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Academy Award-winning actor and singer Jennifer Hudson has joined the voice cast of ‘PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie’. The upcoming animated adventure takes the popular rescue pups into a prehistoric setting. The film is scheduled to arrive in Indian cinemas on August 21 in English and Hindi. Jennifer Hudson lends her voice to Lilian Ledes, a dinosaur-loving reporter. Her character is determined to chase what could become the biggest story of her career. However, her investigation soon puts her in a dangerous situation.Jennifer Hudson voices Lilian LedesIn ‘PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie’, Lilian Ledes finds herself much closer to dinosaurs…
The push for wider PNG adoption gathered pace during the Middle East conflict earlier this year. (Image for representative purpose only) Looking to push for faster adoption of piped natural gas (PNG), the government has introduced an additional incentive for city gas distributors to expand household piped-gas networks. The scheme offers 200 standard cubic metres (SCM) of cheaper domestic natural gas for every new billed domestic PNG connection.The move is intended to encourage companies to speed up the shift from LPG cylinders to piped natural gas (PNG) for cooking. India has around 17.4 million domestic PNG connections at present.New PNG…
The international criminal court on Wednesday condemned the latest US sanctions targeting senior ICC staff, including its president, as a “flagrant attack” on the global tribunal’s independence and vowed to continue seeking justice for atrocities around the world.The state department announced Tuesday that it had hit ICC president Tomoko Akane, a Japanese national, and ICC senior trial lawyer Abdoulaye Seye, who is from Senegal, with sanctions that freeze any assets they have in US jurisdictions or come into contact with the US financial system.The Trump administration has now slapped sanctions on nine of the ICC’s 18 judges, both of its…
The government’s decision, announced after a cabinet meeting on Monday and followed by eight notifications issued late Tuesday night, covers examinations for several administrative, technical and judicial posts. NEW DELHI: Students protesting alleged irregularities in Jharkhand recruitment examinations suspended their 26-day agitation and gave the state government two months to address their demands on Wednesday. They have urged the JMM-led government to ensure a fair probe into the matter following the cancellation of 22 exams and an investigation ordered into 23 others.The announcement comes a day after the government issued notifications cancelling recruitment examinations conducted by the Jharkhand Public Service…
There is neither any legal basis nor justification for recalling the child witness again,” the court said Chennai: Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (Pocso) Act takes the prosecution of the offender and the well-being of the child hand in hand. It is not as if the interests of the child can be sacrificed for the sake of the trial, Madras high court has said.Justice D Bharatha Chakravarthy observed this on Tuesday while censuring the prosecution for producing a child survivor in court eight years after the incident, citing the child was in a state of fear during…
Cooked food being distributed among flood victims in Jajpur district’s Jhalapada villageCooked food being distributed among flood victims in Jajpur district’s Tarapada villageCooked food being distributed among flood victims in Jajpur district’s Jhalapada villageCooked food being distributed among flood victims in Jajpur district’s Tarapada villageCooked food being distributed among flood victims in Jajpur district’s Jhalapada village Kendrapada: Thousands of flood victims in Kendrapada and Jajpur districts continue to struggle as vast tracts of land remain submerged in riverside villages of Dasarathpur, Korei, Bari and Binjharpur blocks in Jajpur, and Aul, Rajkanika, Rajnagar and Pattamundai blocks in Kendrapada. “The roads around…
SALEM: A woman sanitation worker and a man have been arrested on charges of sexually assaulting two minor girls staying at a girls’ hostel near Vazhapadi in Salem district after forcing them to consume alcohol. The sexual assault had gone on for five months till a 14-year-old Class X student lodged a complaint with the Vazhapadi all-women police on Monday.In her complaint, the girl stated that hostel sanitation worker Radhika, 42, had introduced her to Raghupathi, 35, of Pudupalayam village and facilitated sexual assault.Police conducted inquiries and came to know that Radhika was in an illicit relationship with Raghupathi. “She…
Agartala: Tripura on Wednesday observed the 118th birth anniversary of its last king, Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya, with a series of events, with CM Manik Saha criticising the former Left Front govt for failing to adequately acknowledge the monarch’s contributions.Placing a floral wreath at Bir Bikram’s statue at Zero Point in Agartala, Saha alleged that the history and achievements of the royal era had been deliberately kept away from the people. He said the influence of the Manikya dynasty on Tripura’s history and development had not been adequately highlighted.“Under Maharaja Bir Bikram’s rule, there was a strong connection and harmony…
File photo of Dasara elephnat Abhimanyu all decked up Mysuru: Rural development and panchayat raj minister Eshwar B Khandre has urged forest minister Ramalinga Reddy to allow 60-year-old Dasara jumbo Abhimanyu to participate in this year’s Mysuru Dasara and give the veteran elephant a royal farewell.In a letter to Reddy, Khandre, who previously held the forest portfolio in the Siddaramaiah govt, said Abhimanyu, who has carried the 750-kg Golden Howdah six times, enjoys a huge fan following across Karnataka and should not be abruptly excluded from the state’s premier cultural festival.He suggested Abhimanyu be allowed to participate in the procession…
Lucknow: A day after TOI report of Vaishali Express been detained over a missing chair, the railways said the guard’s brake van had its standard inbuilt seat and termed guard Ramashish Das’s action “wrong”. NER CPRO Sumit Kumar said ECR has been asked to take action against Das.Das, however, stood his ground, arguing the fixed seat near the door is impractical as the work desk and signalling window are elsewhere. Former guards’ representative Sheetla Prasad backed him. A TOI journey with other guards highlighted the difficulty. With steel trunks being replaced by trolley bags, guards say their makeshift seating option…