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Home Disney+ Hotstar announces upcoming slate featuring Ajay Devgn, Shabana Azmi
Content streaming platform Disney+ Hotstar on Tuesday announced its lineup, headlined by Bollywood personalities like Shabana Azmi, Ajay Devgn, Saif Ali Khan and Pratik Gandhi among many others.Ajay, who makes his digital debut with crime-drama series "Rudra - The Edge of Darkness" said: "Today, the quality of entertainment being delivered via digital...
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Home Sex ban at Olympics is a big laughing stock for me: Ex-German athlete
While the Tokyo Olympics organisers might be going all out to give an "anti-sex" push to the quadrennial showpiece because of fear of the spread of the Covid-19 virus due to intimate contact, a former German long jumper has said that it's hard to stop athletes from doing what they want to do.Susen Tiedtke, who competed for Germany at the 1992 Barcelona and the 2000...
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Democracy Mistreatment of 'political prisoners' manifestation of total collapse of liberalism under authoritarian regime
It has been over 500 days and 300 days since Khalid Saifi's and Umar Khalid's incarceration respectively in the northeast Delhi riots cases and almost three weeks since the custodial demise of Father Stan Swamy in the Bhima-Koregaon case-all arrested under the dreaded Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, (UAPA) 1967. The event has put...
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Home Sona Mohapatra first Indian independent musician to make it to Times Square billboard
Artist and producer Sona Mohapatra made her debut appearance on the iconic Times Square billboard in New York on Monday.She is one of the first independent musicians to be given this place as a pop-culture milestone.Sona said: "To be woken up in the middle of the night to see photographs of my face on a billboard covering a skyscraper in one of my...
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Home 7 opposition parties write to President, seek time on snooping, farmers issue
Amid logjam in Parliament over the snooping row and farmers protests, seven opposition parties on Tuesday wrote to the President of India Ram Nath Kovind to intervene.While Congress and the TMC are not signatories to the letter, seven opposition parties which include Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), NCP, BSP among others have sought time from the President to meet. The...
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Home Rolls-Royce tax row: Court stays adverse remarks against TN actor Vijay
A division bench of the Madras High Court on Tuesday passed an interim stay against an order of a single bench of the high court against Tamil superstar and actor Vijay labelling him as 'anti national' after he challenged an entry tax demand while importing a Rolls-Royce 'Ghost' luxury car from England in 2012.Justices M. Duraiswamy and Justice R. Hemalatha also directed the...
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Home Union Govt junks seniority, asks IAS officers to screen IRS 'contenders' for CBDT
Three new Members of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) for the first time will be screened first by a committee of IAS officers and not notified on the basis of seniority by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC).The move to ask 19 'contenders', all senior IRS officers in the rank of Principal Chief Commissioners and Principal Directors General of...
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Home Pegasus snooping issue 'most important' for IT panel; will question govt officials on this: Tharoor
Parliamentary panel on Information Technology will question government officials on allegations relating to suspected phone tapping of politicians, journalists and others using Pegasus spyware, the committee chairman and senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said on Tuesday asserting that it is the "most important issue" for many...
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Home Vatican Cardinal to go on trial for fraud
A Vatican Cardinal, who was once a close adviser to Pope Francis, will face a trial over allegedly misusing Church funds in a London property venture, a media report said on Tuesday.The BBC report said that the 73-year-old Cardinal Angelo Becciu is the most senior cleric in modern times to face trial for alleged financial crimes.Although he denies any wrongdoing, Becciu has been "charged with...
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Home Pankaj Tripathi speaks on the joys of working with birthday girl Kriti Sanon in 'Mimi'
The versatile, self-effacing and very humble actor Pankaj Tripathi last seen in Kagaz playing a man who is declared dead by the government trying to prove he is alive, is back in Mimi."And this time I can tell you, I've had so much fun. It's a film about child surrogacy. But it doesn't take itself too seriously. There is no lecturebaazi on morality. It...
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