Author: NE Reporter

New Delhi: BJP MP and Dalit leader Udit Raj embarrassed his pro-Hindu political party and the anti-beef politicians with a Twitter tweet praising the virtues of eating beef with reference to the Jamican athlete Usain Bolt who won 9 gold medalsat Rio Olympics.

Thiruvananthapuram: Former Finance Minister KM Mani, who is alleged to have received big money as bribe in Kerala’s sensational Liquor Bar Graft case, is in trouble again as the Vigilance court has ordered further probe into the case.

Chennai: South India’s biggest medical seat scam has hit the news with the arrest of T R Pachamuthu, chairman and managing director of SRM Medical College Hospital and Research Centre in Chennai under sections of IPC 406, 420, and 34 on Friday.

New Delhi: Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani said on Wednesday that she was once denied a job at Jet Airways because she lacked a ‘good personality’. She revealed this while speaking at an awards function organised by the Air Passengers Association of India in New Delhi.

Mumbai:In an unprecedented move, the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay has banned nine companies from campus.

New Delhi: Czech automaker Skoda India has recalled 539 units of the D-segment Octavia, for defective child lock system at both the rear doors. The recalled vehicles are manufactured between November 2015 and April 2016.

Bhubaneswar: A tribal man in India’s poorest region Kalahandi in Odisha was forced to walk 10 km carrying the body of his wife on his shoulders along with his 12-year-old daughter just because he had no money for transportation. This is in spite of his repeated appeals he made to the hospital authorities for the free mortuary van service provided by the state government.

Kottayam: Kerala Congress (M) which is cosying upto CPM in its political manoeuvre to save leader K M Mani, has come out openly against CPI, a major partner of the ruling Left Democratic Front in Kerala.

Bengaluru: First, she tarnished the reputation of her country’s Athletics Federation by raising grave allegations against it.. Now, she is all praise for it and put the blame on her long time coach. Malayali athlete O P Jaisha has told the media that she had never alleged that the Athletic Federation of India failed to provide her drinking water to her during the course of her Marathon race at Rio Olympics.

Los Angeles: Hollywood actress Amber Heard has kept her word. She has donated $7 million divorce settlement from actor Johnny Depp to charity.