Category archives: Celebrity

Chhota Rajan 'betrayed by cook': After gangster's arrest in Bali, his aides lift the lid on the fall of Dawood's nemesis

His close aides betrayed him and his cook tipped off D-company about his whereabouts, leading to an attack on him in a Sydney café in July this year. Somehow, he managed to escape. But the attack made underworld don Chhota Rajan realise it was time for him to stop being on the run, two of his associates told Mail Today over the phone. Acting on a Red Corner notice issued […]

Geeta, Stuck in Pakistan for Over 10 Years, Boards Plane for Delhi

Geeta, dressed in a red and white salwar kameez, her head covered with a dupatta, smiled as she boarded a Pakistan International Airlines flight from Karachi on Monday morning.  In a few hours the 23-year-old will land in Delhi to be re-united with her family after 11 years. Geeta is hearing and speech impaired. She has lived in Pakistan ever since she accidentally crossed the border as a child. Earlier […]

 
 
 

This Video on the Sacrifices of Army Men and Their Families Will Bring You to Tears

A nation doesn’t become great just by the progress it makes. There are hundreds of men who sacrifice their family lives to protect their country on the borders, and thousands of police officers who miss special occasions for their duty of protecting the people. Somehow we forget to remember these sacrifices they make for our nation. But their passion for their country is so pure and deep-rooted that if given […]

 
 
 

Canada's new PM Justin Trudeau dances to beats of Bhangra - Watch Video

Justin Trudeau, the son of a popular former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, recently won Canada’s general election by defeating Stephen Harper, the outgoing Conservative PM. Trudeau ended nearly a decade of Conservative rule in Canada when his Liberal Party secured 54 percent of the country’s seats in the federal election. Watch below Trudeau dancing to the tunes of Punjabi traditional dance Bhangra and doing quite a good job of it. (Courtesy – […]

Mahatma Gandhi's scion faces trial in South Africa

Johannesburg: A great-granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi is being tried in South Africa for defrauding two businessmen of $830,887, a media report said on Tuesday. Ashish Lata Ramgobin, 45, appeared in the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Monday and pleaded not guilty to the charge. She was released on $3,776 bail, Enews Channel Africa quoted a police spokesperson as saying on Tuesday. The Hawks Durban Organised Crime squad — a directorate for […]

Virender Sehwag announces retirement from international cricket and IPL on Twitter

Virender Sehwag has announced his retirement from international cricket, more than two-and-a-half years on from his last appearance for India, the news was made official by the bastman himself on Twitter, the day after he had indicated during the Masters Cricket League launch in Dubai. This brings down the curtains on a remarkable career in which he scored 17,253 international runs across formats. Sehwag is the only Indian batsman to […]

 
 
 

What if Mahatma Gandhi goes missing from our lives one day – Watch

Though he is not present among us in physical form, Mahatma Gandhi’s ideology, which many conveniently tend to ignore, is still relevant today. From his pictures hanging on the walls of government offices, statues at prominent places to his valuable watermark on Indian currency, Gandhi is all around us. But, what would happen if he plans to suddenly disappear from our lives one day. This hilarious take on Gandhi’s disappearance […]

Kailash Satyarthi first Indian to receive Harvard humanitarian award

  Washington: In another recognition of his contribution in the field of child rights and abolition of child slavery, 2014 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Kailash Satyarthi has become the first Indian to be honoured with Harvard University’s prestigious “2015 Humanitarian of the Year” award. The child rights activist received the award during a ceremony organised at the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Friday. “I humbly accept the award […]

Pacer Zaheer announces retirement from international cricket

Left-arm pacer Zaheer Khan announced his retirement from international cricket on Thursday. The 37-year old pacer made the announcement on Thursday, ending his 14-year long international career. Zaheer made his India debut in 2000 and played his last game for India in 2014 at Wellington against New Zealand. He is leaving the field after playing in 92 Tests and 200 One-Day Internationals (ODIs), picking up 282 and 311 wickets, respectively. […]

Malala Yousafzai's story, now on celluloid

Malala Yousafzai’s maturity and messianic zeal have wowed the world. But she’s also just a teenager. An upcoming documentary film on the gritty Pakistani teenager who took on the Taliban in Swat valley captures this dichotomy brilliantly.  ‘He Named Me Malala’, premiering worldwide on November 6, is directed by Davis Guggenheim. He had won the Oscar for ‘An Inconvenient Truth about Al Gore’.  At the preview for select journalists in […]