Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) workers on Monday forced staffers of civic-run meat shops in Mumai to reopen the outlets which were closed by the municipal corporation in view of ‘Paryushan’, the Jain festival of fasting. The Raj Thackeray-led party slammed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for enforcing ban on meat sale and the slaughter of animals on Monday and September Read More

Baar Baar Dekho starring Sidharth Malhotra and Katrina Kaif has been granted a ‘UA’ certificate by Censor Board Of Film Certification (CBFC). However, this didn’t happen without any hassle. According to a report in Bollywood Hungama, CBFC asked the makers to remove a visual showing bra from the film. The board also asked to delete a reference to ‘Savita Bhabhi’, Read More

The advocate for the complainant who has filed a case of rape against Anmol Ratan, a fellow research scholar of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), has written to the SHO of the Vasant Kunj (North) police station asking him to clarify the “misleading and false” details of the case being circulated in the media. Advocate Vrinda Grover has also asked Read More

Music composer Vishal Dadlani has been booked by Haryana police for allegedly hurting religious sentiments with his sarcastic tweet on Jain monk Tarun Sagar, police said Monday. Ambala Cantt police registered a case against Dadlani and one Tahseen Poonawala even as Jain community members staged a protest outside Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence in the national capital, demanding the 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

President Pranab Mukherjee gave away the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna to Rio Olympics medallists PV Sindhu and Sakshi Malik alongside high achievers in gymnast Dipa Karmakar and shooter Jitu Rai. Sindhu had won a silver medal in women’s badminton singles event in Rio and Sakshi had won the bronze medal in women’s freestyle wrestling. The day is celebrated to respect and Read More

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