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The cop drama receives a pronounced makeover in Santosh, British-Indian director Sandhya Suri’s first fiction feature, a Hindi-language film featuring Shahana Goswami and Sunita Rajwar in roles that neither has played before.The film forays into the rural boondocks of North India and examines religious prejudice, caste discrimination, abuse of power, custodial torture and gender dynamics in a police station and in the communities that it serves.Suri’s percipient script puts two policewomen – one a hardened pro who has seen it all, the other a rookie struggling with half-truths and undisguised lies – at the centre of a tale that delves…
A director of Indian tech firm Think & Learn Pvt faces financial penalties for defying a US judge’s order to find out where the troubled company stashed $533 million that jilted lenders say should go to them. Riju Ravindran, the brother of company founder Byju Raveendran, not only failed to make a serious effort to find out what happened to the cash, but deceived the court, US Bankruptcy Judge John Dorsey said during a hearing Tuesday in Wilmington, Delaware. “I conclude Mr. Ravindran’s testimony is not truthful,” Dorsey said. Ravindran either knows where the money is being hidden and won’t…
A week after OpenAI unveiled a personal assistant that can laugh, sing and speak with a mix of different voices, the company’s closest partner offered a subtly different view for how people should engage with artificial intelligence tools. “I don’t like anthropomorphizing AI,” Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella told Bloomberg Television on Monday, referring to the practice of using verbs and nouns to describe AI that are typically reserved for people. “I sort of believe it’s a tool.” Nadella’s remarks hint at an ongoing debate in the tech industry over how much to humanize AI services at a…
A woman allegedly killed her three-year-old daughter after a fight with her husband in Maharashtra’s Nagpur city and walked around for about 4 km with the body before informing the police about the incident, officials said today. The incident took place on Monday evening in the MIDC police station limits, they said. The accused, Twinkle Raut, 23, and her husband Rama Laxman Raut, 24, moved to Nagpur four years ago in search of employment. They worked at a paper products company and resided at a room in the firm’s premises on Hingna Road in the MIDC area, an official said.…
Shruti Haasan shared a set of pictures of herself from the rooftop of her Chennai house. The actress mentioned in her Instagram story that this was her “first solo home.” Posting a picture from the rooftop, Shruti Haasan wrote, “I used to chill on this roof as an eighteen-year-old. This was my first solo home and I learned a lot about life and myself here.” Sharing another click, she wrote, “I started to dream for myself I began writing music and thinking of going to music school, and I fell in love with life and myself for the very first…
Shruti Haasan shared a set of pictures of herself from the rooftop of her Chennai house. The actress mentioned in her Instagram story that this was her “first solo home.” Posting a picture from the rooftop, Shruti Haasan wrote, “I used to chill on this roof as an eighteen-year-old. This was my first solo home and I learned a lot about life and myself here.” Sharing another click, she wrote, “I started to dream for myself I began writing music and thinking of going to music school, and I fell in love with life and myself for the very first…
Superstar Priyanka Chopra turned heads in Rome as she celebrated Bulgari’s 140th anniversary. The event also marked the unveiling of the luxury brand’s new high-end jewellery collection Aeterna. For the occasion, she was joined by fellow brand ambassadors Shu Qi, Anne Hathaway, and Liu Yifei at the anniversary gala dinner at Terme di Diocleziano aka The Baths of Diocletian, which was recently opened to the public. For the special event, Priyanka Chopra opted for an exquisite necklace from the new collection, touted to be one of Bulgari’s most high-valued Serpenti necklaces – the Serpenti Aeterna necklace. As per Vogue, the…
Cannes-bound Aditi Rao Hydari has checked into the French Riviera. The actress, who is all set to walk the red carpet for the second time, recently shared pictures from her flight. One of the pictures shared on her Instagram story features a breathtaking view of the sea. Sharing the image, she wrote, “Hello #Cannes.” She accompanied her caption with a red heart emoticon. In the second picture, Aditi is seen posing with her stylist Sanam Ratansi. The selfie was clicked during their flight journey. The caption read, “Touch down Cannes. Sanam with her assistant and personal minion Aditi at Cannes.”For…
A teen from Colorado, United States, is facing up to six decades in jail for killing a family of five after setting fire to the wrong home for revenge over his stolen iPhone, as per a report in the New York Post. Kevin Bui, who is now 20-years-old, pleaded guilty this week to starting the late-night fire in a Denver neighbourhood in August 2020 after tracking his stolen phone to the vicinity using the “Find my iPhone” app. The man, who was aged 16 at that time, was seen as the mastermind behind the fire that killed the Senegalese family,…
The speeding Porsche – involved in the car crash in Pune which killed two techies – had been running on Mumbai roads without a number plate for months. The registration of the electric luxury sports sedan Porsche Taycan, worth Rs 2.5 crore, had been pending due to non-payment of Rs 1,758 fees by the owner, officials have said. Maharashtra Transport Commissioner Vivek Bhimanwar told news agency PTI that the Porsche car was imported in March by a dealer in Bengaluru and from there it was sent to Maharashtra after a temporary registration. “It was found that a certain registration fee…