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Zee TV launches its new show 'Maharakshak Aryan'

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He’s an unassuming boy-next-door who is oblivious to the larger-than-life plans destiny has in store for him! Zee TV’s latest weekend offering ‘Maharakshak Aryan‘ is a gripping narrative of coming-of-age and a walk into the darker realms of fantasy where a hero will face his worst fears, rewrite destiny and emerge a winner.

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Prankster Abhishek Bachchan strikes Farah's Twitter account

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Abhishek Bachchan can be one of the biggest prankster in Bollywood. And he proved it yet again during the shooting of “Happy New Year“.

One of his favourite on-the-set pranks is to send out messages from his co-stars’s phones. During the shooting of “Bluffmaster“, director Rohan Sippy and co-star Priyanka Chopra found text messages being sent from their phones that they never would have sent themselves.

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Elizabeth Pena dies at 55

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Actress Elizabeth Pena, who recently completed shooting for TV series “Matador”, has died. She was 55.

Her nephew Mario-Francisco Robles shared the news that Pena passed away Tuesday (Oct 14) at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after a brief illness, reports hollywoodreporter.com.

Robles broke the news on the website Latino Review, where he serves as a writer.

The actress played the title character’s mother Maritza in the first season of the El Rey Network’s “Matador“.

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Deepika keen to feature in French, Iranian films

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Mumbai, Oct 16 (IANS) Deepika Padukone is ready to work in films beyond Bollywood, but she is not gunning for Hollywood. The versatile Indian actress is instead, keen to do a French or Iranian film, and she has even identified directors she would like to work with.

Exit polls: India BJP poised to win 2 state polls

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Voters line up to cast their votes during the Haryana state elections in Gwalpur Pahari, India, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014. The Indian states Haryana and Maharashtra are going to the polls Wednesday to elect representatives to their respective state Assemblies. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party looked poised to win elections in two state legislatures where it has been on the fringes for many years, several exit polls predicted.

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Chennai activist Kalyana Raman alleges Nithyanand is guilty, disputes reports exonerating him (Update:Nithyanand)

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Chennai, Oct.16 (ANI): Reacting to reports appearing in the media that recent medical tests carried out on self-styled god man Nithyananda by a government-run hospital in southern India have shown that he is incapable of committing rape, R. Kalyana Raman, a former Bharatiya Janata Mazdoor Morcha national secretary and media face of the BJP in Tamil Nadu, has rejected the findings of the “so-called tests” and the media report based on them, and claimed that followers of Nithayananda are seeking “attention from the Sangh Pariwar to get a reprieve” for the self-styled god man.

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Top Asian News at 8:30 a.m. GMT

October 16, 2014 0

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s leader said Thursday he is ready to start talks as soon as next week with student leaders of the pro-democracy protests that have rocked the city for nearly three weeks. The announcement suggests a breakthrough in a bitter standoff between the authorities and pro-democracy protesters, who have taken over major roads and streets in the city center since Sept. 28 to press for a greater say in choosing the city’s leader.

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No good roles for Indians in Hollywood: Imran Khan

October 16, 2014 0

Mumbai, Oct 16 (IANS) Actors like Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan and Nimrat Kaur may be making inroads into the Hollywood scene, but actor Imran Khan feels the American film industry lacks good roles for Indian talent.