Actress Scarlett Johansson doesn’t endorse social media or digital platforms because she wants to protect her “personal life”. Johansson has given her voice to the operating system named Samantha in the Oscar-nominated film “Her”. “All of it drives me crazy. I don’t understand this need to ‘share’. We almost exploit ourselves in order to feel […]
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Saturday said that BJP is a ‘bimar’ (ill) party with a communal mindset, the harshest criticism by the chief minister so far of his former ally. “BJP is an ill (bimar) party and its thought is rotten (soch sadi hain),” said Nitish Kumar, targeting the Bharatiya Janata Party for creating […]
The Congress Saturday accused the BJP-led government in Goa of working as a “waiter” and charged it with helping the builders of a sub-standard building which collapsed last month killing 31 people. The comments from Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) president John Fernandes came a day after a district court came down heavily on the […]
A court here Saturday issued an arrest warrant against former Jammu and Kashmir minister Shabir Ahmad Khan, accused in a sexual assault case. Doctors too demanded his arrest. A senior police official said: “We have obtained an arrest warrant from the chief judicial magistrate Srinagar against Shabir Ahmad Khan…”. Khan Friday resigned from the ministry. […]
President Pranab Mukherjee Saturday called for increased investments in higher education to enable India recover lost ground and become a world leader in education once again as it was for thousands of years. Pointing out that investments in education earn the highest returns, the president stressed the need to make it affordable as well as […]
The CBI probing the mining scam in north Karnataka has written to the Goa mines department for a list of iron ore traders registered with the state government. The letter comes following the series of raids across India by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is on the illegal multi-billion rupee mining trail following […]
The union health ministry has told the civil aviation ministry and Air India that the display of electronic cigarettes in some of its publications violates the law against tobacco advertising. In separate letters to the ministry of civil aviation and Air India sent this week, the health ministry said Air India through discount booklets “Air […]
BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Saturday attacked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, a Rajya Sabha MP from Assam, for not doing anything for the state and the northeastern region. Addressing a rally here, Modi said that Assam had not received anything despite electing Manmohan Singh to the upper house for over last 20 years. “If […]
A war of words broke out between Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi over constructing a statue of India’s first home minister Vallabhbhai Patel. Gandhi said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) did not understand Patel’s ideology but was erecting his statue, to which Modi hit back, saying the Congress […]
The RSS Saturday hit back at Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, who had accused the BJP of not understanding Sardar Patel, saying he had no right to speak on the issue since his party had disowned the late leader’s ideology. “Ideally we don’t react to kindergarten comments… He (Rahul Gandhi) should read history first,” Rashtriya […]