Alia performs 'didi' duties for KJo's son
It's Raksha Bandhan, and actress Alia Bhatt took out time to tie a rakhi on the tiny wrist of filmmaker Karan Johar's son Yash. Karan had launched Alia's Bollywood career with his 2012 film "Student Of The Year", following which the actress features in almost every production of the filmmaker. Whi;le...
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I've stopped reading social media comments: Kalki
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Chinese military personnel parade near Hong Kong border
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China's Tencent sorry for saying typhoon killed 'nearly everyone'
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'Mission Mangal': Ordinary film about an extraordinary feat
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Trump says Xi can 'quickly and humanely solve' Hong Kong standoff
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China asks for UNSC meeting to discuss Kashmir after Pak writes letter to UN
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Pak to give top military awards to its two pilots for downing Indian jet
15 August 2019 | PTI
Building city on Mars could cost up to $10 trillion: Elon Musk
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has not stopped at lofty talks of colonising Mars. He has even estimated the cost of having a self-sustaining civilization on the Red Planet which is "between $100 billion and $10 trillion". Musk tweeted his estimates of building a city on Mars in response to a question...
Mika Singh banned from Indian film industry
The All Indian Cine Workers Association (AICWA) has banned singer Mika Singh from the Indian film industry for performing at an event in Karachi, Pakistan. The event in Pakistan was organised by former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's close relative. A 30-second video clip tweeted by a Pakistani journalist showed Mika performing at...
Flights departing Hong Kong airport after protest chaos
Flights were departing Hong Kong airport largely on schedule on Wednesday morning, a day after pro-democracy protesters caused chaos with a disruptive sit-in that paralysed the busy transport hub. Hundreds of flights were cancelled on Tuesday after demonstrators blockaded two terminals, the second consecutive day the airport has been targeted in...
China denies US Navy ship visits to Hong Kong amid unrest
US officials said the Chinese government has denied requests for two US Navy ships to make port visits to Hong Kong amid civil unrest. Cmdr. Nate Christensen, deputy spokesman for the U.S. Pacific Fleet, said on Tuesday the USS Green Bay had been scheduled to visit Hong Kong on August 17...
Epstein death: two prison guards put on leave, warden reassigned
The warden of the high-security prison in New York where convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein apparently committed suicide has been reassigned and two guards put on leave, the Justice Department said Tuesday. Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said the two guards placed on administrative leave by the Bureau of Prisons had been...
China's Xi gets tougher on Trump after new tariff threat
Facing another U.S. Tariff hike, Chinese President Xi Jinping is getting tougher with Washington instead of backing down. Beijing fired what economists called a "warning shot" at Washington by letting its yuan currency weaken in response to President Donald Trump's latest threat of more punitive import duties on Sept 1. Chinese buyers...
Trump threatens to pull US from WTO 'if we have to'
President Donald Trump threatened Tuesday to pull the United States from the World Trade Organization if conditions are not improved. "We will leave if we have to," Trump told a cheering audience of workers at a Shell chemical plant in Pennsylvania. "We know that they have been screwing us for years and...
