Over the last few months, the Hindi film industry has been in spotlight for all the wrong reasons. As talks around nepotism, favouritism and insider vs outsider debate, seem far from getting over, Nidhhi Agerwal, too agrees that biases exist in Bollywood, but she doesn’t let that affect her career […]
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Theatres belong to paise-wallahs: Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Movie theatres have been shut since the lockdown first came into force (around mid-March). As a result, the OTT space has spread it’s reach at a breakneck speed in India. And although theatre owners have incurred heavy losses, many feel the rise of OTT platforms is great news for content […]
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Uttarakhand govt launches drive to find bodies missing from 2013 Kedarnath tragedy
Uttarakhand Police on Wednesday launched a drive to search for the skeletons of people who went missing in Rudraprayag in the massive flash floods in June 2013. “There is a discrepancy in the number of missing people and bodies recovered. The DNA test of skeletons will be done,” said Garhwal […]
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After Beirut blast, a young surgeon finds new sense of duty
It was a night Dr. Bassam Osman says changed his life. At around 6 p.m. on Aug. 4, the 27-year-old surgical resident was about to leave his daily hospital shift. Then a massive explosion shook Beirut. The floodgates opened and hundreds of wounded poured into the American University of Beirut […]
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Police file over 15,000-page charge sheet in Delhi riots case, name 15 people
The Delhi Police has named fifteen people as accused in charge sheet filed over the violence that took place in national capital in February this year. The accused have been named for orchestrating the riots that killed at least 53 people. The charge sheet filed by Delhi police special cell […]
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Vishwakarma Puja 2020: Significance, Date, Timing and Muhurat
Vishwakarma Jayanti, also known as Vishwakarma Puja, marks the birth of the Hindu god, Vishwakarma, who is believed to be the creator of the world, and is referred to as the divine architect. Vishwakarma, the son of Lord Brahma, is believed to have created the holy city of Dwarka, Lord […]
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India registers record daily Covid-19 recoveries, recovery rate at 78.53%
The number of people who have recovered from the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in India has been on a steady rise with the country logging record 82,961 recoveries in a single day as of Wednesday. As many as 3,942,360 have recovered from the viral disease and been discharged from home isolation […]
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Mitra the robot helps India’s Covid-19 patients speak to loved ones
A hospital in India has deployed a customer-service robot to patrol its wards, connecting coronavirus patients to friends and relatives. Mitra, meaning “friend” in Hindi, is best known for interacting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an event in 2017. Its piercing eyes are equipped with facial recognition technology to help […]
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Losing T20 WC final to India will hurt till my last breath: Pak opener
Pakistan opening batsman Imran Nazir said the loss in the T20 World Cup final against India in 2007 in South Africa is one of the biggest regrets of cricketing career and will continue to hurt till his last breath. MS Dhoni led India had defeated Pakistan by five runs in […]
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Mehbooba Mufti’s PDP holds 1st meeting after Article 370 abrogation
For the first time after revocation of Article 370, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) youth leaders met to deliberate on several issues at party headquarters in Srinagar after their failed first attempt. The meeting was attended by party vice president, Abdul Rehman Veeri and general secretary, Ghulam Nabi Lone, both […]
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Elon Musk is charged about prospects of self-driving EVs in tunnels under cities
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been a vocal supporter of self-driving or autonomous vehicles and claims these are safer than conventional vehicles that have humans controlling the wheel. He has also in the past made a case for driving underground and his Boring Company is fast nearing completion on a […]
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IIT Kharagpur researchers ‘develop’ AI-based system to detect arsenic pollution
Researchers from IIT Kharagpur have developed an artificial intelligence-based prediction model for detecting arsenic pollution in drinking water, an official said on Wednesday. The researchers have mapped the high and low arsenic zones across the entire Gangetic delta using artificial intelligence (AI) and the number of people exposed, IIT Kharagpur […]
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Babri Masjid demolition case verdict on Advani, Joshi, Bharti on September 30
A special CBI court has fixed September 30 for judgment in the decades-old Babri Masjid demolition case, in which former deputy Prime Minister LK Advani, BJP stalwarts Murli Manohar Joshi, Kalyan Singh and Uma Bharti are among the 32 accused. The date for judgment in the Ayodhya criminal conspiracy case […]
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End of Shinzo Abe era leaves Japan still searching for way forward
Among the challenges awaiting newly appointed Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is the urgent challenge of how to keep the world’s third-largest economy growing as its population ages and shrinks. Yoshihide Suga, Abe’s former chief spokesman, was appointed prime minister on Wednesday after Abe resigned because of a chronic health […]
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Uttarakhand village boy’s journey from being a porter to PhD scholar
The life of Virendra Rana (35), who belongs to a tiny hamlet Lata in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district, has come full circle. At 18, he had worked as a part-time porter and guide for six scientists, who were involved in a field project in the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve that proved […]