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Jaipur siblings win Roland Garros’ AITA event in Bengaluru

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New Delhi, May 6 (DIN NEWS) Fardeen Qamar and Farhat Aleen Qamar, the brother and sister from Jaipur, won the Under-18 Roland Garros series event in Bengaluru, earning the chance to not only watch the business end of French Open but also hit with international players during the clay court Grand Slam. It is perhaps first time that siblings have won both boys and singles events at the same AITA national series event. Fardeen, a class XII student, won the boys event with a commanding 6-1 6-0 win over Delhi’s…

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Umar Thurman willing to work with Tarantino again

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Los Angeles, May 6 (DIN NEWS) Uma Thurman has said she always shared a “good relationship” with filmmaker Quentin Tarantino and is open to working with him once again if he wrote “a good part” for her. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the 48-year-old actor was asked whether she is open to working with the director despite the recent revelation about the car crash that happened on the sets of “Kill Bill”. “If he wrote a great part! I understand him and if he wrote a great part and…

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Don’t want to restrict myself to one kind of cinema: Radhika

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Mumbai, May 6 (DIN NEWS) After featuring in multiple language films from Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and to projects in South India, Radhika Apte is all set to make her foray in Hollywood and the actor says she always had the desire to do international cinema. Apte will be seen in Michael Winterbottom’s “The Wedding Guest”, alongside Dev Patel and will also feature in producer-turned-director Lydia Dean’s untitled World War II spy drama, with Stana Katic and Sarah Megan Thomas. “My desire was not just to do a Hollywood film but…

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List steps taken to tackle malnutrition: HC tells Maha govt

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Mumbai, May 6 (DIN NEWS) The Bombay High Court yesterday directed the Maharashtra government to list down the steps taken by it to implement previous orders of the court on tackling malnutrition in the state. A bench of justices Naresh Patil and G S Kulkarni earlier this week gave the directions while taking note of the information given by petitioners that over 300 children in the tribal areas across Maharashtra had died between September, 2017 and January, 2018 due to malnutrition and related causes. The court also directed the state…

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Herald case: Swamy, Rahul Gandhi accuse each other of delaying trial

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New Delhi, May 6 (DIN NEWS) BJP leader Subramanian Swamy and Congress president Rahul Gandhi yesterday accused each other in a Delhi court of wasting its time and delaying the trial in the National Herald case. Complainant Swamy and the accused, including Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia Gandhi, traded charges before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal who was hearing arguments on applications moved by the BJP MP seeking certain documents from the Congress party. Swamy has also filed certain documents in the case and sought a direction to…

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Airline shares face turbulence; Jet, IndiGo stocks tumble up to 20% in 3 days

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New Delhi, May 6 (DIN NEWS) Stocks of airlines have hit some air pockets, slumping up to 20 per cent in just three trading sessions this month amid rising fuel costs and weak quarterly earnings of InterGlobe Aviation impacting investor sentiment. Among the three-listed airlines, Jet Airways and SpiceJet are yet to announce their fourth quarter and full year results for 2017-18. On May 2, InterGlobe, which operates the country’s leading carrier IndiGo, reported 73 per cent decline in profit after tax (PAT) to Rs 117.64 crore for the March…

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Telecom ministry to decide on Idea’s 100% FDI proposal: Prabhu

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New Delhi, May 6 (DIN NEWS) The telecom ministry is the competent authority to take the final call on Idea Cellular Ltd’s proposal for infusing 100 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in the company, Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu has said. The Department of Telecom (DoT) has put some condition while seeking views of the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) on the proposal. “The matter is completely in the domain of the line ministry. We have already clarified. No need of our approval,” Prabhu told PTI…

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Saudi detains ‘thousands’ for months without trial: HRW

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Dubai, May 6 (DIN NEWS) Saudi Arabia has detained thousands of people for up to a decade without trial, Human Rights Watch said today, slamming the country’s powerful crown prince for the “arbitrary detentions”. Official data from the interior ministry, analysed by HRW, showed that authorities had detained 2,305 people for more than six months — some for over a decade — without referring them to court. The ultraconservative kingdom, an absolute monarchy, has introduced a string of reform in past months, spearheaded by the country’s unchallenged Crown Prince Mohammed…

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Some calming of Hawaii volcano, but scientists remain wary

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Pahoa (Hawaii), May 6 (DIN NEWS) The number of homes destroyed by lava shooting out of openings in the ground created by Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano climbed to five as some of the more than 1,700 people who evacuated prepared for the possibility they may not return for quite some time. “I have no idea how soon we can get back,” said Todd Corrigan, who left his home in Leilani Estates with his wife on Friday as lava burst through the ground three or four blocks from their home. They spent…

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Another child mauled by dogs in Sitapur

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Sitapur, May 6 (DIN NEWS) A 10-year-old boy was mauled to death by a pack of dogs here while another child was injured, police said today. Six children have died so far in the district after being attacked by dogs. The latest incident took place in Taalgaon police station area yesterday, when Qasim (10) was attacked while he was out to graze his goats. Another boy Irfan of Biharipur village was injured by dogs outside his village, police said. District Magistrate Sheetal Verma said assistance has been sought from the…

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