Pooja Khedkar is an IAS trainee officer from the 2023 batch and had secured rank 821 (PWD-5) in the UPSC exams. Pooja is the daughter of former civil servant Dilip Khedkar, who served as Commissioner of the Pollution Department. Her maternal grandfather, Jagannathrao Budhwant, also had a renowned career as an IAS officer. As per rules, a trainee is not provided with the above amenities and is required to be appointed as a gazetted officer first. She created a controversy after using red-blue beacon lights on her private vehicle, a VIP number plate, letter pads, a nameplate, a separate office chamber, and dedicated staff, despite not being entitled to these privileges as a probationer, according to reports. She had also installed a 'Maharashtra government' board on her private car. There are also speculations that she also occupied the ante-chamber of Additional District Collector Ajay More without his knowledge.

Congress spokesperson Ragini Nayak filed a complaint with the Delhi Police Tuesday against INDIA TV chairman Rajat Sharma, accusing him of using “abusive language” against her during a live discussion on the channel on 4 June. In her complaint, filed in the Tughlaq Road Police Station in New Delhi, Nayak said that Sharma’s act amounted to “insulting her modesty”, which she also claimed at a press conference at the Congress headquarters. Nayak said that Sharma was under the “wrong impression” that he “can get away just because he has the blessings of the establishment and Prime Minister Narendra Modi”. “My parents, my in-laws, my children, everyone was watching that video. Lakhs and crores of Congress workers and supporters saw how you abused me on air. Just because I am working with integrity for my party. You did not just abuse me, but also started threatening me to not hold the press conference,” Nayak told reporters. According to the complaint, Sharma allegedly abused Nayak during a live show at 11 am on 4 June.

The case came to light when the National Investigation Agency (NIA), investigating a petrol bomb attack on Raj Bhawan, provided a tip-off. During a search at the residence of accused Kaduka Vinoth’s known associate, the NIA team discovered digital evidence linking Nadhiya to the prostitution racket. The 37-year-old woman identified as K Nadhiya reportedly exploited her daughter’s classmates under the pretext of offering them beautification courses, she targeted girls from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, enticing them with promises of payment ranging from Rs 25,000 to Rs 35,000.

Xi Van Fleet disturbingly sees signs of the same Cultural Marxism that ravaged her birth country of China threatening to destroy the America she now calls home. Xi describes herself as “Chinese by birth; American by choice, survivor of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, defender of liberty.” She was born in China, lived through the Cultural Revolution, and was sent to work in the countryside at the age of 16. After Mao’s death she was able to go to college to study English and has lived in the United States since 1986. She draws parallels between the anti-Israel college campus protests and the paramilitary student uprising during China’s Cultural Revolution. A survivor of Mao's Cultural Revolution says she is experiencing post-traumatic stress witnessing history repeat itself on college campuses as "Marxist hordes" have taken over in anti-American and anti-Israel demonstrations. "I sometimes I get nervous, and I feel like I'm having a little bit of PTSD and like I can't sleep well whenever I see the way they're chanting, using drums and us[ing] slogans, [are] humiliating people and have a huge amount of young people…chanting ‘Death to America,’ not just ‘Death to Israel.’ I just feel like, oh my goodness the… Red Guards are in action again," she said. The Red Guard was a massive student-led, paramilitary social movement in China that was mobilized by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1966.

In 2004, Radhamani faced adversity after her husband's death, but overcoming setbacks and reshaping her circumstances, she embodied strength and resilience, showcasing the power of perseverance and self-belief, and her journey serves as a testament to resilience.

Zendaya stunned at the Met Gala 2024 with two jaw-dropping looks. Changing from a jewel-toned Maison Margiela gown to a vintage Givenchy ensemble, she wowed in a dramatic black gown from Givenchy's 1996 collection. Paired with a massive floral headpiece, her gothic Victorian style, styled by Law Roach, made a lasting impression.

The Doodle served as a reminder of a female's entry into a sport that was a male bastion in the 1940s and 50s as it celebrated India's first professional woman wrestler Hamida Banu on Saturday, May 04. "Beat me in a bout and I'll marry you." his was the challenge that Banu made to male wrestlers in February 1954, BBC said, citing news reports from the time. Soon after the challenge, Banu defeated two male wrestling champions - one from Punjab's Patiala and the other from Kolkata in West Bengal.

Royal Challengers Bangalore won the Women's Premier League 2024 under Smriti Mandhana's leadership, marking a historic win for the franchise, and Virat Kohli celebrated the win via video call.

The scheme aims to help modernize Indian farming by reducing labour costs, as well as saving time and water in an industry hamstrung by its reliance on outdated technology and growing climate change challenges.

Women's rights groups on Monday praised France's historic decision to add the right to abortion to the constitution, while anti-abortion activists strongly condemned the move