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Let it go and move on: Smith’s advice to deflated India after Adelaide debacle

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Australian batting star Steve Smith has no time to think about how India might plot revenge in the second Test here this weekend but he does have a word of advice for the visitors jolted by the first game’s battering — “Let it go and move on”. The Australian troika of Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood produced one of the finest fast bowling performances in recent times to dismiss India for their lowest Test score of 36 in the opening day-night Test here. Australia won by eight wickets…

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Katy Perry says she used to pretend to be Zooey Deschanel to get into clubs

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Pop star Katy Perry has revealed that during her initial days in the entertainment industry she used to claim to be actor Zooey Deschanel to get into the nightclubs. The singer made the revelation during a Instagram Live session with Deschanel hours after the release of the music video of her new song “Not the End of the World”, featuring the 40-year-old actor. “When I moved to LA maybe 18 years ago… I was pretty much a nobody, and you were like just getting so huge at that time, it…

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Sister Abhaya case: CBI court finds catholic priest, nun guilty

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A CBI court here on Tuesday found a catholic priest and a nun guilty in connection with the murder of 21-year-old Sister Abhaya, whose body was found in the well of a convent in Kottayam in 1992. The verdict in this regard was pronounced by CBI special court judge J Sanal Kumar. The quantum of sentence will be pronounced on Wednesday. The court said the murder charges against Father Thomas Kottoor and Sister Sephy will stand. Both are in judicial custody. Another accused in the case, Fr Poothrakayal was discharged…

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Sensex tumbles over 300 points in early trade; Nifty slips below 13,250

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Equity benchmark Sensex dropped over 300 points in early trade on Tuesday, tracking losses in index majors Reliance Industries, Bajaj Finance and ITC amid weak cues from global markets as concerns over the new coronavirus strain continued to spook investors. The 30-share BSE index rallied over 384 points in the opening session, but soon pared the gains to trade 307.60 points or 0.68 per cent lower at 45,246.36. After similar movement, the broader NSE Nifty slipped 99.90 points or 0.75 per cent to 13,228.50. M&M was the top laggard in…

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First batch of COVID-19 vaccines arrives in Singapore

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Singapore has received its first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines, making it the first country in Asia to take the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech as it plans to inoculate its 5.7 million people by the third quarter of 2021. The first batch of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine landed in Singapore on Monday, The Straits Times reported. Singapore is one of the first few countries to approve and get COVID-19 vaccines. Others that have approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine are Britain, the United States, Canada, Switzerland, Bahrain and Qatar. Britain, the…

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COVID-19: India records lowest daily new cases after gap of nearly six months

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 The number of daily new coronavirus infections reported in the country was recorded below 20,000 after nearly six months while the COVID-19 active caseload fell below 3 lakh,?according?to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday India’s COVID-19 caseload rose to 1,00,75,116 with?19,556 new infections being reported in a day. The?death toll increased to 1,46,111 with 301 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed The?number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 96,36,487 pushing the national recovery rate to?95.65 per cent,?while the?COVID-19?case?fatality rate?stands at 1.45…

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Boxing Day Test crucial in deciding fate of the series against India: Joe Burns

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If opener Joe Burns’ views are any indication, another onerous task awaits an embattled Indian team, as Australia are entering the second Test believing that a favourable result for them in Melbourne could “decide the fate” of the four-match series. Trailing 0-1 in the series after the batting debacle here and with Virat Kohli going back to India for the birth of his first child, India will be led by Ajinkya Rahane in the remainder of the of the series. “We have got some scars as well, we just have…

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Sunny Leone begins shooting for her next with Vikram Bhatt

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 Actor Sunny Leone on Monday announced she has started work on her latest project, “Anamika”. Vikram Bhatt is attached to direct the thriller, which marks the first collaboration between the filmmaker and actor. It is, however, unclear yet if “Anamika” is a film or webseries. Leone, 39, took to Instagram and shared pictures of herself, holding a clapboard on the sets of the project in the city. “Satnam… The start of something new and the end of my lockdown. A new journey starting with the ever so nice @vikrampbhatt,” the…

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PIL in SC to establish Special Anti-Corruption Courts in every district

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A PIL seeking to establish special anti-corruption courts in every district to decide cases related to various economic offences like money laundering and tax evasion within one year has been filed in the Supreme Court. The PIL filed by BJP leader and advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay has also sought directions to high courts to take appropriate steps to decide cases related economic offences. The petition has made the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Ministry of Law and Justice, and various states and Union territories parties in the case. The PIL,…

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Sensex drops over 200 pts in early trade; Nifty slips below 13,700

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Equity benchmark Sensex dropped over 200 points on Monday, tracking weak cues from global markets amid concerns over a new strain of the virus leading to fresh restrictions in European countries. The 30-share BSE index pared the gains to trade 202.44 points or 0.43 per cent lower at 46,758.25. Similarly, the broader NSE Nifty slipped 66.75 points or 0.49 per cent to 13,693.80. M&M was the top laggard in the Sensex pack, shedding around 2 per cent, followed by ICICI Bank, PowerGrid, Axis Bank, SBI, ONGC and IndusInd Bank. On…

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