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My song in Udta Punjab quite grungy, dark and different: Kanika Kapoor

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Kanika Kapoor has given her voice for a track of Udta Punjab which brings a dark story of prevalent drug menace in Punjab. And the singer says the song is different with a “dark and grungy” vibe to it. Asked to describe the yet unreleased track, Kanika said: “The music

One Night Stand review: Sunny Leone’s film is no Fatal Attraction

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A chance meeting between a mysterious woman and a champion event organiser leads to a crazy night spent mostly in a bathtub and partly on a couch. They are content, thinking their paths will never cross again. But they do, and the audience is also given a skewed feminism debate,

Fort McMurray: Eye-stinging smoke, scorched earth and the non-uniformed are arrested on sight

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There’s a reason that sleep-deprived woodland firefighters begin to see forest fires as a sentient, intelligent foe. The Fort McMurray fire is moving underground. It is smoldering in peaty forest floors for days, only to explode to the surface like a hand grenade. It will sweep along a wide

Labour’s Khan becomes first Muslim mayor of London after bitter campaign

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Sadiq Khan, the son of a bus driver, became London's first Muslim mayor on Friday, seeing off a Conservative challenger who attempted to link him to extremism and securing a much-needed victory for his opposition Labour Party. As New York mayor Bill de Blasio sent his congratulations, Khan had yet

Justin Trudeau commits $840M for TTC upgrades

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came to Toronto on Friday to visit a TTC subway yard, and announced $840 million in funding for upgrades to the city's transit system.. Trudeau was joined at the Greenwood subway facility by Mayor John Tory and Ontario Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca. The Liberal government’s

Australia says top ‘IS’ recruiter killed in US airstrike in Iraq

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An Australian believed to be a top "Islamic State" recruiter has been killled in a US airstrike in Mosul, Iraq. Melbourne-born Neil Prakash left for Syria in 2013, a year after converting from Buddhism. Australia's government announced Neil Prakash's death on Thursday. Attorney General George Brandis said that Washington

Bangladesh Islamist leader set to hang for war crimes

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The leader of Bangladesh's top Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami is set to hang within days after the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld his death sentence for war crimes. Motiur Rahman Nizami was convicted of murder, rape and orchestrating the killing of intellectuals during the country's 1971 independence struggle. "We're satisfied. Now

Pakistan girl, 16, “burnt alive” for helping couple to elope

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Pakistani police on Thursday arrested 15 members of a tribal council accused of ordering the burning alive of a young girl for helping a couple to elope in a so-called "honour killing", police said. The 16-year-old girl was set on fire last week in the town of Donga Gali, about

Wildfire in Alberta now 85,000 hectares in size

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A massive wildfire raging in the Canadian province of Alberta has grown to 85,000 hectares (210,035 acres) in size and officials would like to move south about 25,000 evacuees who had previously fled north. More than 80,000 people have emptied Fort McMurray in the heart of Canada's oil sands. The

Saina, Sindhu among 7 Indian shuttlers making the cut for Rio Olympics

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The Sports Authority of India (SAI) congratulated the seven Indian shuttlers, including Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu, who have made the cut for the Rio Olympics. Eclipsing the previous high of five shuttlers taking part in the 2012 London Olympics, this year seven Indian shuttlers have made the cut for Rio.