Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma wedding reception venue in Mumbai - photos

Our very own 'Virushka' are the flavour of the season. After hosting their first grand reception in the country on December 21 at the Taj Diplomatic Enclave in the national capital Delhi, it's now the time for the second reception in Mumbai that would see the presence of Bollywood celebrities and cricketers. And the venue for the grand reception is the luxurious St.Regis hotel in Lower Parel. The party will be held at the Astor Ballroom on December 26.


The largest hotel tower in the country, St. Regis hotel in Lower Parel, Mumbai or “The Address”, is the venue for Virushka's second reception in Mumbai.


St Regis is a part of American hospitality corporation Starwood Hotels & Resorts. It is a 40-storey skyscraper which was formerly occupied by Palladium.


The guests for Virushka reception are invited to the Astor Ballroom at St. Regis on December 26, 2017. The Astor Ballroom can seat 300 guests inside its dazzling chambers. The Astor Ballroom, located on level 9 of St. Regis, sports 23-foot-high ceilings and exquisite crystal chandeliers. It is spread across an expansive 6,433-square-feet, and divided into three sections.


The Drawing Room is located on Level 9M and serves select champagne, exotic teas and high-end coffee along with another cafe fair.

Raja and Kanimozhi aquitted from entire 2G case - Justice Delivered Or Justice Escaped

Former telecom minister A Raja and DMK MP Kanimozhi again proved that our indian judicial system is the most easiet for criminals to escape. The verdict given by special CBI court today  in the 2G spectrum allocation says that both the above accused do not stand guilty for thr 2G "scam".

Raja, a leader of Tamil Nadu-based DMK party, which was an ally in the Congress-led UPA government, blamed vested interests for propagating the presumptive loss theory.

"Vested interests manipulated public perception by leveraging the media and sensationalising fabricated allegations," he said.

"It has been repeatedly proven that the presumptive loss to the exchequer which formed the basis for the conspiracy theorists to run amok, was cooked-up."



Raja, who was the minister in the Congress-led UPA government when 122 telecom spectrum licences were issued to 8 companies in 2008 on first-come-first-serve basis, said his actions were for the benefit of masses, which brought competition in the telecom sector.

"I brought a revolution in the telecom sector. It is not unknown to the history that a person who did a revolution is often termed as a criminal," he said.

In its charge sheet filed in April 2011 against Raja and others, CBI had alleged that there was a loss of Rs 30,984 crore to the exchequer in allocation of 122 licences for 2G spectrum which were scrapped by the Supreme Court on February 2, 2012.

The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) had put the loss to the exchequer at Rs 1.76 lakh crore.

On being asked, if he felt let down by Congress, the former minister responded "that we will see later".
Raja's sentiments were echoed by DMK MP Kanimozhi as well who said that she had been waiting for this day for the last six years.
Kanimozhi, Rajya Sabha MP and daughter of DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi, was accused of conniving with former telecom minister A Raja and other co-accused in "parking" illegal gratification of Rs 200 crore in Kalaignar TV Pvt Ltd, of which she was a promoter.
Dubbing her last six years as "harrowing and excruciating", she said in a statement that as the 2G episode was behind her she will do all she can to strengthen the party and work for the people of Tamil Nadu.
"The last six years have been harrowing to say the least...I owe a debt of gratitude to my family and party workers who were a pillar of support to me and stood by me during these six excruciating years. There is no evidence against me and justice has been delivered", she told media persons in New Delhi after the verdict was pronounced.

The DMK MP said she always believed that she would see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Suhaib Ilyasi likely to be sentenced for wife's murder

The former TV host was convicted by a Delhi court of murdering his wife. The detailed judgment is not made public yet,but sentence is likely be pronounced on December 20.

On January 10, 2000, 29-year-old Anju Ilyasi had been rushed to an east Delhi hospital with fatal stab wounds in her belly. She had bled excessively and could not be revived. When police questioned him, Ilyasi had told them that his wife had stabbed herself during a heated argument with him.



Two and a half months after the incident, on March 28, Ilyasi had been arrested and charged with harassing his wife for dowry (Section 498A of IPC), causing dowry death (Section 304B) and tampering with evidence (Section 201).
"Additional sessions judge S K Malhotra convicted Ilyasi under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code for murder on Saturday," said lawyer Satender Sharma, counsel for the complainants, Anju's mother and sister.
Advocate Manu Sharma, who argued in Ilyasi's defence, told TOI he would be in a better position to comment once he read the detailed judgment. "The copy of the court order has not been provided to us," Manu Sharma explained. He, however, added that an appeal against the conviction would be moved in Delhi high court once the sentence is read out on December 20.