Author: Samikhsya Bureau

Indian cine sensation Priyanka Chopra who recently tied the knot with Nick Joan of US has refused to react to a US magazine carrying an article which called her a ‘ scam artist’ . ‘I dont even want to react or comment’ told Priyanka adding that she is in a happy place now and she will not allow such random things to disturb her.

Just some hours to go for the extradition of Vijay Mallya, as a sequel to his series of tweets to payback, Mallya in a fresh tweet said that, when he has offered and requested the bank and the govt to accept it, then the extradition should not be effected any longer. The fugitive liquor baron faces trial for the alleged duping of Rs.9,000 cr from Indian banks.

According to the Oxford Economics report India is all set to dominate among the ten economically growing cities over next two decades. And going by the report Gujrat’s Surat by 2035 may witness the fastest expansion averaging more than 9 %. The report further added that all of the ten fastest in two decades that period will be in India.

While the economic output in many of those cities in India the growth may not be as fast compared to world’s biggest metropolises.

Just hours after tweeting series of requests to accept the 100 % principal money by the banks fugitive liquor baron Vijay Mallya now says that he wants a stop to the ‘ narratives’ that he had stolen money and added that his extradition does not hold validity once he has offered for the payback. Mallya faces trial on Rs.9,000 cr loot.

Some papers released by the Britsih parliamentary committee has revealed that the social media giant Facebook has given access to certain companies through email and other internet documents as a favoured treatment to co’s like Airbnb,Lyft & Netfix. The documents, reports said , shine a light on Facebook’s internal working from 2012 to 2016 during a period of explosive growth allowing them access to data after the co made policy changes that restricted access for others.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has emerged as the most popular global leader on social media platform Instagram with 14.8 million followers.
According to a list published by online platform twiplomacy, Mr Modi is closely followed by Indonesian President Joko Widodo with 12.2 million followers.
With 10 million followers, US President Donald Trump is at the third position on photo-sharing platform.
The picture of newly married Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli and his wife, actress Anushka Sharma meeting the prime minister has become the most liked picture posted by any world leader.
The picture has received 18,34,707 hearts since all three have a combined following of 55 million on Instagram.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday that he condemns actions of terrorist nature and attempts to change the situation in Venezuela by force.
“We realize and know that the situation in Venezuela remains difficult. We support your efforts to achieve mutual understanding in the society and settle relations with the opposition,” Putin said at a meeting with Maduro.
According to Putin, Russia-Venezuela economic relations went through very difficult times in previous years with a significant drop in trade.”But we have managed to stop this negative trend and can see some growth this year,” said the Russian leader.

Maduro said, according to a Kremlin transcript, that his country faced various threats and aggression, but it always learned from these events.

“I think we have found the point that helps us survive and launch a rather full, comprehensive economic program that fully complies with the economic relations between Russia and Venezuela,” he said.

The Kremlin did not release details of Putin’s talks with the visiting Venezuelan president.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australian Government in collaboration with Smile Foundation and Karma Healthcare have announced a path-breaking partnership initiative in India to increase community awareness on health and reduce existing barriers to accessing quality and affordable primary healthcare in Bhilwara district, Rajasthan.
Underscoring the partnership will be an intense community outreach programme, including public awareness campaigns, grassroots mobilisation, and screening drives for anemia, malnutrition, non-communicable diseases, and vector borne diseases.
According to the India National Family Health Survey, 56 per cent of the district’s women of reproductive age are anaemic, 42.6 per cent of children under the age of five are underweight and 12.9 per cent suffer from acute malnutrition. While the district has both public and private health care facilities, there is a shortage of clinics with qualified doctors.

Argentine legend Diego Maradona was a better footballer than the country’s modern-day idol Lionel Messi, according to Pele.

Barcelona forward Messi – a five-time winner of the Balon d’Or, awarded to the world’s best player – is not even rated in the top three of football’s greatest players by the 78-year-old Brazilian.

“As far as I’m concerned, Maradona was one of the best players ever,” Pele said in an interview with the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper. “If you ask me, ‘Was he better than Messi?’ Yes, he was. Much better. [Franz] Beckenbauer, [Johan] Cruyff are also better. They’re also excellent players.”

Pele and Maradona have not always seen eye to eye, but Pele said the pair now enjoy a “perfect” relationship.

The only man to win the World Cup three times, Pele is widely regarded as the best footballer of all time.

Chandigarh, Dec 6 (UNI) The Local Government, Tourism and Cultural Affairs Minister, Punjab Navjot Singh Sidhu was on an intensive 17-day election campaign, wherein he addressed more than 70 back to back public meetings, the exhaustive schedule has injured his vocal cords.
The doctors told him that he was on the brink of losing his voice and have suggested a complete 3 to 5 day rest.
Official spokespersons said here that the continuous helicopter and plane travel has been detrimental to his health because of him being on embolism treatment, he had suffered a DVT due to excess air travel, some years ago. He has undergone a series of hematology (blood) tests which require sincere evaluation. Has gone to an undisclosed location for a complete check up and recovery.
He is being administered specialized medication, along with breathing exercises and physiotherapy.

In a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his not having held a press conference since becoming PM, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said he (PM) should try holding one someday as ” it’s fun having questions thrown at you”.
In a post on social media, Rahul also took a jibe at the PM for his extensive election campaigning.
”Dear Mr Modi, Now that campaigning is over, hope you can spare some time for your part-time job as PM.
Its been 1,654 days since u became PM. Still no press conference? ”
Posting on his Twitter handle pictures from his press conference in Hyderabad on Wednesday, Rahul urged Prime Minister Modi to try holding a press meet someday.
”Some pics from our Hyderabad PC today. Try one someday, it’s fun having questions thrown at you!,”Rahul said.

Samsung India and multiplex chain INOX Leisure Ltd on Wednesday introduced ‘INOX Onyx’ to Mumbai, ushering in the future of cinema to the land of Bollywood.
“The world’s first cinema LED offers most powerful, captivating and larger-than-life visuals thus, making the cinema viewing experience as natural as you would watch it in real world. This cinema redefining technology – Onyx – is a game changer in the film exhibition industry and is only DCI compliant LED display. INOX at Malad, Inorbit Mall will play host to Mumbai’s first Cinema LED Theatre,” said Puneet Sethi, Vice President, Consumer Electronics Enterprise Business, Samsung India.
“Through this technology, an audience experience is uplifted to a level wherein characters and places come alive and fuel imagination whilst watching a cinema. Through HDR refinement, guests get to enjoy next level experience with more detailed, textured and visually rich content because it is 10 times brighter than conventional projector and also has infinite contrast ratio.
“Samsung ONYX is unaffected by ambient light, it upholds consistent and distortion-free picture quality that keeps audiences engaged and keeps it close to realism. Not just visually advanced pictures, ONYX Cinema LED technology amplifies next-level cinema content with JBL’s sculpted surround sound audio,” he added.

Certain violation by the Russia as alleged by the US has created an air of distrust over Intermeditate range nuclear missiles . If Russia does not follow the terms in the treaty then US will be compelled to back out whereas Russia has counter-alleged that Russia also faces threats from the European countries so that must be addressed by the US.

Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev will visit India on December 6-7 for consultations on security issues. According to new Indian Ambassador to Russia D. Bala Venkatesh Varma, Patrushev will hold a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval.”The third important visit that will take place is the visit of the secretary of the National Security Council, Mr. Nikolai Patrushev, where he will be meeting his counterpart,

Mr. Ajit Doval, who is the National Security Adviser of India, and he will also be meeting the prime minister of India … The visit of Mr Patrushev is 6 to 7 December,” the ambassador told Sputnik.
The ambassador added that till the end of 2018, New Delhi expects the visit of the State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

The ghost of the Rs.3,600 crore controversial deal for purchase of the AugustaWestland VVIP choppers took a new twist with the alleged middleman Christian Michel chargesheeted and repatriated to India is now going to be quizzed by the CBI days after a court in Delhi accepted the agency’s request for remand of the alleged middleman involved in the copter deal kick-back case.

Football great Christiano Ronaldo’s sisters have blamed the mafia for Ronaldo’a missing the Ballon d’Or because of the mafia after Luka Madric was crowned. Both Elma and Katia took to the social media saying it is unfortunate that this is the world we live in that is rotten with mafia and … money. He is the best player in the world, said Elma.

Well-timed statement from fugitive Vijay Mallya who has made a number of messages through the twitter handle saying he is ready to offer 100 % back and ‘ humbly request the banks and government to take it ‘. He is currently under the scanner of investigating agencies for duping Indian banks Rs.9,000 crores and defended the loan to keep his airlines King Fishser flying against rising fuel costs.

A report said that doctors claimed the birth of healthy baby to a mother who received a womb transplant from a 45 year old dead woman. Baby was born last December in Brazil . Interestingly the mother was born without a womb and aged about 32 during the surgery. This came ten other cases of uterus transplants from dead owners.