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Shah Rukh Khan, Photo, Shah Rukh Khan, @iamsrk/Instagram
What is the one thing Shah Rukh Khan yearns for most?To own a house.King Khan bared his heart at an event in Dubai where he launched Shahrukhz Residency by Danube.'I came from a background where my parents died early. This is not a sob story. This is how it was. I didn't have a house. So a house...
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A low-pressure area has formed over the southeast Bay of Bengal and is likely to intensify into a depression by November 15, the IMD said on Friday.The system formed at 5.30 am under the influence of an upper-air cyclonic circulation over the central Andaman Sea and adjoining Andaman and Nicobar...
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Sonia Gandhi with her book, Belonging: A Journey of Love. Photograph: @INCIndia X / ANI Photo
Sonia Gandhi and her sister Anouchka are named after two Russian children whom her father, Sergeant Major Stefano Maino, would share his meagre ration with while stationed at an army camp during the Russian campaign in World War II, writes Sonia in her memoir Belonging - A Journey of Love.The...
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A wild elephant has been attacking people in Chhattisgarh's Surajpur district, with its recent victim being a 45-year-old woman. The woman was trampled to death, making her the 16th victim in the past seven months. Surajpur and adjoining Balrampur districts have especially been terrorised by...
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Jaguar Land Rover's Defender
Tata-owned Jaguar Land Rover has been engaged in a legal battle with the Chinese-owned BYD.JLR claims that BYD has cloned the Defender, its best-selling car, as the Ti7 which is also much cheaper.JLR raided BYD offices in The Netherlands in August to gather evidence against the Chinese auto...
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Seema Biswas as Phoolan Devi in Bandit Queen
Shekhar Kapur's 1994 classic Bandit Queen will have a sequel, which will be directed by Honey Trehan.'Bandit Queen has been a huge inspiration for filmmakers of my generation, and it's special when I am offered the opportunity to carry that legacy forward by Bobby (Bedi, producer) sir,' Trehan...
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Ranbir Kapoor in Ramayana: Part One, Photo, Kind Courtesy, @ramayanamovie/Instagram
On its eighth day of release, Ramayana: Part One has crossed Rs 1,000 crores (Rs 1 billion) at the box office.'Ramayana: Part One has become the 11th Indian film to enter the prestigious club of crossing Rs 1,000 crore amount at box office,' box-office tracking website, Sacnilk.com noted.The...
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15.44 lakh shares of the newly listed M K Sons Fine Jewels have been bought by Manuja Gautam Shroff for Rs 26 crore. Shroff picked up the shares via two open-market transactions since the company's stock market debut earlier this month.As per NSE bulk deal data, Shroff purchased 4,33,333 equity...
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Megastar Amitabh Bachchan is back where millions of viewers love to see him -- on the stage of Kaun Banega Crorepati.Weeks after announcing a brief break to focus on his health, the megastar has returned to the sets of the popular quiz show, bringing back his trademark energy and infectious...
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IMAGE: Ross Omelet and Poee. Photograph: Kind courtesy Nilanjan Sasmal/Wikimedia Commons
Where did the first fusion food develop in the world? According to a recent article in CNN, it was in Macao, next to Mainland China. The Portuguese established a colony in Macao in 1557 and Macanese food soon followed -- the marriage of Macao and Portuguese cuisine. That's when olive oils and...
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Six vehicles were involved in an accident on the Mumbai Coastal Road in the early hours of Friday, following which a sports utility vehicle (SUV) caught fire, officials said.No one was injured in the incident that occurred around 2.40 am on the northbound carriageway between Marine Lines and...
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A family dispute over selling land in a Bihar village ended in tragedy when two women and a minor died after consuming poison.The women and two minors consumed poison on Thursday night in Premraj village in Vaishali district following the sale of 7 kathas of land by one of the women's son who was...
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The ban on controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik's Islamic Research Foundation has been extended by five more years. Declaring it an unlawful association, the ministry of home affairs (MHA) said the institution has been indulging in activities prejudicial to the security of the country,...
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A 20-year-old man was allegedly sodomised in a Ranchi jail, and his father has filed a police complaint against 19 people, including officials of the Birsa Munda Central Jail.The man has also alleged that his son was forced to consume narcotics when he was an undertrial prisoner in the jail. The...
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Manipur's Kangpokpi district saw normal life getting disrupted due to a bandh on November 13, Friday. A tribal organisation observed a shutdown to protest against the killing of a woman in a gunfight that ensued between rival gangs on Thursday.Normal life was impacted as markets were shut and...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday repeated his debate dare to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and claimed that Modi will not remain in office after a one-on-one exchange with him.Responding to a question during an 'Ask Me' session on Instagram about why he was insisting on a public debate when...
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Delhi's air quality plunged into the severe category for the first time this season on Friday morning, with the national capital recording an average AQI of 403.The Air Quality Index stood at 403 at 6.05 am and remained at the same level at 8 am and 9 am, according to the Central Pollution...
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Veteran actor and filmmaker Tinnu Anand is recovering at home after suffering five fractured ribs and a punctured lung. The 81-year-old actor was admitted to the intensive care unit at Mumbai's Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital and has recently been discharged. Doctors have instructed him to...
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IMAGE: MP Bob Blackman sporting a marigold lapel pin. Photograph: Kind courtesy Bob Blackman/Facebook
It's been 108 years since World War I ended on November 11, 1918. Remembrance ceremonies for Armistice Day unfolded in many places in Europe as well as the US, Kenya, Zambia, Australia and New Zealand. Poppy flowers, poppy symbols and lapel pins abounded during the celebrations in London. But...
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Bharti Airtel Founder and Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal said India must keep control of the kill switch for satellite communications on its own soil, as the government weighs security conditions that will decide when satellite broadband goes live.The kill switch, as we call it, should not be...
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IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz fly kites at the Sabarmati riverfront in Ahmedabad. Photograph: Narendra Modi on Instagram
Union Commerce & Industry Minister Piyush Goyal recently announced an ambitious target: To increase India-Germany bilateral trade nearly 10 times to €310 billion (about $344 billion). However, this is not an easy goal to meet, considering historical trends. India's total trade with Germany grew...
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The Gujarat police have warned people against fake messages claiming Prime Minister Narendra Modi was offering Rs 8,000 as Diwali cash assistance, cautioning that clicking on the accompanying links could lead to WhatsApp account hacking and the theft of banking information.Cyber fraudsters are...
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IMAGE: Then Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the Invest in Germany Summit in Berlin, October 19, 2026. Photograph: Lisi Niesner/Reuters
Reuters reports this morning that Jensen Huang 'had an intimate relationship with a second employee, according to two people familiar with the matter'.Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia CEO on Thursday following revelations that he had relationships with alleged Chinese spy Alice Huang and Kimberly...
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A Microsoft services outage disrupted Outlook, Teams and other Microsoft 365 applications for more than five hours on Thursday, affecting thousands of users and also causing problems with connectors used by artificial intelligence services from OpenAI and Anthropic, Reuters reported.Microsoft was...
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IMAGE: Umpires Nigel Llong and Richard Illingworth confront Australia's Cameron Bancroft in the Test match against South Africa at PPC Newlands in Cape Town, March 24, 2018. Photograph: Peter Heeger/Gallo Images/Getty Images/Rediff Archives
In a 68-minute news conference on Friday morning, Australia Captain Pat Cummins called Usman Khawaja's claims over the sandpaper scandal, '100% wrong' and 'utter nonsense'.Khawaja's memoir Sabr (Patience) alleged that the Australian team -- including fast bowlers Cummins, Mitchell Starc and Josh...
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IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald John Trump meet during the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, June 17, 2026. Photograph: Press Information Bureau
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's meeting with US President Donald Trump on the margins of the East Asia Summit in Manila, the Philippines, which is to be held next week, is still in the works while a meeting of the Quad Summit remains uncertain, ministry of external affairs officials said on...
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A second woman died at a hospital affiliated to the Government Medical College in this Rajasthan town due to postpartum complications in 48 hours, triggering fresh concern, officials said on Sunday.Thirty-six-year-old Priti died on Thursday evening at the MBS Hospital due to critical lung and...
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People Against SIR, a platform of organisations and activists campaigning against the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, on Thursday announced nationwide protests from November 26 to December 20, with a call to reclaim Delhi's Jantar Mantar as a designated protest site.The platform...
