Bollywood fans of Kajol, who were dying to know more about her upcoming Tamil film VIP 2, can now rejoice. The makers of the much-awaited movie have just released the Hindi dubbed trailer of Velai Illa Pattadhari 2 aka VIP 2. This is Bollywood actor Kajol’s Tamil comeback after a hiatus of 20 years. Starring Dhanush in the lead, the film has been directed by Soundarya Rajinikanth. The Tamil trailer […]

At his farewell speech in Parliament on Sunday on the completion of his five-year term, President Pranab Mukherjee emphasised the value of debate, discussion and dissent. Noting that he had first become a member of the national legislature in 1969, aged just 34, he spoke of Indira Gandhi had been his mentor, and of the lessons she had learned from the Emergency, when she clamped down on dissent. He recalled […]

Superstar Shah Rukh Khan next big release ‘Jab Harry Met Sejal’ starring Anushka Sharma in the lead is ready to open in theatres on August 4, 2017. The film is helmed by Imtiaz Ali and its trailer is out. The makers had released 5 mini trails ahead of the big trailer launch leaving the audience majorly looking forward to the film. Now, that the trailer is out all we can […]

Ram Nath Kovind, the BJP candidate has now won the elections and is about to sworn in as India’s new President after Pranab Mukherjee’s tenure which is about to end on July 25th of this year. The whole country is curious about the working strategy of Kovind. Right from the beginning, the decision on electing him as the president sounded unanimous. Being the former Governor of Bihar and the BJP’s […]

Amid simmering border tension over Dokalam in Sikkim, China state-controlled media has said that Hindu nationalism risks pushing India into war with China. An article published in China’s Global Times has hit ou at Prime Minister Narendxra Modi saying, “Nationalist fervor that demands revenge against China has taken root in India since the border war. The election of Indian PM Modi has fueled the country’s nationalist sentiments. Modi took advantage […]

The government in the southern Indian state of Karnataka recently set up a panel to explore if the state can have its own separate flag. The BBC explains why it has become such a contentious issue. A ‘Kannada flag’ The state has had an unofficial ‘Kannada flag’ since the 1960s – the red-and-yellow flag is popular with the local people and many Kannada activists also wear it as a scarf. […]

While India has always been sitting on the lid of terrorism, with tremendous amount of steam building under it from different avenues, there are certain people who have always been an eye-sore to the country. One such older foe has once again created quite a hysteria back home with the surfacing of his latest photographs. While the Indian government wears a new, harsher face towards terrorism under the inspired leadership […]

How did Subhas Chandra Bose die? To find the answer, the Indian government had appointed three commissions. The Shah Nawaz Committee (1956) and Khosla Commission (1970) said that Bose died in an air crash on August 18, 1945 at Taihoku airport in Japanese-occupied Taipei, while the Mukherjee Commission (1999) concluded that he did not die in an air-crash. The government, however, rejected the findings of the Mukherjee Commission. But that […]

India has overtaken the US to become Facebook’s largest country audience with a total 241 million active users, compared to 240 million in the US. The change at the top of the platform’s country rankings comes just a few days after Facebook announced it has more than two billion monthly users around the world, a report in The Next Web on Thursday said. The portal was quoting figures that the […]

Regarded as one of China’s most prominent human rights activist, Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo died following a short battle with liver cancer. He died while in custody at a hospital in China, despite appeals to the state to permit him to travel aboard for medical treatment. A university professor-turned-rights campaigner, the 61-year-old activist was transferred from prison to a heavily-guarded hospital on medical parole, after he was diagnosed with terminal […]