Jharkhand Assembly poll LIVE:

CM Raghubar Das, speaker in fray as voting begins for 20 seats The second phase of polling for the 81-member Jharkhand Assembly will be held on Saturday. Twenty assembly constituencies in the state will go to polls in the second phase today. The Jamshedpur(East) and Jamshedpur(West) constituencies will vote between 7 am and 5 pm,…

Unnao rape victim dies, netizens bay for another “encounter”

New Delhi: The Unnao rape victim who was set ablaze and airlifted to Safdarjung Hospital here on Thursday has died. The victim who had more than 90 per cent burn injuries lost the battle after 43 hours and died due to cardiac arrest. According to reports, the Unnao rape victim was set ablaze by five…

Panipat movie review: Rewriting historical defeats with patriotic fervour

Cast: Arjun Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, Kriti Sanon, Mohnish Bahl, Padmini Kolhapure, Zeenat Aman, Kunal Kapoor, Nawab Shah, Suhasini MulayDirector: Ashutosh Gowariker It seems that unbeknownst to you and me, at some point in 2014 the luminaries of Bollywood were called to a secret meeting where a unanimous resolution was passed: As a crucial building block of New…

Pati Patni aur Woh movie review: A rather dull remake of a lewd affair

Cast: Kartik Aaryan, Bhumi Pednekar, Ananya Pandey, Aparshakti Khurana, Manu Rishi Chadha, Rajesh Sharma, K.K. Raina, Navni Parihar, Sunny SinghDirector: Mudassar Aziz We should all weep in unison and offer our heartfelt condolences to the house of B.R. Chopra which, under the auspices of Baldev Raj Chopra, gave us Naya Daur, Gumrah, Humraaz, Waqt, Ittefaq, The Burning…

In identical affidavit, Amravati ACB too gives clean chit to Ajit Pawar

Maharashtra’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) office in Amravati too has filed an affidavit before the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court, exonerating former state Deputy Chief Minister and Water Resources Minister Ajit Pawar of any wrongdoing in the irrigation projects under its jurisdiction. Like its Nagpur counterpart, which filed an affidavit before the High Court…

Row in LS over Cong MPs’ conduct after Irani takes on Oppn

Lok Sabha was adjourned within half an hour in the afternoon after two Congress MPs, who allegedly moved towards Union minister Smriti Irani in a threatening manner, failed to appear in the House. Chairing the session, Meenakshi Lekhi did not allow the Congress Leader of the House to speak, mentioning that he had failed to…

Unnao rape victim dies during treatment

The victim of the Unnao rape case of Uttar Pradesh died late Friday while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Delhi. Dr. Shalabh Kumar, head of the Burn and Plastics Department of Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi, has said that he died at 1140 AM. Dr. Shalabh Kumar said, “He suffered a heart attack at 11.10…

Encounter Explained by the police

Singhvi said on the atrocities on women – need to take a tough decision above politics How can we call ourselves a civilized country if these things keep happening.  We have to rise above politics and take a collective decision to send a strong and clear message which misses even doing such things, people are…

Sajith Premadasa declared Opposition Leader in Sri Lanka

Former Sri Lankan presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa’s will be officially declared as the Opposition Leader in Parliament on January 3, 2020, the Speakers Office said. It would take place when Parliament meets for the first time after the November 16 presidential election, reports the Sunday Times newspaper. The United National Party (UNP) Deputy Leader’s name…

6-story building collapses in Nairobi, many feared trapped

A Kenyan official says a six-story building has collapsed in the capital, Nairobi, with some people feared to be trapped in the debris. Nairobi county police chief Philip Ndolo said Friday that 10 people were rescued by residents of Tassia estate using their bare hands. Military personnel have arrived to assist with the search and…