Truecaller has announced that its users are making more than half a billion monthly phone calls through the app. The company says the usage is being tracked via company’s default dialer app. In order to achieve further scale, Truecaller is announcing a new partnership with Huawei. Huawei has announced that its flagship smartphones will come preloaded with Truecaller app as Read More

The genesis of the conflict lies in a campaign launched by the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA), which works for empowerment of Muslim women, in the implementation of the Sachar Committee report. Before starting the campaign, activists of the group decided in June 2012 to offer prayers at the Haji Ali Dargah, a 585-year old shrine of Sayyed Peer Haji Read More

A BJP member of the Lok Sabha refused to take the US visa after he was asked to remove his pugree at the US Embassy for security reasons, asserting that his turban was a matter of his “traditional honour” which he cannot remove. Virendra Singh, a three-time Lok Sabha MP and presently representing Bhadohi (UP), said the US embassy had Read More

The Kerala government has issued an order for the culling of “dangerous” stray dogs by means of “special medicine”. The order comes in light of the demise of an elderly woman who was attacked by a pack of stray dogs and succumbed to injuries. While the speed with which the government acted on this could have been a result of Read More

The Mumbai Police on Friday confirmed that singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya was arrested by BKC cyber police on July 26 and immediately released following a complaint by Aam Aadmi Party  National Executive Member and Spokesperson Preeti Sharma Menon. Menon had filed a complaint with the Cyber cell after the singer abused journalist Swati Chaturvedi on Twitter. The FIR was filed on Read More

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls defended a ban on burkinis in more than a dozen coastal towns on Thursday, saying France was locked in a “battle of cultures” and that the full-body swimsuit symbolised the enslavement of women.  Photographs of armed police ordering a Muslim woman on a beach in the Mediterranean city of Nice to partially disrobe went viral Read More

Raja tells Dadu that he’ll talk about Rani with his father and grandmother in Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi Rani. Amrita stops him and says that she will do that and not him. Dadu says that it’s her right to do that. She tells them that it’s late and they should now go. Rani’s friends say they’ll celebrate for some Read More

Amid an outcry over a tribal man forced to walk 10 km with his wife’s body in Odisha’s Kalahandi, district health authorities on Thursday claimed there was no negligence and an ambulance was arranged to take the corpse to their village when the incident came to light. Even as a probe was ordered into the incident that took place Wednesday, Read More

Under pressure to implement Lodha Committee Reforms as per Supreme Court Directives, the BCCI is relying that the revised National Sports Bill is tabled by the Budget Session of the Parliament in 2017 which will save them from undergoing structural changes. A very senior BCCI official said that some key changes are being made in the original Bill. “The age cap of 70 years and the Read More

Marathon runner OP Jaisha on Thursday tested positive for H1N1 virus aka swine flu after returning from Rio last week. She is the second Indian athlete to test positive for the virus after Sudha Singh was confirmed to be carrying the type A influenza strain on Wednesday. The marathon runner trained with Sudha before travelling to Rio for the Olympics. Read More