Shorts Archive

Saregama Music released its latest music video on Wednesday, titled Madhuban, which features Sunny Leone in the party number sung by Kanika Kapoor and Arindam Chakraborty. The song is based on the song ‘Madhuban mein Radhika naache’ by Mohammad Rafi in the 1960 movie Kohinoor, and as usual, people are not happy with the remix of an iconic song.

The Supreme Court of Pakistan has heavily criticized the military establishment for misusing land for commercial activities. The land in question was meant for defence purposes, but Pakistan’s military built a shopping mall instead. The Falcon Mall, which came under the radar after the Supreme Court started hearing a case related to misuse of land in 2016, has been reportedly transformed into Air War College Institute.

Union Minister for Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia on Wednesday slammed CPIM MP S Venkatesan who appeared to be stirring up the north-south divide in airports in India. The CPIM MP from Tamil Nadu on Wednesday claimed that Scindia had said that the demand for airport in Madurai in Tamil Nadu was not justified since north Indian states have only one international airport.

For years now, the New York Times has been accused of being brazenly Hinduphobic and anti-Modi in the content that is published on its website. These dubious credentials were reaffirmed when few months back they published an entry-level job requirement on their website and LinkedIn.

Pakistan PM Imran Khan has expressed regret over his country’s decision to support the United States-led ‘war on terror’ in Afghanistan, adding that Pakistan joined the war only for ‘dollars’ and not in “public interest”.

A Reuters report states that the United Nations is proposing to pay USD 6 million for ‘protection’ in Afghanistan to the Islamist group Taliban-led government. The fund will be given to Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry personnel. Afghanistan’s Interior Minister is Sirajuddin Haqqani who is currently under U.N. and U.S. sanctions and also wanted by the FBI. The United States has offered a bounty of USD 10 million for information leading to his arrest.

The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has ordered an inquiry into MLAs and relatives of bureaucrats and revenue officials having purchased land parcels in Ayodhya following the November 9, 2019, Supreme Court verdict clearing construction of a Ram temple.

Billionaire entrepreneur and Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently appeared in a freewheeling interview on the satire website Babylon Bee where he spoke on a range of issues, including being on CNN, Elizabeth Warren, Tesla, taxing the rich, and many others.

On December 21, in a press release, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, announced that they had blocked two websites and twenty YouTube channels in a bid to dismantle Pakistan’s coordinated disinformation operation against India. Two separate orders were issued by the ministry, one to block the two websites and the second to block the twenty YouTube channels on Monday, December 20.

Special Forces of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in the Gushta district of eastern Nangarhar province destroyed the barbed wire erected by Pakistani forces on Durand Line.