Tribunal Bars Mallya From Accessing $75 MN From Diageo Deal
In a major setback for liquor baron Vijay Mallya, the Debt Recovery Tribunal (DRT) on Monday barred him from accessing $75 million (Rs 515 crore) exit payment from Diageo till the loan default case...
View Article'Not Fit' Season 1 Review: Fame Fame, But Different
Sudev Nair is a Malayalam and Hindi film actor who has won a Kerala State Film Award for his performance in MB Padmakumar’s My Life Partner (2014). According to his Wikipedia page, he is also a trained...
View ArticleThis June The Indian Air Force Will Get Its First Batch Of Woman Fighter Pilots
An announcement by Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha on International Women's Day will pave the way for hundreds of Indian women in years to come to realize their ambition in male-dominated work spaces. The...
View ArticleArun Jaitley Retracts Proposal To Tax Employees' Provident Fund At Withdrawal
NEW DELHI -- Facing all around attack, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today withdrew his Budget proposal to tax employees' provident fund (EPF) at withdrawal. Jaitley had in his Budget for 2016-17...
View ArticleThis Delhi Singer's Version Of ‘Strength Of A Woman' Might Be Even Better...
If you’re really looking to get into the spirit of Women’s Day, this cover of Shaggy’s ‘Strength Of A Woman’ (from his 2002 album Lucky Day) might be good start. Delhi-based karaoke jockey and singer...
View ArticleWATCH: Aditi Rao Hydari Is All Grace In This Video That Celebrates Womanhood
Aditi Rao Hydari has a message for everybody this International Women's Day. In a new video uploaded by BLUSH, a lifestyle channel for women, the actress, who was most recently seen in Wazir and...
View ArticleNalini Sriharan Granted 24-Hour Parole To Attend Father's Memorial Service
CHENNAI -- Nalini Sriharan, serving life sentence in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, was today granted one-day parole by the Madras High Court for attending the 16th day obsequies of her father,...
View ArticleMumbai's First Test Tube Baby Becomes A Mom On Mahashivratri
MUMBAI -- Twenty-nine years after she became famous as Mumbai's first test tube baby, Harsha Chawda Shah is now herself a proud mother of a baby boy. Notably, Harsha's caesarean-section at the Jaslok...
View ArticleTelugu Desam Party Forced To Apologize For MLA Nandamuri Balakrishna's Sexist...
Faced with outrage on social platforms for Telugu actor and Telugu Desam Party legislator Nandamuri Balakrishna's sexist comments directed at his women colleagues, the TDP on Tuesday was forced to...
View ArticleThis Woman Lawmaker Rode A Harley To Parliament Today
NEW DELHI -- It was a sight not seen often when woman MP Ranjeet Ranjan today rode to Parliament on an orange Harley-Davidson motorcycle to make a statement on Women's Day. The 42-year-old Lok Sabha...
View ArticleThe World Culture Festival Is An Exercise In The Art Of Living Irresponsibly
We are a country sorely lacking in perspective. While some of us have been up in arms about the “subsidized” PhD students at JNU, the Indian army has been mobilized to build pontoon bridges for a...
View Article9 Kickass Women Inventors Of The Tech World
In the world of technological innovations, men might have the numbers but women have not only caught up, but also led from the front, often in skewed working spaces. From the first programmer in the...
View Article6 Indian Websites That Have Recently Been Taken Down By Hackers
Last Tuesday, militant organisation Al-Qaeda hacked the Indian Railways' website to display its cyber prowess, as per news reports. They hacked the page of Bhusawal division of Personnel Department of...
View ArticleWATCH: Soni Sori Raises The 'Azadi' Battle Cry Right In The Heart Of JNU
If you thought a bodily injury would stop the indomitable Soni Sori from making her voice heard in the face of oppression, you probably don't know her well. Her face was blackened with a chemical in...
View ArticleMan Bites Devotee's Ear In Order To Squeeze Inside A Crowded Temple
THANE -- In a bizarre incident, a 40-year- old man bit a devotee's ear in his bid to enter into core area of a temple here to offer prayer following which he was arrested, police said today. Shivaji...
View ArticleWomen MPs Demand Financial Inclusion, Education
From riding a motorbike to the Parliament House and demanding introduction of the Women's Reservation Bill to allowing women's entry to temples for worship, women members in Lok Sabha today said...
View Article'Hip Hip Hurray' Reboot Cast Members Share Behind-The-Scenes Pics
As you may have heard, a reboot of the hit '90s TV show Hip Hip Hurray is on the cards. Slated to be a digital-only show, it boasts of a fresh cast that includes Shweta Bajpai, Anshuman Malhotra, Rohan...
View ArticleBengaluru Techie Rewarded $15000 By Facebook For Finding A Bug
Bengaluru security analyst Anand Prakash has earned $15000 from the Facebook's bug bounty program for finding a vulnerability. The bug could have threatened a lot of accounts as it was related to the...
View ArticleWhy It's Quite Enough To Be The Woman Of The House
Let me start by telling you a brief version of my own story. My brother and I were brought up by our mother after my parents split up. Since I was eight years old, my relatives would advise me, "You...
View ArticleKalki Koechlin Talks About Feminism, Rape Culture And LGBT Rights In Reddit AMA
Stage and cinema actor by profession and feminist by choice, Kalki Koechlin has never hesitated to use her platform to speak up for women. She has called out victim shaming in the past and penned poems...
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