Filmmaker Anurag Basu and his much-delayed adventure saga ‘Jagga Jasoos’ finally saw the light of the day with its release today! And whether or not the 2 hour 45-minute ride was joyful, let’s find out. First things first, ‘Jagga Jasoos’ from the very first scene will get you a taste of the entire dish waiting to be served. The film is a musical, a genre which has never really been […]
Pigeons and doves used in kabutarbazi, a popular sport, are being fed opium in water and injected medicines, claim PETA activists. Causing pain or death to birds is punishable under the Prevention of Animal Cruelty (PCA) Act. In the land of ‘Udta Punjab,’ not just humans, but animals are also being given drugs, it seems! Pigeons and doves used in kabutarbazi — a popular sport in the State’s rural parts […]
Reports in ‘The Hindu’, and accounts provided in a book, detail how at least one vault at the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple was opened decades ago Seventy-nine years ago, long before the latest discovery of phenomenal treasures in the Sree Padmanabhaswami Temple in Thiruvananthapuram, at least one of the several vaults of the temple had been opened and an inventory made of the precious objects found inside. The Hindu’s correspondent, who […]
Mansoor Peerbhoy had had a rather privileged upbringing. He went to an English medium school and later graduated as an engineer from the Vishwakarma Institute of Technology (Pune). He was one of the most well-read and polished members of the Indian Mujahideen. His residence was in an upmarket Pune locality, and he was a software engineer employed with Yahoo India. An academically bright, suave and soft-spoken man, he never exhibited […]
A poor farmer’s son who had to live in an orphanage has become one of the most successful farmers in the drought-prone Vidarbha region and wants others to follow his footsteps and end farmer suicides. Savi Thangavel, 68, can be seen attending to farmers from all over Vidarbha, foreign delegates, ministers and even bollywood actors on his farm, which is just 25 km from Nagpur in Mahegaon village. What is […]
Cyber crooks are rampantly carrying out fraudulent activities in the name of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), conning gullible customers under the garb of various central schemes. One such incident has come forward where a Nigerian has been netted by the CBI for allegedly running a racket, whereby he impersonated PMO officials and duped people. In April 2017, the deputy secretary of PMO wrote a complaint to the CBI alleging […]
Electronic payments have become safer for consumers with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) introducing the concept of ‘zero liability’ and ‘limited liability’ for bank customers for any card or online fraud. The central bank has also made it mandatory for banks to register all customers for text message alerts and permit reporting of unauthorized transactions through a reply to the alert message. The proposal to limit customer liability in […]
An indefinite strike has paralysed life in India’s tea-producing region of Darjeeling. A local party is demanding a separate state for the area’s majority Nepali-speaking Gorkha community. The protests have followed a recent decision by the West Bengal government to introduce Bengali as a compulsory subject in schools across the state, including in Darjeeling. The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha or GJM (Gorkha People’s Liberation Front), which is spearheading the protest, has […]
True to his image, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un today used foul language to taunt the US and said that his country’s intercontinental ballistic missile test was a “gift” to “American bastards” on their independence day. According to The Independent, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) quoted Kim Jong-Un, who personally oversaw the test, as saying that “American bastards would be not very happy with this gift sent on the […]
Exactly at 4.30 am on August 14, 2004, hangman Nata Mullick, on getting the magistrate’s signal, pulled the lever at the Alipore Central Jail in Kolkata. On his 42nd birthday, after spending nearly 14 years in prison, Dhananjoy Chatterjee was hanged to death. Convicted of raping and murdering a teenage girl in an apartment in South Kolkata in 1990, Dhananjoy’s case is one of the most controversial in the recent […]
