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Pondy CM dubs union budget as ‘poll-oriented’

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Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy Saturday termed the union budget 2019-20 as “poll-oriented” and a “gimmick”.Talking to reporters here, he said, “an interim budget has been presented by an interim Finance Minister (Piyush Goyal) and all the sops announced in the budget are poll oriented and a gimmick.”As the Lok Sabha elections are round the corner, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Finance Minister have come out with subsidies for ryots, he added.Claiming that it was a clear attempt to woo farmers months ahead of the general polls, the Chief…

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Demi Moore laments portrayal of older women as ‘evil, bitter villains’ in films

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Actor Demi Moore wonders why female actors are typecast as “evil, bitter villains” in Hollywood after they attain a certain age.The 56-year-old actor currently stars in horror comedy “Corporate Animals” where she plays an egoistical CEO of an MNC.In an interview with IndieWire, Moore, who ruled the 90s with her films like “A Few Good Men”, “Disclosure”, “Ghost” and “Indecent Proposal”, stressed that older women can play romantic leads in movies.”I do want to be careful not to play into a cliche, which is that all older women are evil,…

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You haven’t won the game until you get Dhoni out: Neesham

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New Zealand all-rounder Jimmy Neesham Saturday heaped praise on Mahendra Singh Dhoni, saying that “you don’t have the game won until you have him out.” Before the ODI series in Australia, questions were raised over Dhoni’s waning abilities with the bat but he silenced his critics with three back-to-back half-centuries.Before missing out on the third and fourth ODI against New Zealand due to hamstring injury, the 37-year-old scored an unbeaten 48 and behind the stumps, he remains as sharp as ever. “His record speaks for itself. He is a fantastic player. I…

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NEWS CATEGORIES WORLD NEWS 

Trump hails ‘great news’ that Foxconn Wisconsin factory back on track

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President Donald Trump on Friday cheered the “great news” that Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn said it was going ahead with plans for a major factory in Wisconsin. The company announced that following a conversation between Trump and Foxconn chief Terry Gou it was “moving forward with our planned construction of a Gen 6 fab facility.” It was a reversal from news earlier this week that the company was scaling back its plans to open a factory and create manufacturing jobs.“Great news on Foxconn in Wisconsin after my conversation with Terry Gou!”…

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BUSINESS NEWS CATEGORIES 

Cannot allow trade deficit with China to continue: Prez Trump

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President Donald Trump has said US’ massive trade deficit with China cannot be allowed to continue, a day after the officials from both countries concluded their latest round of negotiations on trade issues.The US and China have been locked in an escalating trade spat since early 2018, raising import tariffs on each other’s goods.Last year, Trump imposed tariff hikes of up to 25 per cent on USD 250 billion of Chinese goods. The move prompted China to increase tariffs on USD 110 billion of American goods.Trump, who has been accusing…

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LEGAL NEWS NEWS CATEGORIES 

SC expresses displeasure at non-appointment of regular CBI director

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The Supreme Court Friday asked the Centre why it has not appointed a regular CBI director and said it was “averse” to the appointment of an interim chief for the agency for a long period.A bench comprising justices Arun Mishra and Naveen Sinha said the post of CBI director was sensitive and the government should have appointed a regular director by now.Attorney General K K Venugopal told the court that a high-powered committee, headed by the prime minister, will hold a meeting on Friday to select a new CBI director.He…

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Burns century puts Australia in control against Sri Lanka

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Joe Burns stroked Australia’s first century of the summer Friday in a stirring fightback after they lost three early wickets against a second-string Sri Lankan attack in the first-ever Test played in Canberra.Australian skipper Tim Paine won the toss at the Manuka Oval and put his side in on a flat track conducive to batting, a gambit that looked to be paying off after some early wobbles.By tea, they had stretched their lead to 220 for three with Burns not out 107 and Travis Head on 91 in an ominous…

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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS CATEGORIES 

Don’t think the kind of superstardom Khans saw will ever come back again, says Rajkummar Rao

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Rajkummar Rao may have emerged as a major box office draw at the box office but the actor does not believe he is anywhere near the super stardom that the three Khans have in Bollywood.There is a great churning in Bollywood with content driven films outperforming and outclassing those headlined by the likes of Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan and Aamir Khan.Rajkummar, who is the considered one of the faces of this new breed of cinema, however, says it would not be right to compare his stardom with that of…

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More people die after surgery than from HIV, TB, and malaria combined: study

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Nearly 4.2 million people around the world die every year within 30 days after surgery, more than than those who die from HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria combined, according to a study.The analysis, published in a research letter to The Lancet journal, found that half of the post-operative deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). There is also a significant unmet need for surgery in LMICs and researchers at the University of Birmingham in the UK believe that if operations were provided for all patients who need them the number…

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NEWS CATEGORIES WORLD NEWS 

Trump to say when, where he’ll hold 2nd North Korean summit

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President Donald Trump said Thursday he will announce next week the site and date for the second summit he plans with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un around the end of February. Trump later said he would likely make the announcement during his State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday.”They very much want the meeting,” Trump told reporters, and he asserted that his administration has made “tremendous progress” toward reining in the North’s nuclear ambitions.The president said that before he took office in January 2017, “it looked like we…

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