MUMBAI, India — Ace director-producer of the Hindi film industry, Subhash Ghai, got emotional after revisiting the behind the scenes video of the iconic song from 1993, “Choli Ke Peeche,” on the sets of the reality show “Dance Deewane 3” and praised Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit for her inspirational journey so far. “I am so proud of @MadhuriDixit who has become an inspirational icon today for the younger generation starting from being a simple but passionate student, which I cud see in this video shown at @DanceDeewane last night (sic),” said Ghai in a tweet posted along with a photograph of Dixit from the sets…
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MUMBAI, India — Indian singer-composer Himesh Reshammiya, on June 28, announced his new music album titled “Himesh Ke Dil Se.” “Himesh Ke Dil Se” will be an album in which I have positioned a lot of upcoming and promising talent like Sawai Bhatt and several others. The focus of this album is surely on the melody, the voice of the singer, and the overall vibe, which all music lovers will fall in love with, I promise (sic),” said Reshammiya. This album will also mark the launch of “Indian Idol” participant Sawai Bhatt. The singer from Nagaur in Rajasthan recently got eliminated from…
PERTH, Australia — Three capital cities are in Covid-19 lockdown with Perth joining Sydney and Darwin after another confirmed virus case in the west. A four-day stay-at-home order for Perth and the neighboring Peel region started at midnight, just hours after Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced new measures in the coronavirus battle. Aged care and quarantine workers will be compelled to get a Covid-19 jab and doctors allowed to give the AstraZeneca shot to under-60s as governments seek to revive the vaccine rollout. The prime minister met with state and territory leaders for a virtual national cabinet meeting on June 28,…
ADELAIDE, Australia — South Australian authorities remain determined to avoid a Covid-19 lockdown across the state, with a range of local restrictions now in place amid increasing infections in other jurisdictions. Premier Steven Marshall and Chief Public Health Officer Nicola Spurrier have urged people to get tested and vaccinated to help prevent the need for tougher measures. “It is a dangerous situation with this Delta variant. We’ve got to take the pre-emptive stance,” Marshall said on June 29. “We want to avoid a lockdown in South Australia. We’ve put some restrictions in place that we believe will help provide an added…
BRISBANE, Australia — Queenslanders are waiting to learn if they’ll face another lockdown amid grave concerns a large group of miners may have returned home carrying the highly contagious Delta variant of Covid-19. One of the 170 miners is already confirmed to have the variant after spending a day out and about in the Sunshine Coast region while infectious. The Sunshine Coast encompasses beach resorts, surf spots, and rural hinterland in southern Queensland, Australia. It stretches from the coastal city of Caloundra, near Brisbane, north to the Cooloola section of the Great Sandy National Park, home to multicolored sand dunes, mangrove…
SYDNEY — The Australian tax office has raised AU$13 billion ($9.8 billion) in liabilities since its tax avoidance task force was set up in 2016 to probe big businesses. The Australian Taxation Office is currently working through its “Top 500” program of private businesses that control AU$207 billion ($156 billion) net assets and report around AU$195 billion ($147 billion) in total tax income. The program, and its initial “Top 100” investigation of public and multinational businesses, aims to provide the community confidence that these groups are paying the right amount of tax. Assistant commissioner Kasey Macfarlane said the Top 500 cohort…
ISLAMABAD — Amid the escalating violence in Afghanistan, Pakistan’s interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has claimed that families of Afghan Taliban reside in his country, including in the capital city of Islamabad. The Taliban receive medical treatment in Pakistani hospitals amid the fast-approaching deadline of US drawdown from the war-torn country, as per Ahmad. This comes as Afghanistan has witnessed a surge in violence in the past few weeks due to the Taliban offensive. “Taliban families live here — in Pakistan, in Rawat, Loi Ber, Bhara Kahu, and Tarnol,” said Rashid. “Sometimes their dead bodies arrive, and sometimes they come here…
SINGAPORE — The last quarter has been difficult for the aviation industry as Southeast Asia’s record Covid-19 case counts and new lockdowns have hampered reopening and travel plans. Due to the spread of more contagious strains of the Covid-19 virus, many countries like Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam had to put their populations under varying degrees of movement restrictions or lockdowns. This has severely affected the airlines in Southeast Asia, and the future of some of them is uncertain. Geneva-based International Air Transport Association (IATA), in a report published earlier in June, said that although air travel is gradually increasing, it is…
NEW DELHI — U.S. microblogging platform Twitter removed a distorted map of India from its website, which showed Jammu and Kashmir as a separate country, while Union territory Ladakh was shown as a part of China. Twitter India Managing Director Manish Maheshwari has been booked under several sections of the Indian penal code. He has also been booked by the police in India’s most populous state Uttar Pradesh in connection with a viral video. The video in question had an older man belonging to the minority Muslim community in India alleging assault on June 5. In the video, 72-year-old Abdul Samad…
ISLAMABAD — Internet firms in Pakistan have slammed the government’s amended social media rules, saying the most problematic provisions remain unchanged in the latest draft. The companies said the draft has “regressed” from the previous versions. The third version of the social media rules, titled the ‘Removal of Unlawful Online Content Rules 2021’, was published by the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication earlier this month. “The Asia Internet Coalition and its member companies are disappointed with the proposed revisions,” Asia Internet Coalition Managing Director Jeff Paine said. “Despite repeated feedback from industry over several months, the draft rules still include…