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Sindhu, Srikanth lead Indian challenge at World Championship

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Nanjing (China), Jul 29 (DIN NEWS) Olympic silver medallist P V Sindhu will look to break the jinx of losing major finals and better the colour of her medal when she spearheads the Indian challenge at the prestigious World Championship, starting here tomorrow. With two bronze medals in 2013 and 2014 and a silver last year, Sindhu has an impressive record at the World Championship. Her epic final against Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara at Glasgow last year went down as one of the greatest matches of all time, clocking 110 minutes.…

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TV actors are part of audience’s family: Divyanka Tripathi

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Mumbai, Jul 29 (DIN NEWS) Television star Divyanka Tripathi believes the audience develops a sense of “belongingness” with TV actors as they enter their households every day through the small screen. The actor believes viewers find TV stars more approachable than film celebrities. “The audience thinks we are their own people, we are part of their family. When they meet us they don’t meet like strangers, they never hesitate in approaching us. They know Ishita (her character from serial ‘Yeh Hai Mohabbatein’) and they are connected to her. “While, film…

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Not everyone can or should be hero from first frame: Motwane on Sacred Games’ Sartaj

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Mumbai, Jul 29 (DIN NEWS) “Sacred Games” co-director Vikramaditya Motwane has said actor Saif Ali Khan was the first choice to essay the role of Mumbai Police cop Sartaj Singh in the Netflix Original Series. Motwane, who co-directed the series with Anurag Kashyap, and screenwriter Varun Grover engaged in an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit India in which the duo were asked a number of questions about the popular show. One of the Reddit users questioned the mediocrity of Sartaj’s character in the show, in response to which Motwane…

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Courts must pass reasoned orders to enable parties understand why they lost or won cases: SC

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New Delhi, Jul 29 (DIN NEWS) The Supreme Court has said that courts need to pass a reasoned order in every case which would enable the parties involved in the litigation to understand as to “why one party has won and other has lost”. The top court remanded back to the Madhya Pradesh High Court at Indore, a matter related to provident fund contribution for deciding it afresh. A bench of justices A M Sapre and Navin Sinha said that the order of the court should highlight the legal principles…

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Check if schools, colleges provide barrier-free access to disabled students: HC to Maha govt

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Mumbai, Jul 29 (DIN NEWS) The Bombay High Court has asked the Maharashtra government and the Directorate of Education to call for compliance reports from all educational institutes and universities in the state on facilities provided to disabled students. In an order passed earlier this week, a bench of Justices Naresh Patil and G S Kulkarni said the state must inform the court whether or not all educational institutes across Maharashtra were providing barrier-free access in their buildings to disabled students and staff members. The bench was hearing a Public…

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Trump: There are ‘consequences’ for illegal border crossing

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Bridgewater(US), Jul 29 (DIN NEWS) President Donald Trump says there are “consequences when people cross our Border illegally” and claims many who do so are “using children for their own sinister purposes.” Trump’s tweet today came several days after the government said more than 1,800 children separated at the US-Mexico border have been reunited with parents and sponsors after a federal judge ordered the reunions. Hundreds of children still remain separated. Following a day of relative silence on Twitter, Trump says: “Please understand, there are consequences when people cross our…

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Cong slams AGP for misguiding people on illegal migrants issue

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Guwahati, Jul 29 (DIN NEWS) Leader of Opposition in the Assam Assembly, Debabrata Saikia, today criticised the AGP, a coalition partner of the ruling BJP, for having “misguided” the people of the state by using the illegal migrants issue for achieving their political objectives for over 30 years. After the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) had formed the government in Assam in 1985 following signing of the Assam Accord, an ‘intensive revision’ of the electoral rolls of Assam was undertaken under the supervision of the Election Commission, Saikia said in a…

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VP Naidu visits hospital, DMK releases image of Karuna on bed

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Chennai, July 29 (DIN NEWS) Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu today visited a private hospital here to inquire about the health condition of DMK chief M Karunanidhi. The DMK, meanwhile, released a photograph,the first after Karunanidhi’s hospitalisation early yesterday, showing Naidu standing beside the 94-year-old leader in his hospital bed. Party cadres outside the hospital were enthused by the release of the image. They said the picture did not feature any “life support system like a ventilator” and it was reassuring that their Thalaivar (leader) was recuperating well. DMK had,…

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“Digi yatra” facility likely to take off in 2 months: Prabhu

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Mumbai, Jul 29 (DIN NEWS) The civil aviation ministry’s proposed “digi yatra” facility, which seeks to make flying speedy and hassle-free, is expected to be rolled out in the next two months, Union Minister Suresh Prabhu has said. The initiative, “digi yatra”, seeks to minimise paperwork for air travel under a digital system for airport entry and boarding flights using a passenger’s Aadhaar number and mobile phone. Under the system, the civil aviation ministry is looking to make ticket booking, airport entry and boarding pass security check-in digital. “We are…

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Trai chief’s personal info not fetched from Aadhaar database, servers: UIDAI

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New Delhi, Jul 29 (DIN NEWS) The UIDAI today asserted that the personal details of Trai chief R S Sharma being put out on Twitter are not from the Aadhaar database or its servers, and that “so called hacked information” is easily available with a simple search on Google and other sites, without using the 12-digit unique identity number. The UIDAI jumped into the debate following a full blown war of words on Twitter between Trai Chairman RS Sharma and some users over the potential of Aadhaar number being misused.…

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