If irony had a face, it would have a striking resemblance with Bollywood actress Swara Bhasker. A JNU alumni, Swara who is more popular for her Twitter activism, stood exposed for her double standards yesterday on the issue of development. Tweeting from the New York Subway Station, she wrote “Hello NYC! 🖤🐝✨ Come say hi […]
BJP has registered a clinching victory in Adampur bye-elections helping Bhajan Lal’s grandson Bhavya Bishnoi retain the family seat. Bhavya won the seat by a lead of over 16,000 and securing 51.32 per cent of the vote share. His nearest opponent Congress’ Jai Prakash got 39 per cent of the votes. The seat was left […]
Bollywood actress Alia Bhatt gave birth to a baby girl today after she was admitted at the Reliance Foundation Hospital in Mumbai. She arrived at 7.30 am for the delivery. Bhatt married actor Ranbir Kapoor in April this year in a ceremony at their Mumbai residence Vastu and in June, following which Alia announced her […]
Indian Twitter users can expect to access the microblogging site’s Twitter Blue features for a price of $8 or Rs 650 in less than a month. The company’s owner Elon Musk made this information public when someone asked him when the features of Twitter Blue will be available in India. .@elonmusk When can we expect […]
Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut, who is considered a supporter of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), called on Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in Guwahati on Saturday. The meeting is said to be a courtesy call by the Himachal-native actor. In a tweet, the BJP leader said that Kangana will be shooting a film in […]
Former Twitter chief executive officer (CEO) Jack Dorsey on Saturday sought to placate employees who have been laid off by new boss Elon Musk, owning up the responsibility for “why everyone is in this situation”. As part of Musk’s rejig plan for Twitter, the company fired around 50 per cent of its close to 7500-strong […]
The release of the teaser of the much awaited film ‘The Kerala Story’ has brought back focus on Indian women from the state who travelled to Afghanistan to become ISIS cadres along with their husbands. In 2017 NIA released photos of 21 ISIS cadres from Kerala – both men and women. All these 21 people […]
Kim Jong-un’s North Korea fired four short-range ballistic missiles towards the Yellow Sea on Saturday, further escalating tension with South Korea. The South Korean military said it detected the launches from Tongrim in North Pyongan, its joint chief of defence staff said in a statement. Saturday’s launches come in backdrops of rising tension in the […]
106 year old Shyam Saran Negi, the first voter of independent India passed away at his native place Kalpa, Himachal early morning today. Deputy commissioner, Kinnaur, Abid Hussain Sadiq said that Shyam Saran Negi breathed his last at 2am at his residence. He also informed that Negi will be cremated with full state honours and […]
The imperative need for the upcoming global climate change negotiations at COP27 to address issues of climate finance, loss and damage, the Global Goal on Adaptation and Global Stocktake through a people-centric perspective rooted in the concepts of equity and justice was underscored by a policy brief launched by TERI.