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Hrithik Roshan’s Super 30 likely to be remade in Hollywood: report Hrithik Roshan’s film Super 30 may soon become Bollywood’s first film to be remade in Hollywood, reports suggest. The film also starred Mrunal Thakur and Pankaj Tripathi in important roles. An Asian Age report quoted a source as saying, “Super 30 is one of the finest subjects that has come out from India in the recent past. And with Indian stories finding worldwide acceptance, this subject too is expected to work globally. A Hollywood major has shown interest in the subject, and writer Sanjiv Dutta is expected to pen the film in...

Vistara’s Chief Commercial Officer Sanjiv Kapoor has resigned from the post, the airline said on Monday. The company said that Kapoor had stepped down from his post last month. The airline’s Chief Strategy Officer Vinod Kannan will take over as the CCO. In a statement, Vistara said that Kapoor had resigned due to personal reasons. Kapoor’s last day with the airline will be on December 31. source:

India should focus on structural reforms, clean-up of banks and labour reforms: Gita Gopinath With economic growth slowing to a six-year low, IMF Chief Economist Gita Gopinath says the government should undertake structural reforms such as bank clean-up and labour reforms to address the slowdown in domestic demand. Gopinath, 48, who is travelling to India this week, rooted for government policies focusing on managing a slowdown in domestic demand, and on boosting productivity growth and supporting employment creation in the medium term. source:

123 tweets in two hours: Trump makes Twitter record amid impeachment charges Washington: US President Donald Trump made a Twitter record when he tweeted a whopping 123 times in a couple of hours against the House Judiciary Committee’s decision to initiate impeachment charges against him. A bitterly divided Judicial Committee voted on Friday to present two scaled-down charges against Trump to the House of Representatives for impeaching him, setting in motion a historic process. This left Trump angry on Twitter which he calls his “typewriter”. source:

Deepika Padukone Wins Crystal Award For Raising Mental Health Awareness Actress Deepika Padukone has been honoured by the 26th Annual Crystal Award for raising mental health awareness. She is the only Indian actress to feature in Davos 2020 winners list. Honoured to receive the award, Deepika Padukone said: “With more than 300 million people suffering with the illness, depression is the leading cause of ill health and disability in the world today and a major contributor to the overall global burden of disease. It is therefore increasingly clear that, now more than ever before, we need to aggressively address what...

Boris Johnson’s big win in UK polls, ‘special relationship’ with Narendra Modi lays base for closer ties between Britain and India The massive win that Boris Johnson-led Conservative Party scored in UK’s most consequential general election, among other things, augurs well for ties between India and Britain. New Delhi would be considerably comfortable in dealing with Johnson — whom leftist British newspaper The Guardian has called a “sociopathic, narcissistic, glutton for power” — than leftist Jeremy Corbyn whose extreme anti-India posturing alienated most British-Indian voters who have traditionally voted Labour. This isn’t to say that desertion by the British-Indians, a 1.5 lakh-strong influential...

Slowdown Blues: It’s not ordinary but ‘Great Slowdown’, Indian economy headed towards ICU, says ex-CEA Arvind Subramanian Former Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian has said the Indian economy was headed towards an “intensive care unit” and that a “Great Slowdown” was imminent. The former chief economic adviser said the country was experiencing what he calls the “second wave” of Twin Balance Sheet (TBS) crisis, which will further lead to an even bigger damage to the economy. source:

Rohit Sharma fastest batsman to 400 international sixes Rohit Sharma became the fastest batsman and the first Indian to hit 400 sixes in international cricket. He achieved the landmark in his 354th international match across formats during the third T20I in Mumbai on Sunday. He is only the third player overall to cross the milestone after former Pakistan and West Indies captains Shahid Afridi (476 sixes) and Chris Gayle (534 sixes). source:

Alia Bhatt named Sexiest Asian Female of 2019; Deepika leads the decade chart LONDON: Bollywood star Alia Bhatt has been voted as the Sexiest Asian Female for the year 2019, with fellow actor Deepika Padukone being crowned sexiest for the decade in an online poll released in London on Wednesday. Topping the annual list, released by UK-based weekly ‘Eastern Eye’, rounds off a dream year for Alia Bhatt, which included acting awards as well as starring in India’s official 2020 Oscar entry ‘Gully Boy’. source:

Hyperloop project: Virgin founder Richard Branson to meet CM Uddhav Thackeray Virgin Group founder Richard Branson will meet Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on December 12 in an attempt to ‘clear any misunderstanding if any’ over the ambitious hyperloop project that aims to connect Mumbai with Pune. Soon after the Maha Vikas Aghadi coalition of Shiv Sena, the NCP and Congress (I) formed the government in Maharashtra, in late November, there were talks of the new CM scrapping the Rs 60,500-crore project. source: