Remember the Dangal girl Zaira Wasim who played the young version of wrestler Geeta Phogat. She made headlines after her movie for writing an extremely controversial open letter, that she later deleted from her social media handles. She was accused of violating Islamic laws due to her career...
It is an irony in India that there are some sports and players who are showered with ample of price money, amenities and so on. On the other side, there are few players who are not even provided with basic needs. This video which is trending on social media reveals that how Jammu & Kashmir...
With flourishing growth of India and largest democracy in world, one of the greatest achievements is its vibrant media. Right from the era of independence, where power of ink was recognized more than a bullet, media role was seen as stature to bind people together for...
As many as 46 Assam Muslim clerics have issued a fatwa against 16-year-old Nahid Afrin who sang songs against Islamic terrorism and asked her to perform in public. The up-and-coming singer was also a runner-up in one of the musical reality TV shows in 2015. Police...
Congress, which won 17 of Goa’s 40 seats, only approached Governor Mridula Sinha, by which time the BJP had already cobbled a majority. Having emerged as the single largest party in Goa, how the Grand Old Party frittered away its chances of forming government in the...
After securing a thumping victory in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP is now in the process of zeroing in on a credible face for the chief minister’s post. According to sources in the BJP, party president Amit Shah and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh have had a conversation...
Overwhelmed with the mandate received in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, the BJP is in a fix on how to appoint a chief minister who balances the development discourse of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the caste and social equations in the state and the...
Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal, has written to Election Commission, requesting not to use Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) for polling during the upcoming municipal elections in the National Capital. Instead, the AAP chief has demanded the use of ballot papers...
Arvind Kejriwal has a very strong social media team. The only work of these social media campaigners is to find out any news by which AAP can bash BJP and Modi. So, the task is handy and in order to fetch all the benefits these people make fake news.
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Just days after writing a post on inequality, 27-year-old Dalit MPhil student at JNU Muthu Krishnan was found having allegedly committed suicide in South Delhi’s Munirka area Monday evening. “He had come to his friend’s house this afternoon to have food. He said...
The spirit of Holi gala was expected to spill with a series of colourful political developments poised to play out over the issue of government formation in the coastal state, which has thrown up a fractured mandate.
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In a Medium post dated March 12, a user with the pseudonym ‘Indian Fowler’, claiming to be a former employee of The Viral Fever, one of India’s leading online video creators, alleged widespread sexual harassment at the workplace. Leading to a series of...
Prashant Kishor, a key behind-the-scenes figure of the Narendra Modi election campaign in 2014, raised many an eyebrow when he switched sides to Nitish Kumar. That’s quite a fence to jump. Janata Dal (United) broke its alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party in...
In a remarkable turn of fortunes in Uttar Pradesh, the Bharatiya Janata Party is set to return to power after 14 years as it is has swept the state by winning over 300 seats. This is the party’s best performance so far in the state, considering that this was only...
Liquor baron Vijay Mallya – Indian fugitive in the UK wanted for wilful tax evasion and loan defaults – took to Twitter on Friday, saying he was ready to negotiate with banks to pay a “one-time settlement” charge on his Rs 9,000 crore loan default.
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India – the country of festivals, the country where people celebrate to thank the Gods, the country where all classes of people come together to cherish the very purpose of life. Festivals give a ray of hope to the working people to keep working, and also function as...
The BJP is likely to form the next government in UP, indicated exit polls. Times Now-VMR gave a clear majority to the BJP. It said that the BJP would win 190-210 seats. The India today-Axis poll gave 251-279 seats to the BJP in a House of 403, predicting just 88-112...
Women employees in the organized sector will now get six months of paid maternity leave, more than double the entitlement so far, after the Lok Sabha amended the law on maternity benefits. Terming the move a “gift on International Women’s Day”, labour minister...
Following criticism, the AIIMS today closed a counter set up exclusively to facilitate treatment for “VIPs” and the patients recommended by the Union Health Minister’s office. The move comes after Union Health Minister J P Nadda expressed displeasure over the...
Two Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militants were killed in a gunfight with the government forces while a student was shot dead allegedly by the forces personnel during the clashes, and a youth died ostensibly of a heart attack while running for his life during the police action on demonstrators, in this...
Two days after the blast on board a Bhopal-Ujjain train and the anti-terror operations that followed in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, leading to the arrests of nine and the killing near Lucknow of a terrorist identified as Mohammad Saifullah, Home Minister Rajnath...
The Dalai Lama is a Monk of the Gelug or “Yellow Hat”, school of Tibetan Buddhism, the newest of the schools of Tibetan Buddhism founded by Je Tsongkhapa. The 14th and current Dalai Lama is Tenzin Gyatso. The Dalai Lama was an important...
The government is all set to launch a new rental housing policy in 100 smart cities. The policy has been in works for the last 3 years but is likely to see the light of the day soon. The first component of that plan may well be rolled out in the next fiscal year.
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Steering clear of introducing any new taxes, the Aam Aadmi Party government’s third budget for 2017-18 has a larger outlay of Rs 48,000 crore with education and healthy clearly singled out as priority sectors. Public transport, water, and sanitation are also...
