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On July 7, veteran actor Mohammed Yusuf Khan fondly known by his screen name Dilip Kumar passes away at Hinduja Hospital in Khar, Mumbai. As per reports, he was admitted to the hospital on June 30 after complaining of breathlessness. Two brothers of the actor Aslam Khan (88) and Ehsan Khan (90) passed away last year due to complications associated with Covid-19.

People of India were disheartened and disillusioned with the way ‘Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’ aka ‘Mahatma Gandhi’ had accepted partition and allowed it to take place in 1947, combined with riots, destruction and unspeakable amount of bloodbath. But, soon after he was shot at by Nathuram Godse at 5:17 PM in the compound of Birla House in New Delhi on 30 January 1948, he was projected as demigod.

After two issues in a row surfaced, the once-receding ‘India Out’ campaign has started gaining new traction in Maldives, to the embarrassment of President Mohamed Solih, the ruling Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP), and others in the country who wanted further momentum in the bilateral ties between India and Maldives. The ‘Lakshadweep row’, which is considered to be a domestic issue in India, and New Delhi’s premature media alert on the opening of a consulate at Addu City in the sensitive south, have both pushed the targeted bomb-attack on Speaker Mohammed Nasheed out from the limelight.

In May 2020, when the Maldives called out Pakistan's attempt to target India at a virtual meet of the Organisation of Islamic Countries and deafened New Delhi against the allegations of Islamaphobia, Maldivian journalist Ahmed Azaan was visibly upset.

One of the more enduring myths…actually a dense blanket of wool, which over the last century, has invaded the minds of and partially blinded the cultural and civilisational vision of Sanatanis is a hoax called sufism and variants thereof. It has been one of the more lasting successes of the Original Hoax: the Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb. As with such cases, it is the Hindus who have, and who continue to gorge on it like it’s some spiritual version of eating copious kilograms of Haleem.

According to the Enforcement Directorate, the Vadodara-based business family had allegedly manipulated figures in the balance sheets of their flagship companies and induced banks to sanction higher loans.

Unfavourable views of China hover at record-high levels across the countries in the developed world, the latest study conducted by Pew Research study has said.

Controversial Bollywood songwriter Javed Akhtar continues to target three-time national award winner actress Kangana Ranaut and this time, he has filed an intervention application in the Bombay High Court claiming that the actress failed to disclose certain facts while seeking speedy renewal of her passport.

The Calcutta High Court came down heavily on the West Bengal government over the post-poll violence in the state. In the interim order issued today in a bunch of petitions regarding the violence by TMC goons against BJP and other opposition party workers, the court made scathing observations on the role of the Mamata Banerjee government. The 5-judge bench of the High Court noted that even though the administration was in denial mode, the post-poll violence was real.