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Thakur Anoop Singh keen to explore Bollywood

August 13, 2014 0

Now that “Mahabharat” is going to go off air Saturday, actor Thakur Anoop Singh, who plays King Dhritarashtra in the show is looking out for greener pastures in filmdom.

“The show (Mahabharat) is going off air soon and now if there is an end, there is always a beginning. So I am really keen to move into movies,” Anoop said in a statement.

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Salman Khan to host Bigg Boss 8, confirms Raj Nayak

August 13, 2014 0

There was a pall of uncertainty over whether Salman Khan will host the eighth season of reality TV show “Bigg Boss” or not, but now it’s confirmed that the Bollywood superstar will return as its anchor.

Raj Nayak, CEO, Colors, posted on his Twitter page:

Can’t wait for Season 8?#BiggBoss

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Now, Ranveer Singh does 'Manchow Rap'

August 13, 2014 0

Actor Ranveer, who has crooned for his film “Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl” in the past, has now written and crooned a ‘Manchow Rap’ for his upcoming romantic actioner “Kill Dil“. The song is expected to be launched Thursday.

“Ranveer Singh has done a special ‘Manchow rap’ for his next project with Shaad Ali. This high-energy, foot tapping number has been choreographed by Ganesh Acharya and has music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy,” read a statement.

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No fallout with Bruce Willis: Sylvester Stallone

August 13, 2014 0

Actor Sylvester Stallone rubbishes reports of his fall out with Bruce Willis.

The action man has confirmed that Willis was invited to return to “The Expendables” franchise for the third film, but the reunion “didn’t work out”.

“That happens in film and casting. It’s nothing personal. It sounded like it got personal and I’m sorry it did sound that way. But it was actors talking and things move on,” contactmusic.com quoted Stallone as saying.

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Shooting of black teen highlights racial divide in Missouri town

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By Nick Carey and James B. Kelleher FERGUSON Mo (Reuters) – The fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, on Saturday, and subsequent violent protests, highlight a stubborn racial divide in a St Louis suburb that has struggled to build healthy relations between blacks and whites. African Americans, allegedly excluded from buying homes in many St. Louis neighborhoods in an illegal practice called redlining, found Ferguson a hospitable place to set down roots. “Most of the communities around Ferguson have gone from all Caucasian to all African-American over a 40-year period,” said Terry Jones, a political science professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Ferguson, on St. Louis’ northern border, is relatively mixed, with 63 percent of the residents African American and 34 percent white, according to 2010 U.S. Census data. To some Ferguson residents, the shooting death of Michael Brown, 18, symbolizes how African Americans are treated unfairly in a town still run by a Caucasian minority.

Insight – U.S. rolls back oversight of potentially dangerous experiments

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Pharmaceutical tablets and capsules in blister packs are arranged on table in illustration picture in Ljubljana

By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) – As U.S. lawmakers investigate the anthrax and bird flu breaches at a federal laboratory, they have begun to question whether outside oversight of research using dangerous microbes is as independent as federal agencies claim. They are scrutinizing the actions of the nation’s leading biomedical research institute, the National Institutes of Health, which in 2004 established a panel of independent advisors to make recommendations about research on pathogens that could be used as biological weapons. Some private sector biosafety experts say NIH has marginalized the board to prevent it from interfering in research that NIH funds. In the last two years, members of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) found their responsibilities reduced and their meetings canceled, and nearly a dozen were abruptly dismissed, according to seven current and former board members and a Reuters review of agency documents. A spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), NIH’s parent agency, said the changes reflected the agency’s assessment of what it needed from the board and dismissed the suggestion that NIH had marginalized the advisers.

Robin Williams hanged self but no answer as to why

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FILE - This March 27, 2010 file photo shows actor Robin Williams speaking at The 24th American Cinematheque Awards honoring Matt Damon in Beverly Hills, Calif. Williams, whose free-form comedy and adept impressions dazzled audiences for decades, has died in an apparent suicide. He was 63. The Marin County Sheriff's Office said Williams was pronounced dead at his home in California on Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. The sheriff's office said a preliminary investigation showed the cause of death to be a suicide due to asphyxia.(AP Photo/Dan Steinberg, File)

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) — Although police have now revealed how Robin Williams committed suicide, the Oscar-winning actor’s fans, friends and even family continue to struggle to understand why someone who spread so much joy throughout the world could find so little in his own life that he decided to stop living.

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Time to reply to ceasefire violations by Pakistan, says Majid Memon

August 13, 2014 0

New Delhi, Aug.13 (ANI): Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Majid Memon on Wednesday said that if Pakistan keeps violating the ceasefire like this, then we need to answer them back. Talking of continuous ceasefire violations by Pakistan, Memon told ANI, “Inviting Prime Minister of Pakistan on the oath taking ceremony is not helping.

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Only discussion on Communal Violence Bill not enough: Rashid Alvi

August 13, 2014 0

New Delhi, Aug 13 (ANI): Congress leader Rashid Alvi today said that while it was a good thing that Communal Violence Bill was being discussed in the Parliament today, only a discussion wouldn’t suffice as laws are needed to tackle communal violence. Alvi told ANI, “There definitely needs to be a discussion on communal violence in the Parliament. If communal violence spreads in the country, then there would be no peace.

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Terror’s new face

August 13, 2014 0

The rise of the new SIMI from the shadows has once again raised the question of whether banning such groups helps in policing or ends up being counterproductive by strengthening support for extremist factions.