Alternately hard-nosed and dewy-eyed, Mank is the most fiendishly entertaining movie about movies since Ben Affleck’s Argo. It’s satirical but sweet, weary but vengeful — it’s unlike anything director David Fincher has ever made. An early scene offers a disclaimer of sorts. You can’t capture a man’s life in two hours, […]
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Functional Bengal school building demolished, administration clueless
The building of a functional government primary school in West Bengal’s Malda district has been demolished, while the administration is clueless over who conducted it. The incident took place in English Bazar town on December 1 but came to light recently, police said on Friday. An FIR has been lodged […]
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Madhurima Tuli : People are just trying to make a fuss about Bollywood
Controversies and debates are all what engulfed Bollywood the past few months. While things seems to be slowly dying down, actor Madhurima Tuli says one must not pay heed to all that is being said about the Hindi film industry. “There was a lot of negativity around entrainment industry in […]
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Number of govt-run basic education schools goes up to 240 in Prayagraj
Owing to the expansion of municipal limits, the number of government-run primary and upper primary schools in the city has increased to 240, officials have said. Earlier, there were a total of 87 such government-run schools, including 53 primary schools (classes 1 to 5), four upper primary schools (classes 6 […]
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Gippy dismayed by Bollywood’s silence on farmer protests, Taapsee objects
After Diljit Dosanjh and Kangana Ranaut, another Bollywood actor and Punjabi star had a difference of opinion on Twitter, over their views regarding the ongoing farmer protests in and around Delhi. Taapsee Pannu objected to the use of Bollywood as a collective term when Gippy Grewal called out the industry for not […]
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Retired doctor launches new legal bid to end Singapore’s gay sex ban
A retired doctor has filed a fresh legal challenge to force the Singaporean government to either fully enforce or introduce legislation to scrap a colonial-era law that can jail men for engaging in gay sex. Tan Seng Kee, 62, a prominent LGBT+ advocate better known as Roy Tan, launched his […]
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Ant, Grab win Singapore digital bank licenses along with Sea
Sea Ltd. is also among the four winners announced Friday by the Monetary Authority of Singapore after almost a year of deliberation. A consortium involving China’s Greenland Financial Holdings Group Co. is the other successful candidate. Singapore joins the U.K. and Hong Kong in opening up its banking system to […]
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Madrid suspends New Year’s Eve events in city centre
Madrid’s regional government on Friday cancelled all its traditional New Year’s Eve celebrations, including the main event in Puerta del Sol Square when thousands eat a grape at each stroke of midnight. The announcement came as part of a raft of new measures aimed at ensuring public health and safety […]
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NIA files charge sheet against six in Handwara narco terrorism case
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday filed a charge sheet against six people involved in alleged cross-border drug smuggling to generate money for terror activities in Jammu & Kashmir and other parts of the country, the agency said. The agency took over the probe into the smuggling after 21 […]
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Covid-19: No UK quarantine for business activity from today
There will be no mandatory 14-day Covid-19 quarantine from Saturday for individuals arriving in England for business activity that delivers significant benefit to the British economy, the UK government said, announcing a list of exemptions. From 4am on Saturday, individuals undertaking specific business activity that would deliver a significant benefit […]
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TikTok sale deadline on hold as talks with US continue
A deadline set by the Trump administration for the forced sale of TikTok’s U.S. assets will come and go Friday without a final deal, according to people familiar with the discussions. While the deadline has been extended multiple times, TikTok isn’t expected to receive a new one, said the people, who asked not to […]
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Row over naming of Kerala science institute campus after RSS ideologue
Kerala’s ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPI(M), and opposition Congress have opposed the move to name the new campus of Thiruvananthapuram’s Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB) after Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) ideologue Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar and have demanded that it be named after some well-known scientist. Union […]
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Comic series chronicling India’s maritime heritage launched on Navy Day
A comic book series chronicling India’s maritime heritage was launched by Navy Vice Chief Vice Admiral G Ashok Kumar on the occasion of Navy Day, officials said on Friday. “First of the three-book comic series chronicling India’s maritime heritage launched on the occasion of Navy Day. The series, being published […]
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Netflix is free in India for a limited time, here’s how you can get it
You can now watch Netflix for free in India. Netflix StreamFest kicked off earlier today, and it will continue till Sunday. This is the first time Netflix is offering its services for free, and for an entire weekend. The entire catalogue of Netflix including movies, TV shows and documentaries is free for […]
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32 year old fireman dies fighting fire in Navi Mumbai chemical company
A 32 year old fireman was killed while dousing a fire in a chemical company in Taloja, Navi Mumbai after inhaling hazardous chemical fumes in the wee hours of Saturday. Three other firemen who complained of difficulties in breathing are under observation in a Navi Mumbai hospital. Fire fighting teams […]