A S Kashyap

Superstar Hrithik Roshan is happy to cross the 10 million benchmark on micro-blogging site Twitter.

The 41-year-old Bang Bang! star thanked his fans for being his inspiration, on Twitter.

“I crossed 10 million. Just realised. How wonderful. Thanks guys, you all are my biggest inspiration and my deepest reason to be and serve at my best,” he wrote.

The Krrish actor is currently shooting for Ashutosh Gowariker’s epic adventure-romance Mohenjo Daro opposite actress Pooja Hegde, who makes her Bollywood debut with the film.

Taylor Swift and beau Calvin Harris have been ranked the highest-paid celebrity couple by Forbes.

The business magazine detailed that the ‘Bad Blood’ singer and her DJ boyfriend, who dethroned Beyonce and Jay-Z for the top spot, annually rake in 146 million dollars, People Magazine reported.

Notably, Swift’s empire doesn’t only include her albums and world tours as the 25-year-old songstress endorses Keds, Diet Coke and Sony.

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today felicitated Barnala lad Satnam Singh Bhamara for making the state proud by becoming the first Indian basketball player to be drafted into the NBA League.

In a congratulatory message, the Chief Minister said that it was a matter of great honour for all Punjabis that Bhamara who hails from Ballo Ke village in Barnala district had made niche in USA’s prestigious NBA league with his sheer hard work and dedication.

Comedian Tracy Morgan was spotted taking a stroll around New York City with his fiancee Megan Wollover and their one-year-old daughter. The former “Saturday Night Live” star appeared to be in good spirits and showed a great improvement following his fatal car crash, reported Ace Showbiz.

Several eyewitnesses said that Morgan “was beaming, telling his fans he was ‘so blessed’ and was very grateful to those who supported him.” Morgan kept smiling and was so friendly with fans who approached him during the outing. “You could tell he was happy to be alive,” the eyewitnesses added.

Amid the on-going tussle between the Lt Governor and Delhi government over appointment of Mukesh Meena as the ACB chief, the AAP said on Saturday that not a single case has been registered after the officer took over and the party will form squads to “expose” corruption in the national capital.

Addressing a press conference, senior AAP leader and party founder member Kumar Vishwas alleged that the position of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) was getting “compromised” under the current officer.

Brit actors (clockwise) Dev patel, Felicity Jones, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Eddie Redmayne are one of the new invitees of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Slumdog Millionaire star Dev Patel, this year’s best actor Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne, Benedict Cumberbatch, David Oyelowo and Felicity Jones are among the 322 people, who have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as members.

Their campaign passing along smoothly, India will now look to upstage fancied world champions Australia in their last preliminary match of the World League semifinals tomorrow.

India’s show against Australia will go a long way in deciding the final pool positions, with Pakistan staying in the frame after the subcontinental encounter yesterday ended in a 2-2 draw.

India have managed two narrow victories ahead of the draw against Pakistan, while Australia have posted impressive victories in all their outings, including a 6-1 drubbing of Pakistan.

Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday said that the report on net neutrality would be out once the TRAI report is out.

“Report of net neutrality will be out soon. But as I said in the Parliament, I will have to await TRAI report also. We are expecting that the RBI will give license for payment bank to the Department of Post by August,” said Ravi Shankar.

China is reportedly proceeding with the construction of artificial islands on at least two reefs, which are claimed by the Philippines, despite Beijing promising to end some work soon.

Mayor Eugenio Bito-onon of Kalayaan Islands, which falls under Philippine’s control, said that he saw Chinese land reclamation activity going on in ‘full swing,’ with many dredgers and huge cranes visible near Subi Reef, reports The Guardian.

He noted that it was ‘full-blast, massive and incredible’ construction and added that it would take months before the Chinese completed the work.

Kendall Jenner is flying high as she recently broke her sister Kim Kardashian’s record of having the most liked picture on Instagram.

The 19-year-old model posted a picture of her showing her looks shaped like hearts, in May, which received whooping 2.48 million likes, and defeated Kardashian’s record-breaking pic of her wedding with husband Kanye West, People Magazine reported.

Jenner tweeted “Take that Kimye!” and later added that she still has a lot to learn from her superstar elder sister especially in cosmetics. (ANI)

People who have high blood pressure face lower risk for Alzheimer’s disease, claims a new study.

Associate Professor, and co-author of the study John Kauwe at Brigham Young University, said that it was likely that the protective effect was coming from antihypertensive drugs.

The study analysed genetic data from 17,008 individuals with Alzheimer’s and 37,154 people without the disease. Data came from the Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Consortium and the International Genomics of Alzheimer’s Project.

French police are reportedly still questioning a man suspected of carrying out an attack on a factory near Lyon, in which a man was found decapitated.

Yassin Salhi, 35, caused an explosion by ramming his car into an area containing flammable liquids, the BBC quoted prosecutors in Lyon, as saying.

His boss, the owner of a delivery firm, was found beheaded alongside Arabic inscripted flags.

Taylor Swift and beau Calvin Harris have been ranked the highest-paid celebrity couple by Forbes.

The business magazine detailed that the ‘Bad Blood’ singer and her DJ boyfriend, who dethroned Beyonce and Jay-Z for the top spot, annually rake in 146 million dollars, People Magazine reported.

Notably, Swift’s empire doesn’t only include her albums and world tours as the 25-year-old songstress endorses Keds, Diet Coke and Sony.

A Delhi court has allowed former TERI director R.K. Pachauri to travel abroad from June 29 – July 9 to attend the last rites of a relative.
Pachauri was questioned yesterday for the second time by Delhi Police in connection with the alleged sexual harassment case lodged against him by a research associate working in his office

On May 21, a local court had declined to allow Pachauri to enter his office while noting the slow progress in the probe against him and asked police to complete it by July 17.

The Samajwadi Party (SP) on Saturday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of politicising the Uttar Pradesh Police’s anti-riot drill which involved the usage of saffron flags.

“The BJP wants to make this a political issue when it’s not. We will give orders to the police to keep such things in mind next time,” said SP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia.

Mock rioters had waved saffron flags during an anti-riot drill at reserve police lines in Allahabad on Friday. The incident had angered BJP leaders, who termed it an insult to crores of Hindus.

A child has died and six others fell ill on Saturday in Bihar’s Vaishali district allegedly after being administered polio drops.

The incident occurred in Shahpur village near Hajipur, district headquarters of Vaishali, about 25 kilometres from Patna, where children aged upto five were administered polio drops on Friday.

Vaishali civil surgeon Ramashish Kumar has ordered a probe into the incident.

Further details are awaited. (ANI)

Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to come clean on the fracas involving former IPL chief Lalit Modi and Rajasthan Chief minister Vasundhara Raje.

“All this shows everything isn’t good in BJP, they are saying something to people, doing something else. The Prime Minister should open his mouth and state what the truth is, when he goes abroad he has a lot to say, what happened now?” Kharge said.

Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam on Saturday alleged that Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’s hurry to give a clean chit to state Women and Children Development Minister Pankaja Munde on Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) schemes suggested that he might have received some kickback as well.

Scientists have identified a “decoy” molecule that can help sharply reduce the risk of flu death.

The flu virus can be lethal, but what is often just as dangerous is the body’s own reaction to the invader. This immune response consists of an inflammatory attack, meant to kill the virus, but if it gets too aggressive, this counterattack can end up harming the body’s own tissues, causing damage that can lead to death.

The White House was lit up in rainbow colours on Friday night in celebration of the Supreme Court’s decision to lift same sex marriage bans across the country.

A White House official said that it was done to demonstrate the White House’s unflinching commitment to progress and equality in America and around the world. He added that the pride colours reflected the diversity of the LGBT community and added that the colours that lit up the White House building celebrated a new chapter in the history of American civil rights, reported ABC News.

His death in 1994 may have left the Indian music industry in grief, but even after over two decades, R.D. Burman’s soulful melodies continue to inspire musicians, as a result of which fans are celebrating his 76th anniversary today.

To mark the legend’s birth anniversary, fans have trended “#HappyBirthdayRDBurman” on social networking site Twitter.

Remembering the ‘Tere Bina Zindagi Se’ hit-maker, Abhishek Bachchan too shared his song ‘Hoga Tumse Pyara Kaun’ as the song of the day along with the trending hashtag to mark his birthday.

Hollywood celebs wasted no time after the US Supreme Court declared gay marriages were now allowed across the country, and celebrated the historic decision.

‘Cabaret’ star Liza Minnelli, 69, issued a statement saying that she has always believed in everyone’s equal right to love and was extremely happy that the country was now “the law of the land.”

Meanwhile, stars also took to Twitter to share their happiness over the ruling, reported Fox News.

British police has reportedly urged citizens to attend the Armed Forces Day events as normal after an alleged plot to explode a pressure cooker bomb at a parade in South London was foiled.

The attack, planned by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), was revealed after one of its leaders in Syria unwittingly recruited an undercover investigator from The Sun newspaper to carry it out, reported The Guardian.

The intended bombing would have targeted soldiers from the same unit as soldier Lee Rigby, who was murdered by Islamist extremists in 2013. (ANI)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch Integrated Power Development Scheme (IPDS) tomorrow in Varanasi.

The IPDS is one of the flagship programmes of the Ministry of Power and will be at the core attempt to ensure 24×7 power for all.

The scheme which was announced in the Union Budget 2014-15, aims at strengthening of sub-transmission network, metering, IT application, customer care services, provisioning of solar panels and the completion of the ongoing works of Restructured Accelerated Power Development and completion of the Reforms Programme (RAPDRP).

Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje reached Jaipur after attending the NITI Aayog meeting in New Delhi on Saturday.

Raje who was earlier in the national capital was mobbed by a horde of reporters upon her arrival at the Palam airport.

The Rajasthan Chief Minister had yesterday rebutted reports of personally calling MLAs to seek their support and loyalty, rubbishing the news as ‘baseless’.