The story of Padmavati was written around 200 years ago by a Sufi poet Malik Muhammad Jayasi. Bhansali Productions, director Sanjay Leela Bansali’s production house, on Tuesday said that the misunderstandings regarding the content of “Padmavati” have been clarified with Shree Rajput Sabha. In a statement, the team said, “Representatives of Bhansali Productions Private Limited, including Ms. Shobha Sant (CEO) and Mr. Chetan Deolekar (Associate Producer) met with the office […]

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took a jab at President Donald Trump’s executive order on refugees Saturday, tweeting that Canada will welcome all those fleeing war and terror, regardless of their faith. “Diversity is our strength,” he wrote, following up by posting photo of himself greeting a young Syrian refugee. Trump’s order was signed Friday afternoon, and halted refugee arrivals into the United States for 120 days and barred citizens […]

“We need to keep this country safe, but we should do that by focusing on people who actually pose a threat,” Zuckerberg said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to his social network to criticise US President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration policies and his plans to build a wall along the border with Mexico. In his first week in the White House, Trump signed executive orders for the border wall, withholding federal […]

Caution – Unverified news: Which way the jallikattu protest was going wrong and what made the state government to take a strong decision like lathi charge. Here are few essence of the information: * On 26th January, a tamil organisation (A federation of various small organisation and celebrities like Seeman, Amir, Gowthaman) have planned to introduce a separate tamilnadu flag, map. They have also planned to remove the Indian flag […]

After days of haggling on seat sharing arrangement, the Congress and the Samajwadi Party finally agreed to join hands and contest the election together in Uttar Pradesh. The move it seems was dictated by primarily the consideration to consolidate the muslim votes in the state. With the muslim votes having a bearing on at least 100 of the total 403 assembly seats, it was finally decided that the Samajwadi Party […]

India, wrote author VS Naipaul, is a country of a million little mutinies, reeling with rage and revolt. One such mutiny has brewed almost all of this week in southern Tamil Nadu state, where people have been protesting against a ban on a traditional bull-taming contest, known as jallikattu. They say the ban is an attack on their culture and identity. On Saturday evening, a harried government scrambled to bring […]

Whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood, said Donald Trump Donald Trump has been sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of America. He will succeed Democrat Barack Obama, who served two terms as the President of the nation. As scattered protests erupted elsewhere in Washington, Trump raised his right hand and put his left on a Bible used […]

China on Monday said admission of non-NPT signatories in NSG cannot be a “farewell gift” for countries to give to each other, a day after the outgoing Obama administration asserted that Beijing was an “outlier”+ in the efforts to make India a member of the elite nuclear club+ . “Regarding India’s application to the (NSG), regarding non-NPT countries admission to the NSG, we have made our position clear before so I […]

Centre is mulling a threshold for deposits made into banks post demonetisation below which scrutiny will not be initiated. The government is considering the proposal to prevent undue harassment of taxpayers during investigations into bank deposits between November 10 and December 30, reports Times of India. As elections to five state assemblies near, the government is being observant to avoid any bad publicity resulting from honest deposits being questioned. The proposed […]

‘Make cash available now, don’t put people into suffering.’ ‘You should not come to a situation where the operation was successful and the patient is dying.’ ‘What did not happen in India for several years, you cannot do in 50 days.’ ‘This is agony and pain.’ K E Raghunathan, national president of the All India Manufacturers Organisation, was the first person to highlight the adverse affects of demonetisation. The AIMO, […]