Mumbai: Shah Rukh Khan’s Pathaan is the latest movie to become a victim of a boycott trend by several netizens. After the teaser of Sidharth Anand’s directorial was out yesterday, social media users started digging out old videos and pictures of SRK-Deepika and have been calling for the film’s boycott. Shah Rukh Khan’s old video interview … Read more
Mumbai: A complaint has been filed by Tamil director Atlee of Bigil fame for allegedly making Shah Rukh Khan starrer ‘Jawan‘ by picking up the storyline from the Tamil film Perarasu. As the shooting of Jawan continues, Tamil Film Producers Council (TFPC) has filed a case, accusing the makers of Jawan of plagiarism, as per reports. … Read more
New Delhi: Bangladesh Information and Broadcasting Minister Hassan Mahmood said on Tuesday (November 1) that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) which was framed to grant Indian nationality to minorities of Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan is an internal issue of India. The minister declined to comment on the issue, saying that a petition has been filed in … Read more
Five Indian-Americans are in the race for the US House of Representatives when the country goes for its mid-term polls on November 8. If the pollsters and opinions of political pundits are any indications, Indian-Americans are likely to have a 100 percent strike rate for the House of Representatives. The four incumbents – Ami Bera, … Read more
As earthquakes are persistent in Afghanistan, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has decided to construct 1,000 “earthquake-resilient” houses for over 8,000 earthquake-stricken people of the Barmal district of Paktika province in southeastern Afghanistan. In a tweet, the UN refugee agency in Afghanistan wrote, “UNHCR Afghanistan is moving swiftly to provide 1000 earthquake-resilient … Read more
Melbourne: It’s been a week since Elon Musk strode into the Twitter headquarters with a kitchen sink, signalling his official takeover of the company. Having had some time to let the news of his US$44 billion (about A$70 billion) purchase “sink in”, Twitter users are now wondering what he’ll do with the platform. What’s Musk going … Read more
Iran’s foreign minister on Saturday acknowledged for the first time that his country has supplied Russia with drones, insisting the transfer came before Moscow’s war on Ukraine that has seen the Iranian-made drones divebombing Kyiv. The comments by Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian come after months of confusing messaging from Iran about the weapons shipment, … Read more
A leader of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, Azam Khan Swati, said he has received an ‘obscene’ video featuring him and his wife by an unknown number. In the video posted by the party, Swati, in tears, is heard saying, “I was shattered when my wife called me and started crying. I asked my … Read more
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Centre what the reasons were for the denial of security clearance to the Malayalam news channel ‘MediaOne’ and why those reasons cannot be disclosed to them. The top court said the essence of court proceedings was that anything relied upon by one party should be disclosed to … Read more
Odisha: The AD-1 interceptor missile that completed its maiden test Wednesday is ‘a significant jump’ in the Indian military’s ability to protect the country from long-range ballistic missiles, Defence Research and Development Organisation chief Dr Samir Kamat told news agency ANI Thursday. Dr Kamat said the Phase II BMD (ballistic missile defence) AD-1 can intercept any … Read more
Gujarat: A senior administrative official in Gujarat’s Morbi has been suspended by the state government following the collapse of a bridge that led to the death of 135 people, the chief minister’s office said on Friday. The colonial-era suspension footbridge in Morbi, over the Machchhu river, was packed with sightseers around the Diwali and Chhath Puja … Read more
New Delhi: Aaftab Ameen Poonwala, who has been arrested by Delhi Police for killing his live-in partner Shraddha Walker, told the authorities that he had tried to kill her before but changed his mind after she became emotional and started crying. Sources told India Today that on that day too, Aaftab and Shraddha had an … Read more
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the validity of the Employees Pension (Amendment) Scheme of 2014 but quashed the threshold limit of Rs 15,000 monthly salary for joining the pension fund. The 2014 amendment had capped the maximum pensionable salary (basic pay plus dearness allowance) at Rs 15,000 per month. Prior to the amendment, … Read more
New Delhi: The Supreme Court passed its verdict on the validity of the central law for 10% reservation benefits to economically weaker sections (EWS), on Monday. The matter was heard by a 5-judge bench comprising Chief Justice of India UU Lalit, Justices Dinesh Maheshwari, S Ravindra Bhat, Bela M Trivedi, and JB. The Supreme Court is pronouncing … Read more
New Delhi: Jailed conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar has written another letter to Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena requesting a CBI probe against Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and repeating the allegations that have been roundly denied by the party. The “pressure is getting too much and any undue event may take place before the truth … Read more