Priyanka Chopra Looks Stunning In This New 'Baywatch' Poster

Priyanka Chopra, who was missing from the first official look of her Hollywood debut Baywatch, shared a new poster of the movie on Monday that was released to coincide with America's Independence Day. The July 4-themed poster features Chopra along with Dwayne Johnson, Zac Efron, Kelly Rohrbach, Alexandra Daddario, Jon Bass, and Ilfenesh Hadera. The Mary Kom (2014) star posted the image on her Instagram and captioned it: "Finally... We're all...

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Baahubali makes into Screenrant’s list of Hollywood wished foreign movies

Critically acclaimed and south Indian blockbuster movie Baahubali: The Beginning made it into the list of foreign films that Hollywood wishes they had made. A leading Hollywood online portal Screenrant named the S S Rajamouli’s hit film among the ‘15 Foreign Blockbusters Hollywood Wishes They’d Made’ ranking it at 12 in the list. No other Indian film made into the list. Baahubali movie’s official Twitter account also shared the Screenrant’s...

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Cyber crimes a big challenge, says Rajasthan DGP Manoj Bhatt

Rajasthan Director General of Police (DGP) Manoj Bhatt on Thursday said that increasing cyber crimes and financial frauds in various sectors of the country, especially in corporate companies, is proving to be a big challenge for investigative agencies. “It is high time that cops and investigative agencies remain vigilant and curb such crimes, which hamper the growth of nation,” Bhatt said, during a two-day state level workshop on “Investigation...

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India makes list, plans outreach to 68 countries

Taking the Modi government’s commitment to reach out to all countries worldwide, the Ministry of External Affairs has issued letters to various Ministers “assigning” them dozens of specific countries to engage with, The Hindu has learnt. In a letter, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said, “By 2016-end, we will not leave any country where Indian Ministers have not gone.” She said the Ministry had identified 68 countries which had not...

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Facebook restores Norwegian Prime Minister’s ‘napalm girl’ post

Facebook had restored by Saturday a post by Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg which it had taken down over an iconic Vietnam War photo of a naked girl escaping a napalm bombing. The world's leading social network backtracked on Friday on a decision to censor the historic image because it had been flagged for violating standards regarding inappropriate posts. An active social media user, Ms. Solberg defied Facebook early Friday by posting...

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25 killed in Bangladesh factory blast

A boiler exploded and triggered a fire at a packaging factory near Bangladesh’s capital on Saturday, killing at least 25 people and injuring dozens, officials said. Several bodies were recovered from the Tampaco Foils factory in the Tongi industrial area outside Dhaka, fire official Mohammed Rafiquzzaman said. Mohammed Parvez, a doctor at Tongi Hospital, said some of dead bodies were in the hospital’s mortuary and others were at the state-run...

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US, Russia seal Syria ceasefire deal, enter new military partnership

The United States and Russia early Saturday announced a breakthrough agreement on Syria that foresees a nationwide ceasefire starting Monday, followed a week later by an unexpected new military partnership targeting the Islamic State and the al-Qaeda as well as the establishment of new limits on President Bashar Assad’s forces. After a daylong final negotiating session in Geneva, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said shortly after midnight...

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