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‘Four More Shot Please!’ cast to start season 3 shoot

Kirti Kulhari, Maanvi Gagroo, Sayani Gupta and Bani J. are preparing to start shooting for the third season of the popular web-series, Four More Shots Please!

“And we are back #fourmoreshotsplease #season3 Shoot begins super soon .. Lovely to be back with the crazy 3 ..@maanvigagroo @sayanigupta #banij @pritishnandycommunications,” wrote Kirti, captioning pictures she posted on Instagram along with Bani, Maanvi and Sayani.

Sayani too shared a string of pictures with her cast-mates and wrote: “Terrible photos but heart is full!”

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Bear Grylls: The wild has taught me importance of resilience

British adventurer and survivalist Bear Grylls says the wild has taught him the importance of resilience and helped him imbibe a never-give-up spirit.

“Life has truly been challenging for so many people around the world this last year, but if the wild has taught me anything, it is the importance of resilience and a never give up spirit,” Grylls said.

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Dwayne Johnson shares experience of playing with daughter’s Barbie

Hollywood star Dwayne Johnson has shared how his experience has been of playing with his daughter Tia’s Barbie doll.

Dwayne shared a photo on his verified Instagram account where he can be seen sitting with a Barbie doll on his hand while his younger daughter Tia is busy playing with other toys.

“Post Christmas, ‘Daddy come play Barbie with me’ which in reality means.. Daddy holds this Barbie for a solid 45min straight while baby Tia does whatever she wants and completely ignores Barbie the whole time. It’s 5 o’clock somewhere right? Hope your Christmas was a good one, my friends. #DeathGripOnBarbie,” the actor wrote on Instagram.

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OPPO F19 Pro+ 5G Scores High on Style, Specs

In a bid to offer style with technology, Chinese smartphone maker OPPO recently announced its much-anticipated 5G smartphone — OPPO F19 Pro+ 5G — under its F series.

The smartphone comes in 8GB RAM + 128GB storage variant in two colours — Fluid Black, Space Silver — at Rs 25,990.

OPPO F19 Pro+ 5G highlights its photography and videography skills. The smartphone features AI Highlight Portrait Video that allows anyone to become a video expert.

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Croma Launches Full Range of Fire TV Edition Smart LED TVs

Croma, Indias first omni-channel electronics retailer from the Tata Group on Tuesday announced its partnership with Amazon to launch Croma Fire TV Edition Smart LED TVs, a new range of smart TVs, for customers in India.

Through this strategic partnership, the brand aims to offer a more intuitive, simple, and customised experience that will take TV viewing to a whole new level.

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PocketFM plans expansion of operations

Audio sharing platform PocketFM is in expansion mode and plans to expand its product and overall operations.

“We are in a rapid expansion phase and our immediate focus is to utilise the existing funds for expanding and strengthening our product and overall operations. We will share the details of our next rounds of funds closer to the announcements,” CEO and co-founder Rohan Nayak said.

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Powar named head coach of Indian women’s cricket team

Former India cricketer Ramesh Powar has been appointed head coach of India women’s team, the Indian cricket board announced on Thursday.

Powar, in his second stint as national women’s coach, replaces another former India cricketer, WV Raman.

“The three-member Cricket Advisory Committee comprising Sulakshana Naik, Madan Lal and Rudra Pratap Singh [junior] interviewed the applicants and unanimously agreed on Powar’s candidature,” said a Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) statement.

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Pooja Hegde tests Covid-19 positive

Actress Pooja Hegde has tested Covid positive. The actress took to social media to share the health update.

“Hello everyone, this is to inform you all that I have tested positive for COVID-19. Following all the protocols I have isolated and home quarantined myself. I request all those who have come in contact with me recently to get tested too. Thank you for your love and support. I’m currently recuperating well. Please stay home, stay safe and take care,” Pooja tweeted on Sunday evening.

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‘Seeti maar’ song of ‘Radhe’ out, Salman praises original Allu Arjun track

Actor Salman Khan on Monday tweeted the song “Seeti maar” from his upcoming film “Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai”.

The song has been recreated by music composer Devi Sri Prasad from an original composition he scored song for the Allu Arjun-starrer “Duvvada Jagannadham” in 2017.

In his post, Salman spoke about how he loved the way Allu performed the number and called his style of dancing “fantastic”.

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RR Gives Bumrah Cheeky Congratulatory Message on Marriage

Indian Premier League (IPL) side Rajasthan Royals (RR) wished India and Mumbai Indians fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah in a cheeky manner on his wedding to television presenter Sanjana Ganesan.

Bumrah tied the knot on Monday after which a number of cricketers wished him on social media. RR hilariously suggested that the newlywed couple go on a honeymoon to the Maldives in April-May, which is when the 2021 IPL is scheduled to take place.

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US Congress passes landmark Bill in support of Tibet, Dalai Lama

In a historic achievement for the Tibetan government-in-exile, the US Senate on Tuesday unanimously passed the Tibetan Policy and Support Act (TPSA) of 2020 that had been stuck at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee since May.

Describing as a historic decision, Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) President Lobsang Sangay, who is currently in Washington, told IANS over phone that the Tibetan Policy and Support Act makes it official the US policy that decisions regarding the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama are exclusively within the authority of the current Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhist leaders and the Tibetan people.

“Any interference by Chinese government officials will be met with serious sanctions and be deemed inadmissible into the United States,” he said.

The TPSA was part of the appropriation Bill that was debated and passed.

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‘Swami Vivekananda galvanised a somnambulant continent into a new awakening’

Swami Vivekananda held that religious truths are verifiable by the experimental method as are scientific truths as they were also predicated by experience except that they could not be measured in a laboratory and thanks to him, have now become the hallmarks of our religious life and discourse; indeed stirring a “somnambulant continent into a new awakening”, says a new book on the “modern monk” in “flaming robes”.

“Just as scientific truths are verifiable by the experimental method, Vivekananda claimed so are religious truths. Empiricism and rationalism…were the foundational principles of modern science. Vivekananda wanted to do something similar to religion; he wanted empiricism and rationalism to also underwrite religious truths and beliefs” – and succeeded, writes Makarand R. Paranjape in the extensively researched “Swami Vivekananda – Hindusim and India’s Road to Modernity” (Harper Collins).

“To him, religious facts were also predicated upon experience, except that such experience could not be measured in a laboratory. Rather, it had to be measured in the laboratory of the spirit. In this sense, he was different from his predecessors, who were much more bound by tradition and scriptural authority,” writes, Paranjape, the Director of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.

It is because of “inspiring” leaders like Vivekananda that rationality, verifiability and experience “have become the hallmarks of our religious life and discourse. Vivekananda endorses rationality but does not make it the supreme epistemological principle. Rather, rationality gets mediated, moderated and in a sense, re-placed in the order of things, placed below gnosis or higher (re)-cognition of our identity with the supreme consciousness,” Paranjape writes.

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Bumrah, Ashwin help India take Day 1 honours of MCG Test

Indian bowlers, led by ace pacer Jasprit Bumrah, came out with a brilliant bowling performance on Saturday to help the team take Day One honours against Australia in the Boxing Day Test being played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).

Losing the toss, the Indian team, led by stand-in skipper Ajinkya Rahane, first bowled out the hosts for a paltry 195 and then ended the day at 36/1, trailing by 159 runs.

For Australia, Marnus Labuschagne was the highest scorer as he amassed 48 runs off 132 balls before becoming the first Test scalp of debutant pacer Mohammad Siraj.

Earlier the hosts, after electing to bat, lost the wicket of opener Joe Burns early with Bumrah having him caught behind for duck.

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Reading amid the pandemic: Books and authors in 2020

With a microscopic organism upending life as we know it, the realm of books was among the few which held its own, operating near normally in this tumultuous year. The flow of new titles, across all genres, continued unabated and provided readers a safe haven for a troubled psyche. For avid readers, confined to homes and deprived of opportunities of external sources of leisure, it was a dream opportunity to work through pending piles and acquire fresh material.

But amid the host of autobiographies and biographies, examinations of political partisanship – and their social effects, new looks at history and more as well as a wide array of fiction for all tastes and moods, the worst health crisis the world faced in over a century found its own niche.

While there is no shortage of books on coronavirus, some representative ones could include physician and evolutionary biologist Frank Ryan’s “Virusphere: Ebola, AIDS, Influenza and the Hidden World of the Virus”, which explains why epidemics are inevitable and their benefits, science journalist Sonia Shah’s “Pandemic” about the interplay of history, politics and science in tackling the scourge of disease, and John Barry’s “The Great Influenza : The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History”, which not only chronicles how the Spanish flu of 1918-20 devastated a world already laid low by years of war, revolutions and other upheavals, but also shows how the political handling is as important as the medical measures.

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MediaTek Dimensity Series to power 5G smartphones in India

Taiwan-based fabless semiconductor company MediaTek on Monday announced its Dimensity series of 5G chipsets will power the next wave of 5G devices from leading smartphone brands in India.

MediaTek expects the first smartphones powered by the flagship MediaTek Dimensity 1000+ chip to launch early in 2021.

“MediaTek is at the forefront of the global 5G revolution and we continue to work with popular smartphone brands to bring 5G enabled devices to Indian consumers. Our flagship-grade MediaTek Dimensity 1000+ will deliver premium experiences as Indian telecom authorities move to quickly deploy 5G in the country,” Yenchi Lee, Deputy General Manager of MediaTek’s Wireless Communications Business Unit, said in a statement.

Dimensity 1000+ aims to take forward MediaTek’s legacy of bringing advanced connectivity, multimedia, and imaging features to consumers.

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TV star Nia Sharma wins Khatron Ke Khiladi: Made In India

TV star Nia Sharma has won Khatron Ke Khiladi: Made In India, beating Jasmin Bhasin and Karan Wahi in the final. The contest was a special edition of the reality TV adventure game show and it was launched earlier this month after season 10 of Khatron Ke Khiladi concluded.

The Rohit Shetty-hosted Made In India edition of Khatron Ke Khiladi featured champions of past seasons such as Jay Bhanushali, Rithvik Dhanjani, Bharti Singh, Haarsh Limbachiyaa, Aly Goni and Karan Patel. Dhanjani had to quit the contest midway because of commitments.

“Khatron Ke Khiladi: Made In India started off as a fun special edition, but it quickly became my sole agenda to win the season. I gave my all to every stunt that I performed on the show,” said Nia, who has earlier contested in Khatron Ke Khiladi season eight.

The season witnessed the host and action filmmaker Rohit Shetty design some incredible stunts for the contestants. Nia overcame challenges that involved conquering heights, negotiating explosions, swimming through mud and, in one round, surviving a watery coffin. She also made a mark on the Colors channel show with her camaraderie with co-contestants, especially comedian Harsh Limbachiyaa.