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Honoured to play doctor on screen for first time: Ayushmann Khurrana on ‘Doctor G’

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Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut has approached the Bombay High Court seeking the quashing of proceedings initiated by a city magistrate on a criminal defamation complaint filed against her by lyricist Javed Akhtar. In an appeal filed through advocate Rizwan Siddiquee, Ranaut claimed that the Andheri metropolitan magistrate’s court initiated proceedings against her by relying only on the police’s report and did not examine witnesses independently. Akhtar filed a criminal complaint against Ranaut in November 2020 before the magistrate for allegedly making defamatory and baseless comments against him in television interviews.…

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Byju’s acquires Epic for USD 500 mn

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Edtech major Byju’s on Wednesday said it has acquired Epic, a digital reading platform for kids, for USD 500 million (about Rs 3,729.8 crore). The company will invest an additional USD 1 billion in North America to accelerate its vision of “helping students fall in love with learning”, a statement said. The acquisition will help Byju’s expand its footprint in the US by providing access to the more than two million teachers and 50 million kids in Epic’s existing global user-base, which has more than doubled over the last year,…

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Dramatic in Covid deaths but US must stay vigilant about Delta variant: Biden

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President Joe Biden has said that even though the United States has seen a dramatic drop in the number of COVID-19 deaths due to its vaccination programme, the people must remain vigilant about the more virulent Delta variant that is spreading fast in the country. Stressing the need for people to get vaccinated, he said “virtually all” of the Covid deaths and hospitalisations in the country are among the unvaccinated. The highly contagious Delta variant, also known as B.1.617.2, was first detected in India in December and is spreading quickly…

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DRDO successfully test-fires new-generation Akash surface-to-air missile

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The DRDO successfully flight-tested the new-generation Akash surface-to-air missile system from an integrated test range off the Odisha coast on Wednesday. The defence ministry said the missile was test-fired at around 12:45 pm from a land-based platform and that the “flawless performance” of its weapons system was confirmed by the complete flight data. The new variant of the Akash missile (Akash-NG) can strike targets at a distance of around 60 km and fly at a speed of up to Mach 2.5. “The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully flight-tested…

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Go for elusive medal: Tendulkar tells Tokyo-bound track and field athletes

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 Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar on Tuesday urged India’s 26-strong squad for Tokyo Olympics to enjoy the pressure and not be bogged down by it during the Games as he joined the Athletics Federation of India in giving them an online send-off. In the virtual event, Tendulkar told them to chase the dream of winning an Olympic medal relentlessly. “A lot of people say there is win or loss in sport but my message is that the loss should be for your opponent and the win for you. You should go…

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‘Dhadak’ team celebrates three years of Janhvi Kapoor and Ishaan Khatter-starrer

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Actors Janhvi Kapoor and Ishaan Khatter along with director Shashank Khaitan on Tuesday clocked three years of the their romantic-drama “Dhadak”. The film was the remake of the 2016 Marathi blockbuster Sairat , a love story between an upper-caste girl, Archana (Rinku Rajguru) and a fisherman’s son, Prashant (Akash Thosar). The Hindi version marked Bollywood debut of Kapoor, daughter of late actor Sridevi and Boney Kapoor, while it was Khatter’s second film after Majid Majidi-directed drama “Beyond the Clouds”. Kapoor, 24, shared photographs from the sets and said the film…

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Rupee makes U-turn, spurts 27 paise to 74.61 against USD

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 The Indian rupee reversed early losses to close 27 paise higher at 74.61 against the US dollar on Tuesday amid a lacklustre greenback overseas and weak crude oil prices. At the interbank forex market, the domestic currency witnessed heavy volatility. The local unit opened weak at 74.93 a dollar and touched a low of 74.95 and a high of 74.55 during the day. The local unit finally closed at 74.61 against the American currency, registering a rise of 27 paise over its previous close. On Monday, the rupee had settled…

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Japanese PM Suga says world should see safe Olympics staged

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 The world needs to see that Japan can stage a safe Olympics, the country’s prime minister told sports officials Tuesday ahead of the Tokyo Games. Tens of thousands of athletes, officials, games staff and media are arriving in Japan amid a local state of emergency and widespread opposition from the general public. Events start Wednesday in softball and women’s soccer two days ahead of the formal opening ceremony of an Olympics already postponed a year because of the coronavirus pandemic. “The world is faced with great difficulties,” Japanese Prime Minister…

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PM asks BJP MPs to effectively counter Oppn’s charges on COVID response, vaccines; says Cong in ‘coma’

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 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday asked BJP MPs to proactively counter the opposition’s misleading charges on the management of the COVID-19 pandemic and hit out at the Congress, saying it is in a coma and is unable to digest the BJP coming to power. Addressing a meeting of BJP parliamentary party, the prime minister said that the government was willing to hold discussions in both Houses of Parliament, but the opposition was showing the most irresponsible behaviour. Facing flak from the opposition on his government’s response to the pandemic,…

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Shilpa Shetty’s husband Raj Kundra arrested for allegedly making porn films

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The case against Raj Kundra was registered in February this year, and he has been arrested as he appeared to be a “key conspirator”, a statement issued by the Mumbai Police Commissioner said. Raj Kundra, the husband of noted Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, was arrested late on July 19 in a case related to the production of pornographic films. A statement issued by the Mumbai Police noted that evidence was gathered against Kundra which suggested his involvement in production of porn films and publishing them on mobile applications. The case…

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