Fans breathe a sigh of relief as Salman Khan returns home

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April 7, 2018

Mumbai, Apr 8: Amidst distribution of sweets, bursting of fire-crackers, cheers and whistling by hundreds of fans, actor Salman Khan returned to his Mumbai home in Mumbai on Saturday evening.

Salman, 52, tensed but smiling, gave a flying kiss to his fans from the balcony of the Galaxy Apartments at Bandra in Mumbai. 

The actor reached Mumbai from Jodhpur by a chartered aircraft. 

Khan, accompanied by bodyguard, Shera, landed at the General Aviation Terminal of the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai and drove straight to his home.

His cavalcade had a difficult time entering his building compound as it was surrounded by hundreds of fans. As soon Salman was spotted in his balcony, hundreds of flashlights from smartphones lit up the area. 

Bhai, as he is popularly known, was accompanied by his father Salim Khan, mother Sushila Charak, Shera, other family members, sister Alvira and Arpita and a nephew. He waved to his fans who kept cheering and then signalled that he wants to catch up on some sleep and also requested them to go back homes. 

"We are very happy that Salman has got bail. Salim Khan saab and his family had got a big relief. We would also like to thank the judiciary for granting him bail," said filmmaker Ashoke Pandit, the convenor of The Indian Film and Television Directors' Association (IFTDA).
 

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Salman Khan released from jail after getting bail in poaching case

Jodhpur, Apr 7: Bollywood actor Salman Khan was granted bail by the District and Sessions Court of Jodhpur on Saturday in connection with -decades-old blackbuck poaching case.

The actor was told to file a personal bail bond for Rs. 50,000 and produce a Rs. 25,000 surety from two persons each who will guarantee that he will comply with all bail conditions.

When the judge Ravindra Kumar Joshi pronounced the decision, Khan's both the sisters, Arpita and Alvira along with his bodyguard Shera were present in the court. Both his sisters looked relieved and left the court in a happy mood. 

Court has also directed him to appear in person on May 7 in the appellate court for hearing on his appeal against conviction and sentence. In addition, the court added a condition that Khan cannot leave the country without the court's permission.

Soon after his bail was ordered fans gathered outside the court. They cheered and raised slogans in his support, with some shouting "Apna Tiger bahar aagaya", "Sab se best Bajrangi Bhaijan".

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan who was convicted in a 1998 blackbuck poaching case, was sentenced to five years in prison and was fined Rs 10,000 on Thursday. He was sent to Jodhpur Central Jail and was given the tag of “Qaidi no 106”.

Khan wears a cap to avoid eye contact:

Dressed in a dark black t-shirt and dark blue jeans, Salman Khan who spent 48 hours in the jail walked outside at around 5:30 PM. Khan who looked happy dis not prefer to have any contact with the media and public waiting outside the jail. He wore a cap and was escorted by Shera and straightaway left for Jodhpur airport where his charter flight was waiting to fly to Mumbai. His sisters and lawyers also reached Jodhpur airport and boarded the same flight.

Arguments before the court: Defense Vs Prosecution 

Earlier in the day on Saturday morning, both the defence counsel and the public prosecutor completed their arguments. The prosecution talked about the credibility of the witnesses and post-mortem report which said that the blackbucks had gunshot wounds. However, Salman's lawyers argued that only the bones of the animals were sent for evaluation when their skins. 

Defence counsel asked for bail on grounds that the witnesses against him weren't reliable and assured that Khan would not misuse his liberty if granted bail."In past 20 years, Salman has never misused of being a popular film star. Every time he was present in the court, despite his busy schedule" Mahesh Bora told the court.

Whereas Public Prosecutor Pokar Ram opposed the defence’s arguments and said that Salman should not get the bail as this case is powerful than the previous one. He argued on the basis of DNA test and forensic report on the basis on which he was found guilty by the trial court. "Forensic report shows the gunshots and his fingerprints match", Pokar Ram told the court.

The judge who gave bail to Salman was transferred previous night:

Incidentally, Sessions judge who granted bail to actor Salman Khan was transferred late on Friday night. The news created suspense over the continuation of proceedings but the judge District and Sessions Judge (Jodhpur Rural) Ravindra Kumar Joshi heard the bail plea. 

Joshi was among the 87 District Judges shifted by the Rajasthan High Court on Friday late night. He has been transferred to Sirohi. Stating it as a routine practice the judge said, "Every year transfers in the judiciary take place in the month of April or March. And we are given a time of 7 days to join the new posting and we are allowed to take up those matters which are urgent like Khan's bail".

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February 12,2020

London, Feb 12: Oscar-winning British director Steve McQueen is returning to his art roots with a series of short films at London's Tate Modern art gallery, offering a sensory exploration of black identity.

McQueen, who became the first black director to win the best picture Academy Award in 2014 for "12 Years a Slave", is now based between London and Amsterdam and is focused on championing diversity in the film industry.

Visitors to his new exhibition will be greeted by "Static", a film of New York's Statue of Liberty, scrutinising the iconic symbol from every possible angle at very close range against a deafening backdrop of the helicopter from where the footage was filmed.

"What interests Steve is our view of the world, how humans are trying to represent Liberty," said Fiontan Moran, assistant curator of the exhibition.

"7th Nov, 2001" features a still shot of a body while McQueen's cousin Marcus tells of how he accidentally killed his brother, a particularly traumatic experience for the artist.

"Western Deep" is another visceral work, giving a sense through sights and sounds in an interactive installation of the experiences of miners in South Africa, following them to the bottom of the mine.

"Ashes", meanwhile, is a tribute to a young fisherman from Grenada, the island where McQueen's family originated.

The images of beauty and sweetness filmed from his boat are tragically reversed on the other side of the projection screen, which shows a grave commissioned by McQueen for the eponymous young fisherman, who was killed by drug traffickers.

African-American singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson (1898-1976) is honoured in "End Credits".

The film shows censored FBI documents detailing the agency's surveillance of Robeson, read by a voice-over artist, for five hours.

"He is... testing the limits of how people can be documented in an era of mass surveillance," said Moran.

In a similarly militant vein, the exhibition features the sculpture "Weight", which was first shown in the prison cell where the writer and playwright Oscar Wilde was imprisoned.

It depicts a golden mosquito net draped over a metal prison bed frame, addressing the theme of confinement and the power of the imagination to break free.

The show runs alongside an exhibition of McQueen's giant portraits of London school classes, many of which appeared on the streets of London last year.

"I remember my first school trip to Tate when I was an impressionable eight-year-old, which was really the moment I gained an understanding that anything is possible," said McQueen, adding it was "where in some ways my journey as an artist first began".

He recently told the Financial Times newspaper the difference between his art films and his feature films was that the former were poetry, the latter like a novel.

"Poetry is condensed, precise, fragmented," he said. "The novel is the yarn".

The exhibition opens on February 13 and runs until May 11.

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February 16,2020

Varanasi, Feb 16: Amidst continuing protests against the amended citizenship law, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said his government stood by the decision despite all pressure.

"Be it the decision on Article 370 or the Citizenship Amendment Act, it was necessary in the interest of the country. Despite pressure, we stand by our decision and will remain so," he said.

Modi was addressing a public meeting in his Lok Sabha constituency.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi also asserted that the trust set up for construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya will work "rapidly".

"A trust has been formed for construction of a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya. This trust will work rapidly," he said at a public meeting during his day-long visit to his Lok Sabha constituency.

The government had recently set up the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra on the Supreme Court's directive to the Union government to form a trust that can look into the construction and management of the temple.

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June 11,2020

New Delhi, Jun 11: The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 8,102 and the number of cases climbed to 2,86,579 in the country after it registered the highest single-day spike of 357 fatalities and 9,996 cases till Thursday 8 AM, according to the Union Health Ministry data.

The number of recoveries remained more than the active novel coronavirus cases for the second consecutive day.

The number of active cases stands at 1,37,448 while 1,41,028 people have recovered and one patient has migrated to another country, as per the data.   

"Thus, around 49.21 per cent patients have recovered so far," an official said.

The total number of confirmed cases include foreigners.

Of the 357 new deaths reported till Thursday morning, 149 were in Maharashtra, 79 in Delhi, 34 in Gujarat, 20 in Uttar Pradesh, 19 in Tamil Nadu, 17 in West Bengal, eight in Telangana, seven each in Madhya Pradesh and Haryana, four in Rajasthan, three each in Jammu and Kashmir and Karnataka, two each in Kerala and Uttarakhand, one each in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Himachal Pradesh.

Out of the total 8,102 fatalities, Maharashtra tops the tally with 3,438 deaths followed by Gujarat with 1,347 deaths, Delhi with 984, Madhya Pradesh with 427, West Bengal with 432, Tamil Nadu with 326, Uttar Pradesh with 321, Rajasthan with 259 and Telangana with 156 deaths.

The death toll reached 78 in Andhra Pradesh, 69 in Karnataka and 55 in Punjab. Jammu and Kashmir has reported 51 fatalities due to the coronavirus disease, while 52 deaths have been reported from Haryana, 33 from Bihar, 18 from Kerala, 15 from Uttarakhand, nine from Odisha and eight from Jharkhand.

Chhattisgarh and Himachal Pradesh have registered six COVID-19 fatalities each, Chandigarh has five while Assam has recorded four deaths so far. Meghalaya, Tripura and Ladakh have reported one COVID-19 fatality each, according to the ministry's data.

More than 70 per cent of the deaths are due to comorbidities, the ministry's website stated.

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