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Zomato withdraws Hrithik Roshan ad amid backlash
Issuing a clarification amid controversy over a Hrithik Roshan-starrer advertisement, food delivery company Zomato said that the company will be withdrawing the ad. “We offer our sincerest apologies, for the intent here was never to hurt anyone’s beliefs and sentiments,” the company said. The statement came after priests of...
Delhi Lt Governor transfers 12 officers after Sisodia raid
In a bureaucratic reshuffle, a dozen IAS officers were shifted between departments on Friday, hours after a CBI raid at Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s residence in connection with the Delhi excise policy. According to a transfer posting order issued by the services department of the Delhi government, those...
Bhutan faces Lanka-type crisis as forex reserves plummet
Bhutan will ban the import of all vehicles except utility vehicles, heavy earthmoving machines and agriculture machinery to save dwindling foreign exchange reserves, the government said in a notice seen by Reuters on Friday. Nestled between China and India, the country of fewer than 800,000 people is grappling with...
Kejriwal praises Sisodia after CBI raids against minister
Reacting to CBI raids on his deputy Manish Sisodia over Delhi government’s now-withdrawn policy on liquor sales, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said the action is “welcome” and they “will cooperate fully”, but expressed confidence that “nothing will come out”. The raids at 20 locations, including Sisodia’s official residence,...
Bilkis Bano’s rapists ‘Brahmins with good sanskar’: BJP leader
The 11 men convicted for the rape of Bilkis Bano and released by the Gujarat government after 15-odd years in jail, are “Brahmins” and have “good sanskaar“, the BJP’s sitting MLA from Godhra has said. Amid the countrywide outrage over the men’s release, CK Raulji has backed the men,...
Haryana official caught demanding Scotch for minister
An excise official was given a punishment posting and transferred to the department headquarters after an audio message in which he is allegedly heard telling a liquor store employee to send scotch whiskey bottles for a minister’s function. In the audio file, which the liquor store owner has sent...
Lalu Yadav vows to oust Modi from power
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Wednesday slammed the BJP government at the centre as “dictatorial” and vowed to oust Prime Minister Narendra Modi from power in the 2024 general elections. He made the remarks when asked about the way forward for the 2024 polls. The...
India moving away from Russia a long-term proposition: US
It is going to be a long-term proposition for India – which has a decades-old relationship with Moscow – to reorient its foreign policy away from Russia, the United States has said. It said it was working “very closely” with India through the Quad as well as other forums....
Conman’s gifts to Jacqueline Fernandez worth Rs 10 cr
Jacqueline Fernandez, the Bollywood actor named in a Rs 200 crore extortion case by the Enforcement Directorate, had received a series of expensive gifts from conman Sukesh Chandrashekar. The list included designer handbags, car and diamonds. Jacqueline Fernandez, who was been chargesheeted in the case, was confronted with Sukesh...
Azad quits J&K Cong panel within hours of appointment
Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad — long upset with the party — has resigned from a key party post in Jammu and Kashmir, signalling a revolt within. The chairman of the party’s campaign committee, he stepped down from the post shortly after his appointment. He has also resigned...
Meira Kumar says ‘Chamar’ used as slur against her father
Meira Kumar, former minister, Lok Sabha Speaker and a Presidential candidate, reacted with a visceral tweet today to the death of a 9-year-old in Rajasthan. The boy was beaten badly by his teacher for drinking water from a pot meant for the so-called upper castes. Her father, former Deputy...
China mum over talks to secure ship docking at Lanka port
China on Monday said Sri Lanka has allowed its satellite and missile tracking ship to berth at the Hambantota port on Tuesday, but declined to reveal details of talks with Colombo leading to the bankrupt island’s government reversing its earlier stand to defer the high-tech vessel’s entry. “As you...
Arrests in Karnataka communal clash over Savarkar
Four people have been arrested for allegedly stabbing a man in Karnataka’s Shivamogga amid communal tension over a banner featuring the image of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. One of the accused suffered a bullet injury in the leg during the police operation to take them into custody. District police chief...
RJD ministers to dominate new Nitish cabinet
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is expanding his two-member cabinet today, with the biggest chunk of seats going to alliance partner Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). As many as 31 ministers will be inducted into the cabinet from various parties that are part of Mahagathbandhan or the Grand Alliance, including...
‘Unprecedented’ demand for national flag reported
‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign by the Centre to commemorate 75 years of the country’s Independence has helped boost demand for the tricolour as flag makers and traders are witnessing a surge in order and sales of the national flag. Flag manufacturers also hailed the central government’s decision to allow...
Cong responds to BJP’s Partition video featuring Savarkar
The second “Partition Horrors Remembrance Day” — named so by Prime Minister Narendra Modi — passed in bitter recriminations between the BJP and the Congress over who was responsible for the division of the country in 1947. It started in the morning after the BJP tweeted a video that...
Sitharaman refuses to identify which ones are freebies
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday asked the states doling out freebies to check the fiscal strength of the state government and make budgetary provision accordingly. Days after the ‘rewaris’ jibe by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, apparently referring to the freebies given by some state governments, especially the...
Rushdie off ventilator, attacker pleads ‘not guilty’
Author Salman Rushdie was taken off the ventilator last night as he remained hospitalised with serious injuries after being stabbed at a literary event in New York, multiple reports said. Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie, confirmed that the author was taken off the ventilator and could be able to talk,...
