poker setA new 2.5-km section on the Delhi Metro’s Magenta Line, part of the Phase IV extension, is likely to be opened to the public by July or August this year. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) announced on Monday that this will be done after it obtains necessary approval from the Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety (CMRS).

poker setMany might not be aware, but Oscar and BAFTA winning actor Olivia Colman has definite Indian roots. More specifically, she has Bihari roots, as her great great great grandfather Charles had a wife of Indian descent called Harriot, who was from Bihar’s Kishanganj. She was born in the 1800s when India was under East India Company’s control.

poker setIt all began when they posted an adorable picture of Akshata adjusting Rishi’s tie moments before they disembarked from the plane in India. This intimate picture, shared from the UK PM‘s account amidst a slew of official pictures, highlighted the couple’s bond and set the tone for the trip ahead.Fan Bingbing made a regal entrance in sparkling silver and emerald green on the champagne-colored carpet Sunday at the 95th Academy Awards. Hong Chau wore a high-neck pink Prada column gown with a feathery black train and Malala Yousafzai worked the hood of her silver sparkler from Ralph Lauren like a pro.“We have witnessed 11 cases of firecracker eye injuries yesterday (Monday) of which, three are children. Two boys and one girl. One boy got affected in the left eye another in the right eye and the girl got affected in both her eyes. Four who got injured are from the age group of 10-15 years. Two eye injuries are from the age group (19-30) out of which in one is a case of an affected left eye and the other a case of injury in both eyes,” said Dr Anand Balasubramaniam, Consultant — Cornea, Cataract and Refractive Services, Sankara Eye Hospital.

Hollywood actress and U.N. humanitarian Angelina Jolie made a surprise visit to the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Saturday, the Lviv regional governor said on Telegram.poker setTelecom operator Bharti Airtel on Monday announced that it has crossed the 10 million unique 5G user mark on its network.Asked how the experience altered her relationship with her family and friends, Manisha told NDTV in an interview, “It’s been a journey. It has also been a learning experience. I really believed that I had multiple friends. I thought partying together, travelling together, having fun together, people will sit with me in my pain. That was not so. People are not capable of sitting with anybody’s pain, let alone their own pain. We always try to find excuses to not feel pain. We want to escape pain. That’s human nature. I found myself very lonely, and I realised that only my immediate family was around me.”Days after the party removed him from the state general secretary post, Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Kunal Ghosh on Saturday met party leader Derek O’Brien and state Education Minister Bratya Basu at the former’s residence at Beckbagan.

poker setThe Butterfly EcoPark at Chottakhola, close to the Trishna WildLife sanctuary is the first butterfly park of northeast. It was inaugurated in 2016 on 5.5 hectares of land having 250 species of butterflies.Sony Corp expects its PlayStation 4 game console to become profitable in much less time than the four years it took the PS3,the head of Sony’s game unit said on Thursday.Umaid Bhawan Palace, now partly owned by Taj Hotels, was one of the last Palaces to be built before India got Independence. The foundations were laid in 1929 by Maharaja Umaid Singh and the construction was completed in 1943.Veteran actor Dharmendra might not be known for his dancing skills, but he managed to create his own signature style. His hook step from “Main Jat Yamla Pagla Deewana” continues to be memorable despite the actor confessing multiple times that he is not a good dancer. While many  actors, over the decades, have tried to emulate his signature steps on stage and in films, it was Hema Malini, his wife and co-star in the film Pratigya, who made it memorable.Since the country is heavily dependent on oil imports to the tune of over 80 per cent for meeting its domestic demand, it remains susceptible to global crude price shocks.Avula Subba Rao, who earlier served in the Army as Nursing Assistant, now runs Sai Defense Academy in Narsaraopeta of Guntur District in Andhra Pradesh, a police release said.Inundated roads, submerged vehicles, cars swept away due to strong currents, rivulets and other water bodies in spate — these were some of the visuals that continued to pour in from Hyderabad as record heavy rains lashed the city as well as several parts of Telangana. Twelve people have died in Telangana in rain related incidents, including eight who were killed late Tuesday night when a boulder crashed over two houses in Hyderabad’s Bandlaguda area.Villupuram Revenue Officer S Ravichandran sealed the temple under section 145 (1) of CrPC to prevent any possible law and order problems. The officials have summoned the representatives of both factions to appear on Friday.

Gross Goods and Services Tax (GST) revenue collected last month was Rs 1,65,105 crore of which CGST was Rs 29,773 crore, SGST Rs 37,623 crore, IGST Rs 85,930 crore (including Rs 41,239 crore collected on import of goods) and cess was Rs 11,779 crore (including Rs 840 crore collected on import of goods).This comes after the Madras High Court on July 27 directed the state government to include photographs of the President and Prime Minister in its promotional material, including in print and electronic media.An officer of the agriculture department on condition of anonymity said, “There is hardly anything to talk about when the farmers are not ready to sow cotton. We lowered the target but couldn’t achieve that either.”Web Werks and the government signed an MOU for setting up a data centre park worth Rs 20,000 crore in Bengaluru. The proposed year of commencement of the construction of the data centre is 2025. Additionally, Web Werks expressed its ambition to establish a cutting-edge connectivity hub, featuring state-of-the-art hyper-scaler data centres in Bengaluru. The government is expected to collaborate closely with Web Werks to facilitate its data centre setup and operations in Karnataka. The government will provide all support in grounding the investment quickly in the state.Kartik Aaryan, who made his acting debut with Luv Ranjan’s 2011 film Pyaar Ka Punchnama, and went on to star in his other films Akaash Vani (2013), and Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2 (2015), recently opened up about not being cast in Luv’s film Tu Jhoothi Main Makkar (2023), which went on to become a hit at the box office. The film starred Ranbir Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor in the lead roles. Kartik, who had a cameo role in the film, revealed Luv informed the actor about casting Ranbir in the lead role. Talking about how he felt, he said, “I am extremely possessive about my team.”“We’ve been working on this with the National Payments Corporation of India, who oversee everything to make sure it’s secure and reliable. And we’ve built it using India’s Unified Payments Interface, which makes it easy for anyone to instantly accept payments across different apps — and for companies to provide people with great services,” he said.Manisha continued, “I was asking his (Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s) very good assistant, ‘Mita, do you think there is some reference?’ She told me ‘Manisha, watch Peaky Blinders.’So I watched Peaky Blinders and picked a few things, especially the actor’s, the hero’s cold gaze. I said if I can get that it would be fabulous because personally I have never come across anyone like Mallikajaan.”In 2019, the UAE implemented the new system, in which these visas are issued for five or 10 years and renewed automatically. Mohanty is the first Odia artist to receive the UAE’s golden visa, according to a statement.