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06 Apr

We finally know what happened to TestRect after Avengers Endgame, but you can trust Odinson :Loki’s Trailer Out

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Avengers: Remember the climax scene in Endgame, when the world's most powerful superheroes ran out of time to collect Infinity Stone? While the Avengers were busy fighting alien super forces, our infamous God God Loki disappeared through the ordeal. If you’ve been desperately waiting to find out what happened between them, you’ve finally got the answer to Marvel’s new Loki trailer.The trailer is full of classic Marvel humor and action sequences that promise a great movie experience. This will definitely make the gripping moments make you impatient for the web series. Also, we finally know what happened to Testracts after…

06 Apr

Prime Minister Narendra Modi urges people to ‘vote in record numbers’

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday appealed to the voters in poll-bound states to vote in record numbers. "Elections are taking place in Assam, Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal. I request the people in these places to vote in record numbers, particularly the young voters," tweeted Prime Minister Modi. Assembly elections in Assam, Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal are being held on Tuesday. The elections for Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu assemblies are being held in a single phase. In Assam, the polling for the third and final phase is going on today. While in West Bengal,…

06 Apr

Over 1,800 Nigeria prison escape after gunmen attack

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The coordinated attacks come less than two weeks after another wave of violence in Southeastern Nigeria, when at least a dozen security officers were killed during attacks on four police stations, military checkpoints and prison vehicles. Militants armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades launched a series of coordinated attacks overnight in Southeastern Nigeria, targeting a prison where more than 1,800 inmates then managed to escape, authorities said Monday (April 5). According to a local resident Uche Okafor, the attacks began around 2 am in the town of Owerri in Imo state and lasted for about two hours. Gunmen also assaulted…

06 Apr

R Madhavan meets PM Modi, ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan to discuss Rocketry: The Nambi Effect

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Actor R Madhavan is all set to make his directorial debut with his upcoming film Rocketry: The Nambi Effect. The actor turned director on Monday shared a picture on social media from his recent meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Also present at the meeting was S. Narayan Nambi, scientist and aerospace engineer at Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on whose life Madhavan's debut directorial feature, Rocketry: The Nambi Effect, is based. The picture shows them seated in a boardroom, observing social distancing. "A few weeks ago, @NambiNOfficial and I had the honour of calling on PM @narendramodi. We spoke…

05 Apr

Mukhoshtantra marks return of Nigel Akkara

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A pastiche reinterpretation of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Mukhoshtantra is the fourth production of Kolahal. It marks the return of actor and social activist Nigel Akkara on stage after 7 years. PRAJNA In this play, Bengali martial folk forms like Chchau and Raebeshi, and South Indian marital forms like Kalari and Silambam have been used with the Filipino Art of Kali and the Maori art of Haka. Mukhoshtantra is all set to premiere at Rabindra Mancha, Chittaranjan on 4 April, on invitation from Anubhab cultural group.Light design for this play has been planned by Kalyan Ghosh while the periodic costumes have…

05 Apr

PM Narendra Modi to interact with CMs on current Covid-19 situation, vaccination strategy on April 8

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As coronavirus cases breach the one lakh-mark today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Thursday (April 8) interact with Chief Ministers of all states and Union Territories on the current COVID-19 pandemic and vaccination-related issues via video conferencing. The decision comes in the backdrop of India's COVID-19 curve breaking all past records as the country reported more than 1 lakh infections in the past 24 hours with 1,03,794 new COVID-19 cases This will be the second time in five days that the Prime Minister is going to chair a meeting to assess the current situation with connection to the surge…

05 Apr

Icra forecasts surge in auto sales by 22-25 per cent

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Credit rating agency Icra has forecast a high 22-25 per cent growth for the auto industry in the next fiscal against a contraction in the last fiscal, though the resurgence of the pandemic may prove to be a hurdle. The growth will be propelled not only by a low base in the first quarter of last year but also by an expected pick-up in economic activity, improved consumer sentiment and a resilient rural economy which has been less impacted by the pandemic. Icra said the shift towards personal mobility from public transport during the pandemic will help the sector, with…

05 Apr

India breaches 1-lakh daily COVID-19 case mark

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India has recorded a total of 1,03,558 coronavirus infections in a single day, reaching a critical milestone, according to a ministerial update updated on Monday. The disease has surpassed its previous high, the highest since the onset of the epidemic in India on September 1 last year, and the death toll has risen to 1,65,101 with 4476 new deaths. Shown at 8 p.m. After registering a steady increase for the 26th day in a row, active incidence rose to 7,41,830 from 5.89 percent of total infections, and the recovery rate fell further to 92.80 percent, the data revealed. The active…

05 Apr

It was not an intelligence or operational failure says CRPF DG on Chhattisgarh encounter

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A day after 22 security personnel were killed during an encounter with Maoists in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region, the Director General of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Kuldeep Singh, dismissed claims that the operation was an intelligence failure. “If it was a bait, more security personnel would have died. The Maoists would have set up an ambush at a place where we would have suffered maximum damage. We were moving through an area that is under their control and as such, they do have a tactical advantage there. They started firing at us with light machine guns when we were returning following our…

05 Apr

Building collapse in Ludhiana: 1 dead, 2 in critical condition

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At least one person was killed after a building housing an old factory collapsed in Mukund Nagar on Daba road of Ludhiana Monday. The lintel of the building gave in at around 10.30 am. Personnel from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), and the police rescued at least 36 people, and are searching for four workers who are feared to be trapped under the debris. Of the 36 workers who were rescued, one was declared brought dead at Civil Hospital, Ludhiana Deputy Commissioner Varinder Sharma said. There are five workers being treated at Civil Hospital,…