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18 Jun

Police arrest popular YouTuber Madan Kumar for using vulgar languages in livestreams

editor0 CommentsEntertainment, IndiaChennai, INDIA, livestream, Madan Kumar, youtuber

Popular YouTuber Madan Kumar has been arrested for allegedly live-streaming online games, including PUBG, with vulgar and obscene conversations with women. The cybercrime wing of the Chennai Police arrested Madan on Friday from a relative's home in Dharmapuri. The city police's Central Crime Branch also arrested Madan's wife Kruthika, who was the administrator of the YouTube channels on which gaming videos with foul language Madan was using towards women were being uploaded, the police said. Meanwhile, the Madras High Court dismissed an anticipatory bail petition filed by Madan, as the police had already taken him into custody in Dharmapuri even…

18 Jun

Speaker Om Birla defends new Parliament construction

editor0 CommentsIndiaINDIA, om birla, parliament, POLITICS, speaker

Om Birla, Speaker of Lok Sabha has defended the construction of a new Parliament building as part of the Central Vista project. He said “It’s not a matter of the government’s ego" and that the 100-year-old building is unsafe and not appropriate for several functions of the House. “Both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha had requested the government that the current building, which is historic and unparalleled in the world, is now 100 years old and is not earthquake-safe,” said Om Birla. He further said the iconic building constructed by the British is inadequate in many ways and a new-age…

17 Jun

Streets water-logged in Kolkata and several parts of West Bengal: IMD predicts more rainfall

editor0 CommentsNorth EastINDIA, kolkata, Weather, west bengal

Kolkata and several parts of West Bengal received incessant rain on Wednesday and Thursday. According to reports, Bengal will continue to receive heavy rainfall along with thunderstorms over the next two days. In Kolkata, several arterial roads and alleys were seen to be submerged in water and large parts of the city remained waterlogged throughout the day, after overnight rainfall on Wednesday. The southern parts of Kolkata received more rainfall than the north, leaving streets and alleys waterlogged in Ballygunge Circular Road, Loudon Street, Southern Avenue and places in Kasba, Behala and Tollygunge. The weather department has predicted that West…

17 Jun

Police complaint filed against actor Swara Bhaskar over Ghaziabad assault video

editor0 CommentsNorth Eastcrime, Delhi, ghaziabad, INDIA, Swara bhaskar, Twitter

Delhi Police have lodged complaint against multiple personalities over the Ghaziabad assault video. The names include actor Swara Bhaskar, Arfa Khanum Sherwani, Asif Khan of Twitter India and Manish Maheshwari, who is the Twitter India head. The complaint was lodged by advocate Amit Acharya at Delhi's Tilak Marg police station. Delhi Police has meanwhile launched a probe but an FIR is yet to be lodged over the fresh complaint. Earlier, an FIR had named Twitter Inc, Twitter Communications India and news website The Wire, journalists Mohammed Zubair and Rana Ayyub, Congress leaders Shama Mohamed, Salman Nizami, Maskoor Usmani and writer…

17 Jun

PM Modi Calls For “Repair And Prepare” As India Emerges From Pandemic

editor0 CommentsNorth EastINDIA, PM Modi

As India emerges from a devastating second wave of Covid-19 infections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the focus must be on repairing and preparing the health infrastructure as well as the economy for future challenges.To prepare a base for a sustained higher growth rate, the government continues to unleash reforms and has also extended free food distribution schemes to aid the poor hit hard by the pandemic. "Over the past year, we have witnessed a lot of disruption in different sectors. Much of it is still there," PM Modi said at the VivaTech Summit. In his address, he…

17 Jun

India logs 67,208 COVID-19 cases, 2330 deaths in last 24 hours

editor0 CommentsNorth EastCovid-19, INDIA

India on Wednesday reported 67,208 new COVID-19 cases as 2330 more patients succumbed to the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry said. India’s overall tally of Covid-19 cases now stands at 2,97,00,313 with 3,81,903 deaths so far. According to the Health Ministry, a total of 1,03,570 people have been discharged in the last 24 hours, with 2,84,91,670 being cured of Covid till date. The Health Ministry said that a total of 26,55,19,251 people have been vaccinated so far in the country. 38,52,38,220 samples have been tested up to June 16 in the country including…

16 Jun

Congress leader makes sensational claims about Covaxin

editor0 CommentsHealthcongress, covaxin, Health, INDIA, POLITICS, Vaccine

On Tuesday, Congress leader Gaurav Pandhi made some controversial claims about the component of Bharat Biotech and ICMR's Covaxin. Sharing an RTI document on his Twitter account, the Congress leader claimed that Covaxin contains the serum of a newborn calf. His claims were based on an RTI response from the Central Drugs Controller General to Vikas Patni, the man who filed the query. Gaurav Pandhi wrtes, "In an RTI response, the Modi Govt has admitted that Covaxin consists newborn calf serum .....which is a portion of clotted blood obtained from less than 20 days young cow-calves, after slaughtering them. THIS…

16 Jun

Communal tensions in Uttar Pradesh: Police register case against Twitter

editor0 CommentsTechnologycrime, ghaziabad, INDIA, TECHNOLOGY, Twitter, Uttar Pradesh

Indian police have registered a case against Twitter and prominent journalists for allegedly trying to spark communal tensions. Police say the journalists falsely insinuated that a Muslim man was beaten by Hindu men while sharing a video of the alleged incident on Twitter. Officials added that the man was beaten up by both Hindu and Muslim men due to a dispute. Most journalists have deleted the tweets but Twitter is yet to comment. What is alleged to have happened? The video, which went viral around 7 June, shows around five men beating up an elderly Muslim man in Ghaziabad district…

15 Jun

Ram Mandir Trust speaks out on Temple’s land price controversy

editor0 CommentsBusinessINDIA, plot controversy, ram mandir

As the 'Ram Mandir' plot of land in Ayodhya has come under scrutiny, the Ram Janmbhoomi Trust has issued a factual report on the controversial land deal explaining the price difference of the plot. The Ram temple trust has said the charges are being concocted by BJP's rivals. It has also sent its report to the Centre, BJP and RSS, explaining the price difference. In its statement, the Ram temple trust has said the plot of land is located next to the road approaching the Ram Janmbhoomi Mandir and is of premium value. Bjp termed the war of words that…

15 Jun

66 year old Bengali woman develops human magnetism

editor0 CommentsHealthcovid vaccine, Health, human magnetism, INDIA, west bengal

A 66-year-old woman from Barasat in Bengal's North 24 Pargana, is the latest of the multiple cases of human magnetism hat have been reported from across the country. Medical bodies throughout the country have, however, debunked the theory of the phenomenon happening after taking two doses of vaccine. Anima Naskar (66), who has developed magnetism and metallic items are getting stuck on her body, does not blame it on the vaccine but states that since it was on news, her son experimented with her. But in her case, it turned out to be positive. "I saw on TV that someone…