The teenagers were asked to do sit-ups, as well as slapped and beaten up by sticks by the locals.
Chris Martin sang Coldplay's hit tracks Sky Full of Stars, Clocks, Paradise and Magic.
'The more you love yourself, the prettier you feel inside and the prettier you will be.'
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Newly weds Isha Ambani and Anand Piramal looked lovely at their second Mumbai reception.
The inquiry will bring under a scanner Arun Shourie, the then disinvestment minister, and Bharat Hotels Chairperson Jyotsna Suri.
While the to-be bride looked resplendent in pink, her mother wowed in a vermillion silk lehenga.
The statement comes in the aftermath of the Gujarat CM Anandiben Patel's resignation.
The Patel quota leader Friday walked out of Lajpore jail in Surat after nine months of confinement, vowing to continue the stir.
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Australia spin legend Shane Warne was named as the brand ambassador of Rajasthan Royals for the upcoming 12th editon of the Indian Premier League.
"BJP leaders are playing the game at the behest of central leaders. MLAs were offered money... Rs 10 crore in advance and Rs 15 crore after the government is toppled," the chief minister alleged and added that the BJP wants to convert the state's politics into a goat market, 'bakra mandi'.
With six airports handed over to the Adani group for 50 years, the government is now all set to hand over another 25 airports to private players in a bid to 'monetise' them. Official figures reveal that since 2017-18, the government has spent and will be spending Rs 14,500 crore on significantly revamping infrastructure at most of these airports before handing them over to private players. The Airports Authority of India (AAI), which operates these airports for the government, has spent billions of rupees in building new terminal buildings, runways, reinforcing taxiways, upgrading aircraft landing systems, radars and a host of other heavy duty and capital intensive infrastructure works.
'When the trailer of Angrezi Medium came out, and when the credits were rolling in the end, with names like Irrfan Khan, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Deepak Dobriyal, Dimple Kapadia... that's when it hit me and I couldn't control my tears. That was the first time I realised that I was living my dream.'
The labourers said there was no point in staying back in Gujarat without any income.
The James Bond actor spent months in India shooting for another film, but his connection to India goes much deeper than that.
'I was born a lower middle-class person, am one today and will die as one,' Billboard's International Power Player Devraj Sanyal tells Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
The Rafale jet deal, signed on September 23, 2016, in the frame of an Inter-Governmental Agreement between India and France, has been in news over the last few months.
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Deepika bonded with Aishwarya. Anil Kapoor and wife mingled with the Thackerays.
Can you ever imagine seeing Shrinathji of Nathdwara in Rajasthan weaved to come alive in Jamdani? This sari is to mark the 2021 Handloom Day Special on August 7, masterfully crafted by acclaimed weaver, Lakshmana Rao Tammisetty from Andhra Pradesh, says Ranjani Govind.
The Chicago-headquartered firm currently has 32 hotels across 20 destinations under its eight brands in India. The eight brands under the Hyatt portfolio in India are -- Hyatt, Hyatt Centric, Hyatt Regency, Hyatt Place, Park Hyatt, Grand Hyatt, Alila and Andaz.
Though PeeCee has invited her Bollywood friends, only Hrithik is likely to attend.
The Congress has made lack of jobs, along with agrarian distress, its key election plank in the run-up to the December 7 assembly polls.
If credit card delinquency spells trouble, there may be questions with regard to the much bigger retail sub-categories of car and housing loans, notes T N Ninan.
Rain and thunderstorm wrecked havoc in several parts of Uttar Pradesh leaving at least 21 dead
Practically the entire Bollywood turned up.
The pop diva is in Mumbai, with her husband and three children.
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The film is scheduled to release next month.
Arvind Singh Mewar of Udaipur, the scion of the House of Mewar has become the first Indian ever to win a trophy at the recently-concluded five-day 62nd annual Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance event in California.
Omaxe, L&T and Unitech have already applied for the Rs 200-crore (Rs 2 billion) development projects at Udaipur and Amritsar. The work includes commercial operations and maintenance of the airport terminal building, besides development of 46,268 sq metres and 110,308 sq metres of land for city-side development and cargo handling facilities at Udaipur and Amritsar, respectively.
Seventy-five pilgrims were killed and an equal number injured when a truck carrying them fell into a deep gorge near Desuri Ki Naal village in Rajsamund district, about 150 km from Udaipur on Friday night, senior police officials said.
When you are the Ambanis, you can get even Mata Saraswati to bless you.
However, Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and her five cabinet colleagues have won their respective constituencies.
'Diva meets Devi,' the designer duo captioned her picture on their Instagram page.
The new-age traveler is no longer into ticking a checklist of must-see spots on his holiday. He is ready to pay a premium to experience culture, crafts and culinary delights of the local populace
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