Author: Avikshit Khadri

Mumbai police said that the show of Pushpa 2: The Mumbai police said that the three-hour-long movie show was paused for nearly 20 minutes after the interval as some members from the audience complained of health issues. The screening of Allu Arjun-starrer Pushpa 2: The Rule starring Allu Arjun was interrupted at Bandra’s Gaiety-Galaxy theatre in Mumbai on Thursday after an unknown person allegedly sprayed a substance which caused the audience to become ill, the police said. The Mumbai police said that the three-hour-long movie show was paused for nearly 20 minutes after the interval as some members from the audience…

In the early hours of Thursday, a man allegedly driving under the influence rammed his car into police barricades set up for a ‘nakabandi’ on Gokhale Bridge, located on the Western Express Highway in Andheri East. The man, identified as Devpriya Nishank, tried to escape a routine check by hitting the barricades and colliding with three other vehicles in the process. Nishank, 32, was driving a high-end car while inebriated, and his female companion was also intoxicated. Upon seeing the police checkpoint ahead, he attempted to evade the authorities but crashed into the barricades, sparking a chase by police officers…

Fallon Guliwala, 40, the wife of actor Ajaz Khan, was arrested by the customs department in Mumbai on Friday in connection with a drugs case. Customs officials raided her residence in the Jogeshwari area and seized 130 grams of marijuana. The arrest follows an earlier incident on October 8, when a peon working at Khan’s office was detained for allegedly ordering 100 grams of mephedrone from abroad through a courier service. As the investigation progressed, Guliwala’s involvement in the case emerged, leading to her arrest, according to a customs officer. Further investigations into the case are ongoing. The customs department…

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) raided multiple locations tied to Raj Kundra, including his home and office, in a money laundering case linked to the alleged distribution of pornographic content. The searches took place in Mumbai and Uttar Pradesh. Kundra, 49, is being questioned by ED officials. The case originates from two FIRs filed in 2022, accusing him of producing and distributing explicit content through digital platforms. This isn’t Kundra’s first money laundering case. Earlier this year, the ED attached ₹98 crore in assets related to a cryptocurrency case involving him and his wife, Shilpa Shetty, though the Bombay High Court…

A large majority of the parliamentary group of the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) believe that President Ranil Wickremesinghe should run for president, but the party will have to decide on who they will support, an MP said. Speaking to reporters on Wednesday March 06, State Minister Arundika Fernando said the SLPP’s parliamentary group overwhelmingly believes that President Wickremesinghe should be the one to govern the country going forward. “We think at the moment that it is Ranil Wickremesinghe who can govern this country going forward. We will present our proposal to the party. If the party decides there’s…

The Border Security Force on Wednesday said it thwarted a “significant” infiltration attempt by a large group of Bangladeshis along the International Border in West Bengal, amid an ongoing “high alert”, announced due to a turmoil in the neighbouring country. Officials said the personnel of the force stopped about 120-140 Bangladeshi citizens who were attempting to cross over to the Indian side from multiple locations in the eastern state. The force has been on a “high alert” mode since the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government in Dhaka earlier this week. The North Bengal Frontier of the force issued a…

The incident occurred at 8 am on Thursday in Ashoka Shopping Centre on Lokmantya Tilak Marg in Mumbai, where the victim has her office, the official said. A man was arrested for allegedly molesting and attempting to kill a 35-year-old woman lawyer inside the washroom of a shopping centre in south Mumbai, a police official said on Friday. The incident occurred at 8 am on Thursday in Ashoka Shopping Centre on Lokmantya Tilak Marg, where the victim has her office, the official said. “At around 7:30 am, she went to the common toilet at the shopping centre. When she found…

“Many important countries, whether it’s the US, the UK, India, are going in for elections and so, I’m not sure in 2024 the standards will develop,” Sinha said. India is unlikely to bring a crypto or Web3-specific legislative bill anytime soon and perhaps up to mid of 2025, said one of India’s senior politicians, who oversees the financial evolution of the nation. Jayant Sinha, Chair of the Standing Committee on Finance in India’s Parliament and a Minister of Parliament from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was answering a question during a CoinDesk interview at India Blockchain Week in Bengaluru…

The government aims to grow the pharmaceutical industry by about four times to $200 billion by 2030, Arunish Chawla, secretary, department of pharmaceuticals, said on Friday. The sector should be able to achieve the target through the help of industrial academia and production-linked incentives announced for industrial research and development, he said on the sidelines of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) summit. “We are already achieving double-digit growth year on year. We need to sustain the momentum and accelerate further and also adapt to the structural changes that are coming in the industry and the medical technology sector the…

Navi Mumbai Police arrested a beggar who was suspected of attacking a female college student in the Nerul node of the city. Navi Mumbai Police arrested a beggar who was suspected of attacking a female college student in the Nerul node of the city. The police personnel told PTI that the beggar allegedly attacked the student aged 21 with a glass bottle without any prior provocation. This has resulted in the young woman sustaining grievous injuries.  According to the PTI report, the incident occurred on December 4 when the accused, identified as 26-year-old Imam Hassan Shamshuddin allegedly attacked the woman near…