The Air India on Saturday withdrew its in-flight magazine following protests over an article over non-vegetarian prasad being cooked in the revered Jagannath Puri Temple. An article titled “devotion can be delicious” in its inflight magazine Shubh Yatra, infuriated people as it said, “Said to be the largest in the country, the Jagannath Temple’s[Read More…]
The “Dancing Queen” hit-makers and famous Swedish pop group ABBA is reuniting after 34 years! In a collaboration with the British music impresario Simon Fuller , the project is expected to surface in 2018. The quartet consists of Agnetha Faltskog, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad and the first letter of each member’s given[Read More…]
Indian space agency (ISRO) is planning for a world record by putting into orbit 83 satellites—2 Indian and 81 foreign—on a single rocket in early 2017, an official at ANTRIX Corporation said. According to ANTRIX Corporation MD Rakesh Sasibushan, all of the 83 satellites will be put into a single[Read More…]
Taking a stand for the Indian Armed Forces, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to implement the One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme in a meaningful way. The Congress scion pointed out that the government’s decision on the scheme[Read More…]
In further development to the espionage racket, the Delhi police detained an aide of Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Munawwar Saleem Friday night. The espionage ring run by a Pakistani high commission official, which was uncovered earlier this week and Delhi crime branch officials have given out a statement saying that they detained Farhat,[Read More…]
Gaya road-rage accused Rakesh Ranjan alias Rocky Yadav on Saturday surrendered in a Bihar court, police said. “Rocky (Yadav), who arrived in Patna from Delhi on Saturday morning, surrendered in the Gaya Civil Court,” a police officer said. He was arrested on May 11 for fatally shooting 19-year-old Aditya Sachdeva[Read More…]
The Indian Army said a soldier was killed and his body mutilated by terrorists in an encounter in Machhal sector of Kupwara district, near the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu Kashmir on Friday evening. A terrorist was also killed in the encounter. Army warned of an “appropriate response” “In[Read More…]
At least eight people were killed and several others are injured after a fire broke out in a fireworks shop in Gujarat’s Vadodara district on Friday evening. The fire started at a shop in the Rustampura village of Vaghodia area in the evening and spread to the neighbouring shops and[Read More…]
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said Pakistan was indulging in a proxy war and has been trying to harm India by taking “cowardly” aid of terrorism. “The neighbouring country has been carrying out proxy war. But terrorism is not a weapon of the brave but of cowards. Those[Read More…]
The BSF on Friday said it had killed 15 Pakistani paramilitary personnel while retaliating to cross-border shelling and firing in which two Indian civilians were killed and two injured in Jammu region. Firing mortar shells and using automatic weapons, Pakistani troops targeted civilian areas and forward security posts along the[Read More…]
The National Green Tribunal will inspect a retired army officer’s allegations of planes emptying human waste in his neighbourhood. Lt Gen (Retd) Satwant Singh Dahiya has alleged that planes fly above his neighbourhood in South Delhi and empty human waste. He has asked for criminal proceedings and fines against commercial[Read More…]
China on Friday warned India that bilateral ties may suffer “damage” and peace and stability of the border areas could be affected if it allows Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama to visit Arunachal Pradesh, which Beijing claims is part of southern Tibet. “We are seriously concerned about the relevant information,”[Read More…]
The Supreme Court on Friday rapped the Central government for “scuttling” the working of judiciary by sitting on the appointment of judges in various high courts despite the recommendation of a recruitment collegium. A bench headed by CJI TS Thakur said, “Today we have a situation where courtrooms are locked[Read More…]
The Supreme Court on Thursday said that the country’s armed forces are answerable to the Cabinet and the government “otherwise there would be martial law in country” The apex court said this while it dismissed a petition seeking to restrain the government from using armed force’s action for political gains,[Read More…]
An RSS affiliate outfit carried out a ‘shudhikalasham’ or ‘purification’ ceremony in an Udupi temple after numerous Dalits gathered for a rally organised by Dalit activist and organiser of the `Una Chalo’ movement in Gujarat, Jignesh Mevani. The outfit, Yuva Brigade led by an 86-year-old seer of the Pejewara Mutt,[Read More…]
Savji Dholakia, a Surat-based billionaire diamond merchant who famously made his son do blue-collar jobs to learn the value of money, has gifted 400 flats and 1,260 cars as Diwali bonuses to his employees. Dholakia, who owns the Hare Krishna Exports, has distributed the flats and cars as Diwali bonuses[Read More…]
The CPI(M) on Thursday intervened in the ongoing Supreme Court hearing on ‘whether seeking votes in the name of religion or caste amounted to “corrupt practices” under the Representation of the People’s (RP) Act’ and became the first party to do so. The General Secretary Sitaram Yechury filed for an[Read More…]
In a case that may affect the current debate around ‘triple talaq’ a Muslim man in Jaipur let his friend rape his wife after a bet on the pretext of nikah halala. Nikah halala is a provision that mandates a woman to mandatorily consummate her marriage with another man if[Read More…]
If curfew and shut down were not enough, the valley faces another problem- burning of schools. A total of 19 schools have been burned till now and over the past three-and-a-half months, at least one school in each of Kashmir Valley’s 10 districts have either been burnt or suffered damages[Read More…]
In a welcome move, the government is planning to make changes in the six decades-old cinematography law to tone up the functioning of the censor board, which has been at the centre of many controversies. Information and Broadcasting Minister M Venkaiah Naidu says he is examining the recommendations made by[Read More…]
In what comes across as a case of racial profiling, a government college in Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh has come under attack for distributing bags which say “SC/ ST scheme” to students. About 250 of the 600 undergraduate and post-graduate SC/ST students of Rajiv Gandhi Government PG College in Mandsaur have received these[Read More…]
In what is being considered as NATO’s biggest military build-up on Russia’s borders since the Cold War, Britain promised to deploy fighter jets to Romania next year along with United States’ commitment of supplying troops, tanks and artillery to Poland. The other ally nations including Germany and Canada have also[Read More…]
A BSF constable on Thursday was killed and six civilians were injured as Pakistan violated ceasefire in RS Pura and Arnia sectors in Jammu and Kashmir. The constable, identified as Jitender Kumar from Bihar, sustained a splinter injury during mortar shelling from across the border. Till now, up to 30[Read More…]
Just In: Another Jodhpur-based man has been detained by the Rajasthan Police in the case of espionage and spying, Shoaib, the arrested man, is now set to be brought to Delhi. Shoaib had come in contact with Maulana around one-and-a-half year back, who lured the latter to join him in[Read More…]
An argument bewteen a husband and wife in south Delhi on Wednesday turned tragic. 60-year-old Mukesh Monga’s argument with his wife inside their car had a gruesome end. Monga allegedly took out a knife, stabbed her repeatedly, slashed her neck and even tried to behead her before running away. Manju[Read More…]
