Deepika Padukone has done what no big male movie star has by appearing at JNU on Tuesday evening in solidarity with students protesting against the insidious attack that rolled there for hours. Some accuse her of using the appearance to draw attention at a time when she has a new movie – “Chhapaak”. Doesn’t matter. She took a brave stand that she knew could impact her movie – there were instant calls to boycott it.
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aif Ali Khan and Tabu are all set to share screen space after more than two decades in Jawaani Jaaneman
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A Bench headed by Chief Justice S.A. Bobde accepted the CBI’s status report and allowed two officers to be relieved from the investigation team
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that there was no evidence of the murder of children in the Muzaffarpur shelter home.
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It has been a few months since Google released the Android 10 update for its phones and since then, many phones have got the latest version of Android running on them. Most of these phones are the premium flagships and the midrange models are yet to get a taste of the newest Android version. Xiaomi has been doing a fine job with delivering updates this year, with its Redmi K20 Pro receiving the update not long after the Google Pixel devices. The regular Redmi K20 had to wait and now, Xiaomi has started rolling out the new update to this model as well.
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Uttar Pradesh has been put on high alert following the pan India shut down call given by the central trade unions.
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The Centre on Tuesday ordered public sector undertakings including state-run banks to decline casual leave to employees on January 8, Wednesday to discourage employees from participating in the Bharat Bandh. If they do, the government cited Supreme Court verdicts that had backed action against employees for the “grave misconduct”.
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New Delhi: Four men sentenced to death for the 2012 gang-rape and murder of a young medical student in Delhi
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Four men sentenced to death for the gang-rape and murder of a young medical student in Delhi in 2012, in a crime that scarred India and led to radical changes in its laws, will hang at 7 am on January 22, a court declared today, putting out a death warrant. Mukesh Singh, 32, Pawan Gupta, 25, Vinay Sharma, 26, and Akshay Kumar Singh, 31, will be executed at Tihar jail, where officials had reportedly started preparing a month ago.
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New Delhi: After several masked goons broached Delhi’s Jawaharlal University campus, assaulting students and vandalising property, several top political leaders took to social media to share videos of the attack and condemn it. Several students, including Aishe Ghosh, the head of JNU Students’ Union or JNUSU and several professors were severely injured in the attack. The JNUSU claims the Delhi police “did nothing” to stop the violence and have alleged the involvement of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad or ABVP, the student body linked to the BJP, in the attack.
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The new developments in the Middle East could not have come at a worse time for India. With the economy languishing at a sub-five per cent GDP growth for the past two quarters, and inflation overshooting the five per cent mark, driven by high prices of onion and pulses, the last thing that the country needed was an exterior shock that would make matters worse. The killing of a key Iranian paramilitary leader Major General Qasem Soleimani in an airstrike in Iraq on Friday morning by the US forces has not only brought the Middle East on the brink once again, it has cast a shadow on the economy of hugely oil-dependent countries such as India. Coming just days ahead of the Union budget–in which finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman is expected to announce tax cuts and further sectoral stimulus to kickstart the economy–the Middle East crisis raises serious questions on the impact on India of a fresh escalation in tensions in the region.
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