Over three decades ago, I knocked at the office door of Khalid Ansari’s son Tarique Ansari (Tarique Bhai) in Mumbai. Then Khalid Ansari Sahab was too big for a young Bihari boy like me in a big, strange city desperately looking for a writing job to get an audience. A friend of Tarique wrote him a letter recommending me to him to give a reporter’s job in Mid Day, then a hugely popular English morninger in Mumbai. Tarique whom I began calling Tarique Bhai later gave a look at the letter, telling me his office would get back to me.…
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Prince Harry has sued News Group Newspapers over accusations of unlawful activitiesLondon: Rupert Murdoch”s British tabloid papers bugged Prince Harry’s landline phones and accessed the messages on the pager of his late mother Princess Diana, the British royal’s legal team told London’s High Court on Thursday.Harry, the younger son of King Charles and the late Princess Diana, and more than 40 others are suing News Group Newspapers (NGN) over accusations of unlawful activities by journalists and private investigators on its tabloids, the Sun and the now-defunct News of the World, from the mid-1990s until 2016.In a ruling last July, Judge…
Hyderabad: Telangana chief minister and TPCC chief A Revanth Reddy stated that the Congress party’s success in Malkajgiri Lok Sabha seat is key to development in the constituency. Addressing the party’s key leaders in Malkajgiri at Gandhi Bhavan on Thursday, March 21, he asked them to work seriously towards the party’s success. He recalled his stint as the constituency’s MP between 2019-2023 and said that his win from here led to his chief ministership later. “Former chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao’s downfall began from here. Even though some leaders (Congress) sold themselves out, people sent me to the Parliament. Congress…
New Delhi: The missing piece of Electoral Bonds jigsaw — unique numbers that can match donors with political parties their contribution went to — is out. Lists supplied by the State Bank of India earlier today have been published by the Election Commission, in keeping with the Supreme Court order on the matter.The bank had earlier given two lists to the Commission, which were released on the poll panel”s website on March 14. They contained information on donors, the bonds purchased and their dates, political parties and the bonds they encashed.What was missing were the hidden alphanumeric codes on bonds…
Poco C61 may launch in India soon. Details about the purported handset, including design renders, key features, RAM and storage variants, as well as the expected price have surfaced online. The phone has been tipped to be a rebranded version of the Redmi A3, which was unveiled in India in February this year. The phone may, therefore, share similar specifications as the Redmi model. The rumoured smartphone is expected to succeed the Poco C51 that was introduced in the country in April 2023.Leaked renders of the Poco C61 were shared in an Appuals report. The handset is seen in black, blue,…
New Delhi: University Grants Commission (UGC) has released a list of Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) that have been recognised to offer Open and Distance Learning (ODL) Programmes. Candidates willing to take admission in online and distance learning courses can visit the official website of the UGC to check the list of colleges and the courses offered. The university body has released a total of 80 universities that are offering courses in online and distance learning mode. The last date for admission in ODL and online programmes for academic session February, 2024 academic session is March 31, 2024. While the deadline to upload…
New Delhi: Voicing serious concern over the conduct of Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi for his refusal to reinduct senior DMK leader K Ponmudi as a minister in the state cabinet, the Supreme Court on Thursday, March 21, directed him to decide the issue within 24 hours. It said Ravi was defying the Supreme Court. The governor has refused to re-induct Ponmudi, whose conviction and a three- year sentence in a disproportionate assets case the apex court stayed recently, despite Chief Minister M K Stalin’s recommendation. Also ReadGovernor’s refusal to appoint Ponmudi as minister: SC to consider Tamil Nadu’s plea A three-judge bench…
Image was shared by Ananya Panday. (courtesy: ananyapanday)New Delhi: Ananya Panday cannot contain her happiness as her cousin Alanna is all set to welcome a baby. On Thursday, model Alanna Panday and her husband Ivor McCray, hosted a baby shower in Mumbai. At the baby shower, Alanna”s cousin and Bollywood star Ananya Panday was spotted of course. Ananya Panday also shared a picture from the event on her Instagram in which she can be seen posing with her cousins – mom-to-be Alanna and Aaliya Washere. In the picture posted, Ananya can be spotted posing cutely in a lovely white printed…
Gauahar Khan shared this image. (courtesy: GauaharKhan)New Delhi: Gauahar Khan and Zaid Darbar revealed their son Zehaan”s face from Mecca where they went to perform Umrah (an Islamic pilgrimage). Gauahar Khan and Zaid Darbar shared a collab post in which they can be seen holding their son together. They shared a video of the child in which he can be seen smiling for the cameras. Sharing the picture, the couple wrote in the caption, “Just wanted to give our little prince’ first Salaam to the world from the house of the Almighty! May he be pleased with our SonShine! Ameen.…
New Delhi: An Enforcement Directorate (ED) team reached Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence here Thursday evening, officials said, shortly after the high court refused to grant him protection from coercive action in an excise policy-linked money laundering case. They said the agency officials went to Kejriwal’s residence to serve him a summons in the case. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief had earlier skipped multiple summonses of the agency in the case. Earlier in the day, a bench of Justices Suresh Kumar Kait and Manoj Jain of the Delhi High Court refused to grant Kejriwal any protection from coercive…