Images from Saturday's IPL match between Mumbai Indians vs SunRisers Hyderabad, in Chennai.
Dera Sachkhand leader Sant Rama Nand, whose death in a shooting incident in Vienna triggered large-scale violence in Punjab, will be cremated on Thursday with full state honours, amid tight security in Ballan. The body of the Dera leader was brought to Ballan, 15 kms from Jalandhar, early today morning by a special flight from Vienna for the last rites. Many sect followers gathered to pay their last respects to the leader.Tight security arrangements were put in place.
'When you start delving deeper into these disappearances, you have to face the question: Was it a policy at the State level?' 'It surely couldn't have been random officers acting on their own.' 'Was it planned? What does it mean if the State allows its police to become lawless and act with impunity?' 'Perhaps the NHRC, for the 21 years that it has been seized of the matter, avoided these questions.'
There are many, many instances of this 'dark' approach. Sukanya Verma looks at a few.
Cash rewards to the tune of Rs 1.66 crore and other goodies were showered on India's first Olympic individual gold medallist Abhinav Bindra, whose historic feat at the shooting range in Beijing sparked street celebrations across the country. The Chandigarh marksman, who clinched the gold in 10m air rifle event, will be given Rs one crore by the Punjab government.
Aseem Chhabra lists his favourite Indian films of 2021.
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'Who will give me that (lost) time?' 'The stress I have gone through, the stress my family has gone through.' 'We have not laughed in seven, eight years.'
'Both Abdul Hamid and the enemy tank place each other in their sights and shoot. Both shells hit their targets. There is a loud blast, fire and smoke.' 'Hamid doesn't get time to jump off. A deafening blast follows and then there is complete silence.' 'Abdul Hamid is dead. He has destroyed a total of seven enemy tanks, many more than what an armoured formation could take on.'
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The unfortunate thing is that the film will leave a poor impression of the IAF's and indeed of the armed forces's ability to handle sensitive social matters within their professional space, observes Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain (retd).
Pati Patni Aur Woh cannot decide whether it wants to be the climax of a Priyadarshan comedy or give the cad a dose of his own medicine brand of cheeky payback, writes Sukanya Verma.
'It was very scary to attempt this role (in Udta Punjab), when I have no way of understanding what it is like to be on a high. I wondered whether I would make a fool of myself or whether I would be able to push my boundaries.' Shahid Kapoor comes clean.
The rates of peas, which were ruling at Rs 139 per kg last week, have come down to Rs 79 per kg.
Around 52.46 per cent of the patients have recovered, the health ministry said. The number of active cases stood at 1,53,178 while 1,80,012 patients have recovered, it said in the daily COVID-19 update.
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soon after its release, social media users lambasted its makers for exploiting the tragedy.
'The emotion of love is the same, but we have made it a math calculation, messed up and complicated.'
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Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday
In a case of fratricide, a Border Security Force trooper allegedly killed two officers and injured another at a remote border post in Assam's Dhubri district before shooting himself on Thursday.
'He was once a hero. He was the poster boy of investigative journalism.' 'Then suddenly, because the TRPs of his channel were down, his boss decides to sack him.'
'I think the writer did not have to do much work because Kapil would come to the sets, spontaneously change the dialogue and add a new punch. One had to be very alert while working with him because you wouldn't know how he would improvise his lines.' Simran Kaur Mundi on how she romanced Kapil Sharma in Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon.
Bollywood is all set for Diwali.
The actress is busy working on her Urdu and Hindi diction.
Trudeau's first bilateral visit to India was hit by a controversy over the dinner invitation to Atwal by the Canadian high commissioner in New Delhi.
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'Veeruji and I worked together in most of my films where he did the action.'
A $28,500 deposit was made to the account of slain gunman Syed Farook, a media report has said.
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Claude Arpi reveals how Wing Commander Jag Mohan Nath won a second Maha Vir Chakra in the 1965 War.
'I would like to play dark characters, like Khilji in Padmaavat.' 'But I have a problem, as the rapper inside me is a badass and I go deep into the character.' 'So even after the film ends, that character remains inside me for some time, which is really bad, because I start behaving like that.'
Pakistan on Tuesday hanged 17 prisoners, the highest number of executions on a single day
Traditional textile and art forms are being adapted into modern-day garments, ranging from the super-luxurious to the casual.
'The film industry will remain soft targets and continue to be picked upon with no respite, with no choice but to give in due to personal safety and financial compulsions,' says director Suparn Verma.
'I think I have been lucky that I have found directors who take me for what I am and what they think I am capable of, rather than go on my previous films and see what I have done.'
