Acclaimed Indian actor Anupam Kher has been named an advocate for the United Nations’ campaign on gender equality. The 60-year-old Saaransh star will collaborate with the world body to call on men and boys to stand up against inequalities against women and girls, thereby ending the discrimination and violence against them. Kher was pinned as […]
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Actor-turned-writer Twinkle Khanna, whose column ‘Mrs Funnybones’ has become the talk of the town, says her husband Akshay Kumar is her editor. Talking to reporters at the book launch of her first book “Mrs Funnybones: She’s Just Like You and a Lot Like Me” here, Twinkle said she had love for writing since childhood “I
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Irrfan is happy and honoured that his performance in Piku won him the best actor award at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) 2015. The movie, also starring Amitabh Bachchan and Deepika Padukone, revolved around the relationship between a father and his daughter. Irrfan played Rana, the owner of a taxi service in the
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In Phantom, Saif Ali Khan embarks on a revenge mission. The film’s director Kabir Khan has always maintained that he prefers real locations instead of relying on CGI (computer-generated imagery) because the actual backdrop adds more depth to his story. A major portion of this film is shot in Beirut and many from the supporting
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The world’s cheapest Mars mission has managed to capture a stunning 3D photo of the Red Planet. The beautiful image, snapped by India’s Mars Orbiter, shows part of the solar system’s largest canyon. The photo, taken at an altitude of 1,857km (1,154 miles) on July 19, shows the many layers of Ophir Chasma – a
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A fresh batch of 38 pilgrims today left for the cave shrine of Amarnath in the south Kashmir Himalayas, amid tight security. The batch comprising 28 men, nine women and a child left in a bus from Bhagwati Nagar base camp in Jammu at 4.40 am, a police official said. Amid tight security arrangements made
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President Pranab Mukherjee’s wife Suvra Mukherjee passed away at around 10 am this morning in a Delhi hospital. She was 74. “It is informed with deep sorrow that First Lady, Mrs Suvra Mukherjee, passed away this morning at 10.51 am,” the President’s Twitter handle announced this morning. Mrs Mukherjee, who had been unwell, and was
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Accusing Prime Mnister Narendra Modi of practicing “double standard”, Leader of Opposition in the Gujarat Assembly Shankersinh Vaghela on Tuesday said that while he refused to wear Muslim skull-cap in Ahmedabad during his ‘sadbhavna’ fasts, he went to Abu Dhabi’s Jama Masjid just to attract investments in India. “This nothing but double standard and highly
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Pakistan has invited Kashmiri separatists for a talk with NSA Sartaj Aziz on August 23 in New Delhi . “Over a dozen separatist leaders, including Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Farooq and Yasin Malik, have been invited for a dinner with Pakistani NSA Sartaj Aziz in New Delhi,” Times Now reported on Wednesday. Pakistan army
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It’s almost like a public holiday in all of this island nation. The results of the general elections were announced on Tuesday and the streets had a deserted look about them — no over-the-top celebrations on the street from victorious candidates till late in the day. For Team India, it was back to the serious
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The Class X Board exams are likely to be back in CBSE schools as the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) committee may recommend changes in the continuous and comprehensive evaluation (CCE) scheme. The committee will meet on Wednesday to discuss the new education policy. It is also likely to take a final call on
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Climate change, cholera and the return of thousands of emigrants from the neighboring Dominican Republican are fueling a humanitarian crisis in Haiti, the UN warned Tuesday. The impoverished Caribbean nation is facing a deluge of problems, pushing an already vulnerable population closer to the edge, said Enzo di Taranto, who heads Haiti’s UN Office for
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The Allahabad high court on Tuesday took a serious note of the pathetic condition of primary schools in the state and directed the chief secretary to ensure that children/wards of government officials/servants, those serving in the local bodies, representatives of people and judiciary, etc., send their wards to these schools. “Only then would they be
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Pakistan’s cricket chief has expressed hope that next week’s diplomatic talks between his country and India will help the revival of cricket between the two rivals after a seven-year hiatus. A delegation from Islamabad led by Sartaj Aziz, adviser to prime minister Nawaz Sharif on foreign affairs and national security, will visit New Delhi to
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Sri Lankan legend Kumar Sangakkara will hang his boots after a glorious international career, in which he amassed 12,350 runs in 133 Tests over 15 years, when he plays his final game at the P Sara Oval from Thursday. It would be a hugely emotional moment for the great batsman and perhaps one man who
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A private bus with 46 pilgrims returning from the Vaishno Devi shrine in Katra to New Delhi fell into the Upper Bari Doab Canal (UBDC), a tributary of the Ravi river at Madhopur, 14 km from Pathankot, on Sunday night. Police sources said all 46 people, including the driver, had been rescued after the accident
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Akshay Kumar and Sidharth Malhotra-starrer ‘Brothers’ has, to some extent, salvaged the box-office, which had slowed down courtesy the previous week’s releases, ‘Bangistan’ and ‘Jaanisaar’. The sports drama received mixed reviews, but has managed to gross Rs 52.08 crore in its opening weekend. Trade analyst Taran Adarsh says though the film collected only Rs 15.20
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Actor Sidharth Malhotra, whose latest film Brothers amassed Rs.52.08 crore in its opening weekend in India, is content with the business of the movie. “Collection is an indication that people are watching your film and they want to see your film. If the collection increases, it encourages actors to perform even better,” said Sidharth, who
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Bal Thackeray’s grandson Aditya Thackeray said he does not want to suggest the name of any actor who should play the role of the Shiv Sena founder in an upcoming biopic. Aditya Thackeray was present at the graduation ceremony for women trained in self-defence, when he was asked who according to him is Bollywood’s Bal
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The commander of the Navy’s 5th Fleet was in his office on the afternoon of July 25 when he got the phone call: An Iranian navy frigate in the Gulf of Aden had approached a ship where a U.S. military helicopter had just landed. Crew members on the Iranian ship pointed a heavy machine gun
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Pakistan violated the ceasefire by resorting to unprovoked at both the International Border and the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir, an official said on Tuesday. A civilian was injured in an overnight ceasefire violation by Pakistan Rangers on the International Border in Jammu district. Subhash Chander, 38, received a bullet injury in
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The Supreme Court has received an anonymous email threatening a blast, say the police. All law interns have been barred from entering the court for a month and security checks have been increased in the court premises since the mail, which came last week. Litigants who come to the court to consult lawyers will also
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A drunk driver drove his truck over eight people sleeping on a pavement in Chandigarh a little past Sunday midnight and killed five of them because some of the victims had rebuked him for urinating in public. Four of the deceased belonged to one family from Rajasthan. Sharma Chaudhary, 23, went on the killing spree
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India made a big move in its West Asia strategy on Monday, while the UAE took a decisive step away from its traditional close relationship with Pakistan to line up with India. On his first visit to Abu Dhabi, PM Narendra Modi and Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed AI Nahyan agreed to cooperate against
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The bodies of all 54 people who were on board a plane that crashed in remote eastern Indonesia at the weekend were found Tuesday at the crash site, an official said. “There are no survivors. All fifty-four bodies have been found,” transport ministry spokesman J.A. Barata told AFP. The Trigana Air plane was carrying 49
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A bomb exploded on Monday outside a religious shrine in a bustling hub of the Thai capital, killing at least 19 people and injuring more than 120 others in an attack authorities said targeted foreigners. The blast occurred about 6:30 pm (1130 GMT) when the streetside Erawan Shrine close to some of Bangkok’s most popular
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If merciless and relentless crunching of bones gets your adrenalin pumping, this film is designed for you. ‘Brothers’, an official remake of the 2011 film, ‘Warrior’, is about the Fernandes family that loves a special kind of sport, Mixed Martial Arts. And as we know by now, this sport means no stopping at anything when
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Milap Zaveri’s ‘Mastizaade’ starring Sunny Leone, which had been denied a Censor certificate earlier, has now been cleared with an ‘adult’ tag after the makers agreed to cut a few scenes and dialogues. The adult comedy was supposed to hit the marquee on May 1, but the Censor Board, at its various levels, had rejected
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A washed-out monsoon session behind it, the Modi government will now unleash an offensive against the Opposition, accusing it of wasting crores and impeding the country’s economic growth. Union ministers and other leaders of the ruling NDA have been instructed to take this message to the public through press conferences and protests. They will specifically
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On the day the Bombay High Court lifted the ban on Maggi noodles, Union Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal has criticised the way the issue has been handled by her own government, saying there is a fear psychosis in industry and signs of a return of ‘inspector raj’. Speaking to NDTV, Ms Badal, when
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