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Actor Vijay Deverakonda, who has been on a promotional spree for his pan Indian film Liger, on Saturday strongly reacted to the boycott culture that has gripped Hindi cinema and its actors of late, even as ‘boycott Liger movie’ trended on Twitter with over one lakh tweets. During a press event in Vijaywada, the Arjun Reddy actor addressed the issue by stating that he is unfazed by the boycott trend as the Liger team has put in their heart and soul into the film. The actor also pointed out that this cancel culture emerged only in the past few years. Three years back, in 2019 we started this film. Back then, this 'boycott Bollywood' wasn't there. All this started in the lockdown and we were already into the shooting schedules by that time. At that time, we felt like there was no option better than Karan (Johar) sir to take our movie India-wide. He took Baahubali and showed us a way in North India which was an unknown territory for us. Script and production was ours. When we

A 13-year-old minor girl was gang-raped by six persons for four days in Patna, an official said on Monday. The accused kidnapped the victim from Buxar and took her to Patna where they kept her in a room and gang-raped her for four days. The accused finally abandoned her at the Dumraon railway station in Buxar district before fleeing. The Buxar police managed to arrest two persons and a hunt was on for the remaining four. The incident occurred on August 16 when the victim stepped out of her home in a village under Murar police station in Buxar district to buy copies. She was kidnapped by four persons and taken to a house in Patna. The house was on rent and the two other accused were residing there. All six accused raped her for four days. Since, the victim was missing from the house, her parents initially searched her everywhere and finally lodged a missing complaint in the Murar police station on August 19. The police then started an investigation. As the accused sexually brutalized he

A brazen car bombing in a Moscow suburb that killed the daughter of a prominent backer of President Vladimir V. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has injected new uncertainty into the six-month war and rattled Russia’s elite.  The Russian authorities said on Sunday that they had begun a murder investigation into the killing of Daria Dugina, 29, a hawkish political commentator who was the daughter of the philosopher Aleksandr Dugin, long a leading proponent of an imperialist Russia who has been urging the Kremlin to escalate its assault on Ukraine. Russian state television described the car bombing, which occurred on Saturday evening on a highway and shattered the windows of nearby houses in an affluent Moscow suburb, as a “terrorist act” and said the intended target had been Mr. Dugin. It ended up killing his daughter instead because he had taken a different car at the last minute, according to Russian news reports. Read More : https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/world/europe/ukraine-russia-

Half a billion dollars’ worth of swordplay, sorcery and sex is on its way to a small screen near you. On August 21st Warner Bros Discovery launched “ House of the Dragon ”, a spin-off of its racy smash-hit, “Game of Thrones”, made at a reported cost of over $150m. Hot on its heels, on September 1st Amazon Prime Video will release “The Rings of Power”, a more chaste but even pricier drama based on the “Lord of the Rings” books. With a rumoured pricetag of $465m, Amazon’s offering will be the most expensive piece of television ever made. The near-simultaneous releases will make for an epic ratings battle. But they are also part of a longer-running war that pits old Hollywood studios against new streaming upstarts. Warner Bros, one of America’s most venerable film studios, will mark its 100th birthday next year. Amazon, which makes its money from e-commerce and cloud computing, launched its video sideline only five years ago. As the streaming wars intensify, each side believes it has an

Cineworld has confirmed it is considering filing for bankruptcy in the US, as the cinema chain continues to struggle with $5bn worth of debt. But the company, which also owns the Picturehouse chain in the UK, insisted its cinemas "remain open for business" and that there would be "no significant impact" on jobs. Cineworld employs more than 28,000 people globally. Cineworld Like other cinema chains, Cineworld was hit hard by the pandemic. Many theatres were forced to close for extended periods during the lockdowns, or had to operate at a reduced capacity due to social distancing rules. Cinema chains also faced tough competition from streaming services, which soared in popularity during the lockdowns. READ MORE : https://www.bbc.com/news/business-62629932

The price of Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) software will rise to $15,000, the electric car maker's chief executive, Elon Musk, has said. The world's richest person tweeted on Sunday night that price would increase from $12,000 in North America from September 5 after the release of version FSD Beta 10.69.2 for its driver assistance system.  Mr Musk said the current price would be honoured for orders made before September 5 but delivered later. “FSD Beta 10.69 started rolling out to Tesla owners last night,” he tweeted. “This build is a big step forward! 10.69.1 probably end of week with wider release. 10.69.2 in a few weeks should be good enough to provide to all FSD Beta participants.” READ MORE : https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/technology/2022/08/22/elon-musk-raises-price-of-teslas-full-self-driving-technology/

Oil prices fell in early trading on Monday on concerns related to a slowdown in demand in China, the world’s second-largest economy, the possibility of Iranian crude coming back to the market and a US dollar rally. Brent, the global benchmark for two thirds of the world's oil, was trading 1.60 per cent lower at $95.17 a barrel at 11.13am UAE time on Monday. West Texas Intermediate, the gauge that tracks US crude, was down 1.80 per cent at $89.14 a barrel. “Lacklustre Chinese data last week has seen demand concerns continue to outweigh any supply-side issues, despite warnings around upcoming tightness in the market from the new Opec secretary general,” said Emirates NBD’s Mena economist Daniel Richards. In an interview with Bloomberg last week, Opec secretary general Haitham Al Ghais said global oil markets remained at risk of a supply squeeze. China, the top importer of crude, also cut lending rates last week to revive demand as its economy slowed unexpectedly in July, with factor

Pakistan's police filed terrorism charges against Imran Khan on Monday, as the former prime minister held mass rallies seeking a return to office. The charges followed a speech Mr Khan gave in Islamabad on Saturday, in which he vowed to sue police officers and a female judge, and alleged a close aide had been tortured after his arrest, AP reported. Mr Khan appeared to be free and had not immediately addressed the charge sheet being lodged against him. Earlier, Mr Khan accused the government of temporarily blocking YouTube to deny live access to his speech at a political rally, Reuters reported. Mr Khan has been making fiery speeches to gatherings across the South Asian nation as he pushes for new elections after being ousted from power in April through a parliamentary vote. Read More : https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/2022/08/22/pakistan-police-file-terrorism-charges-against-imran-khan/

Indonesian coffee producers are eyeing the potential of boosting exports to the Middle East, as they say interest from the region has risen in recent years. Indonesia is the fourth-largest coffee-producing country in the world and Asia’s second biggest, accounting for about 7 percent of global coffee output. In 2021, the Southeast Asian nation exported about 384 thousand metric tons worth almost $850 million, according to the Central Statistics Agency. Egypt was the second-biggest export destination for Indonesian coffee last year, just behind the US. The Association of Indonesian Coffee Exporters and Industries said that exports to the Middle East region have been growing in the past decade. “The Middle East market potential will always continue to grow for medium and premium quality coffee,” Moelyono Soesilo, head of specialty and industry at the association, told Arab News on Saturday. Read More : https://www.arabnews.com/node/2147311/world

Gustavo de Arístegui  is a Spanish politician, diplomat and an international analyst. Gustavo de Arístegui comes from a long-standing diplomatic background, his father and grandfather were both senior diplomats posted as ambassadors in Latin America, Europe and the Middle East. Ambassador de Arístegui has a law degree from the Jesuit University of Madrid and has been awarded the rank of Spanish Commander of the Royal and Distinguished Order of King Charles III, the Great Cross of Civil Merit and the Great Cross of Air Force. Gustavo de Arístegui Gustavo de Arístegui advice's  that the country should be serious and discreet regarding their relations with Algeria. "We will have to believe the Foreign Minister when he says that he has fluid contact with his Algerian counterpart, but it does not seem that Algeria could do less than call its ambassador for consultation on a question so important to them for decades. We hope that Spain and Algeria know how to redirect the edges and

China's popular tourist island of Hainan locked down more areas on Monday as it battles its worst Covid-19 outbreak after recording very few cases over the past two years, compared with many other regions in the country. About 25,000 tourists were stranded in Sanya, the hardest-hit city in Hainan's outbreak and the island's key tourist centre, as of Sunday. The island in the South China Sea, which recorded just two local symptomatic Covid cases last year, has reported more than 1,400 domestically transmitted infections this month, including 982 symptomatic ones. Although that is small by global standards, it is the province's biggest outbreak since the virus was first reported in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019. The sharp increase in cases comes amid increased interest in tourism after China slightly eased curbs aimed at domestic travel, accounting for the shorter incubation period of the Omicron variant, which requires a shorter quarantine time. READ MO

A fire set off by a lightning strike at an oil storage depot is raging uncontrolled in the Cuban city of Matanzas, where four explosions and flames have injured 121 people and left 17 firefighters missing. The Cuban authorities said an unidentified body was found late on Saturday. Firefighters and other specialists were still trying to quell the blaze at the supertanker base in Matanzas, where the fire began during a thunderstorm on Friday night, the Ministry of Energy and Mines said. READ MORE : https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/the-americas/2022/08/07/cuban-oil-depot-burns-after-lightning-strike/

Four more ships carrying about 170,000 tonnes of maize and other foodstuffs sailed from Ukrainian Black Sea ports on Sunday under a deal to unblock the country's exports after Russia's invasion. The UN and Turkey brokered the agreement last month after warnings that the halt in grain shipments caused by Russia's invasion of Turkey could lead to severe food shortages and even outbreaks of famine in parts of the world. Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said there were plans to step up shipments. “We are gradually moving on to larger volumes of work. We plan to ensure the ability of the ports to handle at least 100 vessels per month in the near future,” he said. Ukraine is also expected to soon start exporting grain from its Black Sea port of Pivdennyi, an expansion that would allow it to send out at least three million tonnes of goods a month, Mr Kubrakov said on Facebook. Before Moscow began what it calls its “special military operation”, Russia and Ukrain

Global ratings agency Moody's cut Italy's outlook to "negative" from "stable" on Friday, weeks after Prime Minister Mario Draghi 's resignation shook the country's political landscape. Mr Draghi, named " Super Mario " due to his long career as a financial problem solver, had helped to shape Europe's tough response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. He had also boosted Italy's standing in financial markets during his tenure. READ MORE : https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/economy/2022/08/06/moodys-cuts-italys-outlook-to-negative-from-stable/

The war in Ukraine is entering a new phase as Russian troops mass in the south in preparation for a Ukrainian counter-offensive, western analysts believe. The new front line emerging near Zaporizhzia has led to renewed concern over the safety of the city's nuclear power plant after Russia and Ukraine accused each other of shelling the site. Ukraine said Russia was on the defensive in the south and had carried out air strikes as it tried to hold captured territory, some of it seized in the early weeks of the war. READ MORE : https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/europe/2022/08/06/russia-prepares-for-ukrainian-counter-attack-in-new-phase-of-war/

Which country is the most stressful? Where do people feel like their countrymen and women treat them with the most respect? Where are people more likely to be sad? A new global poll by the international survey company Gallup asked 140,000 people around the world how they feel, with the goal of creating a global emotional temperature map. Indonesia and Malaysia topped the list for the world’s most well-rested countries, while 99 per cent of people in Paraguay said they were treated with respect all day long. Read More : https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/2022/08/05/whats-the-worlds-happiest-country-global-emotional-survey-revealed/

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday hailed India ’s efforts in conserving tigers, but experts say the country needs to look beyond numbers and focus on increasing protected areas and preventing conflict with humans. “I laud all those who are actively working to protect the tiger. It would make you proud that India has 52 tiger reserves covering over 75,000 square kilometres. Innovative measures are being undertaken to involve local communities in tiger protection,” Mr Modi said, on the occasion of International Tiger Day. The tiger, India's national animal, is a protected species in the country. India has 2,967 tigers in the wild, according to a 2019 census, or two-thirds of the worldwide population. The number of tiger reserves has grown to 52 since the protected areas were set up in 1973 under Project Tiger, which aims to increase the population in the wild to 4,000 by the next decade. Read More : https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/asia/2022/07/29/india-needs-to-do-more-fo

US President Joe Biden will host Pacific island leaders at the White House in September, a senior American diplomat said Saturday, deepening a regional charm offensive to counter growing Chinese influence. Visiting Tonga, Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said the leaders would be invited to Washington for a meeting and dinner late in the month. “This meeting will be a historic opportunity with the United States and Pacific islands countries to hear and listen, the Pacific way,” Sherman said. The move comes amid a flurry of US shuttle diplomacy looking to bolster alliances in the Pacific against a more assertive Beijing. Read More : https://www.arabnews.com/node/2137231/world

Taiwan accused the Chinese army of simulating an attack on its main island Saturday, as Beijing continued its retaliation for US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Taipei visit. Relations between the two superpowers nosedived following Pelosi’s trip to China’s self-ruled neighbor — which it claims as its territory — prompting calls from the UN for an urgent de-escalation of tensions. Beijing maintained some of its largest-ever military drills around Taiwan on Saturday — exercises aimed at practicing a blockade and ultimate invasion of the island, analysts say. Read More : https://www.arabnews.com/node/2137146/world

Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, who is also the state excise and finance minister, for the first time acknowledged that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in the national capital has incurred losses worth “thousands of crores” of rupees under the new excise policy 2021-22, but blamed it squarely on the Lieutenant Governor (L-G), who he alleged “made a U-turn at the last moment” before implementing the new regime from November 17, 2021. Read More : https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/delhi-news/delhi-excise-policy-row-manish-sisodia-accuses-l-g-of-last-minute-uturn-101659773090054.html