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“We need to look at the role that women play in perpetuating gender-based abuse. A lot of abuses that we consume in popular media, shown as happening to women in Bollywood movies or TV dramas, is women abusing other women. Popular culture normalises it for society,” says Mandy Sanghera, award-winning philanthropist and human-rights activist from […]
Aryan Khan, son of actor Shah Rukh Khan, has been sent to judicial custody by the Magistrate’s court in the Mumbai drugs-on-cruise case. Aryan was supplied drugs by one of the other men arrested in the cruise ship drug bust, the anti-drugs agency said in court today as it argued against the 23-year-old being given […]
Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu and other party leaders were detained at Saharanpur on the Haryana-UP border where they staged a dharna on Thursday. Later, they were taken to the Sarsawa Police Station by the UP Police. He demanded the arrest of Union Minister Ajay Kumar Mishra’s son in connection with the death of […]
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said it will begin granting fresh tourist visas to foreigners coming to India through chartered flights from October 15 on Thursday. The government also said foreign tourists travelling to India by flights other than chartered aircraft would be able to do so with effect from November 15. With this, […]
The online conference named Dismantling Global Hindutva included panels on the hierarchical caste system, Islamophobia, and differences between Hinduism the religion and Hindutva the majoritarian ideology had to be annulled in face of severe protests. It was co-sponsored by departments of more than 40 American universities, including Harvard and Columbia. The announcement only of the […]
The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”. Gurnah, who grew up on the island of Zanzibar but arrived in England as a refugee in the […]
After four days of Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur violence, yet another case of violence against farmers emerges in Haryana. Farmers in Naraingarh near Ambala have alleged that one person has been injured after a car which they claim belongs to BJP MP Nayab Saini drove into a group of people agitating against farm laws. The farmer […]
The Finance Ministry released an amount of Rs 40, 000 crore to the states and Union Territories with legislature under the back-to-back loan facility to meet the shortfall in GST compensation. On July 15, an amount of Rs 75, 000 crores was released to the states and UTs with the legislature. With the current release, […]
BJP on Thursday announced its new National Executive Committee with 80 members. Along with national office bearers of the committee, PM Modi, senior party leaders Lal Krishna Advani and Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi, Union Ministers Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari, and Piyush Goyal are also part of the committee. The committee also has 50 […]
One of few women of color to ever run a large public U.S. company, former Pepsi Co. Chief Executive Officer Indra Nooyi, said she’s never asked for a raise and once turned one down during the financial crisis. “I’ve never, ever, ever asked for a raise,” Nooyi said in an interview with the New York […]
Uttar Pradesh police arrested two persons identified as Luvkush Rana and Ashish Pandey after four days of Lakhimpur Kheri incident. Eight people died after a minister’s car allegedly ran over protesters. Union minister of state Ajay Mishra Teni’s son Ashish Mishra is still untraceable. Police said the two arrested are close aides of Asish and […]
Eleven-year-old Flora Asodia who had become the collector of Ahmedabad for a day lost her fight with a brain tumour on Wednesday. Flora was brought in the collector’s official car from her house on September 18 and made to sit in the collector’s chair after the Ahmedabad district collector – Sandip Sagale, got to know […]
A report released by Union education ministry said that 29 million school students do not have access to digital devices as per data collected from 24 states and Union Territories (UTs) until June, 2021. The data released on Wednesday also highlights the extent to which these students have been disadvantaged over the past year-and-half when […]
Ndakasi was two months old when Andre found her lying on the lifeless body of her mother after the militia wiped out her family in Congo, Africa. As Ndakasi was too young to be released back into the wild, Andre Bauma – the ranger, rescued her and took her to the Senkwekwe Center in Virunga […]
As many as 162 items among the gifts given to PM Modi received no bids on the second last day of the e-auction. Items like medalist P.V. Sindhu’s badminton racket priced at ₹80 lakh, a painting of PM Modi with former United States President Donald Trump priced at ₹3.50 lakh, found no takers. As on […]
Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh saw a deadly clash that left eight dead on Sunday. There have been many political developments taking place since then. The Supreme Court of India has intervened in the incident and listed it before a three Judge bench headed by Chief Justice of India for today. The hearing of the […]
NCP leader, Nawab Malik took to Twitter on Wednesday and shared two videos, wherein Manish Bhanushali and Kiran P. Gosavi were seen entering the NCB office in one and leaving the office in the second video. Refuting the claims and allegations by the Maharashtra Minister and NCP leader, Nawab Malik, as baseless, Manish Bhanushali said […]
The ignition engine, an Industrial Revolution breakthrough, is among today’s threats. It advanced human civilisation but lacked foresight about its environmental consequences. In 2016, the Central and Northern Indian states recorded 4 to 11 times higher levels of P.M 2.5 beyond WHO limits. Having the most polluted cities, vehicular emissions in India had contributed 27 […]
The independent MLA recently joined the Congress along with former student leader Kanhaiya Kumar Jignesh Mevani, an independent MLA from Vadgam constituency in Banaskantha, recently joined the Congress along with former JNU leader Kanhaiya Kumar in Delhi in the presence of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. As he returned to Gujarat, he got a rousing welcome […]
Rashtriya Raksha University has decided to sign a merger with the Military College of Telecommunication Engineering (MCTE), They will together conduct the first “Indian Army Hackathon”. Starting from 16th October’21, this Hackathon will go on for three months. The main aim of this will be to make the forces combat-ready to battle any type of […]
