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New Delhi, Aug 4: Bollywood film 'Peepli Live' co-director Mahmood Farooqui was today sentenced to seven years imprisonment by a Delhi court for raping a US researcher here last year. Additional Sessions Judge Sanjiv Jain awarded the minimum jail term prescribed for the offence to Farooqui, who was produced in the court in custody. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on the 44-year-old

Chennai, Aug 4: Tamil Superstar Rajinikanth’s Twitter account which was hacked has been retrieved says his daughter Aishwarya. “@superstarrajini appa’s (father) account was hacked... Handle retrieved. Thank you all :) #AllIsWell,” tweeted Aishwarya. Her tweet was retweeted by her sister Soundarya Rajinikanth. Sources close to the 65-year-old Kabali actor say the account was hacked on Tuesday

Mumbai, Aug 4: Actress Sonakshi Sinha says that it is a great time to be a women in Indian cinema as great characters are being written for them while audience too accepted them. “I think it is about time that they did and there are some great characters being written out for women in today’s films and I am really happy for that.” Sonakshi said at the launch of her song ‘Rajj Rajj Ke’ from her

Mumbai, Aug 3: Actress Zareen Khan says as a young girl she always wanted to be a singer. Zareen, who recently starred in the hit "Hate Story 3", hopes in the future people might approach her to sing a song. "It will sound very cliched but when I was kid I always wanted to be singer and never an actor. Hopefully in the future when these people will think of me (I will do it)," she told reporters

Mumbai, Aug 3: The Bombay High Court today asked Rabia Khan, mother of late actress Jiah Khan whose body was found hanging from the ceiling fan in her house in 2013, to draw a list pointing out anomalies, if any, in the probe made by police and CBI into the death of her daughter. While the Mumbai police and the CBI have concluded that it was a case of suicide, Rabia Khan claimed her daughter was

Mumbai, Jul 2: 34 years ago on this date, Amitabh Bachchan regained consciousness after a near-fatal accident while filming Coolie and the megastar remembers the day as his second birthday. On July 26 1982, Bachchan suffered the accident while shooting Manmohan Desai’s film in Bangalore. A mistimed jump in a fight scene with co-star Puneet Issar made him hit the corner of a table, instead of

Mumbai, Aug 2: The Central Bureau of Investigation on Monday told the Bombay High Court that late Bollywood actor Jiah Khan committed suicide and ruled out any foul play. Additional Solicitor General Anil Singh told a division bench of Justice Naresh Patil and Justice Prakash Naik that the investigative agency had no reason to protect actor Sooraj Pancholi who is accused of murdering Khan in 2013

Mumbai, Aug 2: Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar has said the controversy over Naseeruddin Shah’s comment about his late father-in-law Rajesh Khanna has ended as Naseeruddin has “gracefully apologized” and the matter should be forgotten. Asked about Naseeruddin’s comment, Akshay said: “I am in this industry for last 25 years, just tell me if I have ever spoken anything about other actor. Some wise

Mumbai, Aug 1: When Salman Khan entered the Rangasharda Auditorium around 4 pm on Sunday for a prayer meet for Rajjat Barjatya, who passed away on Friday, July 29, a bhajan was being sung.The 50-year-old-actor stood patiently in a corner, with sister Alvira, for 20 minutes until the song ended, even though filmmaker Subhash Ghai nudged him to take a seat. When the bhajan was over, he walked

Islamabad, Jul 31: Pakistani social media star Qandeel Baloch who was killed for bringing "shame" to the family by posting risque videos and posts on Facebook was strangled to death by her cousin and not by her brother, a polygraph test found today. The main accused of the case Muhammad Waseem had earlier confessed that he had strangled his 26-year-old sister. However, the claim was rejected after