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Aditya Aamir Tanusree Dutta and Nana Patekar is an ‘item’ though it will take a subpoena to make them admit that they are joined at the hip even if it’s to snipe at each other while failing to find allies. They are a couple because they happen to...
Saudi Arabia out of strategic partner option in CPEC: Pakistan
Saudi Arabia could not be the third-party strategic investor in the $50 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which is a flagship project called the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), as earlier it was announced by Islamabad. BRI is a pet project of Chinese President Xi Jinping and it is...
Couple Raring For A Jallikattu Moment
Sushil Kutty Social activist Rahul Eshwar says he will lay out a mile-long ‘human carpet’ to welcome #RightToPray feminist antagonist Trupti Desai if and when she lands in Kerala to worship at Sabarimala. “She will have to step over our chests to reach Ayyappa,” he keeps telling Malayalam...
Yogi Govt On The Mat For Executive’s Shooting
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BJP and the Yogi Adityanath government are unnerved by the dent in image caused by country-wide reaction to killing of Apple executive Vivek Tewari by a policeman in the night when he failed to stop his car in the state capital on Friday night....
Funding Crunch Bites Congress, Opposition Parties Hard
By Kalyani Shankar The 133-year-old Congress party in its heydays would have shuddered to think of a day that it would have to resort to crowd funding to augment its finances. The cash-rich party, which had been in power for 49 of the 70 years since Independence, is...
Modi Overambitious In Fixing Growth Targets
By K R Sudhaman Prime Minister Narendra Modi seems to be setting over-ambitious targets on economic growth. First he said India would get back to double-digit annual growth soon. Lately he made a claim that India would become $5 trillion economy by 2022. Earlier he had promised...
Futility Of RSS Supremo’s ‘Glasnost’ Homilies
By Amulya Ganguli It hasn’t taken long for the hollowness of the sermons from the RSS chief, Mohan Bhagwat — on accommodating Muslims in an inclusive society — to be exposed. First, an interfaith couple was attacked with a Muslim man being beaten up for being with...
The Rich Are Blowing Up $ Remittances By Indian Workers
By Nantoo Banerjee With Indian Rupee (INR) under continuous pressure due to shrinking hard currency reserves with the Reserve Bank, rising current account deficit and borrowings abroad, it may be high time that the government and the central bank take a relook at the liberalised rules on foreign...
The Intergalactic Freak Show
Aditya Aamir Can’t get over the fact that Swami Ayyappa is no longer entitled to his brahmacharya; that the caveat ‘celibate for 41 days’ doesn’t hold anymore for the Ayyappa devotee. The majority judgement that crucified Lord Ayyappan was a verdict on brahmacharya. The case before the top...
The Collateral In Yogi-Land
By Sushil Kutty Millions these days are getting the feeling ‘stop the world, I want to get off.’ The poisonous binaries – far left versus far right, caste versus untouchable, Hindu versus Muslim, right to pray versus prepared to wait and women up against men — do...
What Is Songran Festival In Thailand
Songkran, the world’s largest water fight, happens every year in Thailand. In April almost every shop in the country, from electrical stores to gardening centres, will start selling water pistols; and children will take to the streets, pistol in one hand and strange burning talcum powder in other, in...
Threats to Gulf Coast Sea Turtles
In some parts of the turtles’ range they are harvested for their meat and eggs, despite protections the U.S. and some countries may place on them. Some populations have been severely impacted by the disease Fibropapillomatosis, a disease in which tumors grow on the turtles. As more and more...
Pakistan’s General Elections Widely Rigged: Sources
It is doubtful to the highest level whether the general elections in Pakistan was fair, if take a look to what the Trump administration is saying. It has not yet confirmed the polls were free and fair. More to this, the State Department didn’t deploy election observers in India’s...
Will Imran Khan Government Improve Ties With India
Will Pakistan improve ties with India after Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan is crowned as the next prime minister of the country. It is believed the new government would like to resolve all disputes between the two nations including the issues related to Kashmir. Earlier today the former...
Delhi At Risk Of Flood As Yamuna Water Level Crosses Danger Level
Water level of Yamuna in Delhi region has crossed the danger mark and an alert by the state government has been issue of flood. According to Irrigation and Flood Control department of Delhi government people residing in the low-lying areas will be evacuated. A press statement released by East...
Indian High Commissioner Seeking Assurance From Imran Khan Action Against LeT
Before the swearing ceremony of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan as the next prime minister of the country the Indian high commissioner to Pakistan Ajay Bisaria is learned to be calling him for a meeting on Friday. Sources claim the meeting has been finalized and prior to it only...
Chinese Media Alleges Printing Indian Currency
A controversy has sparked in India whether China was given the license to print currency in past following an article titled “Why other countries are giving China a license to print money”. It is learned from the article that China is printing foreign currencies on a huge scale and...
Mayawati Will Shape The 2019 Battle Of Alliances
By Harihar Swarup The 2019 Lok Sabha elections have been shaping as the battle of alliances. The most important player in battle of alliances is BSP supremo Mayawati. Also, on these alliances depend the future of the BSP leader. Seat sharing arrangement between Mayawati and Janata Congress, Chhattisgarh,...
