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23 Nov

Satyendar Jain’s jailhouse ‘luxury’: After massage, now lavish meal for AAP leader in Tihar Jail

Business Correspondent0 CommentsPoliticalarvind kejriwal, BJP, Delhi

Days after releasing a video of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) minister Satyendar Jain getting a massage in a Tihar jail cell, the BJP shared a video of Jain enjoying a luxurious meal inside the cell on Wednesday. BJP’s National Spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla shared a video of Satyendra Jain enjoying a lavish food items inside a Tihar jail cell. In a video-clip, the minister can be watched having a lavish meal with starter and moving on to salads and other delicious and nutritious food items. The video displays a man who is constantly at his service, right from bringing in food…

23 Nov

Pooja Bhatt responds to BJP’s claim that actors are paid to walk with Rahul Gandhi

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsIndia, PoliticalINDIA, political, Pooja Bhatt, Rahul Gandhi

Bollywood actress Pooja Bhatt has responded to BJP leaders' claims that actors are paid to walk with Rahul Gandhi on the Bharat Joro Yatra. Quoting from Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, the actor wrote: "They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions… but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience" -- discharge of claims. Actor Sushant Singh, who walked with Rahul Gandhi and claimed it would be his first appearance at a political…

21 Nov

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi holds Rashami Desai, Akanksha Puri’s hands as they walk together during Bharat Jodo Yatra

Business Correspondent0 CommentsPoliticalRahul Gandhi

TV actress Rashami Desai and Akanksha Puri joined Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for another day of his party's Bharat Jodo Yatra on Saturday. Pictures and videos of the three from their symbolic walk together are surfacing on social media. In a photo, the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi can be seen in the middle with Rashami and Akanksha Puri next to him. Holding hands of each other as they walked together. They are being seen smiling during their walk. The program Bharat Jodo Yatra has already made up through states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Maharashtra. The…

21 Nov

Sanjay Raut appreciates Rahul’s gestures

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsPoliticalINDIA, political, Rahul Gandhi

Sanjay Raut, leader of Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena faction, today tweeted that Rahul Gandhi called him and asked about his health, amid a row over the Congress leader's comments attacking Veer Savarkar. Sanjay Raut tweeted in Marathi, "Rahul called me at night even though he was busy with Bharat Jodo Yatra. He asked about my health, said 'we were worried about you. It is only human to feel sorry for a political friend framed in a false case and tortured for 110 days in jail,". He followed it up with a longer post in English. Mr. Raut wrote," Inspite of…

20 Nov

Retired IAS Arun Goel Appointed Election Commissioner

Business Correspondent0 CommentsPoliticalelection commission

Retired bureaucrat Arun Goel has been selected as an Election Commissioner ahead of the crucial assembly election in the state of Gujarat. The third post in the country's top poll body was vacant for around 6 months. An official notice from the law ministry this evening mentions, "The President is pleased to select Shri Arun Goel, Retired IAS of 1985 batch , Punjab Cadre, as the Election Commissioner in the Election Commission with effect from the date he takes over his duties in the office". Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar and Election Commissioner Anup Chandra Pandey in the poll panel…

19 Nov

Calcutta High Court Appoints New Head To Probe West Bengal Teachers’ Job Scam

Business Correspondent0 CommentsPolitical, West BengalCalcutta High Court

Calcutta High Court has appointed senior police officer Ashwin Shenvi as the head of the SIT, investigating the alleged teachers' job scam in the state of West Bengal. Mr Shenvi is a 2006-batch IPS officer from the Haryana cadre. He had joined the Central Bureau of Investigation in the year 2020 and was the SP at Jind, Haryana. "CBI has referred the names of Sudhanshu Khare, Michaelraj S and Ashwin Shenvi. Out of these three names, I select Mr Ashwin Shenvi, who is DIG ACB in CBI Chandigarh, that has vast experience in investigation of corruption cases," the single judge…

19 Nov

BJP files F.I R against Satyendar Jain, Kejriwal over Tihar jail video; AAP tweets medical report

Business Correspondent0 CommentsPoliticalAAP, arvind kejriwal, BJP, Delhi

Bharatiya Janta Party on Saturday filed an F.I.R against Delhi minister Satyendar Jain and CM Arvind Kejriwal after claiming a video clip of Jain getting a massage inside his cell in Tihar Jail got leaked and went viral triggering a massive face-off between the two political party, BJP and the AAP. The Aam Aadmi Party, on the other hand, tweeted the post the medical report of Jain claiming that the minister has an L5-S1 vertebrae disc injury for which the doctor suggested regular physiotherapy and acupressure treatment. The AAP said that the massage, Satyendar Jain was shown to be receiving…

18 Nov

Mahatma Gandhi’s Great Grandson Joins Bharat Jodo Yatra

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsIndia, PoliticalINDIA

Mahatma Gandhi's great-grandson Tushar Gandhi joined in the Bharat Joro Yatra with Rahul Gandhi at Shegaon in Maharashtra's Buldhana district this morning, with the Congress hailing his participation as "historic".The yatra, which has been continuing in Maharashtra since November 7, resumed the day's journey from Balapur in Akola district around 6 am and reached Shegaon a few hours later, where writer and activist Tushar Gandhi joined in the rally. Tushar Gandhi tweeted, ''I will join the Bharat Jodo Yatra at Shegaon on 18th. Shegaon is my Birth Station as well. The train my mother was traveling in, 1 Dn. Howrah…

18 Nov

India joins Moscow talks for inclusive govt. in Kabul

Business Correspondent0 CommentsInternational, PoliticalAfghanistan, INDIA, Russia

India attended the current meeting of the ‘Moscow format consultations on Afghanistan’ which was carried on Wednesday in the Moscow. Joint Secretary, J.P. Singh, represented India at the talks. “During the meeting, the partaker focused on matters in connection to Afghanistan, including the present humanitarian condition and the continuous efforts of different stakeholders to provide cooperation, intra-Afghan talks, creation of an inclusive and representative government, efforts to oppose threats of terrorism and ensuring regional security,” said the Ministry of External Affairs in a statement. India’s participation in the talks was established by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on 8th of…

15 Nov

Some people don’t work with me: Prakash Raj

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBollywood, India, PoliticalBollywood, entertainment, INDIA, Prakash Raj, Tollywood

Prakash Raj is outspoken about his political views. The actor has been a vocal critic of the current central government and even contested the elections from Bengaluru in 2019. He tweets on daily basis on social and political issues but confesses that all this comes at a cost. His politics now began to influence his work and the relationships he built in the film industry over the years. Talking about the impact of his political views on his work relationships, Prakash says, “It is affecting. Now, some people don't work with me because they're told not to. But they are…