David Harbour Struggles With A Certain Word In ‘Stranger Things’ Blooper...
One particular word kept setting David Harbour off during the filming of Netflix’s “Stranger Things.”Harbour just couldn’t keep a straight face as police Chief Jim Hopper when it came to saying...
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'Leave Me OUT Of It': Anushka Sharma Slams 'False And Fabricated' Stories
NEW DELHI — “Ill-intended lies”, said Anushka Sharma, while a baffled selection panel member termed it “malicious” after former wicketkeeper Farokh Engineer claimed that the actor sat with the...
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Pegasus Spyware's Scary User Manual Shows Why Snoopy Govts Love Them
Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group, whose spyware Pegasus was used to surveil journalists and human rights activists in India and around the world, is facing a sudden upsurge in scrutiny thanks to...
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Senior Lawyer Prashant Bhushan To File PIL On WhatsApp Hacking In Supreme Court
NEW DELHI—Activist and lawyer Prashant Bhushan is planning to file a Public Interest Litigation in the Supreme Court to seek an investigation by cyber experts into the WhatsApp hacking of human rights...
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'Ujda Chaman' Review: This Film's Script Baldly Needed A Transplant
Abhishek Pathak’s Ujda Chaman is the kind of film that’s so insecure about its humour that it relies on boisterous background score to evoke laughs. At times, the score is just screechy noises you’d...
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Reconstructing 1984 Anti-Sikh Pogrom Through Untold Stories Of Women
My home town of Ferozepur stands Janus-faced on the Indo-Pak border. A Muslim-majority town at the time of Partition, it should have gone to Pakistan but stayed behind in India courtesy Radcliffe’s...
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Apple TV Plus Launches In India Today, Here's Everything You Need To Watch
Apple TV Plus, the streaming service from tech giant Apple, launches worldwide today.In a surprise move, the monthly subscription for the service is a relatively cheap Rs. 99, compared with Netflix’s...
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High-Profile Govt, Military Officials Across 20 Countries Targeted In...
WASHINGTON — Senior government officials in multiple U.S.-allied countries were targeted earlier this year with hacking software that used Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp to take over users’ phones, according...
View ArticleUS House Approves Symbolic Impeachment Inquiry Resolution
WASHINGTON ― After weeks of GOP criticism that the House of Representatives had not formally opened an impeachment inquiry, House Democrats approved a resolution Thursday formalizing the process,...
View ArticleISIS Names Successor After Confirming Baghdadi's Death
BEIRUT (AP) — The self-described Islamic State group is mourning the death of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and has announced a successor in a new audio release.The group identified the new leader as...
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Amitav Ghosh Recounts 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots In His Essay 'The Ghosts Of Mrs...
Nowhere else in the world did the year 1984 fulfil its apocalyptic portents as it did in India. Separatist violence in the Punjab; the military attack on the great Sikh temple of Amritsar; the...
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North Korea Fires 2 Missiles Into The Sea Amid Stalled Talks With U.S.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ― North Korea on Thursday fired two projectiles into its eastern sea, an apparent resumption of weapons tests aimed at ramping up pressure on Washington over a stalemate in...
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Terminator: Dark Fate Is Not A Win For Feminism. Here’s Hoping It Won’t Be Back
N.B. The following piece contains spoilers for Terminator Dark FateWhen it comes to female action heroes, the Terminator franchise has delivered one of cinema’s most iconic in Sarah Connor, and now the...
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WhatsApp Snooping: Praful Patel Among 41 Targeted Through Pegasus Spyware
Former Union minister Praful Patel and former Lok Sabha MP Santosh Bhartiya were among the Indians who were targeted by the controversial Pegasus spyware through WhatsApp, say media reports.An unnamed...
View ArticleKim Kardashian Is Elle Woods In 'Legally Blonde'-Inspired Halloween Video
As we all know, Kim Kardashian’s social media prowess gives fans’ endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people just don’t kill their husbands. They just don’t!In light of Halloween, the reality...
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It’s Not Just Greta Thunberg. Many Swedes Have Quit Flying For The Climate Too.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden ― Greta Thunberg grabbed the world’s attention when she cruised into New York City on a zero-emissions yacht in August, after sailing two weeks across the Atlantic Ocean rather than...
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Death Stranding Review: The Best PS4 Game Of 2019
On watching Death Stranding’s credits roll at the end of a generous 50-hour campaign a sense of relief washed over me. After the narrative missteps that were Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes and The...
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India's Jobless Rate Rises To 8.5%, Highest In Over 3 Years: Report
NEW DELHI — India’s unemployment rate in October rose to 8.5%, the highest since August 2016, and up from 7.2% in September, according to data released by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy...
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India, China Lock Horns As Beijing Slams Bifurcation of Jammu And Kashmir
SRINAGAR — India engaged in a diplomatic war of words with China over Kashmir on Thursday as it formally revoked the state’s constitutional autonomy and split it into two union territories in a bid to...
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Air Quality Index In Delhi Remains Dystopic, Kejriwal Cries 'Gas Chamber' Yet...
“Delhi has turned into a gas chamber,” Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted on Friday as the national capital’s air quality dropped to the ‘emergency’ category. Kejriwal has been making different...
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