Barely a year after exiting office, Anandiben Patel has once again become a key power centre in Gujarat BJP. If BJP leaders in Gujarat are to be believed, Anandiben will play an important role in the upcoming state elections due later this year. “She is giving inputs to PM Modi[Read More…]
A Delhi woman had filed a complaint at Jai Narayan Vyas Colony police station after she was abducted and raped by 23 men in broad daylight in Bikaner. A case of rape has been filed against two named and 21 unidentified suspects. However, no arrests have been made yet. The[Read More…]
BHU Vice Chancellor, Girish Chandra Tripathi has said that he will “resign” if he will be asked to go on leave adding that that the HRD ministry had not told him to do so. Reportedly, the ministry has initiated a routine process to choose the successor of Tripathi. His tenure[Read More…]
Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha hit back at union finance minister Arun Jaitley’s “job seeker at 80” remark saying the former wouldn’t have a job if that were true. “If I were a job applicant, he (Arun Jaitley) would not be there in the first place,” Sinha said. Jaitley had[Read More…]
Shilpa Shetty Kundra will be seen playing megastar Amitabh Bachchan in filmmaker Farah Khan’s TV show, Lip Sing Battle. She said playing Bachchan was the most difficult task of her life. The actress took to Instagram to share a picture in which she can be seen flaunting Bachchan’s popular look.[Read More…]
The popular social networking site, Facebook has blocked a user’s account for 30 days after he posted ‘Kamal ka phool hamari bhool’ (Our mistake, the lotus) on his page, claimed the user. Mohammad Anas, who works as a freelance journalist, posted, “Vyapari apne cash memo par print karva kar janta[Read More…]
The Patidar community leaders seem to have rejected the olive branch extended by the state govt on Wednesday. “The decision by the state govt to withdraw political cases against us is a clear admission that these cases were fake and hurled at us just to weaken the movement. Withdrawing these[Read More…]
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner died from natural causes at the age of 91 at his home. Hefner founded popular Playboy magazine in 1953. The magazine’s website, paying tribute, has a file picture of Hefner, with a quote, “Life’s too short to be living somebody else’s dream”. Born on April 9,[Read More…]
In a shocking incident, students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi have found a dead rat in the morning meal served at a boys’ hostel in the campus. After the incident, a committee has been set up by the institute to look into the issue. The incident happened[Read More…]
The BJP’s senior leader Yashwant Sinha hit the BJP-led government once again on Thursday by evidently absolving the previous Congress-led UPA government for a slowdown in growth. Recently, he ignited a political firestorm with a column criticising the government’s economic policy. “The economy is in decline. We can’t blame the[Read More…]
Gujarat is all set to go to polls in next few months, thus, political leaders are putting all effort to set their number game right. Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited his home constituency; Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi finished his three-day tour to the state on Wednesday. Rahul[Read More…]
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh is considering giving free mobile phones to around 55 lakh people within two-and-a-half-years under the Chhattisgarh Communication Revolution Scheme (SKY), the highest priority of CM. A plan of Rs 230 crore has been prepared to achieve this initiative. Around 50.80 lakh beneficiaries will be distributed[Read More…]
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday issued summons to former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi and her son Tejashwi Yadav. They have been called in link with the alleged corruption case where maintenance contracts of two IRCTC hotels were provided to a private firm during Lalu Prasad Yadav’s tenure as[Read More…]
Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) member, Sanjeev Moily, on Wednesday urged the party High Command to appoint Mallikarjun Kharge as the president of the All India Congress Committee (AICC). In a letter to Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, Moily said, “If party is considering a change in the leadership, then Mallikarjun Kharge (Leader[Read More…]
In an attempt to combat the shortage of experienced doctors, union minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad, on Wednesday said that retirement age of central government doctors will be increased to 65. The age earlier was 62 years. “Retirement age of Central Govt. doctors, other than Central Health Service doctors, to be[Read More…]
Gujarat chief minister, Vijay Rupani, said that the Congress party has no “credible” local leaders so it is relying on party vice-president, Rahul Gandhi, for campaigning for the upcoming assembly elections. He also posed a series of questions to the Congress scion, who is currently touring the state, where assembly[Read More…]
The Indian Army on Wednesday carried out a massive military strike on Naga insurgent camps near Myanmar border and inflicted heavy casualties to Naga insurgents. It involved 70 Para commandos and happened at 4:45 AM. The Indian security forces suffered no casualties. The eastern command asserted that Indian troops did[Read More…]
Jyotiraditya Scindia will lead the Congress party in Madhya Pradesh polls next year, said senior party leader Kamal Nath in Guna, the Lok Sabha constituency of Scindia on Wednesday. “There was no opposition to the name of Scindia as the leader of the party in the state,” Zee News quoted[Read More…]
Actors Sunny Deol and Dimple Kapadia were seen holding hands together in London and a small clip of the duo has gone viral now. Reportedly, they flew down to the city in August. The video was shared by self-acclaimed film critic, Kamal R Khan. He captioned his tweet with, “Sunny[Read More…]
The National Human Rights Commission in a report has termed the practice of keeping young girls in temples for worshipping as goddesses as part of rituals in south India as ‘abuse and slavery’. In the ritual, girls are dressed as brides and then undressed, virtually leaving them naked. It is[Read More…]
In a significant decision, the union health ministry said that the shops selling tobacco products will not be allowed to sell non-tobacco products that may draw the attention of children. The government has also asked the state governments to develop a method under which shops selling tobacco products would need[Read More…]
External affairs minister, Sushma Swaraj, on Wednesday offered help and granted visa to 7-year-old Pakistani girl from Karachi to undergo an open heart surgery in India. Swaraj shared this information on Twitter. She accepted Nida Shoaib’s request for granting visa for her daughter’s treatment. Nida had applied for the visa[Read More…]
The overwhelming response received by Rahul Gandhi among the Patidars in Gujarat has got the state government re-think its strategy. Sources say that the Patidar movement leader Hardik Patel could meet Congress Vice President at Rajkot on Wednesday. Possibilities of an open alignment of Patidars with Congress has sent the[Read More…]
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former finance minister, Yashwant Sinha, has spoken out against the way his party has weakened the economy of India. According to him, many leaders in the party know that the economy is in a downward spiral, but refuse to speak up because of[Read More…]
Jean-Christophe Letellier, managing director of L’Oréal, India has admitted that Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali has shifted the focus to natural products. Letellier, who’s been heading the company’s India business, thinks that with better access to the internet, affordability, and the desire for better grooming, consumers in Asia’s third-largest economy are demanding[Read More…]