Day: February 3, 2020

After a good outing in the lead role in A1, comes Dagaalty. In a nutshell, the movie is about a conman, who tries to save a innocent girl from a rich ‘womaniser’ after realising that he has fallen for her. The movie boasts of Radharavi, Yogi Babu, MS Baskar and Tarun Arora besides newcomer Rittika Sen. Directed by Vijay Anand, the movie is bankrolled by SP Chowdhary.

After Pattass, actor Dhanush and Sathya Jyothi Films are coming together for a mega movie. Tentatively titled as D43, the film will be helmed by Karthick Naren who is currently gearing up for the release of his upcoming thriller, Mafia. It will have music by GV Prakash. The rest of the cast and crew would be announced soon. The project is expected to hit the screens this October.

Even as the execution of the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case convicts getting delayed, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta on Sunday told the Delhi High Court that there is a deliberate, calculated and well thought of design by the convicts to ‘frustrate mandate of law’ by getting their punishment delayed.

Dozens of koalas have been euthanized and some 80 more are being treated for injuries and starvation after their habitat was logged, prompting an Australian government investigation Monday. Victoria’s environment department said the state’s conservation regulator was investigating a “very distressing incident” at a bluegum plantation near the coastal town of Portland that resulted in the deaths of dozens of koalas.

A clear majority of Canadians feel their country does not have to pay for security for Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle, who have settled in British Columbia. Seventy-seven per cent of people surveyed by Nanos Research, for CTV, believe the Candian taxpayer does not have to pay for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex because they are not in Canada as representatives of the Queen.

Anti-government demonstrators have rejected Iraq’s new prime minister-designate following his nomination by rival government factions, compounding the challenges he’ll have to surmount in order to resolve months of civil unrest. Meanwhile, new divisions emerged among protesters and supporters of a maverick and often inscrutable Shiite cleric, who initially threw his weight behind the uprising but now is re-positioning himself toward the political establishment, after elites selected a candidate for prime minister that he endorsed.

Democratic candidates made their frantic, final campaign pitches Sunday in Iowa, on a mission to persuade undecided voters one day before the state’s nominating contest officially starts the US presidential election season. Iowa, a largely rural state of three million people, has traditionally served as a vital launching point — or burial ground — for presidential hopefuls. Even as all eyes turn to the debut vote, Donald Trump’s US Senate impeachment trial weighs over the Democratic kick-off, with the president expected to be acquitted just days after the Iowa contest.

IPGA expects close to 1000 trade stakeholders from India and key pulses exporting countries like USA, Australia, Canada, Myanmar, Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi, etc to participate in The Pulses Conclave 2020 (TPC 2020).

Major business executives from top organisations and MNCs reacted to the Union Budget 2020, offering praise and terming it as a success.

The death toll in China’s coronavirus epidemic soared to 361 with 57 deaths on Sunday alone while the number of confirmed cases climbed to 17,205, Chinese health officials announced today.