A controversy had broken out in Karnataka after several people raised objections over certain derogatory content against Hindu religious beliefs in the curriculum of Class VI social science textbooks. According to the reports, Eshapriya Theertha Swami – the seer of the prominent Admar Mutt of the Udupi had raised objections about a lesson in the Class VI textbooks, which had mocked the Hindu traditions of ‘yaga’ or ‘yagna’. The seer had raised the matter before state education minister Suresh Kumar and had apprised him of such content. Reportedly, the seer had also informed the minister that there are a few…
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Actor Anushka Sharma on Thursday announced that she is expecting her first child with cricketer husband Virat Kohli. The couple, who tied the knot in December 2017, took to Twitter to share the news, alongside their picture, showing Anushka’s baby bump. “And then, we were three! Arriving January 2021,” the 32-year-old actor tweeted. Anushka and 31-year-old Kohli first met on the sets of a billboard and dated for four years before getting married during a private ceremony in Italy in 2017. The actor was last seen on the large screen in 2018 romantic drama “Zero”.
Vital health parameters of the 2 volunteers, who are administered the Oxford COVID-19 vaccine candidate at a medical college here as a part of the clinical test |phase II|clinical trial|clinical test”> phase II clinical trial clinical trial, are normal, a senior official from the medical facility said on Thursday. Two men, aged 32 and 48, got the primary shot of the ‘Covishield’ vaccine, being manufactured by Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII), at Bharti Vidyapeeth’s Medical College and Hospital on Wednesday. The dose are going to be repeated after one month, a politician said. “Since yesterday, our medical team is…
Actor Rhea Chakraborty’s brother Showik Chakraborty received the DRDO guest here on Thursday for questioning by the CBI, which is probing actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death case, a police official said. This is the primary time that a member from Rhea Chakraborty’s family is being questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) within the case of Rajput’s death. Showik Chakraborty received the DRDO guest house at Kalina in Santacruz, where the CBI officials are staying, during a car around 10.15 am, the official said. The Supreme Court last week upheld the transfer of an FIR, lodged by Rajput’s father…
The Supreme Court Thursday declined permission for completing Muharram procession across the country and asked Lucknow-based petitioner to maneuver before the Allahabad supreme court together with his plea. The apex court said how can it pass a general order for the entire country. A bench comprising judge S A Bobde and Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian said it might cause chaos and targeting of a specific community. You are posing for a general order then if we allow this there’ll be chaos. Particular community are going to be targetted for spreading Covid. we do not want that. We…
AIMIM Member of Parliament Imtiyaz Jaleel issued a warning to the Maharashtra government saying that Muslims will occupy the streets to offer Namaz in coming days if mosques are not allowed to open in the state. https://twitter.com/ek_aalu_bonda/status/1298833679364419584?s=20 Speaking to ABP News, AIMIM parliamentarian Imtiyaz Jaleel demanded that the Maharashtra government should open the religious places, especially mosques, which are currently closed in the state due to coronavirus lockdown restrictions. Pointing out that Hindus will be visiting temples to offer prayers the occasion of Ganesh Visarjan on September 1, AIMIM MP Jaleel asserted that Maharashtra government should also open up mosques…
Police have arrested one Mohd Dilshad in connection with the brutal rape and murder of an 18-year-old Dalit girl in Lakhimpur Kheri, a day after the mutilated body of the girl was found dumped near a dried-up pond around 200 metres from her village. Lakhimpur Kheri SSP Satendar Kumar said the post-mortem report had confirmed rape. The accused has reportedly confessed to the crime. “Apart from the statement of the accused, the conclusion is also based on scientific evidence such as fingerprints, bloodstained clothes and CCTV footage that has confirmed the crime. A knife has also been recovered based on…
https://www.instagram.com/p/CEW0N2SneXo/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Tennis star Sania Mirza on Wednesday shared pictures of a walk with with her son Izhaan Mirza Malik on Instagram. “You are part of me ,my little one,” she captioned the photo, and added the hashtag “#ourwalksandconversations”. In the pictures, the two of them can be seen out on their garden. “What did he say today?” TV presenter Gaurav Kapur asked in the comments and Sania came up with a hilarious reply. Responding to his comment, she wrote: “today’s word was ‘cake’ and ‘more’.” Sania Mirza often shares photos and videos with Izhaan. She recently uploaded an adorable video…
https://twitter.com/VPSecretariat/status/1298505260684607488?s=20 The ‘fastest human calculator’ Neelakanta Bhanu Prakash was today praised by Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu for winning the first-ever gold medal at the Mental Calculation World Championship at Mind Sports Olympiad held in London recently. “He has done India proud. My best wishes to him for all future endeavours,” the Vice President’s office tweeted with the hashtag ‘Human Calculator’. The judges were spellbound by my speed, they required me to perform more calculations to confirm my accuracy.” After winning the competition, the 20-year-old student of Mathematics from Delhi’s St Stephen’s College said, “Beating 29 competitors from 13 countries,…
A new angle involving use of drugs emerged in the case during the probe, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) registered a case in the matter. After CBI and ED, now another central law enforcement agency has got involved in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case. The Enforcement Directorate had written to NCB to probe the drug angle in the case. It has been found that several people linked to the Sushant Singh case are drug users, and they have regular contacts with drug dealers. That is the reason why the NCB will investigate the matter. Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) director…