Filmmaker Imtiaz Ali believes that the Indian film industry needs fresh talent to flourish, and for this, entry in filmdom needs to be eased. “We should introduce new energy in the film industry and need to make the entry point easier and talent-based,” the ‘Jab We Met’ director said at the trailer launch of a […]
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After months of speculations, the cat is finally out of the bag. Actress Preity Zinta has tied the knot with her longtime beau, Gene Goodenough, as reported by Filmfare.com. According to the report, the actress got hitched to Gene Goodenough on February 29, 2016 at Los Angeles. The wedding was apparently a very private affair
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Dozens of Russian warplanes sat idle Tuesday on the tarmac at this Russian air base in Syria on the fourth day of a cease-fire brokered by Moscow and Washington. The apparent lull in action witnessed by the AP on a trip to the base, which was organized by the Russian defense and foreign ministries, contrasts
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Ridiculing allegations of having received “foreign funding”, the students charged with sedition in connection with a controversial event on JNU campus against hanging of Afzal Guru claimed that it takes only “Rs 100” to organise any programme at the varsity. “Various theories are being applied to probe our ‘terror links’ and allegations are being made
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Tension has been running high in Agra after Arun Mahaur, a Dalit businessman and local VHP office-bearer, was shot dead in the city last Thursday. Though the police arrested five suspects belonging to the minority community on charges of murder and rioting, the VHP and the BJP have accused the Samajwadi Party government of “appeasing”
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Congress lawmaker Kumari Selja today sought a judicial inquiry into the reports of rape of several women in Haryana during the Jat agitation, saying “jungle raj” was prevailing in the state. Raising the issue during Zero Hour in Rajya Sabha, Ms Selja said the Haryana government has been a “mute spectator” to the large-scale violence
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The benchmark index BSE Sensex surged over 700 points intraday on Tuesday after buying gained momentum across sectors led by FMCG, banks and industrials as talks of a likely repo rate cut got louder after the presentation of the Union Budget 2016. 2.34 pm: Sensex was trading 718.25 points up at 23,720. Sectorwise, the BSE
The Supreme Court will hear a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking suo motu contempt action against former home minister P. Chidambaram for perjury and misleading the apex court and the Gujarat High Court on alleged LeT links of Ishrat Jahan. Ishrat Jahan was killed by the Gujarat Police in 2005. The PIL has sought direction
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Union Budget presented, opposition parties have prepped to target Education Minister Smriti Irani in both Houses of Parliament over her statements on the death of Hyderabad Central University student Rohith Vemula and the JNU controversy. Alleging that she misled Parliament, two Congress leaders moved privilege motion against the minister in the Lok Sabha this morning.
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Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian during a gunfight in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian medical sources said on Tuesday, as troops fought to rescue two soldiers who were attacked after straying into a violent trouble spot, the army said. The Palestinian Red Crescent said a 22-year-old man died of gunshot wounds and six were
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A piece of black cloth served as the ‘iron curtain’. Cameras were intruding into ‘dressing room’ privacy and the Indian cricketers must have felt a little uncomfortable. The Sher-e-Bangla academy ground has two concrete structures that double up as makeshift locker rooms during practice. Shikhar Dhawan’s left ankle was getting tended to by physio Patrick
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Having registered resounding back-to-back victories, hosts Bangladesh are expected to put up a tough fight against Pakistan despite the absence of their main strike bowler Mustafizur Rahaman in an Asia Cup round robin league encounter on Wednesday. It will be a must-win game for both teams aiming to make it to the finals of the
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Hrithik Roshan might have separated with his wife Sussanne Roshan, but the actor seems to have a warm equation with her family till date. Buzz is that Hrithik bonded with Sussanne’s parents Sanjay and Zarine Khan at a gathering recently. News sources suggest that at the wedding reception of Dr RK Agarwal’s son Vishesh, HR
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Whatsaap has turned sever years this week and so the widely used Facebook-owned instant messaging application, has decided to drop support for various operating system from 2017. WhatsApp, is going to end support for BlackBerry 10 OS, along with support for all other BlackBerry operating systems. Also on the list are Symbian, Windows Phone 7.1,
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Macedonian police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of refugees who stormed the border from Greece on Monday as a deeply divided Europe traded barbs over the biggest humanitarian crisis in decades. As frustrations boiled over at restrictions imposed on people moving through the Balkans, refugees trapped on the Greece-Macedonia border tore down a metal
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A senior official from Syria’s main opposition group said on Monday that a fragile international attempt to halt nearly five years of fighting was in danger of collapse because of attacks by government forces. The cessation of hostilities drawn up by Washington and Moscow faced “complete nullification” becauSyria: Opp claims govt wrecking truce deal; track
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A video footage of a woman brandishing a severed infant’s head near a busy Moscow metro station was broadcast by a local television on Monday. Moscow’s Oktyabrskoye Pole metro station was shut soon after the Burkha clad woman was seen taking out a 4-year-old girl’s severed head from her bag. The woman has been identified
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Senior Congress leaders, including former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, party vice-president Rahul Gandhi and former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram slammed the Union Budget 2016-17 as having “no vision.” Dr. Singh said the announcement by the government that it would double the farm income in five years was an “impossible dream.” “It is a nit-picking budget.
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Sindhu Sooryakumar, chief coordinating editor of Asianet News TV, moderated a discussion on Friday night about whether Mahishasur Jayanti could be considered an act of treason. Since then, she has been inundated with threats and has received about 2000 calls. These calls were allegedly from activists and sympathisers of various pro-Hindutva groups who accused her
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In a major setback to the Maoists, a senior Maoist cadre of Vekatapuram Area Committee of Bhadrachalam Division and seven other naxalites were killed in an “encounter” with the police in the Gottepadu forest area close to the Telangana-Chattisgarh border in south Bastar region of the neighbouring State in the small hours of Tuesday. The
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The Delhi High court today reserved its verdict on the bail plea of JNU students union president Kanhaiya Kumar, who refuted the allegation of police that he was raising anti-India slogans at an event on 9 February at the campus. Justice Pratibha Rani, before whom the Delhi Police claimed that they have witnesses who have
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Reacting to the Union Budget on Monday, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his coalition partner, RJD chief Lalu Prasad, termed it a “disappointing budget”. They also said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had failed in his “examination” as the “budget promises acchhe din (good days) only for the hoarders of black money and not for
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The UN Security Council will vote on a US-drafted resolution imposing a raft of new sanctions on North Korea following its nuclear test and rocket launch, US diplomats said. The 15-member council will meet at 3:00 pm (2000 GMT) to decide on the package of measures that the United States says will impose the toughest
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The Supreme Court sought on Monday Centre’s response to a petition filed by a Muslim woman to end gender discrimination in the minority community. Shayara Bano has challenged the practice of triple ‘talaq’, ‘nikah halal’ and polygamy, calling it unconstitutional as it violated the right to equality. Under triple ‘talaq’, a Muslim man can divorce
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This is the third budget of the NDA government. The first two were forgettable. The Prime Minister had promised that he would “reform to transform”. The word ‘reform’ is a little understood but much used word. Reform means reform of factor markets or product markets. There is little evidence of such reform in the budget.
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Budget 2016: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Monday said that the General Budget lacks both vision and conviction. “Modi ji spent the first 2 years mocking the Congress Party’s focus on farmers, MNREGA, Rural dev and social spending. Now mere rhetoric, without vision or action, will fool neither farmers nor the poor of this country.
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Asian shares rose on Tuesday, bolstered by China’s monetary easing and downbeat manufacturing and service surveys that raised hopes of additional measures, though lacklustre U.S. and European data kept concerns about global growth momentum alive. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was up about 0.2 percent, though Japan’s Nikkei was down 0.9 percent,
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Makeshift huts went up in flames on Monday in an angry backlash as workers, guarded by scores of French police, began pulling down tents and shelters in the sprawling migrant camp in Calais. Police lobbed tear gas in a brief clash with pro-migrant activists and others throwing projectiles at officers forming a security cordon to
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The idea of a peace treaty to end the 1950-53 Korean War is again being raised, as China renews efforts to end the armistice agreement along with denuclearizing North Korea. Despite calling for stronger sanctions on North Korea for its nuclear weapons and missile programs, Washington has technically left the door open to possible discussions
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Former Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohamad announced today he was quitting the ruling party, saying it had degenerated into an organisation whose sole purpose was to protect scandal-plagued Prime Minister Najib Razak. Mahathir has for months been a leading voice calling for the ouster of Najib, who is under pressure over allegations that billions of dollars
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