One of India’s top TV news anchors, Arnab Goswami, was arrested by police in Mumbai on Wednesday for alleged abetment of suicide in a case registered in 2018, his channel said in a statement. According to local media, the case related to the suicide of an interior designer who said he was owed money by […]
India recorded 45,231 new coronavirus infections, taking its total cases to 8.23 million, the health ministry said on Monday. The country doubled down on its testing in the month of August, raising the bar to a total of 62.4 million tests with new daily cases taking a fall since September, as India emerged with the […]
In the second last week of north-Indian state Delhi’s anti-dengue campaign, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said the national capital has again defeated the mosquito-borne tropical disease. “Owing to the aggressive campaign by the Delhi government this year, no dengue-related death has been reported in the national capital. Delhi has again defeated dengue this […]
“From Sabarmati River Front, Ahmedabad to Statue of Unity, Kevadia, a mesmerising experience awaits you!” the SpiceJet Shuttle cheered on its Twitter platform, lauding the larger-than-life “symbol of unity.” The online booking for the Ahmedabad-Kevadia route was launched on October 30, on http://spiceshuttle.com.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated the country’s first seaplane service in Ahmedabad. The flight connects Sabarmati Riverfront to Statue of Unity in Kevadia, Narmada district in the western state. The Prime Minister followed the inauguration by boarding a flight on the maiden seaplane between the two destinations. The seaplane took off from Male, […]
While social media may not necessarily be such a bad thing with its penchant to be on top of news (in my effort to peer into a glass that is half full, I am being generous and discounting the substantial ‘fake’ component), I find the lot of those who inhabit the domain as determined denizens […]
Indian streaming service Eros Now issued an apology on Thursday to its Twitter followers — on the very platform where it posted its inappropriate Navratri ads — when the Internet backlashed against the campaign, deeming it “vulgar” and offensive. Owned by motion picture production company Eros International, the service found itself recalling its suggestive posters, […]
The controversy over an advertisement by Indian jewellery brand Tanishq shows us how broken we are. Tanishq put out an advertisement that promotes religious, cultural harmony and all hell broke loose in the troll republic. How dare Tanishq show anything that promotes love, mutual respect among communities? Boycott calls on twitter followed. Tanishq was branded […]
Amid the ongoing TRP (Television Rating Point) scandal, Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) board is all set to review its current standards of measuring, and pause the rating of news channels with immediate effect. The exercise would cover all Hindi, Regional, English news and business news channels. Starting with the ‘News Genre’, BARC will not […]
Sheets of rain and a barrage of floods, resulted in over 30 deaths in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday, the downpour wreaking havoc in Karnataka. Waterlogged roads and swept-away dwellings, saw 10 people killed in various incidents across Andhra Pradesh in the last 48 hours. Many died in Hyderabad after walls and houses collapsed […]
Cinemas in movie-mad India tentatively re-opened on Thursday but with worries about coronavirus and only old films showing, early punters were few and far between. The pandemic has clobbered theatres worldwide but in India, home to the planet’s most prolific movie industry, it has upended a culture that treats the stars of the silver screen […]
