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Newsroom, Nov 2: Actress Aahana Kumra too has joined #MeToo bandwagon and accused filmmaker Sajid Khan of asking her objectionable question at his house on the pretext of meeting for work. In an interview with a newspaper, the ‘Lipstick Under My Burkha’ actress said, “I had a meeting with Sajid Khan about a year ago, knowing the fact that he is a shady guy. I met him and he did the same thing that

Nov 2: WhatsApp Wednesday said it will display advertisements in its ‘Status’ section to monetise the popular messaging platform that has about 1.5 billion users globally. “…around monetisation plans for WhatsApp, we already announced that we are going to be putting ads in ‘Status’. So that is going to be a primary monetisation mode for the company as well as an opportunity for businesses to reach

Bengaluru, Nov 2: Karnataka Congress MLA and former minister Roshan Baig Thursday asked if a Ram temple was not constructed in India, "will it be built in Pakistan" and said Muslims respected the sentiments of their "Hindu brothers". Hitting out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for alleged attempts to bring an ordinance on the Ram temple issue, Baig questioned as to what the saffron party-led

Bengaluru, Nov 2: Karnataka Congress MLA and former minister Roshan Baig Thursday asked if a Ram temple was not constructed in India, "will it be built in Pakistan" and said Muslims respected the sentiments of their "Hindu brothers". Hitting out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for alleged attempts to bring an ordinance on the Ram temple issue, Baig questioned as to what the saffron party-led

New Delhi, Nov 2: The Centre on Thursday told the Delhi High Court that it has made changes in the Hajj policy and allowed disabled persons to also perform the annual pilgrimage. Central government standing counsel Ajay Digpaul told a Bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice I.S. Mehta that only persons with serious illnesses such as cancer or tuberculosis are barred from the pilgrimage

Jammu, Nov 2: A senior BJP leader and his brother were shot dead by militants in the communally-sensitive Kishtwar district Thursday night, prompting the Jammu and Kashmir administration to impose curfew and call out the Army as people staged angry protests and started manhandling senior police personnel, officials said today. BJP state secretary Anil Parihar, 52, and his brother Ajeet, 55, were

New Delhi, Nov 1: Opposition parties would work together to defeat the extremely corrupt BJP, said Congress president Rahul Gandhi on November 1 in the presence of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu. The parties would work to ensure an end to the ''attack on democratic institutions'', Mr. Gandhi said after a meeting with Mr. Naidu, who is trying

Kolkata, Nov 1: More than 100 passengers were stranded at Kolkata airport early on Thursday after a water tanker hit a Qatar Airways aircraft, which was preparing to take off for Doha. Around 2.30am, when passengers were boarding the plane, a water tanker hit the belly of the Doha-bound flight, near the landing gear, an official of Airports Authority of India (AAI) said. The plane was immediately

Lucknown, Nov 1: Two salesmen were killed and two others seriously injured, when some students opened fire at them allegedly for refusing to give discounts on their purchases at a shopping mall in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi town on Wednesday. According to police sources, three students of Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith University, had an altercation with the salesmen at a garment showroom in the

Istanbul, Nov 1: Saudi Arabia's public prosecutor held a second round of talks with Turkish officials on Tuesday and visited the Saudi consulate in Istanbul where journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed four weeks ago. Khashoggi's killing has escalated into a crisis for the world's top oil exporter, which initially denied any knowledge of or role in his disappearance. Prosecutor Saud Al Mojeb