A newly married man in Uttar Pradesh, India, allegedly fled with a substantial dowry after deceiving the bride's family by posing as an IAS officer. Police are investigating the incident as a potential serial scam.
'Does 99 percent guarantee character and capacity for an independent awareness of life or does it make you -- barring exceptions -- a compliant careerist beholden to governments and corporations?' 'What kind of political and social choices would such minds make?' asks Shyam G Menon.
Within his short lifespan of 63 years, Raj Kapoor left behind an incredible cinematic legacy. Dinesh Raheja continues celebrating Raj Kapoor's birth centenary by looking at seven sequences from his films that have defined Hindi cinema.
In the last three years, the Union Territory administration has invoked 311 (2)(c) of the Constitution to sack more than 50 employees, who were allegedly operating in shadows within the government and drawing a salary from the public exchequer, however, they were helping Pakistani terror outfits, providing logistics to terrorists, propagating terrorists' ideology, raising terror finances and furthering secessionist agenda, officials said.
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Sukanya Verma gives us a lowdown on all those wonderful movies she saw and movies you need to see as and when they arrive to a screen or streaming space near you.
Dangerous messaging punctuates every ounce of its storyline wherein dowry is normalised, the kidney is a small price to pay for it, observes Sukanya Verma.
A 90-year-old Saudi man's marriage to a 15-year-old girl in exchange for a fat dowry has sparked widespread condemnation from human rights and social media activists in the kingdom. The travails of the girl have evoked widespread condemnation from the people, who used Twitter to criticise the parents of the girl for giving her out to a man decades older than her.
Sukanya Verma hails Bollywood's memorable bus moments.
'As a remake of Sairat, Dhadak is a travesty.' 'As a standalone, Dhadak is standard Bollywood boy-meets-girl drivel.' As a showcase, Dhadak is a promise that will take some more effort to fully fulfil,' says Sukanya Verma.
Intelligence agencies probing Sunday's serial blasts in Patna believe that with the arrest of Yasin Bhatkal in August, Tehsin Akthar from Bihar is the new leader of the terrorist organisation, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
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