Kriti Sanon, the pretty girl making her Bollywood debut with Tiger Shroff in his debut vehicle as well Heropanti (May 23), is not unduly fazed by the attention her co-star is receiving. “It is natural for the audience as well as for the media to train their sights on him. He is a known figure as his father (Jackie) has been working in the industry for decades. Nobody knows about me. They will eventually, after they watch my movie. So, why should I get hassled? While we were shooting this film, never once was I made to feel that it was an unequal match. It was as much my debut as it was Tiger’s,” says Kriti, who has one more film to her credit. She has acted opposite Mahesh Babu in this year’s Telugu film 1: Nenokkadine.

An Afghan official says a Taliban attack on several police checkpoints in the country’s northeast has killed six officers.

Gen. Fazeluddin Ayar, the police chief in Badakhshan province, said on Wednesday that a large group of Taliban fighters attacked in Yamgan district.

Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was on Wednesday remembered on his 23rd death anniversary with several leaders paying homage at his memorial in New Delhi.

President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid Ansari, outgoing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the late leader’s wife and Congress president Sonia Gandhi offered flowers at his memorial ‘Veer Bhumi’.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to stay the Andhra Pradesh High Court order that stalled the $4 billion Sun Pharmaceutical Industries merger with Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. Mumbai-based Sun Pharma, Japanese pharma major Daiichi Sankyo and Ranbaxy Laboratories had approached the Supreme Court seeking vacation of the stay of the status quo order by the Hight Court.

The national capital, New Delhi, is all set to become the country's first ever Wi-Fi connected zone. NDMC has completed all the technical requirements for the same.

The whole of New Delhi will come under Wi-Fi but in phased manner, starting from the Khan market in first phase and the Connaught Place in second. The whole project is expected to be complete within a year.

Tamil superstar Rajinikanth's magnum opus 'Kochadaiiyaan', which releases worldwide on Friday, is a lot better than several earlier films made using motion capture technology in the west, says Phil Stilgoe, founder of Centroid motion capture company, which worked on the movie.

Soundarya Rajinikanth Ashwin-directed 'Kochadaiiyaan' is India's first motion capture photo-realistic 3D animated film. "I've been in this industry for nearly 15 years and I have seen the technology evolve. I can confidently say that 'Kochadaiiyaan' is a lot better than several earlier films made using motion capture technology in Hollywood," Stilgoe told IANS in an exclusive interview.

Jennifer Lopez will debut as an author with her upcoming memoir 'True Love', which will be released in October 2014.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the news was revealed by Celebra, a division of Penguin Group (USA), and the publisher of the book, whose hardcover edition will be published in English as well as Spanish simultaneously and will be presented like a personal diary with lessons and recollections. The 44-year-old star said that her book will highlight "one of her life's most defining periods" and writing it had been a deeply cathartic, personal and vulnerable experience.

At a time when his contemporaries are doing one film a year, Akshay Kumar has six releases lined up but the actor says he would prefer a few months' gap between his releases.

Akshay has 'Holiday', 'It's Entertainment', 'Gabbar', 'Baby', 'Shaukeen' and 'Singh Is Bling' - lined up for release in next 12 months. His last film 'Boss' released in October last year.

Dear Mr Prime Minister,

Women's safety has finally come onto the agenda of all political actors. It is unfortunate that such a terrible incident (of December 16, 2012) had to happen before women's safety became a political agenda.

Across the spectrum, parties have started speaking about women's safety. Yet we find that the notion of safety is often a narrow one which focuses primarily on addressing an incident after it has happened. But creating safer communities and cities is a much wider process that only addressing violence.

Defence secretary RK Mathur is expected to apprise PM designate Narendra Modi about the defence ministry in a couple of days.

Mathur is preparing a presentation for Modi on defence finance, defence production, research & development and welfare measures for ex-servicemen, according to a ministry official. Besides, issues pertaining to border safety and immediate threat at the Line of Control in the West and Line of Actual Control along the China border will also included in the briefing.

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