Monthly Archives: November, 2019

Amidst a lot that happened in the country after the historic August 05 decision of the Centre, it was reported that the political prisoner of Kashmir was transferred to the MLA hotel in Srinagar. They were previously located in the Centaur hotel, on the banks of Dal Lake. The news only surfaced on November 17, 2019. The daughter of the PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti, Iltija alleged that the detainees were ‘manhandles’ and ‘humiliated’ as per a report of The Wire. Iltija has been operating the twitter account of her mother Mehbooba Mufti since her mother was detained and put in house arrest.

JNU students have been protesting against changes in hostel manuals for the last three weeks Students room rent increased from Rs 10 to Rs 300 and the mess security fees was increased to Rs. 12 thousand.

Bharti Airtel, one of the biggest telecom operators, has withdrawn his bid to purchase the assets of Reliance Communications. They alleged the act of the Committee of Creditors as biased and Unfair, i.e., their act of extending the time limit of submitting the bid. CoC extended the time limit by ten days for submitting the bid on the request made by Reliance Jio.  Harjeet Kohli, who is the finance director of Bharti Airtel wrote a letter to the resolution professional and without naming Reliance Jio said that the committee of creditors rejected their request to extend the time for submitting the bid for Reliance communication. Still, surprisingly the dates have now been extended to accommodate a bidder.

After the Supreme Court judgement which widened the definition of Adjusted Gross Revenue, Vodafone Idea has to pay an approximate amount of Rs 40,000 crores to the government. This amount includes spectrum usage charges, past license fees and interest and penalties on the due amount. This amount came as an extra burden to the telecom company which was already under a debt of Rs 1.02 crore by September end this year.  The top managers of Vodafone Idea have informed their lenders that if the government does not provide them an urgent relief on the amount of debt, they will not be able to make a timely repayment to the lenders. Apart from expecting support from the government, Vodafone Idea Managing director has said that, the telecom company is looking forward to sell their data centers and optic fiber network for raising funds.

In the race of becoming perfect and better than others, people tend to forget the inner talent within them. In the world of cut-throat competition, where everyone is struggling to survive and reach the optimum, people always try to find a way to take a from their busy life schedule Where to find inner peace and happiness? Some choose work-out, some go for an extended weekend at their favourite destination, many of them go out with family and friends while some explore their passion and their long-forgotten talent.

Nawazuddin Siddiqui aka Ganesh Gaitonde is one of the finest actors Bollywood has ever got. He is one of the actors who will give their 100% to the characters they are playing onscreen. He makes sure that he adds a touch of him in his characters and makes them larger than live onscreen for the audience. He made into the industry with Gangs of Wasseypur series directed by Anurag Kashyap. Later, Nawazuddin Siddiqui moved onto various performance-oriented films like The Lunchbox, Badlapur, Raman Raghav 2.0, Haraamkhor, etc.

Believe it or not, the existence of the opposition party is as important as the existing government. It helps in keeping the things on track by keeping an eagle’s eye on the working of the existing government. Any decision announced and a vigorous attack like an arrow waiting to be eagerly shot is thrown at the target making people aware of the ill-effects of the decision taken and trying to make people realize their wrong decision of voting the existing government. The attack also forces the government to maintain transparency with the people as the opposition party will use the hidden information as a weapon against them. But to do this, a strong and experienced party is required and in India, who else can do this task better than the Congress leaders.

Earlier this year, actor Rahul Bose made into the headlines for posting a video that stated that JW Marriot, Chandigarh charged Rs. 442 for two bananas that he ordered post-workout.

In Telangana, the police have charged N. Venugopal, a renowned journalist and the editor of a Telugu monthly journal Veekshanam, falsely implicating him under charges of the Telangana Public Security Act and other draconian laws. In the matter, though FIR has been registered, Venugopal has not been arrested. As per the contents of the FIR, he is the seventh accused in a case of a big Maoist conspiracy against the state.

Jaypee Infratech in the year 2017 went into the Insolvency Process after their lenders, i.e., an IDBI Bank-led consortium moved to NCLT against the debt-ridden corporate debtor. As per the application, Jaypee owns an amount of approximately Rs 10,000 crores to the bankers. Round 1 of the Insolvency proceeding to revive Jaypee was initiated last year, wherein Lakshdeep made a bid of Rs 7,350 crore which was rejected by the lenders of Jaypee (corporate debtor). Further, in October last year, the Insolvency Resolution professional started the 2nd round of bidding as per the direction of NCLT to revive Japyee