It was rumoured that PayTM, Adanis and Ambanis having known about the currency demonetisation in WhatsApp groups. Now it appears that it’s not just gossip among the common men but even among the ruling party’s own. https://twitter.com/SpecialCorrespo/status/1066442759374987264 Video footage has emerged on the internet in which a BJP MLA from Rajasthan has been taped Read More…
FIR against 4 IIT-Kanpur professors for harassing Dalit colleague
A Dalit assistant professor at the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur (IIT-K) registered a case against four professors of the institute on Sunday, accusing them of harassment, mental torture and making casteist remarks against him, police said. A case had been registered against four professors under Section 500 of the IPC, Section 66 of the Information Read More…
Sri Lanka’s parliament passed no-confidence motion against Rajapaksa
Sri Lanka’s parliament passed a no-confidence motion against newly appointed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa amid raucous opposition on Wednesday, throwing the country deeper into crisis. Rajapaksa’s allies said they could not accept the vote, shouting “this is illegal”. Sri Lanka has been in turmoil since President Maithripala Sirisena fired Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe last month, Read More…
Why Congress Home minister Sardar Patel refused to meet RSS leader post Ban
In a communique issued on February 4, 1948, the Central government said it was banning the RSS “to root out the forces of hate and violence that are at work in our country and imperil the freedom of the Nation and darken her fair name”. Here is the full text of the communique, available in Read More…
Bassi exposes Asthana with call transcripts, messages proof
Wednesday, Oct 24, 2018 Bassi has been shunted to Port Blair in “public interest” with “immediate effect”. A suspected middleman telling his father-in-law that CBI Special Director Rakesh Asthana is “our man” and a senior RAW official purportedly telling the middleman not to come to India “at any cost”. Such excerpts of tapped telephonic conversations Read More…
Cricketer and CAB President Sourav Ganguly blasting letter to BCCI
Former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly, who remains one of the most respected figures in world cricket, on Tuesday wrote a letter to top officials from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) expressing serious concerns over the way Indian board has been functioning of late. Johri, who has served as the BCCI CEO Read More…
BJP behind Sandeepananda Asharam attack Says Mutt
Days after coming out in support of the Supreme Court verdict on entry of women of all ages into Sabarimala temple, Swami Sandeepananda Giri’s Salagramam ashram at nearby Kundamonkadavu was attacked early Saturday, police said. The attack took place at around 2 AM and two cars and a scooter were burnt, they said, adding the Read More…
Maneka Gandhi proposes to set up committee to look into #MeToo cases
‘Will form four-member committee of retired judges to conduct public hearings of #MeToo cases,’ Union Minister Maneka Gandhi said. With the #MeToo movement intensifying in the country with every passing day, Union Minister Maneka Gandhi on Friday said that four retired judges will hold public hearings of the sexual assault and harassment cases. “Will form Read More…
8 year kid tied and raped by a neighbour
A 30 year old man was arrested in Delhi’s Shahdara after he allegedly raped an eight-year-old girl in his neighbourhood on the pretext of playing with her. According to a report, the man allegedly tied and raped the girl at a labour colony in Shahdara’s Krishna Nagar on Monday night, the police said. He was Read More…
Goa BJP government leadership crisis goes bigger
The health condition of Goa BJP CM is deteriorating as Parrikar has been hospitalised again within a week after he returned from US post-treatment there. He is under treatment in a private hospital in Condolim in Goa. A source in the party has said that Parrikar has offered to step down from CM’s post. However, Read More…