A S Kashyap

Robin Thicke’s former wife Paula Patton is all set to join Adam Sandler and David Spade in Netflix’s comedy flick ‘The Do Over’.

The Steve Brill directed comedy movie will be about two down-on-their-luck guys who decide to fake their own deaths and start over with new identities, only to find the people they’re pretending to be are in even deeper trouble, Deadline.com has reported.

The movie will be scripted by Chris Pappas and Kevin Barnett and will get on field in Savannah, GA, in July. (ANI)

Representatives of the Delhi unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) called on Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung on Tuesday, and urged him to resolve the three-month-long power crisis bedeviling the capital city.

Defence expert Sushant Sareen on Thursday welcomed India’s objection against Pakistan holding elections in Gilgit-Baltistan, which is a part of Kashmir occupied by the Islamic

Republic, pointing out that the assembly in the disputed area does not have municipal powers.

“For the first time, India has objected the issue of Gilgit-Baltistan in a firm way. According to Pakistan, Gilgit-Baltistan was a settled issue. India has rejected this move of Pakistan. Pakistan is trying to

Union Minister for Earth Sciences Dr. Harsh Vardhan has cautioned against complacency towards climate change and described the ongoing extreme heat and back-to-back deficient monsoon phenomenon as manifestations of climate change.

The telecom department panel that was set up to look into the Net neutrality issue has submitted its report to Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and the report will be made public in a few days.

“Yes, they (the panel) have submitted the report to me.

In few days time, the report will be put on the website, you can see and access it. I have asked the Secretary to send a copy to TRAI, so that they can also have a look at it,” Prasad said at the press meet marking a year of the Modi government.

Interest-rate sensitive realty, banking and auto stocks witnessed heavy selling pressure on Tuesday, falling up to 8%, after the RBI hinted that there may not be any more cuts in the near-term.

Among realty scrips, Prestige Estates Projects slumped 8.11%, Indiabulls Real Estate dipped 6.53%, Godrej Properties (5.08%), DLF (4.31%), Housing Development and Infrastructure Ltd (4.23%) on the BSE.

The BSE realty index fell by 3.83% to settle at 1,502.52.

A special court on Tuesday fixed July 2 to consider CBI’s final report on its further probe in a coal scam case pertaining to alleged irregularities in the allocation of a Madhya Pradesh coal block to Kamal Sponge Steel and Power Ltd (KSSPL).

Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar said he would also consider the issue of grant of according sanction to try two public servants in the case which was still pending before the competent authority for alleged offence under Prevention of Corruption Act.

State-run transmission utility Power Grid Corporation (PGCIL) is planning to invest Rs 22,500 crore this fiscal to fuel its expansion plans.

“We are very well on track on our capex plans. This fiscal, we have earmarked an expenditure of Rs 22,500 crore for FY16, which we will use for expansion,” company’s Chairman and Managing Director R N Nayak told reporters here today.

He further said the company has already deployed Rs 4,000 crore for various projects in the last two months.

The company has earmarked a capital expenditure of up to Rs 1 lakh crore for five years, ending 2016-17.

The Russian maker of the Buk air defense missile system said on Tuesday that it has concluded that Malaysian Airlines flight 17 was downed by an older version of the missile, which isn’t in service with the Russian military but is in Ukrainian arsenals.

Controversy continues over who shot down the plane last summer over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people aboard. Ukraine and the West suspect it was destroyed by a Russian surface-to-air missile fired by Russian forces or separatist rebels fighting in the area.

The Centre has started a headcount of people of the minority community employed during the last one year in all its departments as part of review of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new 15-point programme for welfare of minorities.

The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has asked all central government departments to send details of minority people employed during April 2014 and March 2015 to it.

A crazy cricket fan, Martin Bullock, was so impressed with Chris Gayle who smashed one of the highest scores in Twenty20 history that he decided to swim across the River Tone in Taunton to retrieve the ball.

It was Gayle’s 15th six of his unbeaten 151 in the T20 defeat against Kent, and Bullock of Cornwall, reckoned it was worth getting wet for.

Martin said that he had never seen cricket being played like that before, describing it as a simply breathtaking effort from Gayle, the BBC reported.

The first direct bus between Kolkata and Agartala, which traverses across Bangladesh, crossing two international border checkpoints, reached its destination in Tripura

on Tuesday afternoon.

The first group of passengers to travel in 45-seater air conditioned Volvo were a 10-member delegation led by Principal Secretary (Transport) of West Bengal, Alapan Bandhopadhyay.

Bandhopadhyay said that West Bengal Government was delighted to see this new route materialize.

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday said that all ingredients of Indian currency can be manufactured in the country.

He made this statement at the ‘Make in India- Indigenisation of Currency’ event and said that it was time that India started printing with its own paper and ink.

Rejecting suggestions that RBI’s rate cut today was to please the government, Governor Raghuram Rajan said there was a mis-impression that the Reserve Bank wanted to keep rates high to look “strong and firm”.

“There is no point in looking strong and firm if you will be killing the economy in the process,” Rajan said, while adding that RBI will not be reckless in its policymaking and all its moves are driven by data points.

Sofia Coppola has exited Universal’s live-action movie on ‘ The Little Mermaid.’

The 44-year-old screenwriter, who was attached to direct the fairy tale, dropped out of the project due to alleged “creative differences,” Deadline.com has reported.

The studio along with Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner is pressing ahead, with a Caroline Thompson rewrite on the story. (ANI)

Astronomers have recently discovered a young solar system around a nearby star that resembles Earth’s solar system.

An international team led by Thayne Currie of the Subaru Telescope and using the Gemini South telescope revealed images a ring-like disk of debris surrounding a Sun-like star, in a birth environment similar to the Sun’s.

Currie, a Subaru Project Fellow research astronomer said that the discovery of the bright ring of orbiting the star HD 115600 changes everything.

Bella Thorne is set to star in AwesomenessTV’s ‘ Shovel Buddies.’

The film, which has a 2013 Black List script by Jason Mark Hellerman also stars with Kian Lawley and Alex Neustaedter, and centers around four teens who must conquer a “shovel list” of activities left behind by their recently deceased friend, Deadline.com has reported.

The film, which is being helmed by Si and Ad, co-stars Anton Starkman Philip Labes and James C. Burns.

The shooting has begun in California. (ANI)

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has laid the foundation stone of the first flyover in the state to be built in Agartala.

The 2.2 kms flyover, which is expected to ease the growing traffic congestion, will be completed in 30 months time. The estimated cost of the building the flyover is Rs 250 crore.

The flyover will link AD Nagar police lines with Fire Brigade Square in the city’s busiest stretch of road.

Tripura, which is one of the most peaceful states in the Northeast, has one of the fastest growing economies in the region. (ANI)

The Punjab Government has decided to spend more than Rs.550 crore on the construction of toilets in rural areas in order to ensure proper hygiene in the state.

Punjab’s Education Minister Surjit Singh Rakhra on Monday said that it is essential to have proper toilets in every household to avoid serious health hazards resulting from open defecation.

Studies show that about 44 percent of men and 10 percent of women defecate in the open in Punjab.

Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Tuesday accused the NDA Government at the Centre of making a ‘mockery of governance’ by dictating terms to Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung on matters of power sharing in the national capital.

“Delhi Government and ACB have complete power to appoint police officers from anywhere across the country. The Central Government has made a mockery of everything. They dictate their terms to the

Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan, who failed in his bid to become the next FIFA president, has said that Sepp Blatter was responsible for football world’s governing actions and added that he would have resigned if he were in the latter’s position.

Prince Ali hoped that at some stage Blatter would actually take responsibility for his actions, as he was the president of a governing body of the most popular sport in the world, CNN reported.

Blatter was re-elected for the fifth term on Friday by FIFA congress in Zurich.

As per a new study, vitamin D and calcium supplements do not improve menopausal symptoms.

The study found that women who took vitamin D and calcium supplements had the same number of menopausal symptoms as women who did not take the supplements.

The study, which involved 34,157 women ages 50-79, is part of the Women’s Health Initiative, one of the largest clinical trials ever undertaken to address the most common causes of death, disability and impaired quality of life in menopausal women.

Data sciences and analytics firm Saama Technologies Inc., which is based in Pune and Silicon Valley, U.S., on Tuesday announced that investment firm Carrick Capital is investing USD 35 million in the company in series ‘A’ funding.

The company intends to utilise these funds by expanding their reach in India over the next financial quarter.

“Saama will spend this money on expansion in India. We plan to add over 500 new jobs over the next financial quarter and also increase our software export based revenues,” said Saama Technologies Inc. director (marketing operations) Supratik Ghatak.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter, who was re-elected for a fifth consecutive term last Friday, intends to travel to Canada for Women’s World Cup final this month, despite a crisis engulfing football’s world governing body.

Meanwhile, general secretary Jerome Valcke, who was due to attend the opening of the tournament beginning on June 6, has said that he would not be making the trip, the BBC has reported.

However, a statement issued by FIFA said it was important that he attended to matters at FIFA’s headquarters in Zurich (ANI)

Asserting that India attaches great importance to its long standing friendship with Sweden, President Pranab Mukherjee has said that though the two nations are geographically distant from each other, but are bound by a common commitment to democratic values and practice.

“We are both open, pluralistic societies that are committed to the protection of human rights and the Rule of Law. We have, over the years, developed mutual trust and goodwill that has brought our people together to achieve our common goals in many sectors,” said President Mukherjee at a banquet hosted in his honour here.