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Reading out the statements of the wrestlers in the Rouse Avenue Court, the Delhi Police said that Ex-WFI Chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh threatened the wrestlers to remain quiet. He further said while threatening the wrestlers that if he can create careers, he can destroy them as well.

The Delhi High Court on Monday issued a notice to British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in connection with a defamation suit a Gujarat-based non-governmental organisation (NGO) has filed against the United Kingdom (UK)’s national broadcaster over its documentary “India: The Modi Question”.

Last week, on the occasion of ‘World Museums Day’, Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled what the Ministry of Culture called the ‘mascot’ of the International Museum Expo, currently being held at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi. Addressing a gathering after inaugurating the International Museum Expo 2023 at Pragati Maidan in Delhi, PM Modi said his government has prioritised preserving the country's heritage. He also lamented previous govts and said that enough efforts were not made in this direction post Independence. Prime Minister also unveiled the official mascot. However, the mascot sparked a debate on social media. We all remember the figurine, popularly known as Mohenjodaro Dancing girl. The figurine is currently at display in the Indus Valley Civilisation Gallery of the National Museum.

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar along with his deputy Tejashwi Yadav and RJD chief have been meeting with leaders from the opposition. Watch this news report to know the probable reason behind the move.

Madhya Pradesh has become the first state in the country to conduct pilgrimage by air on government expenditure under the Mukhya Mantri Teerth-Darshan Yojana. Watch this news report to know more.

Watch advertising and marketing vetran Mr Tarun Chauhan speak about why people reconsume popular brands.And what the brand BJP has to keep in mind if it wants to comr back to power in 2024.

"Senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah took oath invoking God as the new Chief Minister of Karnataka at the swearing-in ceremony held at Kanteerava stadium in Bengaluru on May 20, Saturday at 12.30 pm. Siddaramaiah staked a claim to form the government on Thursday, May 18, after he was chosen as the leader of the Congress Legislature Party in a meeting held in Bengaluru. His elevation ended days of tussle between DK Shivakumar and him for the post of Karnataka’s 24th Chief Minister. DK Shivakumar was sworn-in as the Deputy Chief Minister. G Parameshwara, KH Muniyappa, KJ George, MB Patil, Satish Jarkiholi, Priyank Kharge, Ramalinga Reddy and BZ Zameer Ahmed Khan were all sworn-in as ministers and they will be accorded the cabinet rank. Close to one lakh people were in attendance for the swearing-in. Political leaders such as MK Stalin and Nitish Kumar were among the invitees. After congress' victory in karnataka, for almost 4 days there was intense lobbying for the post of CM between Siddaramaia and DK Shivakumar. After days of logjam, both the leaders agreed to the formula proposed: Siddaramaiah as CM and Shivakumar as DyCM but he will retain the post of KPCC president as well.

“I beg you man, please don’t let him be in that jail. These holidays will come and he will break as a human being. His spirit will be destroyed because of some vested people. You promised you will reform my child and not put him in a place where he may come out completely battered and broken. And it’s no fault of his. …But please send my son home. You also know in your heart it’s been a bit too harsh for him by now. Please please I beg you as a father,” This was the desperate plea made reportedly by Shah Rukh Khan to Sameer Wankhede after the arrest of his son in Cordelia cruise drug bust case. On 2nd October 2021, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan was taken in custody by NCB officials, following a drug bust operation at Cordelia cruise off Mumbai coast. Some high profile passengers were arrested in this raid by NCB. But since it involved Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan, his case was of prime interest. Later as the case progressed there were questions raised on the manner the raid was conducted and entire operation and especially the role of NCB Zonal officer Sameer Wankhede came under cloud of suspicion. Almost a year and a half since then, CBI is now probing the matter. Recently CBI conducted a raid at Sameer Wankhede’s residence. The CBI chargesheet against Wankhede alleges that he made extortion bid and asked for 25 crores from the actor. There are more incriminating allegations, that we have explained in earlier videos. Defending himself in court, Sameer Wankhede has presented chats purportedly between him and Shah Rukh Khan. These purported chats between the two are doing rounds on social media in which SRK is seen imploring Wankhede to free his son, that some vested people are trying to destroy his spirit. What do the chats say? What was the reply of Sameer Wankhede to desperate pleas of a father? Let us talk about this in today’s video.

The Supreme Court Wednesday reserved its order on the Delhi government’s plea challenging the nomination of 10 aldermen by the Lieutenant Governor to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and observed that with the power, the L-G can “effectively destabilise” the democratically elected municipal corporation. Watch this news report by Mr Sujit Nair to know more.

Law minister Kiran Rijjiju was on Thursday replaced as union law minister. To know more watch this news report by Mr Sujit Nair.

Karantaka is all set to have its new CM and DCM. Here is a list of leaders who are invited and also a list of those who are excluded. Watch this news report by Mr Sujit Nair to know more.

"“Russian crude is substantially transformed in the third country and not treated as Russian anymore.” This was the reply of External affairs minister S Jaishankar when European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Joseph Borrell’s call for action against the sale of Indian refined products, made from the Russian crude. Borrell called for a crackdown on India reselling Russian crude as refined fuel in Europe. Responding to this, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar asked him to Look at EU Council regulations, Russian crude is substantially transformed in the third country and not treated as Russian anymore. I would urge you to look at Council's Regulation 833/2014,"" he said. But this wasn’t the first time that S Jaishankar had to defend India’s choice to buy cheap Russian oil. Earlier also he had defended India's imports from Russia while indirectly criticising the West for pressurising New Delhi to minimise its trade with Russia in view of its military action in Ukraine. He wondered how Europe could make choices to prioritise its own energy needs and at the same time ask India to do something else. However, questions have been r aised on India’s decision to buy Cheap Russian crude and sell refined oil product to the west. Both from outside and inside. Last month, report by CREA said that India leads the group of ‘laundromat countries’ that buy discounted crude oil from Russia, refine it, and sell the processed products to European countries, thus sidestepping European sanctions against Russia. India has time and again said that its decision to buy cheap Russian oil is to take care the energy need of Indians. Once S Jaishankar had even said that “we don’t send people to buy Russian oil, we send people to buy oil in the market, buy the best oil.” He defended the move saying that India was looking after its interest. But since the fuel prices in India continue to remain at record high, critics are questioning who really is benefitting from the Russian Crude oil? Let’s break down this story in today’s video.

People in public life such as politicians, and even judges, have to be thick-skinned in this age of social media, the Delhi high court on Wednesday said on Wednesday as the bench started hearing East Delhi member of Parliament Gautam Gambhir’s defamation suit against a Hindi newspaper.

Following an FIR that was registered against four persons on the charge of defiling a place of worship, four Muslim men were arrested and booked by the police in Maharashtra's Nashik for allegedly forcing their way into the famous Trimbakeshwar temple on Wednesday. The state government has also set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe into the incident.

Days after questioning former J&K governor Satya Pal Malik, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is conducting searches at 12 locations, including the residence of the former media advisor to Malik, in Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, and Rajasthan in connection with a case of alleged corruption in the Union Territory.

October 1990, almost 30 years ago, Congress president Rajeev Gandhi addressed the media outside Bengaluru airport and in a moment removed the then Chief Minister of the state Veerendra Patil. At the time when this announcement was made, Veerendra Patil, who had suffered a stroke, was paralysed and bedridden. This sudden and shock removal of the CM stunned the entire nation. This was the incident that is said to have led the largest voter bloc in Karnataka:Lingayats deserting the Congress party. The whole story behind this infamous incident goes like this. The Rathyatra that passed through the state of Karnataka, led to major riots and violence in the state. 46 people died in the Communal riots. This happened a week after Veerendra Patil, then Karnataka CM, was bedridden due to paralysis. Karnataka being Congress ruled state, Rajiv Gandhi reached here for damage control. Now some reports say, without even meeting the bed-ridden CM, Rajiv Gandhi announced at the airport to reporters that Patil will be removed as CM and a new CM will be chosen by the party. Some other reports, including this 1990 report of India Today says, Rajiv Gandhi arrived at Bengaluru airport, went to meet Veerendra paatil at Cauvery bungalow, from there went to 1-2 violence hit areas and then while heading to Madras, he made the shock announcement at Bengaluru Airport. Although the party tried to do damage control by saying that it has done so, because Veerendra patil is ill, and state needs hands on CM at the time, the manner in which this was communicated, gave out a message that Congress party had humiliated Patil. This did not go down well with the Lingayats the community from which he hailed and in the subsequent elections, the community deserted Congress. In the subsequent years Congress tried its best to bring the community back to Congress but failed. Instad, Lingayat community rallied behind BJP and opened the door to south for the party. This went on for 30 years, but in the 2023 elections, Congress' lingayat vote share has significantly increased indicating that the community has shifted its political preference to the GOP again. In fact One of the Senior lingayat leader of the state MB Patil ahead of the poll said with several lingayat leaders of BJP joining Congress, the communty is coming back to Congress fold. The numbers prove the same.

In this news report Mr Sujit Nair speaks about Congress leader Sachin Pilot's Jan Sangharsh Yatra and the political turmoil in the state of Rajasthan.

The Congress wrested control of the crucial Karnataka from the Bharatiya Janata Party in the assembly election, boosting its prospects ahead of the Lok Sabha elections due next year. The Congress ended up winning 135 of Karnataka's 244 seats - a record in terms of both seats and vote share. The BJP could only win 66 seats and HD Kumaraswamy's Janata Dal (Secular) 19 seats. Accompanied by state Congress president DK Shivakumar, veteran leader Siddaramaiah and AICC in-charge of Karnataka Randeep Singh Surjewala at a victory ceremony on Saturday evening, Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge said, “Those who wanted to make 'Congress Mukt Bharat' (Congress-free India) spoke many things against us but today one thing has come true and that is 'BJP Mukt Dakshin Bharat' (BJP free South India)."

Watch the new episode of punchline by advertising and marketing stalvart Tarun Chauhan where he expalisn why brands fail.

CBI books Sameer Wankhede for seeking Rs 25 crore bribe for not framing Aryan Khan. To Know More, Watch Full Report.

DK Shivakumar, overjoyed by the Congress's performance in the Karnataka assembly election 2023, on Saturday got emotional while recalling senior leader Sonia Gandhi's visit to Delhi's Tihar jail to meet him in 2020 when he was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a money laundering case.

The move to promote 68 judges of Gujarat has received a major setback from the Supreme Court. The top court has stayed the promotion of all these judges. Incidentally, the judge who sentenced Rahul Gandhi to two years imprisonment in defamation case is also included in the list. Earlier, the judge hit the headlines for being promoted in less time. Let's talk about this in today's video. Recently, the Gujarat High Court had approved the promotion of 68 judges and the Gujarat government had also issued a notification regarding this. However, two judicial officers raised questions on the way promotions were done. They filed a petition in Supreme Court and demanded a stay on promotions. In their petition, the petitioners have criticized the approach adopted by the High Court.The judges against whose promotion the petition was filed include Judge Harish Verma, who held Rahul Gandhi guilty of defamation, and Judge Jayesh L Chowtia, who issued summons to Kejriwal in the defamation case.

Amid heavy security, former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan today arrived at the Islamabad High Court for a bail hearing after the country’s apex court invalidated his incarceration yesterday evening.Watch this news report by Mr Sujit Nair to understand the case.

Watch Sujit Nair decode Maharastra's Shiv Sena versus Shiv Sena verdict by Supreme court with senior SC lawyer Viplav Sharma.

"“This beautiful Indian girl from London is a great admirer.” Just this one line text led to DRDO senior scientist Pradeep Kurulkar spilling secrets to Pakistani agent. The 59 year old was neither blackmailed nor threatened but Kept sharing secret information with the agent in exchange for nudes and sexting. The investigation has revealed that the honey trapped senior DRDO scientist shared crucial information regarding Brahmos Missile and Agnee missile with the Pakistani agent whom he had never really seen. The arrest of senior DRDO scientist Pradeep Kurulkar by Maharashtra ATS and subsequent investigation has revealed shocking information. Not only that, Kurulkar’s alleged connection with RSS is also under scrutiny on social media. Besides Congress has raised questions over the matter as DRDO comes under Prime Minister. What exactly is the matter? How Was Pradeep Kurulkar honey trapped? How was he caught and was he connected to RSS? Let’s talk about this in today’s video.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump has been for the first time found liable for sexual abuse against magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll. After a civil trial that lasted two weeks and under three hours of deliberation, the jury found Mr. Trump not liable for rape but liable for sexual abuse and defamation. The jury ordered him to pay Ms. Carroll 5 million dollars in compensatory damages. During the trial, she testified that Donald Trump had sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in Manhattan in either 1995 or 1996.

"The movie, The Kerala Story has stirred controversy in the country even before it was released. While the movie has been criticized by Kerala leaders and people saying it is an attempt to defame the state, some states especially BJP ruled-like Madhya Pradesh and UP have moved towards making it a tax-free movie. Even the chief ministers of these states, promoted the movie and appealed to everyone to watch it. This came after the movie received support from PM Modi during a campaign rally in Poll-Bound Karnataka. Now On one hand when some state govts are making it tax-free and appealing people to watch it, on the other some state govts especially those ruled by the opposition are considering banning it, citing that the film may provoke people and create communal disharmony. On Monday, West bengal CM Mamata Banerjee in a Press conference announced that the movie will be banned in the state. The Makers have however moved to court against this ban. What is the entire matter? Let's understand in today's video.

Watch our new show Punchile by Tarun Chauhan in which Advertising vetran Tarun Chauhan speak about what makes a good leader and the importance of good leadership.

Some People in Kerala have opposed the movie. They say the movie is an attempt to defame the state. In a unique resistance against the movie, the people are sharing heartwarming stories of secularism, kindness and harmony beyond religious lines under the hashtag MyKerala Story. Oscar winning Indian Sound Designer Resul Pokutty too has urged people to share their stories using this hashtag

In this new show advertising stallwart and founder of TSC consultancy speaks about why brand BJP sells and where UPA is falling short.

In this report Mr Sujit Nair discusess about the recent murder that took place inside India's top jail, Tihar in presence of the police force.

In this news report Mr Sujit Nair speaks about the alleged assassination attempt on Vladimir Putin.

In this news report Mr Sujit Nair speaks about the ongoing violence in the state of Manipur and the reason why it broke out.

Is the film The Kerala story misleading and is it slandering the state's and country;s image?

In a move that came as a surprise to many, veteran politician Sharad Pawar on Tuesday resigned as president of the Nationalist Congress Party, the political outfit he floated more than two decades ago. "I have decided to step down as the president of the NCP," Pawar said at a press briefing. His announcement was greeted by loud exclamations from the gathering.

"Leader of Opposition in Kerala Legislative Assembly VD Satheesan on Friday said that the film ‘The Kerala Story’ should not be granted permission for screening. “The film ‘The Kerala Story’ which falsely claims that 32,000 women in Kerala converted and became members of the Islamic State, should not be granted permission for screening. The trailer clearly shows what the film intends to say”, Satheesan said in a Facebook post.

Six days after India's elite wrestlers took to the streets demanding a First Information Report (FIR) be filed against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, Delhi Police agreed to lodge the FIR on Friday, bringing what the wrestlers termed their "first victory in quest for justice." Appearing before a bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha, the police, represented by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, stated, “The FIR will be registered today.” The protesting wrestlers and their supporters, tracking the development throughout the day on social media, broke into a loud cheer as soon as the news was made public. Later in the day, two FIRs were lodged against Singh at the Connaught Place Police Station. The first FIR pertains to allegations levelled by a minor victim which is registered under POCSO Act along with relevant IPC sections concerning outraging of modesty etc. A second FIR was registered for carrying out comprehensive investigations into the complaints of others — adult complainants — under relevant sections, the Delhi Police said.

The CBI will on Friday question former Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik in connection with its probe in the alleged insurance “scam” in the Union Territory which came to light after his statement that he was offered bribes to clear related files, officials said. A CBI team arrived around 11.45 am at the Som Vihar residence of Malik in the RK Puram area of the national capital to seek clarifications from him on his claims, they said. Malik is not an accused or a suspect in the case so far, they said. This is the second time in seven months that Malik, who has served as the governor of various states, will be quizzed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

As the date of polling for Karnataka Assembly comes closer, the politics and the campaign is getting more aggressive. A day ago, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge took a dig at PM Modi and without taking any name termed him Poisonous Snake. He also later apologized for the remark. But now a BJP candidate has hit back, calling Sonia Gandhi a Vishkanya and Rahul Gandhi a mad person. The war of words has raised the political temperature in the state. Let's talk about this in today's video. Karnataka BJP leader Basangouda Patil Yatnal drove headfirst into the raging name calling controversy when on Thursday, he asked whether Congress leader Sonia Gandhi was a “vishakanya” and called Rahul Gandhi mad, while attacking AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge for his “poisonous snake” remark about Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Speaking at a rally in Yelburga on Thursday evening, he also alleged that Sonia Gandhi was an agent of China and Pakistan.

In this news report Mr Sujit Nair speaks about atleate and Rajya Sabha MP PT Usha's statement on the Wrestlers protest agaisnt WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.

A formal meeting between Foreign Minister S Jaishankar of India and his Pakistani counterpart Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is unlikely to take place when the latter visits India next month for a meeting of a regional bloc, sources said on Wednesday.

Senior Congress leaders Randeep Singh Surjewala, Dr Parmeshwar and DK Shivakumar have filed a police complaint in Bengaluru's High Grounds Police Station against Union Home Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah and organisers of a BJP rally for making provocative statements, promoting enmity and hatred and maligning opposition.

Ahead of the Karnataka assembley elections 2023 the pre poll survey's are predicting a hung assembley. Watch this news report by Mr Sujit Nair to know what the numbers have in store for the political parties.

With just 14 days remaining for the voting for Karnataka Assembly Elections, all the parties have intensified their campaigns. However, everyone is wondering what exactly is the mood of Karnataka? Which way the state is leaning? Currently the state has BJP govt led by BS Bommai, he has been at the top seat for little over 1 year. Before him, BS Yediyurappa was Karnataka CM. The state govt is marred with multiple accusations of corruption, it has also very infamously got the name of 40% Sarkara, there is internal struggle within the party as well as, senior leaders deserting the party. On the other hand, in Congress too fissures have been reported within the Siddaramaiah and DK Sivakumar camp. However, both the leaders have put up united front, or at least that is what they want to portray to the world. JDS is also trying to improve its tally this time around. But who has strong footing in this election? The election that is said to be the one to set tone for 2024 elections and likely fuel Modi’s southward journey. Let’s talk about this in today’s video:

The BJP trained its guns on Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal over the expenditure on rebuilding and renovation of his official Civil Lines residence. The AAP hit back, saying the nearly 80-year-old house was structurally unsafe and had to be rebuilt. Alleging the Delhi government had spent over Rs 45 crore of taxpayers’ money on the project, Leader of Opposition in the Delhi Assembly Ramvir Bidhuri called Kejriwal a “luxurious king” and demanded his resignation. “When Delhi was struggling with Covid, CM of Delhi was spending crores on getting his house renovated. In 2013, he used to say he will neither take a house, security or official vehicle. But he ended up spending Rs 45 crore on renovation of his house,” alleged the BJP leader.

Five-time former Punjab chief minister and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) patriarch Parkash Singh Badal passed away on Tuesday. He was 95. Badal was admitted at a hospital in Mohali more than a week ago after he complained of uneasiness while breathing. Badal passed away at around 8 pm on April 25. The hospital issued a medical bulletin shortly afterwards in which it said, "Despite appropriate medical management S Parkash Singh Badal succumbed to his illness. Fortis Hospital Mohali deeply condoles the death of S Parkash Singh Badal." Parkash Singh Badal served as the Chief Minister of Punjab five times. He was the chief minister from 1970-1971, from 1977-1980, from 1997-2002, and from 2007-2017 (two consecutive terms). He was also the youngest Chief Minister to have ever hold office in the state of Punjab.

With the week-long crisis in Sudan showing no signs of a truce, India on Monday launched ‘Operation Kaveri’ to evacuate its nationals from the violence-hit African nation. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said India’s ships and aircraft are set to bring the Indians back home. “Operation Kaveri gets underway to bring back our citizens stranded in Sudan. About 500 Indians have reached Port Sudan. More on their way,” Jaishankar tweeted. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had chaired a high-level meeting to look into the situation on Saturday. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said in a statement on Sunday that it has positioned two Indian Air Force C-130J on standby in Jeddah and the Indian Navy vessel INS Sumedha has reached Port Sudan. It said that the embassy is in touch with the Indians stuck in the African nation.

Three months back the Indian wrestling world was shaken, it was reckoned with a #MeToo moment. Hundreds of top wrestlers of the country, some olympic medal winners sat down at Jantar Mantar in Delhi, in cold winter. They were protesting against Wrestling Federation of India President Brij Bhushan Singh. Their allegation is that Brij Bhushan Singh Sexually exploited some female sportspersons. The protest was called off after govt assured that their concerns will be addressed and Brij Bhushan Singh will step aside pending inquiry. Three months on, the wrestlers are back at Jantar Mantar. Seeking justice, the medal winning athletes spent their night sleeping on a footpath.

A district court jury in Australia’s Sydney found an Indian-origin man Guilty of 39 charges against him including rape. The jury found that the man posted deceptive job offers online to lure Korean women, spiked their drinks/food, and raped/assaulted them while they were unconscious. Over and above this horrendous crime, he even filmed it and saved it in his computer with a spreadsheet detailing the names of the Korean women, what he thought about them and whether he should pursue them or not. The videos were shown in the courtroom, and they were so unsettling that the jury asked to be sent home early. Reportedly, when the prosecutors, jury and court staff spilled into the hallway later, some had red eyes and some were visibly shaking. The Sydney morning herald termed him “one of the worst rapists” in the city’s recent history. But why am I telling you this story? Because the man in question here is reportedly connected to political elites in India. He is a founder and ex-chief of the organization “Overseas Friends of BJP”- Balesh Dhankhar. And he was clicked several times with the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi Who is Balesh Dhankhar? How did he trap Korean women in his web of lies? How was he nabbed? What is his connection with BJP? And how did he have access to the prime minister?

At least 31 people belonging to the Hakki-Pikki tribal community from Karnataka are stranded in Al-ashir, 1,000km from Sudanese capital Khartoum, where rival factions of the ruling military regime have been battling for control of the African nation. With appeals for help pouring in, the Indian embassy in Sudan has advised Indian nationals not to step out, ration their supplies and seek help from neighbours, as the situation seemed unlikely to change in the next few days. The stranded Indians have issued appeals for help. They have said that food is running out and they are not even getting water to drink. Hakki-Pikki’ is one of the major tribal communities in Karnataka. In Kannada, the word ‘Hakki’ stands for ‘bird' and ‘Pikki’ stands for the verb ‘to catch’. Therefore, the community is known as the ‘bird catcher,’ which is their traditional occupation. The Hakki-Pikki community migrated from the northern India population. According to the 2011 census, the population of Hakki-Pikki is 11,892. After their trade of bird hunting was outlawed, they were rehabilitated in the 1970s. They began doing odd jobs like working in fields and sharpening knives and sickles by riding around towns on bicycles after bird-hunting was banned. They also sell the herbal remedies they extract. The tribe is predominantly found in Shivamogga, Davanagere and Mysuru districts of Karnataka. In Karnataka, the Hakki-Pikkis are renowned for their indigenous medicines. The community resided in the dense jungles for a long time and created its own plant and herb-based medicine systems. The Hakki-Pikkis have traditional medical knowledge that is in demand in several African countries. Therefore, community members have been travelling to the continent for the last many years. Meanwhile, war of words broke out between former Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah and External affairs minister S jaishankar. Siddaramaiah tagged PM Modi, HM Amit shah, EAM S Jaishankar and CM Bommai on twitter and urged them for the safe return of stranded Indians from Hakki pikki tribe. He also blamed the union govt for not initiating a safe return of the tribals stuck in the African nation. Replying to it S Jaishankar said that he was ""appalled"" at these tweets. Responding to this, Siddaramaiah said if Jaishankar was appalled at appeals, then he can redirect the appeal to someone else. As per the updates, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday held a high-level to review the situation related to Indians who are stuck in Sudan. PM Modi has also directed the preparation of contingency evacuation plans.

Former governor of Jammu and Kashmir, Satyapal Malik who levelled serious allegations against PM Modi on Pulwama terror attack and said that PM is not much averse to corruption, has found himself in trouble now. The CBI has reportedly summoned Satyapal Malik to answer questions regarding corruption allegations he made. Earlier, on Friday, Satyapal Malik himself revealed that he was called by the CBI. Later PTI reported that CBI has sent the former governor of J&K the summons to appear before them for questioning. The case in question involves Reliance insurance. What's the matter let's talk about this in today's video.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi vacated his official residence in central Delhi today, the last day of the deadline following his disqualification as an MP of the lower house of the Parliament. Rahul Gandhi, and his sister and Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, have visited the bungalow twice since the morning. The Lok Sabha Housing Committee, headed by BJP MP CR Patil, had sent him a letter asking him to vacate his 12 Tughlaq Lane bungalow, which he has been occupying since 2005, by April 22. Though he is required to move out according to protocol, Congress leaders have accused the Centre of political vendetta. A disqualified MP is not entitled to a government accommodation and gets a one-month period to vacate his official residence. Exiting his official residence for the last time, Rahul Gandhi said he was being ""punished"" for speaking the truth. He said he doesn't want to live in the house any more as it was given to him by the people of India but has now been "snatched away".

Remember? How in the run up to 2014, an alleged scam emerged involving Robert Vadra and DLF? The BJP picked it up and made into a poll issue. The UPA govt which was already battling allegations of corruption, was on the backfoot, especially because Robert Vadra is related to Gandhi family. And it worked for the BJP. The controversy around the land deal among several other corruption allegations on UPA, helped BJP to come to power in 2014. Now 11 years later, BJP govt in Haryana has told the Punjab and Haryana High Court that “no regulations/ rules have been found violated in the deal in question between Robert Vadra and DLF. Former Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda who was CM at the time when this controversy erupted, said that he has always maintained that it was a politically motivated case and there was no corruption in it. Is it so? Let’s talk about it in today’s video. What was the controversial deal that tainted the UPA regime and almost brought Congress to its knees? And why has the Haryana govt under BJP has given the deal a clean chit?

Twenty to 25 leaders of various Khaps who had gone to Satya Pal Malik’s New Delhi house to show solidarity with the former Jammu and Kashmir governor who will be questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation were detained by Delhi Police on the afternoon of Saturday, April 22. It is not yet clear if Malik too has been detained, although The Wire can confirm that he has gone into the R.K. Puram police station along with the detained leaders.

If you’re wondering why is it unusually hot in your city these days? Well, you’re not alone. Today, the temperature in Mumbai is at 35 degree Celsius. On Wednesday, Mumbai recorded the third highest maximum day temperature in April in the last decade. And the situation is not very different in many other cities or even villages. This is because India is suffering from a heatwave. How bad is it? Well, according to a study Over 90 percent of India's total area is in the ""extremely cautious"" or ""danger zone"" of being hit by heatwaves. That’s how bad the situation is. But it is not only impacting your personal health but, in some cases, also killing people and hurting economy. In today’s video we will talk about the Why Heatwaves have become frequent in India? What are their impact? And most importantly, what should you do to keep yourselves safe from heatwave?

In a clash of notions on male and female between a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court and the Union government, Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud on Tuesday said there was no absolute concept of man or woman and the postulation was far more complex than categorising a person according to the born-with genitals.

Last year, on August 15th, India Celebrated Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav. 75 years of Independence. In his speech at the Red fort PM Modi, spoke about the Nari Shakti passionately, the same evening 11 people convicted, not even accused, but those convicted of Bilkis Bano’s gangrape came out of jail, almost with a triumphant look on their face. Bilkis bano, who is now in her 40s was just 19 years old when she was gangraped during the 2002 Gujarat riots in the aftermath of Godhra train burning. Now, Supreme court which had asked the Centre to file its submissions in the matter said, Today it is this lady (Bilkis). Tomorrow, it can be you or me. The Supreme Court today inquired from the Gujarat Government about the reasons behind its decision to allow premature release of 11 life convicts in the Bilkis Bano case.

The Supreme Court begins hearing a batch of requests seeking legal recognition of same-sex marriages, a day after the government reiterated its opposition to any such legal move. Arguing against legal sanction to gay marriages, the centre yesterday termed such requests as ""mere urban elitist views for social acceptance"". A five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court comprising Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, and Justices SK Kaul, Ravindra Bhat, Hima Kohli, and PS Narasimha heard the petitions.

Just ahead of Next month’s high stake Karnataka Assembly elections, the BJP is facing a full-blown crisis. Several senior leaders of the party are quitting. And well, they are not just quitting, they are also joining Congress. While the BJP barely recovered from the shock resignation of former DyCM Laxman Savadi, came another major jolt this week to the party. Senior leader of the party, 6 time MLA, Jagdish Shettar quit the BJP after not getting ticket from the saffron party. Hours after, he joined Congress. Not only that, he also secured a ticket for his traditional constituency. Now why has Jagdish Shettar’s resignation rocked the BJP in Karnataka? Because he is among the very first batch leaders of the party units in the state, enjoys goodwill of the sangh and influences at least 20-25 seats in Kittur Karnataka. While, former BJP CM BS Yediyurappa who is Shettar’s contemporary, has put up a brave face and said that he will stand with BJP and it will come back to power, one cannot say that Shettar and Savadi quitting has not worried the party at all. Let’s talk about this in today’s video.

There’s a saying in Marathi. Jaat kadhi jaat nahi. Caste never goes away. While this is relevant even today in societal construct, it is also true to political construct, as Politics is a part of the society. And certainly it plays a very important role when it comes to elections. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi who was in karnataka’s Kolar on Sunday, as a part of party’s election campaign demanded a caste census. He dared the govt o release the caste census undertaken in 2011. He also demanded that the govt should do away with the 50% cap on reservation. In the past Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar demanded for the nationwide caste census. The demand prominently came from Bihar as the state is home to political leaders who rose to power from the Mandal-Kamandal politics. But it is probably for the first time that Rahul Gandhi has prominently made the demand for releasing the caste census. And it assumes much importance especially because of the upcoming Karnataka assembly elections. Let us discuss about this in today’s video. Why is caste census demand being made by Congress? Why now? And what are the impact of the demand on Karnataka?

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s visit to a Nandini store on Sunday intensified the Amul-Nandini row in Karnataka. While the Congress called the milk cooperative the state’s pride, the BJP dismissed the move as a “gimmick”. Hours after his rally in Kolar, Gandhi went to a Nandini milk parlour along with state Congress president DK Shivakumar. Tweeted a picture later, he said: “Karnataka’s Pride – NANDINI is the best!” The BJP quickly shot back, with Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya tweeting: “Glad that Rahul Gandhi thinks Nandini is the best. There is no doubt about it. I request him to intervene in Kerala for smooth sale of Nandini. If not, this will be yet another gimmick.

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal while participating in the discussion in the House, narrated a story and targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The title of the story was Chauthi Paas Raja. He said that in this story there was only the king and there was no queen. He sarcastically said that after studying till the fourth standard, the boy dropped out and took up a job at a tea stall. Then he also became a king, but he was not educated, so he started feeling troubled that he was less educated, so he took a fake degree.

As many as eleven people were left dead due to heatstroke and over 120 people complained of heat-related health issues at the Maharashtra Bhushan award event in Navi Mumbai's Kharghar on Sunday. "Eleven people have died from heatstroke during Maharashtra Bhushan Award ceremony in Navi Mumbai's Kharghar," Maharashtra CMO said in a statement on late Sunday night.

In a bizarre blame game, almost hilarious to that effect has taken place in Tamil nadu. Last sunday, on the occassion of 50 years of Project Tiger, PM Modi visiter Bandipur Tiger forest reserve. In the two hour jungle safari, PM covered about 20 KM. For the trip, the Prime Minister sported camouflage clothing, with a hat. While, during his safari the PM spotted animals, from elephants, nilgai to deers and monkeys, he couldn't spot any tiger. But now, Madhusudhan, the 29-year-old driver of the vehicle in which the PM travelled, is being blamed, and some BJP leaders and senior forest department officials have demanded that action be taken against him for not choosing a route where tigers could be spotted. However, some forest officials blame PM's high security for this. These officials stood up for Madhusudhan and said “he did his job”. They claimed he “took the route which was finalised” by the PM’s security staff beforehand. The reserve’s director Ramesh Kumar was quoted as saying that “in the name of high security, vehicles repeatedly went on the selected route, hampering the sightings”.

Four years ago, Karnataka faced a political crisis. More than dozen MLAs from the ruling Cong-JDS govt switched sides and declared support to BJP, bringing down the incumbent govt. BJP was accused of engineering the Defection of MLAs and luring them with money. In the aftermath of the political crisis the party did form a govt in the state, but now the same BJp is facing massive revolt, with just less than a month to go for Karnataka assembly election. The party even before the announcement of the candidate list was facing factionalism, but after the candidate list, the saffron party's troubles have only increased. According to a report, the party is facing rebellion in as many as 40 constituencies. This has even prompted the dig from Congress, 40% commission govt facing rebellion in 40 constituencies. Let's talk about this in today's video.

Days after Kailash Vijayvargiya stoked controversy for his comments in which he compared the girls wearing “dirty clothes” with Shuparnakha (a mythical figure from the Ramayana), Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra on Friday slammed the senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader saying “our clothes aren’t ‘gandey' (dirty), your 'soch' (mentality) is.”

As the bail extended to Rahul gandhi by Surat court comes to an End today, session court in the city is hearing Rahul Gandhi's plea against his conviction. Rahul Gandhi was convicted in a defamation case over his statement how come all the thieves have Modi surname? The statement was made in 2019 in Karnataka's Kolar; however, the defamation case was filed by BJP leader purnesh Modi in Surat. A month ago, the Surat court found Rahul gandhi guilty. Following this, Rahul gandhi was disqualified from Lok Sabha, where he represents Wayanad constituency. Not only that he was also asked to vacate his bunglow. Days after his conviction Rahul gandhi moved to sessions court to challenge his conviction. Judge Robin Mogera is specifically hearing Gandhi's plea for a stay on his conviction.

In a major development, Gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed’s son Asad has been killed in an encounter by UP Police. Asad Ahmed was wanted in Umesh Pal murder case. He was killed in UP STF encounter in Jhansi. Not only that, but another person, Mohammed Ghulam was also killed in the encounter by the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force. The Team was led by Deputy SP Navendu and Deputy SP Vimal. According to ANI, Police recovered sophisticated foreign-made weapons from both. Asad’s encounter comes on a day when his father, gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed has been produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Court in Prayagraj in the Umesh Pal murder case.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal met his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar and Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav in Delhi today, leading to speculation of a major coming together of opposition parties to take on the BJP in the national election next year. ""Nitish ji has taken a good initiative of gathering all opposition parties under one roof. We are on board with this and like the way it is adding up,"" Mr Kejriwal told reporters after meeting Mr Kumar.

Old, Rich, Opinionated and Dangerous- that's what George Soros was called by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar almost two months ago. He had said that people like Soros start questioning the democratic setup when the electoral outcomes are not according to their liking. His statement came after the 92 year old billionaire philanthropist at a munich conference said that PM Modi will have to answer foreign investors and parliament on fraud allegations against Adani. ""This will significantly weaken Modi's stranglehold on India's federal government and open the door to push for much-needed institutional reforms. I may be naive, but I expect a democratic revival in India"". His statements triggered a massive controversy in India. The central ministers jumped in defence of PM Modi and attacked George Soros. There have been multiple conspiracy theories revolving around George Soros and his open society foundation which gives grants to several human rights organizations, NGOs across the world. According to conspiracy theorists, Soros uses his money power to infuse funds in NGOs which in turn help in destabilizing govts in different countries. But while the Modi govt has been slamming George Soros, an Indian Express report says that India is a top contributor of UN Democracy Fund by George Soros, whose mission is to promote democracy across the world through local and international NGOs and civil society organisations (CSOs). Many of these NGOs are already linked with Philanthropic arm of George Soros.

On Monday, the Aam Aadmi Party became a national party, almost 9 years after the party fought its first election. On the other hand, parties like CPI, TMC and NCP lost the tag of National party. The celebrations are on among AAP workers. Whereas TMC chief Mamata Banerjee is miffed with the decision of Election commission and has moved to Supreme court. Now, you might wonder, few months ago Mamata Banerjee has launched a campaign to project herself as the leader of the Opposition, a national leader who can fight BJP. While her party has lost the national party tag, AAP of Kejriwal has gained the tag of National Party. So what goes into the consideration of terming a party, national party? How is being a national party different from other parties? How many national parties are there in the country? What is the benefit of being a national party?

Congress Chairperson Sonia Gandhi today criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government in an editorial. She criticised PM Modi and his govt for attacking India’s institutions, misusing government agencies, undermining the judiciary, and compromising the Indian media in an editorial for The Hindu. In the piece titled 'An enforced silence cannot solve India’s problems', Sonia said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's statements ""either ignore the most pressing, vital issues of the day, or are platitudes and verbal gymnastics to gloss over or distract from these issues."" She said that Modi’s actions speak far louder than his words. While His statements — when he is not venting anger on the Opposition or blaming past leaders for today’s ills, His actions, leave little to the imagination on the government’s true intentions.

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"The move by Amul Cooperative Society — the dairy giant from Anand in Gujarat — to venture into the Bengaluru retail market with its dairy products (milk and curd) has been met with flak and suspicion by farmers and residents of Karnataka. Amul’s announcement comes at a time dairy farmers have been expressing concerns over the adverse impact the Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF) and its flagship brand Nandini — as well as farmers dependent on the cooperative — may face if richer and stronger brands like Amul are allowed to compete in the marketplace. Union Home Minister and Minister for Cooperation Amit Shah calling for “cooperation” between Gujarat’s Amul and Karnataka’s Nandini had led to a flurry of angry reactions from farmers and Kannada rights activists alike. Social media was abuzz recently with teasers and advertisements from Amul Cooperative Society’s Twitter handle. In one such teaser, the dairy giant stated that Amul milk and curd would be available from Kengeri to Whitefield, wishing everyone a ‘Taaza’ (fresh) day! Many residents of Bengaluru expressed discontent online over Amul’s move to enter Karnataka, which has its own Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF) and its favourite brand Nandini for milk and curd. One netizen posted: “So this story is coming true of Amul taking over brand Nandini of @kmfnandinimilk.. Already Milk n Curd of Nandini r in shortage in Bengaluru n Nandini Ghee is out of stock since last 2 months…”

The Adani-Hindenberg row is a political hot potato in India. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has been attacking BJP and Prime Minister Modi over his alleged closeness to the businessman. He has even accused the Prime minister of trying to defend his alleged Businessman Friend. In the parliament too, Congress demanded a JPC to probe the allegations levelled by Hindenburg on Adani. In this, Congress also received support from other opposition parties. Congress was able to bring as many as 19 opposition parties together over this demand. and that's why when NCP chief sharad pawar said that he believes Adani Group is being “targeted” by unknown entities with questionable motives, it left Congress red faced. But why did Sharad pawar say that? what's the reason behind it? and how did Congress react to it?

The number of corona patients in the country has started increasing once again. In the last 24 hours, 6,050 new cases have been reported in the country, while 14 people have died. The figure of active cases has also increased to 28 thousand 303. Here, Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya held a review meeting with the States-Union Territories on Friday. Mandaviya has asked the health ministers of the states to visit all the hospitals on April 10 and 11 and review the mock drill. Mandaviya said- We have reviewed the current situation of Corona. States have been directed to identify emergency hotspots, increase testing, genome sequencing and improve hospital infrastructure.

In the rapidly growing information world, we often come across Fake news, misinformation and disinformation. There are efforts to tackle the menace of the fake news. But the question is who should be in charge of busting fake news? Who should get to decide what is and what isn't fake news? Well, the govt has now decided to constitute a fact checking unit with sweeping powers to determine what is fake or false news related to the business of central govt. Not only that it will also have the authority to order takedown to intermediaries. Additionally, the govt has decided to give more powers to the Press Information Bureau (PIB) to fact-check any 'fake, false or misleading' information about the central government. The move however has received a sharp criticism from media bodies, editors guild and internet freedom advocates. Let's understand what are these rules? What the critics are saying and what will be its impact?

Earlier this week, Kannada Actor Kichcha Sudeep officially gave the BJP his support ahead of the Karnataka elections on April 5. The Vikrant Rona star has appeared earlier with several political leaders. He even was clicked with Congress Karnataka chief DK Shivakumar. But never expressed his political views earlier - this is the first time he has been seen in the political arena. In a press conference conducted By CM Basavaraj Bommai, Kichcha Sudeep stated that he will campaign for the BJP but will not contest the elections.Sudeep said he would campaign for candidates who Bommai suggests. "I have friends and well-wishers in all parties. Bommai, who I fondly call 'mama', was one of those few people who stood by me during the initial days of my career... I will stand by him and support him. It's my duty," he told reporters.

A few days ago, the Karnataka govt stripped the Muslim community in the state off 4% Backward Class quota in government jobs and education. On March 30, the government notified a decision taken by the cabinet to scrap the 4% backward classes quota for Muslims — they have been recognised as a backward class in Karnataka for more than 100 years — and to reallot the Muslim OBC quota to the two most dominant communities in the state, Lingayats and Vokkaligas. The changes in the reservation norms kicked up a major political storm in a poll-bound state. So much so that it also appeared in the meeting of 17 representatives of Muslim community with Home Minister Amit Shah. However, Amit Shah said that confusion is being spread and Pasmanda Muslims will continue to get reservation in Karnataka and clarification in such regard will soon be should by Law Ministry,

Two days ago we spoke about NCERT making some changes to the syllabus of 10, 11 and 12th standard and omitting some portions on Mughal history. Turns out not only chapters and paras related to Mughal history but some information regarding mahatma Gandhi has also been deleted from political science book of 12th class. According to an Indian Express report, Some information that was taught to class 12 students for more than 15 years about Mahatma Gandhi has been purged from the textbooks. Incidentally, these changes or omissions did not figure in the “list of rationalised content” officially released by the (NCERT) in June last year. but appears in the new textbooks printed that hit the market. Some of the information that were deleted were regarding Mahatma Gandhi's work on Hindu-Muslim unity and Extremist elements that were against it. One of the sentence also mentions the ban on RSS after Gandhiji's killing.

"In a relief for Kerala news channel Media One, the Supreme Court today lifted the ban imposed by the central govt last year. On January 31, 2022 MediaOne channel was taken off air after MIB decided to not renew the channel's license in the absence of security clearance from the Ministry of Home Affairs. The Court passed the judgment in a special leave petition filed by Madhyamam Broadcasting Ltd (MBL) - the company running the channel. It had challenged the Kerala High Court verdict upholding the ban imposed by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The channel's editor Pramod Raman and the Kerala Union of Working Journalists had also filed separate petitions challenging the High Court's judgment. The Supreme Court struck down the ban and pulled up the Ministry of Home Affairs for raising national security claims in ""thin air"" without facts. The top court said critical views of the channel against government policies cannot be termed as anti-establishment as an independent press is necessary for robust democracy.

On Monday, first national conference of All India Federation for Social Justice was held. The conference was spearheaded by DMK chief MK Stalin. The theme of the event is ""Taking Forward The Struggle For Social Justice And Joint National Programme For Social Justice Movement"". Stalin launched this platform in 2022. According to a press release, The Federation seeks to unite like-minded Leaders, political parties, social activists, organisations and civil society on a common platform to fight for social justice across the nation. Interestingly, almost all the opposition parties in the country attended the first ever national conference of the Social Justice federation. What Happened at the conference? Who said what? and is this another step in the direction to ensure larger opposition unity??? Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin made the first Presidential address at the All India Federation for Social Justice. The meeting was held in a hybrid mode. Stalin made a strong pitch for opposition unity ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, saying there was ""no use in seperate voices,"" and there should be collective effort towards ensuring federalism, equality and social justice. Stalin also batted for caste-based census. The Meeting was attended by top political leaders of India. Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav, General Secretary of CPI(M) Sitaram Yechury, General Secretary of CPI D Raja, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav, President JKNC Farooq Abdullah, TMC MP Derek O Brien, NCP MLA Chhagan Chandrakant Bhujbal, AAP MP Sanjay Singh, RJD leader Manoj Kumar Jha, MP Muhammed Basheer, BRS MP Keshava Rao attended it. MDMK leader Vaiko, Thol Thirumavalavan of the VCK, MH Jawahirullah, MLA, ER Eswaran of the KMDK, and K Veeramani of the Dravidar Kazhagam, also attended the event.

"India on Tuesday outrightly rejected China's renaming of certain places in Arunachal Pradesh, and asserted that the state is an integral and inalienable part of India

The mughal history taught in India has always been a touchy subject politically. But what if it was also removed from the school textbooks? Well, Class 12 students of UP Board and the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will no longer study the history of the Mughal courts. The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has removed chapters and topics related to ‘Kings and Chronicles; the Mughal Courts (C. 16th and 17th centuries)’ from history book ‘Themes of Indian History-Part II’ under its new rationalised syllabus to be taught in Class 12 from the academic session 2023-24. Similarly, lessons regarding the ‘Central Islamic lands’, ‘Confrontation of cultures’ and ‘The Industrial Revolution’ too have been removed from the Class 11 textbook ‘Themes In World History’, they add.

Since January, the Adani group of companies have been in the news. First, the Hindenburg report, its aftermath and now the demand for JPC by opposition into Adani group companies and allegations levelled by Hindenburg report. Amid this, a new development has caught attention. The former Ambassador of Israel to India Ron Malka has been appointed as Executive Chairman of Haifa Port Company (HPC), which is owned by a consortium of Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (APSEZ) and Israel’s Gadot Group. The former Ambassador in a tweet on Sunday confirmed the news. He wrote, “I'm honored and privileged to take office today as Executive Chairman of the Haifa Port Company, on behalf of @AdaniOnline. The experience and expertise of Adani and Gadot, combined with the dedication of the port workers, will take Haifa Port to new heights of prosperity."" In July 2022, a consortium of India’s Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (APSEZ) and Israel’s Gadot Group won the tender for privatizing the Port of Haifa, the second largest port in Israel handling over half of Israel’s container cargo..

This week, Sexual Harrassment allegations rocked prestigious classical arts institute in Chennai Kalakshetra. Amid the continuous protest by students of the institute seeking action against the accused, an FIR was registered against Hari Padman, one of the four people who have been accused of sexual harassment at Kalakshetra Foundation's Rukmini Devi College of Fine Arts in Chennai. He has been booked by the Tamil Nadu police under IPC Sections 354A (sexual harassment), 506 (criminal intimidation) and Section 4 (penalty for harassment of woman) of the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Woman Act. This action comes on the second day of continuous protests by the students of Kalakshetra against the sexual harassment accused, and against the institution for their inaction. Hari Padman is likely to be called in for questioning soon. Hari Padman has been accused of sexually harassing several students over the years. Kalakshetra is a Union government-funded institution and has been declared an institute of national importance. Several students have accused the institution of propagating a toxic culture, and many allegations of sexual harassment were levelled against four faculty members: Hari Padman, Sanjith Lal, Sai Krishnan, and Sreenath. Chief Minister MK Stalin addressed the allegations in the Assembly on Friday and promised legal action if they were found to be true.

A Supreme Court bench of Justices K.M. Joseph and B.V. Nagarathna had harsh words to say on the role of the state in taking action against incidents of hate speech. The bench was hearing a petition asking for contempt of court action against the Maharashtra government over their alleged failure to act against hate speeches during rallies. The petitions alleged that the state government was ignoring the Supreme Court’s own directions when dealing with processions of the Sakal Hindu Samaj. The Supreme Court bench had also asked authorities to take relevant action against proponents of hate speech without waiting for a complaint to be filed. The Supreme Court, on Wednesday, repeated its concerns over failure of authorities to take prompt action against instances of hate speech. “State is impotent, state is powerless; it does not act in time. Why do we have a State at all if it is remaining silent?” in very stringent words Justice KM Joseph aired his anguish during the hearing. Yesterday, Advocate, Mr. Nizam Pasha, appearing for the petitioner, had apprised the Court that the contempt petition has been filed based on a news article published in the the Indian Express, which mentioned that 50 rallies spurring hate has taken place in Maharashtra in the last 4 months.

Can there be a language debate over Curd? well, it has just started. With just few days left for Karnataka elections, the Hindi Imposition debate has made a comeback in the state. It all started with spelling curd on a packet of curd. Recently, A Food Safety and Standard Authority of India (FSSAI) order directed the Karnataka Co-operative Milk Producers Federation Limited to use the word ‘Dahi’ followed by the common regional name in brackets on the label of curd packets. This has angered pro-Kannada groups and invited stiff opposition from the Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF) board of directors. Anand Kumar, a director on the KMF board, said that dairy farmers will not allow KMF to sell curd packets using the word ‘Dahi’ in Karnataka. He alleged that the move was yet another attempt by the central government to “cunningly” impose Hindi on southern states.

The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has notified that an interchange fee of up to 1.1 per cent will be applicable on merchant UPI (Unified Payments Interface) transactions from April 1.

For most part of the past week, the entire country is glued to only one news. Rahul gandhi's conviction in a defamation case by Surat court and his subsequent disqualification. It has been six days that Congress leader Rahul gandhi was convicted by a surat court in a defamation case and awarded 2 years imprisonment. The case was related to his 2019 statement where he had question why do all the thieves have Modi surname. The case was filed by one Purnesh Modi, stating that Gandhi's statement is an insult to the entire community. Soon after his conviction, Rahul Gandhi was swiftly disqualified from LokSabha and was asked to vacate his official residence. The COngress party across the country has descended on the streets, protesting Rahul gandhi's disqualifications. Protests are being organized almost everyday in the national capital. The party is conducting press conference across the country calling Democracy Disqualified, reportedly, some Congress MPs also showed willingness to tender their resignations from the lower house in support of Rahul gandhi but the party is still deliberating on it. Meanwhile, all opposition parties have united against BJP in parliament. The opposition parties also observed black day a day after Rahul's disqualification. For a change even AAP and TMC supported Rahul gandhi. As per the law, Rahul Gandhi has 3 months to appeal to a higher court. And if he is able to get a stay on the conviction, his disqualification can be revoked by the Loksabha. The question is, with a battery of legal stalwarts and best of the legal opinion available, why haven't Congress, rahul Gandhi moved to the Higher court to appeal against Rahul gandhi's conviction? Is Congress deliberately delaying it? or is there something else? Let's talk about this in today's video: Well some believe that Congress is in a legal fix over the appeal whereas some believe that the party is just biding time so that the issue continues to be in the news for some time.

On Monday, thousands of doctors and medical professionals took to the streets of Rajasthan's Jaipur. According to an estimate, about 20,000 doctors, their family members, and people associated with the medical profession including medical shop owners took part in the rally which started from the resident doctors hostel ground of the SMS Hospital. Even days before the massive rally, several nursing homes and hospitals remained closed due to a general strike called by the doctors and other medical professionals. Several patients were stranded, surgeries delayed bringing a pressure on the state's healthcare system. Now, All of these doctors and medical professionals belonged to or were related to Private hospitals in the state. They were protesting against the new Right to health bill brought by the Rajasthan Govt led by CM Ashok gehlot. Evemn the Indian Medical Association calling the bill Draconian observed Monday 27th march as Black day. The doctors across the private hospitals have demanded that the govt withdraws the bill. The Govt on the other hand, has refused to relent. So what exactly is the Right to health Bill? what are the provisions? why are Private hospital doctors protesting against it? Who gains and who loses from the new scheme? and How much this scheme means for Ashok gehlot who is eyeing for another term in the assembly elections, later this year?? Let's talk about this in today's video.

"Ever since Uddhav Thackeray lost Shivsena name and symbol to eknath Shinde, the former chief minister has begun an outreach programme. Under which a series of Open meetings are being organized in different parts of the state. The meetings are not only conducted with an eye on the upcoming BMC and state elections, but also to build back the party's core base that was split since Eknath Shinde's rebellion last year. Since the split in its core voter base that it has garnered over the years by advocating issues like Hindutva and Marathi pride, Shivsena has found a potential voter base in the Muslim community. The growing support of Muslim community for Uddhav Thackeray and Shivsena UBT is not something one could miss in Maharashtra politics. If anything, it is an indication of the new equations being built on the ground. In this video, let's talk about the increasing support for uddhav thackeray among Muslim community, what it means for a staunch Hindutva-propagating party like Shivsena, will it turn into a loyal voter base and how much will it help in terms of elections?

A joint meeting of opposition leaders in Parliament Monday morning - called by the Congress after Rahul Gandhi's controversial disqualification from the Lok Sabha - had two surprise attendees - Prasun Banerjee and Jawhar Sircar of the Trinamool, which has remained largely aloof from Congress-led attempts to unite the opposition and challenge the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party

The Bharatiya Janata party which is trying to make inroads in Kerala, this week received support from an unlikely quarter. A bishop in Kerala promised catholic votes to the BJP. This however has led to major controversy in the state. Joseph Pamplany, the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of (Thalassery) said that there was no need to keep the ruling party of the country away from the church. He was Addressing a meeting of the Catholic farmers’ conference in the north Kerala town. “The church has no aversion or untouchable attitude towards the BJP. After all, it is ruling party of the country. If the framers’ problems are addressed, we will vote for BJP,” he said. Natural rubber is priced between ₹130 and ₹150 now and he wanted to Centre to hike it to ₹300 a kilogram. “If the Union government raises the price of rubber, the church will naturally help the BJP to elect a member of parliament from the state,” the Bishop said. The church usually does not support any party, but it will support any Union or state government that will stand with farmers, he said, adding there is no need to misinterpret it as an alliance between the church and the BJP.

"The quick disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from Loksabha just a day after the Surat court convicted him in a defamation case for his 2019 comment, has stirred up Indian Politics. There is an outpouring support for Rahul Gandhi from opposition parties. Even p[arties like AAP and TMC which had distanced from Congress, have condemned the move and expressed support to Rahul gandhi in this phase. Meanwhile, this has sparked protests in every corner of the country by Congress workers who are calling a black day for Indian Democracy. As per the letter by lokSabha secretariat, the MP from Wayanad has been disqualified in terms of the provisions of Article 102(1)(e) of the Constitution of India read with Section 8 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951. Amid all of this political turmoil in the country one cannot help but notice how this is a replay of the events almost 50 years back. And we are forced to question is history repeating itself? Let me walk you through this piece of history, and you tell me the answer. Just like Rahul Gandhi now, his grandmother Indira Gandhi too was expelled from Loksabha and even sent to jail. This happened in 1978, after she lifted emergency imposed by her in 1975 and lost the subsequent elections.

After repeating it a number of times, I'm compelled to repeat this again. In Politics, no one is a permanent friend and no one is a permanent enemy. Those who are making blistering attacks on the opponent can be seen walking hand in hand the next day and vice versa. Similar was the experience for many yesterday. When Maharashtra's DyCM Devendra Fadnavis and Former CM Uddhav Thackeray walked inside the assembly compound together with smiles on their faces. This caught everyone by surprise as Devendra Fadnavis is alleged to have a hand in the collapse of MVA govt and enabling the rebellion by Eknath Shinde. So the bonhomie was enough to raise curiosity. But does that mean the animosity between Uddhav Thackeray and Devendra Fadnavis fading away???

Reacting to his disqualification as a member of parliament today, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said he is "ready to pay any cost". The move came a day after his conviction in a defamation case for a remark seen as an insult to Prime Minister Narendra Modi

"Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has been disqualified as Lok Sabha MP a day after a Gujarat court sentenced him to two-year jail in a 2019 defamation case. The Wayanad MP was convicted over his ""why all thieves have Modi surname"" remark. The notice from LokSabha secretariat says ""Consequent upon his conviction by the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Surat in C.C./ 18712/2019, Shri Rahul Gandhi, Member of Lok Sabha representing the Wayanad Parliamentary Constituency of Kerala stands disqualified from the membership of Lok Sabha from the date of his conviction i.e. 23 March, 2023 in terms of the provisions of Article 102(1)(e) of the Constitution of India read with Section 8 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951."" However, the Congress is up in arms over disqualification of Rahul Gandhi. Party members gathered this morning outside party

A court in Gujarat's Surat city, on Thursday, convicted Congress MP Rahul Gandhi in a criminal defamation case against him over his alleged Modi surname remark. He has been sentenced to 2 years in jail by the court. Rahul Gandhi has been convicted under IPC Section 504. The maximum possible punishment under this section is two years. The court also granted him bail and suspended the sentence for 30 days to allow him to appeal in a higher court. Gandhi was present in the court when the verdict was pronounced. The final arguments resumed in the case last month after the Gujarat High Court vacated its stay on proceedings imposed on plea by the complainant demanding Gandhi's personal appearance.

For years now, Tipu Sultan has become one of the key figures in Karnataka's political slugfest. Some call him a hero, a freedom fighter who fought british, some believe he was cruel, tyrant ruler and forcibly converted hindus and Christians in Islam. In the past elections, BJP leaders have been pushing the second narrative. Whereas Congress and JDS Leaders are opposing it by calling Tipu Sultan Freedom fighter. and the debate hasn't really seen any conclusion. However, this time, the fresh controversy in Karnataka politics, is not about Tipu Sultan but about who killed him. The BJP has been claiming that it is Vokkaliga chieftains Uri and Nanjegowda who killed Tipu Sultan to liberate the masses from his tyrant regime, which is a complete contradiction to the historical evidence that Tipu Sultan was killed in a fight with British. Well, the story doesn't stop at the controversy or verbal attacks on opposition. Several BJP leaders supported this claim and a production house owned by a prominent vokkaliga BJP leader even announced to make a film on the two. But the plan to release this film has now been shelved. The BJP fell flat on its face After a prominent Vokkaliga seer warned the minister to not drag the community in a political slugfest and that the two characters didn't exist. Well, let's talk about the controversy in detail. Who are Urigowda and Nanjegowda? Did they really kill Tipu Sultan? what did the Vokkaliga Seer say? and what are the political impact of this?

The battle between Centre vs State is not new for Delhi. Often the AAP govt of the state is in logjam with the Modi govt in the centre. This time both are at loggerheads over the state budget. It is the time of the year when states across the country present their budget for the next year. It is one of the crucial part of the parliament and assembly proceedings. The budget was supposed to be presented in the Delhi Assembly today but it wasn't. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is blaming the Centre for allegedly blocking the budget whereas the LG who represents the centre says that it is Kejriwal govt which hasn't resubmitted the Budget after making necessary corrections suggested.

Should 60 be the age of retirement? As an individual who is in their 50s, would you want to retire at 60? I'm asking this question because this is intricately linked to the questions of pensions. Recently, India saw protests by govt employees over bringing back old pension Scheme i.e. OPS. Earlier, in states like Himachal pradesh and Rajasthan both ruled by Congress, OPS has returned. In Himachal Pradesh in fact that was the turning point for the party. Recently, maharashtra also witnessed protests by employee unions asking the system returns to OPS. The protest was called off after the assurances from the govt. But do you that India isn't the only country where Pension has become such a contentious matter. Even France is witnessing strikes and protests on massive scales, sometimes violent, over pension. French president Emmaanual Macron although survived a no-confidence vote, is facing the heat over his pension reforms. So why has pension become such a contentious point? Why France's pension reform led to protests? and what it says about Pension schemes in India?

It is said that once upon a time Mamta Banerjee, the chief of TMC was very close to the Gandhi family. But in the last few years, the distance between Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Congress is only widening. So much so that Mamta Banerjee is now also attacking Rahul Gandhi. This prompts a question...Is Mamata distancing herself from the Congress-led camp? Today in this video we will talk about this.

"For the last two days, The punjab police has launched a massive statewide crackdown on Khalistan supporter leader Amritpal Singh and his outfit Waris Punjab De. 100s of associates linked to Waris punjab de have been arrested whereas Amritpal Singh himself is on the run. Mobile internet and SMS services have also been suspended in many parts of the state. As the crackdown begun, several shocking revelations have been made by the police. Let us take you through The events.How Police launched a crackdown? how did they plan it? and what's the status now.

Very rarely do people wake up on a Monday morning in a celebratory mood. But Indians across the globe had a reason to celebrate on Monday, March 13, when the 95th Academy Awards were announced and the hugely popular ‘Naatu Naatu’ song from Telugu blockbuster RRR won the award for the best original song. Following the announcement, news channels and social media were filled with congratulatory posts and visuals of the award ceremony, where music composer MM Keeravani, while accepting the award said, “I grew up listening to the Carpenters. And now, here I am, with the Oscars.” While news channels across the country covered this moment widely, a certain section of the Malayalam media misheard the composer’s speech — or they took it too literally. When Keeravani said that he grew up listening to the Carpenters, he was referring to the popular American pop band ‘The Carpenters’.

The story of how a Gujarati conman Kiran patel fooled the authorities in Jammu and kashmir has taken over the news. A man who posed himself as an official from PMO, with a fake visiting card, used Z+ protection, CRPF security and Special vehicle convoy for almost five months, he even posted some videos on social media of his visit to the some key places in Srinagar before he was busted by CID. While the incident is bizarre, it also leaves space for several questions to be raised.

"The story of how a Gujarati conman Kiran patel fooled the authorities in Jammu and kashmir has taken over the news. A man who posed himself as an official from PMO, with a fake visiting card, used Z+ protection, CRPF security and Special vehicle convoy for almost five months, he even posted some videos on social media of his visit to the some key places in Srinagar before he was busted by CID. While the incident is bizarre, it also leaves space for several questions to be raised. Let's talk about it in today's video.

Threats to rebel Shiv Sena MLAs could not have been the ground to unseat the Uddhav Thackeray government in Maharashtra, the Supreme Court said Wednesday as it questioned the role of the Governor, inquiring about the material before him on the basis of which he ordered a trust vote.

"It's a bloodbath in the Banking sector. After US' Silicon Valley bank and Signature bank, the second biggest bank in Switzerland, Credit Suisse is on the verge of a collapse. The Bank's shares crashed by more than 20% dragging the European Banking index by more than 6%. Despite the efforts of regulators to allay the fears of investors/depositors and avoid a 2008 like situation where the collapse of Lehman Brothers led to global financial meltdown, the contagion fears seem to be spreading fast. So what's happening with credit suisse? How did one of the most important banks globally come to this point? and What's next? We will try and understand in today's video.

"More and more skeletons are tumbling out as the scrutiny on Gautam Adani and his empire intensifies. In the latest, a report by Indian Express has revealed that Elara Capital, one of the investors in Adani group, is also a co-owner with Gautam Adani in a defence firm. This firm works closely with ISRO and DRDO. and it also has a Rs 590 crore contract with the Union Ministry of Defence. The latest disclosure has kicked up a political storm with opposition raising the concern over national security. Let's understand the matter in detail.

The Supreme Court on Monday, March 13, said it will hear the pleas seeking recognition of same-sex marriage by a five-judge constitution bench from April 18.While noting that any decision on the matter would have a “huge bearing on society”, a three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud said it is only logical that a constitution bench heard the matter given that it involves a substantial questions of law and the interpretation of the constitution.

"The issue of old pension scheme in the country has heated up once again. Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is about to find a middle ground, while the Reserve Bank has warned against withdrawing the old pension scheme adopted by some states, stating it poses a major risk to their exchequer. Today we will talk about this. First of all let's understand what is old pension scheme and new pension scheme Both new and old pensions have some advantages and disadvantages. In old Pension Scheme, 50% of the final pay amount of the employee is given as pension at the time of retirement. In the old scheme, the pension is determined by the last basic salary of the employee and inflation data

"After BJP ruled states like Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Haryana, Maharashtra is also stepping towards a law to tackle alleged Love Jihad cases. While the ministers in the state govt had hinted at such a move. Yesterday, this matter came up for discussion in the assembly. However, Women and Child welfare minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha claimed that the state had already witnessed some 1 Lakh cases of Love Jihad. This claim made by him in the parliament sparked uproar. It also comes in the backdrop of mass morchas organized by Hindu and Right wing groups demanding law against Love Jihad is several parts of the state. What exactly happened in the Maharashtra Assembly? What is the state govt proposing on Love Jihad? What did the opposition say and whether love Jihad really exists?

In yet another setback to the Tamil Nadu unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), 13 office-bearers associated with the state IT cell in Chennai West quit the party this week. The move comes within a week of former BJP state IT cell chief CTR Nirmal Kumar and secretary Dilip Kannan also leaving the party. While Nirmal Kumar did not name anyone in his scathing resignation letter, he alleged that the party leadership in Tamil Nadu was functioning against the interests of its cadres. Dilip Kannan named state party president K Annamalai as the reason for his resignation.The latest set of resignations include that of the party's Chennai West district IT unit chief, as well as 10 secretaries and 2 vice-presidents of the unit. All 13 functionaries are likely to join the AIADMK), following the footsteps of Nirmal Kumar and Dilip.

Veteran actor Satish Kaushik died on March 8 after suffering a heart attack. He was 66. Kaushik was reportedly in Gurgaon when his health began to deteriorate, the Indian Express reported. His mortal remains will be brought to Mumbai after a post-mortem is performed.

A rival’s rival is friend. But what happens when you befriend friend’s rival? Confused right? Even NCP party workers too are confused these days. The party they fought against election after election, - now NCP has joined hands with the same party, although in a different state. Yes, I’m talking about NCP joining hands with BJP in Nagaland. Sharad Pawar led NCP yesterday announced that it will give support to the NDPP and BJP govt in Nagaland. Effectively making Nagaland Assembly Oppositionless. All the parties who have won have declared support to the ruling coalition. This means Nagaland assembly will have no opposition. What’s surprising is the Ruling coalition already had enough numbers to form the govt in the state, they needed no external support nor did they seek for one. But still many parties including NCP declared their support to the ruling coalition. Well, the ripples of NCP’s actions in a state 3000 KM away, were evident in its home state Maharashtra as it sparked a debate on whether Sharad pawar is indicating something through this.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) legislator and Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar’s (KCR) daughter K. Kavitha on 9 March for questioning in the Delhi liquor scam.

Ask anyone in Maharashtra and they will say that political atmosphere in the state is polluted. It is polarized and people, the political party cadres are divided. But Bharatiya Janata Party seems to be wanting to end this hostility. Especially with Shivsena- Uddhav thackeray. After the bitter fallout with Uddhav Thackeray in 2019, and forming govt with rebelling group led by Eknath Shinde after collapse of MVA govt, BJP now seems to be softening its stand on Uddhav Thackeray.

Distressed by the crash in prices of onions, a farmer in Nashik district of Maharashtra lit a bonfire of the crop in protest against the government's policies and to highlight the plight of growers.

"The Tamil Nadu Police on Saturday registered an FIR against a Twitter user Mohammed Tanvir, whose profile described him as a journalist, and Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Prashant Patel Umrao under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for disinformation and claiming that migrant workers have been fatally attacked in Tamil Nadu.

The son of Karnataka BJP MLA Madal Virupakshappa was arrested on Friday morning after Lokayukta--the anti-corruption watchdog of the Karnataka government, caught him taking a bribe of Rs 40 lakh. The officials recovered Rs 6 crore cash from the MLA's residence.

The results for Assembly elections to three north-eastern states- Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya came out yesterday. Recording yet another victory, the BJP retained power in Tripura. Even the Congress+Left alliance couldn’t dent the party’s prospects much, whereas the new entrant Tipra Motha gained big. In Nagaland, NDPP+BJP alliance won the maximum seats whereas Meghalaya gave a hung verdict in the election. But the BJP has declared support to the Conrad Sangma’s NPP and he has now staked claim to form a govt in the state. With this, the BJP is effectively in all the winning coalitions in the North-East. Congress on the other hand has decimated further in the North-East. In today’s video let’s look at some interesting Data points and analysis from the North-East Assembly elections results.

"With just a year to go for 2024 Loksabha elections, talks of Opposition Unity are doing rounds. Although, there is little to no progresss in this regards, the Congress has been talking about the possibility of leading this alliance of opposition parties to defeat BJP in 2024. However, Even before the opposition unity could take off, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee one of the fierce opposition party leaders, has show red signal to it. Mamata Banerjee has given indication that her party will not contest the election in alliance with anyone, but will go solo. What does this mean for the dreams of oppn unity? Let’s talk about this in today’s video.

"The Supreme Court on Thursday witnessed a heated exchange of words between Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Supreme Court Bar Association president Vikas Singh in a case related to allotment of a parcel of land for lawyers’ chambers

In a major ruling today, the Supreme Court today suggested a complete overhaul of the way Election commissioners are appointed to the institution. The Supreme Court said that there has to be a collegium that sends the suggestion of the names to the president for approval just like in the case of CBI. It also had some harsh comments media. The Bench also went on to comment on independence of Election Commissioners, the rise of money power and criminalisation in politics, and more. The ruling comes at a time when several opposition parties have raised questions over fairness and integrity of the Election commission. More recently, after its ruling in favour of Eknath Shinde in the Maharashtra Political crisis case, the opposition had attacked the ECI and alleged bias. In this video let’s talk about why this is important and what can we expect from the SC ruling?

On Sunday, Delhi DyCM and Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia was arrested by the Central Investigation Agency (CBI) in connection with alleged irregularities in the Liquor Policy 2021-22, after which the Rouse Avenue Court granted Manish Sisodia's remand to the CBI for 5 days. Sisodia also went to the Supreme Court against this, however he did not get any relief. On Tuesday came the news came that Deputy CM Manish Sisodia and jailed AAP Minister Satyendar Jain resigned from the cabinet. Both the resignations were accepted by the CM. Now questions are being raised on the decision taken by Kejriwal, seemingly in a hurry. The biggest question is why did Satyendra Jain, who was arrested in June last year, took so long to resign and why did Manish Sisodia resign in such a hurry. After all, what is the reason behind this decision of Aam Aadmi Party? Does Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal want to distance himself from Manish Sisodia? Let’s talk about this in today’s video

Months after the Income Tax raid, the Centre has now reportedly cancelled, the FCRA license of Centre for Policy Research. The Economic Times report, quoting sources said, the license was under scrutiny after Income Tax surveys on CPR and Oxfam India in September last year. Oxfam’s FCRA licence was revoked in January 2022, after which the NGO had filed a revision petition with the home ministry. Officials said that CPR’s license was revoked recently citing non-compliance of FCRA norms. The society had filed for renewal.That modalities are being worked out for CPR to utilise the funds received in FCRA account. As per CPR's filing, the FCRA received in their account for the period October to December 2022 was Rs 1,010 lakhs which included donations from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, University of Pennsylvania, World Resources Institute and Duke University among others. CPR also receives grants from the Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR), and is a Department of Science and Technology (DST) recognised institution.

After the covid 19 pandemic the dropout rate in schools rose by 17% and during such times schools are also obliged to take care of the mental well-being of the students. The Green pencil foundation (A Gurgaon-based NGO) on Monday organized a seminar on mental health awareness for the students of Sidharth Madhyamik Vidyalaya (A govt aided school in Maharashtra's Ambivalli).

Karnataka BJP stalwart BS Yediyurappa turned 80 yesterday. And on this occasion or one that coincided with it, he also received a special gift from none other than Prime Minister Narendra Modi. During the inauguration of Shivamogga Airport, in Yediyurappa’s home districts, Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended a rare gesture of camaraderie to the senior leader of the party. As soon as PM Modi arrived at the venue, he saw BS Yediyurappa standing to welcome him. The PM walked up to him, caught his hand and started walking towards the stage. This gesture left even Yediyuappa a bit perplexed while camerapersons struggled to capture this moment. Soon after the video surfaced on internet, it went viral. This gesture of Prime Minister that is so rarely extended even to the senior/ veteran leaders of BJP, most of whom are now sitting in margadarshak Mandal, says a lot. About BJP, About Karnataka Politics and also about the importance of BS Yediyurappa. Especially because this was the same leader who was replaced as a CM by the BJP Central leadership just about a year ago. Let’s talk about this in today’s video.

Today, AAP workers and leaders across the country are staging protest against the arrest of Delhi DyCM Manish Sisodia. In some cities protests took a violent turn with protestors clashing with police officials and breaking down the barricades. In Mumbai several AAP workers were detained for at least 25 minutes. The protest comes in the wake of arrest of Manish Sisodia on Sunday by CBI in Delhi Liquor policy case. He was called for questioning by the agency. Around 11.15 AM, Sisodia appeared before the CBI, but not before some show of strength. Ahead of his CBI questioning, pictures of him spending time with his mother on Sunday were shared on social media, He then went to Rajghat and also told his supporters to care care of his family, as he expected to be in Jail for 7-8 months. He reached the CBI office amid crowd of supporters and party workers.

Two months ahead of the Karnataka Assembly elections, Lingayat strongman and four-time chief minister of the state BS Yediyurappa gave his ""farewell speech"" in the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday, 22 February

About three weeks back we had done a video on LIC’s investment in Adani group company shares and SBI’s exposure to it. This was done as the value of Adani group company shares were consistently falling after the Hindenburg research report accused Adani of stock manipulation and corporate fraud. In light of this we had explained in the video, how much investment LIC has in different adani companies and its value. A lot of people in the comment said that it is only a notional loss, so far as we don’t know the real value at which it was purchased. Today, the Indian Express reported that for the first time, the value of LIC’s shareholding in 5 Adani group companies has dropped below its purchase value. The report says Market value of LIC shares in Adani group companies was about 72000 Crore a day before Hindenburg report hit. In February 2023, i.e. in just about three weeks it has come down to around 26000 crore. Which means loss of around 36000 Crore in three weeks. But it has even gone below the value at which it was purchased, the report says.

People on Twitter erupted on Thursday demanding Germany give back 1.5 years old girl Ariha to her parents after Rani Mukerji starrer Mrs. Chatterjee Vs Norway trailer was released. For the unversed, Mrs. Chatterjee Vs Norway is a true story revolving around Bengali couple who lived in Norway, however, the world went upside down when Norway's child protective services snatched their 2 children away from them calling them unfit for parenting

Javed Akhtar: the man who weaves magic in words, the legendary writer, lyricist, someone who is known for his wits but also for his courage. Courage to speak up uncomfortable truths. Courage to show mirror. Recently, at an Event in Lahore, Javed Akhtar did the same. He reminded Pakistan that 26/11 plotters are ""roaming"" in that country and are yet to be brought to justice. We want to talk about this today in this video. The importance of saying what Javed Akhtar said and what this whole incident tells us?

Two women officers, whose public squabbling has stunned the Karnataka government, were transferred without posting today after they both complained against each other to the state's top bureaucrat, the Chief Secretary.

Have you ever heard or seen a bank going out and declare that I will give loan to a company, will give loan to a company, will give loan to a company? Especially one that is dealing with one of the wort market crisis and whose shares are dwindling every second day for the past three weeks? Well, but there’s a bank which has decided to do that. One of the biggest public sector bank in the country Bank of Baroda has said that it will continue to give loan to Adani group companies whose shares have been battered since the Hindenburg research report alleging stock manipulation and corporate fraud. Chief executive officer and managing director of Bank of Baroda Sanjiv Chadha has said this in an interview to Bloomberg Let’s talk about this in today’s video.

We often come across public spat of politicians and that too ugly ones. But what if officials, those who are tasked to serve public through administrative services start to engage in mud-slinging on a public platform? The IAS and IPS Associations of Karnataka were in for an embarrassment when two senior officers broke into a public spat online. IPS Officer D Roopa Moudgil and IAS officer Rohini Sindhuri traded allegations against each other on social media platforms. What exactly happened? What were the allegations levelled and what was the response? Let’s understand in today’s video… but before that… In an incident that sent shockwaves in the Karnataka civil sevices, two top women officers, one IPS and Another IAS broke into a very public spat. The accusations involve through regarding corruption and even sending personal photographs to male colleagues.

Elections have not been announced in Maharashtra yet, but a big political development sent a shock waves in political circle. The Election Commission on Friday handed over the name and symbol of the Shiv Sena to the Shinde faction. It was a jolt to Uddhav Thackeray whose father founded the party. He called this decision of ECI as Murder of Democracy. The Thackeray faction has also accused Modi government and BJP of misusing central agencies like ED, CBI and IT. It has said the Election Commission is playing the role of puppet of the government. After the decision by ECI, the Uddhav Thackeray faction rank and file seems rattled, whereas Shinde grou p which has now been declared official shivsena, has been taking over the control of properties, Shakhas and offices in the name of the party. Today, they also took over Shivsena party office in State Assembly. On the other hand, the matter is pending in the supreme court. While Shinde group has filed caveat after ECI decision, Thackeray clan has moved against ECI order of allotting party symbol and name to Shinde. However, the Supreme Court has asked the lawyer to mention the matter tomorrow.

In a shocking development yesterday, the Election commission of India allotted the symbol of Shivsena: bow and arrow to Eknath Shinde. The decision was announced by the Election commission on Friday evening, almost eight months after the coup Shivsena by Eknath Shinde that led to vertical split in party and subsequent collapse of the MVA govt. The decision of the ECI is a huge setback for Uddhav Thackeray. Not only the symbol but ECi also cleared the name of the party in favour of Eknath Shinde. The ECI had earlier allotted different names and symbols to both shivsena factions. Shivsena UBT for Uddhav Thackeray group and symbol of Mashaal and the name Balasahebanchi Shivsena+ symbol of Dhaal and Swords to Eknath Shinde. However, in a major jolt to Uddhav Thackeray, the symbol and party name has been given to Eknath Shinde effectively given him the control of Shivsena the party. It must be noted that this matter is subjudice and a batch of petitions, challenging disqualifications, speaker's decisions etc are being heard by the court. the next date of the hearing is 21st of February. However, Uddhav Thackeray said that he will approach SC against the ECI's latest order as well. However, today let's talk about the Election commission order. The order raised many eyebrows in political and legal circles. As It will act as a precedence in similar cases in the future impacting political parties. In a 78 page order, the election commission has explained the rationale behind this decision. In our new segment, Opinion, our Managing Editor Mr Sujit Nair shares his views on the matter.

A day after attending the Budget session wearing flowers behind their ears in protest against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Karnataka Congress on Saturday stepped up the ‘Kivi Mele Hoova’ campaign with posters across Bengaluru and Mangaluru.

If you've been familiar with political discourse in India, especially after 2014, George Soros is not a new name for you. The billionaire founder of the Open Society Foundations has often been at crossroads with the Indian right wing. In the latest George Soros'comments on Democracy in India after the Adani-Hindenburg saga has sparked controversy. What did George Soros Say that angered the BJP? and How Congress has distanced itself from the comments for those who don't know who's George Soros?

Its Thursday today, the third day of the Income Tax Department action on BBC. It started On Tuesday 14th february and now for more than 60 hours, the Income Tax dept's survey continues at BBC India's Delhi and Mumbai office. At the BBC's office in Mumbai's Santacruz, the I-T officials are present inside the office premises for the third day and the assessment of accounts is going on. The survey teams are seeking answers on financial transactions, the company structure and other details about the news company, and are copying data from electronic gadgets as part of their task of collecting the evidence. Meanwhile, the organization has asked their employees to Work from Home. According to reports quoting govt sources, the IT department was investigating issues related to international taxation and transfer pricing of BBC subsidiary companies. It also alleged that the broadcaster was served with notices in the past, but was ""defiant and non-compliant"" and had significantly diverted its profits. HW News Could not independently verify this. On the second day of the raid itself, Laptops and Mobile phones of some of the employees were seized. The tax department officials have reportedly produced a warrant that says they have three days to conduct this survey. Now, the development led to ripples not only in media industry but also in political corridors and the international journalist community. In this video today we are going to talk about How the Foreign media/International media reported this vs How Indian mainstram media has reported it.

The list of setbacks for Indian business tycoon Gautam Adani after the Hindenburg report are endless. The share price of Adani group companies continues to fluctuate. Weeks after the Hindenburg research’s scathing report alleging corporate fraud and manipulation of stocks, the route in Adani group’s stock continues. However, it has also led to some more trouble for the Adani group. After withdrawing its ambitious FPO and pre-paying around 1.1 Billion dollar worth loans, the company is facing yet another setback. On Wednesday, Adani Power's planned Rs 7,017-crore acquisition of DB Power collapsed as the deadline to complete the transaction expired. This comes days after the reports of conglomerate planning to halve its revenue growth targets and plans to hold off fresh capital expenditure. This has also brought into spotlight the Adani power project in Bangladesh. Let’s talk about the latest list of setbacks for Adani and what it means for the conglomerate.

Political parties are identified by their ideology, the promises they make and their leaders. What will happen if a party with a different ideology starts making election promises on the lines of its rival party to win the election? Will people vote for it? In this video, we will find the answer to this question and also discuss the promises made by Telangana Congress chief which has led to controversy. The statement by Congress leader has also led to questions on whether the Congress party is really serious about contesting elections in Telangana. But before that... In 2014, the BJP stormed to power at the Centre and in the same year Telangana state came into existence. Assembly elections have been held in the state twice and K Chandrasekhar Rao's party Bharat Rashtra Samithi earlier known as Telangana Rashtra Samithi, won both the times. Assembly elections are to be held in Telangana by the end of this year and in view of the elections here the leaders are making big promises. Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee President A. Revanth Reddy has made one such promise to the people in a public meeting, which has raised eyebrows.

For the second consecutive day, income tax survey on news agency BBC continues. BBC has asked some of its editorial staff to work from office and some to work from home. the income tax survey has been going on for more than 24 hours, in the overnight search operation, the IT dept also seized laptops and mobile phones of some of the staff members. The Income Tax dept action, is going on at BBC India's Delhi and Mumbai office. According to sources in the Income Tax department, the officials have visited the BBC office for verification for a survey. Teams of Mumbai Police have also been deployed outside the premises in Mumbai to anyone from leaving or entering. It has also been learnt that apart from Delhi and Mumbai 'survey raids' are being conducted in other parts of the country as well. The raids come close to heels of the documentary released by the British broadcaster on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the 2002 Gujarat Riots. The documentary was swiftly blocked by the Indian govt invoking emergency powers under IT Rules. The opposition claims that the action on BBC is motivated by revenge. Whereas BJP has slammed the oppn. BBC on its part has said that it is cooperating with the authorities. In this video today, let's talk about what are the reasons given by the IT department for this ""survey""? who all have issued statements in support and the broadcaster's long tryst with controversy.

A week ago, Turkey and Syria, witnessed one of the most devastating natural disasters in years. A massive 7.8 earthquake struck the two West Asian Countries on February 6. The earthquake was followed by more than 2,100 aftershocks. The videos from the moments show, buildings, and towers falling like a pack of cards. Huge cracks have been developed on the roads, streets are filled with rubble, and debris and rescue teams are racing against time to find survivors. The death toll, however, has so far risen to 41,000. A large winter storm hampered rescue efforts, dropping snow on the ruins and bringing plummeting temperatures. Due to the freezing temperatures in the area, survivors, especially those trapped under rubble, are at a great risk of hypothermia. The earthquake is estimated to have caused US$84.1 billion worth of damage, making it the fourth-costliest earthquake on record. Rescue teams in southern Turkey said they are still hearing voices from under the rubble more than a week after the massive earthquake. There has been overwhelming support from the Global community, and countries around the world to help the earthquake hit people. Humanitarin aides are being sent from different countries to Ankara and Damascus. India has been one of the first few countries to offer helping hand to Turkey and Syria. Under Operation Dost, India is leading in providing relief material to the Earthquake hit regions.

: A 44-year-old woman and her daughter were killed after a fire broke out during an anti-encroachment drive at Marauli village of Kanpur Dehat region, the police said on Tuesday. The deceased have been identified as Pramila Dixit (44) and Neha Dixit (22)

The Income Tax department has raided BBC India offices. According to reports, the Tax department is conducting a survey at BBC India's offices. The tax raid is going on at BBC India's Delhi and Mumbai office. The phones of the staff have been seized and they have been asked to go home. The Income Tax officials arrived at the Delhi office at around 11.30 AM. The Income tax dept says that it is a survey to verify some information that they have. Reportedly, BBC's London office has also been informed about the action. The raids come at a time when a documentary by BBC on PM Modi has created controversy in the country. The documentary named India-The Modi Question was released by the BBC few days back.

On Sunday, President Draupadi Murmu announced appointments of Governors and Lieutenant Governors of 12 states including Assam, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Himachal. The President has also appointed lieutenant Governor for the Union territory of Ladakh. We have already spoken about Former Supreme Court Judge S Abdul Nazeer who has been appointed governor of AP and the controversy brewing over this. But there is another name in the list which keeps hitting headlines often, although for wrong reasons. The name is of Bhagatsingh Koshyari-governor of Maharashtra. Probably one of the most controversial governor in the state’s history, Koshyari had several run-ins with the MVA govt in the state. However, not only opposition parties, but at times even the leaders of the ruling BJP expressed their displeasure over Koshyari and his statements. Apart from the political parties, his recent statements regarding the state’s idols, drew flak even from the common people. There was a widespread demand for his resignation. So it wouldn’t be wrong to say that he was probably the only governor who not only the state’s political class but even the common people wanted gone. In this video, let’s have a look at the tumultuous term of Bhagat Singh Koshyari in Maharashtra, His frequent face-off with MVA govt, allegations of bias and more.

Former Maharashtra Home Minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Anil Deshmukh has made a big and surprising political statement for the first time after coming out of jail. Deshmukh on Sunday (February 12) claimed that he had received a big offer while in jail, if he had accepted it, the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government in Maharashtra would have fallen much earlier. So he rejected that offer.

"Filing ITR is like the most greatest task for any middle class, salaried person. And I speak of my own experience. Calculating tax, deductions, rebates and filing your income tax. Once you understand it, you may not find it that difficult, unless you have say multiple income sources and investments that it is tedious for you to kep tab of each and every thing. But since, filing income tax is such a big task for us, middle class salaried persons, whenever the budget is presented, all the eyes are on the part where the Finance Minister announces Income Tax rates. This year, the budget brought some good news. The non-taxable income limit was extended to 7 Lakh from 5 lakh. Which means if you have annual income of 7 lakh, you won’t have to pay any income tax. Well, but there’s a catch. And that has got everyone confused these days. Since the budget announcement. there’s one question that I have heard my colleagues, friends and family members ask. The question is whether I should go for Old Tax Regime or the New one? This is a big question in front of everyone.

It’s a big news for India. a large reserve of inferred lithium has been found for the first time in the country. The Geological Survey of India (GSI) said that 5.9 million tonnes of lithium reserves have been found in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir. And that could be a gamechanger for India. This precious metal with that much quantity is said to not only have the power to give an edge to India in global competitive market but also the power to change the whole energy sector game. Why is it being said so? What is Lithium and what this discovery means for India? Let’s understand in today’s video.

If the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is voted to power in Telangana, it would demolish the domes of the newly-built state secretariat that reflect the culture of the Nizams, state party president Bandi Sanjay Kumar said in yet another sensational statement. Addressing a street corner meeting of the party in Kukatpally assembly constituency limits as part of "Janam Gosa-BJP Bharosa" programme, Bandi Sanjay said that if the BJP government is elected in the state, it would wipe out all kinds of structures that are symbols of slavery of the Nizam regime. “We shall make suitable changes that reflect the Indian and Telangana culture," he said, adding that chief minister KCR had converted the peoples' secretariat into a samadhi like the Taj Mahal only to appease the Owaisis. The BJP leader also announced that Pragati Bhavan, the official bungalow of the chief minister, would also be changed into a Praja Darbar. Reacting to the chief minister's statement that the government would demolish places of worship that cause hurdles for the expansion of roads, the BJP state president challenged KCR to demolish, if he could, the mosques that were built in the middle of the roads in the old city of Hyderabad.

"Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot did the same blunder today while presenting the budget 2023-24 for the state. This is the much awaited budget for the state. However, Gehlot Read the old budget for straight 8 minutes. It was when the opposition started howling and opposing, the minister was alerted. The incident comes at a time when all eyes are on the Gehlot-led government, as this is his last Budget before the state goes to polls later this year. Gehlot, who also holds the finance portfolio, was presenting the budget on the theme of “Bachat, Rahat, Badhat” (saving, relief and progress). This is record 10th budget to be presented by Ashock Gehlot. A similar record is held by Vasundhara Raje of BJP, former CM of the state.

"Attacking the congress in general and Gandhi family in particular, PM Modi said that the Congress party gets upset whenever Nehru is not mentioned by our govt. If he was so great why no one uses Nehru surname? PM’s dig was aimed at Sonia, Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi. Former PM Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru is the great Grandfather of Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi. He said, ""If we miss out on mentioning Nehru anywhere, they (Congress) get upset. Nehru was such a great person, then why does none of them use the Nehru surname. What is the shame in using the Nehru name.""

The BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's victory march is going on. Barring few states, the BJP is moving forward winning one state after the other. During his stint, since 2014, PM Modi launched various welfare schemes. Many of the flagship schemes promised that delivery will be completed by 2022. Now we are in 2023. But there are some big announcements of PM Modi which have not been completed till date.

"The Valentine week is going on and many of you might have a plan for valentines day already! Something like going to a restaurant with your date (If you’ve found any), having candlelight dinner or any other romantic gesture. But wait the animal welfare board has a different plan. It wants the cow lovers to celebrate the day as Cow hug day. Yes you heard that right. It is asking you to go and hug a cow. Which may not be a bad idea if you’re single. The government advisory body said that hugging a cow will bring “emotional richness” and will increase “individual and collective happiness”.

Himachal Pradesh state tax department officials visited Adani Wilmar facility in Parvanoo, Shimla late Wednesday, 8 February. The Parwanoo South Zone Enforcement wing of Himachal Excise and Taxation Department inspected the stocks of Adani Wilmar

"From Share Market to Now Parliament, our Sansad the temple of Democracy, the name, the news that dominates the discourse is of Gautam Adani. Since the route in Adani shares after Hindenburg Research report came out late last month, every news around us, every discussion has been centred on Adani. After almost 10 days, Adani group company shares which were taking a beating at the D Street, recovered today and traded in green. This after the news of Adani group’s decision to prepay loans amounting $1.1 Billion. Despite this, the controversy is not dying anytime soon. In fact on the contrary, the politics around this has just started to gather steam. While on one hand, the parliament is rocked with debate on Adani group share crash, opposition is trying to corner the govt over it, on the other, the matter has reached Supreme Court. A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court to stop the media from reporting the Adani case. The petition asks the court to pass a gag order on media regarding reportage of Adani issue. Who has filed the petition, what is the petition, let’s talk about this in today’s video. At the end we will also talk about the HW Viewpoint on the matter.

The combined death toll after the devastating earthquake hit central Turkey and bordering Syria on Monday morning has now risen to 4300 on Tuesday as rescuers in the two countries continue their search hoping to pull out more survivors believed to be trapped under debris

Pakistan will not travel to India for the ODI World Cup scheduled in October-November if the Indian cricket team does not go to Pakistan for the Asia Cup scheduled in September (IMG 2) was the Pakistan cricket board's stance during Asian Cricket Council( (ACC) board meeting

"While Adani battles one of the major crisis in his bull run especially since the last 8 years after the Hindenburg research report, one might remember that similar crisis was faced by Business tycoon Dhirubhai Ambani three decades back. That crisis too was fuelled due to short selling by bears in the market. The only catch is, Dhirubhai ambani managed to outsmart them and earned him the title of King of the bourses. Let’s understand in this video, what exactly had happened and how Dhirubhai Ambani sailed through the crisis.

In this video, I'm asking the question: Why is the government so quiet about the recent spate of layoffs in the tech and services industries in India? The recent spate of job losses has hit India hard, and the government is doing nothing to help the situation. In fact, the government seems to be doing everything it can to ignore the issue. This is a troubling trend and one that needs to be addressed. People all across industries are losing jobs all over the world. India is not isolated from the rest of the world so the trickle-down effect is quite obvious. Each day there is an antagonizing story of people losing jobs. Tech, BPO, and IT services are leading the pack in layoffs. One single job loss in this country affects 5 family members. New jobs are not easily forthcoming as the real GDP growth has been stagnant. There is no safety net in India for assisting people during the layoff period. The government on its part is silent. The situation is grim. See this episode to know the extent of distress in the young generation of our country. Background Around 3,000 tech workers are now being let off every day on average in January across the globe, including in India, as more Big Tech companies like Microsoft and Google join the ongoing layoff season. The frequency of the firings has increased as concerns about a worldwide economic recession have grown. 166 IT companies have fired more than 65,000 workers so far. Indian technology services firms may lay off between 80,000 to 120,000 lakh people over the next two quarters, a news report from TheWire said. The situation is grim. Within India, January 2023 alone saw around 7,000 job losses. The Startup Slowdown & Funding Winter? According to startupindia.gov.in “The startup funding landscape has rapidly evolved in the past years due to accelerated adoption of digital tools, increased private equity funds in tech companies, increased private market going public and government initiatives supporting startups. In 2017, a total of $13.7 billion was invested into the Indian startup ecosystem across 820 deals, whereas in 2021, the ecosystem experienced a boom with venture capitalists backing the startups with record investments of $42 billion. This, in addition to the rise of 46 unicorns (companies with $1 billion valuations), has further contributed to India’s growth story. “ “However, in the current times, where the recent announcement by the US Fed on the spike in inflation and hike in interest rates, coupled with the growing geopolitical tension and the impact of the pandemic, the startups are witnessing a funding crunch as the investors are cutting down on investments to startups. As an aftereffect, to withstand the ‘funding winter’, the startups are reducing cash burns, speeding layoffs, and focusing more on generating revenue in their businesses.” It's time for the government to take action and help these people find new jobs, rather than just sitting on their hands. The economy of India and the future of its people depend on it. The situation is grim.

On January 17, 2023, Gautam Adani, Chairman of the Adani Group, held the third-place ranking in terms of the world's wealth. On February 3, however, he was not even in the top 20.

"Claiming that its former president Rahul Gandhi warned about “a situation like this” months ago, the Congress Thursday demanded that an impartial investigation under the Chief Justice of India (CJI) or a joint Parliamentary Committee probe be carried out into Hindenburg Research’s allegations against the Adani group. The party also alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the “prime mentor” of industrialist Gautam Adani and asked under whose directions the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) increased its investments in Adani group’s various companies and why the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) waited “this long to make some meek noises” when the facts highlighted by Hindenburg were long in the public domain.

Rucks in parliament continues second day in a row over Adani-hidenburg saga.

Opposition parties on Thursday demanded an investigation by a parliamentary panel or a Supreme Court-appointed committee into allegations of fraud against the Adani Group that have triggered an unprecedented stock crash. The parties also demanded the suspension of regular parliament proceedings to discuss the risk to Indian investors from the continued slide in shares of the Adani Group following fraud claims by US short-seller Hindenburg Research.

"Its yet another day and yet another development in the Adani stock crash Saga after the report by Hindenburg research. The bloodbath in Adani group company shares continues on the D street. Many Retail investors are worried at the speed with which the shares are falling. Even on the budget day, the scenes were no different. Surrounded by allegations of stock manipulation and biggest fraud in corporate history, Adani group yesterday in a Shock move announced that it will withdraw its FPO. Late in the evening on Wednesday, Adani group issued a statement stating that the board has decided to call off the Rs 20,000-crore follow-on public offer (FPO) and return the money to investors. The FPO opened on January 27th and was oversubscribed with non-institutional investors, including HNIs and family offices of industrialists taking the lead in investing in it despite the Market turbulence it faced due to Hindenburg report allegations. Even though there were concerns, some section of population stood in Support of Adani. But now there are fresh allegations that the Adani group invested its own money in its own $2.5 billions FPO via shell companies. However, the question is what might have prompted Adani to withdraw the FPO? Well, he did break his silence and issued a video statement today. But there’s more to it. And it only spells trouble for Mr Adani.

Both Houses of Parliament were on Thursday adjourned after leaders of several Opposition parties demanded a discussion over the US-based short-seller Hindenburg Research's allegations against the Gautam Adani-led Group. Both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha were adjourned till 2 PM amid ruckus over the issue. The Opposition leaders met to evolve a joint strategy to take on the central government during the Budget Session and decided to seek a discussion on the Adani Group issue.

"Former Union finance minister P Chidambaram trashed the Union budget unveiled today, saying it had nothing for the poor or the unemployed and questioned if the capital investment outlay will be used. His party, the Congress, has alleged that a chunk of the capital outlay in the current financial year remains unused. Union minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who presented the budget in parliament today, did not mention the unemployed at all and only mentioned the poor twice, Mr Chidambaram said.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Union Budget 2023 has announced attractive incentives and rebates in the new income tax regime, a steep hike in capital investments and the biggest ever outlay in railways. The rebate limit in the new tax regime is increased from Rs 5 lakh to 7 lakh and there is a corresponding easing of the tax slabs. The new tax regime is the default. Sitharaman has proposed an increase in capex by 33 per cent to Rs 10 lakh crore. States are also being incentivised to spend more on infra. Rs 2.40 lakh crore has been allocated for Indian Railways, which is the highest ever.

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharamna will present the union budget 2023 tomorrow from 11 am onwards. This is also going to be Modi 2.0's final full budget. There are going to be a lot of expectations from the budget this year because the rate of Inflation is currently projected at 7.1% which was at 5.72 % last year. So the middle class would be expecting an economic respite from the budget. HW News asked Mumbaikars about their expectations from the Budget

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MPs Tuesday boycotted the Presidential address of the Budget Session in the Parliament, with Sanjay Singh demanding that Prime Minister Narendra Modi address allegations made by the Hindenburg report, and address questions being raised by those who have invested in LIC and SBI.

A Hindu Jan Akrosh morcha which translates to a Hindu outrage rally was taken out from Mumbai's Shivaji Park to Kamgar Maidain in parel. Around 3.5 KMs. The march was organized by Sakal hindu samaj a Hindu outfit and was supported by various other Hindu organizations against the so-called love and Land jihad.

A day after he opposed the two-part BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Anil K Antony, son of former union minister and Congress veteran leader AK Antony, resigned from all Congress posts on Wednesday.Antony announced his resignation and shared a letter on Twitter stating, “I have resigned from my roles in Congress. Intolerant calls to retract a tweet by those fighting for free speech.

In this episode I bust the hype or over-exaggeration of the fact that Indian economy will reach several milestones in the coming years, which automatically implies that poverty will reduce. Nothing can be far from truth.

After reports of a student group's plan to screen a controversial BBC documentary about PM Narendra Modi and the BJP's politics, Mumbai's Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) on Friday issued advisories to students and to the management against any such event on campus. Not heeding to the "advisory" would be "dealt with strictly as per the rules", said the institute.

Its bloodbath on Dalal Street for Adani group companies. Two days and Over 4 Lakh crore market wealth of world’s Third richest person wiped out, leaving him not the third richest in the world anymore. The Shares of Adani Group companies continue to witness a freefall since January 25th. For the second consecutive day today, the stocks are trading in the red. Some company shares hit lower circuit yesterday in a bid to arrest the plummeting price. Some are calling this the Adani bubble burst, Some are calling this end of Adani’s bull run and what not. All of this was triggered by Hindenberg report, an investigative report by US Short selling specialist Hindenberg research, founded by Nathan Anderson. In the 4.17 Lakh Crore rupees that the Adani group has lost, More than 16000 crore rupees loss has been suffered by LIC alone. Additionally, LIC’s own shares too recorded a decline in price.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday said that 'Sanatan Dharma is the national religion of India' which every citizen must respect. The chief minister said if the religious places were destroyed or desecrated in the past, then a campaign to restore them should be run on the lines of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya.He presided at a programme over the restoration and consecration of the idol programme at Neelkanth Mahadev Temple located in Bhinmal, Rajasthan.

Asia’s Richest Businessman Gautam Adani’s Adani enterprises has launched an ambitious FPO for $2.5 billion today. The FPO will open for public on January 31st this year. This is the largest ever in the history of India, aiming to raise Rs 20,000 crore. But days before that, the Adani Group stocks have received a beating and traded in negative. This is what the Adani group stocks look today. In just few hours beginning Friday morning as much as 2 Lakh Crore wealth of Adani enterprises was wiped out. All of this because of a report by Hindenberg Research. The report accuses Adani group of Corporate Fraud and stock manipulation. The report came out on Wednesday following which the shares registered a record fall. However, Adani group has hit back and warned of a legal action against the “mischievous” report. What does the report say? What are the allegations against Adani Group? What is the response of Adani group? And what happened in the market after that? Let’s discuss today.

Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra was scrapped today in Jammu and Kashmir with the Congress alleging "very serious security lapses" as the march entered the Kashmir Valley.

Condemning the central government's decision to block the BBC's interview with Prime Minister Narendra Modi (then Gujarat chief minister), Congress said the move raised doubts about the leadership.

The Congress has written to social media giant Twitter against Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar’s tweet accusing Congress leaders of lobbying for Pfizer vaccines. The party accused Chandrasekhar of distorting facts and indulging in ‘false propaganda’ and demanded his apology

Shivsena and VBA Alliance: Can Prakash Ambedkar Help Uddhav Thackeray Clear The BMC test???

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma today said he has spoken to megastar Shah Rukh Khan and assured him over the protests against his upcoming film 'Pathaan'. Mr Sarma said Mr Khan dialled him early this morning over "an incident" that occurred at a theatre in the state

A Chennai City Public Prosecutor, on Thursday filed a criminal defamation complaint seeking to prosecute suspended DMK functionary Shivaji Krishnamoorthy, for his derogatory speech against Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi

"An Indian Airlines plane was hijacked by two Kashmiri separatist youth on January 30, 1971. Fifty-two years later, Rahul Gandhi will be concluding his Bharat Jodo Yatra on the same day. January 30 is of immense significance to India. Our Father of the Nation, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was shot dead by Nathuram Vinayak Godse, a member of the right-wing hardline group the Hindu Mahasabha.Jammu & Kashmir has had a date with January 30. We examine the events of that led to this hijack and the aftermath which changed the geo-politics of south Asia. The Hijack I take you through the events of January 30, 1971. An concise version is presented for you to be able to understand the geo-politics of that period. Pakistan’s hand remained implicit in the episode. India retaliated and stopped Pakistani flight from overflying Indian territory. This became the run to the 1971 Indo-Pak war. Pakistan was cut to size. Bangladesh came into existence. Yet Pakistan does not refrain from it’s nefarious activities and continues hostile acts in Kashmir. It is ironical that the Bharat Jodo Yatra ends on the same day in Kashmir. It bring with it the message of peace and love.If you like the episode then please like and subscribe to this channel.

After almost an year of the air India takeover by its former owner the Tata group the airline staff residing in the mumbai's Kalina housing quaters are experiencing turbulent times. The families of air India employees have displayed a protest inside the residential quarters which is still owned by the government of India.The quarters are a home for hundreds of employees who are entitled to stay here till retirement that is the age of 58. Lets find out the reason behind their Protest. But before that if you are watching this on Facebook do like our page and if you are watching this on YouTube do subscribe to our channel .

The government on Friday made it mandatory for social media influencers to disclose all "material" interest such as gifts, hotel accommodation, equity, discounts and awards when endorsing any products, services or scheme, failing which strict legal action, including ban on endorsements can be taken.

Amid allegations of sexual harassment against BJP MP and Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, the Congress on Friday demanded that the sports body should be dissolved and Prime Minister Narendra Modi answer what action he took when issues were allegedly flagged to him by a wrestler in 2021.

In this video I take you through the murky details of how ICICI Bank financed the acquisition of an unsuccessful Coal Mine in Australia & gave the money to a now bankrupt Indian company & how this deal burned an $850 million hole in its pockets, & of course, who is to blame!!

West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress boss, Mamata Banerjee, officially launched her party's campaign for next month's assembly elections in the northeastern states of Meghalaya, Nagaland, and Tripura on Wednesday.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) released a documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday. The documentary 'India: The Modi Question' questions PM Modi's leadership as the state CM during the 2002 Gujarat riots when violence broke out following the burning of a train carrying Hindu pilgrims in Godhra. The 2002 Gujarat riots had killed over 1,000 people, most of them Muslims

"#MeToo- a movement that started in 2018 bringing powerful men indulging in sexual harassment and predatory practices to knees exposed the dark underbelly of many industries. It has not hit the wrestling world. Hundreds of top wrestlers of the country have sat down at Jantar Mantar in Delhi, in cold winter for the last two days. They include Wrestler Vinesh Phogat, Olympic Medallist Bajrang Punia, Sakshi Malik, Jitender Kinha and CWG medallist Sumit Malik etc. They are protesting against Wrestling Federation of India President Brij Bhushan Singh. Their allegation is that Brij Bhushan Singh Sexually exploited some female sportspersons. Until their demands are met the wrestlers have refused to move from Jantar Mantar, sending Alarm bells ringing for Modi govt. Why you ask? Because Brij Bhushan Singh is a BJP MP. So what’s happening here, what exactly triggered the protest from the wrestlers? What has brij Bhushan singh said about this? And what is the govt doing?

Since Yesterday there have been a lot of versions of the story floating around and thus a lot of confusion. So why not unpack what we know so far and then we will also talk about the questions that are arising out of this incident. To know some answers I’ve also spoken to Aviation Expert Mr Mohan Ranganathan.

Mumbai is all set to get two more metro networks today. PM narendra modi will be flagging the two metro's which is metro 2a which connects Dahisar E and DN Nagar in Andheri West (yellow line) is around 18.6 Km long, while metro lines 7 connects Andheri E–Dahisar E (red line) and is around 16.5 Km long.

The BMC on the 2nd of Jan 2023 Issued a notice to St. Peters Church of Bandra seeking some portion of the seaside cemetery for road widening. In response to this the Stakeholders of the church and concerned people have organized peaceful protests.

"The Telangana police has booked Bandi Bhagirath Sai, son of state BJP chief Bandi Sanjay, and few others for assaulting a fellow student on a private university campus in Hyderabad.

The Opposition, including the Congress, targeted Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya amid media reports that the passenger who accidentally opened the emergency exit of an IndiGo plane was the BJP Yuva Morcha chief

In a rare statement on BJP MP Varun Gandhi, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Tuesday said they had two different ideologies, and that he could not accept the one adopted by his cousin. Addressing a press conference during his Bharat Jodo Yatra in Punjab, Rahul said, “I can meet him, hug him but I can’t accept that ideology

An incident was reported earlier on Tuesday that an air passenger had opened the emergency door of an Indigo flight resulting in panic among others on the flight in December

Its just 16 days in the New Year and the bad news is already in. You open likedIn today, and it is filled with people sharing their heartbreaking stories of layoff. How people went to office like they usually do, but returned home being told that they don’t need to come back to work from tomorrow onwards. People are literally, desperately crying for help, there are accounts of people breaking into tears when told about they are being laid off. But then that’s what it is. 2023 has been brutal. In just first 16 days, more than 24000 tech employees have lost their jobs. Now to give you a sense of comparison, In 2022, according to a data, total layoff by 1024 tech companies stood at 1,54,336. Now, in just first half of 2023 january, as many as 91 tech companies have let go of their employees. What’s happening in job market? Why these mass layoffs? And what the salaried employees are staring at in 2023? Let’s discuss in today’s show.

"The Supreme Court vs the Govt: This tug of war between the judiciary and the govt has been going on for the past two months. The govt has been dropping hints of its objection to continuation of the collegium system for the appointment of judges whereas the Judiciary on its part is resolutely defending it. Last week the vice president Jagdeep Dhankhar spoke about the matter and said that in a democracy Legislature has to be Supreme. Now, in a latest escalation in this tussle, Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju has written to Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud “suggesting” to include a government nominee in the decision-making process for shortlisting of judges. This may lead to beginning of a fresh row between the two. What did the letter say? What is the entire matter let’s talk about it in today’s video.

In 2021-22, LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) consumption constituted about 13 percent of total petroleum product consumption. About 90 percent of LPG was consumed by households, 8 percent by industrial users, and 2 percent by vehicles. Over 60 percent of LPG was imported and over 99 percent of domestic production was from public sector refineries. LPG consumption grew by over 84 percent from about 15.3 MT (million tonnes) in 2011-12 to 28.3 MT in 2021-22. Most of the growth was accounted for by packaged LPG consumed by households and commercial entities. Domestic LPG consumption grew by over 76 percent between 2013-14 and 2021-22 whilst commercial consumption grew by over 108 percent. LPG Access In the 1970s, LPG stoves started replacing kerosene stoves in urban households when new refineries in India started producing bottled LPG. In 1977, there were only 3.2 million LPG connections across India (or 2.5 percent of the households). In 1984, the number of LPG connections tripled to 8.8 million (5 percent of households) and in 1990 the number of LPG connections increased to 19.6 million (11 percent of households). LPG connections grew at over 14 percent in the period between 1977 and 1990 which was above the rate of growth for electricity connections but the starting base for LPG was very small. Subsidy offered by the government that amounted to roughly half the cost of an LPG cylinder was the primary driver behind this growth which benefited middle-class families in cities and towns. According to the fifth National Family Health Survey 2019-2021 (NFHS-5) carried out by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, 88.6 percent of urban households use LPG or piped natural gas (PNG) as the primary cooking fuel, while only 42 percent of rural households use LPG or natural gas. Overall, only about 56.2 percent of the population used LPG or PNG as the primary cooking fuel. About 8.9 percent of urban households used wood, straw, shrubs, grass, crop waste, dung, and other materials (solid fuels) as primary cooking fuel whilst 54.6 percent of rural households used solid fuels for cooking. Nationally about 43.3 percent of households in India continue to use solid biomass as the primary fuel for cooking. Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) was launched by Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi on 1 May 2016 to distribute 50 million LPG connections to women of Below Poverty Line (BPL) families. A budgetary allocation of ₹8000 Crores (US$1.0 billion) was made for the scheme. However, 6 years down the line, PMUY failed to take off. Similar to demonetization, one more scheme launched with great fanfare did not meet its objective and the BJP stopped talking about it. But if you look at the history of the evolution of domestic LPG in our country, you would find that it was the policies of the Indian National Congress that made the real difference. The foundation work was all done by the Congress party and they handed over the baton to Mr. Modi. Prime Minister Modi had to make the change. So, the Ujjwala scheme was conceptualized, and implemented yet failed. The main reason was that the extent of poverty was misunderstood by Modi and his inexperience in governance showed up. Poor people in this country can always manage a one-time large expense. It is the recurring expense that hurts them the most. Congress increased the reach of LPG but was generous in providing subsidies to all sections of the people. The LPG cylinder price was kept artificially low during the UPA-1 and UPA-2 regimes. The poor, lower middle class, and the middle class was kept happy. Modi’s approach was to assist the poor to buy the initial connection and one LPG cylinder. About 8 crores beneficiaries were added till 2021. But many of them did not have the money to buy the next cylinder. The prices sky-rocketed and the subsidy was removed. Mr. Modi tried to hijack and rebrand the Congress schemes. Nothing of what the BJP would have been possible without AADHAR, Direct Benefit Transfer, and bank accounts. All started by the Congress between 2010 to 2013. The BJP failed in yet one more grand scheme.

At least 68 people died today in Nepal after a plane carrying about 72 people from capital Kathmandu crashed in Pokhara this morning, news agency AFP said, quoting the police.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today flagged off MV Ganga Vilas, the world's longest river cruise, in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi through video conferencing. 32 Swiss tourists will take the maiden journey to reach Dibrugarh in Assam via Bangladesh. The PM inaugurated a 'Tent City', developed on the lines of similar setups in Gujarat's Kutch and Rajasthan, on the banks of the Ganga in Varanasi. Over 200 tents will offer tourists a panoramic view of the famed ghats of the holy city on the other side of the river along with live classical music, 'aarti' in the evening, and yoga sessions. MV Ganga Vilas began its journey from Varanasi, PM Modi's constituency, and will sail around 3,200 km in 51 days to reach Dibrugarh in Assam via Bangladesh, traversing across 27 river systems in the two countries

On Swami Vivekananda's 160th birth anniversary Mumbai BJP president Ashish Shelar paid floral tributes.

If you like what you saw - follow me on Instagram @mr.talkstock and on YouTube @mr.talkstock7282 for more such content as well as short videos, memes & collaborations. Let’s take a look at some policy decisions our Finance Ministry, Central Government & Reserve Bank have got right over the last few years. This sets the base for India to outperform on the world stage over the next few years or maybe even decades. Good policies such as these make me Bullish on Bharat.

Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra, known for her acerbic criticism of the BJP, has now posted a video of her making tea at a roadside tea stall and wondered where this stint of making tea might lead her to. It was a veiled dig at PM Modi who, it is widely known, worked as a chaiwala in his childhood

Hitting back at Mohan Bhagwat who had said that 'Muslims must abandon their boisterous rhetoric of supremacy,' AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi questioned RSS’s ideology. Who is Mohan to give Muslims 'permission' to live in India or follow our faith, Owaisi asked. Muslims have nothing to fear in India, but they must abandon their boisterous rhetoric of supremacy , RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat had said on Tuesday

Being included on the Oscar shortlist indicates that the entry has progressed to the round of nominations for the prize, which will be presented on March 12, 2023. On December 22, the Academy Awards released their most recent shortlist for 10 categories

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday launched a veiled attack on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and dubbed them as "21st century Kauravas".

Amid talk raging about his wearing a T-shirt despite the winter chill during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday said he decided to wear only T-shirts during the march after meeting three poor girls "shivering in torn clothes" in Madhya Pradesh.

Joshimath is sinking gradually with huge cracks developing in houses, on roads and fields. Many houses have tilted and are sinking. Demolition drive in the ‘sinking’ town of Joshimath to raze the residences and buildings prone to collapse will begin tomorrow, January 11. So far, 678 houses in Joshimath have developed cracks, and 81 families have been temporarily shifted to safer locations. The authorities have identified unsafe and dangerous buildings in the region and have marked them with red cross (X) symbols. Follow indiatoday.in for the live updates on the demolition drive in Joshimath.

Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi walked out of the Assembly on Monday morning after chief minister MK Stalin moved a resolution which stated that only the customary speech by the government would go on record for the first day of the House’s winter session.The ongoing tussle between the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in Tamil Nadu and Governor RN Ravi escalated inside the assembly on Monday after the latter skipped portions of the government-prepared customary address.

Hundreds of supporters of Brazil's far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro broke through police barricades and stormed into Congress, the presidential palace and the Supreme Court Sunday, in what President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva condemned as a "fascist" attack

The Bombay High Court on Monday granted bail to Chanda Kochhar, the former ICICI Bank managing director and chief executive officer, and her husband Deepak Kochhar from judicial custody after their arrest by the CBI in the ICICI Bank-Videocon loan fraud case, news agency PTI reported

While addressing reporters in Haryana's Kurukshetra on Sunday, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said: "The voice of India is being silenced... fear is being spread... the country is being divided... different castes and religions are being incited against the other -- our Yatra is against all of this. The march also has another goal -- it's my personal goal and that of those walking with me. We see this Yatra as a 'tapasya'. We love our country, our people, farmers and the poor. We want to walk with them.

"The slugfest continues between political parties over China. The most recent provocation comes when Chines forces tried to barge into India in Arunachal Pradesh earlier this month. The ruling party disallowed any discussion on this issue in the Lok Sabha. The opposition parties kept the pressure on the government both inside and outside the parliament.One point where, irrespective of who is in opposition or who is in the government, is that India’s trade with China keeps increasing year after year. Not only the trade increases, our trade deficit with China also keeps ballooning. All this is despite that China reinforces the fact that it is a hostile neighbor. So, is it possible to reduce the trade with China? In this episode, I bring to you the Indo-China trade data. This data goes against our belief that China is just a supplier of cheap and poor-quality goods. The reality is that China today is our largest supplier and is on top of the list with 17.3% contribution. No country is comes even a close second; the USA at second place contributes just 7.17% to our imports. In addition, China is not a supplier of energy products such as Petroleum, Gas or coal. If we leave aside our energy imports, China’s contribution to our imports goes up to 27%. Our annual imports from China stood at $64.2 billion with a trade deficit of $45.7 Billion. Watch the full episode and you will be surprised to see how deeply India is dependent on China for all essentials such as Computers, Integrated Circuit chips, medicine compounds – the list is endless. Even if India wished to find alternate sources, there are none or the replacements will be cost prohibitive. Border disputes have to be delinked with trade. What we need is better diplomacy. Our defense forces will always be there to thwart such attempts.

Karnataka's announcement that it plans to proceed with the Kalasa-Banduri water diversion project on the Mahadayi River has flared up its longstanding dispute with its neighbour Goa. Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, on December 30 2022, said that the government had received clearance from the Union government for two Detailed Project Reports (DPR) on the project

Ahead of the oath-taking ceremony of newly elected councillors at the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) civic centre, AAP and BJP councillors held protests and raised slogans. BJP and AAP councillors also clashed with each other ahead of Delhi Mayor polls.

In a major boost for the Congress in Jammu and Kashmir, several leaders who had quit the party following the resignation of Ghulam Nabi Azad have rejoined ahead of Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra entering the state.

Bollywood actor Suniel Shetty on Thursday said that 99 per cent of Bollywood doesn’t take drugs and rather focus on hard work to reach out to the people and thus, it is important that the trending hashtag of #BoycottBollywood be done away with to restore the image of the Bollywood industry

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi took a jibe at the BJP on Thursday, citing the issues of inflation and unemployment in the country., Rahul Gandhi said, "BJP asks us what have we done in 70 years. We didn't give the country inflation and unemployment as much as BJP has given.

If you like what you saw - follow me on Instagram @mr.talkstock and on YouTube @mr.talkstock7282 for more such content as well as short videos, memes & collaborations. India is making an earnest attempt to roll out renewable energy & hopes that half of our electricity needs will be met with it by 2030. Mr Narendra Modi also made a promise to reach net-zero emissions by 2070. But despite all this - In this video I take you through how India’s future is still heavily dependent on Coal despite promises made of a cleaner future. And how the political will of our government seems to bend in favour of an industrialist whose empire is still knee deep in Coal.

With each passing day, shocking details continue to emerge in the Delhi Kanjhawala case, where a 20-year-old woman was dragged by a car for several kilometres, leading to her death. Now, in a fresh development, it has emerged that 10 police vehicles were deployed to trace the car which hit the victim, Anjali, and dragged her from Sultanpuri to Kanjhawala, reported news agency PTI quoting sources. These 10 police vehicles included PCR vans and night patrolling units

Acharya Satyendra Das, the chief priest of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, extended his solidarity to the Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.In a letter sent on New Year’s eve, Das – who has been the head priest of the Ram Janmabhoomi temple for the past three decades – said that he wishes Gandhi’s mission of “Sarvajan Sukhay Sarvajan Hitaya” (happiness for all, welfare for all) to be successful

"For the past few days social media is flooded with videos of hundreds of women from Uttarakhand’s Haldwani from old ladies to young kids, protesting in the bone chilling cold against the high court order of eviction that impacted about 4000 families. The railways had claimed the land on which the families have been living. Based on this claim the authorities issued eviction notices to over 4000 families. However, the families claim, they have been living in the area for years now and that they all have valid documentations recognized by the govt authorities. The High Court had ordered the authorities to evict 4000 families within just 7 days. The Supreme Court today heard the matter and ordered a stay on the eviction. In a stern message the Supreme Court also observed that ""there cannot be uprooting of 50,000 people in 7 days"". Taking note of the m,atter the Supreme Court also asked the state govt to find a practical solution to the issue.

India crawled its way into 2023 with widespread protests taking place across the nation. Cities including Delhi, Mumbai, and Ahmedabad saw people from the Jain community pour into the streets against the Jharkhand government’s latest decision to declare the holy Shri Sammed Shikharji in Giridih district as an eco-tourist place.Know The reason why the community is proesting across the country.

The barbaric death of Delhi woman on the night of New year in kanjhawala, has shocked the entire nation. The woman was dragged for about 1.5 hours after a car hit her scooty from behind. Her skin peeled, clothes torn and legs were broken. The horrific Hit and run has once again brought to fore the question of women’s safety in the National Capital. Locals are coming out to protest in Sultanpuri. Questions are also being raised on the police investigation in the matter. The Police is also being accused of laxity. Now her autopsy has revealed the extent of her injuries.

Air India on Wednesday said it has imposed a flying ban on the passenger who had urinated on a co-passenger onboard a flight from New York to Delhi in November last year and set up an internal panel to probe whether there were lapses on part of the crew in adressing the situation

Documentation placed in the Supreme court in the Demonetisation case the judgement for which came out yesterday, shows how the decision of Demonetisation was announced just 24 hours after the Centre sent the proposal to the RBI. In this video, our Associate Editor Arti ghargi highlights two points from Demonetisation judgement.

On January 1st, a young woman was found dragged to death in Delhi. This is a day when police are on constant alert in all major cities, and protocol calls for extra monitoring and checkpoints to catch possible troublemakers, such as those who drive drunk. However, the tragic death of 20-year-old Anjali in Kanjhawala, Delhi, early on Sunday morning exposed the glaring flaws in the 'strong' preparations undertaken each year to control boisterous revellers. Additionally, it demonstrated the widespread disregard for laws and apathy toward them that seem to be engrained in Delhi's social structure. In this news report let’s see the questions that surrounds this bizarre hit and run that has stunned the national capital and everyone in the country.

"2022 witnessed a minimum of 14 major elections. Be it the presidential polls, Assembly polls, or Bypolls all got their due media coverage and hype. India got its first tribal President, and BJP continued its winning streak winning 5 out of 7 state polls. Besides, Winning Gujarat with an unprecedented victory and returned to power in Maharashtra with Eknath Shinde's support. The BJP also broke the incumbency curse in Uttar Pradesh by returning to power. Arvind Kejriwal led Aam Aadmi Party's victory in Punjab and their debut performance (5 seats) got them a national party status. The party also completed 10 years of establishment. AAP triumphed the BJP in the civic body polls and dethroned the saffron party's 15-year-old regime. The Indian National Congress defeated the Himachal Pradesh polls, defeating the BJP. The Indian National Congress elected its first non-Gandhi chief after two and a half decades. In 2023 as many as nine states are scheduled to go for polls. There is a high possibility that the Union Territory of J&K may also witness Assembly elections. These polls are paramount as they would set the momentum and build a pro or anti-narrative for the 2024 general elections.

"Your personal finances are set for quite a few changes from next year, starting right from January 1, 2023. Some of it is good for your pocket, some not so good. So, do not get caught unawares. Here are the major changes your finances are likely to go through in 2023.

"Rubbishing rumours related to the merger of Karnataka Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (Nandini), with Amul, state Cooperation Minister ST Somashekar said precisely what Indian Cooperative reported a couple of days earlier.

More than 40% of Covid-19 cases in the United States are now caused by Omicron XBB.1.5, the unreleased data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed. Epidemiologist Eric Feigl-Ding provided the information on his official Twitter handle.

In a veiled attack on Pakistan, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday said that terrorism cannot be used as a tool to force India on the "negotiating table".While interacting with the Indian diaspora in Cyprus, without mentioning Pakistan, Mr Jaishankar said, "We will never normalize it.

"In India’s neighbouring Country Afghanistan, the Taliban rulers have stepped on the hopes of millions of children of future generation, especially women. The Taliban rulers last week announced the ban on University education of women. This is an indefinite ban According to the letter issued by ministry of higher education to all government and private universities. Since then, social media is flooded with videos of Afghan women crying, weeping. Standing outside their classrooms and literally begging to be taken inside the classroom. In some parts the women have started protesting the ban. Many of them were hoping to give exams in few weeks. Now their hopes are shattered. Incidentally, last year when Taliban took over the country, it had promised to not jeopardize the Education of women. But since then it has only gone back on its promise. Restrictions on women in Afghanistan are only rising, strikingly similar to its last rule. In light of this, we spoke to Ms. Zahra. She is a student of Punjab university and doing her PhD in Political Science. What does she feel looking back at her homeland where she grew up? What are her hopes for women in Afghanistan? We spoke to her about this

The number of ‘unsavoury’ incidents in Indian skies is increasing and videos of such occurences are going viral on social media. In one such incident, a fight broke out on a Bangkok-Kolkata Thai Smile Airways flight on December 27.

f you like what you saw - follow me on Instagram @mr.talkstock and on YouTube @mr.talkstock7282 for more such content as well as short videos, memes & collaborations. The world’s second largest economy & the largest producer of goods, China, is bleeding in more ways than one. After 30 years of being the fastest growing major economy of the world, this giant has begun to slow down. Because of strict Co-vid lockdowns & draconian enforcement – China’s massive factories are unable to produce goods at the pace needed & big multinationals are looking to diversify their supply chains elsewhere. I take you through how India & Vietnam can benefit at China’s expense. I also tell you what Vietnam has got right till now & what India needs to get right to cash in on this opportunity of a lifetime

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi shared good wishes for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mother after reports of her being in hospital in Ahmedabad emerged."The love between a mother and a son is eternal and priceless. Modi ji, you have my love and support in this difficult time. I hope your mother gets well soon," Mr Gandhi tweeted, in Hindi, for his prime political rival

Air India Express on Tuesday issued guidelines for the maintenance of Covid-appropriate behaviour by travellers travelling from UAE to India.The recommendation advises that all visitors should preferably be completely immunized as per the approved primary schedule of vaccination against COVID-19 in their country. Other precautions to take when travelling include the use of masks and physical distancing

In 2022 alone more than 10 Russian businessmen, oligarchs have died most of them under mysterious circumstances. The causes of deaths more or less the same, often unbelievable: Suicides, heart attack, poisoning or a simple fall. The only thing that differs is where you fall from: fall from a cliff during a trek, fall in the apartment, fall of a flight of stairs, fall off a hospital window and as happened in the latest case: fall from a hotel window. There is something intriguing about these deaths of Businessmen from Russia in unexplained circumstances. So why are these Russian businessmen dying all of a sudden? Let’s discuss that in today’s video.

Journalism that is meant for public good creates an impact on the ground. I am happy to share with you all, that a report of HW News Network, was not only noted by the concerned authorities but it also led to a ground impact. A pregnant woman who gave birth on the road during the first wave of covid-19 and walked almost 150 kilometers has been awarded a sum of 1 Lakh as compensation after her ordeal reached the ears of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). Taking note of HW News' report on the plight of the woman, the NHRC wrote to Maharashtra govt and sought response from them. In the letter, it had said, “A woman along with her husband, Migrant labour during the countrywide lockdown in May 2020 due to Coronavirus, while walking from Maharashtra to her village in Madhya Pradesh and gave birth to a baby on the way and after resting for some hours, resumed her walk for the remaining 150 km”.

Braving the morning chill, among those who walked along with Rahul were former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and senior leaders Randeep Singh Surjewala and Kumari Selja." Apart from Kanimozhi, several leaders and notable personalities joined the yatra. Actor, filmmaker and Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) president Kamal Haasan also joined Rahul Gandhi in Delhi.

CPI(M) MP John Brittas on Friday morning gave a Zero hour notice in Rajya Sabha concerning the implementation of Hindi as the medium of instruction in central universities and institutes of national importance such as IIT and IIM

"NDTV founders Prannoy Roy and his wife Radhika Roy on December 23, 2022 said they will sell 27.26% out of their remaining 32.26% shareholding in the news broadcaster to Adani Group. This follows Adani Group becoming the single largest shareholder in New Delhi Television Ltd (NDTV) after first buying out a company backed by the founders and then acquiring more shares from the open market.

The head of the World Health Organization on Wednesday said he was ""very concerned"" about an unprecedented wave of Covid cases in China, as the health body urged Beijing to accelerate vaccination of the most vulnerable. ""WHO is very concerned over the evolving situation in China, with increasing reports of severe disease"" Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a weekly news conference, appealing for detailed information on disease severity, hospital admissions and intensive care requirements.

Ex RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan always has some fascinating insights into the Indian economy. He recently joined Rahul Gandhi for a part of the Congress party’s “Bharat Jodo Yatra” after which they sat down to discuss the current state of the Indian economy. I elaborate on the 3 most prominent criticisms they had about it.

"The alarm bells are ringing on Covid-19. Again. It’s a Déjà vu of 2019. China is witnessing an exponential rise in the Covid-19 cases. According to one epidemiologist, in the next 90 days, 60% of Chinese population and 10% of the world population runs the risk of being infected with Covid-19. The expert has also predicted some 2 Million deaths in China due to this. While the Indian govt has sounded a red alert on this late on Tuesday night to the states, the Health Ministry has specifically issued warning of sorts to Congress’ Bharat Jodo Yatra: Not to the public in general, not to airports or railway stations or busiest places in the country. But to Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra. What’s the entire matter, Arti Ghargi explains in this video.

The Vedanta-Foxconn semiconductor chip manufacturing project that led to a huge controversy in Maharashtra is reportedly facing a major trouble. After shifting the project from Maharashtra’s Talegaon to Gujarat’s Dholera, the project is reportedly struggling to get a financer. The 1.54 Lakh Cr rupees project was expected to generate close to 2 lakh jobs in the state. However, according to a Bloomberg report the project is facing difficulties in getting financial backer for the mega project.

A five-year-old girl from Karnataka was confirmed to be infected with the Zika virus. Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar, said, "This is the first case in the state and the government is monitoring the situation very carefully. Our department is well prepared to handle it". The first case of Zika Virus in India! Let’s learn about Zika Virus and its symptoms and treatment.

"The Supreme Court has dismissed a plea filed by Bilkis Bano, seeking a review of its order passed in May by which it had asked the Gujarat government to consider a petition for the remission of the sentences of 11 convicts in the gang-rape case.

Since the news of Tawang clash has come out, many are rushing to call it Galwan part 2 but the details suggest this clash was unlike the 2020 clash. According to an India Today report, the Indian Side already had intel input about China’s misadventure plans across LAC and were prepared in advance to take on the Chinese side. The report also says that the Indian soldiers chased Chinese soldiers till Chinese border.

"Its December already, you worked hard for the entire 11 months and you decided to on a trip with your gal pal or your guy friends to go on a much needed vacation to relax yourself. Mind you planned for this trip 2 months earlier. You know its December time and that it’s the peak of travellers so you all are prepped. And were supposed to take the flight from Delhi Indira Gandhi Airport on 12th December.In today’s video we will get into the nitty gritty of the whole scenario that happened at the Indira Gandhi International Airport.

Almost two and a half years after Galwan face-off, the Indian and Chinese troops clashed once again. This time at Yangtse in Tawang in India’s north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh. The clash according to the reports took place on December 9th. Indian soldiers have sustained minor injuries in this clash, whereas soldiers of PLA troops have also been injured. The injured soldiers are now recuperating at medical facility in Guwahati. Reports also suggested that a commander level flag meeting took place between the two countries.

"The Supreme Court said on Thursday notwithstanding the cruelty involved in “Jallikattu” it cannot be termed a blood sport as nobody is using any weapon and the blood may only be an incidental thing. “Jallikattu” is a bull-taming sport played in Tamil Nadu as part of the Pongal harvest festival.

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The Bharatiya Janata Party lost all five Assembly seats under Union Minister Anurag Thakur's Lok Sabha constituency Hamirpur in Himachal Pradesh, while it won all three seats from party president JP Nadda's hometown Bilaspur.

If you like what you saw - follow me on Instagram @mr.talkstock and on YouTube @mr.talkstock7282 for more such content as well as short videos, memes & collaborations. The story of India’s most valuable start-up Byju’s has been pretty much up & down till now. In this video I make the case that it has a lot to do with their promoters – Mr Raveendran Byju, his wife Divya & his brother Rijju. When the promoter’s sold stake – Byju’s went down. But now in its latest funding round valued at $22 Billion, Byju’s has raised $400 million from its promoter, Mr Raveendran Byju. I tell you about the exciting prospects for the company going forward.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Biocon Executive Chairperson Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and Nykaa founder Falguni Nayar are among six Indians who have made it to the Forbes' annual list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women. Ranked at number 36, Sitharaman has made it to the list for the fourth time in a row. In 2021, the 63-year-old minister was ranked at number 37 in the list, while she was in the 41st spot in 2020 and 34th in 2019

Police said a complaint in this regard was filed by a BJP functionary who “was disturbed by Gokhale’s tweet” in which he had posted “screenshots” of purported news reports claiming Rs 30 crore was spent for PM Modi’s visit to Morbi in Gujarat

Maharashtra minister Abdul Sattar, who courted controversy for allegedly making abusive comments on Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) member of parliament Supriya Sule, may now face serious consequences. Now why? Following a backlash over his remarks, Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari has sought action against Sattar, who holds the agriculture minister portfolio and is considered close to chief minister Eknath Shinde

The last 12 to 18 months saw several top Congress leaders quitting the party. The underlying reasons for each one of them could be different, but once thing that was quite apparent that they felt the party had become rudderless. The fighting spirit, the direction and leadership – everything was missing. Little did they realize, that something else had been cooking. A much bigger plan, a much bigger fight and a much bigger public impact was being planned. That was the Bharat Jodo Yatra that happened. Now 3 months into the yatra, a distance of 2000 kms already covered the Congress for thee first appears to have come out of its shackles. The optics is good, the public is impressed. A new wave of people, who support the Congress ideology are walking hand-in-hand with Rahul Gandhi. All the ex-Congress leaders, I am sure, are watching this yatra keenly. Among the scores that left Congress in a huff must be sulking in their arm chairs. Only a few of those people joined the BJP and by now they must have got a taste of the antics of the two-men team. Stifled and suffocated for sure. Many of the others joined one-man show parties which was even worse. A Congressman has no place in such a place. Others, are well on the road to oblivion. How many do you thing will be regretting their decision to quit the Indian National Congress. I have made my list of 10 “Congressi” leaders who I am sure will be waiting for an opportunity to join. Make your list, write in the comment box and let’s compare. Maybe we can send them a note too. For more information visit our website: https://theinfodiggers.com Also, find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WhatDoesThisDataSayAnd On Twitter: https://twitter.com/theinfodiggers

As the national capital went to polls on Sunday, in his final appeal to the voters, Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal asked Delhi residents to vote for an honest party and not to vote for corruption. Kejriwal took to Twitter and wrote, "Today we are voting to make Delhi clean and beautiful, there is voting to make a corruption-free government in the municipal corporation. My appeal to all the Delhiites - go cast your vote today to form an honest and functioning government in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is probing the alleged Delhi excise policy scam, on Friday, December 2, issued notice to Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao's daughter and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) MLC K Kavitha for questioning her in the case on December 6. The probe agency issued the notice under Section 160 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and asked her to intimate the place of residence as per her convenience for the examination at 11 am on that day. Under Section 160 of CrPC, the investigating officer can summon any person as witness in a particular case. Kavitha, in a statement, said that she informed the authorities that they can meet her at her Hyderabad residence. Kavitha asked the central agency to provide details, including copies of the complaint in the case, to acquaint herself and answer appropriately "within a reasonable period of time".

Senior journalist Mr Vinod Dua passed away on this day last year leaving a big void in the Indian Journalist community. In this video we pay tribut to Mr Dua who had three year long association with HW News.

Bilkis Bano was 21 years old and several months pregnant when she was gangraped while fleeing the 2002 Gujarat riots. She saw her family members, including her three-year-old daughter, being killed. And in August this year, the 11 men who subjected her to the brutality were released by the Gujarat government under its remission policy

Actor Paresh Rawal has landed in a huge controversy with his viral comments on Bengalis while campaigning in Gujarat for the ruling BJP. At a rally, he said the people of Gujarat would tolerate inflation but not "Bangladeshis and Rohingya" next door and used a "cooking fish" stereotype that has incensed Bengalis. Responding to a huge backlash, he apologised today but made it worse.

"On 23 November The AIIMS Delhi reported a major breakdown in their servers. Since then the servers have been out of order. According to a news report the analyst assigned to look after the servers have also been suspended, reportedly for alleged breach of cyber security. The server failure lasted for nearly a week. As of now the servers have been restored. In this video we will walk you down the whole chaos that happened in AIIMS Delhi which has also flagged concern of privacy breach

The bird cannot find its nest anywhere because it has been taken over by someone else. These are the lines from senior Journalist Ravish Kumar’s 24 minute-long monologue. The video is uploaded on his youtube channel this morning. This comes few hours after he resigned from NDTV. On Wednesday, Senior journalist Ravish Kumar who over the years had become synonymous with the name NDTV resigned from the channel. His resignation came amid the ongoing takeover of the channel by billionaire Gautam Adani.

"The high-intensity campaigning for the first phase of polling in Gujarat is now in the hands of the voters. The voter turnout was recorded to be 34.48 per cent till 1 pm.

"If you like what you saw - follow me on Instagram @mr.talkstock and on YouTube @mr.talkstock7282 for more such content as well as short videos, memes & collaborations. LIC is India’s biggest insurer & asset manager. It manages the money of millions of insured Indians & pensioners. It’s three biggest investments are the three biggest corporate groups in India – Reliance, Tata & Adani groups. While it has been investing in Reliance & Tata groups for many years – it’s investment in Adani companies are only a recent phenomenon. I take you step by step through their investment in the Adani group stocks & how it has increased exponentially over the last few years. Although the investments have been successful for LIC till now – I end with a word of caution.

"The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Tuesday said it will launch the first pilot of retail digital Rupee (e ₹-R) on Thursday to assess the stability of the complete process of digital currency creation, distribution and retail usage in real time. The central bank has already begun select launches of the legal tendered digital currency for the wholesale segment starting earlier this month.

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In the times where outrage has become new normal, boycotts are a daily affair, Israeli Filmmaker Nadav Lapid’s comments at the closing ceremony of IFFI-International Film Festival of India led to a storm in a teacup. Nadav Lapid spoke of The Kashmir Files. He called the movie vulgar and propaganda and that it was inappropriate for the competition as prestigious as IFFI. The Kashmir Files was selected for the Indian Panorama Section and was screened at 22 November. The special screening was attended by Anupam Kher, who also stars in the movie. He added that he is making the comment on the stage since he feels the spirit of the film festival can take a critical discussion.

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Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev has landed in hot soup after stoking controversy with his comment on women during a yoga camp in Maharashtra's Thane yesterday. He said women look good in sarees, in salwar suits and even if they wear nothing

"Hundreds of demonstrators and police have clashed in Shanghai as protests over China’s severe COVID-19 restrictions continued into a third day and spread to several other cities.

Three days to go for the first phase of polling for Gujarat assembly election and from tomorrow silent period for 48 hours will kick in. So today is the last day of campaigning for the political parties for the constituencies in the first phase. Thus, it is a good time to hit the rewind button and Summarize the Gujarat Election campaigns, the issues in the spotlight and how are numbers stacked?

"The Supreme Court has quashed the Telangana High Court division bench order which said that a probe by the state-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) into the alleged offer of bribes to four TRS MLAs, in a bid to make them join the BJP, will be monitored by a judge of the High Court.

"In this video, we'll discuss the BJP's election strategy and whether it worked. Amit Shah is known as the BJP's election strategist and his strategies have been credited with the party's victory in the elections.The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) election strategy has been a topic of discussion ever since the party's inception in 1980. The party's aim has always been to gain power at the Centre and it has used a variety of methods to achieve this - from alliances to party splits and more. In this episode, I take a look at the BJP's election strategy and how effective it has been over the years. Amit Shah the key strategistAmit Shah, the previous president of the Bharatiya Janata Party, is widely considered to be the key strategist behind the party's recent electoral successes. Shah is credited with successfully executing a number of complex strategies, including the party's expansion into new regions and its focus on wooing young voters. It is not without reason that he is given the title of 'Chanakya'. The BJP has been in power at the center since 2014 and has seen a series of state-level victories since then. In the 2019 general elections, the party secured a landslide victory, winning over 300 seats in the Lok Sabha. This was largely thanks to Amit Shah's strategic planning.Some of the key strategies that Amit Shah implemented include: - Focusing on expanding the BJP's reach into new regions of India. This was achieved through a mix of aggressive campaigning and coalition building.

"“The person who doesn’t have 10 MLAs with him, the person who did Gaddari with the party, betrayed the party, the person who was hand in gloves with BJP…How can he be made chief minister???” This explosive statement of Rajasthan CM ashok Gehlot about Sachin Pilot during an NDTV interview has once again revived the fears of crack in Congress, just when the party’s ambitious Bharat Jodo Yatra is to enter the party-ruled state. While Congress did try to do a damage control yesterday with the statement put out by Media chief Jairam Ramesh, one can clearly see that desert storm is about to strike the state politics sooner than later. The Congress seems taken aback with Ashok Gehlot’s sudden outburst at Sachin Pilot who is currently in Madhya Pradesh to join Bharat Jodo Yatra. But many believe the Congress just failed to see this coming or rather tried to delay it. So what’s behind Gehlot’s latest attack on Pilot and what challenges lie ahead of the Congress party, and why Rajasthan has created Catch 22 situation for the Gandhis. Arti Ghargi explains in this video.

A total of 167 candidates, out of the 788 contesting the 89 seats in the first phase of Gujarat Assembly election, have criminal cases against them, with 100 of them facing serious charges like murder and rape, a report by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) said on Thursday.

"Preparations for Gujarat Assembly polls are afoot and all the contending parties have declared their list of candidates some of whom are part of the billionaire’s club.

"If you like what you saw - follow me on Instagram @mr.talkstock and on YouTube @Mr.TalkStock at for more such content as well as short videos, memes & collaborations. Few years ago, the main purpose of IPOs was for the company to raise money - to fund their operations, to pay off debts, to expand their businesses etc. These days, with so many of these new-age tech IPOs - the main purpose is to give their “early investors” a profitable exit. So, it’s less about the continuity of the business & more about profits. We take a look at this new mindset of IPO promoters & how it affects investors.

Actor Richa Chadha today put out a public apology after deleting a controversial Twitter post after a huge backlash over a comment that appeared to deride a top army commander's statement on taking Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) back with a reference to the 2020 Galwan clash with Chinese troops

A worry for the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Gujarat Assembly elections, according to a report in Indian express the Gujarat Maldhari Mahapanchayat has urged the community members to vote against the party in the upcoming assembly elections. Accusing the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government of meting out injustice to their community.

"Like a festering wound from the past, the border dispute between two neighbouring states Mahasashtra and Karnataka keeps cropping up from time to time. Half a century has passed since the dispute first came up but the wait for the resolution seems endless. In the latest turn of events, the chief minister's of the two states have come to loggerheads over the matter. The CM of Karnataka has warned Maharashtra CM to not create unnecessary issues. Whereas, deputy CM of maharashtra has gone ahead and said the state govt will try for inclusion of many bordering Marathi speaking villages in Maharashtra. Well, both of them are from the same party. The verbal battle between party colleagues separated by their geography comes just ahead of the Supreme Court hearing. But what led to the dispute making headlines again and what is the background of the mahasashtra Karnataka border dispute, let us understand in today's video.

"“Political parties in power make the Chief Election Commissioner do their bidding so as to remain in power” “There have been numerous CECs and T N Seshan happens once in a while.” “We need someone with character, someone who does not allow himself to be bulldozed.” This is what the Supreme Court today said in a damning indictment of the country’s apex election body- The Election Commission of India. The Supreme Court bench made these remarks while hearing a batch of petitions challenging the current system of appointing members of the ECI. The petitions said that the executive enjoys the power to make appointments in violation of Article 342(2) of the Constitution of India. What happened in the hearing and why did the Court invoke former CEC TN Seshan. Arti Ghargi explains in today’s video.

The students of JJ school are protesting for 4 days, demanding more teaching staff and hostel facilities. HW news brings you the ground reality of the protest.

Shraddha Walkar, who was allegedly killed by her live-in partner Aaftab Poonawala in Delhi in May this year, had lodged a complaint against him at a police station in Maharashtra in November 2020, saying that he used to hit her, scare her and threaten to kill her, police officials confirmed.

The Delhi unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday shared a purported video of an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Gulab Singh Yadav being chased and beaten up by several party workers ahead of the much-crucial civil body polls in the capital city

Cyclist rides 20000 Km from MP to Delhi to promote women empowerment.

The row sparked by Maharashtra governor Bhagat Singh khoshyari does not seem to be ending soon . Even after 3 days of his remarks on Chatrapati shivaji maharaj displays of protests continue across the state of Maharashtra. Right now we are at Rajbhavan which is the official residence of the governor and we can see a. Massive display of protest by the maratha sanghatna.

Former US President Donald Trump has snubbed Elon Musk for reinstating his account, saying he now does not see any reason for returning to Twitter.Addressing a panel at the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual leadership meeting, Trump said, "I don't see any reason for it (returning to Twitter)."

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday appealed to people to be wary of those who defame Gujarat, who he said should not find a place in the state. Addressing a rally in Valsad district in the run-up to the next month's Assembly elections, Modi said Gujarati people have never hurt anybody and embraced whoever comes to Gujarat.

In a major development in MLAs poaching case, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Telangana Police has summoned Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) General Secretary (Organisation) BL Santhosh.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has taken disciplinary action and suspended seven party leaders, who had filed nominations as independent candidates after being denied tickets by the saffron party. All of the seven candidates were seeking tickets in the first phase of the Gujarat Assembly elections.

For the last two days Rahul Gandhi’s comments on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar or popularly known as Swatantryaveer Savarkar, have stirred up politics in Maharashtra. During his Bharat Jodo yatra, Rahul Gandhi commented on the matter twice. Once when he pitted Savarkar against Tribal icon and Freedom fighter Birsa Munda. And then when he showed a document: mercy petition written by Savarkar to the British in a press conference. Expectedly enough, His comments kicked up a storm and once again got everyone talking about the undying controversy around Savarkar. And then it was all, he said and she said, We’ve all heard, read what BJP said and then what Shivsena said, what did the grandson of Savarkar say and what did the great Grandson of Mahatma Gandhi say. But what did Rahul Gandhi really achieve by his comments on Savarkar???

Shocking details of Shraddha being a victim of domestic violence have emerged as Aftab Poonawala and Shraddha Walker's WhatsApp chat has surfaced and it shows that the victim was beaten by her live-in partner.

The grisly murder case of Shrdhha Walkar has sent shockwaves in India with shocking revelations by the accused in the case Aftab Poonawala. Aftab Amin Poonalwala murdered his live in partner Shraddha Walkar in Delhi, thereby mutilating victims body into 35 pieces and disposing the parts of her body in Delhi’s Mehrauli forest. The Delhi Police is still in search of the body parts

Prime minister Narendra Modi on 8th November 2016 announced the govt’s decision of demonetization. Between that day and today’s date 6 years have passed. And although the BJP claims demonetization was done to fight corruption and black money, it doesn’t tout it as a one of the prominent achievements or cite it in election manifestos. That’s something to ponder about. However, today we are talking about the Central govt’s response to Supreme Court query. As you know the Supreme Court is currently hearing a petition challenging the move of demonetization. However, defending its decision to ban the currency notes of ₹500 and ₹1000, the govt told Supreme Court that the step was taken after extensive consultation with the Reserve Bank of India and advance preparations were made before the note ban was enforced.

But was it really so?

If you like what you saw - follow me on Instagram @mr.talkstock and on YouTube at @Mr.TalkStock for more such content as well as short videos, memes & collaborations. Instagram Link : https://www.instagram.com/mr.talkstock/ The Electric Vehicle revolution has officially begun in India. From currently having less than 1% of overall vehicles registered as electric, India is forecasted to have 30% by 2030. I tell you why Electric Vehicles will be a success in India, a couple of different ways to invest in the EV ecosystem, & finally I take you through a few stocks which are expected to benefit from this trend.

Almost everything has been spoken about the gruesome murder of Shraddha Walker by her live-in partner Aftab Poonawala. From 35 pieces of the body to love jihad, all aspects have been explored. But how did the police crack such a systemically planned homicide? Let's find out in this video

"Rahul Gandhi's Bharat jodo yatra has entered 71st day and the Yatra is currently in Maharashtra. Rahul gandhi during this yatra is meeting many people. From Young to old, civil society to artists, many are joining in. What is interesting is, many elderly want to meet Rahul Gandhi. Some of them have seen or met Rahul's father Rajiv Gandhi and Grandmother Indira Gandhi. One such person is Vedwanti Ambadas Mandavgade. Hailing from shegaon, the woman in her 70s, want to meet Rahul Gndhi and handover a memory of his grandmother which she has kept with her for almost 50 years. HW News met her. The year 1971 is known as the year of India-Pakistan war. Vedwanati Mandavagale, was then studying, she was a college student. But she loved Indira Gandhi, she wished that Indira Gandhi should become the Prime Minister of this country. so she wrote a letter to Indira Gandhi and wished her success in the elections. Subsequently, Indira Gandhi was also elected. But she hadn't forgotten the letter written by vedwanti. After her victory Indira Gandhi sent a letter to her in her own handwriting. For the last 50+ years, Vedwanti has kept the letter with her. Now that Rahul Gandhi is coming to shegao as part of Bharat Jodo Yatra, vedwanti wishes to meet him and hand him over the letter, which is the memory of his grandmother.

Paintings, silver bowls, dupattas, artwork from Himachal Pradesh (where polls just got over) and Gujarat (where voting takes place in two weeks' time) formed the bulk of gifts given by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to world leaders at the G20 summit in Bali

Preliminary information suggests it was unlikely that the explosion in a village in eastern Poland near the border with Ukraine was caused by a missile fired from Russia, US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday. Biden was speaking after an emergency meeting by global leaders gathered for the G20 meeting in Bali.

The Congress on Tuesday targeted Narendra Modi after he and Chinese President Xi Jinping shook hands and spoke briefly at a formal dinner for G20 leaders in Bali on Tuesday – their first face-to-face encounter in public since the start of the military standoff in Ladakh more than two years ago.

"Congress and Rahul Gandhi are currently in Maharashtra on Bharat Jodo Yatra. The Yatra began from Kanyakumari and will go all the way to Kashmir. When the schedule of this Bharat Jodo Yatra was rolled out, one could see that the yatra passes from all the five southern states, then to Maharashtra and from Maharashtra to Madhya Pradesh. The Yatra's route skipped the two poll-bound states of Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat. Throughout the Bharat Jodo Yatra this question has been asked to various leaders of the Congress. Why does Bharat Jodo Yatra not pass through poll bound states of Gujarat and Himachal. Especially Gujarat because this is where Congress had put up a spirited fight against BJP last time around. From Rahul gandhi to Communication dept chief Jairam Ramesh had the same answer: That Bharat Jodo yatra is different from elections and that the party doesn't want its entire machinery in Gujarat to be focused on Rahul Gandhi. But as the date of polling for Gujarat comes closer, seems like party has given a rethought to the idea of keeping Rahul Gandhi away from Gujarat election campaigning. Rahul Gandhi is now expected to campaign for the party in the state on November 22nd. In today's video, we talk about what led to this change of heart in Congress camp? Why is Rahul going to Gujarat after denying the same in the past? and what could possibly be congress' strategy behind this??

By this time you might be aware of the gruesome murder of Mumbai based woman shardha walkar who was chopped into 35 pieces by her live-in partner Aftab poonawala and disposed her body across the national capital where the couple lived.The accused is under the custody of Delhi police

Aftab Amin Poonawalla, the accused in the gruesome murder case in Delhi, had googled method of blood cleaning and read about human anatomy after murdering his live-in partner Shraddha, claimed Delhi Police on Monday.

"The Bharatiya Janata Party last week announced the list of candidates for Gujarat Assembly elections. The party this time has dropped old faces and given chance to new ones in as many as 40 constituencies. One of those constituencies is Jamnagar North. The saffron party here has replaced veteran politician dharmendra singh jadeja also known as Hakubha and given ticket to Rivaba Jadeja, wife of Indian cricketer Ravindra Jadeja. For Rivaba who joined BJP just 4 years back, this is a big career jump. But the road ahead is not easy for Rivaba. For one being from her own Sister-in-law who has not held back while attacking BJP. Today in this video, Arti Ghargi talks about what are the challenges Rivaba Jadeja faces in the constituency and what strategy has congress drawn to win the seat.

It’s that bad quarter of an hour, when the tech industry turns heartless. Leading global companies from Meta to Twitter le to Apple have either announced widespread layoffs or hiring freezes. The latest to join the list is Amazon, which packed home thousands of employees, including in India.

"The troubles don’t seem to end for NCP leader Jitendra Awhad. Within 72 hours he has been charged under another case. Late on Sunday night, FIR was filed against Jitendra Awhad for allegedly assaulting a woman. The case comes a day after he was granted bail by the local court in another case regarding assault on movie goers. After the latest case, Jitendra Awhad has announced that he will be resigning as legislator. However, thane’s political atmosphere has heated up after this. Supporters of NCP leader Awhad have descended on the streets and protesting against the alleged targeting of their leader. After registering an FIR against Jitendra Awhad for defamation late last night, NCP workers created ruckus at Mumbra police station and torched the road by burning tyres.

"The Gujarat Assembly Elections are round the corner and the ruling BJP is faced with the Himachal Problem. Yes, just like in Himachal Pradesh, the party is facing revolt and discontent on at least 40 seats ahead of the polling. The discontent is only growing as the party announced second list of candidates two days ago. With this the party announced about 160+ candidates for the 182 seat Gujarat Assembly polls. However, on many seats the party has changed sitting MLAs and given chance to new faces. This has led to internal turmoil in the Gujarat Unit of the party and many sitting MLAs whose tickets were cut are now preparing to go the Himachal Way. That means they are trying to fight as independent candidates. Why did BJP cut tickets of the sitting MLAs and Who are the leaders who haven’t made it to the list? And How is BJP planning to tackle this problem? Arti Ghargi and today we will try and answer these questions in today’s video.

"The troubles don’t seem to end for NCP leader Jitendra Awhad. Within 72 hours he has been charged under another case. Late on Sunday night, FIR was filed against Jitendra Awhad for allegedly assaulting a woman. The case comes a day after he was granted bail by the local court in another case regarding assault on movie goers. After the latest case, Jitendra Awhad has announced that he will be resigning as legislator. However, thane’s political atmosphere has heated up after this. Supporters of NCP leader Awhad have descended on the streets and protesting against the alleged targeting of their leader. NCP leader Jitendra Awhad reacts to the issue.

The purpose behind celebrating Children's Day was to recognize theneeds of children, to protect their rights and to stop theirexploitation, for the proper growth of children. Though India hasadopted several policies and Acts for the protection of child rights,in reality, it is a fact that millions of children are being deprivedof their fundamental rights; they are abused, neglected and exploitedin India. Child abuse is a violation of child rights, in today’s videoI would like to make you viewers aware about the same, but this time we speak of the child abuse in boys, which according to report hasoutnumbered the child abuse in girls

A man killed his live-in partner, chopped her body into 35 pieces, and disposed them across the city near Mehrauli forest area for 18 days. According to police, the accused has been identified as Aftab Poonawalla, who murdered her live-in partner Shraddha Walkar who was asking him to marry her

After India won the T20 match against Pakistan in the start of the World Cup in August this year, violence erupted in the town of Leicester UK. A small British town with population of 3.5 Lakhs, having people who have been law abiding citizens. The group clashed started between Hindu and Muslim youngsters. The violence continued for a couple of weeks and what appeared that the Police was caught unawares. Why did people start fighting over something as silly as winning or losing a cricket match? In this episode, I trace the roots of the problem. What should have a small law and order issue was made into an international incident with even the Government of India jumping in ring. With unnecessary escalation and undue support from abroad, the local groups continue to quarrel. The UK Governments attempt to have an inquiry into the incident also failed due to external pressure groups. The allegations and counter allegations continue and the UK government is finding itself in a quandary over how to handle the case. I take you the Leicester violence incident as an example of how the social media is easily hijacked by undesirable elements for political gains. Watch the full episode.

A college student in Hyderabad was beaten up by a group of his hostel mates on November 1 for alleged objectionable remarks against the Prophet Muhammad. The student, identified as Himank Bansal, is an undergraduate law student at the IFHE in Hyderabad. According to the police, a complaint was filed on November 11 by the student, that said, ""On November 1, I was physically and sexually harassed by 15-20 individuals on college campus premises in my allotted hostel room

Himachal Pradesh will hold legislative assembly elections to choose 68 representatives to the legislature tomorrow that is November 12. Citizens eligible to cast a vote will be exercising their democratic right from 8 am in the morning

Rahul Gandhi along with 1000s of Congress workers will be entering Maharashtra today, for a total of 14 days. In Which congress spokesperson spoke to HW News over the relase of six convicts in Rahul gandhi assassination case. Team HW is on ground zero to provide you with all the updates on Bharat jodo yatra, Maharashtra leg. Stay tuned to get all the updates

If you like what you saw - follow me on Instagram @mr.talkstock and on YouTube at Mr.TalkStock for more such content as well as short videos, memes & collaborations . The Electric Vehicle revolution has officially begun in India. From currently having less than 1% of overall vehicles registered as electric, India is forecasted to have 30% by 2030. I take you through the basics of the EV ecosystem, the important components you should know about an electric car & how our government is supporting this technology as we transition from our traditional petrol / diesel models known as ICEs to Electric Vehicles.

Rahul Gandhi along with 1000s of Congress workers will be entering Maharashtra today, for a total of 14 days. While speaking to HW News Congress leader Sachin Sawant claimed that the arrest of Sena leader Sanjay raut was a political move.Team HW is on ground zero to provide you with all the updates on Bharat jodo yatra, Maharashtra leg. Stay tuned to get all the updates.

Rahul Gandhi along with 1000s of Congress workers will be entering Maharashtra today, for a total of 14 days. Team HW is on ground zero to provide you with all the updates on Bharat jodo yatra, Maharashtra leg. Stay tuned to get all the updates.

Rahul Gandhi along with 1000s of Congress workers will be entering Maharashtra today, for a total of 14 days. Team HW is on ground zero to provide you with all the updates on Bharat jodo yatra, Maharashtra leg. Stay tuned to get all the updates.

Rahul Gandhi along with 1000s of Congress workers will be entering Maharashtra today, for a total of 14 days.Team HW is on ground zero to provide you with all the updates on Bharat jodo yatra, Maharashtra leg. Stay tuned to get all the updates.

A special PMLA court in Mumbai on Wednesday allowed the bail application of ShivSena leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut in a money laundering case related to the Patra Chawl redevelopment project. His alleged Pravin Raut was also granted bail in the case.

Rahul Gandhi along with 1000s of Congress workers will be entering Maharashtra today, for a total of 14 days. While speaking exclusively with HW News Senior Cong leader Jairam Ramesh said Bharat Jodo Yatra is Congress's agendaTeam HW is on ground zero to provide you with all the updates on Bharat jodo yatra, Maharashtra leg. Stay tuned to get all the updates.

Rahul Gandhi along with 1000s of Congress workers will be entering Maharashtra today, for a total of 14 days. While speaking exclusively with HW News Team HW is on ground zero to provide you with all the updates on Bharat jodo yatra, Maharashtra leg. Stay tuned to get all the updates.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and former Maharashtra minister Jitendra Awhad forcefully stopped the screening of Marathi movie 'Har Har Mahadev' at a multiplex in Thane near Mumbai this evening. Awhad’s supporters also beat up a viewer who tried to stop them

On the sixth anniversary of demonetisation, we take a look at whether the move was successful in achieving its intended targets of eliminating black money and counterfeit currency.

Rahul Gandhi along with 1000s of Congress workers will be entering Maharashtra today, for a total of 14 days. Speaking to HW News Yogendra Yadav talks about the Bharat Jodo Yatra is not about electoral gain.Team HW is on ground zero to provide you with all the updates on Bharat jodo yatra, Maharashtra leg. Stay tuned to get all the updates.

In a crucial judgement a day before Chief Justice India Uday Umesh Lalit retires, the Supreme Court today delivered its verdict on the validity of the central law for 10 percent reservation benefits for the economically weaker sections (EWS).

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"Celebrations began early on Sunday at the Uddhav Thackeray camp as Rutuja Latke maintained a lead in the contest from the Andheri East bypoll after several rounds of counting.

"Gujarat elections are heating up. The Election commission has finally declared the poll and counting dates. With this our news channels have got fodder to run their channels. All of them are invariably shouting out the so called ‘exclusive’ opinion poll results.Many of these opinion polls have predicted a landslide victory for the BJP. Most of them predict that BJP would land up getting between 120 and 135 seats. The Congress would stand decimated and the Aam Aadmi Party would make a poor debut.The Bookies too are predicted landslide win for the Bhartiya Janata Party. However, if you dig deeper into the data, these numbers become hard to digest and are really not back by any solid numerical evidence. The opinion poll agencies and the satta bazaars are going two major reasons – The 10-14% strong Patel community will vote en-mass for the BJP. Hardik Patel, who is 2017 was agitating, is now in the BJP. There is no Ahmed Patel so there is no one to take care of the Congress ground cadre. AAP has no credible local leader. As we know, the exit polls do go wrong in their predictions. The Satta Bazar too is no exception. In this episode I show how the data does not support the poll opinion polls. In addition, I recollect a few elections where the satta bazar prediction not only went wrong, they went horribly wrong. So, there is nothing for us to believe or not believe these poll predictions. I would rather wait for the election results. But one ting for sure is that if the BJP were to win 135 seats, a lot of interesting statistics would come up.

Sudhir Suri, a Hindutva right wing leader in Punjab, was shot dead on a busy street in Amritsar this afternoon in an attack that was caught on camera while there were over a dozen cops around him.

"It is only a week till Himachal Pradesh votes in Assembly election. The hill state will go for poll on November 12. The results will be announced almost a month later on December 8. There are total 68 seats in Himachal Pradesh assembly. The magic figure to form govt in the state is 35. Currently, BJP has 45 seats and Congress has 22 and CPIM has 1 seat. The interesting part about the hill state is that in the last 30 years it has never repeated the govt. Since the formation of the state in 1962, the Congress won consecutive elections until 1977. In 1977, Janata party came to power in the state riding on anger against Indira Gandhi. However, Congress soon won subsequent two assembly elections. From 1990 onwards though, the state hasn’t yet seen a govt repeat the rule in the state. And that factor makes Congress hopeful this time around. It has made BJP anxious though it hopes to break the trend. BJP President JP Nadda himself has taken the lead in campaigning to ensure this. However, the road to regain power in the Hill state is not so smooth for BJP. The BJP here faces many issues. The discontent among apple growing farmers over fair pricing, issue of the New Pension scheme, issues of Unemployment and inflation and on top of that, the party is facing internal revolt. Will this split in the party dent BJP’s dreams of breaking the jinx in Himachal Pradesh?

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"The election commission of India after much anticipation announced the dates for Gujarat Assembly Polls today. It was anticipated that the poll dates will be in November, however, according to schedule the polling dates have been set in the first week of December. Like Last time, this time too, the election will happen in two phases. The first phase will see 89 Constituencies going for poll whereas in the second phase 93 constituencies will vote. In the first phase constituencies from Kutch, Saurashtra and South Gujarat region will vote, in the second maximum constituencies are from North and Central Gujarat. The First phase of Election will take place on 1st December, the 2nd phase will be on 5th of December., The results will be announced on 8th of december along with the results of Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections.

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was reportedly shot in his leg in a suspected assassination attempt during a rally in the capital city of Islamabad on Thursday.Initial reports suggest he has been injured, with local media saying he has been shot in the leg.

The air quality in Delhi continued to remain in the ‘very poor’ category on Tuesday as the overall Air Quality Index (AQI) of the city stood at 359. Noida, which is part of the national capital region, recorded an AQI of 444 and slipped from ‘very poor’ to ‘severe’ category, while Gurugram's AQI stood at 391 and continued to remain in the ‘very poor’ category, as per data released by SAFAR-India.

A massive amount of Rs Rs 545 crore was received by political parties through the 22nd sale of anonymous Electoral Bonds (EBs) between October 1 and 10 ahead of the Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat Assembly elections, a Right to Information (RTI) query has revealed.

The official of the company responsible for the maintenance of the bridge brazenly called the incident a “will of God” Bhagwan Ki Marzi. The comment was by Deepak Parekh, a manager of the Oreva company. He is one of the nine people arrested after the bridge crashed on Sunday.

Twitter Inc will charge $8 for its Blue service, which includes its sought-after “verified” badge, new boss Elon Musk said on Tuesday, in his push to monetize the service and make the social media network less reliant on ads.

"between the announcement of PM Modi visiting the hoispital and his actual visit something stunning happened at the civil hospital. Late in the night some visuals of the Morbi civil hospital started floating on social media/ Twitter. Here are some images: You can see that new tiles are being fitted here, the plaster of the wall has fallen and through a patch cement is visible, the ceiling is painted, and patches are being fixed there too, on other side, new water cooler is being fitted, it looks like some construction site. Outside visuals show that new flooring is being fitted there. New beds were brought in, the beds were changed in patients room, pictures of kids, cute puppies and cartoon characters were seen in these sort of renovated rooms. One could’ve easily mistook this for a construction site but This was not a construction site. It was a Morbi civil hospital, that was being fixed overnight on war footing. Arti Ghargi explains in the video.

"After the complaint by the BJP leader Amit Malviya against ‘The Wire’, homes of two editors of the organisation were been raided. The police searched the homes of Siddharth Varadarajan and MK Venu, the founding editors of The Wire, and seized their phones and laptops. They have been accused of cheating and forgery in a case filed on a complaint by Amit Malviya, who heads the BJP's IT Cell. The complaint alleges that The Wire ""forged documents to malign and tarnish"" his reputation.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday was all praise for the current Chief Justice of India, U.U. Lalit, and said that he has been able to restore the public confidence in the countrys judicial system as evident during the last two months. "I do not know whether this is the right platform to congratulate the current Chief Justice of India, UU Lait. But I must say that the public confidence in the countrys judicial system has been restored a lot during the last two months. The court is like a religious place. People knock on the legal doors hoping for justice. So, it is important that the confidence of the people on the judicial system prevails," the chief minister said, while addressing the 14th convocation of the West Bengal National University of Judicial Sciences here on Sunday afternoon.

With 141 casualties, the Morbi Bridge Collapse tragedy is the biggest mishap in the recent times. While, we mourn for the victims of this tragedy and hope the injured are receiving treatment, seeking accountability is equally important. What caused the Morbi Bridge collapse? Was it corruption or negligence for which 141 people had to pay the price with their lives? How did the bridge collapse within a week of its renovation? Who was in charge of the renovation and operation? How did the crowd of 500 turn up on the bridge? What was the town administration doing?Our Associate Editor Arti Ghargi explains in today’s video.

"At least 141 people have died after a British-era bridge in Gujarat's Morbi collapsed last evening. Some 177 people have been saved and teams are searching for several others who are still missing. Around 500 people, including women and children, were on the suspension bridge when the cables supporting it snapped, sending people crashing into the river below. Teams of the Indian Army, the Navy, Air Force, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), fire brigade and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) are carrying out the rescue operations on war footing. The rescue operations continued overnight as several teams of NDRF were airlifted by the Indian Air Force (IAF) and sent to Morbi to assist in the rescue operation.

The Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has said he was unaware of money given to journalists in a Deepavali gift hamper delivered by a member of his staff.

Delhi Police on Saturday filed an FIR against news portal 'The Wire' and its editors on a complaint by BJP IT department head Amit Malviya accusing the media outlet of "cheating and forgery" and "tarnishing" his reputation.

"This data shows that the BJP is in a lot of trouble and they might not be able to form a government after all. If you're a BJP supporter and you're worried about what this means for the party, then you should definitely watch this video!BJP is all set to relinquish power in Gujarat. This fact is making the BJP leadership jittery. If the BJP does lose in Gujarat, it will be a major jolt for the party and Prime Minister Modi’s image will take a further beating.In this episode, I show the reasons why it is next to impossible for the BJP to win in 2022. Firstly, history is not in their favor. Ever since Modi became the Chief Minister of Gujarat, BJP’s seat share has consistently declined, election after election. The biggest loss for the BJP was in the 2017 election when the party just managed to win only 99 seats. With the so-called 'double-engine-sarkar' in place - the loss was a severe jolt. However, the media downplayed this debacle. Remember, the halfway mark in the Gujarat assembly is 82. It is another matter that BJP orchestrated a series of defections and managed to cling to power. BJP is now in power with a slender margin of votes.Secondly, the party depends excessively on Mr. Modi for campaigning. Modi’s image has taken a beating in recent times. BJP’s local leadership in the state is absent and face-less. I am sure none of you would even recollect the name of the current chief minister of Gujarat.Third, the news about anti-incumbency events in Gujarat is again being suppressed by the media. In this context, I show some clips from a popular debate show on television. I further show that even a 5% swing of votes against the BJP is enough to topple them out of power.With the Aam Aadmi Party now throwing its hat in the ring, the election dynamics becomes even more complex. It is not now a question of whether or not the BJP will win the Gujarat elections. The question now is - Will any party at all win in Gujarat?

The Multi-crore projects supposed to come up in the state going to Gujarat has led to a lot of furore in Maharashtra. On Thursday Maharashtra lost another project of Tata-Airbus Defence Manufacturing project to Gujarat. This is the fourth such project that has flown out of the state and is being set up in the neighbouring state of Gujarat. While the opposition has slammed Shinde-Fadnavis govt for failing to secure the investment in the state, the BJP has blamed previous MVA govt for not doing enough to retain the projects. While the Political parties keep going back and forth on the allegations and counter allegations, new information has revealed that even Union Minister Nitin Gadkari had written to tata sons to choose the site in Maharashtra for the project. In spite of the strong recommendation by the Union Minister and one of the tall BJP leader the company chose to move the project to Gujarat. There are few more documents that have come to light too. That raise question on why was Gujarat Chosen over Maharashtra? Then we will also discuss how Maharashtra’s Loss has turned Gujarat’s gain.

A British-era bridge in Gujarat's Morbi has collapsed just a week after renovation, killing at least 60 people. Search is on for over 100 others, who have fallen into the river. The government accepts responsibility for the tragedy, a minister said.

Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, is now in charge of Twitter after more than six months of one of the most turbulent public business disputes. Musk appeared to have acknowledged the takeover in a tweet Thursday night saying, “the bird is freed.” Elon Musk has also changed his twitter profile which read ‘Twit chief’

"Earlier this week, Indian Origin UK Lawmaker Rishi Sunak took over as British Prime Minister. He entered the office days after his predecessor Liz Truss resigned as Prime Minister within just 45 days of assuming office. With this he has become the third Prime Minister of the country in this year alone. Well, supported by Tory MPs, Rishi Sunak has many challenges in front of him. However, back home in India there has been a sort of race to claim the origin of Rishi Sunak. In the latest in the series, a video of Rishi Sunak is doing rounds on Social media. In this Rishi Sunak clad in black blazer and trouser can be seen lighting diyas outside what looks like 10 Downing street.

"In September 2022, when the Vedanta Foxconn semiconductor project worth 1.45 Lakh meant to set up in Maharashtra was shifted to Gujarat at the last moment, the Shinde-Fadnavis govt had assured the state that they have spoken to Prime Minister narendra Modi and he has assured the state that the state will be getting bigger project that Vedanta-Foxconn. The project if it would have come up in the state would’ve ensured 1.5 Lakh+ jobs directly and indirectly according to the state official assessment. But Maharashtra let go of it because it was promised bigger project. Now one doesn’t know about the bigger project or when the state would get it but Gujarat has got another project. And again from Maharashtra. On Thursday, it was announced that the Tata-Airbus defence manufacturing project will be set up in Gujarat. Reportedly, this project was to be set up in Maharashtra’s Nagpur. The 22,000-crore Tata-Airbus project will manufacture of 56 military transport aircraft that will replace Indian Air Force’s aging Avro fleet. With this, 4th such project that promised to generate jobs for the local youths has slipped out of the state’s hand and the opposition isn’t very happy about it.

The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), a coalition of farmers' unions, plans to protest in Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh State, to denounce the expansion of the Azamgarh Airport construction project in Manduri Village. Although organizers have not announced any specific location venues or times, SKM activists will likely protest near the airport construction site, and/or prominent government buildings, public squares, and roadways.

If you like what you saw - follow me on Instagram @mr.talkstock and on YouTube at @Mr.TalkStock for more such content as well as short videos, memes & collaborations . What can be more rewarding than seeing the price of stocks you handpicked go up? Not only is your wealth increasing – but it’s the ultimate validation of your skill as well. But what if I told you there are quality stocks out there, & if you own them – in addition to building your wealth & receiving dividends – it could also give you rewards in the form of free or discounted products of that company. Now wouldn’t that be the ultimate Diwali Gift.

A day after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to print images of Lord Ganesha and Goddess Lakshmi on currency notes, Congress MP Manish Tewari on Thursday asked him why Bhimrao Ambedkar's photo should not be taken on a new series of notes.

The BJP on Wednesday took a jibe at AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi over his remark that he wishes to see a hijab-wearing woman as the Prime Minister of India.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday made an appeal to the Centre to put the photos of Lord Ganesha and goddess Lakshmi on currency notes along with Mahatma Gandhi's photo.

Newly elected Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge took charge of the post today at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters in Delhi. Kharge received the certificate from Congress's central election authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry at the AICC headquarters in Delhi.

Where Have We Reached In The Name of Religion?" SC Slams Govt, Asks To Take Action on Hate Speech

"A video of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde along with his deputy Devendra Fadnavis swearing an oath to not burst crackers is making rounds on the internet. The video is from an event organized by “Maharashtra Pollution CONTROL BOARD”. In the video, both CM and DCM are seen pledging to celebrate a pollution-free Diwali. “Diwali is the festival of lights, this Diwali there won’t be air pollution due to crackers,” the CM is seen pledging along with his deputy and a room full of students repeating the vow. The video comes to light amid the Delhi BJP and the ruling Aam Aadmi Party’s tussle over the ban on firecrackers in the city.

"New day and new damning revelation in the Bilkis Bano case and as more such revelations tumble out the more one is forced to think about the lengths at which the system has gone to undo the justice given to Bilkis Bano. A day after it was revealed that the Ministry of Home Affairs under Amit Shah had approved the remission/ early release of the 11 rapists who were convicted of gangraping Bilkis Bano, it has now come to light, that many of them while out on parole had several other cases on them, including sexual harassment. The Gujarat govt in its submission to Supreme Court had said that the decision of remission of these 11 men convicted of raping and killing of women- including pregnant women and children, was taken because of their Good Behaviour. But the govt’s claim seems to hold no water as many of these convicts are charged under several FIRs while they were on parole for thousands of days before their premature release.

Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge swept the party’s high-stakes presidential polls on Wednesday, paving the way for him to become the Congress’ first non-Gandhi president in over two decades.

"The Congress is set to get its first non-Gandhi president in over two decades on Wednesday, with party leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor vying for the top post. Over 9,500 votes cast across the country earlier this week, are presently being counted at the AICC headquarters in New Delhi. The new president will replace interim Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, who has been occupying the post ever since Rahul Gandhi stepped down after the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. While Kharge has been considered the Gandhi family’s ‘unofficial official candidate’ with a large number of senior leaders backing him, Tharoor pitched himself as the candidate of change. This will be the sixth time in its nearly 137-year-old history that an electoral contest would decide who would take up the mantle of the party’s president.

The vigilance department of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has found irregularities in the Cordelia cruise ship drug bust probe led by former zonal head of the bureau Sameer Wankhede in October last year, in which actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan (24) was arrested along with 19 others, a senior NCB official said on Tuesday.

"Dollar is strengthening incessantly. So obviously, all other currencies are performing against the strengthening dollar. I am not talking about technicalities but it is a matter of fact India's rupee probably has withstood this dollar rate going up...I think the Indian rupee has performed much better than many other emerging market currencies.”, this is what Finance Minister Nirmala Sithraman said on India’s growth and robust economy.

"A petition was filed in the Supreme Court challenging the release of 11 convicted rapists of Bilkis Bano. The petition was filed by Subhashini Ali, a member of the Communist Party of India(Marxist), journalist Revati Laul and Professor Roop Rekha Verma. In reply of this petition the Gujarat govt submitted an affidavit in the Supreme Court enlisting the procedure undertaken for the remission and the reasons for granting remission to convicted rapists. The Gujarat Govt said it decided to release the convicted rapists as they had completed 14 years of imprisonment and that their Behaviour was found to be good. Arti ghargi discusses in detail.

Maharashtra Congress braces as voting for party chief begins.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to withdraw its candidate from the November 3 assembly by-election in Mumbai’ Andheri East, party’ Maharashtra state chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule said on Monday after Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar and Shiv Sena MLA from Eknath Shinde faction, Pratap Sarnaik sought unopposed election of Rutuja Latke from the seat to show reverence to her husband and the deceased MLA, Ramesh Latke.

The ruling CPI(M) in Kerala and the Left government have claimed that family members of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his cabinet colleagues accompanied them on the trip to Europe at their own expense and not of the state.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has suffered a severe setback in the panchayat elections in the Nagpur district of the Indian state of Maharashtra, which is considered the stronghold of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

A ruling by the Gujarat Appellate Authority for Advance Ruling (GAAAR) has made a distinction between the two commonly consumed Indian bread explaining why they fall in different GST slabs, reported The Indian Express. On September 15, Gujarat’s Appellate Authority for Advance Ruling (AAAR) made a clear distinction between packed /frozen parathas and rotis.

The Assembly elections in Himachal Pradesh will take place on November 12 in a single phase for all the 68 constituencies, followed by the counting of votes on December 8, the Election Commission announced in New Delhi Friday. The model code of conduct will take effect in the state from October 17, after the notification for the elections is published.

If you like what you saw - follow me on Instagram @mr.talkstock and on YouTube at @Mr.TalkStock for more such content as well as short videos, memes & collaborations Since India imports more than 80% of its crude oil - which, other than being the most expensive import item, also depletes our foreign exchange reserves & plays havoc on our fiscal deficit. The government plans to substitute part of this requirement with Ethanol. The savings would be massive. We take you through their strategy & how it forms a tremendous opportunity for those on the right side of this policy decision

After 10 days of hearing and reserving the judgement on September 22nd, the Supreme Court today gave out a split verdict in the Hijab Ban case. The bench of Justices Hemant Gupta and Sudhanshu Dhulia had a divergent opinion on the case. While Justice Hemant Gupta upheld the ban on Hijab, Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia set aside the Karnataka High Court order upholding the Hijab ban. The matter has now been placed before the Chief Justice of India. He will decide whether it should go to the Three judge constitution bench. So Let’s talk about what both the judges said while pronouncing the verdict:

I am being targetted by the entire Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) just because I am a Patidar, said Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Gujarat Unit Chief Gopal Italia on Thursday.Italia's sensational claims came hours after he was briefly detained from NCW's office by Delhi Police earlier today.

A couple in Kerala who allegedly mutilated and killed two women in a ritualistic "human sacrifice" to get rich quick may have even eaten the flesh of their victims, the police said today, as shocking new details emerged in the case.

The Haryana government has ordered to completely halt the production of cough syrups at Sonipat-based company Maiden Pharmaceuticals Limited. The development comes after the company was recently flagged by the World Health Organisation (WHO), in wake of the deaths of 66 children in The Gambia.

"Supreme Court judge Justice DY Chandrachud who is next in line to become the Chief Justice of India has often been a target of online trolling. Now ahead of his elevation for the top post in the Supreme Court, a letter by one RK Pathan has accused him of benefitting his son.

"The 82-year-old was admitted to a hospital in August and was shifted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Gurugram-based Medanta Hospital on 2 October. As we remember the veteran leader, one striking thing that comes to mind is his praise for Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the last day of the 16th Lok Sabha. While making the valedictory speech on the last day of the 16th Lok Sabha before the 2019 general elections, Netaji, as he was fondly called, created a political storm by praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and even wishing him a second term

The Election Commission of India (ECI) has allotted the symbol of Mashal (Torch) to the Uddhav Thackeray group of Shiv Sena for the upcoming Andheri bypoll. The poll body also allowed Uddhav Thackeray group to use name 'Shiv Sena- Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray', one of the three suggestions provided by the group to the EC.

A Russian barrage pounded apartment buildings and other targets in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, killing at least 17 people and wounding dozens, officials said Sunday.

"BJP MP Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma has sparked a huge controversy by his call for a ""total boycott"" in a speech seemingly aimed at Muslims. At a public event at Dilshad Garden in North-east Delhi, Mr Verma is seen addressing supporters on what should be done to ""fix their head and set them straight"". He tells them to repeat certain pledges after him, which the people did at the open venue amid rain. Many in the audience are seen with umbrellas. Behind them, there are merry-go-rounds and other joyrides, suggesting of a place where a fair was held recently.

The Shiv Sena faction led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has received the 'Two swords and shield' as symbol for the upcoming by-election in Andheri (East), the Election Commission said today.

Slogans of “Netaji amar rahein" reverberated in the Saifai village of Western Uttar Pradesh as people from all walks of life thronged socialist leader Mulayam Singh Yadav's native village for his last rites on Tuesday. A former Chief Minister of India’s most populous state and former Defense minister of India, Mulayam Singh Yadav’s life is the perfect rag to riches story of Indian politics.

Chief Justice of India Uday Umesh Lalit has proposed Justice D Y Chandrachud as his successor. After only 74 days as CJI, Justice Lalit will step down on November 8, 2022. In August of this year, when he succeeded Justice NV Ramana, he assumed leadership.

Nirmala Sitharaman, a senior BJP leader and Union Finance Minister, spent a busy day in Chennai, Tamil Nadu's capital, from morning to night on Saturday. Nirmala, who had completed all of her programmes on time, stopped at the Mylapore market in the night city. She spoke to the vegetable traders at the market on this occasion. They inquired about the difficulties they were experiencing

Tamil film director Vetrimaaran has sparked a controversy by speaking about Emperor Raja Raja Cholan's religious identity. According to the director, the famed ruler was not a Hindu Emperor.Vetrimaaran's comments have come just days after the release of filmmaker Mani Ratnam’s magnum opus Ponniyin Selvan: Part One, which is based on Kalki’s fictional Tamil novel inspired by the Tamil emperor Raja Raja Cholan (since there is no English equivalent of the letter 'zha,' Chozhan is mostly written as ‘Cholan’).“When the Dravidian movement took over Tamil cinema, there were arguments about doing art for art’s sake and not for the masses. They talked a lot about aesthetics. Yes, that’s also important but no art is complete if it doesn’t touch the lives of people. Art should reflect people's lives,” he said. Vetrimaaran's fiery speech has left the internet divided

The fight for power over Shiv Sena, which started in Maharashtra, is at an important stage. The Election Commission of India has frozen the party's name and election symbol 'Dhanush-Baan'. In this case Uddhav Thackeray and Chief Minister Eknath Shinde now have the option of choosing a new name and symbol. However, if you look at the electoral history of Shiv Sena, which is more than 5 decades old, the party has entered the electoral arena many times on different symbols

In an interim order passed late on Saturday (October 8) evening, the Election Commission of India (ECI) froze the well known ‘bow and arrow’ election symbol of the Shiv Sena until the competing claims for recognition by the two rival factions is decided.This had been done “in order to place both the rival groups on even keel and to protect their rights and interests, and going by the past precedence,…to cover the purpose of the current Bye-elections and to continue till the final determination of the dispute in the matter…”, the ECI said.

"At least 12 people were killed and 30 injured after a bus caught fire in Maharashtra's Nashik early this morning, officials have said. The bus caught fire after hitting a trailer truck transporting diesel on the Nashik-Aurangabad highway, they added.

"In order to prevent the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena from using the party’s electoral symbol of bow and arrow in the upcoming Andheri East Assembly by-poll, to be held on November 3, the faction led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has written to the Election Commission of India (ECI), seeking an immediate decision on the party symbol. The ECI had earlier asked both the factions to submit their say and written statements by October 7 so that the hearing in the matter can be started. In a letter on October 4, the Shinde faction requested the ECI to urgently hear its petition and allot the symbol to it before the Andheri East by-election to avoid its misuse.

"The front portion of the Mumbai-Gandhinagar Vande Bharat Express train, which was damaged after hitting some buffaloes in Gujarat, has been replaced by the railway authorities, an official said today. The Vande Bharat train was repaired within 24 hours of the incident. The nose of the newly-launched Mumbai Central-Gandhinagar Vande Bharat Express train had suffered damage after it hit a herd of buffaloes around 11:15 am on Thursday near Ahmedabad, when the train was on its way to Gandhinagar.

RSS general secretary Dattatray Hosbale during his webinar spoke about rising unemployment and poverty in India whereas Nitin Gadkari minister in the PM Modi Cabinet spoke about Rich nation but poor population. In this video Arti Ghargi explains what to understand from their public statements.

An Indian pharma company's allegedly contaminated products have been potentially linked to acute kidney injuries and 66 deaths among children in Gambia, Africa according to the World Health Organization (WHO)

For the first time since the Shiv Sena's inception 56 years ago, two Dussehra rallies will be held in Mumbai on Wednesday evening by the party's rival factions -- led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and his predecessor Uddhav Thackeray -- in what is being billed as a show of strength by both camps after a change in government in June.

The two Dussehra rallies in Mumbai are expected to produce a blistering duel between Shiv Sena party president Uddhav Thackeray and chief minister Eknath Shinde, dwelling on the themes of Hindutva, betrayal, dynastic succession and governance. Numeruos women join in to lend their support to Uddhav Thackeray at Dadar Shivaji Park today

He Asked Me About Dighe's Property: Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde

Telangana IT minister and the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) working president K T Rama Rao on Saturday demanded an explanation from the Narendra Modi government for not fulfilling the promises made to the people of Telangana.

"The Goods and Services Tax (GST) in India have been consistently rising since thee beginning of this year. Both our Finance Minister Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman and Prime Minister Modi are seemingly happy about this fact.No doubt the compliance has increased due to stricter vigil by the government agencies. However, no amount of increase can be attributed to this government action alone. The economy os going down and yet the GST keeps increasing. Isn’t it intriguing? In this episode I will tell you the main reason for increase in GST collections, which has nothing to with growth or compliance.I will also show that BJP governed states remain at the bottom of the list when it comes to GST collections. Don’t be influenced by the total GST collected in the states. There is much more data that presents an interesting facet to the story.As a word of caution, keep looking at financial indicators of the Indian economy to understand where we are heading. The politicians never present the full picture, and when they do, it will be too late to take

As Mallikarjun Kharge has entered the race for Congress President polls, Digvijaya Singh may not file nomination, sources said. Mallikarjun Kharge has entered the fray and will file his nomination today anytime after 12 noon. Kharge was appointed as the party observer after a political crisis erupted in Rajasthan with the resignation of 82 MLAs.

The Bharatiya Janata Party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have always been critical about nepotism and political dynasty and have also vowed to uproot dynasty politics Well, this time too at the opening of the 36th National games in Gujarat PM Modi said that Indian sportspersons could not perform well in the past due to nepotism and corruption but his government cleaned up the system.

As Mallikarjun Kharge has entered the race for Congress President polls, Digvijaya Singh may not file nomination, sources said. Mallikarjun Kharge has entered the fray and will file his nomination today anytime after 12 noon. Kharge was appointed as the party observer after a political crisis erupted in Rajasthan with the resignation of 82 MLAs.

In a progressive step towards the rights of women in India, the Supreme Court today ruled in favour of safe and legal abortion, not only for married but also for unmarried women. In the course of pronouncing the ruling, the court also made certain observations on Marital Rape. The three judge bench of the Supreme Court led by Justice DY Chandrachud, included justice AS Bopanna, and justice JB Pardiwala. The court said that unmarried women cannot be denied safe and legal abortion under the medical termination of pregnancy act. In that regard, both married and unmarried women have the equal rights. The court further said that the scope of law will also cover abortion in case of a marital rape. But Marital rape in this case is only limited to the ambit of this law. What is the law and why is this ruling a big step towards female reproductive rights in India, and what will be the far reaching impact of it, let us understand in today’s video:

Ahead of the eight-year anniversary of the Central Government's 'Make in India' program on September 25, the Ministry of Commerce & Industry said that the program, which is aimed at self-sufficiency, or being 'aatmanirbhar', has substantial accomplishments across 27 sectors, including strategic sectors such as manufacturing and services. In this episode of the business tit-bits, our Business Editor mr Akhilesh Bhargava shares his take on the matter.

Vijay Nair, former CEO of event management company Only Much Louder, and an accused in the Delhi Excise Policy case, was arrested on September 27 by the Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI) in connection with the Delhi liquor policy scam, reported news agency ANI quoting sources. He was called to CBI Headquarters and was arrested after questioning. He was arrested for conspiracy, 'cartelisation' and 'chosen licensing', ANI further stated. Nair is also reportedly an aide of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who is also named in the alleged liquor policy scam .

"19 year old Ankita Bhandari was murdered last week, allegedly because she refused to become a pawn in illegal prostitution racket and threatened to expose those operating it. Ankita a receptionist at a resort owned by former BJP leader’s son Pulkit Arya, was thrown by Arya and his accomplices into Ganga river after she refused to sleep with the customers at the resort. A girl from Uttarakhand’s pauri garhwal, who set out in the world at the age of 19, to help the famil,earn some money, fulfil her dreams, paid the price eventually with her life. The horrible incident led to anger among locals, calls for justice were made, social media trends started on the internet bringing attention to the issue, People hit the streets, gheraoed police stations. the administration came under the pressure to act. And then instant justice followed in a signature cue from the neighbouring state, Bulldozer rolled in at the stroke of midnight, and brought down the parts of a resort owned by the accused, where Ankita worked. As the bulldozer did its job, the administration patted their own backs until questions were raised of evidence destruction. That the bulldozer action allegedly destroyed the room where Ankita was spotted last and could contain crucial information regarding the case. If you think that’s a bizarre, mindless high handedness of the authorities, wait till you hear the full story in this video today. Arti Ghargi explains.

A NASA spaceship on Monday struck an asteroid seven million miles away in order to deflect its orbit, succeeding in a historic test of humanity's ability to prevent a celestial object from devastating life on Earth

"A perfect desert storm is brewing in the congress party. Well, one cannot say that they did not see it coming but surely, no one could imagine how quickly it would escalate. More than 70 MLAs of the Congress party in Rajasthan have tendered their resignation to the speaker of the assembly, before Ashok Gehlot is set to file his nomination for the post of Congress president. All these MLAs are ashok gehlot loyalists and are opposing Sachin Pilot for the CM post. With this, Rajasthan MLAs have started a rebellion against the party high command. What’s worse, this comes at a time when on one hand, Rahul Gandhi is leading Bharat Jodo Yatr, on the other: The Congress seems to be breaking in Rajasthan. As Gehlot vs Pilot factions come head to head once again, the rivalry is threatening the congress govt in Rajasthan: One of the few states in the country where Congress is in power. What are the options from here on for the Gandhis/Congress High Command? What are the options for Ashok Gehlot? And What are the Options For Sachin Pilot the CM in Waiting? Arti Ghagi explains in this video

In Assam two activist have filed a police case against spiritual leader Jagdish Vasudev Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma and Tourism minister Jayanta Malla Baruah for allegedly breaking wildlife protection law by entering Kaziranga National Park, a UNESCO world heritage site, for a night safari.

Stepping up its Gujarat assembly election campaign, Aam Aadmi Party Convenor Arvind Kejriwal today received Dalit sanitation worker Harsh Solanki at his Delhi residence. Mr Solanki gifted him a picture of BR Ambedkar. In pictures from the meeting, the Delhi Chief Minister was seen hugging his special guest.

"A perfect desert storm is brewing in the congress party. Well, one cannot say that they did not see it coming but surely, no one could imagine how quickly it would escalate. More than 70 MLAs of the Congress party in Rajasthan have tendered their resignation to the speaker of the assembly, before Ashok Gehlot is set to file his nomination for the post of Congress president. All these MLAs are ashok gehlot loyalists and are opposing Sachin Pilot for the CM post. With this, Rajasthan MLAs have started a rebellion against the party high command. What’s worse, this comes at a time when on one hand, Rahul Gandhi is leading Bharat Jodo Yatr, on the other: The Congress seems to be breaking in Rajasthan. As Gehlot vs Pilot factions come head to head once again, the rivalry is threatening the congress govt in Rajasthan: One of the few states in the country where Congress is in power. What are the options from here on for the Gandhis/Congress High Command? What are the options for Ashok Gehlot? And What are the Options For Sachin Pilot the CM in Waiting? Arti Ghagi explains in this video.

No Poaching Agreement Signed Between Ambani And Adani, Cites Reports| Mukesh Ambani| Gautam Adani

"The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) seems to be suffering from Organizational disorder. The party and its leadership have the desire to be projected as the biggest, largest. No. 1 in the world, tallest etc. The facts do not matter, the irrelevant glory is all that matters. A dangerous self-destructive trend is clearly getting visible. In this episode I take a look the BJPs claimed membership numbers – Eighteen crores which is close to 13% of India’s population. BJP attained the position of the ‘World’s largest Political Party’ nipping China’s Communist Party around 2015. The BJP has a rather opaque method od adding members and then declaring the membership numbers. Increasing memberships is an event in itself and appears like it is forced upon people. Otherwise, which other political party would accept members on getting a missed call? With this erratic strategy and erratic behavioral pattern, BJP finds itself in the company of parties run by Erdogan of Turkey (Justice and Development Party), Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia (Prosperity Party) and Tahreek-e-Insaaf of Pakistan headed by Imran Khan. The transparent and methodical methods of acquiring members remain with China’s Communist Party, and the Republican & Democrats of the US. I also show that in India, it really does not matter how many members a party has. It is an irrelevant piece of statistics. What matter is the people who ultimately vote for the party. So all that money spent by the BJP to acquired the 18 crores members has actually gone down the drain with no benefits to the BJP, the voters or citizens at large. The money spend is only to glorify the few top leaders of the party.

CPI-M and Congress MPs from Tamil Nadu on Friday mocked the claims made by BJP President J.P. Nadda that 95 percent of the work for the AIIMS, Madurai has been completed.

Shiv Sena MLA Ravindra Waikar speaks exclusively to HW News, responds to potholes problem in aarey .

The cloud of uncertainty over Congress presidential election is over. Ashok Gehlot has confirmed his candidature for the Congress presidential election. Shash Tharoor too had at the beginning of the week confirmed that he will contest the election too. Rahul Gandhi yesterday while talking to reporters in Kerala in as many words and as many times made it clear that he and any other Gandhi will not contest this election. But while everyone is busy talking about Gehlot vs Tharoor, there’s another silent battle brewing on the sidelines: Ashok Gehlot vs Sachin pilot. The question is not who will become the President of the Congress, the Question is will Sachin Pilot’s CM post dreams finally take off in Rajasthan? Arti Ghargi explains in this video.

The apex court in the country yesterday voiced concern about rising instances of hate speech on air and lambasted the functioning of the tv news channels in the country. The court said that the TV news channels often give space to hate speech and escape without any sanction or reprimand. Not only that, the judges used an example of a news channel banned in the UK to drive home the point. What prompted SC's stern comments on TV news media and the role of the govt? Arti Ghargi explains in the video.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, who has been meeting Muslim leaders in an unprecedented outreach, visited a mosque in Delhi and held a meeting with its chief cleric.

Posters targeting Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai - with his likeness pasted over the image of a QR code and the phrase 'PayCM' written above - were spotted across Bengaluru Wednesday.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has arrived at 10 Janpath Road in national capital Delhi to meet Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi, new agency ANI reported. The senior Congress leader had earlier on Wednesday hinted that he would fie nomination for the Congress President election if his party required him to do so.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today told the Supreme Court that "no case was made out" even after 14 probes into the taped conversations of public relations professional Niira Radia with politicians, industrialists and government officials, among others.

"The tensions between Hindus and Muslims that broke out after the August 28 hi-octane Pakistan vs India match in the recently concluded Asia Cup 2022 have spread to Birmingham, England after weeks of unrest in the multicultural city of Leicester.

The Navratri festival is nearing. But the focus of attention is mainly on Dussehra that comes after Navratri. At least this is true for Maharashtra and the reason is Dasara Melava or dussehra gathering held by Shivsena at Shivaji Park! All eyes are now on whether this year’s Dussehra gathering will be held by Uddhav Thackeray who is Shivsena chief or will it be held by Eknath Shinde, who claims the party. After clashing over Symbol, party control, party headquarter, now the two leaders have come head to head over the signature Dussehra Gathering of Shivsena that is traditionally held at iconic Shivaji Park in Dadar. Arti Ghargi deep dives into the matter in today’s video.

Congress, India’s Grand Old Party is going to have elections for the post party chief- its president who will lead the party in the run up to 2024 elections. So far we have heard that the party is keen on Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot taking on the mantle. But as the date of the election approaches, it is clear that he will not be the only one running the race. Challenging him is an MP from Kerala and member of the G 23- Shashi Tharoor. Tharoor Rajya sabha MP from Congress has expressed intent to run for the post of party president. This effectively makes the battle for the post of Congress president between a staunch Gandhi loyalist Vs Pro-reformist leader. What are the details of this? Where do these two leaders stand and where does Rahul Gandhi and other Gandhi family members stand amid this battle? Arti Ghargi explains in detail.

How rumours sparked protest over Chandigarh University MMS scandal; Here's all you need to know

Sunil Chetri is the is the captain of both the Indian national football team and Bengaluru FC which scripted history on Sunday after clinching Durand Cup 2022 trophy at the finals as they beat Mumbai City FC 2-1 at the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan in Kolkata.

Two people were arrested in East Leicester on Sunday after a clash erupted when groups of young men began an unplanned protest, the Leicestershire Police said in a statement.

Several women hit the streets in Western Iran Saturday and took off their hijabs as a mark of protest over the death of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, who was reportedly arrested and beaten up by the country’s police for not properly following hijab regulations.

Reports that Bhagwant Mann was removed from a Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt to Delhi because he was drunk have triggered a huge outcry with opposition parties saying the Punjab Chief Minister has "shamed Punjabis" across the world.

A private university in Chandigarh on Sunday denied claims that dozens of obscene videos of hostel girls were leaked, saying only one student had shared a video of herself.

A group of activists staged a demonstration on Sunday to oppose the construction of a Metro car shed in Mumbai’s Aarey Colony and shouted slogans against the Maharashtra government’s decision to go ahead with the project.Natinalist Congres Party Joins In for The Same

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday said that the menace of stray dogs cannot be solved by killing the dogs and added that to overcome the issue a scientific solution must be sought.

I don't have a problem with Cheetahs being brought back but at the same time PM Modi should be worried about the rising prices of essentials and record unemployment rate said RahulGandhi

Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal Sunday sharpened his attacks on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the party’s first national convention.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in an address to the nation following the release of cheetahs into quarantine enclosures in Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh Saturday, appealed for patience from the public before visiting cheetahs. PM Modi added that though India declared cheetahs extinct in 1952, it is unfortunate that no constructive efforts were made to reintroduce them for decades.

"The TRS Party and The BJP are always hitting the headlines because of the back and forth barbs these parties throw at each other. Now in A recent, a flexi war has broken out between the two parties. ahead of the Integration Day/Liberation Day being celebrated by the Central and the State government.

Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday released a sting operation showing the alleged corruption by Delhi’s AAP government in "handing over contracts for liquor licenses" under the excise policy introduced by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

A very distressing news has come to light in Uttar Pradesh's lakhimpur. On Wednesday, Two Dalit teenage sisters were found hanging from a tree in a sugarcane field located about a kilometre away from their house here. The video of this distressing sight soon went viral on social media and led to panic in the locality. The mother of these two girls has alleged that some men kidnapped the girls from their house in the morning, killed them and hanged them to the tree.

Today students and shiv sena workers protested on streets outisde Kirti College in Mumbai amid the Vedanta Foxcoon Deal that has been now assigned to Gujarat government.

In a major embarrassment to Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann who announced that BMW was setting up a manufacturing unit in Punjab, BMW India issued a statement claiming that it had no plans of setting up the manufacturing unit in Punjab there has been no reaction from the Punjab government yet on the BMW statement.

"This morning Congress’ own MLAs in Goa turned the tables on their party and decided to merge the Congress legislative party in BJP. With this Congress’ number in Goa Assembly is reduced to just 3 whereas the opposition numbers in the state have gone down to 7. These are the same leaders did this. More than six months ago they had taken a loyalty pledge to remain faithful to the party and the people of their constituencies even after the assembly elections. The Congress candidates in January hopped from Mahalaxmi Temple to Bambolim Cross & Hamza Shah Darga and pledged loyalty to the party. The pledge has gone up in the air as it seems that even the gods have fallen short in helping these politicians keep their loyalties intact.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said police could have opened fire on “violent” BJP protesters during its march to the state secretariat, but the government exercised “maximum” restraint. Banerjee also alleged that the saffron party brought in goons armed with bombs in trains from outside the state to foment trouble during its ‘Nabanna Abhijan’ on Tuesday.

"The tussle between Neighbouring Western states of Maharashtra and Gujarat over hosting big businesses is not new. In Fact, Businesses in Maharashtra going to Gujarat has been a sensitive matter in the state both economically and politically. Modi govt and BJP has often faced the criticism from opposition over this. And Yet again, Maharashtra seems to have lost to Gujarat over a hosting a giant project. Multinational mining company Vedanta Limited has chosen Gujarat for its $20 billion semiconductor project. A joint venture with Taiwan’s Foxconn that was to create 2,00,000 jobs in the state. Now with that’s gone to Gujarat, the politics in Maharashtra is heating up.

"Aam Aadmi Party National Convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday had dinner at an auto-rickshaw driver's home in Ahmedabad. But the event was preceded by high drama after Gujarat Police briefly stopped Mr Kejriwal from travelling in the auto, citing security concerns. Earlier, the AAP leader had accepted an auto-rickshaw driver's invitation for a dinner at his home in Ahmedabad. He left his hotel around 7.30 pm and planned to reach the rickshaw driver's house in his auto.

The in-house IT giant Infosys Ltd. has warned its staff against moonlighting and stated that such actions will result in contract termination. Dual employment is prohibited by Infosys' code of conduct, the business reminded its employees in an internal post.

Last week, Congress launched its Bharat Jodo Yatra. The ambitious march is being led by Rahul Gandhi and will cover more than 3000 kilometers from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. The march will be spread over 150 days and will end in February.

A Congress post controversially showing a burning pair of Khaki shorts in an apparent jab at the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has triggered a row on Twitter.

Comedian Kunal Kamra in a blistering letter has lashed out at the Hindutva outfit Vishwa Hindu Parishad, days after his show in a Gurugram bar was called off citing opposition from the group and Bajrang Dal. In the Hindi letter, the comedian questioned the group on faith, Hinduism, their source of power, and exactly how he offended Hindus.

A court today agreed to hear a group of Hindu women who want to pray at a shrine inside the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi, next to the famous Kashi Viswanath temple. The women's petition will be heard on September 22.

Kerala rounded off a season of partying by consuming nearly ₹624 crore worth of liquor this Onam.It is a marked increase in sales for the Kerala State Beverages Corporation (Bevco), the State-owned liquor retail monopoly, compared to 2021 figures (₹529 crores).The bumper sales have brought a cash windfall of an estimated ₹500 crore to the State exchequer in the seven-day run-up to Thiruvonam. However, an official said the actual spending on liquor might be much more.

"Prime Minister Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath appears to have different views about India’s growing population. Rakesh Sinha, the RSS Ideologue and Rajya Sabha member withdrew him private members bill regarding population control. He had moved this bill in 2019 and finally withdrew in April 2022 after hearing our Mansukh Mandaviya. The Uttar Pradesh Population Control (Control, Stabilisation and Welfare) Bill 2021 was placed in the pubic domain asking for comments and section in September last year. However, comments were to be sent only through email and there was no tracking of the inputs. UP’s bill goes totally against what the Modi government said in parliament on the issues. Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya told Rajya Sabha on Friday that instead of using “force (jabran)”, the government had successfully used awareness and health campaigns to achieve population control. Though Sinha understood that it was mistake on his part to bring in such bill, Yogi Adityanath on the other hand continues pushing it in his normal brash style. The reason is to cover up governance failures blaming UP’s population. Yogi’s administration does not even understand the basic issues of India’s population. He should realise that India does not have any issue with population any more. Yogi Adityanath’s clock is 40 years behind. If at all India has an issue with population, then one should be worrying about the declining trends which will lead to a negative growth before the end of this century. Also, that constant bogey of Muslims overtaking Hindu’s in the near future remains the key to this disinformation campaign. It could not be farther from truth.

In June, the UK came together for the Platinum Jubilee celebrations to mark the 70th anniversary of the Queen's accession to the British throne. Her husband, Prince Phillip, died last year at the age of 99, two months before his 100th birthday. Notably, A year and a half ago Prince Philip died in April 2021. The pair was married for 73 years, making them the longest-married couple in royal history.

Mumbai Dabbawala Association mourned the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving British monarch. Mumbai Dabbawalas have had a very close relationship with the British Royal Family since Prince Charles visited India, said Subhash Talekar, Chairman of the Association.

"Business Tycoon Cyrus Mistry’s death in a car accident near Palghar has shocked everyone. He was returning from Gujarat when his Mercedes hit the divider on a bridge over a river in Palghar near Mumbai. According to doctors, Cyrus mistry and one more person travelling with him were already dead when they were brought to hospital. Two others are badly injured and receiving treatment at the hospital. The initial police investigation pointed towards speeding and non-compliance of road safety protocols as the reason that led to the death of Cyrus Mistry. For Example, Cyrus Mistry who was seated at rear of the car wasn’t wearing seatbelt. Secondly, the police said that the car was speeding before it hit the divider. We spoke about this in our previous video. However, a latest forensic report has blamed the road design and said that this design was responsible for the accident in the first place. Let us discuss this report in today’s video. The mercedez team has also issued its report on the matter.

"Election strategist Prashant Kishor, reacting to former mentor Nitish Kumar's dig that he wanted to be with the BJP, today posted his response with a set of photos, without comment. A tweet, now deleted, featured four photos in which Nitish Kumar is seen smiling with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The latest bout between Nitish Kumar and his one-time party number two was triggered by Prashant Kishor's taunts after the Bihar Chief Minister swapped allies recently, dumping the BJP and forming a new coalition government with Tejashwi Yadav's RJD and the Congress.

The grave of Yakub Memon, convicted in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, was allegedly beautified with marble slabs, flowers and LED lighting. As photos of the grave surfaced, the BJP mounted a scathing attack on the erstwhile MVA government headed by Uddhav Thackeray.

"With just 2 years left for the big battle of 2024, the political parties in the country have started gearing up for it. The Congress party has today begun its ambitious Bharat Jodo yatra that it hopes will give a kickstart to the party campaign for 2024. Led by Rahul Gandhi, Bharat Jodo Yatra begins today from Kanyakumari and it will culminate in Kashmir. The yatra will last 150 days and will cover 3500 KM distance across 12 states and 2 union territories. While Padyatras are not new to Indian politics, what sets bharat jodo yatra is, this will be the first such attempt in neary 4 decades to cover the distance from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. Lets talk about the details of the Yatra in this video today.

PM’s Promise in 2017 over lal batti, drags our notice to when Union Home Minister Amit Shah visted Mumbai for two days causing chaos on certain roads, making several commuters complain about 'reaching late' due to the travel restrictions imposed by the Mumbai Traffic police.

Liz Truss will be the new prime minister of the United Kingdom after defeating Rishi Sunak in the Conservative Party leadership contest.She beat her rival and former finance minister by 81,326 votes to 60,399 after a leadership bid that was triggered by Boris Johnson’s resignation in July.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday began searches at 35 locations in the national capital and elsewhere in connection with the Delhi excise policy case, eliciting a sharp reaction from accused number 1, Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia. Searches were underway at the home of accused Sameer Mahendru in Delhi. Raids are also being carried out at other locations in the city, as well as in Gurugram, Lucknow, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Bengaluru.

: Nitish Kumar, reconnecting with opposition parties in Delhi after dumping the BJP in Bihar, said today he ""is neither a claimant"" for the Prime Minister's job in 2024, nor does he desire it. After meeting with Left leader Sitaram Yechury, the Bihar Chief Minister said he is in Delhi for the sake of opposition unity. He fielded questions on whether his meetings in Delhi signaled efforts to gather support for his run as the opposition's Prime Ministerial candidate versus Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2024 .

India lost to Pakistan on Sunday in the ongoing Asia Cup 2022 tournament. Though the match was a perfect nail-biter that kept supporters' fingers crossed, finally it was Pakistan that won the match on the second last ball of the game.

"Former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry was killed in a road accident yesterday. Mistry along with three others was returning from Gujarat when his Mercedes hit the divider on a bridge over a river in Palghar near Mumbai. According to doctors, Cyrus mistry and one more person travelling with him were already dead when they were brought to hospital. Two others are badly injured and receiving treatment at the hospital. The police were initially probing whether there is any foul play in the accident. However, the foul play angle has taken a backseat after the initial probe. Turns out, Cyrus Mistry and fellow travellers had followed basic road safety protocols, they have been saved today. How did the accident take place? What was the road safety protocol the travellers did not follow? And what questions arise out of this ? Our Associate Editor Ms Arti Ghargi explains in this video today.

"India is notoriously known for outrageous driving habits resulting in a high degree of accidental deaths. Indian accounts for eleven percent (11%) of the total road accidental deaths, globally. On a average, one person dies in road accidents in the world every twenty-three seconds. In this episode, we look at data from the Indian states and see which state is the worst when it comes to driving habits. I am sure you will be surprised at the findings. We analyze the state data on two parameters – Accidental deaths per 1,00,000 of population; and Accidental deaths per 100 km of the road in a state. Watch the full episode for greater insight. Hope we all get together and adopt safe driving habits. For more information visit our website: https://theinfodiggers.com Also, find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WhatDoesThisDataSay And On Twitter: https://twitter.com/theinfodiggers

The news highlight this week from Karnataka is the rape case against Lingayat seer Shivamurthy Murugha Sharana. The case has indeed shocked the state but more shocking is the pin drop silence of the political parties in the state, who have so far zipped their mouths and refrained from making any comments. And there’s a reason why. Lets know about that But before that, let us understand who is Shivamurthy Murugha Sharana and what is the case against him?

A group of activists staged a demonstration on Sunday to oppose the construction of a Metro car shed in Mumbai’s Aarey Colony and shouted slogans against the Maharashtra government’s decision to go ahead with the project.

Cyrus Mistry, who succeeded Ratan Tata as chairman of the conglomerate but was later ousted in India's most high-profile boardroom coup, was killed in a car accident in Maharashtra's Palghar on Sunday, said police.

Activist Teesta Setalvad, in jail since June over allegations of "a conspiracy to destabilise the Gujarat government after the 2002 riots", today got interim bail from the Supreme Court, which said the police had already got enough time to interrogate her. The court's tone was consistent with its comments yesterday, when it said there is "no offence in this case over court which bail cannot be granted", that too when "she is a lady"

"Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday morning commissioned the first indigenous aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant in a ceremony at Cochin Shipyard Limited in Kochi. Apart from that, a new flag known as Ensign or Nishaan was unveiled today. The new flag bears Indian tricolour, however it replaces the St George’s cross. Instead it bears Indian Navy crest on a navy blue background enclosed in a octagon representing the royal seal of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. Shivaji Maharaj is also called the father of the Indian Navy. However, for INS Vikrant it is a rebirth after 25 years. What makes it special is that INS Vikrant is a first ever India-made aircraft carrier. What are the brand new specifications of the sea beast which is now proudly deployed in the Indian naval fleet, let us talk about that in today’s video

2000 To 2022: 20 Years Apart Congress Faces Same Questions On Fairness of Internal Polls

After levelling allegations of MLA-poaching against the BJP, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal won the trust vote in the assembly on Thursday. 58 MLAs voted in favour of Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the trust vote. The AAP has 62 MLAs in the 70-member Delhi Assembly, while the BJP has eight. Kejriwal had proposed a confidence motion in the Delhi Assembly after alleging that the opposition BJP’s 'Operation Lotus' to topple his government failed as it could not get any of the AAP MLAs to cross over. The motion was tabled in the House on August 29, Monday.

"Social Activist Anna Hazare the former mentor of AAP Chief Arvind Kejriwal has written a scathing letter to him over the party’s liquor policy. The stinging letter even says that Arvind Kejriwal is drunk on power. Arvind kejriwal was part of core group on team Anna, that spearheaded the anti-corruption movement in the country. However, when Kejriwal decided to form his own party, Anna Hazare distanced himself from it. Since then the two have never shared amicable bond.

"mid the political turmoil in Jharkhand, Chief Minister Hemant Soren has hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by accusing them of ""political horse-trading"". ""They only buy and sell MLAs but we work for the public and don't do horse-trading. People will give answers to those who are doing business in politics,"" Mr Soren said.

"Amid the ongoing tussle over corruption allegations, Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia on Tuesday came down heavily on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for raising baseless questions against the AAP government in Delhi

Carter Road, one of Bandra’s popular hang out spots is often abuzz with youngsters clicking pictures of the sunset from the promenade. On Sunday evening, the mood of the place was palpably heartfelt as more than 50 citizens, holding placards, gathered in solidarity to demand justice for Bilkis Bano.

"Indian Railways caters to the travel needs of many people around the year. During the festive season, the demand for train tickets increases significantly.

India struck down the Age old section 377 few years back, but as far as the LGBTQIA+ community is concerned, the reforms and acceptance is still a long process. This change in the way society looks at the community will not be overnight. But we can take baby steps towards it and that too counts. Tamil Nadu govt has shown the way to the country in this regard. Perhaps for the tfirst time ever in the country.

"Since quite some time, there has been unrest inside the Aarey colony. Another Sunday means more demonstrations in Mumbai's Green Lung, the Aarey neighborhood, where environmentalists have assembled once more to oppose the present Maharashtra Government's decision to build the metro there.

"Nitish Kumar has been the Chief Minister of Bihar for the past seventeen years barring the nine months when Jiten Ram Manjhi was the CM as a stop-gap arrangement. Though Nitish Kumar has been hailed as a political wizard for beating the old Chanakya of the BJP at their own game, but there is a lot he has to answer. It is time to ask Nitish Kumar some hard questions as also what makes him believe that he can go on playing this game. The state of Bihar is the worst performer and the people of the state the worst sufferers. Extreme poverty, backwardness and caste politics dominates with little hope of improvements. Unemployment in the state is at an all time high, second to that just of Rajasthan. Per capita GDP of the state of Bihar is the lowest, just $610 compared to the India average of $2,220. 30.6% of the state's population lives below the poverty line against India's average of 22.15%6 . Per capita power consumption in Bihar stands at 332 kWh, about one-fourth of the national average of 1208 kWh. An average Bihari uses just 61 liters of water every day as against 142 liters that of an average Indian. Bihar also remains in the last two positions of the list of Sustainable Developments Goals tracked by NITI Aayog. Over the years, Bihar has only managed to go to bottom. For the last 17 years, Nitish Kumar has nothing to show expect keeping his Chief Ministerial seat intact. It has been a shameful performance. Nitish Kumar is unfit to be Chief Minister, let alone the Prime Minister.

"For the last few days, the headlines are dominated by Adani group-NDTV acquisition. And rightly so, the indirect acquisition of NDTV shares and the open offer had led to many questions. Today, however, we are not going to talk about that, although the story relates to the group’s another company. Last year around the same time, I had made a video on how apple farmers of HP are not happy with the Adani Agro. This year too the story seems to be no different. Adani agro fresh’s stores in Himachal Pradesh are facing massive anger of the apple growers so much so they ve warned that they will picket the stores in winters if their demands are not met by then. What is this entire matter? Let us understand in this video today.

Congress leader and former Jammu and Kashmir CM, Ghulam Nabi Azad have resigned from all positions including primary membership of the Congress Party. Earlier this month, the G23 leader resigned from the post of chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Congress campaign committee hours after his appointment. He was also a member of the G23. The G23 is a faction within the grand old party, that had demanded change in the party leadership and several organizational changes

Bilkis Bano’s case have been making to headlines after every alternative day since the release of the 11 convicts on 15th August, with opposition condemning the felicitation of the convicts and the release. Later against the release of convicts two PILS were filed by TMc MP Mahua Moitra and CPI (M) Member Subhashini Ali in the Supreme Court.

"Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj on Thursday said that the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) operation lotus “failed” in Delhi. He said that 53 out of 62 Delhi AAP MLAs were present in the meeting called by party convenor Arvind Kejriwal. He further said, “(Delhi Assembly) Speaker is outside the country and Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia is in Himachal. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal spoke to other MLAs over phone and everyone said that they are with him till their last breath.”

The likelihood that Chief Minister Hemant Soren may be disqualified as a legislator is already driving the rhetoric and strategies in Jharkhand's politics, even as the final decision remains in a sealed envelope with the Governor.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is holding a meeting of its MLAs in Delhi on Thursday morning after senior party leaders alleged that the opposition BJP was trying to poach their lawmakers.The meeting will begin at 11 am. According to party sources, the AAP has not been able to contact some of its MLAs. Earlier, four AAP MLAs had accused the BJP of offering Rs 20 crore to them to join the saffron party .

Hours after Adani group’s AMG Media Network Limited (AMNL) announced that it has indirectly acquired 29.18% stakes in NDTV, the television network has issued a statement. It has said the move was made without any discussion with the promoters of the company. NDTV said that neither was their consent sought nor were they served any notice.

The homes of three senior leaders of the Tejashwi Yadav-led Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) were raided by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today in connection with the "land-for-jobs" case that alleges irregularities during his father Lalu Yadav's tenure as Railway minister in the UPA-I government.

Indian Government and Twitter in recent times had a bittersweet relation often times the social media gaint and Indian government have clashed over policy issue. Now in a shocking complaint former Twitter security chief Peiter Zatko alleges that the Indian government forced the social media company to hire an individual who was a “government agent” and likely had access to sensitive user data as part of their job.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has suspended its party MLA T Raja Singh over his alleged derogatory remark against Prophet Muhammad. The party has given him 10 days to reply to show cause on why he shouldn’t be expelled.

In a major development in Indian media landscape today, the Adani group’s media arm has announced to acquire stakes in New Delhi Television Network. Popularly known as NDTV. AMG Media Networks Limited, a subsidiary of the Adani group, will acquire a 29.18% stake in New Delhi Television Ltd (NDTV) and launch an open offer for another 26% stake in the media house, the Adani Group said in a statement. Adani entities made ₹493-crore open offer for 26% stake in NDTV at ₹294 per share. The media company's shares closed 5% higher today at ₹376.55 apiece

The Congress on Tuesday launched the logo, tagline and website of its upcoming 'Bharat Jodo Yatra', billed as a mass contact programme of an unprecedented scale .

Telangana BJP MLA T Raja Singh was today arrested for his alleged derogatory comments against Prophet Muhammad following protests in Hyderabad last night demanding action against him.

Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Bandi Sanjay courted controversy after he was seen picking up Union home minister Amit Shah’s footwear and placing it at the latter’s feet during a visit to the Sri Ujjaini Mahakali temple in Secunderabad on Sunday evening.

"As the days pass-by, Modi never ceases to be a topic of high debate. Keeping politics aside, is Modi really a successful Prime Minister as he is made out to be by the media? Let’s see Modi though the eyes of data and judge his performance against that of previous Prime Ministers. I choose the following five parameters for this analysis – GDP growth and our per capita income Population growth control Net migration Unemployment Inflation There are several other important key parameters that I know that I have left out, but cannot discuss all of them in a single episode. I analyze the data from 1960 to 2021 covering the tenure of all Prime Ministers. Watch the episode to see the results. I am sure you will be surprised.

Dolo-650, jokingly called as the Indian snack since the coronavirus pandemic, well it’s the memes. Now that being said whenever we have a headache we are feeling feverish the prescribed go to medicine for everyone is dolo 650. But there is alleged 1000 crore scam related to this medication.

CBI raids Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia live updates: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday began conducting raids at 20 locations in Delhi-NCR in connection with the excise policy case. A CBI team also arrived at Delhi deputy CM Manish Sisodia's residence to carry out searches. Earlier, Delhi L-G VK Saxena had sought a CBI probe after an inquiry report claimed to have found “irregularities” in the AAP-led Delhi government’s new excise policy.

Eight YouTube channels - that had an overall viewership of over 114 crore - have been banned by the government for spreading disinformation. Of the total channels, seven are from India and one is based out of Pakistan.

"“I am still numb. Give me back my right to live without fear and in peace.” Bilkis Bano now in her 40s had no words left to say other than this when she heard that her rapists, her brutalisers were just let go. Not only that, they were garlanded and fed sweets as if they had won some kind of a battle. Celebrations as they came out of jail 14 years later. The release of 11 convicts of Bilkis Bano gangrape case, is nothing short of blot of collective conscience of the society that doesn’t get tired of clapping when the head of the country speaks about Nari Shakti from the rampants of Red Fort. Ironically, from many media channels who showed full83 minutes speech of PM Modi and then conducted a day-long analysis on it, questions on release of Bilkis Bano’s rapists are missing and wherever they are, they aren’t as vociferous as they should be. Arti Ghargi talks about Bilkis Bano’s case and how it will define, what this society chooses to become from this point onwards.

A exclusive Ground report on whether PM Modi Fulfiling his promise on working for doubling the income of farmers. Farmers from Azamgarh spoke about how true was PM Modi's promise

"The BJP has announced a new parliamentary board and election committee on Wednesday. Interestingly, two veteran faces Nitin Gadkari and Shivraj Singh Chouhan have been shown the door as far as these two committees are concerned. But Devendra Fadnavis, who is currently deputy CM in Maharashtra and who is said to be behind Eknath Shinde’s rebellion, has earned himself a spot at the table in one of the top committees of BJP. Nitin Gadkari is currently Union Minister and Shivraj Singh Chouhan is CM of Madhya Pradesh. He has served 4 terms. Gadkari has also been party president of BJP in the past. Shivraj Singh Chouhan was inducted into the board in 2013.

"Hours after Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Puri said Wednesday that all Rohingya refugees would be shifted to EWS flats in Delhi’s Bakkarwala, the office of Union Home Minister Amit Shah issued a statement denying any such move by the Centre. “With respect to news reports in certain sections of media regarding Rohingya illegal foreigners, it is clarified that Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has not given any directions to provide EWS flats to Rohingya illegal migrants at Bakkarwala in New Delhi,” Shah’s office said in a tweet.

In a massive drug haul, Mumbai Police has seized mephedrone worth ₹ 1,026 crore during a raid in Gujarat. The anti-narcotics cell of the Mumbai Police had raided a Mephedrone manufacturing unit in Gujarat's Ankleshwar on Saturday and seized 513 kgs of the banned substance.

Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad -- long upset with the party -- has resigned from a key party post in Jammu and Kashmir, signalling a revolt within. Made the chairman of the party's campaign committee, he stepped down from the post shortly after his appointment. He has also resigned from the party's Jammu and Kashmir political affairs committee.

The All India Football Federation (AIFF) was on Tuesday suspended by FIFA due to "undue influence from third parties" and the country has also been stripped of the right to host the 2022 Under-17 Women's World Cup, scheduled for October.

Today, the 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gangrape case, who were serving their time in jail as life imprisonment walked free. Visuals from the jail show their relatives greeting them with sweets and touching their feet for blessings, outside the Godhra jail. One of the convicts, Radheshyam Shah said, I am glad to be out, now I will be able to meet my family members and begin a new life.

"The death of Indian billionaire Rakesh Jhunjhunwala puts a spotlight on the nearly $4 billion worth of stocks held by the famed investor, whose trades were closely scrutinized.

As many as 30 members from Chief Minister Nitish Kumar-led JD(U) and his deputy Tejashwi Yadav-led RJD will be inducted into the Bihar Cabinet on Tuesday as the expansion will take place at 11:30 am. The RJD, which has the highest number of lawmakers in the Bihar Assembly, is likely to get 16 ministerial berths and the JD(U) is likely to keep 11.

India marks the fourth death anniversary of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. A brilliant orator and a leader who commanded immense respect and admiration from leaders and opposition alike, Vajpayee donned several hats during his political career. As the prime minister, he is known for India's achievements in the field of science and technology. As the nation remembers him on his death anniversary, here are snippets from his memorable speeches in the parliament.

As India completes 75 years of Independence and we celebrate the Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav, we speak to 98 year old Freedom Fighter GG Parikh. From 1942 Quit India Movement to 1975 Emergency, Parikh has strongly opposed oppression and defended Idea of India.

Industrialist Mukesh Ambani and his family received three threat calls on Monday, August 15. The calls were received on the number of Reliance Foundation's Harskisandas Hospital around 10:30 am.

Maharashtra’s new chief minister Eknath Shinde, who finds himself in the peculiar position of leading a party-less faction, while claiming to be the ‘original’ Shiv Sena, has decided to set up his own Sena Bhavan in the heart of Mumbai, and in the vicinity of the real Sena Bhavan, which was built in the 1970s.

It’s Almost three years now since the novel coronavirus was detected in China after which world came to a standstill, the world is still dealing with it even today, shortly after coronavirus, monkeypox virus came in to picture which has deepened the worry among people.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrated Raksha Bandhan with young girls at his residence in the national capital on Thursday (August 11). This was a special Raksha Bandhan as these girls were the daughters of sweepers, peons, gardeners, drivers, etc working at the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). The PMO shared a video on the occasion in which PM Modi was seen celebrating the festival with the young girls.

"All is not well between the Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal (United) and the BJP. The Bihar Chief Minister’s decision to skip Sunday’s Niti Aayog meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the latest in a series of snubs, has further fuelled speculation that two NDA allies may be headed for a split. Significantly, Nitish Kumar has been giving the cold shoulder to the BJP for a few months now. The Nitish Aayog meet was the fourth meeting since July 17 called by the Union government that the JD(U) chief has stayed away from. Nitish Kumar’s differences with the ruling BJP throw up several questions: will the NDA regime in Bihar collapse before August 11, and will the JD(U) join hands with former ally RJD to form the government?

The much awaited expansion of Maharashtra's Eknath Shinde cabinet is due on Tuesday, August 9, news agency PTI said, quoting a senior BJP leader. The official function will take place at the Raj Bhavan in Mumbai at 11am.

The controversy revolving aroud Nodia’s Grand Omaxe sector 93 is not simmering at all with bulldozer reaching the complex and in the latest BJP Shrikant tyagi absconding from the scene. Well now, Shrikant Tyagi has now filed an application in the court to surrender

Uttar Pradesh police on Tuesday arrested Noida-based politician Shrikant Tyagi accused of abusing a woman resident at a housing society in the city. Tyagi was reportedly apprehended in Meerut and is being taken back to Noida.

"It’s the season of fall of govt in Indian politics. As political turbulence in Maharashtra comes to a brief halt in Maharashtra, a political turbulence is all set to hit Bihar today. The rumblings have already started. Bihar CM nitish Kumar is all set to break up with BJP, after being with the party for almost 5 years, he is all set to go back to Mahagathbandhan. Nitish Kumar has sought time from Governor to meet at 4 PM today. This comes after he had a closed door meeting with all MLAs and MPs of JDU. According to sources, it was decided to end the alliance with BJP in Bihar. Meanwhile, the RJD leaders are huddled at lalu Prasad y7adav’s residence in Patna, where they are discussing the next plans. According to reports, Nitish Kumar dialled Sonia Gandhi on Sunday to discuss the Bihar political situation. He also spoke to Bihar Leader of Opposition, Tejashwi Yadav from RJD earlier.

In this episode of the South Connect, we talk about important developments from Southern states .

Despite heavy rains, the Save aarey activists continue to protest against the metro car shed for the 6th consecutive week, Vanchit Bahujan Agadi workers were also present in large numbers.

200+ Bikers drive from Pune to Mumbai to spread road safety awareness and celebrate 75the Independence Week (Azadi Ka Amrit Mahaostav )

Noida Police Friday booked a man for allegedly verbally abusing and pushing a woman during an argument about encroachment of the common area in a posh residential society on Friday. The incident came to light after a video purportedly capturing the argument was posted on social media

"The voting for Vice presidential election has begun in the parliament. The MPs of both the houses are voting today to elect the next vice president of India. The voting began at 10 AM and will go on till 5 PM. The term of incumbent Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu ends on 10th August. The new vice president will take oath of office on 11th of August. The NDA has pitched Jagdeep Dhankhar as the vice presidential candidate whereas, Joint opposition has fielded Margaret Alva opposite to him.

"On Saturday, the Mumbai president of the Aam Aadmi Party, Preeti Sharma Menon, spoke exclusively to HW news and said, if the party comes to power in the upcoming BMC polls, they will provide free electricity to Mumbaikars.

BJP leader and former minister of state for finance Jayant Sinha on Monday asserted that there is no 'mehengai' (inflation) and the Opposition has been looking for it but is unable to find it.

"Trinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra, who is known for her firebrand speeches in the Parliament, found herself in the middle of a controversy once again as a short clip of her went viral on social media during the price rise debate in the Lok Sabha.

"Its not even a month after the fall of MVA govt in Maharashtra and the Congress has alleged the BJP of trying to pull off a similar “Operation Lotus” in Jharkhand. Three MLAs of the Congress were held in Howrah woith cash worth 48 Lakh in their cars. A case was filed in Jharkhand by another Congress MLA claiming that the three leaders had called him to howrah who would then take him to meet Assam Cm Himanta Biswa Sarma. The MLA also alleged that he was offered 10 Crore to defect. The political temperature has soared once agaoin after this, with Congress accusing BJP of trying to topple the Hemant Soren led govt in Jharkhand. Jharkhand has a JMM govt in which Congress is also an alliance partner. Let us understand in this video, how this alleged “Operation Lotus” was exposed:

A Mumbai court on Monday remanded Shiv Sena Member of Parliament (MP) Sanjay Raut to Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody till August 4 in a money laundering case. A Special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) Court passed the order. Judge MG Deshpande turned down the request by ED for 8-day custody and instead said that custody up till August 4 would siffice.

A Mumbai court on Monday remanded Shiv Sena Member of Parliament (MP) Sanjay Raut to Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody till August 4 in a money laundering case. A Special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) Court passed the order. Judge MG Deshpande turned down the request by ED for 8-day custody and instead said that custody up till August 4 would siffice.

"The Political voltage in Maharashtra continues to remain high. A vocal critic of the Bharatiya Janata party, and known to be one of the key figures behind the formation of Maha Vikas Aghadi, Sanjay Raut was arrested by the ENforcemnet directorate on Sunday. He was arrested after 7 hours of questioning. Raut’s medical test was condfucted today and in a short while he will be produced in the PMLA court. The high profile arrest of Shivsena Spokesperson and Executive editor of Saamana comes at a time when rebellion has hit Shivsena. Sanjay Raut has been arrested in Patra Chawl scam case. The ED says that firm linked to Sanjay Raut was involved in the Patra Chawl slum redevelopment scam.

Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi has given a suspension of business notice in the Rajya Sabha seeking to discuss the issue of “misuse of premier investigative agencies by the Central government for political agendas”.

"The cadres are angry that a Hindu was killed, there is also a realisation that most often such victims are from the Billava, Mogaveera or Madiwala community.

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday denied any wrongdoing as Enforcement Directorate (ED) searched at his residence in Mumbai in connection with a money laundering case.

"The term kill chain is a military concept, framework, strategy or a doctrine – you may call it by any name - that identifies the all the possible structures of an enemy attack. It consists of: identification of target, dispatching of forces to target, initiation of attack on target and; the destruction of target. Conversely, the idea of ""breaking"" an opponent's kill chain is a possible method or doctrine of defense which would then dictate either preemptive actions or combative actions. Lockheed Martin has developed a parallel framework for cyber warfare - the Cyber Kill Chain. Subsequent to the 2013 Target Corporation data breach, in which millions of accounts were compromised, the US government has become serious to the threats of cyber crimes, and more particularly - cyber warfare. However, US is fast losing the ground to China US military and cyber security lags that of China. This is according to Christian Brose who mentions the minute details in his book THE KILL CHAIN. Brose was the principal advisor on national security and military issues Senator John McCain. Senator McCain at that time was the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. In that position, both of them had access to sensitive Pentagon information. And one such information was that China had gone ahead of the US in conventional and cyber warfare. According to Brose, for years the Pentagon had hidden this information from the US Government as well as from the American people. What did McCain tell the Senators? Checkout this video. Why India should be worried? Again, check out this video.

A Portuguese-era law, which transfers the property ownership rights of a man to his wife after his death, has been cited in defense by the owners of a restaurant in Assagao village in North Goa, which the Congress alleged was linked to Union Minister Smriti Irani’s daughter Zoish Irani.

"India is in the top 4 in the list of countries that demanded to block URLs or content on Twitter. From 2018 to 2021 the number of blocked content rose.

"Union Cabinet Minister Smriti irani’s troubles seems to be only increasing. Earlier, the minister had come under fire over the illegal license of a Goa restaurant allegedly run by her daughter. Now in a latest development, there are new set of allegations, that say that the restaurant is illegal building without construction license. The latest revelations are only set to increase the trouble for Union Minister who has been mired in the controversy for the last few days. The Congress party has continued its attack on Smriti Irani asking PM Modi to sack her. Whereas Smriti Irani has said that her daughter has nothing to do with the restaurant and she is a student. But as more documents and information tumbles out, Smriti irani’s claims about the restaurant have increasingly come under scrutiny. In this video today, we will revisit the entire case from the start, we will try and understand what the controversy is about and also the latest development in it.

BJP's Meghalaya state vice-president Bernard N Marak was arrested in Uttar Pradesh for allegedly running a 'brothel' in the West Garo Hills district. Explosive materials and traditional arms were recovered from the farmhouse in Taro Town.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today removed Partha Chatterjee as a minister, five days after he was arrested for alleged corruption in recruitment of teachers and other staff in state government schools.

In a 50-hour relay protest against their suspension by the Rajya Sabha chairman, the suspended MPs spent the first night outside within the Parliament Complex. The MPs were seen checking their phones as soon as they woke up on Thursday morning, according to videos posted online, news agency ANI reported.

"In a dramatic confrontation in parliament today over Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury calling President Droupadi Murmu ""Rashtrapatni"", Congress president Sonia Gandhi walked across the house to speak to a BJP MP. When Smriti Irani reportedly intervened, Sonia Gandhi said ""Don't talk to me"", according to sources. The exchange took place during a break in Lok Sabha, which had been adjourned amid loud protests by BJP MPs against Sonia Gandhi and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury.

"After days of stalemate, both Rajya Sabha and Loksabha were off to stormy start today. Usually it is the opposition which is seen aggressively protesting against the govt. But today the parliament witnessed a role reversal. The BJP leaders today attacked the Congress over the statement made by Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Presid ent of India Draupadi murmu. The BJP MPs led by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman protested outside the parliament and demanded his resignation. The posters also asked Congress president Sonia Gandhi to apologize for the statements of Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury who is Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha. In LokSabha Amethi MP Smriti Irani took charge on behalf of BJP. Seemingly raging with anger, Smriti Irani not only slammed the Congress but also said that the party sanctioned the insult of the President of India. The Whole Controversy started with Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury’s statement yesterday.

"The Monsoon this month has brought some respite for the people of India, but just three months ago, India was dealing with major heatwave. And to add to the woes of the people were the frequent and long power cuts. These power cuts majorly were attributed to the coal shortage in the country. Even last year, in the month of October, India faced a similar situation of coal shortage and thus power cuts. While, the govt immediately undertook measures to increase stock supply and the crisis was addressed, the question about the coal shortage in the country did make it to the parliament’s monsoon session. Replying to the question on coal shortage in India, the Coal Ministry said that there is no shortage of Coal in India.

"After Covid 19 we are dealing with another disease of monkeypox. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has sounded its highest level of alert for monkeypox and declared the virus as a public health emergency of international concern. Several states also issued alerts as Tuesday.But what exactly is monkeypox virus, how does it spread and what are the myths going around about the disease we are going to talk about this in today’s video joining us is health educator and Dr Sangram Patil from England.

On Tuesday, six elders of Pachpahra village of Kabrai reached DM's doorstep with a placard of 'I am alive'.Giving proof of himself being alive, he pleaded for justice. Told that he is not getting old age pension for one and a half years. The pension has been stopped by showing them dead on paper. The DM has handed over the investigation to the CDO.

Aam Aadmi Party member Sanjay Singh is the latest among 24 suspended from the Parliament for "unruly behaviour". Mr Singh was today suspended from the Rajya Sabha for the remaining part of this week after he threw papers at the Chair yesterday. 24 MPs, including 20 from the Rajya Sabha, have been suspended so far.

The ED has created "terror" in country, Rajasthan CM and Congress leader Ashok Gehlot said on Wednesday. "ED is being used to topple governments," Gehlot added. "First they summoned Rahul Gandhi. He was interrogated for several hours in five days

The number of deaths due to the consumption of illicit or toxic liquor in Gujarat's Botad district has gone up to 28, a senior police official said today.The liquor was made from the highly poisonous methyl alcohol, Gujarat Director General of Police Ashish Bhatia told reporters in Gandhinagar .

"The unprecedented rebellion of 40 MLAs of Shivsena led by Eknath Shinde, threatened to break Shivsena into two. While, at this moment Uddhav Thackeray faction seems to be on the backfoot, both Uddhav and his son Aaditya are now canvassing across the state, trying to rebuild party with remaining workers. On the other hand, Eknath Shinde has moved Election Commission to stake claim over Shivsena. The ECI has also issued a notice to both factions to prove their majority. Uddhav Thackeray camp has moved SC against the EC notice. But in the last 2 months while the Shivsena was facing a major crisis, uddhav Thackeray addressed party workers many a times. However. Probably for the first time after the rebellion, he has spoken at length about the rebellion, what happened and party’s future in an interview for Shivsena Mouthpiece Saamana. The interview was conducted by Saamana’s acting editor Sanjay Raut. Saamana has released part 1 of the interview in which Uddhav Thackeray has makes a scathing attack on the rebels. In this video let us go through some of the questions and the answers given by Uddhav Thackeray.

"A total of 19 Opposition MPs were suspended from the monsoon session of the Parliament for a week for unruly behavior. The Opposition was protesting against price rises and inflation inside the House. The MPs who are suspended include Muraleedharan, Haque, Sen, Abir Biswas, Mausam Noor, Sushmita Dev, Shanta Chhetri, Mohammad Abdullah, AA Rahim, L Yadav and V Sivadasan.

"A total of 19 Opposition MPs were suspended from the monsoon session of the Parliament for a week for unruly behavior. The Opposition was protesting against price rises and inflation inside the House.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was detained by the Delhi Police amid protests against the ED’s summoning of Sonia Gandhi in an alleged money laundering case.

"After weeks of Political crisis in the state of Maharashtra, it was on 30th June that Rebel Shivsena leader Eknath Shinde took oath as Chief Minister of the state, whereas Devendra Fadnavis of the BJP took oath as the Deputy CM of the state. It has been more than 20 Days since then, Maharashtra still has no cabinet. There are only 2 ministers in Mahrashtra cabinet. Chief Minister and Deputy CM. The state does not yet have a dedicated minister handling portfolios like Finance, Home, PWD, Agriculture, Education etc. This two minister govt has certainly raised eyebrows, especially when Shinde-Fadnavis govt is already facing criticism over hasty swearing in. So why hasn’t Maharashtra yet got its cabinet? Why is it being delayed and what does constitution say?

"In today’s fast paced information sharing environment it is not new that certain news/videos go viral quickly. Sometimes these news/videos are fake or presented without proper context that either misinform or mislead people. In one such incident, AAP MP Sanjay Singh tweeted a video of Prime minister Narendra Modi which has now been flagged by Twitter. On Sunday morning at about 8 AM, Sanjay Singh shared a video of PM Modi from the farewell ceremony of outgoing president Ramnath Kovind. The video shows, all the MPs standing. PM Modi too is standing, besides him is minister Piryush Goyal and President Ramnath Kovind is greeting PM Modi with folded hands. However, PM Modi seems to be looking the other way, towards where the cameras are.

Since quite some time, there has been unrest inside the Aarey colony. Another Sunday means more demonstrations in Mumbai's Green Lung, the Aarey neighborhood, where environmentalists have assembled once more to oppose the present Maharashtra Government's decision to build the metro there.

"When Nitish Kumar comes up with idea of conducting a Caste Census in Bihar, there has to something that is more than what meets the eye. The last caste census in India was done by the British around 1931. Thereafter, in 2011 a Socio-economic caste census was done by the UPA government in 2011 – but they were unable to publish the results before being voted out of power in 2014. The Modi government was not too keen to expose the caste data collated during the socio-economic caste census. So, everything other that the caste data was released for public consumption by the NDA government in 2015. Bihar remains caste-ridden. Over the years, this has led to massive politicization of the people of Bihar. Each party has created vote banks that it tries to nurture. Bihar is notoriously known for its infamous caste wars. Hundreds of caste wars in the past fifty (50) years have resulted in thousands of deaths. Mostly, it the Dalits and weaker sections of the society who have suffered. Bihar remains a backward state since independence. Nothing seems to ever change in this state – things only seem to get worse. In many of the development parameters, Bihar remains at the bottom of the pile. Bihar also remains a net importer of revenue. The young enterprising and hardworking men and women are forced to migrate outside Bihar to seek employment and feed their families back home. The distress among this section of Biharis’ is maximum. The migration also leads to stress factors in the recipient states who themselves have to cope with high unemployment rates. If the state has to look up, casteism has to be set aside. But today, no politician is willing to taek up this mantle.

"Congress MLA Ramesh Kumar, during a protest against the ED case on Sonia Gandhi, claimed that the party leaders have made enough money in the name of Gandhis

"Chief Justice of India NV Ramana, is often in news for his direct and unfearful statements. In the past he has often spoken about Media, Government, Democracy, institution and even the duties of the judiciary. However, today, the CJI took media to task and said that Kangaroo court are being run by media and that is taking our democracy backwards. In scathing remarks over the state of media in the country, CJI said that several media organizations are running a kangaroo courts on issues even experienced judges find difficult to decide on”. He also said conducting media trial on sub-judice matters is making the job of judges difficult and adversely affecting the justice delivery system. He also said that while Print Media has some degree of accountability, Electronic media has zero whereas Social media is worse.

Goa Excise Commissioner Narayan M Gad on Thursday issued a show cause notice to the upmarket Silly Souls Café and Bar allegedly run by Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Irani’s family at Bhouta Vaddo, Assagao over the illegally obtained liquor licences.

"If you’re wondering why are you not getting ₹2000 notes in your ATMs, you might find them here. Look at this picture. Have you ever in your life seen such a heap of cash just lying around? This cash that consists of 2000 and 500 Rs notes is worth ₹ 20 crore. And this cash has been found at the residence of West Bengal Minister Partha chatterjee’s close aide Arpita Mukherjee. This money, this cash was recovered after the enforcement directorate raid at her residence. The raid was conducted as a part of the probe into SSC recruitment scam in the state. It was on Friday that the ED had recovered this cash. Arpita Mukherjee has now been detained whereas Partha Chatterjee has been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate. ED officials themselves found this cash to be huge to count it themselves and had to take assistance from bank officials and their cash counting machines.

"Accepting the invitation, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said he looks forward to attending the summit and discussing urban solutions with other leaders.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has reached at Sonia Gandhi's residence ahead of her appearance before the Enforcement Directorate in an alleged money laundering case. Her son, Rahul Gandhi, is also expected to accompany her to the probe agency office.

"The Congress had held elaborate protests when Sonia Gandhi's son, former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, was questioned by the agency .

"The Supreme Court today granted bail to Alt news co-founder Mohammed Zubair in all the six cases registered against him by UP Police. The Bench of Justices DY Chandrachud, Surya Kant and AS Bopanna passed the order after noting that Zubair had already been granted bail by the Patiala House Court in a similar case registered by the Delhi Police. The court further directed Tihar jail authorities to ensure that he is released before 6 PM today subject to furnishing of bail bonds. The court also said that there was no justification to keep Zubair in custody any further and subject him to diverse proceedings when the tweets and allegations for which he has been arrested are already part of Delhi police FIR, and he has been granted bail in it. Not only that, the court also clubbed all the six FIRs filed against Zubair by UP Police and transferred it to Delhi. This effectively disbanded the SIT that was formed by the UP Police to investigate the cases against him. The Supreme Court bench while pronouncing the order also made several observations: Our Associate Editor Akhilesh Bhargava explains this in detail.

"The Supreme Court is witnessing a legal tussle between two camps of Shiv Sena to control the party. This comes weeks after the friction between the Uddhav Thackeray and Eknath Shinde camps brought down the Sena-NCP-Congress government in Maharashtra. The top court is hearing six petitions in the matter. One of them is from the Shinde camp and challenges disqualification proceedings initiated by Deputy Assembly Speaker Narhari Zirwal against legislators of the faction when they were in Guwahati.

"Gautam Adani, India’s richest person, now holds the fourth spot on the Forbes world’s richest list. This comes after Microsoft founder Bill Gates last week said he would be donating $20 billion of his wealth to his non-profit - Bill & Melinda Gates.

As 12 out of 19 Shiv Sena Lok Sabha MPs reportedly attended a meeting with CM Eknath Shinde virtually on Monday, sources in the Shinde faction said the 12 MPs are set to form a separate group in LS. A formal letter about the separate group, to be led by Mumbai South Central MP Rahul Shewale, will be given to Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday, a Sena MP said.

The centre on Tuesday told the parliament that it has no data on arrests of journalists across the country. This comes in the backdrop of international condemnation over the arrest of Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair, who has been booked in multiple cases over his old tweets. In this Video, our Associate Editor Arti Ghargi explains in detail.

"According to reports, students at an exam centre in Kollam, Kerala were asked to remove remove innerwaer in order to appear for the NEET Exams. A case has been filed in Kerala’s Kollam District by parents alleging humiliating physical search on female students.

The Agnipath controversy may have simmered in the country, but the politics around it seems to intensifying day after day The latest controversy is regarding the demand of caste and religion certificates from the applicants.

The action came after a video went viral Sunday in which the worker in Mathura was seen with the garbage cart. Later, additional municipal commissioner said the worker was sacked.