The trailer of Hansal Mehta’s Chhalaang was released today. The film stars Rajkummar Rao and Nushrat Bharucha in lead roles. The sports comedy is set to premiere on Amazon Prime Video on November 13. The film is presented by Bhushan Kumar and produced by Ajay Devgn, Luv Ranjan and Ankur Garg. Chhalaang is the story of a Physical Education Teacher (PET master) at a government school in a Haryana town. Rajkummar Rao plays Montu, the PET, who is lazy and not passionate about teaching students. Take for example, when his mother wakes him up for school, he says, “Bachchon ke…
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Apple has announced a series of free virtual sessions from October 17 to November 29 in the light of the launch of the Apple Store online in India. The event will be ideal for budding photographers, musicians and artists as leading local photographers and acclaimed musicians will speak about their stories and the inspiration behind their projects. These experts will share tips and tricks with users who register for the Apple events. The free virtual sessions will start from October 22 mainly focussed on photography with photographers like Siddhartha Joshi and Avani Rai on October 22 and October 27 respectively…
While the journalists and internet trolls sympathetic to the Congress party have a habit of waxing eloquent on the need to respect one’s freedom of expression and be tolerant to dissenting views, when it comes to criticism of the Gandhi family, particularly Rahul Gandhi, all their commitment to these lofty ideals take a back seat as they vigorously come to the defence of their ‘crown prince’. Recently, a businessman named Nikhil Nanda posted a tweet critiquing the former Congress president Rahul Gandhi for his disparaging remark on India’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis. Gandhi had taken a dig at the…
V K Jayarajan Potti was on Saturday appointed ‘Melsanthi'(Chief Priest) of the Lord Ayyappa temple here for one year from November 16, when the Mandala Puja season commences. Raji Kumar M N Namboothiri was selected as Chief Priest of the adjoining Malikappuram Devi temple. The selections were made by drawing lots from a panel of priests shortlisted after interviews conducted by the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB), which manages the hill shrine. They will take over as Chief Priests on November 16, on the eve of the 41-day Mandala season starting from the month of Vrishchikam of Malayalam calendar,TDB sources said.
The national capital’s air quality was recorded in the ‘poor’ category on Saturday morning but is likely to improve slightly due to favourable wind speed, according to government agencies. The air pollution level in Delhi had hit an eight-month high on Thursday but reduced slightly on Friday with favourable wind speed helping in dispersion of pollutants, even as the contribution of stubble burning to Delhi’s PM2.5 concentration rose to 18 per cent. The city recorded an air quality index (AQI) of 263 at 10 am. The 24-hour average AQI was 239 on Friday and 315 on Thursday, the worst since…
Actor Mithun Chakraborty’s son Mahaakshay has been booked for rape of a woman by Mumbai Police. The woman filed a complaint of rape and cheating against the actor. The case was registered at Oshiwara Police Station on Thursday night, said a police official. The police official told news agency PTI, “The complainant said she was in a relationship with Mahaakshay Chakraborty from 2015 to 2018 and during that period he had promised to marry her.” “The woman said that during their relationship, she had gone to see Mahaakshay’s flat at Adarsh Nagar in Andheri West, which he had purchased in…
A high school teacher in Paris who teaches history and Geography was beheaded for showing caricatures of Prophet Muhammad to students in the class. French authorities said that the attack that occurred after 5 p.m. near a school in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Saint-Honorine Northwest of Paris. Police shot the suspect in a nearby town, killing him, said French police sources cited in news reports. France’s national anti-terror prosecutor immediately opened an investigation for “murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise” and “criminal terrorist association.” French President Emmanuel Macron later visited the crime scene, and Interior Minister Gerard Darmanin returned…
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday said the presence of a large number of Chinese troops with weapons at the Line of Actual Control(LAC) in eastern Ladakh posed a “very critical” security challenge to India. Jaishankar also said the violent clashes at the de facto border in the Ladakh sector in June had a very deep public and political impact and left the relationship between India and China “profoundly disturbed”. “There are today a very large number of troops(of PLA) with weapons concentrated on that segment of the border and that is obviously a very critical security challenge that…
BJP leader D K Gupta shot dead in UP by bike-borne men BJP leader D K Gupta was shot dead last night in Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad district. DK Gupta was targeted by three unknown attackers on bikes, police said. The BJP leader, who was the Mandal vice president, was leaving after closing his shop when he was attacked at a local market. Soon after the killing, a protest by some family members and supporters broke out outside the hospital – where he was taken – as they demanded arrest of the accused. Some protesters also tried to block a road…
At least 25 fire tenders and a hydraulic ladder were deployed to rescue those trapped inside the building and to douse the blaze. The incident took place in the northern part of the city. Two persons, including a 12-year-old boy, were killed in a fire that broke out in a five-storeyed residential building at Ganesh Chandra Avenue here on Friday night, officials said. All the other residents of the building have been rescued and the fire is, at present, under control, State Fire Services Minister Sujit Bose said. The 12-year-old boy and an old lady died in the incident, according…