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Kangana Ranaut, actor and BJP election candidate, denies eating beef
- Film star Kangana Ranaut - a candidate for the ruling BJP party - calls the claims "baseless".
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Twitter account of Indian actress Ranaut restored after two-year ban
The Twitter account of leading Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut has been restored two years after she was banned following a tweet urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi to subdue one of his political opponents. Ranaut sent a screen-shot of her Twitter handle @KanganaTeam from her Instagram account on Tuesday and said she was "glad to be back on Twitter".
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UPDATE 1-India expects Musk's Twitter to comply with new local rules
Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter Inc will not change India's expectation that it must comply with the country's existing and upcoming new IT rules which will be published within days, a government minister told Reuters on Friday. Over the past two years, Indian authorities have asked Twitter to act on content such as accounts supportive of an independent Sikh state, posts alleged to have spread misinformation about protests by farmers, and tweets critical of the government's handling of the COVI
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Indian Streamer ALTBalaji Launches AVOD Service With Reality Show ‘Lock Upp’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Indian streamer ALTBalaji is extending its subscription-video model with a new ad-supported video on demand (AVOD) component. The move follows the massive success of reality show “Lock Upp,” hosted by Bollywood star Kangana Ranaut, which ALTBalaji launched as a free AVOD show in partnership with MX Player, and which has had more than 100 million […]
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Twitter bans Indian actress for violating hate and abuse rules
Twitter Inc on Tuesday said it has banned leading Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut, known for her ardent support of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing her of violating its rules on hateful conduct and abusive behaviour. Ranaut issued a tweet on Monday in which she urged Modi to resort to gangster tactics to "tame" West Bengal's chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, whose regional party defeated Modi's Hindu nationalists in elections over the weekend to retain control of the state governm
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Tanishq is only the latest brand to face the ire of India’s easily offended right wing
The brand, owned by the 100-year-old Tata Group, had to take down the 40-second ad—that showed a Hindu girl married into a Muslim family—under pressure, as #boycottTanishq trended on social media for nearly two days.
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DGCA asks IndiGo to take action against passengers breaking flight rules
India's airline regulator on Friday asked IndiGo, the country's largest airline, to take action against passengers that broke flying rules while chasing a Bollywood actress onboard an aircraft, a government official told Reuters. Actress Kangana Ranaut, who has been in the limelight lately due to a tussle with the ruling political party in the western state of Maharashtra, was traveling from the northern city of Chandigarh to Mumbai on Wednesday on an IndiGo flight. In a video posted on social
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Death of young actor fuels debate on nepotism in Bollywood
The entertainment capital of India may be reeling under the coronavirus onslaught, but its celebrity inhabitants are being roiled by troubles of another kind. The suicide last month of a young and popular movie actor in Mumbai has fueled a reckoning over the privileges of the Bollywood elite, laying bare the simmering fault lines between the haves and have-nots of the Hindi-language movie industry. “Dil Bechara,” or “Helpless Heart," Sushant Singh Rajput's final movie, was released Friday on t
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Yahoo Movies Review: Don't take 'Panga' with Kangana
Kangana Ranaut is in top form in Ashwini Iyer Tiwari’s ‘Panga’, as a gifted kabbadi player (Jaya Nigam) who gives up on a promising sports career after motherhood. Happy to be the quintessential middle-class working mom, her heart yearns for the thrill of being on court once again. What initially starts as a joke to pacify her son, soon seems like a daunting, but not impossible, task for Jaya, who was the former captain of the Indian kabbadi team.
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Hardeep Singh Puri launches Swachh Survekshan 2020
New Delhi [India], Aug 13 (ANI): Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri on Tuesday launched the Swachh Survekshan 2020 (SS 2020), the fifth edition of the annual cleanliness survey conducted by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA). Alongside, the Swachh Survekshan 2020 Toolkit, SBM Water PLUS Protocol and Toolkit, Swachh Nagar - an integrated waste management app and AI enabled mSBM App were also launched, read an official stat
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Yahoo Movies Review: Judgementall Hai Kya
Kangana Ranaut and Rajkummar Rao are in top form in a film that requires them to play unconventional characters. In ‘Judgementall Hai Kya’, the female lead is diagnosed with severe psychosis and while the male lead seems harmless, his behaviour too seems somehow suspect. The storytelling is engaging, no doubt, but the approach to mental health appears to be flippant.
