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Film critic Kamaal Rashid Khan posted a cryptic tweet, saying that he is back for retribution following his release from jail after obtaining bail in the cases against him. In the tweet, KRK wrote, “I am back for my vengeance.” The tweet was made at 08:11 AM on Monday morning.

Listed multiplex majors like PVR and Inox Leisure took a beating in the stock markets on Friday even as the benchmark indices clocked marginal gains. 

"Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal": Studio Xo Bar in Gurgaon cancelled Kunal Kamra’s show after members of Bajrang Dal & VHP protested against the scheduled show, comedian is a repeated offender of insulting Hindu deities

Over the past few days, we have been coming across many comedy shows being canceled every now and then because of their Hinduphobic content. Earlier it was Lock Upp contestant and comedian Munawar Faruqui whose show was called off and now it’s Kunal Kamra. According to the latest media reports, Kamra’s show, which was slated on September 7 at Studio Xo bar Gurgaon, was withdrawn after Bajrang Dal threatened to protest and disrupt the show.

Rahul Gandhi, the eternal Congress candidate for the post of Prime Minister of India, nevertheless multiple electoral defeats, appears to have taken a leaf out of his Pakistani counterpart, Imran Khan’s playbook for his ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’. Gandhi is going to stay in luxury containers for the one hundred fifty days of ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ much like Khan spent his agitation days in containers back in 2014.

On September 5, National Investigation Agency (NIA) struck the workplace of New Bharat Hing Suppliers situated in Nadiad, District Kheda, Gujarat, in association with dubious exchanges worth crores potentially connected with terror funding. This company markets the well-known hing (Asafoetida) brand Krishna Hing. Reportedly, the raid started early morning on Monday and went on for 8 hours, it ended at around 3.30 PM.

Since the last few years, a Twitter trend has been gaining pace — #BoycottBollywood, which seeks a complete audience withdrawal from the Hindi film industry. It takes many shapes and forms, often specifically geared towards an upcoming film, actor, or in one of its latest avatars, #BoycottBollywoodCompletely.

The government of India has announced to change the name of Rajpath and Central Vista lawns into Kartavya Path. The decision is said to shed remnants of the British colony in India. The decision came after a special meeting on September 7, convened with the aim of renaming the Rajpath and Central Vista lawns.  Earlier, the Modi government had changed the name of the road on which the Prime Minister’s residence is, from Race Course Road to Lok Kalyan Marg.

Weeks after Alt news co-founder got out on bail, #ArrestZubair trends again on Twitter. BJP leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Monday said that a police complaint has been filed against Alt News’ Mohammed Zubair for allegedly working in tandem with Pakistan agencies and setting a ‘Khalistan’ narrative against cricketer Arshdeep Singh over India vs Pakistan match.

Bengaluru: How many lakes do you think there are in Bengaluru? One hundred? Five hundred? A thousand?

In the 1940s, the cornered Britishers did their best to sow the seeds of Balkanisation of the soon-to-be Independent India. The British proposal for princely states to decide their own independent political fate could have been proved as a catastrophe for the nation.