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Women I play on screen are an extension of me: Vidya Balan

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Vidya Balan picked powerful women characters even before “female-centric cinema” became mainstream in Bollywood and the actor, who has pioneered a change in the concept of the Hindi film heroine in the last decade, says her choices are often guided by her personal experiences. Vidya has successfully established herself as an actor par excellence with films such as “Parineeta”, “Ishqiya”, “No One Killed Jessica”, “The Dirty Picture”, “Kahaani” and “Begum Jaan” among others. But she says the films that are among her personal favourites and have become turning points in…

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1892 & 1924 pacts on Cauvery neither inoperative nor extinct: SC

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The Supreme Court has held that two pre-independence agreements of 1892 and 1924 between the erstwhile princely state Mysore — now a part of Karnataka — and the Madras Presidency on the allocation of Cauvery river water covers the areas of larger public interest and hence, they are “neither inoperative nor completely extinct”. The apex court, by its crucial verdict to resolve the decades-old dispute between the southern riparian states over Cauvery water-sharing, has enhanced Karnataka’s share by 14.75 tmcft and reduced Tamil Nadu’s quantum. The verdict was delivered on…

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PILs in SC for strict population control measures

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Three separate petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the Centre to ensure strict population control measures by adopting a two-child policy and reward or punish those who adhere or fail to follow it. The petitions, filed by advocates Anuj Saxena, Prathvi Raj Chauhan and Priya Sharma, claimed that statistics relating to population growth indicate that by 2022, the population of India is likely to pass the 1.5 billion mark. The PILs, which are likely to come up for hearing next week, also said that…

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ED conducts searches at Gitanjali Gems stores in city malls

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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) today conducted search operations at Gitanjali Gems stores located in shopping malls here and at Rajarhat, in connection with the Rs 11,400-crore Punjab National Bank fraud. The name of Mehul Choksi, the owner of the stores, features in the multi-crore rupees fraud. A senior ED official told PTI that its officers conducted searches at five malls which house Gitanjali Gems stores, including in Salt Lake and Rajarhat. PNB has detected the scam in which billionaire diamond merchant Nirav Modi allegedly acquired fraudulent letters of undertaking (LoUs)…

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PNB Fraud: Officials of other banks under scanner

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As investigations into the Rs 11,400 crore scam at PNB gather momentum, officials at overseas branches of other banks, where the fraudulently issued Letter of Undertakings (LoUs) were encashed, are under scanner, sources said. Officials of Hong Kong branches of Indian lenders including Allahabad Bank, State Bank of India (SBI), Union Bank, UCO Bank and Axis Bank are part of the entire fraud which continued for 7 years. As per the guidelines, the tenure for the encashment of LoUs for the jems and jewellery sector is usually of 90 days…

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Israel advances bill cutting Palestinian funding over ‘terror’

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Ministers today greenlighted a bill allowing Israel to withhold tax monies it collects for the Palestinian Authority by the same amount as stipends that the PA pays to jailed militants. Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman, whose ministry drafted the bill, welcomed the vote in a ministerial committee, the first step toward sending it to parliament to be passed into law. “Soon there will be an end to this theatre of absurd,” he wrote in Hebrew on Twitter, adding that the money confiscated would be used “to prevent terror and compensate victims”.…

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Zia’s ’emotional’ lawyers delayed her privileges in jail: Govt

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Khaleda Zia’s counsels were led more by their emotions than professional obligations which delayed her getting privileges she was entitled to as the former premier in the prison after being convicted in a graft case, Law Minister Anisul Huq said today. The 72-year-old three-time former prime minister and main opposition leader was on February sentenced to five years rigorous imprisonment by Dhaka’s Special Court in connection with the embezzlement of 21 million taka (about USD 250,000) in foreign donations meant for the Zia Orphanage Trust, named after her late husband…

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PMO responsible for Nirav Modi fleeing country: CPI

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The Communist Party of India today blamed the Prime Minister’s Office for diamond merchant Nirav Modi fleeing the country and hit out at Narendra Modi for keeping mum on the Rs 11,400-crore Punjab National Bank scam. The party’s general secretary Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy said the PM’s silence on such a “big scandal is surprising”. “On every issue, the prime minister reacts, tweets and comments. But when such a serious incident takes place, why doesn’t he speak or react? He must reply,” Reddy told reporters here. He claimed that in 2016,…

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Palaniswami declines to comment on OPS remarks

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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami today declined to comment on his deputy O Panneerselvam’s remarks that the latter acted on a suggestion from Prime Minister Narendra Modi on merging his faction with that of Palaniswami. Palaniswami said he would respond to the issue after going through Panneerselvam’s remarks, made at an AIADMK office-bearers meeting at Theni on Friday. “I don’t know about it. I will comment after going through it (Panneerselvam’s remarks),” he told reporters here. Meanwhile, senior state BJP leader and Union minister Pon Radhakrishnan ruled out the…

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Justin Trudeau visits Taj Mahal

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today started his week-long visit to India with a tour of the iconic Taj Mahal, which he had first seen 35 years ago. Trudeau was accompanied by wife and three kids during the tour of white marble mausoleum on the banks of Ganga river. “I was about Xav’s age when I first visited the Taj Mahal almost 35 years ago… and it’s amazing to be back with him & the family on Day 1 of our trip to India,” he tweeted. The Canadian first family…

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