For over ten years, Arnab Goswami was setting the agenda of news television with his tendentious debate News Hour on Times Now. Considering the popularity of the show, his sudden decision to quit Times Now came as a shock to many. It invited various speculations with no substantial conclusion. However,[Read More…]
While celebrities have been promoting fairness creams for decades, for some people endorsing a fairness cream simply means endorsing racism, and Bollywood actor Abhay Deol is one of them. Deol on Wednesday took to his Facebook page to slam celebrities who have ever promoted fairness cream brands in a humorous[Read More…]
After the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh took a series of decisions to enhance electricity supply in the state, the Union power minister Piyush Goyal said a white paper was needed to expose the “deep rot” of the past 15 years in the state’s power division. “Some of the statistics[Read More…]
Congress leader, former Union minister Akhilesh Das Gupta died after suffering a heart attack on Wednesday morning. Born on 31st March in 1961, Akhilesh had done schooling at Colvin Taluqdars College, Lucknow. A diploma in Public Administration, he had also done LL.B., MBA and Ph.D. He has been a national[Read More…]
The Lok Sabha passed the Motor Vehicle (Amendment) Bill, 2016 on April 10, 2017. The existing Bill is almost three decades old and, therefore, it needs revisions to meet the modern-day situation. The core of the proposed amendments in the Bill is to make the Indian roads safer and reduce[Read More…]
On the 126th Birth Anniversary of Bhimrao Ambedkar, United Nations on Thursday will celebrate it by focusing on the empowerment of the poor and the marginalised using information and communication technologies to achieve the UN’s sustainable development goals. This mission is organised by the UN mission in association with the[Read More…]
The by-election in Kerala’s Malappuram Lok Sabha constituency began early on Wednesday morning. Malappurram is a Muslim dominated area and the bypoll were necessitated due to the death Indian Union Muslim League’s (IUML) E Ahamed, who had won by roughly 2 lakh votes in 2014. Those contesting fir the Lok[Read More…]
Another state Chhattisgarh has taken steps towards liquor prohibition too and as part of that, liquor sale will not be permitted in villages with population up to 3,000, said chief minister Raman Singh on Tuesday. Significantly, the sale of liquor has already been prohibited in villages having up to 2,000 population.[Read More…]
Punjab CM Amarinder Singh’s outreach to meet investors and business leaders in Mumbai seems to have bode well with India Inc. Sources close to the Punjab CM told Newsd that every top corporate honcho who met Capt Singh evinced interest in the impending growth story of the state. “Of them,[Read More…]
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor helped government draft a statement on the death sentence handed to Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav in Pakistan, in a show of rare bipartisan cooperation. The statement, which may be moved as a resolution in the Lok Sabha, will be vetted by PM Modi and other parties.[Read More…]
Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi showed concerns over the wastage of food on his monthly radio show – ‘Mann Ki Baat,’ the administration is planning to fix portion sizes of dishes served in the star hotels and restaurants to curb the wastage of food. “Ignoring the issue of food[Read More…]
An Indian employee working in a UAE-based company has been fired for sending sexually explicit messages to renowned journalist Rana Ayyub on Facebook. The accused identified as Bincylal Balachandran hailing from Kerala has been working in Dubai for a firm called Alpha Paint, a sister company of National Paints in[Read More…]
UP CM Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday chaired his second Cabinets meet. UP CM who has been very active since he took over the post as a Chief Minister, discussed a number issue and took several important decisions. Firstly, the Cabinet agreed on the 24-hours power supply proposal through an agreement[Read More…]