25 June,2019 09:29 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Pic courtesy/Smriti Irani
Union Minister Smriti Irani is the queen of social media and her Instagram account is the perfect example of it! She keeps inspiring her followers with quirky memes and self-made jokes. Smriti Irani took to social media website, Instagram and posted a picture a gif slaying Monday blues and we must say its hilarious!
Smriti Irani captioned her latest post, "When someone says 'Aaj aapne Monday blues ka insta nahi kiya'. The Instagram post is a gif of the iconic character, Miranda Priestly played by Meryl Streep in the famous Hollywood film, Devil Wears Prada and it left the internet in splits. People applauded her humour and praised Amethi's giant killer for her humour. Here's how the internet reacted.
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The firebrand actor-turned-politician held portfolios of HRD, Textiles and Information & Broadcasting Minister during the tenure of the Narendra Modi-led NDA government's maiden tenure from 2014-2019. Smriti Irani is being termed as a Giant Killer, for defeating Congress president Rahul Gandhi. The BJP leader won the Amethi parliamentary seat with a margin of 55,120 votes. Irani polled a total of 4,67,598 votes.
Sex toys worth Rs 8 crore confiscated in two years in Mumbai
In the world's second populous nation, the obsession with sex toys shouldn't come as a surprise. What, however, does is the massive quantity of it being illegally brought into the country. The toys are regularly detained by the Customs Department. A Right To Information query filed by activist Prithviraj Maske revealed that from 2017 to January 2019, the Airport Special Courier Cell of the Mumbai Customs Department had seized sex toys worth Rs 8 crore. (Read full story)
Murder Mystery Solved: 3D face helps cops crack case
The forensic department of the KEM Hospital has helped the Navghar police crack a two-month-old murder case with the help of facial reconstruction and 3D superimposition technology, which they used to put a face on the victim's severely fractured skull. Yogesh Rane, a worker at a tea stall in Mulund had in March smashed the face of his colleague Vijay Kishor and burnt his upper body for laughing at him at the gym. He was caught after he attempted to kill another co-worker when the latter started asking him questions about Kishor's sudden disappearance. (Read full story)
Mumbai: Corporators oppose parking fines, say additionl infra required
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) decision to tackle the city's illegal parking menace has fallen flat with corporators opposing the move of charging hefty fines without providing the required infrastructure or additional parking space to citizens. Not only members of the ruling coalition, even the Opposition opposed the move at the civic body's general body meeting on Monday. (Read full story)
Mumbai's top cop pedals to 1,500 km cycling history
Indian Police Service (IPS) Krishna Prakash, special inspector general of police (IGP), administration, Maharashtra, is back home in Mumbai after creating cycling history. The tough cop has finished a stupendous fourth in the men's open category of the Race Across West (RAW) in USA. The race, which requires cycling for approximately 1,500 km across four American states, started on June 11 and ended on June 14. (Read full story)
Bandra court asks police to probe case of school that blamed child for bad touch
The Bandra Court has directed the Santacruz police to register an offence against a reputed school in Vile Parle after a petitioner parent alleged mental harassment of her child by it. Last year, the eight-year-old child was reprimanded for inappropriately touching his classmates, by the school. The parents later complained that the way the school treated the child thereon, was harassment. (Read full story)
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