Mumbai, Feb 7 (PTI) Ranveer Singh, who will be playing Kapil Dev in Kabir Khan’s “83”, will soon begin training with the cricket legend for the sports drama.
The film will chronicle India’s win under Kapil’s captainship, when the Men in Blue defeated West Indies in the final to clinch their first-ever World Cup trophy in 1983.
“I am looking forward to spending time with Kapil Sir. I feel like that time spent would be integral to my process of transforming myself into him,” Ranveer said in a statement.
“I want to absorb as much as I can from him. His story, his experiences, his thoughts, feelings, his expressions, his energy,” says Ranveer.
The 33-year-old actor earlier trained with bowling great Balwinder Singh Sandhu, who will be portrayed by Punjabi singer-actor Ammy Virk in the film.
Ranveer will spend three weeks with Kapil to get the mannerisms and attitude of the character right. He will also learn the veteran cricketer’s unique bowling style.
“I’m keen on getting tips on my bowling and batting from the man himself. His achievements are extraordinary. He is the quintessential underdog who became a champion through perseverance, self-belief, hard-work and a positive mindset,” the actor said.
“I am extremely inspired by him. I want to pour myself fully into this exciting character,” he added.
The much-awaited film will release on April 10, 2020. “83” is produced by Madhu Mantena, Vishnu Induri and Khan, and presented by Reliance Entertainment.
Ranveer also has Zoya Akhtar’s “Gully Boy”, opposite Alia Bhatt. The film will release on February 14.
CHENNAI: A filmmaker was arrested in Chennai on Wednesday for allegedly murdering his wife, an aspiring actress. The woman’s body parts, without the head, were found in a dumpyard in the city last month.
Filmmaker Balakrishnan was arrested after a vital clue – two tattoos on the severed legs of the body – helped police identify that it was his wife Sandhya, 37, who was murdered.
The police, who began investigation last month with the tattoos designed like Shiva-Parvati and a dragon as clues, arrested Balakrishnan over two weeks after his wife’s murder. A bangle too helped the probe.
Balakrishnan, 51, killed his wife on January 19, chopped her body the next day and dumped the parts packed in plastic bags in garbage bins in different parts of Chennai, the police said.
Pictures of the tattoos and the bangle were circulated and the first tip-off came from Sandhya’s mother in Thoothukudi in southern Tamil Nadu. Balakrishnan had told the family that Sandhya had returned to Thoothukudi but was not accessible on phone.
Soon, the police soon zeroed in on her husband.
“We are on the lookout for the missing head with information the accused has given us,” police officer Alvin told NDTV.
Balakrishnan confessed to having committed the crime doubting Sandhya’s loyality, the police said.
“Based on information he gave, another part of the woman’s body was also found on Wednesday,” the police said, adding that further investigation is on to find the woman’s head and torso.
The couple from Thoothukudi got married in 2000. Sandhya is fourteen years younger to Balakrishnan. Investigators say both have had problems in their relationship in the past. Last year, Sandhya had left their home and approached the police accusing her husband of domestic violence. They, however, patched up after a round of counselling.
Balakrishnan has directed and produced a film called “Kadhal Ilavasam” and was allegedly demanding a huge amount of money from his wife’s family to make another film.
Bandipora, Feb 07: An under construction transmission tower of BBTL collapsed in north Kashmir’s Bandipora village on Thursday morning due to heavy snowfall.
Reports reaching here said that an under construction transmission tower of BBTL collapsed at Ajas village this morning due to snowfall, however, there was no report of any injury was in the incident.
Two days of heavy snowfall combined with rains that added to the significant weight on the roof and supporting structure, which resulted in collapse of an under construction transmission tower of BBTL an official in civil admin told news agency.
Meanwhile Deputy Commissioner Bandipora Shahid Chowdary in a tweet said that Chief Engineer concerned S&O strated enquiring into the incident.
Some of the proposed government regulations for social media companies operating in India are threatening the very existence of WhatsApp in its current form, a top company executive said on Wednesday.
With over 200 million monthly active users, India is WhatsApp’s biggest market in the world. Globally, the platform has over 1.5 billion users.
“Of the proposed regulations, the one which concerns us the most is the emphasis on traceability of messages,” Carl Woog, WhatsApp’s Head of Communications, told news agency IANS.
Facebook-owned WhatsApp offers end-to-end encryption by default which means only the sender and the recipient can see the messages in circulation – not even WhatsApp. Without this feature, Mr Woog explained, WhatsApp will be a completely new product.
“The proposed changes are going overboard and are not consistent with strong privacy protections that people around the world are seeking,” said Mr Woog, who served as the Spokesperson for the Barack Obama administration in the US.
“Given the end-to-end encryption we have in place, the regulations will require us to re-artchitect our product,” he said, adding that in such a scenario, the messaging service would cease to exist in its current form.
Without denying the possibility of quitting the India market in case the new regulations come into force, Mr Woog told IANS: “It will not help to speculate what is to come. There is a process in place in India to discuss this issue”.
The end-to-end encryption feature makes it difficult for law enforcement authorities to find out the culprit behind a misinformation campaign. But the proposed IT Ministry regulations require social media platforms to follow a due diligence process to prevent the use of their services for spreading misinformation and provoking violence.
Facing flak from the government over dozens of lynching incidents in the country last year which were linked to rumours spread on WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messaging service introduced several new measures including limiting the number of messages that a user can forward to five and appointing for the first time a country head for the organisation.
“We ban nearly two million suspicious accounts every month. While roughly 20 per cent of these accounts are banned at the time of registration, over 70 per cent of the spam accounts get banned without a recent user report,” Woog said.
“These efforts are particularly important during elections where certain groups may attempt to send messages at scale,” WhatsApp said.
The accounts which are flagged by users by taking advantage of an in-app “report” feature are reviewed by a team of human workers. When someone reports an account, the WhatsApp team can see the last few messages in the chat.
WhatsApp said it was hiring more reviewers with competence in regional languages in India ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.COMMENT
Addressing one of the major demands from the government, WhatsApp said, “As part of establishing our operations in India, we have identified a Grievance Officer who can be contacted directly if a user has a concern about their WhatsApp experience and is unable to report it through other channels.”
In the wake of heavy precipitation in the form of rains and snowfall in the district, Deputy Commissioner Srinagar, Dr Syed Abid Rasheed Shah, Wednesday instructed the concerned departments to undertake immediate dewatering wherever water-logging has occurred in the city.
The DC said the water-logging situation in the city has resulted from heavy precipitation throughout the day in the district and that efforts are being made to undertake to dewater of all affected roads and lanes at the soonest
He said the Fire & Emergency Services has also been instructed to press into service fire tenders and portable pumps from its pool at identified locations wherever needed for dewatering efforts.
Dr Shah said all the concerned departments have been instructed to be responsive and strictly follow the standard operating procedure. He said the concerned have been asked to work in close coordination as long as the weather situation lasts.
He also said that the MED has also been instructed to ensure prompt snow-clearance in case of accumulation.
He said the general public can report their related concerns at DC Office helpline numbers 7051112345 and 9419042342.
Sopore,07 Feb : In view of heavy snowfall, Sopore police has established helpline.
General people of Police district Sopore are requested to contact given Police Helpline numbers in case of any emergency /exigency.
Senior superintendent of police Sopore shri. Javaid Iqbal JKPS has directed all supervisory officers/ SHO’s/DO’s of Police district Sopore to remain vigilant and keep their men readiness for the help of general public.
SSP Sopore further addeded that these helpline Numbers will remain functional 24×7.
Help can be sought from following Numbers PCR Sopore 9596773024, 9596773025, 9596773088,
SHO Sopore 9596773010,
SHO P S Tarzoo
9596773011
SHO BOMIA
9596773012,
SHO PANZLA
9596773013,
SHO DANGIWACHA
9596773014,
PP FIDARPORA
9596773018,
PP FRUIT MANDI
9596773026,
PP PUTKHA
9596773019,
PP WARPORA
9596773017.
PP Watergam
7006010915.
Police in a statement said that Srinagar Police submitted the charge sheet in respect of case FIR No 173/2018 of P/S Batamaloo.
The FIR pertains to the incident dated 12-08-2018 wherein militants hiding in a residence at Diyarwani, Batamalo, Srinagar fled away from spot after indiscriminately firing at Police party wherein one police personnel
SgCt. Parvaiz Ahmad was killed.
After conclusion of investigation the Chargesheet has been filed before the competent Court by Srinagar Police U/S 120-B read with 34, 302,307,326, RPC,
7/27 IA Act ,
16,18,19,20,38 & 39 of ULA(P) Act and substantive offences thereof subsequent to obtaining necessary Government sanction for prosecution under ULA(P)Act.
The Chargesheet has been filed against Ten accused including Mohammed Shafeeq Bhat R/o Diyarwani, Batamaloo;
Waseem Khan R/o Diyarwani, Batamaloo;
Bilal Ahmad Bhat
R/o Kund Qazigund;
Mst.Shazia Yaqoob alias Pari R/o Kamad Anantnag and Asif Sultan
R/o Firdousabad, Batamaloo
for their role in hatching criminal Conspiracy for Terrorist act,
Harbouring militant and giving Support to the proscribed militant Organisation besides Substantive Offences of law as mentioned above.
The strategic Jammu-Srinagar highway remained closed for a second consecutive day on Thursday due to fresh snowfall and landslides in the area, traffic officials said.
“No stranded vehicle is parked at any avalanche or landslide prone area along the highway,” a department official said.
Authorities decided to allow one-way traffic from Srinagar to Jammu on Wednesday, but the move was halted due to the landslides in Ramsoo-Ramban sector and snowfall in Bannihal.
The prices of essentials like vegetables, mutton and poultry products, have skyrocketed in the landlocked Kashmir Valley.(IANS)
Srinagar, the summer capital of the state, recorded 1.0 degree Celsius while the mercury in Qazigund in southern Kashmir settled at a low of 1.4 degree Celsius.
The famous ski-resort of Gulmarg in northern Kashmir recorded a low of minus 4.6 degree Celsius, while the night temperature in tourist resort of Pahalgam in southern Kashmir settled at minus 0.6 degree Celsius.
Kokernag town in southern Kashmir recorded a low of minus 0.6 degree Celsius, while Kupwara town in northern Kashmir registered a low of minus 0.7 degree Celsius last night.
Leh town in Ladakh region was at minus 4.3 degree Celsius while the nearby Kargil town was coldest at minus 16.0 degree Celsius. Drass recorded low of minus 6.3 degree Celsius.
Jammu recorded a low of 11.6 degree Celsius, Katra 10.8 degree Celsius, Batote 1.4 degree Celsius, Bannihal 1.0 degree Celsius and Bhaderwah 2.0 degree Celsius. Agencies
Kargil, 6 Feb : In order to Continuing its efforts to reach out to the maximum number of masses during 30th Road Safety Week like in other parts of kargil this was organised by the Motor Vehicle Department Kargil(MVD) at community Health Centre Sankoo on Wednesday at conferences Hall of Community Health centre sankoo the theme was“ Sadak Suraksha-Jeevan Raksha”.
On this occasion Block Medical officer Sankoo Dr Munawar Hussain and paramedics staff were also present.
This long week programme is commencing from 4th Feb and concluded on 10 February 2019
Around hundred of drivers including including senior citizens, from block sankoo on the occasion
Speaking in this occasion ARTO officer Kargil said, in his address that main objective of observing this week is to spread road safety awareness among general masses in order to reduce the scale of fatal road accidents.
He further stated that collective efforts would make a significant impact on the incidence of road accidents and help to remove the scourge of road accidents in the state.
Meanwhile speakers on the occasion while highlighting the importance of the week emphasized for following traffic rules, wearing helmet, avoiding use of mobile phones while driving and rash driving.
