Union Minister Smriti Irani Tuesday inaugurated various developmental projects via video conferencing in Rae Bareli and said that the government is contributing towards the completion of development works that remained pending for years. “As many as 22 developmental projects have been launched in Rae Bareli’s Salon Assembly. Today, I have got the good fortune by taking the resolution of resolving the challenges of the people of the area along with many officials of the district administration along with District Magistrate and Superintendent of Police,” said Irani while speaking to the reporters. “It’s a message that the government is contributing to…
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Chairperson for National Commission for Women Rekha Sharma met Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari in Mumbai and discussed the “rise” in ”love jihad” cases in the state among other issues, an official statement said. She highlighted the distinction between a consensual inter-faith marriage and love jihad and said that the latter required attention, the National Commission for Women (NCW) said in a statement. “Madam Chairperson raised the issue of rise in love jihad cases in Maharashtra. She highlighted a distinction between consensual inter-faith marriages and love jihad and said that the latter required attention,” the statement said. As part of…
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGj5We8jL7C/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Neha Kakkar and Rohanpreet Singh, who have been trending for days because reports of their rumoured wedding, surprised their fans by sharing a clip from their roka ceremony. As per several reports published earlier, Neha Kakkar and Rohanpreet Singh’s wedding was expected to take place sometime this month. Sharing the video on Instagram, Neha Kakkar wrote that the wedding video will be released soon, sort of confirming the wedding rumours. Adding the wedding hashtag, Neha Kakkar wrote: “#NehuDaVyah video releases tomorrow. Till then here’s a small gift for my NeHearts and #NehuPreet lovers. Here’s our roka ceremony clip! I…
Eighteen-year-old Mohammad Arzoo was attacked brutally when he prevented cow slaughter in Jharkhand. His throat was slit by a his own community persons for resisting cows slaughter Jharkhand’s Garwah district. According to the police, the incident took place at Uchari village in Garwah district late on Monday night. The youth, identified as Mohhamad Arzoo (18), was killed after his throat was slit by two members from his own community. The alleged killers—Munnu Kureshi and Kaiel Kuraeshi—have been arrested. The body has been sent for post-mortem. The state’s Drinking Water Minister Mithilesh Thakur reached the village on Tuesday to find out…
Pakistan Senator Anwar Ul Haq Kakar made alarming statements on the issue of forced conversions in Pakistan. In a shocking statement made by none other than the head of Pakistans parliamentary committee on forced religious conversions, Senator Anwar Ul Haq Kakar has said that conversions of Hindu girls in Sindh province cannot be declared as forced as the girls had “some degree of willingness”. Kakar made these alarming remarks during a recent press briefing alongside committee member MNA Lal Chand Malhi and civil society activist Krishan Sharma after the committee came back with its findings about incidents of forced conversions…
Madhya Pradesh Culture Minister Usha Thakur said that funding to madrasas must be stopped immediately as they are the breeding ground for terrorists. The statement gains prominence as government funds to Madrasas were banned in Assam, recently. She also added madrasas are a hotbed for terror activities and asserted that all the terrorists studied at madrasas. “All the radicals and terrorists who studied in madrasas have turned Jammu and Kashmir into a terror factory,” Thakur said, who had earlier called for a ban on Muslim youths at Garba events. Thakur suggested madrasas who cannot comply with nationalism should be merged…
Two militants were neutralised by security forces in an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district. A gunfight broke out between security forces and militants in the Hakripora area in south Kashmir on Tuesday. The encounter started when security forces from the Special Operations Group of the Jammu and Kashmir Police, the CRPF and the Army received specific inputs about the presence of militants in the region. They then cordoned off the village. In the ensuing encounter, two militants were killed. The Hakripora encounter comes hours after two militants were killed in an encounter in the Shopian district. Security forces…
Barely days after the launch of the OnePlus 8T, we now have a new leak about its successor, the OnePlus 9. Despite the phone’s launch is potentially months away, information has started coming in about the phone that will look to improve on the OnePlus 8T and in the process also take on the competition that will be provided by next year’s flagships. Coming courtesy of Twitter user Max J, the leak shows a graphic teaser which reveals that the upcoming device will be codenamed ‘Lemonade’. As it stands, there’s very little which is known about the OnePlus 9, but…
In the first such reported case in India to date, the electrocardiogram (ECG) feature on Apple Watch has saved the life of a 61-year-old Indore resident and Apple CEO Tim Cook wished him fast recovery post-surgery. R. Rajhans, a retired pharma professional who uses an Apple Watch Series 5, decided to check his ECG on the Apple Watch after he felt unwell in March this year. The Apple Watch was gifted to him by his son Siddharth, a student at Harvard University who has worked with some of the top tech companies in Silicon Valley. “Since Apple Watch allows the…
Film maker Vishal Bhardwaj is about to adapt renowned British mystery writer Agatha Christie’s works into a movie franchise for Indian audiences. Christie’s crime stories centred on fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, but Bhardwaj are going to be introducing a replacement pair of lead investigators taking inspiration from one among the Queen of Crime’s famous stories. According to a handout issued by the manufacturers, the script is currently in development, but details of which Christie novel is being adapted for the primary film haven’t been revealed yet. The filmmaker-composer, best known for his acclaimed Shakespeare trilogy Maqbool, (Macbeth)…