JUNE 2, 2022
The historical epic 'Samrat Prithviraj', which stars Akshay Kumar in the titular role, has been banned in Kuwait and Oman.
The Akshay-starrer narrates the life story of legendary warrior king Prithviraj Chauhan.
The news of the film getting banned in Oman and Kuwait was shared by trade analyst Girish Johar.
In a development, Govt of Kuwait & Oman have banned...
JUNE 2, 2022
A 24-year-old Vadodara woman, Kshama Bindu, on Thursday (June 2) announced that she would marry herself later this month, in what she described as an “act of self-love”. The wedding, being seen as one of the first instances of self-marriage or "sologamy" in the country, is slated for June 11.
What is sologamy?
Sologamy is the act of marrying...
JUNE 2, 2022
NAGPUR: Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Thursday called for a "path through mutual agreement" amid the ongoing controversy over the videography survey of the Gyanvapi mosque in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi.
Addressing an event in Nagpur, the RSS chief said, "We had special devotion towards some places and we spoke about them but we shouldn't bring...
JUNE 2, 2022
NEW DELHI: The Associated Journals Ltd, publisher of the National Herald newspaper, had become almost defunct by 2008 when its owners, Congress party, decided to cease the printing and publishing business and started exploring commercial options by renting out AJL’s properties situated at prime locations in Delhi, Mumbai, Panchkula, Lucknow and Patna.
These properties were acquired over the...
JUNE 1, 2022
When he travels abroad to speak at an international forum, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi paints a picture of India as a failed democracy, riven by caste and communal violence. Media freedom in India is under existential threat, he claims. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the embodiment of corruption. The governance of institutions has sunk to an abysmal...
JUNE 1, 2022
Interstellar travel has been the dream of humankind ever since some distant ape-person looked up at the stars and wondered if there was any way off this rock. The idea of being to sustainably travel off-planet and between solar systems has been a constant in science fiction, whether as the core conceit (as in the 1997 movie...
JUNE 1, 2022
A submarine leads warships in formation during RIMPAC 2020. Navy Photo / Times of San Diego
Ships, submarines and aircraft from the United States and 38 allied nations will gather in the Pacific Ocean off Southern California and Hawaii this month for the world’s largest naval exercise, the Navy announced Tuesday.
The biennial Rim of the Pacific Exercise —...
JUNE 1, 2022
Tesla’s white collar staff face a stark choice: return to the office like their colleagues on the assembly line, without exception—or start cleaning out their desks.
In a leaked email from Elon Musk sent on Tuesday entitled “Remote work is no longer acceptable”, the polarizing centibillionaire said only in extreme cases where this was deemed impossible would he...
JUNE 1, 2022
Sufism has often been described as the opposite of Wahhabism. While Islamic empires were created and expanded through brute force, Sufism is said to have spread Islam through love and peace. However, many historical accounts say that the Sufis ventured into only those territories where Islamic power was already established. It means that the spread of Islam...
JUNE 1, 2022
As per a researcher, there are four extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way that could attack planet earth. Alberto Caballero, a PhD student at the University of Vigo in Spain said that he pinpointed the exact source of the “WoW Signal”, which was detected in 1977, reported Vice News. His research is considered to be more of...
