryana police still unable to nab the accused
It could be guessed how much the Haryana government is concerned about women safety in the state as a shocking case has come in to light which says that a Dalit girl who was raped three years ago has been raped again on Wednesday by the same men who had[Read More…]
GST, Kashmir and Arunachal to ensure a stormy Monsoon Session
The Monsoon session of parliament which began today, will see government push for the GST bill. On Sunday, in the wake of the session, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held an all-party meeting asking party men to keep “national interest” in mind and not worry about the credit. On one hand[Read More…]
Congress set to rake up Arunachal in Parliament
Congress spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi confirms the party will protest the “subversion of democracy” during the Monsoon Session. Referring to the Supreme Court’s intervention in Arunachal Pradesh, she said the BJP should refrain from engineering destabilisation of elected governments. “The house needs to discuss where we are heading,” she added.
Press freedom in peril in Kashmir as government clamps down on media
As the tension in Kashmir shows no sign of abating, mobile and internet services continued to remain suspended for the eighth day on Sunday while trains were also off the tracks in the valley as a precautionary measure. What is more worrisome is that the state government seized newspapers and[Read More…]
Talk to AK: Arvind Kejriwal just loves the blame game
After Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s radio show ‘Mann Ki Baat’, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal couldn’t resist having a similar kind of show where he took questions from people across the country. Arvind Kejriwal wanted to know what concerns, suggestions, problems and queries people have so he could address them[Read More…]
Major media crackdown in Kashmir, government raids printing press, detains employees
In a blatant attempt to gag the media in Kashmir, authorities allegedly raided some media offices and detained a few of their employees while seizing printed copies, reported PTI. In what is seen as almost ‘emergency like censorship’ the police conducted midnight raids at printing presses of major Urdu and[Read More…]
Courage and Commitment: Margaret Alva’s ‘tell-all’ criticism of Sonia Gandhi’s leadership
A book that is making the news even before it has hit the stands, Courage and Commitment, by Margaret Alva, the book speaks about many issues which have not been in public light before. A promised ‘tell-all,’ it mentions all the times and incidents that led this fierce Gandhi family[Read More…]
Congress stalls Arunachal Pradesh floor test, insists majority
Pema Khandu, son of former CM Dorjee Khandu, has been unanimously elected the new leader of the Congress Legislative Party (CLP). The governor of Arunachal Pradesh will swear in Khandu as chief minister as he has enough support to stake claim and form the government. Former chief minister Nabam Tuki[Read More…]
Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das “fixed” Rajya Sabha polls, reveals sting operation
Jharkhand chief minister and BJP leader, Raghubar Das is in the center of a fresh controversy because of a sting operation. A video released by former chief minister and Jharkhand Vikas Morcha head, Babulal Marandi shows Das discussing the “managing” of MLAs in the June 11 Rajya Sabha polls. This sting operation,[Read More…]