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Actress Priyanka Chopra was last seen playing a law-abiding cop in Prakash Jha's Jai Gangaajal, but it seems that her own brother Siddharth Chopra is walking on the wrong side of the law. We have learned that Siddharth, who owns a restaurant in Pune named Mugshot Lounge, has been booked along with the hotel manager Prakash Tulcharam Choudhary (24), under sections of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition Of advertisement And Regulation Of Trade And Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003 for illegally serving hookah with tobacco mixed products at his restaurant. Acting on a tip-off, officials from the Pune Crime Branch raided the spot on Wednesday night and seized tobacco mixed products worth Rs. 26,000 that were served with hookah. Wonder what Priyanka Chopra has to say about this now !

Facebook  Inc said on Thursday it had completed a successful test flight of a solar-powered drone that it hopes will help it extend internet connectivity to every corner of the planet.  Aquila, Facebook's lightweight, high-altitude aircraft, flew at a few thousand feet for 96 minutes in Yuma, Arizona, Chief Executive  Mark Zuckerberg  wrote in a post on his Facebook page. The company ultimately hopes to have a fleet of Aquilas that can fly for at least three months at a time at 60,000 feet (18,290 meters) and communicate with each other to deliver internet access.  Google parent Alphabet Inc has also poured money into delivering internet access to underserved areas through Project Loon, which aims to use a network of high-altitude balloons to made the internet available to remote parts of the world.  Yael Maguire, Facebook's engineering director and head of its Connectivity Lab, said in an interview that the company initially hoped Aquila would fly for 30 minutes.  "We

Zakir Naik's now-infamous Peace  TV  has its offices in Dubai, Saudi Arabia, the USA and the UK, but none in India. Officially speaking. However, India - more specifically, the tiny area of Dongri in South Mumbai - is actually where Naik's videos are made. A bit of background: Naik's 'provocative'  Peace TV speeches and videos are said to have inspired some of the Bangladeshi terrorists, who killed 22 people, mostly foreigners, in the month of Ramzan at an upscale restaurant in Dhaka on 1 July. For the past 11 years,  Peace TV  videos have been produced - if not made - in Dongri. The residents of the crowded Dongri area are predominantly members of the Muslim community. The production company that produces the videos is called Harmony Media Pvt Ltd and it is a medium-scale video and television production company that produces religious and educational videos to be telecast across various channels. Harmony Media came into existence in 2005. However, speaking wi

An app launched last month by the French government to alert users to attacks failed to flash a warning until more than three hours after a truck rammed into crowds in the Riviera city of Nice on Bastille day, the interior ministry said. The app, called SAIP, was launched by the interior ministry just before the Euro 2016 soccer championship and was supposed to flash a warning on a user's mobile phone screen if there was an attack close to their location or suspicion of an imminent strike. The app did not send its first notification until 0134 am local time (2334 GMT), more than three hours after the 31-year Tunisian drove down the Promenade des Anglais seaside boulevard, killing 84 people and injuring scores more. "Information related to the attack in Nice on July 14 was sent out much too late by the SAIP app," the interior ministry said in a statement, adding that the app's designers had been summoned to a crisis meeting on Friday afternoon. "An a

A woman in Delhi has alleged on Facebook that an Ola cab driver secretly filmed her on his mobile phone, something which brings back horrific memories of other cases of sexual harassment or assault in cabs owned by taxi aggressors. Priyanka Gusain in her Facebook post said that while she was travelling to Chanakyapuri in an Ola cab, she sensed something strange about the cab driver Abhilash Singh. Later, she noticed a phone which the driver had in his hand at an angle which allowed him to film her in the cab. She then asked the driver to pull over, after which she confiscated his phone and found out that the driver had been indeed filming her in the cab. "There it was, a video of me, all of me. My every gesture, movement, each word uttered was recorded on his phone. Never in my life did I ever feel this violated. Imagine, had I not known, some random stranger would have been walking around with a video of me in his phone, in his pocket, meant to be shared or something,

Photo: Google Images It happens only when superstar Rajinikanth has a film release. Several companies in Chennai and Bengaluru have declared holidays on July 22, the day ‘thalaiva’s’ Kabali is releasing. This, after news started trickling in early Monday that employees from various companies were planning to go on mass sick leave (or simply switch off their phones) to catch the first day first show of their favourite star’s film. Companies that have issued notices to that effect include Bangalore-based Opus Waterproofing and Chennai-based Fyndus India Pvt Ltd. Some have even volunteered to provide free tickets in a bid to contain piracy. Speaking to HT, Manoj Pushparaj of Opus Waterproofing said, “This was an internal company circulation which was sent out on Sunday. I could feel the eagerness in my employees, so instead of dealing with mass bunks and mobile switch offs, I came up with the idea of declaring a holiday on July 22 and be a part of the celebration. It would als

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi is unlikely to apologise for his defamatory remarks against the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, sources said on Tuesday. Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court wrapped up the Gandhi scion for his remarks asking him to either apologise or face trial in the case. "If you won't apologise, you will have to face trial," the court said pulling up the Congress leader for his remarks. "We have held it may be historically correct but the factor the statement has to meet the test of a public good. You can't make collective denunciation," a Bench comprising Justices Dipak Misra and RF Nariman said. The Bench said that "freedom is not crippled or curbed. What is curbed is freedom of speech. What the writers, politicians, critics or antagonists say, you must have the great magnitude to swallow". The bench questioned the speech made by Rahul and wondered "why he made a speech quoting wrong historical fact"

Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra, who is currently busy shooting for the second season of the American TV show  Quantico , could not believe on how similar she and her "doppelganger" Navpreet Banga look. Navpreet Banga, a Canada based fitness vlogger, looks the spitting image of the  Mary Kom star and Priyanka said that she showed her picture to her mother. Also Read:   Meet Navpreet Banga, the girl who looks exactly like Priyanka Chopra Showed this ​to mom & almost fooled her hahaha! @navpreetbanga ,this is uncanny​ but #MomKnowsBest ​ #Doppelganger https://t.co/B5NuVBZYLH — PRIYANKA (@priyankachopra) July 14, 2016 On the work front, Priyanka will soon be seen in the upcoming international film  Baywatch , where she is playing a negative character named Victoria Leeds. This will be the first time Priyanka will be seen sharing screen space with global names like Zac Efron and Dwayne Johnson.  

Raghu Reddy , senior director at Snapdeal, who headed the mobile and tablet business, has been appointed as  Xiaomi India 's head of online sales.  The information was shared by Xiaomi India head Manu Jain, who tweeted about Reddy joining the company last week.  Reddy has spent about four years in New Delhi-based Snapdeal, prior to which he was with leading consultancy firm Ernst and Young. 

Sikh groups form panels to stop Sardar jokes. SIKH ORGANISATIONS have set up committees comprising former Supreme Court judges to suggest guidelines on enforcing a ban on jokes on Sikhs. Former Supreme Court judges H S Bedi and M Y Eqbal are members of the committee constituted by the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) to formulate measures on how to stop such jokes, which, according to a PIL, are a violation of their right to equality and an attack on the dignity of the Sikh community. Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) too has set up a panel, headed by retired Punjab and Haryana High Court judge K S Grewal, to recommend guidelines on how to stop Sardar jokes and for issuance of appropriate directions to the central and state governments to make the ban enforceable. On Tuesday, a bench led by CJI T S Thakur was informed about the committees constituted by the Sikh bodies. Senior lawyer R S Suri, representing the DSGMC, told the bench that the c

In three days, 19-year-old Yogesh Kumar has to make up his mind on either forsaking the opportunity of getting a job with the CRPF or to convert to Islam. He is a Hindu but people from his caste, according to a quirky government order, are Muslim. “I belong to the Rana caste, which was considered part of the Dholi community under the other backward class category till 2013. There are Hindus as well as Muslims in my caste,” Kumar said. “But the ministry of social justice decided that members of my caste had converted to Islam from Hinduism in the Mughal era and, so, people from my caste are marked as Muslims after 2013.” Besides the Rana caste, anybody from Nagarchi-Damami, and Baiti (Barot) castes are also considered Muslim. “In observations made by the OBC commission in 2013, it was decided that those who are Hindu and also from these three castes will come under the scheduled caste category, but no circular has been issued till date in this regard,” said Kumar, who is ori

Can a phenomenon be eliminated by force? No. That is what the experts feel about televangelist preacher Zakir Naik, who has virtually achieved a phenomenal status. According to them, by controlling law and order and using the state machinery, the popularity gained by Naik can't be erased. As per the confession of one of the militants involved in the Dhaka terror attack, the Mumbai-based Muslim preacher Naik, through his narratives on Islam, motivated him into terrorism Counter-terrorism analysts believe in the need for a counter-narrative based on perception management, to eliminate the growing influence of Naik and his ilk on young minds.Way ba ck in the nineties, stock market broker Harshad Mehta, who was known as the 'Big Bull', became a phenomenon for that generation. But once his stock manipulations and financial crimes became public knowledge, a negative perception got created against him. The phenomenon, thus, got shattered. The key is to use perception

A local panchayat in the Muzaffarpur district of north Bihar ordered a 60-year-old widow and her lover, a 32-year-old pan shop owner, to get married after the unusual couple was caught in a “compromising” position. Sushil Kumar, 32, and Sushila, 60, entered into a village panchayat-sanctioned wedlock to give legal sanction to what had been a long clandestine relationship between the two neighbours. Confirming the incident, Hattha mukhiya (village head) Sunita Kumari said the lovers were not ready to part ways despite social pressure. “They were caught in an objectionable position. So, the panchayat ordered their wedding by their mutual consent,” She said. The wedding took place on Saturday evening at their native Hattha village in Bandra block of Muzaffarpur, about 85 kilometres north of state capital, Patna. Representatives of the local village panchayat stood witness to the event. Sushil, already married and father of two children, owns a betel shop. Sushila, a widow, s

Al-Qaida's media arm has released an audio in which the purported son of the late al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden threatens revenge against the US for assassinating his father. In the video released by As-Sahab yesterday, Hamza bin Laden tells Americans that they are accountable for the decisions of their leaders. He says al-Qaida will continue waging jihad, or holy war, against the US in response to its "oppression" of Muslims. "If you think that your sinful crime that you committed in Abbottabad has passed without punishment, then you thought wrong," he says. Bin Laden was killed in a May 2011 US raid at his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. His son's whereabouts is not known. Analysts speculate that he may be preparing to take over leadership of al-Qaida. From Source it is found " In a letter confiscated in the raid, written by bin Laden and addressed to his "Chief of Staff"  Atiyah Abd al-Rahman , bin Laden mentions h

AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi has now lashed out at the ISIS during a speech in Hyderabad on Friday. Calling the terror organisation " dogs of hell " Owaisi said that its leaders will be cut into 100 pieces . "Daesh (ISIS) is a lie. Their army is made of the dogs of hell. When we find you, we will cut you into a 100 pieces. The day you are caught alive, your loved ones will not even get your bones," Owaisi said. A few days ago, Owaisi had stoked a controversy saying that his party will provide legal help to the youngsters arrested by the NIA on charges of involvement with the ISIS. Noting that the family members of the arrested youths met him and claimed they are innocent, he said he had directed a senior advocate to provide legal help to them. NIA had in late June arrested five persons from Hyderabad on charges of their alleged links with the ISIS. He had also asked if the NIA can give it in writing that the officers, who arrested the suspects, woul

Seeking details of 1,528 alleged fake encounters in Manipur, the Supreme Court on Friday observed that Army and paramilitary personnel cannot use "excessive and retaliatory force" in the state. While hearing a petition demanding a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the alleged encounters, the apex court said it is open to Army conducting its own inquiries into allegations of fake encounters in Manipur, which has been plagued by insurgency for several decades. According to the petitioners, security forces operate under the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act which makes it extremely difficult to prosecute the soldiers accused of fake encounters. Under the AFSPA, the state police needs Centre’s permission before taking any action against the soldiers.

Hizbul Mujahideen commander  Burhan Wani  has been killed in an encounter with security forces, Jammu and Kashmir Police chief K Rajendra said on Friday. Rajendra said Wani’s death was a big blow to the Hizbul Mujahideen, a separatist group in the militancy-hit state. Details of the encounter were not immediately available, but sources said two more people died in the operation. Wani, who dropped out just 10 days before his Class 10 board exams, seldom actively took part in militant strikes, but was the brain behind many. Wani became the poster boy of the militant group with his jihadi videos where he persuaded young Kashmiris to join the “holy war” with the “promise of a fulfilled life hereafter”. He spoke in chaste Kashmiri, addressing the troubled Valley’s youth through video clips or audio messages. Known as a top motivator and recruiter in the Valley, Wani was from the latest breed of educated youth to join militancy after the 2010 street agitations.

Being the Prime Minister of the world's largest democracy, Shri Narendra Modi's security is top-notch. Prime Minister Narendra Modi enjoys double the security cover of his predecessor Manmohan Singh in terms of commandos of the elite Special Protection Group (SPG) and vehicles in his cavalcade. The reason: No other Prime Minister except Rajiv Gandhi was under such a threat as Modi from militant groups," a Delhi Police officer told anonymously.  Modi has been given "watertight security" due to the frequent threat alerts received from the intelligence agencies. To guard Modi, over 1,000 commandos remain around him in various layers, unlike Manmohan Singh who had just 600 men in his inner security circle. They are generally armed with FN F2000 Assault Rifles and Glock 17 Pistols (hidden in their suits) and are well connected with the rest of the security detail, through a myriad of communication devices. Modi travels in a BMW 7 high-security vehicle spec