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Producing films was not on my radar: Ayushmann Khurrana

January 20, 2018 strong

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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I never molested my daughter: Woody Allen

January 20, 2018 strong

Filmmaker Woody Allen has dismissed his adoptive daughter, Dylan Farrow’s, sex assault claims saying he “never molested her”. Allen’s reaction comes after Farrow gave her first public TV interview about the claims hoping that appearing on camera would convince people she was telling the truth. In his response the filmmaker has accused Farrow of “cynically” using Hollywood’s Time’s Up movement to renew her claims of sexual assault, reported Entertainment Weekly. “When this claim was first made more than 25 years ago, it was thoroughly investigated by both the Child Sexual…

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10 yrs imprisonment to 3 arrested with liquor in Bihar

January 20, 2018January 20, 2018 strong

A local court in Bihar’s Munger district today awarded 10 years imprisonment to three persons who were apprehended last year with over 20 litres of country liquor, despite the total prohibition in force in the state. Additional district judge Tribhuvan Nath also slapped a fine of Rs 1 lakh on each of the three convicted and ordered an additional six months in jail in case of default. According to special public prosecutor Sanjay Kumar Singh, the trio were arrested on March 16, 2017 from Jamalpur police station area of the…

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Adequate efforts not made to examine witness of ’84 riots: SC

January 20, 2018 strong

Adequate efforts were not made to examine key prosecution witnesses in the five 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases in which the Delhi High Court issued show cause notices to those acquitted asking them why re-trial should not be ordered, the Supreme Court said today. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra perused the records and said summon was issued to the main prosecution witness only once during the trial and upon non-appearance, the recording of evidence was closed. The bench, also comprising Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud,…

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Corporates open to public gaze as data available online: FM

January 20, 2018 strong

Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Arun Jaitley today said online availability of data has opened corporate activities to public gaze and raised the possibility of detecting any impropriety. He said the ease at which the data is available now and is open for dissection has put pressure on everyone to ensure that there is compliance and transparency. “It’s now all open to public gaze. And being open to public gaze has its own advantages. It has the advantage that there is a pressure on everyone to make sure that compliances…

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Mauritius largest source of FDI in India, says RBI

January 20, 2018 strong

Mauritius was the largest source of foreign investment in India, followed by the US and the UK, according to a census by the Reserve Bank. Singapore and Japan were the next two sources of foreign direct investment (FDI), said the Census on Foreign Liabilities and Assets of Indian Direct Investment Companies 2016-17, released by RBI today. Of the 18,667 companies that participated in the census, 17,020 had FDI/overseas direct investment in their balance sheets in March 2017, it said. “96 per cent of the responding companies were unlisted in March…

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Pak summons Indian envoy over ‘ceasefire violations’

January 20, 2018January 20, 2018 strong

Pakistan summoned Indian Deputy High Commissioner J P Singh today for the second time in two days over the alleged “unprovoked ceasefire violations” by the Indian forces that killed Pakistani citizens. Director General (South Asia & SAARC) Mohammad Faisal summoned Singh for “unprovoked ceasefire violations by the Indian occupation forces along the Working Boundary on 19th January in Sialkot Sector,” the Foreign Office said. He said the firing resulted in the death of a 24-year-old civilian and injured nine others in village Harpal. Yesterday, Singh was summoned after two women…

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China to enshrine Xi’s name in state constitution

January 20, 2018January 20, 2018 strong

China’s Communist Party proposed today to engrave President Xi Jinping’s guiding philosophy in the country’s constitution, further cementing his status as its most powerful leader in decades. Xi’s eponymous “thought” was already enshrined in the Communist Party constitution at a major congress in October, elevating him to the same status as modern China’s founder Mao Zedong. The architect of China’s economic reforms, Deng Xiaoping, is the only other leader whose name appears alongside his guiding principle in both the state and party constitutions. The party’s Central Committee proposed at a…

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Splitting UP inevitable due to size and population: Ramesh

January 20, 2018January 20, 2018 strong

Former Union minister Jairam Ramesh has kicked up a debate on the issue of governance in BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh, saying a division of the state would become inevitable due to its size and large population. Delivering the second V Ramachandran Memorial Lecture, organised by the Centre for Management Development here yesterday on “Reflections on India’s demographic future”, Ramesh said, “I for one believe that the reorganisation of Uttar Pradesh will become inevitable, sooner rather than later.” This was because a state with a population of over 400 million by the…

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EC recommends disqualification of 20 AAP MLAs

January 20, 2018January 20, 2018 strong

In a blow to Delhi’s ruling Aam Admi Party, the Election Commission on Friday recommended to the President the disqualification of 20 of its MLAs for holding office of profit, setting the stage for their ouster from the Assembly In its opinion sent to President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday morning, the Election Commission said the MLAs, by occupying the post of parliamentary secretaries between March 13, 2015 and September 8, 2016, held office of profit, and were liable to be disqualified as legislators, highly-placed sources said The President is…