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16 Jan

Tv actress Devoleena Bhattacharjee to enter Bigg Boss 14: Reports

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Amid reports that Devoleena Bhattacharjee will enter the Bigg Boss 14 house and play as proxy for Vikas Gupta, a tweet from his Twitter account says that while she might be entering the reality show hosted by Salman Khan, but not as his proxy. Vikas recently exited the house after he faced some health-related issues. Vikas Gupta took to Twitter and wrote, "Neither @TheRashamiDesai nor @Devoleena_23 were approached to be proxy for #VikasGupta All the best #DevoleenaBhattacharjee who is going to play for another if reports r true & #RashamiDesai actually flew from her shoot the same day to fill…

16 Jan

The White Tiger: Rajkummar Rao Praises Co-Star Priyanka Chopra; Calls Her ‘Phenomenal’ Who Never Made Them Feel She Is The Biggest Star On The Sets

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Actor Rajkummar Rao has only nice things to say about his The White Tiger co-star, Priyanka Chopra. He says that Priyanka, who plays his wife in the movie, never made the crew feel like she was the biggest star on the sets. Sharing his experience of working with Priyanka on The White Tiger, Rajkummar says, "Priyanka is phenomenal. She is a very chilled out person, a global star who never made us feel that she was the biggest star on our set. I have always been a big admirer of her work. It's fun to work with great actors as…

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…

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…

11 Jan

Sedition case: Bombay HC extends relief to Kangana Ranaut, sister Rangoli till Jan 25

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The Bombay high court on Monday extended the interim relief of no coercive action against actor Kangana Ranaut and her sister Rangoli Chandel until January 25 in connection with an FIR registered against them under sedition and other charges. The HC also directed the city police not to summon the duo for questioning till then. Ranaut and her sister appeared before Bandra police in Mumbai on January 8 for recording their statement in the case, pursuant to an assurance given to HC in November last year. The FIR, under sedition charges and for allegedly "trying to create hatred and communal…

11 Jan

Schools, colleges to reopen in Gujarat today

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Looking at the declining cases of coronavrus, the Gujarat government on Wednesday decided to reopen schools in the state from January 11. Issuing an order, Gujarat Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama said the students and teaching staff will have to follow the COVID guidelines strictly. The classes will also reopen for graduation and post-graduation final years with mandatory compliance of Covid-19 prevention standard operating procedures (SOPs) and consent of parents. The Centre in Unlock 5 guidelines allowed schools to reopen from October 15. However, the decision was left to states/union territories to decide as to when they would resume physical classes.…

09 Jan

Abandoned at birth, fire claimed infant’s life at Bhandara hospital

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Authorities know the names of the mothers of nine out of ten babies who perished in fire at a state-run hospital in Maharashtra's Bhandara district on early Saturday morning. One name is missing, as the child had been abandoned at birth. The new-born baby, a boy, had been found in the remote village of Kesalwada in Lakhanitehsil last week, a district official said. Discovery of an abandoned child also made headlines in local newspapers. When a fire broke out in the hospital in the early hours of Saturday, the staff succeeded in rescuing seven out of 17 babies from the…

08 Jan

Bipasha Basu extends gratitude for ‘thoughtful & loving wishes’ on her 42nd birthday

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Bipasha Basu celebrated her birthday recently. The actress took to her social media handle to pen a warm note for everyone. Bipasha shared a few pictures from her special day. The actress turned 42 and we are in awe of the gorgeous beauty. Bipasha had a very intimate and low-key birthday celebration this year, pictures from which are making the rounds of the internet and we are missing handsome hunk, Karan Singh Grover, in the pics. Bipasha shared three pictures from her birthday celebration. She looked happy as she posed for the camera in a yellow salwar kameez. There were…

07 Jan

Irrfan Khan Birth Anniversary: Babil recalls how his late father encouraged him to never remember his birthday

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Late actor Irrfan Khan would have turned 54 on Thursday. Sharing a post about him, his elder son Babil talked about how the actor never believed in celebrating birthdays but this time, he could not forget his birthday even if he tried. Babil captioned his throwback video as, "You never identified with institutions such as contractual marriage and birthday celebrations. Perhaps, that is why I don't remember anyone's birthdays because you never remembered mine and never encouraged me to remember yours. It was just normal to us what seemed absurd from the outside, we celebrated everyday (bringing personal experiential authenticity…

06 Jan

Inside Deepika Padukone birthday celebrations: Ranveer plays host, Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt attend

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Inside Deepika Padukone birthday celebrations: Ranveer plays host, Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt attend Actor Deepika Padukone turned a year older and celebrated her special day in the company of her close friends. In the pictures from her birthday bash, Alia Bhatt, Ranbir Kapoor, Karan Johar among others made an appearance.Deepika and Ranveer played gracious hosts and even cut a cake with the paparazzi waiting outside. In one of the pictures, Deepika is seen cutting a cake while another showed her feeding a piece of the cake to one of the photographers. The star couple was dressed in black outfits.…