Actress Rhea Chakraborty’s father was called for questioning by the CBI for the second consecutive day on Wednesday in connection with the case of actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death, a police official said. The 28-year-old actress and her family members are accused of abetting the suicide of Rajput (34), who was found hanging in his flat in suburban Bandra on June 14. Her father Indrajeet Chakraborty reached the DRDO guest house in suburban Kalina, where the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team is stationed, around 10.30 am in a car escorted by a police vehicle, the official said. Rajput’s manager…
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The Chinese mobile phone applications, the government has banned 118 more mobile apps. Popular app PUBG is among the mobile apps banned by the Information and Technology Ministry on Wednesday. The banned apps include Baidu, Baidu Express Edition, Tencent Watchlist, FaceU, WeChat Reading and Tencent Weiyun, besides PUBG Mobile and PUBG Mobile Lite, according to an official statement. The government said these apps were “prejudicial to Sovereignty and Integrity of India, Defence of India, Security of State and Public Order” in its notification announcing ban on the Chinese mobile apps. The Centre had earlier banned a number of Chinese apps,…
Hindu sentiments were irked by Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Isaac when he compared Hindu God “Vamana”, an avataar of Lord Vishnu as having ‘cheated’ King Mahabali. The statement hurt Hindu sentiments as the statement was made on auspicious occasion of Onam festival. In his tweet, Isaac, who represents the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) in the Kerala Left Democratic Front (LDF) government, said: “We celebrate (King) Mahabali who did not discriminate by caste or creed, not Vamana who cheated him…” Onam is a major harvest festival celebrated particularly by Malayalees. It is an official state festival of Kerala. Legend has…
Islamic hate-speech preacher Zakir Naik, Nafees, son of a top Bangladeshi politician, along with two Pakistani hardline preachers have been named as accused in an FIR filed by the National Investigation Agency in connection with the high-profile “love jihad” case, involving the daughter of a Chennai-based businessman and the son of a top Bangladeshi politician, belonging to former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party. It has been alleged that Islamic hate-speech preacher Zakir Naik, along with the two Pakistani hardliners, were allegedly involved in radicalisaton of the girl and her forcible conversion to Islam. The forced marriage of the…
https://twitter.com/SanjeevSanskrit/status/1300099444663222272?s=20 Twitter user Sanjeev Newar has shared a video where Kalim Siddiqui, a Zakat Foundation Shariah Council member, is heard openly inciting hostility against Hindus. This video is of an interview, which Siddiqui gave to a channel in Saudi Arabia. In the video, the Maulana not only mocks Hindu traditions to brandish Islam as a far more superior religion but also claims that Hindus need to be converted to Islam, bcause if they dont become Muslims, they will burn in hell. He projects the act of coversions as a kindness being offered to the Hindus. Siddiqui says that every day,…
In Bihar’s Lakhisarai, Naxals kidnapped a pujari, Neeraj Jha, and killed him a week later. His body was later dumped in a jungle. This has angered the local residents. Jha was kidnapped by Naxals on 23rd August who used his phone to make ransom call demanding Rs 1 crore to his family. Even as the family members awaited his safe return, the Naxals killed him and dumped his body in the jungle. The body was so badly mangled that the family took very long to ascertain whether it was Neeraj Jha. At first the family members failed to recognise him.…
https://twitter.com/ArjunsinghWB/status/1300856269570412544?s=20 BJP MP Arjun Singh late on Tuesday night took to Twitter to share images of burnt idols of Maa Kali from a temple in Murshidabad. He said that some people belonging to ‘one religious group’ attacked and destroyed a temple and burnt the idol of goddess Kali. However, Murshidabad Police has denied the claims. Taking to Twitter, the police claimed that the temple committee stated that it was a fire incident that destroyed the idol. The police has claimed that the incident took place on the intervening night of 31st August and 1st September which left only the idol…
In a first, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has appointed a woman officer as the chief of its Srinagar sector. IPS officer Charu Sinha has been appointed as an Inspector General (IG) and will be heading the CRPF’s Srinagar sector, which is one of the most-sensitive sectors that the force operates in. Charu Sinha is a 1996-batch IPS officer of the Telangana cadre. However, this is not the first time that she will be serving in a sensitive area. In the past, Charu Sinha has served as IG of CRPF’s Bihar sector in Naxal-affected areas. “Under her leadership, various…
In the middle of an enormous controversy over reports alleging that a Facebook executive was biased towards members of the ruling BJP and didn’t act on incendiary posts, the govt has written to Mark Zuckerberg alleging quite the other. Union minister Shankar Prasad, during a sharp letter to the Facebook founder, alleged that employees of the social media giant “are on record abusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and senior cabinet ministers” while still working in Facebook India and managing important positions. There are “multiple instances recently where Facebook has been employed by anarchic and radical elements whose sole aim is…
United States President Donald Trump extended his condolences to former President Pranab Mukherjee’s family and therefore the people of India on his death hours after his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, during a statement, said the veteran’s “visionary leadership” helped bring the 2 countries closer. “I was saddened to find out of the passing of India’s former President, Pranab Mukherjee. I send my condolences to his family and therefore the people of India as they grieve the loss of an excellent leader,” Donald Trump tweeted. Earlier today, Mike Pompeo said during a statement: “Saddened to listen to of passing of…