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Veteran actor Jaya Bachchan has spoken out against the objectification of women in cinema amid the ongoing debate surrounding Janhvi Kapoor’s character in ‘Peddi’. In an interview with Deccan Chronicle, Bachchan reflected on an incident from her own career when she resisted a filmmaker’s attempt to portray her in a more sexualised manner.Her comments arrive…
NEW DELHI: A Puducherry consumer commission has held a restaurant liable for serving contaminated food and directed it to compensate the customer along with providing 10 free plates of biriyani after a dead insect was found in a plate of biriyani.The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Puducherry, comprising S. Mouttouvel (President), A.S. Suvitha (Member) and…
This bus ticket is an AI-generated image This story is fake as the bus ticket turned out to be AI-generated and circulated on social media. The passenger, identified in the copy as P Damadoran, remains incommunicado despite TOI reaching out to him several times over the phone to seek his clarification and establish the authenticity…
Zooplankton, Copepod, Leptodiaptomus minutus, male| Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons When acid rain swept across parts of Ontario in the 1960s, it had a dramatic effect on freshwater ecosystems.Populations of fish were wiped out, many microscopic aquatic species declined, and vast areas of lakes became far more acidic than they had been in centuries. Amidst the…
A tiny fossil, Saccorhytus coronarius, once thought to be a human ancestor from China’s Cambrian era, has been reclassified. Advanced imaging revealed supposed gill slits were broken spines, excluding it from the deuterostome lineage. Image Credit: Saccorhytus is an early ecdysozoan and not the earliest deuterostome Fig 1 There was once an extraordinary little animal…
Afghanistan’s Sediqullah Atal gets bowled by India’s Prasidh Krishna on day two of Test cricket match between India and Afghanistan, in Mullanpur. (PTI Photo) Afghanistan head coach Richard Pybus admitted that his team’s approach in the one-off Test against India showed signs of “naivety”, saying the lack of exposure to red-ball cricket played a major…
The Centre on Monday reduced the number of subsidised cooking gas cylinders available annually to beneficiaries of the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) from nine to four aligning the support with average household consumption levels, a senior government official said. Under the flagship scheme launched in May 2016, beneficiaries were initially entitled to 12 subsidised…
Damadoran posted the ticket in social media that went viral, evoking sarcastic comments. KRISHNAGIRI: Call it an error of the electronic ticketing machine or on the part of the Tamil Nadu State Trasport Corporation bus conductor, a passenger was shocked to get a ticket to Dubai with a fare of Rs 10,000 at Bhavani on…
ISL champions East Bengal made a plea for a 16-team top tier football league Panaji: The All India Football Federation (AIFF) accepted a club-led model to run the Indian Super League (ISL) from next season at a meeting convened by sports minister Mansukh Mandaviya in New Delhi on Monday.The agreement will be for four years…
Kick streamer Oblivion is facing criticism online after a recent livestream in Japan led to an uncomfortable situation inside a convenience store. The incident happened on June 8 while Oblivion was streaming with boxer Ryan Garcia. During the broadcast, the streamer entered a Family Mart store with a cameraman following him. Within seconds, a store…
