Filmmaker David Dhawan celebrated his 75th birthday with his close friends and colleagues from Bollywood on Sunday. The guests at the celebration included superstar Salman Khan, producer Sajid Nadiadwala and a few others. Salman Khan attends David Dhawan’s bash Writer Rumy Jafry shared photos from the celebrations on Sunday. In the photos shared by the…
As the country has progressed, so has the theme of PM Modi’s speeches. NEW DELHI: From access to aspiration and from problems to potential – the focus of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speeches has kept changing since 2014.Those tracking his speeches over the last 12 years have noted how in the initial year,…
Rahul Gandhi said the upcoming rally in Pune on Aug 22 will be exclusively for girls. NEW DELHI: As part of his “chhatron ki goonj” meetings targeting the youth, Congress’s Rahul Gandhi said the upcoming rally in Pune on Aug 22 will be exclusively for girls.The announcement came along with Rahul’s social media video post…
Johnny Depp could just be sailing onto the big screen once again as Captain Jack Sparrow.The actor, who has had fans and the internet rooting for his return as the famed pirate in the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ franchise, may finally be on his way back. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer confirmed that discussions are underway with…
The controversy erupted after a video from Congress’s Aug 15 function showed Sonia gesturing and speaking to party president Kharge. NEW DELHI: The row over the full rendition of Vande Mataram at Congress headquarters on Independence Day acquired a Bankim Chandra connection, with BJP MLA Sumitro Chatterjee, a direct descendant of the national song’s author,…
NEW DELHi: Attacking home minister Amit Shah for demanding an apology over the Vande Mataram row, Congress claimed the minister had insulted Bhimrao Ambedkar’s memory in Rajya Sabha and that he owes allegiance to an organisation that did not unfurl the tricolour at its headquarters till 2002 – in what were allusions to Shah’s controversial…
Two very different dinosaur movies devoured a modest chunk of the North American box office this weekend, although neither came close to unseating ‘Spider-Man’ from its perch atop the charts, nor managed to steal second place from ‘The Odyssey’.‘Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie’ and ‘The End of Oak Stree’, one targeted to very young children…
In 1993, Chile adopted an Indigenous Law that enabled land restitution In 1993, Chile passed a major Indigenous Law that created a formal process for returning ancestral land to Indigenous communities. Over the following 30 years, more than 510,000 acres were returned to the Mapuche, Chile’s largest Indigenous group. However, a long-term study found that…
Bedfordshire farm was saved through public donations after a successful £1.5m crowdfunding campaign An English farmer who stopped intensive wheat farming in 1988 has unintentionally helped create one of central England’s largest young woodland nature reserves, reports the Guardian. Strawberry Hill, a 377-acre site near Knotting in Bedfordshire, has now been permanently protected after the…
NEW DELHI: After earlier uncertainty, there are now clear indications that barrierless tolling on national highway (NH) stretches, coupled with e-notices for violations, is inculcating greater discipline among road users.At Choryasi toll plaza on NH-48 in Gujarat, the first to go live, e-notices fell from 1.7 lakh in May to 1.1 lakh in June and…