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Bollywood stars criticise colleagues’ near identical tweets on farmers protest

11:54 pm February 4, 2021

Mumbai: A clear divide between Bollywood celebrities was visible on Thursday as Taapsee Pannu, Swara Bhasker, Siddharth criticised similarly worded tweets by stars like Akshay Kumar and Ajay Devgn in response to pop star Rihanna‘s post drawing attention to the farmers’ agitation in India. While some from the industry were direct in their criticism, including Pannu, […]

Delhi Police registers FIR on farmers’ protest ‘toolkit’ shared by Greta Thunberg on social media

11:48 pm February 4, 2021

New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Thursday filed an FIR against the ”pro-Khalistan” creators of a ”toolkit”, which was shared by teen climate activist Greta Thunberg and others on Twitter in connection with the farmers’ protest, alleging it aimed to wage a ”social, cultural and economic war against the Government of India”. Asked whether the […]

CBI books retired IAS officer for corruption

7:45 pm February 2, 2021

New Delhi: The CBI has booked a retired IAS officer for alleged corruption in giving leases to facilitate illegal mining of minor minerals in Kaushambi when he was posted as a district magistrate during 2012-14, officials said Tuesday. Searches at nine locations, including the residential premises of accused officer Satyendra Singh, led to recovery of documents of 44 […]

Netanyahu thanks PM Modi for efforts to protect Israeli representatives following blast near embassy

10:27 pm February 1, 2021

Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday thanked his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for his government’s efforts to protect Israeli representatives following the terrorist incident near the country’s embassy in New Delhi last week. A minor improvised explosive device (IED) blast took place near the Israeli Embassy in New Delhi on Friday evening. No one was injured. ”I […]

Oppn plans march to Vijay Chowk in solidarity with suspended RS MPs

First part of budget session to end on Feb 13: Sources

10:47 pm January 31, 2021

New Delhi: The first part of the Budget Session of Parliament will end on February 13 instead of February 15 as the Rajya Sabha, on Sunday, decided to change its sitting, sources said. Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu also made a fervent appeal to the leaders of various parties at an all-party meeting to […]