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Henry Cavill responds to rumours of his exit from DCEU

September 13, 2018 strong

Actor Henry Cavill responded to the reports on Thursday that he might be exiting DC Extended Universe as Superman. According to a report by The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday, Cavill, 35, who first appeared as the superhero in 2013’s “Man of Steel”, and later reprised his role in “Superman V Batman” and last year’s “Justice League”, might be parting ways with Warner Bros.According to insiders, the development comes after talks of the actor’s cameo in “Shazam!” did not come to fruition due to scheduling conflicts.Cavill took to Instagram to post…

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India eye upset against Djokovic-less Serbia in Davis Cup tie

September 13, 2018 strong

India’s depleted Davis Cup squad will bank on the consistency of Prajnesh Gunneswaran to pull the side through when it takes on a shorn-of-star-power Serbia in the World Group Play-off tie here from Friday.Recently-crowned US Open champion Novak Djokovic’s decision to opt out of the play-offs along with world number 33 Filip Krajinovic has raised hopes of an equal contest between the two teams.Playing away is still an enormous task for the Indian team, which has landed here without its top singles player Yuki Bhambri and Asian Games men’s doubles…

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Killari quake: 25 yrs on, survivors tell tales of trauma, grit

September 13, 2018 strong

Aarti Kalpekar was only one-and-a-half-month-old when her family house in Killari village in Latur district of Maharashtra collapsed when a devastating earthquake ravaged the region in the wee hours of September 30, 1993, just after the Ganesh festival.Aarti was sleeping with her parents and was stuck in the debris of their house following the devastating temblor.Though she and her mother survived, the quake claimed her father’s life.For her mother, Sunita, who was abandoned by her in-laws following her husband’s death, Aarti was the only reason to forget her trauma. With…

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Suu Kyi says handling of Rohingya could have been better

September 13, 2018 strong

Myanmar’s handling of its Rohingya Muslims, 700,000 of whom have fled to Bangladesh amid a brutal counterinsurgency campaign, could have been handled better, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Thursday.Myanmar is facing international pressure over atrocities allegedly committed by its military in the crackdown that followed August 2017 attacks by Rohingya militants on security forces. The army is accused of committing mass rape, killings and setting fire to thousands of homes. A report issued two weeks ago by a specially appointed U.N. human rights team recommended…

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Media trial of caes can’t be allowed; press needs to draw a line: SC

September 13, 2018 strong

The press should “draw a line” and strike a balance as media trial of cases cannot be allowed, the Supreme Court said Tuesday while hearing the Muzaffarpur shelter home case in which several women were allegedly raped and abused.The apex court, which was dealing with a plea challenging a Patna High Court order restraining the media from reporting on the investigation into the Muzaffarpur shelter home case, said the issue was not “simple”.”It is not such a simple matter. The media goes to one complete extreme at a point. There…

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Jaitley rubbishes Mallya’s claims of meeting him; says never gave him appointment since 2014

September 13, 2018 strong

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Wednesday rubbished Vijay Mallya’s claim of having met him before fleeing to London in 2016, saying he never gave him an appointment after becoming a minister in 2014 but the fugitive liquor baron misused his position as an MP to accost him once in Parliament.Terming Mallya’s offer to settle overdue loans of over Rs 9,000 crore to his now-defunct Kingfisher Airline as “bluff offers”, the minister said he did not even take the papers Mallya was carrying during that brief encounter. Jaitley’s comments came in response…

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Hostage crisis of power utility employees ends

September 12, 2018 strong

The three-day-long hostage crisis involving employees of the Bharatiya Rail Bijlee Company Ltd (BRBCL) and their family members in Bihar’s Aurangabad has come to an end, officials said.The impasse was resolved during a meeting on Tuesday evening, where it was decided that BRBCL would supply power to villages till the South Bihar Power Distribution Company Ltd (SBPDCL) provides electricity connection.”The deadlock has been resolved,” Aurangabad District Magistrate Rahul Ranjan Mahiwal told PTI, but refused to elaborate on the issue.Representatives of Aurangabad district administration, BRBCL and the villagers who held around…

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Shweta Bachchan to launch debut novel on Big B’s birthday eve

September 12, 2018 strong

Shweta Bachchan-Nanda’s debut novel, which talks about everyday lives and is set in a Mumbai apartment, will be launched on the eve of her father’s birthday on October 10. Published by HarperCollins India, “Paradise Towers” is billed as a “quirky, intimate debut that explores the intertwined lives in the building – a forbidden romance, an elopement, the undercurrents of tension in corridor interactions and an explosive Diwali celebration”.Speaking about how she came to write “Paradise Towers”, Shweta says, “I grew up with my grandfather who was a poet and a…

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English summer: Virat the batsman wins, Virat the captain loses

September 12, 2018 strong

Virat Kohli the batsman exorcised the ghosts of a horrendous 2014 series but his captaincy left a lot to be desired in the just-concluded series against England which again turned out to be a case of ‘what it could have been’.Kohli is, in fact, right when he says that barring Lord’s Test, they were not totally outplayed but England played better cricket during key moments during the 1-4 loss. The series was testimony that batsman Kohli is heads and shoulders above his peers not just in India but in world…

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Japan’s Abe expresses support for better Trump-Kim ties

September 12, 2018 strong

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday voiced support for the rapprochement between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, a Japanese diplomat said, as Washington considers the possibility of a new summit with North Korea’s leader.In a meeting with South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yeon on the sidelines of an economic forum in Russia, Abe reiterated his support for “the agreement between President Trump and Chairman Kim, in particular, the commitment of the North Korean leader towards the full denuclearization of the Korean Penninsula,” said a Japanese foreign ministry spokesman.”Our…