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15 Jan

Bosch Power Tools launches BeConnected

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Bosch Power Tools aims to enhance user convenience and experience through the launch of its new BeConnected, a QR code-based web application. By scanning the QR codes on each power tool, a user can check whether the product is genuine or not along with its complete technical specifications. Additionally, by scanning the QR code on the tool, users can register the tools for e-warranty by uploading the invoice and can also avail exciting offers available from time to time. As a launch offer, Bosch is offering 6 months extended warranty for the power tools with BeConnected QR codes. Currently over…

15 Jan

Chris Evans denies being in talks with Marvel to return as Captain America: ‘This is news to me’

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Chris Evans has crushed a million hearts after he denied returning to Marvel for another Captain America film. He took to Twitter on Thursday to put an end to the rumours. "News to me," he wrote in a tweet and added a 'shrug' emoji. In another tweet, he mentioned that he was amused with all the reactions by fans. "Some of the gif responses are priceless. good work, everyone," he wrote. Other celebrities such as Billy Eichner and Jamie Lee Curtis also reacted to his tweet. Jamie, who played his mother in Knives Out, said, "Can I play your mother?…

15 Jan

Sir came to me at a time when nobody was offering me much work: Actor-producer Vivek Gomber

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Vivek Gomber says he initially gravitated towards Rohena Gera’s critically-acclaimed Sir for its love story, but it was the director’s conviction that won him over. “Who does not love a good love story?” Gomber, whose producing credits include internationally acclaimed films Court and The Disciple, asks rhetorically. “It is a love story and I don’t get to play things like that. So much of the story is in silences, in the repetition of a day. There is also the conversation about the class divide and the way we treat domestic help. I had to trust Rohena for those things. I…

14 Jan

Sunny Leone: Don’t compare myself with anyone, I think about what’s on my plate

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Excited to be back at work after a difficult 2020, Sunny Leone is looking forward to a great year professionally. With handful of projects and talks going on for some more, the actor has started the ride with renewed vigour. “I think in 2021 a lot of things have been planned and a lot of things unexpected as well. Taking a break for so long one doesn’t know what’s going to happen. I feel grateful to have work at hand. So with everything that’s happening in the world, with coronavirus and people wanting to get back to work, I’m hoping…

14 Jan

Shweta Singh Kirti shares brother Sushant Singh Rajput’s ‘profound’ note

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Shweta Singh Kirti on Tuesday took to Instagram to share her brother and late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s handwritten note on becoming the best version of himself. The note expressed the artiste’s desire to be better at things. “I think I spent 30 years of my life, the first 30, trying to become something. I wanted to become good at things, I wanted to become good at tennis, and school and grades. And everything I viewed in that perspective. I am not okay the way I am, but if I got good at things,” the actor wrote. “I realised…

14 Jan

Actor Anushka Sharma- Virat Kohli requests paparazzi to not click photos of their daughter

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Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli became parents to a baby girl on January 11. Since then, fans of the couple have been waiting to catch the first glimpse of the newborn baby. But, Virushka, as their fans fondly address them, wants to protect the privacy of their child and hence have requested photographers in Mumbai not to click photos of their daughter. In a statement, Virat and Anushka said, “Hi, Thank you for all the love that you have given us for all these years. We are happy to celebrate this momentous occasion with you. As parents, we have a…

13 Jan

Rohit Saraf on Ludo’s success: You want assurance that motivates

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For Rohit Saraf, 2020 film Ludo was “always special” given it was an Anurag Basu directorial and the story was “fabulous”, but what’s more amazing for the actor has been the response the film has got. “It has been far more amazing than I ever imagined,” he says. “I recently stepped out to watch one of Akarsh Khurana’s plays and some people came up to me and said ‘We liked the way you played Rahul [in Ludo], we loved your honesty’. You look for such motivating assurances that makes you confident about your craft,” he says. Like many film, Ludo…

13 Jan

Kolkata housing market starts the recovery process

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The increased awareness about homeownership in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic has helped Kolkata improve its supply and sales numbers. The city, however, has a long road ahead of it before it reaches the stages of complete recovery, shows Real Insight: Q4 2020, a quarterly analysis of India’s eight prime residential markets by brokerage firm PropTiger.com. At 1,658 units, new supply in Kolkata was at a six-quarter high. The new supply was concentrated in New Town, Madhyagram and Dum Dum, which contributed 49% to the overall launches. Both 2BHK and 3BHK had an almost equal share in the overall new supply…

13 Jan

KGF 2’s teaser crosses 140 million views in four days

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The teaser of Yash-starrer KGF Chapter 2 has garnered over 140 million views in just four days. And the views of the Kannada movie’s promo continues to grow. Talking about breaking records, Yash said in a statement, “The success of Chapter 1 has empowered us to do better. We hope to entertain our existing audience and also widen the fan base with KGF Chapter 2. The agenda is to entertain our audience and keep our fans happy. If in that process, we end up breaking some kind of record, that would be an added bonus.” He said, “Both Sanjay Sir…

13 Jan

TKM introduces pilot project for road transport

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To explore safer ways of vehicle delivery to customers in Manipur, Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) has initiated a pilot project for road transport of Toyota vehicles until the capital city of Imphal. Thus far, TKM was delivering new vehicles in six-car carrier trucks only up to Khatkati in Assam due to the road infrastructure and other related challenges. TKM’s dealer partner, Punya Toyota, had to send its personnel to drive down individual cars from Khatkati to its outlet in Imphal. In line with its customer-first philosophy, TKM has initiated a pilot project for road transport of new vehicles in four-car…