Both Jayalalitha and Chandrababu Naidu wrote to PM Modi on the same day asking for Central assistance in the wake of floods in their respective states. Modi immediately sanctioned Rs 1800 crore to Tamil Nadu which had asked in excess of Rs 5000 crore. But the file of AP which has asked for around Rs 4000 crore was kept pending. An angry Chandrababu had Sujana Chowdary take up the matter with the Union Finance Ministry which then released Rs 700 crore. But Naidu’s joy was short-lived.

Apparently, the Center has released Rs 350 crore as ‘backward region development package’ and the remaining Rs 350 crore for ‘Polavaram project’. That means, it hasn’t given anything for flood relief. It is by now very much clear that Naidu carries absolutely no credibility with the NDA government. They just don’t trust him as can be evidenced by the treatment meted out to him repeatedly.

PM Narendra Modi’s prompt presence in the parliament surprised the common man, as till the day before he was busy building and reviving relationships between, India-Singapore and India-Malaysia. He on the first day of Parliament also coined a new day for India called “Constitution day”. He lectured the nation about it and shared his pride in celebrating it.

However, Minutes after his speech the Lok sabha live relay cameras caught him in a way which the media described as ‘napping’. Ever since national media published photographs of Modi reportedly ‘sleeping’, the PM once again turned to be the hot topic of the day. The pictures of him napping went viral and the social media, especially his detractors on social media were unforgiving. Minutes after the pictures were out, a new hashtag #PMJetLag started off.

There were enough trolls on the man for being struck with Jet Lag and snoozing away during the Parliament session. When a few asked if the sessions were too boring for Modi ji, few said Modi was conserving his energy for his next trip or public meet.

Few more even quipped that Modi wouldn’t have been aware of the cameras presence. On the other hand, Modi’s supporters defend the PM saying that the PM was only looking down and wasn’t sleeping at all and that media made a huge issue out of nothing.

In a befitting counter to her detractors and gossip mongers, tennis ace Sania Mirza warned people to not to raise details about her personal life. When Sania was asked when she is going to have children, angry Sania  retorted, “I find it extremely disrespectful to ask someone this question. Just because I’m a public figure, it does not give anyone the right to ask me what happens in my bedroom.”

At the same time, Sania spoke of her pain of being a woman in a ‘man’s world’. “When you’re a woman you have to fight a lot harder,” she says. “It has nothing to do with India. It has nothing to do with this side of the world. It’s to do with the world.

Earlier there were reports that Sania Mirza and Shoaib Malik would part ways. However, they later turned out to be false. Now the duo seems to be planning to have a child.

Mumbai: Indian tennis sensation Sania Mirza is not known to mince words and she is pretty straight forward when it comes to handling questions from media. Her on-court performance has been appreciated by all and she is known to handle media with utmost precision. In an interview to BBC, Sania spoke about her pain of being a woman in a ‘man’s world’ and requested all not to procure details about her family planning. She says by being a woman, she has to fight a lot harder and says the issue is the same world-wide. It’s not just about India, said Sania while giving an interview as a part of BBC’s 100 Women Series. Though she has made her stance clear about her personal life, she is often asked about children and that feels like a slap on the face, says Sania.

She says she finds it extremely disrespectful for someone to ask this question and says that her bedroom issues should not be discussed in media. Sania has had a dream run in the women’s doubles category in 2015 and with 10 titles including the recent WTS $7 million title she won in Singapore, she has already established her supremacy along with her Swiss partner Martina Hingis. It was the pair’s 9th title this season and she has won her titles in Beijing, Guangzhou, US Open, Wimbledon, Charleston, Miami and Indian Wells. As of now, Sania is one of the highest paid athletes in the sub-continent and she has is now hoping to win a gold medal in the upcoming 2016 Rio Olympics.

After several months of uncertainty, 17,000 native Telugu students studying in Tamil Nadu schools finally heaved a huge sigh is relief with the Madras High Court’s order. In a much welcomed order, the High Court stated that all the 30,000 minority students studying in Tamil Nadu must be allowed to write their annual exams in their mother languages.

The Madras High Court’s decision gave a fresh hope to the native students of Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Urdu and other minority languages who have been severely distressed with Tamil Nadu government’s compulsory Tamil education GO.

The Madras High Court’s Divisional Bench under the chairmanship of the Chief Justice lashed out at Jayalalithaa’s government following a petition filed by the Linguistic Minority Forum which alleged that the students of minority languages are at the brink of losing a valuable academic year.

In September, Jayalalithaa passed the compulsory education in Tamil GO which made it mandatory for all the minority language students to give their exams in Tamil and not in their mother languages. The decision invited severe outrage and protests from linguistic associations and even political leaders from AP, Telangana and other states.