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The Delhi High Court on Saturday issued notice to Sunita Kejriwal, wife of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, and social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube, to delete posts and/or reposts, of a video of the AAP leader addressing the court on March 28. The ruling came after a plea seeking action for violating video conferencing rules; this was back when Mr Kejriwal was in police custody following his arrest in the alleged liquor policy scam. Original Source
The Netflix film Maharaj, which marks the acting debut of Aamir Khan’s son Junaid Khan, has landed in a controversy. Ahead of the film’s release on Friday, hashtags like “Ban Netflix” and “Ban Maharaj” have started making rounds on X (formerly Twitter). A section of users called for a ban claiming that the upcoming period drama hurts religious sentiments. On Thursday, a day before the film was supposed to premiere, the Gujarat High Court restrained Netflix from releasing it. The court also issues notices to the Centre, Netflix and Yash Raj Films, producers of the film. The next hearing is on…
The Gujarat High Court has temporarily halted the release of ‘Maharaj’, a Netflix film starring Aamir Khan’s son Junaid Khan. The film, directed by Siddharth P Malhotra and produced by Aditya Chopra under YRF Entertainment, was set to release on Friday, June 14. The decision came after a petition filed by members of the Vaishnavite Pustimargi sect, citing concerns over potential discord and misrepresentation of religious beliefs in the film. Context: The Maharaj Libel Case of 1862 ‘Maharaj’ is based on the historic Maharaj libel case of 1862. A significant legal battle in India’s history, the case challenged religious authority…
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India or TRAI has said that the claims of charging customers for holding multiple SIM cards or numbering resources are completely false and baseless and serve only to mislead the public. The Department of Telecommunications (DoT), being the sole custodian of telecommunication identifiers (TI) resources, had approached the TRAI through its reference dated September 29, 2022, seeking its recommendations on the revised National Numbering Plan for undertaking efficient management and judicious utilisation of numbering resources in the country. Accordingly, this Consultation Paper (CP) of TRAI on the revision of the National Numbering Plan (NNP) was…
Alakh Pandey, founder of the prominent EdTech firm Physics Wallah, has petitioned the Supreme Court to address the issues surrounding the NEET-UG 2024 examination. This national-level entrance test, conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) and crucial for admissions into MBBS and other medical courses, has been embroiled in controversy over alleged irregularities. Mr Pandey’s petition claims the alleged arbitrary awarding of grace marks to over 1,500 candidates by the NTA. He has requested the Supreme Court to establish an expert panel to scrutinise the examination process and its results. The NEET-UG 2024, held on May 5 across 4,750 centres,…
US First Lady Jill Biden claimed President Joe Biden’s age was an asset during a visit to Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Thursday. In her speech on the ‘Seniors for Biden’ campaign tour, Jill Biden said that the election “isn’t about age,” noting that President Biden is 81 and Donald Trump is 78, making them “essentially the same age”, CNN reported. Donald Trump has made Joe Biden’s advancing age one of his main campaign rallying points, trying to position himself as an energetic alternative to the sometimes unsteady 81-year-old Democratic incumbent. Jill Biden described the president as a “healthy, wise 81-year-old…
A selfie of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni on the sidelines of the G7 summit has gone viral on social media. The picture, taken on Friday by Ms Meloni on the sidelines of the summit that is being held in Italy’s Apulia, showed the two leaders smiling. View this post on Instagram A post shared by NDTV (@ndtv) Even last year, the selfie of the two leaders on the sidelines of the COP28 climate summit in Dubai was widely shared on the internet. “Good friends at COP28. #Melodi,” Ms Meloni had captioned the post. Good…
The Modi 3.0 Cabinet has been sworn in and it is business as usual for the Prime Minister, who is currently in Italy for the G-7 summit. But many layers of the 2024 election mandate are still unravelling. While the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won 293 seats, the Congress-led INDIA bloc bagged 232 in an unexpectedly tight election this time. The BJP was reduced to 240 seats from 303 in 2019, and the Congress almost doubled its tally from 52 to 99. The 2024 Math In 2019, the BJP had won 175 of the 190 direct…
Pakistan’s T20 World Cup 2024 campaign came to a heartbreaking end on Friday after USA qualified into the Super 8s stage in their maiden appearance. Babar Azam and co, who have got two points from three matches, were hoping for Ireland’s victory over USA in their previous Group A match. However, the fate had other plans in store as the match between USA and Ireland got washed out due to heavy rain in Florida, resulting in co-hosts getting qualified for the Super 8s with five points. As Pakistan have only one game left in the Group stage, so the maximum…
Political strategist turned activist-politician Prashant Kishor on Friday charged Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar with having “touched the feet” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ensure his own continuance in power. Prashant Kishor, who has been running the ‘Jan Suraaj’ campaign, was addressing a public meeting in Bhagalpur. “People ask me why I am now criticising Nitish Kumar, having worked with him in the past. He was a different man back then. His conscience had not been put up for sale,” claimed Mr Kishor, who had managed the JD(U) president’s election campaign in 2015 and formally joined the party two…