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London/Hyderabad: More filmmakers from the West are doffing their hats to S S Rajamouli’s “RRR”, the most recent being British director Edgar Wright who has called the Telugu period action epic an “absolute blast”. Wright, the man behind blockbusters such as “Baby Driver”, “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” and “Last Night in Soho”, said he […]
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London: Vitamin D supplementation may alleviate depressive symptoms in adults with depression, suggests a review of 41 global studies. Depressive symptoms cause a significant disease burden worldwide. The therapeutic efficacy of current antidepressants is often insufficient, which is why further ways to alleviate the symptoms of depression have been sought, for example, from nutritional research. […]
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London/Los Angeles: Author J K Rowling, best known for the fantasy book series “Harry Potter”, has received a death threat on Twitter after she condemned the attack on fellow British writer Salman Rushdie. Rushdie, who faced Islamist death threats for years after writing “The Satanic Verses”, was stabbed by a 24-year-old New Jersey resident identified […]
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New Delhi: Bollywood actor Genelia Deshmukh, on Sunday, shared a heartfelt note to mark her father-in-law Vilasrao Deshmukh’s 10th death anniversary. Taking to Instagram, the ‘Force’ actor dropped a couple of pictures, which she captioned, “Verified Dearest Pappa, Riaan and Rahyl asked me today. “Aai, if we ask Ajoba a question, will he answer??” Without […]
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Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Police have arrested a minor boy from Karuvassery in Kozhikode district of Kerala, who was engaged in theft of bikes and other two-wheelers from in and around Kozhikode, Wayanad, and Malappuram districts of north Kerala. Police sources told IANS that several bike thefts were reported from Elathur, Puthiyara, Kakkur, Pantheeramkavu, Atholi, Kakkur police […]
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New Delhi: Indian Commonwealth Games contingent expressed their delight at being honoured by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for their excellent performance at Birmingham 2022. PM Modi felicitated the Indian contingent for the Commonwealth Games (CWG) 2022 in New Delhi on Saturday. The felicitation was attended by both athletes and their coaches. Union Minister for Youth […]
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San Francisco: Meta has partnered with online delivery platform DoorDash to deliver Marketplace items located up to 15 miles (nearly 25 km) away in the US. DoorDash will only deliver items that are small enough to fit in the trunk of a car, and drivers are expected to make deliveries within 48 hours, citing the […]
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Ballia: A man slit the throat of his sister’s sister-in-law in Baheri village in Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia district and later, surrendered to the police. Dilshad’s sister was in love with Noor Alam and had married him last month despite opposition from the family. Noor Alam’s cousin sister Armana, a local politician, had slapped Dilshad over […]
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Hyderabad: Fourteen police officials including Rachakonda Police Commissioner Mahesh M Bhagwat from Telangana bagged medals announced by the Central government on the occasion of Independence Day celebrations. Bhagwat and Superintendent of Police (NC) Intelligence Cell Devender Singh got President’s Police Medal for the meritorious service while 12 police officers bagged police medals. The 12 officers […]
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Raigad: Veteran politician and President of Shiv Sangram Party Vinayak — who espoused the cause of the Maratha community for over 3 decades — was killed in a road accident on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway here on Sunday morning, officials said. Mete, 52, was coming from Beed via Pune to Mumbai in his SUV to attend […]
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New York: A team of researchers have developed a novel drug molecule that can help ward off more than 300 drug-resistant bacteria. Reported in ACS Central Science journal, the drug compound called fabimycin, inhibited drug-resistant gram-negative bacteria in lab experiments, as well as in mice with pneumonia and urinary tract infections. Gram-negative bacteria are a class […]
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Mumbai: Shekhar Suman, who is now judging the reality show ‘India’s Laughter Champion’, which launched the career of Raju Srivastava, has tweeted that the condition of the comedian, who was admitted to AIIMS, New Delhi, after suffering a heart attack while working out at a gym, was stable. Though still on the ventilator Raju is stable […]
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London: Across Europe, drought is reducing once-mighty rivers to trickles, with potentially dramatic consequences for industry, freight, energy and food production – just as supply shortages and price rises due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine bite, local media reported. Driven by climate breakdown, an unusually dry winter and spring followed by record-breaking summer temperatures and […]
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Islamabad: At least 13 people were killed and five others injured after a truck fell over a passenger bus in Rahim Yar Khan city of Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, local media reported. A passenger bus fell into a sinkhole at Feroza Central road and got stuck into it. The accident took place when a truck […]
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Kolkata: As protests on the issue of corruption are on the rise in West Bengal and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee being targeted in many cases, top leaders of Trinamool Congress have started losing control over the use of words against the protesters in public forums. The use of abuses is no more restricted to those […]
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San Francisco: Tech giant Microsoft has released a new beta version of its Office app for iPad with support for the Apple Pencil’s handwriting-to-text feature Scribble. The feature allows you to insert and edit the text in a Word document, PowerPoint presentation, or Excel spreadsheet using the Apple Pencil, with handwriting automatically converted into typed […]
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Chennai: Even as the country gears up to celebrate its 75th Independence Day on Monday, actor Rajinikanth has urged people to honour and salute freedom fighters, martyrs and leaders by having their children hoist the national flag outside their homes, offices and work places. ஒலி சரி செய்யப்பட்ட புதிய விடியோ … #ஒவ்வொரு__வீட்டிலும்__தேசியக்கொடி🇮🇳#நாம்__இந்தியனென்று__பெருமைகொள்வோம்💪 pic.twitter.com/c1EUjUvueK — Rajinikanth (@rajinikanth) August […]
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New Delhi: Among the few Muslim women who had actively participated in the Indian Independence movement, Abadi Bano Begum (Bi Amma) was a prominent face. Her active participation in the struggle to liberate the country from the British Raj, even led Mahatma Gandhi to call her his mother. Bi Amma was born in 1850 in […]
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London: A man has been jailed for nine weeks for allegedly stalking after planting a covert Apple AirTag tracker on his ex-girlfriend’s car, media reports say. According to DailyMail, Christopher Paul Trotman, 41, harassed his ex with constant phone calls and questions, before ordering an AirTag on Amazon and gluing it to her rear bumper to […]
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday paid homage to all those who lost their lives during partition to mark the ‘Partition Horrors Remembrance Day’. In a tweet, the Prime Minister said, “Today, on Partition Horrors Remembrance Day, I pay homage to all those who lost their lives during Partition, and applaud the resilience as […]
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Khargone: A 45-year-old man died of electrocution while putting up a tricolour on a shop in Madhya Pradesh’s Khargone district ahead of the country’s independence day, police said on Sunday. The incident took place on Saturday evening in Narmada Road area under Barwaha police station limits, some 80 km from the district headquarters, an official […]
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New Delhi: The BJP central leadership believes that the change of leadership in the party’s Chhattisgarh unit will end the infighting and factionalism ahead of next year’s assembly polls. Last week, the BJP appointed Lok Sabha Member Arun Sao as new president of its Chhattisgarh unit. He will replace Vishnu Deo Sai. The BJP central […]
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New Delhi: India’s retail inflation fell to 6.71 per cent in July, the lowest level in five months, helped by an easing in food and oil prices, as per the National Statistical Office (NSO) data released this Friday. With this, retail inflation has been over the Reserve Bank of India’s upper tolerance band of 6 […]
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Chennai: Actor Vijay Sethupathi is not playing the antagonist in director Sukumar’s ‘Pushpa 2: The Rule’ as is being speculated by a section of the media. Talking to IANS, a source close to the actor said that Vijay Sethupathi was playing the villain only in director Atlee’s ‘Jawan’, featuring Shah Rukh Khan and Nayanthara in […]
