Mumbai: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan will be seen without make-up in his much awaited TV show `Yudh`. The 71-year-old actor plays the character of a real estate baron, Yudhisthir Sikarwar, in the upcoming show.
Anurag Kashyap, the creative director of the show, took a deliberate decision of `no makeup` for the artists and the entire cast welcomed it.
Orkut, Google’s first social networking site, will cease to exist after September, with the Internet giant deciding to shut down the service launched 10 years ago.
Google said it will shut down Orkut, which is very popular in India and Brazil, on September 30.
The service, however, did not do so well in other parts of the world and lost sheen to rivals like Facebook.
Orkut, which popularised posts or “scraps” between friends, did not disclose the number of users on the website.
Goa’s Public Works Department Minister Sudin Dhavalikar wants to ban young girls from wearing short skirts to nightclubs of Goa.
“Young girls wearing short skirts in nightclubs are a threat to the Goan culture,” Dhavalikar told reporters on the sidelines of an inauguration function in Panaji late Monday.
“This habit of young girls wearing short dresses everywhere does not fit the Goan culture. What will happen to it if this continues? We should not allow this. It should be stopped,” Dhavalikar said.
Siva Sivani institute of management in collaboration with Om metal infraproject ltd. Mumbai and Minority affairs ministry, Govt. of India, will begin free excel development course in retail from July 25, at Siva Sivani Institute of Management campus.
Filmmaker Mohit Suri says his wife Udita Goswami is “musically inclined” and wanted to be a rock star but ended up being an actor.
His cousin Pooja Bhatt had launched Udita in Bollywood with her 2003 film “Paap” and two years later Suri directed the actress in her second film “Zeher”.
“Udita wanted to be a rock star but ended up being an actor. She is more musically inclined,” said Suri who tied the knot with Udita in 2013 after dating her for about nine years.
“Right now she is doing her music production course. She is already working it out to perform as a DJ,” he added.
Actress-businesswoman Preity Zinta, whose current legal conflict with ex-beau Ness Wadia scorched the headlines, is set to make a comeback with Neeraj Pathak’s “Bhaiyyaji”, in which she plays a ferocious bandit.
The film will also feature Sunny Deol as a gangster from Uttar Pradesh.
According to Pathak, Preity has pulled it off with aplomb.
“Preity plays a Uttar Pradeshwali. She plays a gangster’s daughter. She’s no-nonsense UP gangster and Sunny Deol’s wife,” he added.
Six persons, including two children, were killed and two others seriously injured when their car collided head-on with a truck in Rajasthan’s Pratapgarh district on tuesday.
The incident occurred at Semalia Ghata when the victims were on their way to Ajmer from Banswara, police said.
A man, three women and two children died on the spot, they said.
The injured have been admitted to a government hospital in Udaipur.
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Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Monday congratulated sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik for winning prizes at the World Cup of Sand Sculpting 2014 held in Atlantic City in the US.
“In the field of sand art, Sudarsan is a renowned name,” the chief minister said in a statement here.
“He has won many prizes internationally for his magical art and creativity. With this success, he has been able to get recognition for Odisha`s art and culture throughout the world. I wish him good luck to achieve more success in future.”
Congress deputy floor leader Mr. Mohammed Ali Shabbir demanded that chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao immediately suspend advocate K Ram Krishna Reddy who is opposing Muslim reservations from the post of advocate general. Otherwise he warned to begin legal battle. He also asked government to clarify its stand regarding 12 pc reservations to Muslims and tribals during the new academic year.
Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Tapas Pal’s wife, Nandita Pal, has apologized for her husband’s widely condemned remarks, where he had threatened to send his men to the homes of Communist Party of India (Marxist) leaders to rape their women.
Nandita Pal said, “Whatever he said is not right. I am sorry about it.”
Her husband Tapas Pal had invited widespread condemnation by saying, “I will send my boys to their (attackers) homes and ask them to rape their women. If any of our Trinamool men are touched, I will ensure that the CPI (M) is finished and ensure that their homes are burnt.”
A new study has revealed that common type of ocean bacteria is natural source of producing compounds, which are nearly identical to man-made toxic fire retardants.
Among the chemicals produced by the ocean-dwelling microbes, which have been found in habitats as diverse as sea grasses, marine sediments and corals, is a potent endocrine disruptor that mimics the human body’s most active thyroid hormone.
The National Human Rights Commission has sought reports from the Secretary in the Union Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, and the Chief Secretaries of all states and union territories within four weeks on the issue of defecation in open and lack of toilets.
A survey proved that 30 per cent women who went out for toilet became victims of sexual assault. The Commission has observed that the contents of the press report, if true, raised a serious issue of violation of human rights.
The next round of annual US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue would be held in Beijing on July 9 and 10.
US Secretary of State John Kerry and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew would travel to China next week for this comprehensive dialogue between the two countries.
They would be joined for the Dialogue by their respective Chinese co-chairs, State Councilor Yang Jiechi and Vice Premier Wang Yang, along with members of the US delegation and their Chinese counterparts.
Beyonce has topped the Forbes list of world’s 100 most powerful celebs list for the first time since her debut on the list in 2004.
The 32-year-old singer’s rapper husband Jay-Z gained the sixth spot who made 60million dollars, the BBC reported.
Basketball player LeBron James grabbed the second spot on this year’s list, while hip hop star Dr Dre occupied the third spot with 620million dollars earnings.
Oprah Winfrey was placed at the fourth spot. (ANI)
Five innovation scholars selected under the innovation scholars-in residence scheme of Rashtrapati Bhavan will stay at Rashtrapati Bhavan for a period of twenty days from today.
Due to absence of a special officer in the state Waqf Board the work has come to standstill; uncertainty prevails even in the payment of salary.
Now that the holy month of Ramadan has begun Waqf Board employees fear non-payment of salaries on July 1 because only Special Officer is authorised to issue cheque to bank for payment of salaries and the post is vacant.
Waqf Board sources said that Waqf Board releases salaries of its workers only after the signatures of Special Officer and Chief Executive Officer.
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The Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), Najam Sethi has admitted that without the clearance of the Indian government the bilateral six-series agreement signed with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) was useless.
“We are very hopeful that the first series of this agreement will be played next year in December because everything is now on paper but eventually everything will depend on clearance from the Indian government,” he told the media in Lahore today.
Two male elephants were crushed to death by a speeding train at a level crossing in Alipurduar in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district on Tuesday.
The incident happened when the two wild elephants from nearby forest were crossing the track near the Madha tea garden between Hashimara and Hemiltongonj, deputy field director of Baksa (West) forest range Apurba Sen said.
The seriously injured animals succumbed to their injuries, he said.
The pachyderms were hit by a Guwahati-bound train from New Delhi carrying army personnel.
US President Barack Obama said that about 200 troops arrived in Iraq to protect the US embassy in Baghdad amidst fierce fighting in the war-torn country, a media report said Tuesday.
The new troops, who arrived Sunday and Monday, will provide security for the embassy, the Baghdad airport and other facilities in Iraq, CNN quoted Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby as saying.
The deployment includes “a detachment of helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles, which will bolster airfield and travel route security,” Kirby said in a statement.
The condition of former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee admitted to a private hospital after suffering a cerebral stroke was stable, though he continues to be drowsy, doctors said Tuesday.
“His condition is stable, but he is drowsy and not fully conscious. He is still not able to take food orally. We have done a few tests and will conduct some more to determine presence of any brain infection,” attending doctor Subir Mondal told IANS.
Chatterjee was hospitalised Sunday evening.
This is the second time in the last six months that the 84-year-old has been hospitalised.
Residents of Uttar Pradesh’s capital Lucknow woke up to heavy rains on Tuesday that brought down the temperature, giving much relief to the people from the hot and humid weather.
It started raining a little before 7 am and continued for more than an hour. The city like other regions has been reeling under unprecedented heat wave conditions for the past one month.
The last month was the third driest June in Lucknow in the past 114 years, said Met officials, adding that the rainfall recorded in June was only 92.4 mm.
A deluxe bus service that connects this Himachal Pradesh town to Leh in Jammu and Kashmir restarted on Tuesday after remaining closed for over seven months due to snowfall, an official said.
One-way fare is Rs 2,500, which includes a night’s stay at Keylong, dinner and breakfast.
“The 35-seater bus will leave Manali twice a week at 9 am. After stopping overnight at Keylong (in Lahaul-Spiti district), it will reach Leh next day in the evening,” Himachal Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation (HPTDC) general manager Yogesh Behl told a news agency.
Concerned over the rise in prices of food items, the Centre Monday swung into action with Prime Minister Narendra Modi taking stock of the situation and the states being told to take urgent measures against hoarding and ensure “uninterrupted” flow of supplies.
The Centre has also called a meeting of state Food and Consumer Affairs ministers here on July 4 to discuss measures to contain inflation, that rose to 6.01 percent in May.
The meeting, to be chaired by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, will discuss among other things implementation of the National Food Security Act.
Baihaqi reported on the authority of Salman Al-Farsi (Radhi Allah ‘Anh) that Prophet (‘Alaihi Salat was-Salam) delivered a sermon on the last day of the month of Sha’ban. In it he (‘Alaihi Salat was-Salam) said:
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius will on Tuesday call on Prime Minister Narendra Modi here.
Fabius had on Monday said he would be extending an invite from President Francois Hollande to the Indian PM to visit France.
The Prime Minister’s official visit to France could be in September, when Modi visits New York for the UN General Assembly, Fabius said.
As soon as Fabius arrived in India on Monday, he had voiced confidence that the USD 20 billion deal for the purchase of 126 Rafale combat jets would be inked soon.