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Bollywood superstar Deepika Padukone shocked fans and followers in the New Year Eve of 2021 deleting all posts from her social media platforms, with Twitter fans at 27.7 million and Instagram followers at 52.5 million. The actress, who was put through NCB questioning in drug-related scrutiny of the Bollywood actors, took the move to remove all her tweets and Instagram ...

Actors walking the extra mile to get into the skin of their characters have become a norm. Months before the shoot of the film the actors get into preparing each and every aspect of their characters, be it look, language, mannerisms, etc. Similarly, Poulomi Das too believes in pushing the envelope for her characters. The gorgeous actress, who portrays the ...

Following the denial of funds from the enraged Trump Administration, the WHO Foundation was created in May to oversee the flow of grants since WHO cannot raise funds on its own. It has appointed Anil Soni as its inaugural Chief Executive Officer, effective January 1, 2021, since WHO cannot raise funds on its own. The Foundation, an independent grant-making agency ...

Going by the tremendous buzz that the intense character posters and gripping teaser of ALTBalaji and ZEE5’s forthcoming magnum-opus show PAURASHPUR have been generating. It is no wonder that the show is trending at number one position on the IMDB page of ‘Most Anticipated New Indian Movies and Shows’. It has 28.4% of the page views, which makes for a ...

While Middle Class Melodies’ peppy Guntur track and romantic song Sandhya are already making their way into the audiences’ hearts, Amazon Prime Video on Tuesday unveiled yet another track, Keelu Gurram from the upcoming Telugu family comedy Middle Class Melodies. Featuring Anand Deverakonda, the song is composed by none other than by Sweekar Agasthi and it centres on a middle ...

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) said it has found that the promoters and directors of Kirloskar Brothers Ltd (KBL) had violated norms on prohibition of insider trading and traded in the scrip of KBL with the knowledge of price sensitive information. It also said the promoters and directors had submitted an incorrect undertaking or declaration to the ...

Bahubali director S.S Rajamouli’s next magnum opus Roudram Ranam Rudhiram (RRR) is one of the most highly anticipated films for over three years and the first look of Jr. NTR as Bheem in the film is opened to the audience on Thursday, October 22, 2020 with the voice over by the other lead in the film, Ram Charan. The movie ...

The World Food Programme, this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner, is the world’s largest humanitarian organisation addressing hunger and promoting food security. In 2019, the WFP provided assistance to close to 100 million people in 88 countries who are victims of acute food insecurity and hunger. In 2015, eradicating hunger was adopted as one of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. ...

The World Health Organization reported a record one-day increase in novel coronavirus cases on Thursday, with the total of 338,779 cases in 24 hours. Europe reported 96,996 new cases, the highest total for the region ever recorded by the WHO. Deaths rose by 5,514 to a total of 1.05 million. This surpasses the previous WHO record for new cases of 330,340 ...

Today, the Nobel Peace Prize for 2020 will be announced and the nominations of 318 candidates, including 211 individuals and 107 organizations will throw up finally the recipient who could be one of them or to be shared by two. It is likely that an individual with organizational background on the lines of  2004 recipient Wangari Maathai’s green belt movement ...