Dangal actor Zaira Wasim, who has been trolled in social media after Jammu and Kashmir CM Mehbooba Mufti called her ‘role model’, on Friday, had a fresh Twitter spat with Union Minister Vijay Goel. The BJP leader tweeted a painting of a Burqa-cladded woman, tagging Zaira Wasim in the comment.[Read More…]
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a request that wanted recognition to divorce dictum passed by canonical courts to Catholic couples. A jury of Chief Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud dismissed the public interest law-suit filed by Bengaluru-based Clarence Pais. Clarence urged that divorces granted by canonical[Read More…]
Finance minister Arun Jaitley was scheduled to attend the 3rd edition of the Bengal global business event but did not show up on Friday. Sources say that he was believed to have been asked by the party high command to stay away. After the arrest of two TMC MPs Tapas[Read More…]
About 9,000 employees were “released” by Infosys in the past one year due to automation of lower-end jobs, said company’s human resources head, Krishnamurthy Shankar. These people are now working on more superior projects. “We have been releasing about 2,000 people every quarter and also training them in special courses[Read More…]
The Islamic State may be planning an attack on Delhi courts near about the Republic Day, according to Mail Today quoting a latest input by the Intelligence bureau. However a senior Delhi police official said that Delhi Police has done the most sensitive arrangement for the Republic Day celebration and[Read More…]
Following a tri-colored doormat row wherein e-commerce giant Amazon had to withdraw the product that was offensive to Indian sensitivities from its Canadian platform after facing warnings from external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj, the e-commerce platform has now also pulled out flip-flops bearing the picture of Mahatma Gandhi. “We have[Read More…]
The Enforcement Directorate has arrested Surat-based financer Kishore Bhajiawala on money laundering charges. He is accused of illegal conversion of ₹ 1 crore old notes into new, using 1,000 fake IDs. As per reports, “Jignesh Kishorebhai Bhajiawala (41) is under arrest as per provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering[Read More…]
In a shocking revelation, a data from ministry of road transport and highways shows that with 2,610 deaths, Uttar Pradesh witnesses the maximum number of child fatalities because of road accidents in 2015. Thus, road accidents kill seven children in UP every day and of these one-fifth suffered as pillion[Read More…]
After over a decade the government is ready to invest extra money into the Railways for critical safety upgrades by creating a special fund. The five-year, Rs 1 lakh crore Rashtriya Rail Sanraksha Kosh (RRSK). This will be considering a long-pending wish of the railway passenger in the wake of[Read More…]
As the protests against the ban on Jallikattu intensifies across Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister O Panneerselvam, who met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, declared that his government would “take steps with the backing of the Centre” to hold the traditional bull-taming sport. While the state government sought an ordinance “to remove the[Read More…]
BJP government in Gujarat faces a new problem lately. Audio clips of random phone calls to ministers, from people seeking answers on what they considerytp be an integral agenda to them, are going viral on social media. And this has only added to the government’s discomfiture. BJP government image of[Read More…]
India slammed China for saying that membership to the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) could not be viewed as a “farewell gift”. India wanted the membership not as a “gift”, but because of its “non-proliferation record,” said Vikas Swarup, spokesperson for the Ministry of External Affairs while speaking at a press[Read More…]
India set aside a discussion on the Kashmir issue saying that no third party had any role to play in resolving the dispute between the two countries in UK Parliament. MEA was aware of the development but added that all problems between India and Pakistan can only be resolved bilaterally.[Read More…]
Delhi Police Commissioner Alok Verma was on Thursday appointed as the next chief of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). His appointment was approved for a period of 2 years by a three-member selection panel headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and comprising Chief Justice of India Jagdish Singh Khehar and[Read More…]