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South Africa captain Faf du Plessis blamed his batsmen’s failure to do the most “basic” thing of putting together partnerships for the six-wicket loss to India in the first one-dayer, which ended the Proteas 17-match unbeaten home run. Du Plessis felt the hosts were 60 runs short after electing to bat first on a Durban surface that progressively quickened up. Du Plessis scored a classy 120 on Thursday, his ninth ODI hundred, but did not get support from the other end as Indian wrist spinners Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal…

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The Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIMA) is working on a case study on blockbuster “Baahubali” to highlight how art, business and technology combined to deliver a hugely successful film franchise. Being authored by IIMA alumnus and visiting faculty Bharathan Kandaswamy, the case study is part of an elective course on movie business offered to the second year students of the institute’s flagship programme in management. “Baahubali is a path-breaking Indian movie that combines art, business, and technology in a brilliant way. Most of the time, films are creative and artistic…

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Actor Rachel Weisz says blockbuster superhero film “Wonder Woman” was the first action ever that film she enjoyed watching. The 47-year-old actor said the Patty Jenkins-directed film was her favourite movie of 2017 and she now understands men’s fixation with superheroes. “‘Wonder Woman’ was my favourite film of the year. I thought that was completely magnificent. It’s the first time I’ve really enjoyed an action film because I could identify with the character. “She was a little brunette tomboy and then she became a superhero and I was like, ‘Yeah’.…

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The United Nations today made what it said was a record appeal for aid to Yemen, calling for nearly USD 3 billion in humanitarian relief for the war-torn country. The USD 2.96 billion will be used to respond to an ever- broadening crisis in Yemen, where war, looming famine and cholera have killed thousands and put millions of lives at risk. The appeal, made on behalf of UN agencies and humanitarian partners, came as 11.3 million people “urgently require assistance to survive”, UN aid agency OCHA said in a statement.…

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Panacea Biotec Ltd. (PBL), India’s leading biopharmaceutical company and among the largest manufacturer of vaccines, has signed two long-term collaboration agreements with Serum Institute of India Pvt. Ltd. (SII), world’s largest manufacturer of vaccines and SII’s wholly owned subsidiary, Bilthovan Biologicals B.V. (BBIO). Under the collaboration, SII is entitled to manufacture and sell fully liquid Whole cell Pertussis (wP) and Salk based Injectable Polio Vaccine (IPV) based Hexavalent vaccine (DTwP-HepB-Hib-IPV) developed and commercialized by PBL, a first-of-its-kind in this category. SII will ensure supply of IPV bulk to PBL, an…

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He is an actor, a singer and has been a VJ in the past but Ayushmann Khurrana says turning producer was not a part of his career plan. Ayushmann has donned a producer’s hat for wife Tahira Kashyap’s directorial debut “Toffee”, a short film set in the 1990s which takes on child marriage. The “Shubh Mangal Savdhaan” actor said it was the story of “Toffee” that pushed him to back the project. “Producing films was not really on my radar. I am more of an actor and singer and performer.…

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Rajkummar Hirani’s Sanjay Dutt biopic starring Ranbir Kapoor as lead will now release on June 29. The movie produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Hirani was earlier scheduled to release on March 30. “Dutt Biopic releasing on June 29,” the director tweeted. The biographical drama also features Manisha Koirala, Paresh Rawal, Anushka Sharma, Dia Mirza and Sonam Kapoor amongst others.

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Pro-Hindutva leader Sambhaji Bhide, accused of instigating the violence against Dalits during the 200th anniversary celebrations of the Bhima-Koregaon battle, today denied that he had any role in the episode. The violence that occurred near the war memorial at Bhima-Koregaon in Pune district on January 1 had triggered a sharp reaction from Dalit organisations, which called for a shutdown in Mumbai and elsewhere in Maharashtra. Bhide, who heads the Shiv Pratishthan Hindustan outfit, said he was willing to face any inquiry in this regard. “Order a judicial or a CBI…

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In a relief to 950 state police personnel, the Madras High Court has allowed the state government to proceed with filling promotional vacancies based on regular seniority list. This would be without reference to the accelerated promotion granted to 752 personnel of the Special Task Force (STF) involved in the manhunt and killing of forest brigand Veerappan in 2004, the court said in a recent order. The police department cannot suffer endlessly without filling the promotional posts, it said. “Therefore, the authorities are directed to proceed ahead to fill up…

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