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Mumbai: Three arrested for transporting juvenile crocodiles from Andhra Pradesh
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Telly Tattle: Shweta Basu Prasad loses her eyebrows; Kalki Koechlin is fit as a fiddle
Shweta Basu Prasad plays a character who loses her brows in the upcoming teleplay, Gudiya Ki Shaadi. A bottle mix-up leads to the calamity. The actor says, "Samta Sagar's story is a comedy of errors that also has an inspiring message for girls who face ridicule." Beauty, as they say, is skin deep.
It's a long road ahead for Kalki
Shooting for the web series, Bhram, is making Kalki Koechlin fit as a fiddle. The unit is shooting in Chail, Himachal Pradesh. To reach the location of the shoot, the unit is either trekking the mountainous terrain or driving on a long winding road to the mountain top. The actor prefers to climb to the shooting spot, which takes about 45 minutes. It is also her way of working out while shooting and breathing clean and fresh air.
Wild talk with Ma Sheela, KJo
Karan Johar will be indulging in some "wild wild conversation" with Ma Anand Sheela, secretary of the late godman Bhagwan Rajneesh. The event, hosted by Sipping Thoughts, a platform focusing on wom..
Mumbai Crime: Adulterated furnace oil racket busted, three arrested
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Apoorva Lakhia takes war online; to produce web series for AltBalaji
Ever so ready to explore stories of the underworld, Shootout At Lokhandwala (2007) and Haseena Parkar (2017) director Apoorva Lakhia is set to work on another offering, MUMbhai, which revolves around gangsters and cops.
Rubbishing reports of the show being inspired from encounter-specialist Daya Nayak's life, Lakhia says, "Real-life characters, especially those of gangsters and cops, have been such exploited on screen that they're now boring. We have researched on various people and written a fictional piece set against the backdrop of the '90s and 2000s.
Apoorva Lakhia
Our show is based on the friendship between a cop and a gangster. With the reality of a decade — one when encounter cops came into existence and gangsters became superstars — being dramatic, the script is evidently interesting." Angad Bedi and Sikander Kher slip into the role of a cop and gangster respectively. The Alt Balaji offering, which will be helmed by Akshay Chaubey, kicks off next month in Mumbai.
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Mumbai Crime: Mother of teacher stabbed by student says she worked hard for kids
A 12-year-old boy from Govandi has been booked for the murder of his 30-year-old tuition teacher on Tuesday. He allegedly brutally stabbed her eight times on Monday night. The teacher was rushed to a nearby hospital where she succumbed to her injuries early Tuesday morning. Prima facie, the attack seems to be the result of the teacher denying financial help to the boy, the police said, while adding that the motive isn't completely clear yet.
Some neighbours said the boy initially claimed that he was asked to stab the woman by a bearded man. The teacher, Aisha Aslam Husiyae, 30, is a resident of Shivaji Nagar, Govandi, and used to teach at the Sufi English School run by Aisha Education Trust founded by her father 12 years ago. Husiyae, who taught all subjects at the school, would also conduct tuitions for students after school hours.
On Monday evening, after she was done with the classes around 8 pm and sent the kids home, the 12-year-old boy, who lives around 100 meters away from her h..
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See Photos: Woman swallows engagement ring when she thought she dreamt about it
In a bizarre incident which took place on September 12, 2019, a from San Diego, California ended up swallowing her engagement ring in her sleep. The woman, identified as Jenna Evans took to social networking site Facebook and wrote a long post, in which she described her horrific experience.
A picture of the X-ray reports showing the ring in Jenna's stomach
In her Facebook post, Jenna wrote, "I actually remember doing it, but I thought I was dreaming, so I went back to sleep." She further revealed that as soon as she woke up from her sleep, she realised that her ring was missing. In her long post on FB, Jenna said that she even googled as to whether adults swallow rings because kids do it all the time She said that she found out that swallowing rings is less common among the adults.
Jenna visited the doctor who advised her to take an X-ray in order to find if she had really swallowed the ring. To her shock and dismay, the X-ray report showed that she had indeed swallowed the ring and i..
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Mumbai: 12th Century artifact found at Metro car shed site hushed up?
Construction workers found archaeological remains at the Metro III car shed site in Aarey Colony two years ago, and the artifact was immediately shifted to Mumbai University's archaeology department, sources close to the development have told mid-day. The discovery is not to be confused with the 2016 excavations, which unearthed artifacts from various parts of the city, the sources added. mid-day is in possession of photographs of the artifact, which experts said dates back to between 12th and 14th Century.
Around two years ago, workers at the metro car shed site came across a small pillar-like structure," said the source. "This was safely removed. It appeared like some ancient archaeological structure and without wasting any time, MMRC officials and a team of experts from MU's Centre for Extra Mural Studies (CEMS) were informed. CEMS experts visited the site and took the structure to MU."
The artifact was photographed on site, after it was taken out, which sources said is on the car d..
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Pradeep Sharma: People shouldn't judge police on the basis of films
From shooting gangsters and terrorists dead to donning a politician's topi, Mumbai's ace encounter specialist Pradeep Sharma has come a long way. He is now set to contest the assembly polls from Nalasopara on a Shiv Sena ticket next month. According to Sharma, if there was no retirement age for cops, 'I would have donned khaki till my last breath'. We pin him down for a chat.
Sharma , who joined the Shiv Sena last week, has served the police force for more than 38 years. He took voluntary retirement to try his luck in Maharashtra politics. Though he has made up his mind to be part of state politics, his heart still remains with the police force. He says, politics is another way for him to continue serving the people.
Pradeep Sharma in uniform
From police officer to encounter specialist and now political aspirant, describe your journey...If a policeman wishes, he can help society to a great extent. If there was no retirement age for police personnel, I would have served in the force til..
The best a movie can get
We're all aware of the sort of male stalking that endangers women in public spaces, affecting their mental health, let alone basic security, that one can't talk about enough. And one mustn't stop either. Therefore, this is not to even vaguely compare the gravity of crimes — but I have been stalked twice.
Once, a decade ago, when the person's relentless 24x7 text messages would eventually heat up my cell-phone into complete collapse, while some of them would relate to what I'm wearing — having stepped out of a building elevator! When I did report the case to the city's top cop, upon one of the messages that sounded suicidal, the police, tracking phone records, apprehended the person in less than a few hours.
They found her to be mentally imbalanced; she'd apparently watched films sitting next to me at press previews, and assumed that we'd been watching movies with each other. She was strongly warned. No case registered. I didn't know the person. Still don't.
The second one, ..
Mumbai: Former environment minister jumps into 'Save Aarey' fray
Dulquer Salmaan: I haven't been able to spend enough time with Maryam, who has just learnt to talk
One would assume that adulation rests easy on Dulquer Salmaan's shoulders — after all, he has witnessed it up-close since childhood, courtesy superstar father Mammootty, and gone on to amass a legion of fans of his own. But broach the subject of his immense popularity among women — he is one of the few stars to have a women's fan association, All Kerala Dulquer Salmaan Fans And Welfare Association — and he sheepishly grins, "The fans are sweet. They are there on the set, at events and even follow me to my car. But I do not think too much about it."
In the seven years since he burst on the scene, his love for acting has seen him dabble in Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu cinema. After a tepid start in Bollywood with Karwaan (2018) last year, Salmaan is ready to follow it up with a mainstream offering, The Zoya Factor, opposite Sonam K Ahuja. "Sonam loves fashion, so she always has something to say about my outfits and how I should rock them, especially now, during promotion..
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Acts of faith
In the 21st century, while we equate the importance of religion with the number of concrete structures being built, archaelogist Rukshana Nanji goes back to simpler times. It's the early medieval period — circa 7th to the 13th century — and being part of the Christian, Muslim or Zoroastrian community in India didn't imply being treated as alien to the subcontinent. It means arriving, settling and making the country your home, in the truest sense of the word. "You're looking at monotheistic religions integrating into a polytheistic country. Hailing from West Asia, they arrive via sea and settle by the ports. And the Indians welcome them. So, it wasn't about religion as much as it was about culture," Nanji tells us, giving a gist of a series of lectures she will present at The K R Cama Oriental Institute this week.
As part of the Government Research Fellowship Lectures, Nanji's paper is titled Ancient Shores, New People: The Arrival and Integration of Christians, Muslims and ..
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Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor are inseparable at BFF Akansha Ranjan's birthday bash
Alia Bhatt's best friend and actress Akansha Ranjan celebrates her birthday on September 18. Ranjan brought in her birthday with a special bash in the attendance of her best pals, sister Anushka Ranjan and boyfriend Aditya Seal. What has caught the eye of netizens more than the birthday party is a photograph of Akansha, Anushka, Ranbir, and Alia with a friend.
In the picture shared by sister Anushka Ranjan on her Instagram story, while Aditya and Akansha are posing beside each other, Alia Bhatt has her arms around Ranbir Kapoor. They both look deeply in love in this picture. Anushka captioned the picture as: "Hi fam. To today. tomorrow and always...my baby girl [sic]"
Cute, isn't it?
Apart from them, present at the birthday bash was actress Rakul Preet Singh, Athiya Shetty, Vaani Kapoor, television actress Krystle D'souza, Meghna Goyal and a few others. Anushka shared inside pictures as her Instagram stories.
Gurfateh Singh Pirzada, who is seen in the above picture shared a boomerang..
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Sanjay Dutt on playing villain: Hope to be more menacing than Kancha Cheena
At 60, Sanjay Dutt is not afraid of new beginnings. The actor, who has spent the better part of his life in front of the camera, is readying to foray into regional cinema with KGF: Chapter 2. With the first instalment becoming a smashing success, the upcoming edition of the Kannada film franchise will see leading man Yash find a formidable rival in Dutt's character Adheera, who seeks to avenge his brother's death.
"I last did a negative role in Agneepath [2012] and have been wanting to play a villain again. When this opportunity came my way, I thought it was perfect. It's an action-oriented film, and is right up my alley," says Dutt. Any reservation he might have had about the Prashanth Neel-directed venture was quelled, he reveals, when the script earned wife Maanayata's approval. He hopes to top his Kancha Cheena act in Agneepath with this role. "I hope it is more menacing [than Kancha Cheena], only then will it be fun."
Sanjay Dutt in Agneepath
Before he joins the shoot later ..
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Mumbai MRI death: HC orders Rs 10 lakh compensation for victim's kin
Twenty months after 33-year-old Lalbaug resident Rajesh Maru lost his life after being sucked into an MRI machine at Nair Hospital, the Bombay High Court on Tuesday held the hospital responsible for negligence. The court has also ordered compensation of Rs 10 lakh to Maru's family.
Maru's family, which was completely dependent on him, is finally relieved that their ordeal has come to an end. "The family had earlier been given compensation of Rs 5lakh but it wasn't enough. Now, we are happy that the court has finally ordered the hospital to pay Rs 10 lakh," said Harish Solanki, Maru's brother-in-law.
The court, during the hearing, found the hospital negligent in ensuring the safety of patients in the radiology department, which lead to the death of Maru, who used to work as a garment merchant. mid-day has been reporting about the incident widely ever since the day of the incident in January 2018.
Rajesh Maru's aged parents
When mid-day contacted Dr Ramesh Bharmal, dean of Nair Hospital,..
He does not like my friends at all
My friends recently invited me to a spa for a holiday and I accepted. I asked my boyfriend if he wanted to come along, because it seems like a nice place, but he refused. At first, he was perfectly okay with me going away, but now says he has issues because he doesn't like my friends. I'm not sure why he doesn't trust me. This is causing some serious friction between us. What should I do?If you don't understand his reasons, he is obviously not being clear enough. If he doesn't like your friends, that is his prerogative, but it is also your prerogative to still be friends with them even if he has a problem with them. Ask him what the issue is, explain that you are entitled to choose who you hang out with just as you extend him the same courtesy, and discuss this openly to avoid a similar situation from cropping up in the future. This isn't a serious problem, so I urge you both to nip it in the bud by having a frank conversation like adults.
My girlfriend constantly complains about how s..
Nach Baliye 9: Serious injury forces Pooja Banerjee to exit the show
Television actress Pooja Banerjee entered the dance reality show, Nach Baliye 9 with husband Sandeep Sejwal. The duo made an entry on the show as wildcard entrants and boasted about being the best by challenging other existing contestants on the show. Their first performance received accolades from the judges and applause from the audience, which proved that the competition seemed to be getting tougher.
However, owing to serious injuries sustained by Pooja Banerjee during rehearsals, the couple is taking an early exit from Nach Baliye 9.
Speaking about the exit and what was the cause of Pooja's injury, Sandeep Sejwal said, "In the act, Pooja had to stand on my shoulders and fall back, with our choreographer catching her. However, she slipped, lost her balance and fell in the front from above 10 feet from the ground. She landed on her hands. The impact was such that she hurt both her hands — the joint of her right wrist is fractured, while the left elbow bone is chippe..
Smriti Irani gets a 'High five' from her children. Here's why
On Monday, Union Minister Smriti Irani took to social networking site Instagram and posted a picture as her Insta story which has managed to win the hearts of netizens once again. Irani, who is also known as the queen of social media, took to Instagram and shared a story which is sure to make you chuckle.
A screengrab of Smriti Irani's Insta story
Irani's Instagram story features a minion, one of the adorable yellow creatures from the hit 'Despicable Me' movie franchise. In the post, the adorable minion is seen with a highly thoughtful caption that reads, "Every mother on earth gave bort to a child. Except my mother, she gave birth to a legend. High five Mom!"
Witty and amusing, this highly thoughtful story has all the ingredients of a classic Smriti Irani post. Well, this isn't the first time that Minions have featured on the 43-year-old minister's Insta posts. In the past too, Smriti Irani has shown her love for minions by time and again posting Insta stories and posts which featured..
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Filmmaker Raj-DK: Writing for web is like playing a T20 match
Having penned feature films and now, web shows, writer-filmmaker duo Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK use the allegory of cricket while describing the difference between the two mediums. "Writing for films is like playing a Test match while that for web, a T20 game. When it comes to scripting a digital show, all the rules change. Every episode must have a beginning, a middle and an end. It has to be extra crisp as each episode must be self-contained," explains DK, one-half of the successful jodi that has slowly brought its own brand of humour to Hindi cinema. With quirky films like Stree (2018), Go Goa Gone (2013) and Shor In The City (2011) on their resume, it was only a matter of time before Raj-DK — as they prefer to be called — would explore the digital medium. "We had been waiting three years to make a long-format story. We had a bunch of ideas and were looking for the right platform," admits Raj.
The idea that finally progressed from the logline to a full-fledged series i..
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When sci-fi fans make music
When author Douglas Adams introduced us to the Babel Fish — a small, yellow creature that translates any language to one you understand if you stick it in your ear — in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, his iconic series, those who haven't got a knack for picking up new languages wished the Babel Fish actually existed. Some fans of this creature include a group of musicians based in the city, who have dedicated their debut album to their love for sci-fi and will be launching it in Andheri on Saturday.
"We are all science-fiction nerds, so it made sense to call our album Babel Fish. Besides, symbolically, it also portrays how the members of the band process what happens around and translate it into songs," explains Shubhangi Joshi, ahead of the last leg of their India tour, which incidentally has been rescheduled from Thursday to the weekend owing to a private party (not something you want to hear at a time when performance venues in the city are shutting down). Besides ..
Rapper Wiz Khalifa performs in Mumbai; Madhuri Dixit thanks the star
American rapper Wiz Khalifa came down to India and recently performed in Mumbai as part of the Sunburn arena concert series. Wiz Khalifa's concert took place on September 15, at Jio Gardens in Bandra, Mumbai. Wiz Khalifa, who is popular for songs like Black and Yellow, and See You Again, has quite a massive fan following in India.
The concert also had artistes like Ananya Birla, Emiway Bantai, Monica Dogra, Ishani X Bobkat and The Mxxnlight perform before Wiz Khalifa's set. The concert, as expected, was attended by thousands of fans and several celebrities, too. Madhuri Dixit and husband Dr Shriram Nene also attended the concert, after which the Hum Aapke Hain Koun actress even thanked the rapper for his performance.
Madhuri, who attended the concert with her husband and their son Arin Nene, shared a picture with the rapper along with another rapper, Raja Kumari. "Thanks for showing the world yet again that music knows no boundaries of genre, age, culture, etc. @wizkhalifa. We had a g..
