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Budget: What's costlier, what's cheaper
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Dum Laga Ke Haisha Star Bhumi Pednekar Has Lost Weight!
Bhumi Pednekar made her Bollywood debut opposite Ayushmann Khurrana in Dum Laga Ke Haisha doesn’t actually look even tiny bit close to her character from the movie. To keep the level of curiosity among the audiences, the team of Dum Laga Ke Haisha didn’t promote the film. The reason why we didn’t see Bhumi come in front of media to interact, as her character and role in the film was kept a secret from audiences.
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First-Class cricket: A history of the 200 triple-hundreds
Kithuruwan Vithanage scored the 200th triple century of First-Class cricket on February 14, 2015.
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Panic Spreads as Fireballs Light up Kerala Sky
By around 10.30 pm, media houses, police and fire stations started receiving calls from in and around Ernakulam informing about some strange activity in the sky. “People in Fort Kochi, Vyttilla, Vypin Paravoor and Kolenchery areas reported mild tremours in their locality.
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Vidhu Vinod Chopra, wife Anupama and son down with swine flu | Bollywood News | Hindi Movies News | Celebrity News - BollywoodHungama.com
The recent past has seen a surge in reportings of people contracting swine flu. Now we hear that producer director Vidhu Vinod Chopra (VVC) has fallen ill with the same. Apparently, Vidhu contracted the ailment along with his wife and film critic Anupama Chopra and son Agni. Tweeting about the ailment and confirming the news Anupama posted, "Folks, I have been felled by swine flu.
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'For India to grow, everybody must pull their weight together': Chidambaram
New Delhi, Feb. 28 (ANI): Former finance minister P. Chidambaram on Saturday criticised what he felt was the marginalisation of the non-income tax payers by the incumbent Arun Jaitley, adding that India requires the effort of all sections of society to grow as a country. The Finance Minister began with a gibe, that he inherited an economy with the sentiment of doom and gloom. It is unfortunate that the government refuses to acknowledge this," Chidambaram told the media.
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No plane, many discoveries in yearlong search for Flight 370
The yearlong search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has turned up no sign of the plane, but that doesn't mean it's been unproductive. It has yielded lessons and discoveries that could benefit millions, ...
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Myanmar captures rare white elephant in western jungles
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar's forestry department has captured a rare white elephant in the jungles of the country's western Ayeyarwaddy region, an official said Sunday.
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Ab Tak Chhappan 2 Movie Review
Ab Tak Chhappan 2 Review By Martin D'Souza, Glamsham Editorial Encounter specialist Sadhu Agashe (Nana Patekar) who is forced into semi-retirement after his various encounters and cases against him is cajoled back into joining the force in Mumbai. Enjoying the bliss of Goa with his son, he breaks out of his reverie after his son tells him that he should not be the reason of him (Sadhu) not joining the police force. Sadhu comes back, much to the happiness of the Defence Minister (Vikram Gokhale), Chief Minister (Dilip Prabhawalkar) and former Police Commissioner (Mohan Agashe).
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John Travolta isn't creepy: Scarlett Johansson
The world believed John Travolta creeped her out, but Scarlett Johansson has defended John Travolta.
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Kakki Sattai review: A silly romp around exotica and evil
Once Raj Kapoor took the audience on a world tour in his Around The World and Sangam. Decades later, some Tamil producers and directors (also a few Bollywood mandarins) think that Indian cinema ticket-paying patrons still desire the likes of Kapoor's romps across continents -- romps that can materialise just by sitting on a chair. The budget for Durai Senthilkumar's Kakki Sattai (Khaki Uniform) is Rs 10 crores -- an amount that a parallel movie producer may use to spin at least a couple of films, films that will make a lot of sense and entertain in an intelligent way.
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I Can Never Say No to SRK: Kapil Sharma
Mumbai: Stand-up comedian and "Comedy Nights with Kapil" host Kapil Sharma has refuted rumours that he has refused to be a part of superstar Shah Rukh Khan's upcoming TV show titled "India Poochega Sabse Shaana Kauna. It is well known that Shah Rukh and Kapil share a good bond. In fact, SRK has readily made appearances on Kapil's comedy show.
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Pearls on Lupita Nyong'o $150,000 gown fake, thief returns it
Lupita Nyong'o Oscar gown was returned to The London Hotel in west Hollywood where it was taken two days earlier, it has been revealed. The thief continued that he decided to take the dress back to the hotel in a garment bag that was inside a trash bag that he deposited in a second floor bathroom adjacent to a fitness centre. Detectives received a call from a media representative, informing them they had received a call from an anonymous caller with information in regards to the stolen Calvin Klein dress. Law enforcement said that they were told the Calvin Klein dress was worth $150,000, but the thief said that it was almost worthless.
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A Proud Karan Johar Hugs And Kisses His Student Varun Dhawan!
It’s a proud moment for Varun Dhawan and his family, as his movie Badlapur has received a great response from the audience. Yesterday at the success bash of the movie, Varun Dhawan and Karan Johar greeted each other by giving a warm hug. Karan Johar who launched Varun Dhawan in his debut Student Of The Year was seen giving a warm hug to Varun.
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IMAGES: 5 fine sedans coming your way!
Here is a look at five sedans that are likely to make it to Indian showrooms this year. | IMAGES: 5 fine sedans coming your way!
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A disappointment for the salaried class
Neither an increase in the minimum taxable limit nor reduction in personal tax rates
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Samsung unveils sleek new Galaxy phones to take on Apple
SEOUL/BARCELONA (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd unveiled its latest Galaxy S smartphones featuring a slim body made from aircraft-grade metal, in a bid to reclaim its throne as undisputed global smartphone leader from Apple Inc. Designed from scratch in an operation dubbed "Project Zero", the Galaxy S6 and its curved-edges variant are critical for Samsung's plans to reverse plunging smartphone revenues that led to its first annual earnings fall in three years in 2014. By some estimates, Apple surpassed Samsung as the world's biggest smartphone maker late last year, selling a record 74.5 million iPhones in the December quarter on the back of the success of its big-screen iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. Samsung's previous flagship Galaxy S5 was outsold in its second full month of global sales by Apple's older iPhone 5S, according to researcher Counterpoint.
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Catch ‘Jihadi John’ alive, says widow of British victim
As a photo of ‘Jihadi John’ – now identified as Londoner Mohammad Emwazi – emerged of his time as an innocent football-loving 11-year-old at a west London school, Prime Minister David Cameron vowed to nab such people and ‘put them out of action’. Cameron defended the agencies, and said: “When there are people anywhere in the world who commit appalling and heinous crimes against British citizens, we will do everything we can with the police, with the security services, with all that we have at our disposal to find these people and put them out of action”.. As friends and family members of beheaded victims from the US and UK reacted to revelation of ‘Jihadi John’s identity, the widow of beheaded British aid worker David Haines said she wanted him caught alive. In television interviews, widow Dragana Haines said the “last thing” she wanted for the man who had killed her husband was an “honourable death” on the battlefield, while her daughter said she wanted to see “a bullet between his eyes”.
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Warren Buffett says Berkshire has "right person" as heir
Warren Buffett told investors on Saturday that Berkshire Hathaway Inc had found his successor, giving more details than ever about the heir to the company he has run for 50 years. "Both the board and I believe we now have the right person to succeed me as CEO – a successor ready to assume the job the day after I die or step down," the billionaire, 84, said in his annual letter to Berkshire shareholders. "In certain important respects, this person will do a better job than I am doing," Buffett added, as Berkshire Hathaway reported a 17 percent drop in fourth-quarter net income, coupled with an improvement in its operating results.
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Maldives Offers India Investment Safety Jacket Against China Wave
NEW DELHI:In a bid to allay New Delhi’s worries over Chinese presence in the Indian Ocean, Maldives has offered to India to invest exclusively in its ambitious plan of developing its northern most atoll into a strategically-located transhipment port on the Ocean’s busiest route. The Sunday Standard has learnt that this offer to India was made at a below-the-radar meeting of Mohamed Hussain Shareef, the minister in Maldives President Yameen’s office, with his Indian interlocutor last week. Interestingly, the ambitious Ihavandhippolhu Integrated Development (iHavan) project, which would a 45-minutes-flight away from India’s southern coast, was reported to be one of the links through which China’s Maritime Silk route was supposed to have passed.
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Pakistan loses historic Taj Mahal cinema
Islamabad, Feb 28 (IANS) The Taj Mahal cinema of Abbottabad city, with a 66-year history of film exhibition in this Pakistan frontier city, is being dismantled after its owner recently sold the property. Mohammad Saeed Khan, who was hitherto running the Taj Mahal cinema in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial city for the last four decades, said business was at full swing till 2010 with Abbottabad, being a tourist city, providing entertainment to visitors, Dawn reported. Built in 1948 by Mohammad Khan Hoti, the cinema hall once used to be full to its 600-seat capacity.
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