Maharashtra Police on Wednesday again won Twitterati hearts after the police tweeted a still of Rajkumar Hirani’s ‘3idiots’ blockbuster movie to warn commuters against triple riding. The photo featuring Aamir Khan, Madhavan and Sharman Joshi, riding a single bike without helmets. On the photo, the text reads, “Triple seat. Jaane nahi denge tujhe.” The tweet was posted with a hilarious caption that read, “Dil Jo Tera Baat Baat Pe Ghabraaye, Driver Idiot Hai, Pillion Pyaar Se Usko Samjha Le #AalIzzNotWell #RoadSafetyWeek @ActorMadhavan.” The Bollywood actor R. Madhavan responded to Maharashtra Police’s tweet by sharing a picture of himself riding a…
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Dilip Ghosh was on Thursday unanimously re-elected BJPs West Bengal unit President for three years, and is set to steer the party through the crucial state Assembly polls scheduled for 2021. Ghosh’s re-election came at a party meeting attended by around 700 of its state functionaries. Amid shouts of ‘Jai Sree Ram’ and ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’, Ghosh was garlanded by state leaders and handed the certificate of his election by party’s national General Secretary Murlidhar Rao at the National Library auditorium. Ghosh, also a Lok Sabha member, had filed his nomination for re-election as state President on Wednesday. His…
India’s former Solicitor General and senior advocate Harish Salve has been appointed as Queen’s Counsel for the courts of England and Wales. He will be formally appointed as QC in March this year. His name featured on the list of appointments of those ‘taking silk’ (a reference to their court dress), which was released by the UK’s Ministry of Justice in January. The title of QC is awarded to those who have demonstrated particular skill and expertise in the conduct of advocacy. Salve was India’s lead counsel on the Kulbhushan Jadhav case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and…
Senior BJP leader Samir Mohanty was on Thursday elected unopposed as the president of the Odisha unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The central observer for the organisational polls, Narendra Singh Tomar, announced Mohanty’s name as the new state BJP president at the party headquarters here. He will take charge as BJP president on Friday, Tomar said. Samir Mohanty, who has been the state vice-president of the BJP since 2016, was the only candidate who filed his nomination paper for the top party post in the state. Mohanty had support from district presidents and state party council members, party…
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief and Union Home Minister Amit Shah said here on Thursday that the alliance of BJP and Janata Dal (United) in Bihar is “unbreakable” and that the Assembly election this year will also be contested under the leadership of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Addressing a public meeting in support of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in Vaishali, he said that this law is not meant to take away anyone’s citizenship, but instead to grant citizenship to persecuted minorities. He said that the opposition is misleading the youth and Muslims on this issue. Shah said that when…
At a time when the debate on the Citizenship Act and the National Population Register (NPR) rages on, a Pakistan-born Neeta Kanwar is contesting panchayat elections being held on Thursday at Tonk in Rajasthan. Neeta received her citizenship in September last year after coming to India way back in 2001 to pursue her education. She received Indian citizenship after living here for 18 years and is now contesting sarpanch election from Natwara gram panchayat which falls under Tonk district. According to Neeta, her father-in law Thakur Laxman Karan, who has been a sarpanch thrice from Natwara has been her source…
Popularly known as the Superfan of Indian Cricket team, Charulata Patel, passed away on January 13, 2020. She was 87. Charulata caugt the attention of the entire sports fraternity, when she was seen at the England stadium during World Cup 2019. Netizens lauded er and her photo of Virat Kohli taking her blessings after the match at Edgbaston, England. An ardent cricket fan Charulata reached out to support the Indian Team during the World Cup in England. One of her photos went viral when Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma had sought blessings from her. Her official Instagram post reads that…
Different teams, which are keeping a tight vigil on the Delhi Assembly elections, have seized more than Rs 6 crore from the day when the Model Code of Conduct came into place. Out of this, more than Rs 1 crore was seized by the Income Tax Department. Addressing a press briefing at the State Election Commission here on Wednesday, Ranbir Singh, Chief Electoral Officer of Delhi, said: “Valued items worth more than Rs 1 crore has been seized during different raids. The total seizures till now are estimated to be 6.39 crore.” Apart from this, 130 illegal weapons have also…
In order to increase the participation of women and specially abled people, Delhi election officials have decided that in every district one polling booth will be operated by specially abled electoral officers. Apart from this, there will be one pink polling station in every assembly which will be operated by women officials, said Ranbir Singh, Chief Election Officer of Delhi. Addressing a press conference at the State Election Commission office in Kashmiri Gate here, Singh said: “Out of the total number of electorate, 80,64,351 are men while 66,43,392 are women and 830 are the third gender. Out of total 11,560…
The Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday stripped DSP Davinder Singh of the Sher-e-Kashmir Police Medal following his arrest. The withdrawal of the medal was done through an order issued today by the Home Department signed by Shaleen Kabra, IAS, Principal Secretary to government, Home Department. The order said that the J&K has stripped the Sher-e-Kashmir Police Medal for Gallantry awarded to Dy SP Davinder Singh consequent to his arrest on January 11 while trying to assist terrorists to travel outside J&K and recovery of arms and ammunition “which amounts to disloyalty and conduct that has brought upon the force…