India is the most unsafe country in the world for women, at least if this report is believed. Even though you will have a lot of defenders, here’s the thing. It’s definitely not a safe country for women. The number of reported cases of crime against women rose by 83 percent between 2007 and 2016, with […]
Indian actress Richa Chadha on Thursday took to Twitter to share her experience of meeting a “racist officer” at passport control while exiting Georgia. “Met a racist AF officer at the passport control, while exiting Georgia. Slammed my passport on the desk, twice…muttered under her breath in Georgian, yelled and asked me to hurry. Sad […]
New Delhi: The wife of a former Chief Justice of the Delhi High court was held hostage at her residence allegedly by her servant and accomplices who decamped with cash and valuables worth lakhs of rupees, police said on Wednesday. Chief Justice Dalip Kumar Kapur, at whose residence in southeast Delhi’s New Friends Colony the […]
There exists a widely accepted theory that HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) originated in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the 1920s. But it wasn’t until September 1982 that the term AIDS was officially used to describe the disease. It is believed, however, that the epidemic had begun in mid-1970s itself, with the virus […]
(3) NEW UPDATES 12:12 PM, 20 Sep ‘Sacred Games’ Petitioner Demands Online Content Regulatory Board Remember the controversy around some of the dialogues in Netflix’s Sacred Gamesthat a few felt were “derogatory” to former PM Rajiv Gandhi? Even though the streaming platform replaced the controversial English subtitle, it refused to remove the contentious bit. And […]
Journalist and defence expert Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, who was briefly arrested in Delhi on Thursday, has been granted bail on a surety of Rs 1 lakh. A team of the Odisha Police had arrested him in the capital earlier in the day in connection with a case registered against him in Odisha. The police have asked him to […]
Another man lost his life in a sewer in Delhi on Friday night after the rope tying the man snapped and he fell inside. The cause of death was said to be inhalation of toxic gases, same as the death of several such sewer cleaners. This is the second incidence of sewer death in the […]
Apollo Hospitals stated that recordings on its storage drive are programmed to be automatically overwritten after a month and replaced with new data. CCTV footage of late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s 75-day hospitalisation in 2016 has been overwritten. This was conveyed by the Apollo Hospitals, where the former AIADMK supremo received treatment, to the […]
In the pages of Raghu Rai’s new photo book is an extraordinary life delicately encapsulated. A life of spirituality and divinity, of turmoil and struggle, of peace and strength — the life of the 14th Dalai Lama. A God in Exile: The Fourteenth Dalai Lama, is a book over forty years in the making, and […]
Former president of the US, Barack Obama, took a stroll down the memory lane on Monday as he recalled the historic day of 4 November 2008 when he became the 44th president of the United States. A video shared from The Obama Foundation’s social media handle shows Obama recalling the eventful day where he held […]