Union Minister Smriti Irani took a jibe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his tweet on the Supreme Court ruling that brought women officers in 10 streams of the Army on a par with their male counterparts in all respects. Rahul Gandhi’s tweet that came hours after the SC ruling blamed the government for ‘disrespecting’ the women…

NEW DELHI: For Meenakshi Lekhi, fighting for permanent commission for women army officers has been a long battle of over 10 years which began from the Delhi High Court and ended triumphantly in the top court. It all started when a bunch of army officers approached Lekhi, now a sitting MP from New Delhi constituency,…

Idlib: A sharp and piercing noise such as a falling bomb is sure to send kids into a frenzy of fear but not this 4-year-old Syrian girl ! Now whenever, Salwa hears the sound of bombs or missiles, she laughs out loud instead of crying, unlike other children. The reason is sure to break your heart…

PM Modi meets Mangal Kevat (a rickshaw puller) in Varanasi who had invited the prime minister to his daughter’s wedding. PM Modi, who was on a day visit to his Lok Sabha constituency on Sunday, Feb 16, met Mangal Kewat, a rickshaw puller who had invited the Prime Minister to his daughter’s wedding. Kewat lives…

It was February 2019, when music composer and singer A.R. Rahman completed a decade of winning two Oscars for his work in the Hollywood drama, Slumdog Millionaire, but trolls being trolls, focused more on calling him out for making his daughter, Khatija Rahman, wear a Burqa. If you all remember, this is how the composer…

Chennai, Feb 18: A 42 year old man from Tamil Nadu who returned from China died at a private hospital. Reports said that he died of suspected coronavirus at a private hospital. The deceased hauled from Kothaimangalam village. Sakthikumar who ran a small hotel in China, recently returned home due to jaundice and underwent treatment at…

A Sikh woman was cremated by her Muslim neighbours in Punjab’s Malerkotla town on Monday after her family members refused to take possession of the body. The woman, identified as Dilpreet Kaur, used to work as a domestic help. She died after falling ill while on a pilgrimage last month. ‘We used to call her…

Nine Muslim residents of Ayodhya have written to the newly appointed Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra, appealing to them to not construct the New Ram Temple on the graveyard of Muslims in the immediate vicinity of the surrounding area of the 1,480 sq m of the site where Babri Masjid once stood. Their letter asserts that…

New Delhi: Pakistan’s sponsorship of terrorism and its shielding of terror accused has been an open secret. Its failure to act against terrorists like Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar and Jamaat-ud-Dawah head Hafiz Saeed – both masterminds of heinous terror attacks in India – has been called out at the international fora not just by India but…

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has lauded the efforts of the Air India crew and medical team which evacuated Indians from the coronavirus-hit China’s Wuhan city, saying the rescue operation has reassured the Indian diaspora across the world that the entire nation will stand by them in times of crisis. A total of 68 AI…

New Delhi: Google on Monday (February 17) announced that it will wind down its ‘Google Station’ programme (that provided free Wi-FI at railway stations) in India and other countries stating that going online has become much easier and cheaper over the last five years since the ‘Station’ was launched in India. Caesar Gupta, Google Vice…

In the sea of refugees who flooded Delhi in 1947 was Chunni Lal Sahni, who had left behind his life in a Peshawar mansion that housed ’15 to 20 families’. He settled in north Delhi’s Rajinder Nagar, along with his wife, son and two daughters. Since he had owned a sweetshop back home, he opened…