A 29-year-old woman was allegedly raped by a man at gunpoint near Bhayandar railway station in Thane district, the police said on Sunday. At least two persons were involved in the crime that took place on May 30 at a place opposite an ATM near the Bhayandar railway station between 2.30 pm and 5 pm, said sub-inspector Aparna Whatkar of Navghar police station.
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Deepika Padukone, along with her star father -- the legendary badminton player Prakash Padukone -- had a game of badminton on Thursday.
Mammootty, who has had a mediocre run at the box office with his past few films hopes to bounce back with Gangster.
But the Indian mixed doubles pair of Arun Vishnu and Aparna Balan suffered a close 18-21, 21-10, 22-24, loss to Russian pair of Evgenij Dremin and Evgenia Dimova, while another pair of Tarun Kona and Sikki N Reddy too went down 13-21, 17-21 against Liao Min Chun and Chen Hsiao Huan of Chinese Taipei.
India failed to exploit the home advantage as barring ace shuttler Chetan Anand none could advance to the second round on the first day of the World Badminton Championship in Hyderabad on Monday.
'I thought I'd be Chintu's ghost voice, just like Mukeshsaab for Rajsaab.' 'Chintu believed in my voice. He would always recommend me.' 'I sang two songs for him in his second film, Zehreela Insaan.' 'I was supposed to sing Oh Hanseeni, which became the biggest hit of the film.' 'Before I knew it, the song was taken away from me and given to Kishore Kumarsaab.'
The bench said it will look into the application before hearing the matter on making Setalvad as the second petitioner in Jafri's plea.
Varnam is the latest film to join the group of Tamil films like Veyil, Subramaniapuram, Paruthiveeran, Pasanga, etc that are taking an offbeat path. S. M. Raju, one of the producers of Santhosh Sivan's Malayalam film Anathabhadram is turning a director in Tamil with this film.
Indian shuttlers had a good day in office, with as many as four reaching the main draw of women's singles after winning their respective qualifying round matches at the Yonex Sunrise Indian Open, in Hyderabad on Tuesday. Aparna Balan, Ashwini Ponnappa, Arundhati Pantawane and Chitralekha progressed to the main draw.
The Gujarat government on Saturday issued an apology, for the remarks made by the Surat civic chief on migrants, during her visit to one of the slums in the city. Surat Municipal Commissioner S Aparna, during her visit to a slum area in the city on Friday, told migrant workers to shift back to their native place if the cities they had come from provided better civic amenities than Surat. Migrant workers come in large numbers to to work in textile and other industries.
Thousands on Wednesday took to the streets in Kolkata to join a silent procession of intellectuals, film personalities, writers, painters and people from other walks of life to condemn the "recapture" of Nandigram by the Communist Party of India (M).
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha supremo Shibu Soren was on Wednesday sworn in as Jharkhand chief minister.
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The new women's doubles pairing of Shruti Kurian and Aparna Balan was the lone blip in an otherwise great start by India in the biennial Sudirman Cup badminton tournament in Guangzhou, on Monday. India rolled over Australia 4-1 in their Group 3 (sub-group 3B) opener in their quest for promotion to Group 2. India raced ahead to victory in the first four matches before Kurian and Balan went down.
Filmmaker Ronnie Screwvala's daughter Trishya got married to Suhail Chandhok on January 19 at the Taj Mahal Palace in south Mumbai. It was followed by a starry reception at the same venue the next day.
Former champions P V Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth advanced to the quarter-finals with easy victories, but the highlight of the third day's proceedings in the Yonex-Sunrise India Open badminton tournament was H S Prannoy's thrilling victory over Denmark's Jan Jorgensen.
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy scored a stunning straight games victory over world No. 18 Li Wenmei and Zheng Yu to make it to the second round in the women's doubles at the US $350,000 India Open, in Delhi, on Tuesday.
In the second men's semi-final in the National Badminton Championships, fourth seed Arvind Bhatt takes on fifth seed Anand Pawar.
Scholars and students have cautioned that the proposed divisive and discriminatory changes would harm the country.
The filmmaker lauded West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi for his 'courageous statement' indicting the state government and the ruling Left for Nandigram incidents.
Modi had on Friday urged people to turn off lights at their homes for nine minutes at 9pm to display the country's collective resolve and solidarity to defeat the virus.
"Horrifying", "heartbreaking" and "barbaric" is how many in the film industry, including actors-filmmakers Anil Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Rajkummar Rao, Twinkle Khanna, Anurag Kashyap and Sonam Kapoor Ahuja, described the Sunday night violence at the Jawaharlal Nehru University while demanding that the perpetrators are brought to justice.
The party's decision, however, does not threaten the government's stability.
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He had not played any role in the blast, Purohit had said, adding that he was in jail for the last seven years without trial.
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'Indiscriminate use results in resistance to pathogens, rendering these life-saving drugs useless.' 'Unnecessary antibiotic treatment could have other detrimental health effects that affect immunity and metabolism,' notes Aparna Kotekar.
India started their Sudirman Cup campaign in fine fashion beating Finland 4-1 in their first group rubber.
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Zakia, the wife of Ehsan Jafri, an ex-MP who was killed in one of the worst incidents during the riots, has challenged the Gujarat high court's October 5, 2017 order rejecting her plea against the SIT's decision.
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