Malala Yousafzai a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. She is famous across the globe for human rights advocacy, especially right to education for women and backing education of women in her native place Swat Valley in Northwest Pakistan. The local Talibans banned girls from attending school at her place, but that didn’t stop her from getting the education. Ever since then, Malala became the face of […]

Choices made in unawareness are compulsions. Let us say you get angry right now. It is actually your choice to be angry. Somewhere, you believe that is the way to handle the situation, but the choice has been made in such unawareness that it is a compulsion – it is happening compulsively on a certain level. You are living by choice, but choices are made without awareness – unconscious choices. […]

The trailer of Nawazuddin Siddiqui starrer Babumoshai Bandookbaaz is finally out. The trailer gives us a gist of the movie and the character of Babumoshai. The movie is directed by Kushan Nandy and the lead star cast includes Nawaz, Divya Dutta, Bidita Bag – a model and an actress who has worked in films like Ichhe and Antarpravah. The movie is based on the story of a contract killer Babumoshai […]

At least seven people died and 19 others were injured after terrorists attacked a bus ferrying Amarnath Yatra pilgrims in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday night. The attack took place at around 8.20 pm near Khanabal Anantnag district where terrorists first attack two police posts before fleeing and then opening fire at the bus. Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, who spent the night in Anantnag among the survivors […]

While the first The Dark Tower trailer gave us a good look at how the film will turn out, with some impressive gun loading sequences from Idris Elba, who plays the main protagonist of the film; the international trailer serves more as a character sketch of Elba and McConaughey’s characters. he trailer introduces us to the Gunslingers, referred to as knights, whose duty is to protect the Dark Tower, which […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his pleasure on Ahmedabad becoming India’s first World Heritage City. Taking to Twitter, PM Modi said, “A matter of immense joy for India”.  Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and BJP president Amit Shah on Saturday hailed the declaration of Ahmedabad as world heritage city by UNESCO.  “Just inscribed as UNESCO world heritage site: Historic city of Ahmedabad #India”, UNESCO said in a tweet tonight.  Expressing […]

Kargil war hero, late Captain Vikram Batra’s short 24 years of life are a personified testament to the spirit of the Indian Army. As fiery in his enthusiasm and courage as army call name “Sher Shah”, Batra was martyred on July 7, 1999, during combat. Five weeks after the Kargil war began, on June 19, 1999, Lieutenant (at the time) Batra was ordered to recapture Point 5140. In spite of […]

After Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a call to the well-heeled LPG consumers to give up their cooking gas subsidies, the Railways department seems to be mooting a similar idea for its passengers too. As per a report in the Times of India, the government wants to give rail passengers a similar option to  “voluntarily forego the subsidy on tickets.” The plan will be rolled out next month, TOI said. […]

China’s official media has said Beijing should reconsider its stance and support Sikkim’s “independence”, ratcheting up its rhetoric amid  a row with India over a road being built by the Chinese army in the Sikkim sector. “Beijing should reconsider its stance over the Sikkim Issue. Although China recognized India’s annexation of Sikkim in 2003, it can readjust its stance on the matter,” says an editorial in the hardline Global Times, run […]

People with a legitimate reason for not being able to deposit old 500 and 1,000 – rupee notes – like those in prison – cannot be denied the right to swap the outlawed currency for new notes, the Supreme Court said today, asking the government to explain how it will help these citizens by the 17th of this month. In November, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the shock announcement that […]