'Aaj ki Sweetu kal ki #MeToo ho sakti hai', Preity Zinta said in a recent interview.

The petition has been moved by 80-year-old Zakia Jafri and activist Teesta Setalvad's NGO Citizens for Justice and Peace.

Unaware that posing with any flag inside the Haram is prohibited, the father-son duo attempted to click pictures of them with the tricolour.

A case has been registered against the teacher and a police team has been formed to nab him. 

According to the petition, Rakesh Asthana had reportedly made a request to NSA that he should not be arrested.

Rubabuddin Shaikh stood by his statement to the CBI that his brother Sohrabuddin was killed in a fake encounter.

In a shocking incident of professional negligence, Bidhuna tehsil in Uttar Pradesh’s Auraiya district issued a domicile certificate of Ajmal Kasab, a convict in 26/11 Mumbai attacks.

Taiwan will vote on Saturday on whether the island should compete as Taiwan and not Chinese Taipei in a controversial referendum alongside local elections.

New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) Telecom operators have completed the adoption of a new e-KYC (Know Your Customer) process in around 85 per cent of the country and the rest is likely to be covered soon, the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) said on Monday. Speaking to reporters here, COAI Director General Rajan Mathews said the use of Aadhaar-based process is likely to end in a day or two. Mathews further said: "The thing is that...there are areas where we have over one million points of sale and to be able to put the alternative process, mechanism, paperwork in place takes some time." The industry body, he said, has informed the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) that the operators would require some more time for exiting the Aadhaar-based process keeping in mind the "consumer interest" as most of the infrastructure is Aadhaar-based.

New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) The development of an industrial park rating system would help increase industry competitiveness and boost the manufacturing sector in the country, Commerce Minister Suresh Prabhu said on Monday. Releasing a report here on the industrial park rating system prepared by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), Prabhu said such a system would be a useful tool for policy makers and investors available "at the click of a button". "To ensure that India moves into the top 50 countries in Ease of Doing Business, the Ministry has undertaken the exercise of studying infrastructure across states and in over 3,300 industrial clusters, in order to assess quality of infrastructure in industrial parks in the country," he said.

Mumbai, Nov 19 (IANS) Indian equities got a lift on Monday amid expectations the central bank will take measures to ease liquidity crunch and relax lending norms for state-run banks.

New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) The Woodpecker International Film Festival (WIFF) will be back with the sixth edition here next month. This year, the fest will screen several films and documentaries based on social issues. Short films and documentaries from India and other countries will be screened at the three-day festival at Siri Fort Auditorium here.

Kolkata, Nov 19 (IANS) Although he made himself available, India pacer Mohammed Shami is yet to join the Bengal squad on the eve of their Ranji Trophy match against Kerala at the Eden Gardens here from Tuesday. Shami is the only player from the Test squad for Australia cleared by the BCCI to play Bengal's Ranji Trophy Elite Group B fixture on the condition that he would only bowl 15-17 overs per innings. The likes of Ishant Sharma and Ravichandran Ashwin, both part of the Test team, have been asked to skip Ranji games.

Buddhist devotees in parts of eastern and north-eastern India celebrated 'Kathin Chibor Daan', a Buddhist festival by offering robes and other items to monks. 'Kathin Chibor Daan' or "offering robe" - is an annual Buddhist festival during which devotees offer different items to wanderer monks, including clothes woven on their own looms. 'Chibor' is the robe that Buddhist monks wear. Devotees in Bodhgaya took out a procession while in Agartala devotees offered prayers at a temple and tied items including books, pens, currency and holy threads on trees with strings to pray for their wishes to be fulfilled on the occasion. The festival is held within a month after the full moon night in the Hindu month of Ashwin. It also marks the conclusion of a seclusion period for monks who meditate for three months.

Several political leaders from Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came together to pay tribute to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her 101st birth anniversary. Gandhi family organised the tribute meet in the Parliament. Home Minister Rajnath Singh was present on the occasion. Former BJP chief LK Advani also attended the tribute meet. Indira Gandhi served as Prime Minister of India for four terms.

New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) The unbeaten run of the Indian women's cricket team has landed them in the semi-finals of the ongoing ICC World T20 and the timing couldn't have been any better for leading publisher HarperCollins India to announce its partnership with Indian Sports Fan (ISF), a community of sports fans for women's cricket outreach programme. HarperCollins India and ISF together will cater to women's cricket fans from 17 countries with exclusive content, podcasts, chat sessions with the author of a yet-to-be-released book 'Free Hit: The Story of Women's Cricket in India'. Speaking on the occasion, Suprita Das, author Free Hit said: 'Free Hit dives deep into the lives of a spirited bunch of Indian women cricketers who fought hard for their right to play, overcame sponsorship challenges, corrected gender-based pay gaps and tackled the sheer indifference of cricket administrators along the way." "It's a story that puts the spotlight on their struggles, victories and adventures in promoting the game and reminds us that they too -- like the men's team -- brought home laurels worth celebrating," she added.