India has lost many eminent personalities this year and today (8 September, 2019), the nation is sad on the loss of Ram Jethmalani, one of the most popular lawyers of India who also served as the Union Minister.

Ram Jethmalani who bid adieu to the world at the age of 95 was the highest paid lawyer of the Supreme Court and he had fought some very high profile cases. His specialty was Criminal law but he used to fight civil cases as well. He was the Law Minister and Minister of Urban Development in the government of PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee but in the year 2004, he fought elections against PM Vajpayee from Lucknow. However in 2010, he joined BJP again and became a member of Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan.

While there are many who considered him as opportunist, there is no one doubt that he was one of the best lawyers India has ever had. Here are 6 high profile cases that he had fought:

1. L K Advani – Hawala Scam:

Ram Jethmalani was the lawyer of deputy Prime Minister L K Advani in the hawala scam which took place in the early 90s. It was $18 million bribery scandal in which the payments were made through hawala brokers and many other politicians such as Sharad Yadav, Madan Lal Khurrana, etc. were also accused of being a part of the scam.

2. Nanavati vs State of Maharashtra:

Ram Jethmalani was the prosecution lawyer in this case in which Commander Kawas Manekshaw Nanavati was accused of taking life of his wife’s lover. Movies and web series have been made on this historic case and after this case, jury trials were stopped in the Indian judiciary.

3. Amit Shah – Sohrabuddin fake encounter case:

Ram Jethmalani defended the present Home Minister of India Amit Shah in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case in 2005 when Amit Shah was the Home Minister of Gujarat. As per the lawyer, the UP government wanted to target Narendra Modi and his colleagues and Amit Shah was first of them.

4. Jayalalithaa – disproportionate assets case:

The former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Jayalalithaa was defended by Ram Jethmalani in the Rs. 66 crore disproportionate assets case. She was accused of accumulating this wealth by misusing the power of her office.

5. Manu Sharma – Jessica Lal case:

It was one of those cases which shook the conscience of the country as there was a huge uproar when no one was found guilty despite the fact that Jessica’s life was taken. Manu Sharma took life of Jessica just because she refused to serve him drink as the bar was closed. Ram Jethmalani defended Manu Sharma in the High Court as well as the Supreme Court even after getting slammed by his own daughter.

6. Kanimozhi – 2G scam

Cited as one of the biggest scams of India, the 2G scam shook the whole country. Ram Jethmalani was the lawyer of DMK MP Kanimozhi in this case and she was acquitted along with A Raja and others because the court felt that CBI failed to prove the charges.

Ram Jethmalani will always be a source of inspiration for aspiring lawyers! RIP!

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Former Indian Cricketer Virender Sehwag, who is known for his brilliant knocks making the opponents fear about boundaries and sixes. It has been some time since Viru has retired from International cricket after his retirement one thing we explored about Sehwag which we weren’t aware of before that is his sense of humor.

Recently, the 40-year-old cricketer attended the HT- mint Asia Leadership Summit 2019 in Singapore and Viru was in his best self. The explosive opener shared a small hilarious incident with the audience from 2001’s tri-series against New Zealand.

Well, the tri-series of 2001 is very special for Sehwag as he was promoted to open a match as master blaster was not available. Sehwag said during the 11th over chase Daryl Truffle was bowling and India had to chase 260 plus runs.

Sehwag smashed 4 boundaries and one big six before sending back Daryl Truffle but then Indian captain Sourav Ganguly wasn’t really confident about it.

Viru said, I went in as an opener with captain (Ganguly) only. I was hitting boundaries and Daryl Tuffey came to bowl and I hit him for a boundary. So Dada came up to me and said ‘we need five runs per over because we are chasing only 265 and we have got it.

I said okay and then smashed another four in the second ball and again Dada came up to me said, we have got runs for the next over also. After that I again hit another boundary and Sourav walked up to me and said ‘we have got runs for next 3 over, so slow down’.

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Time and again Sehwag has expressed his love and respect for the former Indian skipper!

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Almost half of the nation stayed awake last night to witness the landing of Chandrayaan-2 on the lunar surface. Well, when the Vikram lander was just about 2 kilometers from the Moon’s surface when the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) lost contact with the rover.

Chandrayaan- 2 is the historic space mission of India, which was completely homegrown and the budget of India’s second mission is Rs. 978 crores. As per the reports of Bangalore Mirror, 16500 people were involved in the mission and 30% of them were women. Their sheer dedication to create history and make ISRO mark its moon landing made every Indian’s proud.

Meet the stars of the Moon Mission who gave 18-19 hours every day:

1. Dr K. Sivan “The Rocket Man”

The chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation was not handling the Chandrayaan 2 on a day-to-day basis, he was the one who was overseeing and supervising the complete operation and was contributing with his knowledge and suggestions whenever needed. K. Sivan was a farmer’s son and the only graduate from his family. He was offered a position in NASA, but he refused to work there and opted ISRO.

2. M. Vanitha “ISRO’s First Female Project Director”

M. Vanitha was the first ever female director of ISRO. She was awarded as the Best Female Scientist in 2006 by the Astronomical Society of India. According to the reports of The Hindu, Vanitha is a data ace specialist from U.R. Rao Satellite Centre. Previously, M. Vanith was part of several prestigious teams Cartosat-1, Oceansat-2 and Megha Tropiques team.

3. Ritu Kardhel ” The Moon Mission Director”

Ritu Kardhel can also be known as the Rocket Woman of India. She was the former deputy director of operations for the Mars Orbiter mission M.O.M (mangalayaan) in the year 2013. Ritu is an aeronautical engineer in the year 2007 she received ISRO’s young scientist award from A.P.J Abdul Kalam.

4. M Annadurai “Director of U R Rao Satellite in Bangalore”

M Annadurai is the Vice President for Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology. He took over as the director of ISRO Satellite Centre. Mr. Annadurai was the spearhead of Chandrayaan 1 and was the first project director of Chandrayaan 2. But, he later convinced M. Vanitha to charge of the moon mission because of her capability as a system engineer.

Thank you for making each and every Indian proud for thinking about the prosperity of the nation rather than yourselves. We’re proud of you ISRO and we’ll conquer the moon.

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Shah Rukh Khan’s last release Zero was a huge flop in the box office. Zero was one of the most anticipated movie of King Khan and everyone had huge expectations from the movie, but it turned out to be a box office disaster.

The failure of the film was highly criticized by fans and critics. Zero movie didn’t leave any impact on the audience but definitely the failure of the film left a bad impression on Shah Rukh Khan’s career.

Badshaah of Bollywood took a small break from the movies and is taking his time to read the scripts as the last few few films of Shah Rukh Khan Dilwale, Jab Harry Met Sejal and Zero wasn’t well accepted by the audience.

SRK in the mean time is producing some good hindi films and his production house has even joined hands with Netflix to curate some mind boggling contents. Red Chillies Production’s upcoming Netflix original series Bard of Blood is all set to take over your Netflix and King Khan was seen promoting Bard of Blood in the most creative way.

In our tinsel town Bollywood rumors spread faster than truth and all thanks to the media. There was a lot of buzz going around that Shah Rukh Khan has finally signed new films.

Well, don’t believe the hoax SRK has finally responded to the news, It’s always nice to know that in my absence & behind my back, I have surreptitiously signed so many films that even I am not aware of!! Boys & girls I do a film when I say I am doing it, otherwise it’s just post the truth.

It’s always nice to know that in my absence & behind my back , I have surreptitiously signed so many films that even I am not aware of!! Boys & girls I do a film when I say I am doing it….otherwise it’s just post truth.

— Shah Rukh Khan (@iamsrk) September 8, 2019

Yes, Shah Rukh sir, we’ll wait until you make an announcement for your upcoming movie.

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Almost half of the nation stayed awake last night to witness the landing of Chandrayaan-2 on the lunar surface. Well, when the Vikram lander was just about 2 kilometers from the Moon’s surface when the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) lost contact with the rover.

Everyone from across the globe is lauding the ISRO for even trying to the unfold the stories of the moon, which no one has ever tried to do with such a minimal budget. It was a highly complex mission, which aimed to study not only a part of the moon, but all areas of the moon including the exosphere, the sub-surface and the surface. Chandrayaan-2 travelled 3,84,397.9 km, whereas it had to travel 3,84,400 kms.

The globe was glued to India’s second mission to the moon and is lauding India for its efforts. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shared their views on Chandrayaan – 2 through a tweet.

The tweet reads, Space is hard. We commend ISRO’s attempt to land their #Chandrayaan2 mission on the Moon’s South Pole. You have inspired us with your journey and look forward to future opportunities to explore our solar system together.

Space is hard. We commend @ISRO’s attempt to land their #Chandrayaan2 mission on the Moon’s South Pole. You have inspired us with your journey and look forward to future opportunities to explore our solar system together. https://t.co/pKzzo9FDLL

— NASA (@NASA) September 7, 2019

The Chandrayaan 2 orbiter is intact and it’s safely operating in the lunar orbit and the orbiter has the mission life of one year and the payloads can even conduct remote sensing observations up from a 100km orbit, as told by an ISRO official.

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