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In a fit of madness or what 27 year old Nick Naydeb of Washington jumped off the 11^th floor of Royal Caribbean cruise to make a video for Instagram after being propped by his friend. The authorities have banned Nick and his friend from sailing in the cruise ever again after seeing the clip.

Reacting to the uncivil and objectionable remark by Sadhana Singh of BJP, the ex- BSP MLA Vijay Yadav issued the warning that either Sadhana make unconditional apology to Mayawati or he would pay Rs.50 lakh to one who gets him Sadhana’s head.

Sources in New Delhi confirmed on Monday that wanted diamond trader Mehul Choksi has surrendered his Indian passport to the High Commission in Guyana.
Sources asserted that India continues its efforts through legal and diplomatic channels to pursue Choksi’s return from Antigua.
”It may be kept in mind that whenever an Indian citizen acquires foreign nationality, he is expected to surrender his Indian passport. Indian continues to pursue Choksi’s return with the Government of Antigua through diplomatic and legal channels,” sources said.
Choksi and his nephew, Nirav Modi, left India about a year ago, just before their involvement in a major financial scam in the public sector Punjab National Bank (PNB) was unearthed. Choksi was subsequently located in the Caribbean island of Antigua.(UNI)

Post the humongous success at the box office, RSVP’s first hit of 2019 ‘URI: The Surgical Strike’ to be remade in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam.

First hit of this year ‘Uri: The Surgical Strike’ is on a winning spree as keeping the josh high, the movie is running successfully at the box office and is all set to enter the Rs 100 crore club.

RSVP’s ‘URI: The Surgical Strike’ on its day nine marked the grand total of Rs 91.84 crore and with the winning applause from all over the nation, film will be remade in South.

The producer of ‘URI’, Ronnie Screwvala and the entire team of RSVP have got calls from the many producers of South who aspire to adapt the film in their language and who wish to remake the film. (UNI)

The makers of ‘Gully Boy’ are all set to unveil ‘Mere Gully Mein’, at the grand music launch event which is scheduled for January 24.

The makers have adopted a unique promotional strategy as they have gone ahead to do a massive graffiti campaign across various cities which helps the masses in standing a chance to attend the grand event.

‘Apna Time Aayega’ is a raging anthem that provided the hook in the recently released trailer for the film, based in part on the lives of Mumbai rappers Divine and Naezy, and the city’s underground hip-hop scene.

The film is a story inspired by slum rappers of Dharavi. Ranveer Singh, who is paired opposite Alia Bhatt for the first time on the big screen, is playing the role of a street rapper.

His character is inspired by the journeys of Indian rappers Neazy aka Naved Shaikh and Divine aka Vivian Fernandes.

Directed by Zoya Akhtar, ‘Gully Boy’ is produced by Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar under the banner of Excel Entertainment in association with Tiger Baby and this film on the underground rap movement in India is slated to release on February 14.(UNI)

(UNI) Delhi High Court on Monday asked the CBI to file its reply in alleged doping case against wrestler Narsingh Yadav.

It was alleged that Narsingh Yadav was caught in a doping controversy just before Rio Olympics 2016 where he was set to represent India in men’s freestyle 74kg category.

Delhi High Court after hearing the plea on behalf of Narsingh seeking time bound completion of investigation in the case sought reply from CBI. Narsingh has not competed ever since the case came out and there has not been much advancement into the case.

In this matter dream of Narsingh for competing at the Rio Olympics came to an end with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upholding the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) appeal against the clean chit given to him in the doping violation case.

The CAS’s ad hoc division had also slapped a four-year ban on the Mumbai wrestler.

Narsingh first returned positive for a banned steroid following a dope test on June 25 by NADA, before being cleared on August 1. He ran into trouble over alleged doping offences. However, the WADA filed an urgent application before the CAS ad hoc division to challenge the decision of NADA India to exonerate Narsingh which was upheld.

Narsingh then filed a plea and requested for CBI probe into his alleged doping scandal.

Whirlpool Corporation earned a total of five 2019 CES® Innovation Awards for its new and upcoming products, including KitchenAid® Cook Processor Connect, KitchenAid® Smart Oven+ with Powered Attachments, Whirlpool® Smart All-In-One Washer & Dryer, the Yummly® digital recipe platform, and the Whirlpool® Connected Hub Wall Oven concept.

The Innovation Awards honour outstanding design and engineering in cutting-edge consumer electronics across 28 product categories. It is awarded by The Consumer Technology Association, a standards and trade organization representing more than 2,200 consumer technology companies in the United States. Entries to these prestigious products are judged by a distinguished panel of independent industrial designers, engineers and members of the trade media, an official release said today.(UNI)

PhonePe, India’s fastest growing payments platform, today announced that it has grown its offline merchant base to over one million.

This milestone has been achieved in less than a year and reflects on the platform’s phenomenal acceptance across both large organised retail stores as well as small and mid-size retail stores in the country.

Being one of the pioneers in the UPI space, PhonePe enables merchants to accept payments from consumers through multiple instruments like UPI, Credit Cards, Debit Cards, PhonePe wallet as well as external wallets.

Speaking on reaching this milestone, Yuvraj Singh Shekhawat, Head – Offline Organized Business, PhonePe, said, “Our offline business has shown phenomenal growth in barely a year and we are very thrilled to have reached the 1 million mark. The entire payments process using PhonePe solutions is simple, fast and seamless ensuring consumers have a convenient experience and merchants are seeing tremendous value in that. We plan to grow offline merchant number to 6 million by December 2019.” (UNI)

(UNI) Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will inaugurate the Kairali International Cultural festival to be held on Jan 24 at E K Nayanar Academy here.
Talking to media persons on Monday, the festival chairman and renowned writer T Padmanabhan said that the six day cultural festival will have 75 sessions, lead by 200 eminent personalities from respective fields.
The fest comprises among others book fest, tourism fest, cultural fest, food, poetry, news photography exhibition, photo exhibition, printing exhibition. Interactive sessions with noted writers, journalists, film artists, magicians, singers and dancers will also be held, the festival convenor O Ashok Kumar added.

ICICI Bank on Monday announced the launch of a new range of premium savings account.
Christened, ‘The One’, it is available for upwardly-mobile salaried and self-employed men who strive to achieve their goals and lead an aspirational lifestyle with a host of benefits. The savings account also offers a bouquet of benefits for his family’s long-term financial needs namely – asset creation, wealth management, life-protection and investment.

Available in two variants, Magnum and Titanium, ‘The One’ offers protection to the account holder with the debit card as it recognises the requirement of enhanced protection to the account holder for financial security of his family.
Additionally, the customer can conveniently opt for health and term life insurance covers. It also provides a boost for asset creation of a home with attractive waiver on processing fees on home loans.

Further, in a bid to enhance lifestyle based offerings, ‘The One’ also provides customers with a range of attractive offers. The key among those are, Amazon Gift Card on specified debit card spends; using which they can join ‘Amazon Prime’. Account holders of the Titanium variant also get complimentary one-year subscription of Zomato Gold.

(UNI) Maxxis India, one of the world’s youngest and fastest growing tyre companies, has announced its collaboration with Honda Motorcycle and Scooters India Limited to strengthen its market penetration and customer outreach.
Under this association, co-branded Maxxis tyres will now be available for sale at HMSI and Maxxis dealerships.
In the first phase of this association, co-branded M6000 tyres will be available at select HMSI and Maxxis dealerships across the country, the plan is to increase this further in the next phases.
To equip the dealers with knowledge pertaining to the products and services, Maxxis conducted training sessions in 20 cities across India, covering 650 Honda dealers.
Maxxis India rolled out its first two-wheeler tyres consignment from its Sanand facility to Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India in August, earlier this year and has been producing tyres in full throttle. The company recently achieved its target of selling one million tyres to their OEM partners.

(UNI) The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will be launching a satellite being built by the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) and California Institute of Technology
(CIT) which would be a test bed for a new type of space telescope. According to ISRO sources, the satellite being designed and built by CIT students in collaboration with IIST and Surrey Space Centre in
England, would serve as a test bed for a new type of space telescope called Autonomous Assembly of a Reconfigurable Space Telescope (AAReST). The IIST is an autonomous body under the Department of Space and was a Deemed University.

Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi on Monday recused himself from hearing a petition in the Supreme Court challenging appointment of M Nageshwar Rao as CBI interim director.
As soon as the plea  came up for hearing before the bench led  by  CJI, he recused himself from the case because he was in selection committee for the Director of CBI. (UNI)

Dedicated to timeless friendship, Amazon Prime Video has released the latest single from the album of Prime Original Series ‘Four More Shots Please!’ titled ‘Yaara Teri Yaari’.

Singer extraordinaire and popular heart-throb, Darshan Raval, has lent his voice to the ballad.

The Serenade, which contrasts the upbeat title track, takes listeners on a nostalgic journey as it reminisces precious moments spent with close friends.

The track is accompanied by a video that has the four leading ladies from the show sharing classic friendship moments – be it helping each other choose the right outfits, to enjoying fun-filled dinners, to sipping fine wine and downing ‘Four More Shots Please!’.

The video captures the joy of female bonding and the innocence in the bond of friendship.

‘Friendship to me means some of the best times of our lives and my attempt was to capture that spirit in a song. Everyone has best friends they can count on no matter what, with no questions asked and it is a bond that is innocent and special with an irreplaceable charm. Working with the Amazon team and shooting with the awesome cast was a great experience for me. I am certain that the listeners will relate to the lyrics of this song and will remember their own friends,’ said Darshan Raval, when talking about the single.

The Prime Original Series ‘Four More Shots Please!’ stars Sayani Gupta, Kirti Kulhari, Bani J and Maanvi Gagroo along with a stellar ensemble cast comprising of Prateik Babbar, Lisa Ray, Milind Soman and Neil Bhooplalam along with Amrita Puri and Sapna Pabbi.

Replete with pop cultural references, ‘Four More Shots Please!’ is the one thing you need to watch to get into the mind of the modern Indian woman.