The special NDPS court has rejected the bail application of superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan. Arbaaz Merchant and model Munmun Dhamecha will also be kept behind the bars for their illicit use of drugs. 

The special court in its order said that they have encountered proof that shows that the accused are dealing with illicit drugs activities on a regular basis. 

The special NDPS court made some serious observations on the WhatsApp chat of Aryan Khan and then made the decision of rejecting the bail application of Aryan Khan who is in jail since October 3 after being detained by the Narcotics Control Bureau in a drug seizure case. 

Shah Rukh Khan on Thursday arrived at the Arthur Road jail to meet his son Aryan Khan who is not granted bail yet. Both had a conversation for around 16 to 18 minutes in the visitation section. The father-son duo was separated by a glass partition and both took the hold of conversation through the intercom. Jail authorities were also present at the time of their meeting. 

The lawyers of Aryan and Dhamecha have moved to the Bombay High court for bail. The court said, “WhatsApp chats brought before the court show that Aryan has been dealing with illicit drug activities of narcotics substances on a regular basis. Therefore it can’t be said that Aryan is not likely to commit a similar offence while on bail.”

Aryan Khan along with Arbaaz Merchant and Munmun Dhamecha have been charged and put behind the bars under Sections 8(c), 20(b), 27, 28, 29, and 35 of the NDPS Act.

Many reputed celebrities from Salman Khan, Suniel Shetty, Hrithik Roshan, Swara Bhaskar, to Raveena Tandon have come out in support of Shahrukh Khan and his family.  Currently, Aryan Khan and Arbaaz Merchant are lodged at Arthur Road prison in Mumbai. On the other hand, Munmun Dhamecha is at the Byculla women’s prison in Mumbai. 

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India and China have agreed to hold another Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination (WMCC) meeting on border affairs this month in order to break the deadlock created by the 13th round of senior commanders meeting on October 10. Both parties have agreed to hold the meeting, but the dates have yet to be determined.

According to officials in New Delhi and Beijing, the WMCC, which is led by additional secretary level officials on both sides, will have a difficult time resolving the disengagement and restoring patrolling rights to the Indian Army in Depsang Bulge and Charding Nullah Junction (CNJ), Demchok, due to the Peoples’ Liberation Army’s obstinate attitude (PLA). According to reports, during the 13th round of military commanders’ meetings, the PLA resorted to half-measures to resolve the disengagement in the Hot Springs area, refusing to return to permanent bases or restoring the status quo ante as it existed in April 2020.

In May 2020, the PLA unilaterally changed ground positions on the north banks of the Pangong Tso, Galwan, Gogra, and Hot Springs in East Ladakh in an attempt to impose the rejected 1959 line along the 1597-kilometer Line of Actual Control in Ladakh. While the PLA decided to withdraw from its current position in the Hot Springs area in a half-hearted attempt to resolve the conflict, they did not agree to return to a permanent base, as stipulated in previous India-China leadership meetings. The Indian Army representative, for his part, rejected this proposal, insisting that both parties return to their permanent bases to resolve the Hot Springs issue.

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Producer Ayushman Singh is relatively a new name in the production industry but his determination and dedication is helping him to set bars high. He started off as an entrepreneur and now ventured into producing. According to a close source he has signed a Russian Supermodel for his upcoming video assignment. It will be going on air in the next year. And currently, is at a very initial stage.

Our source says, “Ayushman was keen on doing something BIG, and hence after quite a work we got a Russian supermodel on board with us. Can’t reveal the name yet but the model is very popular and is a fashion enthusiast. Singh is planning to bring the project to life in front of the public in the coming year.” When we got in the touch with Ayushman, he refrained from talking anything about this project but dropped small hints by saying that he is up for something bigger than before. Having a high budget and several creative brains working on it, surely it’s going to be something that hasn’t been seen before.

Ayushman owns a PR and Digital Marketing agency called Alkeynes Global Solutions India LLP. He is a nature lover too and towards his love for animals, he has stated Paws World Foundation. Out of his other businesses, The Bulletin Desk and Online News Agency deals into news and media. He was always inclined towards the media industry and hence he ventures into this sector.

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With social media on the cliff, everyone wants to be a fashionista now. But bumping into the wardrobe and picking out any trendy outfit is not what style is. Style is personal and only a trendsetter owns it.

A few influencers on popular social media application Instagram know how to ace the digital space with their notable fashion taste. Prasad Nagarkar who is an influencer and also an entrepreneur has the quintessence of excellent fashion with a gist of style.

The influencer is usually glimpsed in the most trendy and stylish outfits on his feed. From denim jeans to joggers as a bottom to round neck t-shirt and short sleeves, Prasad makes sure his well-maintained physique is complimented by his outfit.

Prasad believes in being unique and distinguished from others. The influencer has a huge heart for watches and shoes. He makes sure that he has everything for all occasions.

Not everyone dresses to impress, some of them dress well to be a statement, and Prasad with his commendable style has proved this just right.

“The mannequin too wears an outfit, but they can’t be fashionistas. The outfit is just the wash colour of your portrait, it is the stunning style that will make you look vibrant and boisterous,” said Prasad.

Prasad Nagarkar is an inspiration for everyone who treasures the fashion world. With his breathtaking dress sense, he stimulates millions of people to develop a stylish wardrobe.

Being both an influencer and an entrepreneur is not a cupcake, but Prasad aces both entities effortlessly.
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In talk with Ms Nidhi Jain Seth, Founder Pinnacle and Positively Perfect

1) Tell us something about your brand? What makes it unique from other brands?

Positively Perfect is a unique gifting online store. The brand, through power of words, motivates people and is emphasising on bringing a change in destinies while giving them courage and making them feel more loved and inspiring them to accomplish the impossible. With the medium of words, our organisation aims to remind people of what they yearn to be reminded of and most importantly, weave words in a way that connects to their souls and encourages them to be the best version of themselves. Positively Perfect was established with a goal to encourage people and make them the best version of themselves through emotional moments which makes them more memorable. Serving people with an extensive range of products meant to stir a vibe.

Pinnacle is a leading brand that recognises the efforts of people and the loyal support of one’s customer, enabling companies across all verticals to laud their people with recognitions and awards. Launched in 2000, Pinnacle is one of the most creative brands setting a precedent of innovation and recognising milestones on a massive scale. Offering a range of exemplary products that inspire one to work more passionately, the brand has built its rapport in the sector as a one-of-its-kind venture. Focusing on design and brewing new themes and ideas for the people of India, Pinnacle crafts exceptionally exquisite awards and gifts for HRs to praise their teams with, the company to appreciate its customers with and the people to uplift their professional spirits with.

2) What are some of the USP’s of your brand? What kind of products/ services do you offer?

All the brands that I have created belong to a niche segment. Even though the main product category may be common, like Awards and Trophies, the kind of products we offer are pretty unique and make us stand apart from the crowd which further makes our customers keep coming back to us. 

We have an exhaustive collection of thoughtful awards based on themes that brands can use for their specific needs. Like we have an entire collection of Awards for Long Service Recognition or our Infinite Possibility Award that is sculpted in the shape of an infinity symbol with a staircase built all around it. We have miniature skating shoes to appreciate people who work at great speed. Well the list is endless.

Even for Positively Perfect, it’s not just another online gift site. We only sell inspirational and devotional gifts. Gifts that help you become a better version of yourself. Our focus is very clear. If it does not encourage you to become a better person or makes you spiritually connected to whatever you believe in, you will not find it in our online store. Even for children under our brand, Epically, we create games that bring them closer to Indian Mythology and Indian Values, so they are not just another set of games to keep them busy. 

3) What inspired you to do what you are doing right now?

When I started a manufacturing company in 2000, my inspiration was that I wanted to create something unique, something different that I could present in the market. Something that would make people happy. Often when you get recognized it’s an emotional moment, and many of these moments serve as lifelong memories. What I create for people in Pinnacle is a part of that precious memory which makes it special and fulfilling for me. 

Positively Perfect, a brand of inspirational and Devotional gifts actually came from my own life experiences when I went through over ten years of illness. What kept my spirits high was the love and support of my family and the inspirational & spiritual books and seminars that I attended. Words and stories are really powerful. They shape the internal dialogue that we have with ourselves constantly, which shapes the quality of our life. This is a relatively new brand, just over two years old. I am just getting started. And the fact that Positively Perfect products can be a part of people’s journey in their most challenging times or their happiest times inspires me to do more. 

But what keeps manufacturing quite honestly is that I can create jobs at the blue-collar level and pay fair wages and all the benefits to them. People outside the industry may not realize how poorly people are paid at the factory level in our industry. I am happy that I can make a difference in the life of my factory people. 

4) Market Expectations post pandemic and future outlook

The market is going through an interesting churn, which has never happened in the Recognition and Gifts industry. Typically changes are driven by external factors: introduction of new technology, a new way of branding, or a new product category gets introduced, and everyone starts to gravitate around it. But right now, along with the external environment, what is changing is the internal mindset of the people. And it is changing at a global level. It’s changing for everyone, both giving awards and gifts and for people receiving them. Companies are now thinking about the entire family and not just about the person part of their company. 

I see more thought going into selecting the gifts and how they will make people feel vs. let’s finish this work. People are more considerate and thoughtful, and generous with what they want to do for team members. It’s like that feeling you get. Don’t worry; we are in it together. Even our client and vendor relationship now exists at an entirely different level. And since this pandemic is not short-lived, the change will also probably get hardwired in us. It will be our new way of living. 

5)Brief about newly launched Epically Ramayana, Epically Mahabharata and Epically Vahana 

Ramayana is created for children above 6 years of age and is packed in a sturdy and compact box, perfect to carry for travel and vacation and comes with a “love it or return it” guarantee.

Epically Mahabharata and Epically Vahana are also very unique in nature and will help the kids become more inquisitive and aware about our mythology besides having loads of fun with them. While Epicallly Vahana is a fun way to introduce the mythological animal kingdom to our children; Epically Mahabharata will take them through one of the most dynamic and complex mythological tales and its stories in the most fun way.

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The United States is “very concerned” about China’s hypersonic missile test, US disarmament ambassador Robert Wood said on Monday after reports came out that Beijing launched a hypersonic missile with a nuclear capacity in August.  

“We are very concerned by what China has been doing on the hypersonic front,” Robert Wood told reporters in Geneva.

The initial reports in the Financial Times newspaper reported that China has launched a nuclear capable missile in August that becomes successful in travelling the earth at low orbit before missing out on its target. Further, a long March rocket  was used to launch a hypersonic missile. Financial Times claimed that the Beijing test of the missile circling the earth had been kept under wraps. 

“We just don’t know how we can defend against that type of technology. Neither does China or Russia,” Wood told reporters.

“This was not a missile, this was a spacecraft,” Zhao Lijian, the foreign ministry spokesperson  said on Monday. “This is of great significance for reducing the cost of spacecraft and providing a convenient and cheap way for humans to use space for peaceful purposes.” 

Hypersonic missiles have the capability to fly more than five times the speed of sound. They are being constructed in such a way that they only need a few trajectory in the atmosphere and further make them harder to defend against. 

The reported launch of a hypersonic missile perplexed the minds of observers in Washington One US official informed the FT: “We have no idea how they did this.” The FT report said Beijing’s progress in the field had “caught US intelligence by surprise”.

“The timing isn’t surprising at all,” said Tong Zhao, a senior fellow of the nuclear policy programme based at the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy in Beijing. “China is known to have been conducting research on new delivery technologies for some time. But even if this reported launch was a weapons test, it may be far from becoming an operational capability.

“If the FT report was true, it means that China is willing to go the extra mile with a exotic approach to penetrate the US’s missile defence,” he said, adding that the US had “long possessed a very similar and more sophisticated technology, such as the X-37B spacecraft”.

Besides China, the US, Russia and at least five other countries are testing a new hypersonic missile. The hypersonic missile is designed to deliver a nuclear warhead and has the potential to hit the target more speedily as compared to the other ballistic missiles. 

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According to the Mumbai Sessions Court, mental harassment is a mental injury that is never visible to the naked eye and must be established based on the facts and circumstances of each case. This was stated by Judge AC Daga while dismissing a Ghatkopar resident’s petition challenging the compensation awarded to his wife by the Vikhroli Magistrate Court under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005. The couple married in June 2013, and the woman lived with her husband until September 2014. She then filed a lawsuit against the husband and his family.

The husband was ordered by the Magistrate court to pay Rs 10,000 per month in maintenance, Rs 5,000 per month in rent for alternate housing, and Rs 1,000,000 in compensation for domestic violence. The husband told the Sessions Court that his wife did not require the rent because she worked and lived with her parents. He also claimed that because there was no domestic violence, the compensation order was invalid. He went on to say that there is no medical evidence that she was beaten.

The Sessions Court observed that the wife was subjected to mental and physical harassment by her husband and his family. The court added, “It is not always that injuries on the woman’s body can be seen because immediately after the assault, they normally do not go for medical tests or are not allowed to go for medical tests by their in-laws.”

“In this matter, ample evidence has been given by the respondent (wife) to show that she was subjected to mental and physical harassment by the appellants (husband and family),” the court said. The husband was also alleged to suffer from erectile dysfunction. Although the husband denied it, the court said, “It becomes the duty of the appellant (husband) to lead appropriate evidence to nullify the allegations. No evidence has been laid down,” said the court.

The wife also claimed that when she touched the husband on October 12, 2014, he pushed and slapped her, causing her nose to bleed. The husband denied it, claiming that his mother had cataract surgery on October 9, so the assault did not take place. The court, however, stated that there was no evidence to show that the mother was still in the hospital on October 12, 2014, as a cataract patient is typically discharged on the day of surgery.

According to the court, there is plenty of evidence that she was subjected to domestic violence. The wife also stated that she had no source of income, whereas the husband had a monthly income of Rs 35,000, was a partner in a firm with 50% ownership, and had purchased a flat for Rs 25,00,000. ‘It was the husband’s responsibility to keep the wife at the same standard of living,’ she said.

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah will visit the rain-hit areas of Uttarakhand today, to take stock of the situation as more than 45 people, so far, have lost their lives in rain-related incidents. 

Amit Shah, the Minister for Home Affairs will today visit the hill state of Uttarakhand to review the flood situation that has enveloped the state. As per the top sources in MHA, a series of high-level meetings with top officials of various departments have been scheduled for this evening, during which Shah will take stock of the relief work being undertaken. Union Home Minister will also conduct an aerial survey of the flood-ravaged parts of the state on Thursday. 

The death toll in rain-related incidents in Uttarakhand over the past two days has risen to 46. Uttarakhand has been witnessing heavy rains for the past two days, leading to chaos and disaster across the state. Over 300 people were rescued by the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) from flood-affected areas of Uttarakhand. Many roads were blocked and several bridges and railway tracks have been damaged since the downpour began on Sunday.

Shah is said to have been closely monitoring the situation and earlier on Monday, he had even spoken on the phone to Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami and assured him of all possible help from the Centre to tackle the crisis. Prime Minister Narendra Modi also spoke to Dhami on the phone to take stock of the situation and assured him of all help. Chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Tuesday undertook an aerial survey of the rain-hit areas in the state to assess the damages caused due to rain. He later announced a compensation of ?4 lakh each to the next of kin of those killed in rain-related incidents across the state over the last two days.

After witnessing incessant rain over the past two days, the state is likely to stay dry for the rest of the week, according to Indian Meteorological Department (IMD). The weather department said that a fresh western disturbance is also very likely to affect Western Himalayan Region from October 22 and cause scattered to fairly widespread rain/snow over Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan and Muzaffarabad on October 22 with isolated heavy rainfall on October 23.

Meanwhile, Char Dham Yatra, which was halted due to heavy rain in the region, will resume from today, informed the Uttarakhand police chief. The pilgrimage was suspended for three days, from October 17 to 19, amid warnings of heavy to very rainfall in the hill state during this period.

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On Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will open the Kushinagar International Airport in Uttar Pradesh, which is the site of Lord Buddha’s Parinirvana. The move aims to enhance tourism on the Buddhist circuit by leveraging three economic development indicators: trade, tourism, and technology. The ambassadors of at least 10-15 nations where Buddhism is practised and preached are scheduled to attend today’s inauguration ceremony. More than 100 priests and eight high priests from Sri Lanka will also be present, led by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa’s son Namal.

The Kushinagar airport, which is being built at a cost of 260 crore, would service the adjacent districts of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and is seen as a key step in increasing investment and job prospects in the region. According to a statement released by the Prime Minister’s Office, the airport will make it easier for domestic and international pilgrims to visit Lord Buddha’s ‘Mahaparinirvana’ site and will help connect Buddhist pilgrimage holy places around the world (PMO).

Modi will visit the Mahaparinirvana Temple in Kushinagar for an event commemorating Abhidhamma Day, according to the PMO, before proceeding to the public ceremony and subsequent inauguration of the airport. The Prime Minister will pay his respects to Lord Buddha’s reclining statue and plant a Bodhi tree sapling at the temple. Prime Minister Modi will later lay the groundwork for a number of other development projects, including the Rajkiya Medical College, which would cost over 280 crore to build, and 12 other projects totalling over 180 crore.

Dedicated railways are connecting Kushinagar with other Buddhist destinations for Indians and foreigners interested in pilgrimage or religious tourism. The Uttar Pradesh chief minister will be present at the event, and he and the Prime Minister are expected to address a rally in the region following.

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“No job is impossible. All it takes is sheer hard work, determination, and motivation to keep going no matter what”, says, Mridu Bala.

If you have a knack for creativity, and a desire to carve your name among the audience in an artistic manner, then the field of designing is one of the most appropriate segments to try your hand at. Realizing the potential in the industry, Mridu Bala took a step into the field of fashion design and event organization taking it by a storm and enhancing it to a different level.

The epitome of strength and courage, Mridu Bala has made a place for herself all because of her zeal to do something different. Chasing her dream to become a successful fashion designer since her teenage years, she decided to finally kickstart her career in 2004. Her first milestone was her beauty expo where she showcased her exquisite bridal ensembles.

Mridu has proved her mettle in the industry through her remarkable bridal and designer wear which have gained immense love from people. Not only in India, but she has also organized a plethora of International shows as well which created a lot of traction and have established her as a fashion designer to reckon with.

Sharing on how the fashion industry has helped her grow, Mridu Bala says, “I have recognized that this industry has something for everyone. You just need to find your true calling and continue treading on that path. My aim has always been to bring out a change in society through my work. Not only do I want to make it to the top tier onto the hierarchy ladder in the industry but also to inspire and empower more and more young girls of my country to come forward and pursue their dream. My biggest inspiration has been my husband CA Ajay Rai who has always supported me through thick and thin.”

The virtuoso, apart from being a leading fashion designer and show organizer, also intends to start her manufacturing unit and her showroom as well and is working rigorously for achieving the same. She has been appreciated for her work by common people as well as renowned people in the industry. Top celebrities like Mahima Chaudhari, Arshifa Khan, Lucky Dancer, Akshay Giri, and makeup artist Amit Dhuria and Chitralekha Sen have also taken part in her shows. Mridu Bala has proved to the world that if you can dream it then you can definitely achieve it.