Satish Kaushik Says Shabana Azmi is Much Better

Filmmaker Satish Kaushik says veteran actress Shabana Azmi, who was injured in a road accident, is doing much better. Kaushik visited Azmi at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital (KDAH) in Andheri on Sunday. “Shabana ji is under strict observation. But she is doing much, much better than yesterday. Prayers for her speedy recovery,” he said. […]

Shabana Azmi injured in a car accident on Mumbai-Pune Expressway

Actor Shabana Azmi suffered several injuries after her car met with an accident on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway on Saturday afternoon.  According to the Khalapur police, the incident occurred around 4 p.m. when Ms. Azmi was heading to Khandala, just before the toll plaza in Khalapur, Raigad. The police said her husband, writer and poet Javed […]

Nirbhaya Case: Feb 1 Hanging Unlikely If Convicts File Curative, Mercy Petition

Additional Sessions Judge Satish Kumar Arora on Friday issued fresh death warrants against the four convicts in the case after being informed by Tihar Jail authorities that the mercy plea of convict Mukesh has been dismissed by India’s president. Public Prosecutor Irfan Ahmed had earlier in the day moved a fresh application seeking issuance of […]

Nirbhaya’s rapist-killers to hang at 7am on January 22: Court

NEW DELHI: An Indian court Tuesday ordered the execution on January 22 of four men convicted of the infamous 2012 gang rape and murder of a Delhi university student who later came to be known as Nirbhaya — the fearless. Six people were originally charged with taking part in the brutal attack aboard a city bus but […]

Had to escape from JNU campus

New Delhi: Shashi Bhushan Samar, a visually challenged student and the face of fee hike protest, on Monday, said that he escaped the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus on Sunday evening during the violence after jumping off the hostel room from the second floor with the help of other students as the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi […]

After Kota, 111 Infant Deaths At Gujarat Hospital In December, last year

Ahmedabad: As many as 111 infants died at a civil hospital in Gujarat’s Rajkot district in December last year, an official said on Sunday. This comes against the backdrop of 100 deaths reported last month at a state-run hospital at Kota in Rajasthan. “As per official records, 111 infants died at Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Hospital […]

Violence in JNU, masked goons attack students

New Delhi:   A masked mob on Sunday entered the Sabarmati Hostel on the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus and assaulted several students and professors with sticks and rods. “I have been brutally attacked by goons wearing masks. I am bleeding. I was brutally beaten up,” JNU Students’ Union (JNUSU) president Aishe Ghosh told reporters. Jawaharlal […]

India citizenship law: 100,0000 attend Hyderabad protest

Hyderabad: Residents of India’s Hyderabad city have joined nationwide protests to reject the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act introduced by goverment Hundreds of thousands of protesters, carrying national flags, black flags and placards, thronged the city’s roads on Saturday. Traffic came to a grinding halt in several parts of Hyderabad as people responded enthusiastically to a […]