US Secretary of State John Kerry reportedly got stuck in a massive rain-induced traffic jam near the Delhi airport on Monday evening. According to American media, Kerry’s motorcade was stuck in the traffic jams along with many local vehicles following heavy downpour in the national capital. Kerry arrived New Delhi in the evening to participate in the 2nd Indo-US Strategic Read More

In the backdrop of the celebrations that has accompanied the Bombay High Court’s verdict allowing women to enter the Haji Ali dargah in Mumbai, there are two sections of women in Kerala who are fighting an altogether different – though oddly similar – battle. There is, on the one hand, a section that is rejoicing over the Bombay HC’s judgment, awaiting to Read More

Tiger Shroff-starrer A Flying Jatt may be about a superhero but it failed to fly at the box office. The movie which also stars Jacqueline Fernandez was released on Thursday. It has so far collected around Rs 20.45 crore. It managed to earn Rs 6 crore on Friday. But showed improvement on Saturday as it collected Rs 7.35 crore. The movie Read More

WhatsApp’s privacy policy has changed, and it is generating serious interest on account of one big update: The data-sharing with Facebook. Now, WhatsApp assures it is not going for third-party banner ads or start sharing your private messages onto Facebook or force you to open a Facebook account if you don’t have one, but there are bits where the privacy Read More

ChampOne is a company we haven’t heard of, and we’re sure you haven’t either. But the company has made its way to the headlines today thanks to this claim: A smartphone called ChampOne C1 at just Rs 501, which offers better specifications than many mid-range phones in the market. ChampOne is unheard of, but it is attempting to pull off Read More

Shahid Kapoor and wife Mira Rajput left with their newborn daughter for home on Sunday. Mira, who gave birth to a baby girl on Friday, was discharged from hospital in suburban Khar (Mumbai). Both mother and daughter are in good health and dad Shahid can’t be more hands-on! With a posse of media watching, Mira was seen walking ahead while Read More

LODGED IN a prison cell since 2008, Rakesh Dhawade, an accused in the Malegaon 2008 blast case, has been writing books. At last count, the number is 210, running into over 17,000 pages in all. He has completed 11 books so far. Each book is connected to his previous work on traditional arms and armoury. Incidentally, it is this passion Read More

One of the main complaints against the draft Maharashtra Protection of Internal Security Act (MAPISA) — termed “draconian” and a potential harbinger of “police raj” — is the absence of representation of the political opposition in the State Internal Security Committee, the apex body in charge of monitoring the implementation of the law. It has now emerged that an earlier Read More

BJP MP and Dalit leader Udit Raj raised a few eyebrows today with a tweet which suggested that Jamaican athlete and Olympics Triple Gold winner Usain Bolt went on to win nine Olympic gold medals despite being born in poverty after his trainer advised him to eat beef twice a day. “Usain Bolt of Jamaica was poor and trainer advised Read More

To coordinate next year’s Golden Jubilee celebrations of the induction of the first submarine in the Navy, more than 100 retired officers of the submarine branch started a WhatsApp group last month. This group, which includes three-star officers who have spent decades with submarines, went abuzz at midnight last Tuesday after The Australian newspaper reported that 22,400 pages of documents Read More