Censor board chief Rakesh Sharma arrested for alleged bribery.
Finally curtains have fallen on the ignominious career of Censor Board chief Rakesh Kumar. In a late evening development, The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested Censor Rakesh Kumar for allegedly demanding Rs 70,000 from an agent to clear a regional film.
Actor Allu Arjun, who received flak from his fans following an online video in which he is seen skipping a drunk-and-drive test and arguing with policemen, says he took the test and was let go.
The 25-second video in which Arjun is seen arguing with the police and then leaving, was leaked online late Monday evening.
Arjun has taken to social networking website Facebook to explain his stance on the matter.
RBI governor Raghuram Rajan has been constantly urging major central banks, particularly the US Federal Reserve, to keep in mind the spillover effects of their ultra loose monetary policies on emerging economies such as India. This column agrees that in a highly integrated global economy, the zero interest rate policy (ZIRP) era and Quantitative Easing (QE) measures undertaken my major central banks has affected India to a great extent.
Srinagar, Aug. 19 (ANI): Separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani today described as “childish and undemocratic” the Indian Government’s decision to call off of foreign secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan. Geelani, who is scheduled to meet Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit in New Delhi today, said, “The decision of the Government of India is childish, doesn’t hold importance, they shouldn’t have done this. We have been visiting Pakistan Embassy several times to hold talks, the decision to cancel foreign secretary-level talks is undemocratic.” The Hurriyat leader also made it clear that the separatist leaders will go to Delhi to meet the Pakistan High commissioner. If they arrest or make an excuse of not letting us meet, then India is using its power,” he added.
Lucknow, Aug. 19 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah arrived in Lucknow today as part of his two-day visit to Uttar Pradesh.
New Delhi Aug 19 (IANS) With state finance ministers having dropped the issue of compensation in lieu of a cut in the central sales tax from the agenda of their upcoming meeting on implementing the Goods and Services Tax (GST), the major hurdle appears to have cleared in reforming India’s indirect tax regime. In line with the BJP’s position on the GST as facilitating industrial growth, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had told the states that their concerns over its design and issues related to compensation for revenue loss on account of rolling out GST and phasing out the central sales tax (CST) regime would be suitably addressed. While CST is levied by the centre on inter-state movement of goods but is collected by the states, the issue of compensation arose because the centre cut CST from four percent to two percent in phases after state-level value added tax (VAT) was introduced from April 1, 2005. “States are likely to lose substantial revenues in the new regime,” Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Chouhan wrote in a letter to Jaitley, adding that states’ experience in receiving compensation for CST losses in the past was not very satisfactory.
‘Singham Returns‘ roared at the box office with shining figures and the movie knows no stopping at the ticket window. The action-drama shattered the records and has become the highest grossing film of 2014 till now. Rohit Shetty‘s directorial collected 32.09 crore nett on Friday and 21.05 crore nett on Saturday, as we reported earlier.
Sunday collections of the Ajay Devgn starrer were 24.50 crore nett and the total first weekend box office collection of the film was whopping 77.64 crore nett, as per the report. The film is anticipated to garner around 14 crore nett on Monday due to partial holiday of Janmashtami in some parts of the country. The total overseas collection recorded by the movie is 14.60 crore nett. So, ‘Singham Returns‘, which is made with an estimated budget of 115 crore, helds its flag high with the total worldwide collection of 92.24 crore nett within just 3 days of its release. By looking at these figures, reaching 100 crore club is like a child’s play for this action-affair.
The upcoming much-talked about venture of Yash Raj Films, ‘Mardaani‘ stars Rani Mukherjee in never-seen-before feisty cop avatar as Shivani Shivaji Roy. The actress plays the Crime Branch officer in the film. The fresh news update about the film is ‘Mardaani‘ is the first YRF outing with ‘A’ certificate.
‘Mardaani‘ talks about the efforts of Police to solve a sex trafficking case. YRF head Aditya Chopra thought to get U/A certificate for this flick, as he intended that the children who are above the years of 12 years will watch this movie. According to the new guidelines, the Censor Board issued an ‘A’ certificate for ‘Mardaani‘, thereby making it the first YRF outing with ‘A’ certificate.
Directed by Pradeep Sarkar, the film ‘Mardaani‘ hits the screens on August 22.
WASHINGTON (AP) — As Congress hurtled toward a government shutdown in the fall of 2013, Rep. Paul Ryan looked around at fellow Republicans who were agitating to shutter national parks, federal agencies and Head Start programs.
After entertaining the audience with the recent releases like ‘Holiday – A Soldier Is Never Off Duty‘ and ‘Entertainment‘, the action king Akshay Kumar is ready to come up with something different. This time, Akshay Kumar will star in a thriller titled ‘Airlift’ that revolves around the biggest human evacuation.
Akshay Kumar will be seen playing the role of Ranjit Katyal, an influential and affluent Indian businessman, who considers himself a Kuwaiti rather than an Indian. Once he finds his family along with him is in danger and no longer has any influence on Iraqis. Unknowingly, Ranjit becomes the person to whom all the 1,70,000 Indians turn for help for letting them go out of Kuwait safely. ‘Airlift’ talks about the journey of these Indians along with Ranjit Katyal and narration of how they manage to travel thousands of kilometers across the border into Amman, Jordan and survive the Iraqi invasion. In the history of the world, this was the biggest and successful human evacuation tried by any nation where 1,70,000 Indians were brought to their home country safely from Amman. The film also depicts how the Indian government flew over 488 Air India commercial flights into a war zone for the evacuation of 1,70,000 Indians in 59 days and for bringing them home safely.
Presented by T-Series and Cape of Good Films and produced by Emmay Entertainment Pvt. Ltd and Crouching Tiger Motion Pictures, the thriller ‘Airlift’ is directed by Raja Krishna Menon. Bhushan Kumar revealed that the story will be presented on the silver screen in a great way and Akshay will be essaying a heroic character paired with perfection in this flick.
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