Pop star Selena Gomez has written a message to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the social network’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, urging them to help stop the spread of hate on the platform ahead of the November election. “Facebook and Instagram are being used to spread hate, misinformation, racism, and bigotry,” Gomez wrote in a private message to the Facebook leadership. The move comes barely a couple of days after reality TV star Kim Kardashian West decided to freeze her social media accounts for 24 hours on Wednesday to protest against the spread of “hate, propaganda and misinformation”. Leonardo…
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Bihar’s Muzaffarpur District Court has issued orders to 8 Bollywood celebrities including Salman Khan and director-producer Karan Johar to appear before it on October 7 in the case related to the death of late actor Sushant Singh Rajput. The other names include Aditya Chopra, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Ekta Kapoor, Sajid Nadiadwala, Bhushan Kumar and Dinesh Vijayan. The court has acted on the complaint filed by Muzaffarpur lawyer Sudhir Ojha, against these celebrities, which was filed three days after the death of Sushant Singh Rajput on June 14, in the Chief Judicial Magistrate’s court holding them accountable for the death of…
Actor Sonu Sood packed a punch for his birthday wish for son Eshaan. The Dabangg actor made sure that Eshaan’s birthday greeting remains a memorable one by taking a trip down memory lane and digging out one of his favourite father-son moments. Sonu Sood shared it on Instagram as a birthday greeting for Eshaan, who must be in his teens now. However, in the throwback photo, Eshaan is a pint-sized fitness enthusiast, who can be seen imitating his dad’s pose. Sonu Sood captioned his post this way: “Happy birthday my hero, Eshaan Sood. Finally I have someone who’s going to…
Referring to National Investigation Agency (NIA) arresting Al Qaeda terrorists, State BJP president K.Surendran said that successive governments in Kerala have failed in anti-terror activities. He was referring to the way the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday busted an inter-state module of Al Qaeda operatives as it conducted raids in West Bengal and Kerala on Saturday morning. Three of the nine Qaeda men in Kerala were arrested from Ernakulam district. The three were picked from two places in Kochi. Those arrested are Murshid Hassan, Yakoob Bishwas and Morshraf Hussien. Kerala Police has found out that Hussien was in Kerala…
The Rajya Sabha on Saturday passed the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Second Amendment) Bill, 2020, whereby fresh insolvency proceedings won’t be initiated for a minimum of six months ranging from Annunciation amid the coronavirus pandemic. Replying to a debate on the Bill within the House, minister of finance Nirmala Sitharaman said the intention of the IBC is to stay companies a “going concern” and not liquidate them. The Bill mandates that a default repayments from Annunciation , the day when a nationwide lockdown began to curb the spread of coronavirus, wouldn’t be considered for initiating insolvency proceedings for a minimum…
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal told the Rajya Sabha that 97 persons died while travelling on Shramik Special trains between May 1 and September 9. The Minister said that the national transporter had not collected any fare from the migrants. “Shramik Specials were booked by the state governments or their representatives on payment of fare. Revenue of Rs 433 crore was collected from them for running the Shramik Special trains till August 31. As many as 63.19 lakh shramiks/stranded passengers travelled in these trains,” Goyal said on Saturday. He was responding to a question by Trinamool Congress leader Derek O’Brien in the Rajya Sabha on…
MS Dhoni returns to the cricket field 436 days and 34 days after bidding goodbye to international cricket. The 39-year-old is back as Chennai Super Kings gear up to face Mumbai Indians in the opening match of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 in Abu Dhabi on Saturday. 436 days feels like an eternity as a lot has changed in the world since that fateful run-out in Manchester. When MS Dhoni walks out, leading the Chennai Super Kings in Abu Dhabi, there won’t be a sea of yellow chanting his name from the stands. Only empty stands will greet the returning…
India overtakes US to become No.1 in global recoveries. The number of people who have recuperated from the novel coronavirus rose to 41,12,551. The total coronavirus cases in India have now mounted to 52,14,677, while the death toll climbed to 84,372. According to the Central government, the coronavirus case fatality rate due to the infection has dropped to 1.62 per cent. Meanwhile, Minister of State for Health Ashwini Choubey has said that a coronavirus vaccine is likely to be available by the end of first quarter of 2021 if the advanced clinical trials of the vaccine succeed. India’s coronavirus tally…
India’s coronavirus cases on Saturday crossed the 53-lakh mark after the country detected a spike of 93,337 new cases in the past 24 hours. India’s coronavirus tally, including the recovered cases, has now climbed to 53,08,015, according to the Union health ministry. A total of 1,247 coronavirus patients have succumbed to the infection in the past 24 hours, pushing the country’s death toll due to Covid-19 to 85,619. The Covid-19 case fatality rate has further dropped at 1.61 per cent, the data showed. India’s coronavirus caseload includes 10,13,964 active cases. There are 42,08,432 patients who have recovered, the Ministry of…
West Bengal has become “home to illegal bomb-making” and the state administration cannot escape its accountability for the “alarming decline” in law and order, Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar said on Saturday. The governor’s comments came after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested nine terrorists associated with a Pakistan-sponsored module of the al-Qaeda from several locations in West Bengal”s Murshidabad and Kerala’s Ernakulam early on Saturday. “State has become home to illegal bomb making that has the potential to unsettle democracy. Police @MamataOfficial busy in carrying out political errands and taking on the opposition. Those at helm @WBPolice cannot escape their accountability…