The official Twitter account of Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi was hacked this evening and multiple abusive tweets were posted on it. Eight tweets were posted in quick succession around 8:30 pm. One of the hacked posts read “My family is a bunch of corrupt….(expletives) retarded… (expletives)”. The tweets were deleted in about an hour, but new ones came up […]
» Read moreLawmakers in the lower house of the Dutch parliament on Tuesday approved a limited ban on “face-covering clothing” including Islamic veils and robes such as the burqa and niqab. The legislation, approved by a large majority in the 150-seat lower house, must now be approved by the upper house of parliament before it can be signed into law. In a […]
» Read moreThree army officers were killed and a junior commissioned officer was critically injured today when a Cheetah helicopter crashed at Sukna Military Camp in West Bengal. Army officials said the chopper crashed at around 11:45 AM when it was returning to the camp’s helipad at Sukna, near Silgirui, from a routine mission. While three officers died on the spot, a […]
» Read moreActor and Lok Sabha MP from North-East Delhi Manoj Tiwari was appointed the president of the BJP’s Delhi unit, replacing Satish Upadhyay.
» Read moreSeven-year-old Hashim Mansoor from Kashmir’s Bandipora district has won a gold medal at the Asian Youth Karate Championships, being held at New Delhi. He clinched the gold in the sub-junior category (below 25kg) after defeating his Sri Lankan opponent in the final. “I am very happy to win this medal. I had been practising for this since last one year, […]
» Read moreSeven soldiers, including two officers, and six militants were killed in twin pre-dawn attacks launched by fresh infiltrators near Jammu on Tuesday, coinciding with the takeover of General Qamar Javed Bajwa as new Pakistan Army chief across the border. A group of militants launched a fidayeen (suicide) attack on the White Knight Corps of northern command’s strategic 16 Corps — […]
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