Elderly Woman Among Three Harassed In Chennai For Not Standing Up While The...
In Chennai, three people were harassed for not showing enough 'patriotism'. In this case, it meant standing up for the National Anthem before the screening of a movie. According to reports, a woman and...
View ArticleSecond Scorpene-Class Submarine, Khanderi, Launched
MUMBAI -- Khanderi, the second Scorpene class submarine that has superior stealth and the ability to launch a crippling attack with torpedoes as well as tube-launched anti-ship missiles whilst...
View ArticleBengal's Fatwa-Happy Cleric's Latest Stunt - An Offer Of ₹25 Lakh For...
Syed Mohammad Nurur Rahman Barkati, the Shahi Imam of Kolkata's Tipu Sultan Masjid, had first issued a fatwa against BJP leader Dilip Ghosh, then he issued a fatwa against Prime Minister Narendra Modi....
View ArticleGoogle To Launch Android Wear 2.0 Early Next Month
Google is finally waking up from its slumber as far as wearable devices go and launching the much-awaited Android Wear 2.0 update early next month. According to an Android Police report, the company...
View ArticleEU To Take Up With Pakistan The Issue Of Human Rights Violation Of The...
BRUSSELS -- Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from various countries have decided to approach the Government of Pakistan on the issue of alleged violation of human rights of the Ahmadiyya...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia Increases India's Annual Haj Quota To 1.7 Lakh People, Largest...
NEW DELHI -- In the biggest hike in nearly three decades, Saudi Arabia today increased India's annual Haj quota by 34,500, a move welcomed by the NDA government as a "matter of pleasure". Union...
View ArticleAfter Gandhi's Vanishing Act In ₹2000 Notes, Now The Flip Side Goes Missing...
Just a week after farmers in Madhya Pradesh received ₹2000 notes in which the portrait of Mahatma Gandhi was missing, ATM machines in the state have dispensed ₹500 notes with one side missing. The side...
View ArticleRBI Says It Doesn't Know How Much Cash It Was Printing Right After...
It appears that following demonetisation, the Reserve Bank of India either did now know how much currency it was printing or didn't want to divulge those details. In a reply to an RTI query filed by...
View ArticleThis Mumbai Hospital Is Spending ₹2 Crore For The Surgery Of The World's...
Mumbai is preparing to greet the world's heaviest woman, weighing around 500 kgs, who is travelling to the city to undergo bariatric surgery. Eman Ahmed, who lives in the port city of Alexandria in...
View ArticleRussia Proposes Ban On Sale Of Cigarettes To Anyone Born After 2015 In A Bid...
MOSCOW -- The Russian Health Ministry has unveiled plans to ban the sale of cigarettes to anyone born after 2015, the media reported. The Health Ministry proposal, which has the backing of President...
View ArticleWhat It Meant To Have A Feminist President
"For 240 years, our nation's call to citizenship has given work and purpose to each new generation. It's what led patriots to choose republic over tyranny, pioneers to trek west, slaves to brave that...
View ArticleTrump Just Completely Entangled His Business And The U.S. Government
WASHINGTON ― President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he will not sell his global hotel chain, will continue to accept reservations paid for by foreign governments and will donate all...
View ArticleJallikattu Plea Rejected By Supreme Court, Says Can't Deliver Verdict Before...
The Supreme Court said on Thursday that it can't deliver its final verdict on revoking the ban on the bull-taming sport of Jallikattu before Saturday, the day when Tamil Nadu will celebrate the harvest...
View ArticleApple Grabs Top Three Spots For The Holiday Quarter In US, China Sales Declining
NEW YORK -- Apple's iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone 6s were the three most popular smartphones in the US at the beginning of the three-month holiday period last year, making a combined share of 31.3...
View ArticleInformation Commissioner, Who Allowed Inspection Of Modi's DU Degree Records,...
Correction: The earlier headline erroneously suggested that M S Acharyulu is an HRD official. The error is regretted. M S Acharyulu, the Information Commissioner who allowed the inspection of the Delhi...
View ArticleDeepika Padukone And Vin Diesel Just Landed In Mumbai To An Insanely Loud...
Deepika Padukone's Hollywood debut, XxX: Return of Xander Cage, opens in theaters tomorrow and the actress arrived in Mumbai in style with her xXx co-star Vin Diesel and director DJ Caruso in tow....
View ArticleDisha Patani Goes Topless For Dabboo Ratnani's Racy Photoshoot
Disha Patani, who made her Bollywood debut with Neeraj Pandey's MS Dhoni: The Untold Story, has posed topless for celebrity photographer Dabboo Ratnani's 2017 calendar. Dabboo is known to get top...
View ArticleVidya Balan Walks Out Of Writer Kamala Surayya's Bilingual Biopic Directed By...
Actress Vidya Balan, who was to portray the role of Indian-English writer Kamala Surayya in a bilingual biopic, has walked out of the project, citing creative differences with the director, national...
View ArticleThe Weavers Of Banarasi Sari Are Reeling Under Demonetisation: Report
The demonetisation of ₹500 and ₹1000 notes may have been hailed by the Narendra Modi government, and things started to normalise, but some industries are still reeling under its effects. One of them is...
View ArticleCash In Circulation Is Shrinking By The Week, RBI Data Shows
More than two months after demonetisation, cash in circulation seems to be shrinking by the week, according to official data from the Reserve Bank. Mint reported citing Reserve Bank of India data that...
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