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NEVER IMAGINED 2018 WOULD GO FOR OSCARS: JUDE

Director Jude Anthany Joseph was stunned when he learnt that his film 2018 had been selected as India's official entry to the Oscars 2024.

OMG 2 director calls out CBFC's hypocrisy

In an earlier interview, OMG 2 director Amit Rai had said that they would release an uncensored version of the film on OTT, which would include the 27 cuts that were suggested by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC).

Jim: I'd forgotten we applied for International Emmy Awards

Jim Sarbh has received his first International Emmy Award nomination in the Best Performance by an Actor category for his web show Rocket Boys (2022).

With gold within grasp, Aditi stumbles to silver

Aditi Ashok won the first-ever medal for Indian women’s golf in the 19th Asian Games at Hangzhou, but what looked like a sure-shot gold at the start of the day, turned into a silver nobody expected, thanks to the mind-numbing vagaries of the sport.

Moment of reckoning for Rohit as the leader

Having been left out of the victorious 2011 World Cup squad, he will captain the team as India bid to repeat that success at home

India go down to China, bag historic silver

India were 2-0 up, Kidambi Srikanth was leading 18-14 in the first game against Li Shifeng and the men's team looked all set to win a first-ever gold medal in badminton at the Asian Games.

Sable makes it look easy as Toor wins with final throw

Saroj Kumar and Harmilan Bains win silver in men's and women's 1,500m; Seema Punia wins discus bronze at 40

GST collection crosses ₹1.6 lakh crore in Sep

A buoyant economy and robust domestic demand has seen indirect tax collection breach ₹1.62 lakh crore in September, the finance ministry said on Sunday, making it the fourth highest since the goods and services tax (GST) regime kicked in six years ago, and the third highest in the current financial year with a 10% annualised rise.

Festive spirit drives record Sep car sales

Maruti, Hyundai, Mahindra report highest-ever monthly sales

Australia's southeast risks bushfires as it swelters in heatwave

CLIMATE CRISIS - THE CATASTROPHIC 2019-20 BUSHFIRES KILLED 33 PEOPLE

Suicide bomber blows himself up in Turkey, second one neutralised

Turkey's government said on Sunday two terrorists carried out a bomb attack in front of the Interior Ministry buildings in Ankara, adding one of them died in the explosion and the other was \"neutralised\" by authorities there.

Nightclub fire kills 13 in Spain, toll likely to rise

At least 13 people were killed in a fire in a Spanish nightclub on Sunday morning, authorities said, with fears the toll could still rise as rescue workers sift through the debris. The fire appears to have broken out in a building housing the \"Teatre\" and \"Fonda Milagros\" clubs in the city of Murcia in southeastern Spain in the early morning hours.

US Congress passes funding bill, averts govt shutdown

A small group of hardline Republicans had defied their own party leadership to press for deep spending cuts

Actor arrested after car crash kills woman and injures husband

Kannada film actor Nagabhushan NS has been arrested, after a speeding car allegedly driven by him rammed into a couple, killing a 48-year-old woman, and critically injuring her 58-year-old husband, police said on Sunday.

Quota to be a poll plank but unclear if BJP will field more women candidates

The new law that reserves 33% seats for women in the Lok Sabha and legislative assemblies will be a major poll plank in the assembly polls in five states and 2024 general elections, where the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s outreach will be designed to focus on women’s issues and policies. It is, however, not clear whether the party will field more women candidates.

Guv appoints V-Cs of 6 univs, govt hits out

West Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose, who is chancellor of all 31 state-run universities, once again drew the ire of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government on Sunday by appointing interim vice-chancellors at six universities without consulting the administration.

Loss and damage fund, Paris goal review on COP28 agenda

Operationalising the loss and damage fund and setting out an energy pathway to keep the Paris Agreement goal of containing global temperature rise within 1.5 degrees Celsius are among the key parameters to determine the success of the upcoming UN climate summit to be held in Dubai later this year, a key official said.

Those above 80 yrs of age, disabled can now vote from home, says CEC

Chief election commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Sunday said that the \"vote-from-home\" facility will be made available to senior citizens and differently-abled in Rajasthan for the upcoming assembly elections.

PM leads mega cleanliness drive

Prime Minister Narendra Modi pitched for blending fitness and well-being with cleanliness, as he led a nationwide cleanliness drive as part of the 'Swachhata Hi Seva' on the eve of Gandhi Jayanti on Sunday.

India-US ties are at all-time high: Jaishankar

Declaring that the India-US relationship is at an \"all-time high\" but the world \"ain't seen anything yet\", external affairs minister S Jaishankar has said the high \"trust quotient\" in the bilateral relationship made it unique; ties will go, \"like the Chandrayaan\", to the moon and even beyond; and that the two countries now saw each other as very \"optimal, desirable and comfortable\" partners.

KCR again skips PM's event in T'gana; BRS hits out at Centre

Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao, popularly known as KCR, on Sunday skipped Prime Minister Narendra Modi's public program to launch various developmental projects in the poll-bound state, as the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) hit out at the Centre and questioned it's alleged apathy towards the Palamuru irrigation project.

4 held in Manipur over the killing of 2 Meitei students

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested four people on Sunday in connection with two Meitei students' abduction and murder, which stoked a fresh wave of violent protests in Manipur, Chief Minister N Biren Singh and officers aware of the matter said.

4 booked for firing at 2 Sohna houses

Four men were booked for opening fire on two houses of a family in Sohna's Kherla village on Friday night and Saturday afternoon, police officers aware of the matter said on Sunday. At least 16 people, including guests, were present in one of the residences on Saturday to mourn the death of an elderly family member on September 29, said investigators.

MCD nod to ₹10.7 cr revamp of Naini Lake at Model Town

The Naini Lake, a small waterbody located in residential Model Town in north Delhi, is set for a major revamp under a ₹10.7 crore project by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), officials aware of the redevelopment project said.

AQI below 200, Grap measures yet to kick in

Measures under the revised Graded Response Action Plan (Grap), which are implemented every year in phases from October 1, did not come into effect in the National Capital Region (NCR) on Sunday, as Delhi's air quality index (AQI) improved to 143 - below the threshold of 201 for the anti-pollution measures to kick in.

Neglected Roshanara Bagh falls into obscurity

In 1650, Roshanara Begum — a Mughal princess and the daughter of emperor Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal — patronised the construction of a pleasure garden on the outskirts of Shahjahanabad. The bagh, or garden, in Shakti Nagar in north Delhi, also came to house Begum’s tomb after she died in 1671, which is now among a few other historical structures from the period. While the garden currently only houses the tomb, a 17th-century eastern gateway, and a water channel, the other structures have fallen into obscurity over the years for lack of proper care.

Committed to beautify every area of the city: LG

Lieutenant governor VK Saxena on Sunday took part in a series of clean-up drives under the nationwide Swachhata Hi Seva campaign, even as various government departments and agencies held similar sanitation drives across the city.

Workers at Ramlila Maidan rally call for OPS restoration

Thousands of government employees from across the country gathered at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi on Sunday to protest the central government's National Pension Scheme (NPS) while demanding the restoration of the old pension scheme (OPS).

Case cracked after victim's sister kept up lonely crusade

For several months, Delhi Police head constable Surender Singh Rana kept Monika Yadav's family convinced that she was alive, going to great lengths to keep the facade up. But her sister did not believe any of it.

Naihati, a new table tennis hub

“Even when you take one small step, good things start happening if you have the right intention and are willing to work for it,” says Mihir Ghosh. For the 63-year table tennis coach, it is an aphorism.