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Bollywood actor Raveena Tandon has disputed allegations that she shot an advertisement inside a no-camera zone at Bhubaneswar’s Sri Lingaraj Temple. Tandon’s clarification followed Lingaraj Temple authorities lodging an FIR against her. The complaint alleged that she had shot an advertisement in the ‘No Camera Zone’ inside the premises of the 11th century lord Shiva shrine, which is protected by ...

Guillermo del Toro’s inter-species fantasy drama “The Shape of Water” today won the Best Picture Oscar. The film also helped del Toro win his maiden Oscar in the directing category. The lyrical drama about a mute cleaning lady’s unique bond with a humanoid amphibian, who is a classified government secret, led the 90th Academy Awards, with 13 nominations. With Sally ...

Two years after it hit theatres in India, Salman Khan-starrer “Bajrangi Bhaijaan” will be released all over China on Friday, state media said on Tuesday. The film, which was directed by Kabir Khan and also starred Kareena Kapoor Khan, tells the story of Bajrangi, an ardent devotee of Hindu deity Hanuman, who takes a six-year- old Pakistan girl to her ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU There could be some more delay in bringing actor Sridevi’s body back to India, with the Dubai police telling the Indian Embassy that “another clearance” is awaited. India’s envoy to the United Arab Emirates Navdeep Suri said the embassy is working closely with local authorities to expedite the release of the actor’s body so that it can ...

Bollywood actor Sridevi died of accidental drowning in her hotel bath tub, the Dubai government said today. The Dubai police, it said on its official Twitter handle, has transferred the case to the “Dubai Public Prosecution” which will carry out regular legal procedures followed in such cases. “Following the completion of post mortem analysis, Dubai police headquarters today stated that ...

Popularly hailed as the first female superstar of Hindi cinema,Veteran actor Sridevi died in Dubai on Saturday after a cardiac arrest. She was 54. Sridevi was in Dubai to attend her nephew’s wedding. The actor had married film producer Boney Kapoor with whom she had two daughters. Her sudden death shocked Bollywood and legions of her followers who reached outside ...

The Supreme Court today came to the rescue of actress Priya Prakash Varrier, who shot into limelight after her ‘wink’ video went viral, by staying criminal proceedings against her in some states on the grounds that a song from her film allegedly hurt religious sentiments of the Muslim community. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M ...

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who is known for his wit and humour, has shared a “job application” suggesting his name as a male lead suitable for Deepika Padukone and Katrina Kaif, thanks to his height. The 75-year-old star took to Twitter to post his resume against a newspaper cutting that read how filmmakers found it tough to pair Deepika and Katrina ...

Veteran actor Anupam Kher today said his Twitter account has been hacked. The 62-year-old actor, who is currently in Los Angeles, said he got to know about the breach from his friends in India and has alerted the microblogging site about the incident. “My Twitter account has been hacked. Just got few calls from friends in India about it. I ...

AFP DAINIK NATION BUREAU With China facing a massive gender gap and a greying population, a company wants to hook up lonely men and retirees with a new kind of companion: “Smart” sex dolls that can talk, play music and turn on dishwashers. Rows of voluptuous silicon bodies hang in the warehouse of EXDOLL, a firm based in the north-eastern ...