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Brooke Shields' documentary 'Pretty Baby' gets standing ovation at Sundanc
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
American actor and model Brooke Shields has never shied away from speaking about being sexualized as a child star in Hollywood. Her two-part documentary 'Pretty Baby' recently brought the house down at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Devotees take holy dip in Ganga on Mauni Amavasya in Varanasi
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Thousands of devotees were seen taking a dip in the holy Ganga on the ghats of Varanasi. They were also seen offering prayers to Goddess Lakshmi, Ganesh and the Sun and remembered their ancestors and the departed souls of the family.
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Sundance Film Festival returns amid Covid worries in US
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Following the cancellation of last year's in-person festival, the Sundance Film Festival has resumed normal operations for the first time since the pandemic began in 2020. However, a few celebrities have opted not to attend, fearful of contracting COVID and disrupting their filming schedules
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Todd Field reveals how Tom Cruise helped in saving debut film from Harvey
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Hollywood filmmaker and actor Todd Field recently recalled how Tom Cruise helped him out when his debut film 'In the Bedroom' was acquired by Harvey Weinstein's production company, Miramax at the Sundance Film Festival.
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PM Modi extends greetings to nation on Makar Sankranti, Pongal and Magh Bi
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Makar Sankranti heralds the end of winter and the start of longer days as the sun moves northward. And this period is known as Uttarayan and is considered to be very auspicious.
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Pongal 2023: Know everything about the 4-days long Harvest festival
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Pongal is a traditional harvest celebration observed in South India, mainly in the states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana. Pongal, an important South Indian festival, honours Lord Surya Narayan, the planet's ruler, and is linked with crop harvesting. In northern India, the celeb
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Makar Sankranti: Devotees take holy dip in Ganga in Varanasi
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Makar Sankranti is a festival in the Hindu calendar, in which devotees make offerings to the deity Surya. The day marks the first day of the sun's transit into the Makara, marking the end of the month with the winter solstice and the start of longer days.
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Know all about Makar Sankranti and how it's celebrated in India
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
India is a land of immense devotion and festivities, where we have a plethora of cultures and traditions. When it comes to the Hindu culture, Makar Sankranti is one significant festival dedicated to Lord Surya or the Sun God.
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18 mobile thieves targeting Goa Sunburn arrested
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The police got a tip-off about the gang that would land in the coastal state to rob those attending the Sunburn Festival at Bardez Goa.
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World's largest turbulence simulation unmasks the flow of energy in astrop
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Researchers have uncovered a previously hidden heating process that helps explain how the atmosphere that surrounds the Sun called the "solar corona" can be vastly hotter than the solar surface that emits it.
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Telangana: Nine-year-old boy made to stand naked in sun for alleged theft
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
A nine-year-old boy was made to stand naked in the sun, had red chilli powder thrown at him and was beaten up by a shopkeeper for allegedly stealing from his shop in Habeeb Nagar police station limits.
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Research: Space atomic clocks could help uncover nature of dark matter
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Studying an atomic clock on-board a spacecraft inside the orbit of Mercury and very near to the Sun might be the trick to uncovering the nature of dark matter, suggests a new study published in Nature Astronomy.
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