The film which was titled ‘Padmavati’ earlier had to be changed to ‘Padmaavat.’.Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s  ‘Padmaavat’ has been surrounded by controversies since the project started. From the protest by Karni Sena to women threatening to commit ‘jauhar’ it had to face it all.

Earlier, it was even declared in many states that the film will not released. Yesterday, the makers announced the final release date, 25 January. Lead actors of Padmaavat Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone and Shahid Kapoor also posted on the social media and confirmed the release date. Today the official trailer of ‘Padmaavat’ is finally out.

The makers of Padmaavat, through front-page advertisements in newspapers on Monday, listed disclaimers clarifying that it never had dream sequence featuring Alauddin Khilji and Rani Padmavati and that it is a movie every Indian will be proud of.

“Padmaavat is a film that every India will be proud of. Please visit your nearest theatre on January 25 to experience it yourself,” the makers have stated at the end of the ad, which has the movie’s poster, featuring lead actress Deepika Padukone, on the flipside.

-With IANS inputs

A 30-year-old man who was buying some food items from a shop near Rohini Court, was gunned down on Monday by four attackers, police said, terming the incident part of a “gang war”.

Police said the incident occurred at around 2 p.m in Prashant Vihar area of Rohini in north Delhi when Ravi Bhardwaj, along with his friend, had come to meet a lawyer in Rohini court.

“Bhardwaj later came out from court with his friend and went to take food items from a shop in Prashant Vihar area. While he was packing the food, four unknown attackers in a Honda City car stopped near him and started firing indiscriminately at him,” a senior police officer said.

“The attackers only stopped firing after being satisfied he was dead. They also fired into the sky before escaping from the spot. Bhardwaj’s friend informed the police and he was taken to nearby Ambedkar hospital where doctors declared him dead.

“On the statement of his friend, a case of murder has been registered against a ganster, Gogi and three unknown persons. The entire crime was recorded in CCTV footage and efforts are on to ascertain the identities of accused attackers,” he added.

“Prima facie it appears to be a possible case of ongoing gang-war between two active gangs ‘Tillu gang and Gogi gang’ over some previous animosity in west Delhi. Bhardwaj had good contact with Tillu gang. His friend, in his complaint, named Jitender alias Gogi of being involved in the murder him with his three other accomplices,” the officer added.

A court in Punjab’s Mohali town on Monday sentenced the Punjab Public Service Commission’s (PPSC) disgraced former chairman Ravinder Pal Singh to seven years imprisonment in a corruption case.

It also slapped a fine of Rs 75 lakh on him.

Singh, a former journalist better known as Ravi Sidhu, was convicted for accepting bribes from aspirants who had applied for the posts of inspectors in the Excise and Taxation department in Punjab. The court acquitted five other people who were also accused in the case.

He had been booked by the Punjab Vigilance Department in March 2002 under various sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act and the Indian Penal Code, after being accused Singh of rampant corruption in selection and appointment of candidates for various posts in Punjab. The selections were made through the PPSC, which Singh headed at that time.

Vigilance officials had conducted raids nearly 15 years ago at the residence, office and bank lockers of Singh. Cash in crores of rupees was found stacked in several of these lockers. He was arrested following the registration of a case against him.

Singh had remained as Special Correspondent with a leading English daily here before becoming the PPSC chairman.

The vigilance had accused him of sending lakhs of rupees to his family in US through hawala channels.

Priyanka Chopra, darling star of Bollywood who is now making us proud with her performance in Hollywood, has been busy shooting her American crime drama series Quantico season 3. Right now, the actress is enjoying her holidays with family.

Priyanka took Instagram to share a moment from her vacay. She posted a picture of what she eats on a cheat day, and believe us, it will make you drool. PeeCee shared a photo of boxes of donuts on her official Instagram account and captioned it, “The look of desire… #cheatday #doughnuts #famjam #cuddlepuddle,”

Have a look at the delicious box of treat.

The look of desire.. #cheatday #doughnuts ❤️ #famjam #cuddlepuddle

A post shared by Priyanka Chopra (@priyankachopra) on Jan 15, 2018 at 12:35am PST

Priyanka Chopra keeps updating her fans about the happening through her social media posts and we love her for that. She posted a few pictures from the sets of Quantico earlier this year.

Another one just cause I love it. #versaceonthefloor #quantico @alanpowell10 @amberskyenoyes

A post shared by Priyanka Chopra (@priyankachopra) on Jan 12, 2018 at 4:03pm PST

When you walk onto set like you just saved the world…a day in the life of #alexparrish @abcquantico #april26th #sheisback

A post shared by Priyanka Chopra (@priyankachopra) on Jan 10, 2018 at 8:35pm PST

Three dudes and a chick walk into a bar … we lunched… we laughed … we went back to work. @alanpowell10 @jakeamclaughlin @russelltovey @abcquantico

A post shared by Priyanka Chopra (@priyankachopra) on Jan 9, 2018 at 4:21pm PST

How can we forget when she made us wonder if she was wearing a pair of jeans or a skirt. We still cannot figure out.

👠

A post shared by Priyanka Chopra (@priyankachopra) on Jan 10, 2018 at 11:20am PST

Recently, the Quantico actress shared a picture of her mother. The daddy’s little girl has been enjoying her vacation with mommie.

Mommie’s in town! @madhumalati xoxo #sundayfunday☀️

A post shared by Priyanka Chopra (@priyankachopra) on Jan 14, 2018 at 2:53pm PST

Quantico 3 will be aired from 26 April. Her next project in Hollywood will be A Kid Like Jake and Isn’t It Romantic?

West Bengal is looking forward to woo investors like never before during the showpeice annual event ‘Bengal Global Business Summit’ (BGBS) that gets underway from tomorrow.

The state is optimistic of surpassing investment commitments made during last year in the big-ticket event in this year’s edition.

West Bengal currently tops the list of the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion’s Business Reforms Action Plan (BRAP) 2017, comprising all states and Union Territories.

The state government, in the third edition of the event in 2017, had garnered investment commitment worth Rs 2.35 lakh crore.

Reliance Industries’ chairman Mukesh Ambani, Steel maker ArcelorMittal chairman and CEO Lakshmi Mittal, JSW Group’s Chief Sajjan Jindal, FMCG major ITC’s CEO Sanjiv Puri, RP Sanjiv Goenka Group’s chairman Sanjiv Goenka among others are expected to attend this year’s summit.

However, there was no official confirmation about the attendance of other industrialists and Union ministers attending the two-day event.

This year, the event will be held at the newly built convention centre that has a huge main hall with 3,200 seats and all facilities under one roof.

There is a huge line up of foreign delegates. Already eight countries are partners for the event.

High-level delegates from France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Japan, China, South Korea, Czech Republic and the UK are among the overseas nations to be represented at the mega business gathering.

Consul General of China in Kolkata, Ma Zhanwu had recently confirmed that 30 Chinese companies would participate in the business meet and according to him, Chinese companies aimed at utilising the event and other opportunities towards fulfilling the goal to invest USD 200 billion abroad every year.

A high-level Polish delegation headed by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marek Magierowski, responsible for the relations with Asia and economic cooperation, will participate in the event.

Representatives of province Silesia, and West Bengal will sign a Memorandum of Understanding on bilateral cooperation.

A state government official said the state has directed all district industry centers to organise telecast of the event for district entrepreneurs.

Police on Monday registered an Accidental Death Report (ADR) in the Pawan Hans helicopter crash of Saturday which killed five senior ONGC personnel besides two pilots, a police official said here.

Meanwhile, on the third day of search in the high seas, the rescuers located the last remaining body – of the missing pilot, an Indian Coast Guard spokesperson said today.

Earlier the rescue teams of Indian Navy and the Coast Guard had recovered six bodies on Saturday, including the five ONGC deputy general managers who perished and one of the pilots.

ICG ship Samrat found the pilot’s body while ONGC vessel Samudra Sevak in the crash site recovered more debris of the crashed Dauphin helicopter, including rotor blades, main gearbox, tail gear box, both engines, emergency locator transmitter and other items from the Arabian Sea.

A high-level ONGC team met top Coast Guard officials to assess the situation arising out of the tragedy and formulate a further strategy for the recovery of the debris of the crashed chopper and parts of the victims’ bodies, if any.

After registering a case at the Santacruz Police Station, it was transferred to the Yellowgate Police Station in south Mumbai for further action, said Deputy Commissioner of Police, Port Zone, Rashmi Karandikar.

She said that after the detailed investigations are complete, Mumbai police will submit its probe report to the central and state governments.

Officials said though the helicopter took from Juhu Airport which is under the jurisdiction of the Santacruz Police Station, it has been transferred to Yellowgate Police which exclusively handles investigations into all sea-related cases and off-shore incidents.

On January 13 morning, the PHL chopper crashed after it went missing from the radars barely 15 minutes after take-off from Juhu Airport while on a regular sortie to ferry the ONGC personnel to the Bombay High gas-oil fields, around 175 kms from here.

According to available information, the chopper had been recently inspected and was carrying more than three hours of fuel onboard when it took off at 10.14 am.

As per established procedures, the pilots changed their radio contact from Juhu ATC to a control manned from the ONGC oil rig at around 10.25 am, and remained in touch with the oil rig control for about two minutes or 10 kms before the chopper lost all contact with surface when it was around 55 kms from Mumbai over the high seas.

The chopper was expected to land at one of the oil platforms around 11 am, which it never did.

Rain halted the third day’s play of the second cricket Test between South Africa and India at the SuperSport Park on Monday. However, Faf du Plessis side had taken a 96 run-lead before the game was interrupted after post tea session.

Earlier, Indian pacer Jasprit Bumrah disturbed South Africa’s batting order by sending Hashim Amla(1) and Aiden Markram (1) back to the pavilion. But AB de Villiers along with opener Elgar stabilised the Proteas innings, as the duo went on to add 65 runs before it started pouring.

Dean Elgar (29) and AB de Villiers (35) were at the crease when umpires called off the day due to rain.

Earlier, India were bowled out for 307, falling 28 runs behind South Africa in their first innings. Skipper Virat Kohli (153) was the highest scorer among the Indian batsmen. India added 20 runs in the session and lost two wickets.

Brief scores: South Africa: 335 all out and 68/2 (AB de Villiers (35 batting; Jasprit Bumrah 2/19) vs India: 307 all out in first innings (Virat Kohli 153, Murali Vijay 46, Ravichandran Ashwin 38; Morne Morkel 4/60) .

-With IANS inputs

The HRD Ministry is mulling extension of the RTE Act for Classes IX and X as well as to KG or children below 6. This was stated by HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar after a meeting of the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) which was held here on Monday. Education ministers of 22 states participated in the CABE meeting along with the officials.

The status report of the sub-committee on the extension of RTE Act was submitted to the ministry. This was the 65th meeting of CABE. “Thinking is going on. Wait for some time, we are working on it. We will have to see how it will converge with Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan and whether any legislation is required,” said Javadekar.

An MOU was also signed between the J&K government and the Ministry of HRD for engagement with children of the state.It envisages exchange programme by which children of J&K will go to other parts of the country and children from other states will travel to J&K. The first lot of children will come from J&K on Republic Day from schools that have been identified.

A consensus has been built on the launching of Operation Digital Board on lines of Operation Blackboard. The Union government and the corporate sector will be involved. “Like the cost of the LED bulb being reduced due to massive demand, the cost of the digital board will also come down,” said the minister. Javadekar added that the Maharashtra government has already allocated Rs 300 crore towards this.

He said a scheme will be launched for out-of-school children in September. “In rural places, children get left out. We will find them, convince them and bring them back to school,” said Javadekar.

While many in India may have forgotten the popular Hindi song of 1955 ‘’Ichak dana bichak dana’’ from the Raj Kapoor directed ‘Shri 420’, it is still extremely popular in Israel.

The song was one of the music items played at the luncheon banquet hosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in honour of his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu and the latter’s delegation at the Hyderabad House.

Many in the Israeli delegation immediately pointed out to members of the Indian delegation that they knew the song and keep hearing it regularly back home in Israel. ‘’Several Israeli delegates immediately recognised the track and the Indians present there marvelled at this shared cultural experience,’’ according to Vijay Gokhale, Secretary in the External Affairs Ministry who would soon take charge as Foreign Secretary.

Indian movies were a regular fixture in Israel in early days. They were often dubbed in Hebrew or Russian.

In view of the popularity of Bollywood films and songs, Israel also signed with India a pact for cooperation in film production. MEA officials said the pact was ‘exploratory in nature’ for mutual cooperation in filmmaking.

During his ongoing India visit, the Israeli PM will also be visiting Mumbai to meet top Bollywood directors, producers and actors for exploring the possibility of co-production of films.

Hyderabad Hunters overcame a fighting Bengaluru Blasters 4-3 in a thrilling summit clash to claim their maiden title at the third Premier Badminton League (PBL) here on Monday.

Mixed Doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Pia Bernadet put up a dominant display in the last match of the encounter to clinch the the title and the winners’ prize purse for the Hunters.

Cheered on by a packed house and a vociferous team at the Gachibowli Indoor Stadium, Satwik and Pia beat Kim Sa Rang (Korea) and N Sikki Reddy (India) 15-11, 15-12.

The tall Satwiksairaj unleashed an array of powerful strokes to set up a well-deserved victory for the home side.

The five-match duel turned out to be a pulsating affair with the Blasters’ World No. 1 Viktor Axelsen and the Hunters’ Olympic champion Carlina Marin winning their respective matches to make it 3-3 after the first four matches.

The Hunters began on the back foot, with their men’s doubles pair of Markis Kido and Yoo Yeon Seong failing to get into their groove and losing the first point.

They found the Blasters’ Mathias Boe and Kim Sa Rang too hot to handle and gave in 0-2 without much of a fight. The stout Kido, who had controlled the game from the back of the court, just couldn’t make his powerful smashes work.

It didn’t help that his understanding with his partner Yoo Yeon was not top notch, allowing their opponents to exploit vast open spaces in the court.

The Hunters came back into the tie strongly, with their Trump player Lee Hyun Il coming up with a near immaculate game. The Korean was calm personified, dictating the pace and tone of the match to beat Subhanker Dey 2-0.

Lee Hyun, a southpaw, defended brilliantly, receiving everything that Subhanker threw at him. He kept the rallies going long until he found the perfect shot to finish off the point.

He shot away to a 4-2 and 8-5 lead even as Subhanker was trying to figure him out. Lee Hyun rode on the momentum to take the opening game 15-7.

The Korean fell behind at the start of the game, making a few unforced errors. He, however, fought back from 0-2 and 1-4 down to jump into the lead at 6-4.

He seemed to be cruising at 9-6 but his concentration wavered and he gave away a couple of easy points.

Subhanker took advantage of the lapses to catch him at 10-10. Lee Hyun inched ahead 12-10 but saw him by his side at 13-13 again. The experienced shuttler then produced two winners to seal the game and match 15-13.

Axelsen then demolished Sai Praneeth to win his Trump match and give his side a slight edge. He played with authority to win the third match 15-5, 15-10.

The Blasters were 2-1 (3-2) on points at the midway stage. But former World No. 1 Marin promptly regained the initiative for the Hunters, winning the women’s singles match against Scotland’s Kirsty Gilmour 15-8, 15-14.

Marin played a smart and controlled game and staved off a major scare when Kirsty had fought back from 4-8 down to make it 11-9 at one stage. She stayed cool and regained the lead, and kept her nerve over the next few points to win the clash.

Director Aleya Sen shared a picture teaser poster of her upcoming film on twitter. As it happens on Twitter a trend started. The film is titled ‘ Dil Juunglee’ and happens to to Aleya Sen’s  directorial debut.

Aleya’s Dil Juunglee poster is similar to Mahesh Bhatt’s Aashiqui poster which had the faces of the actors covered with a coat. Similarly, this film poster has a couple standing with books in hand which has veiled their faces. It started an interesting thread of tweets where Twitteratis kept guessing the actors. It is a good tease for the audience as it would keep them confused.

Presenting the teaser poster of my first !! Guess who are these junglees #DilJuunglee @poojafilms @jackkybhagnani @honeybhagnani ❤❤ pic.x.com/nO7I1DqPvx

— @AleyaSen (@Sen_Aleya) January 15, 2018

Jackky Bhagnani recently shared an audition video on Twitter to disclose the pair on the poster. It happens to be Saqib Saleem and Taapsee Pannu. Watch the video here.

Inn Juungliyo ne machaaya auditions mein dhamaal!
Watch the fun-filled audition video for #DilJuunglee here! https://t.co/gCgs0j5KcB #16thFeb@poojafilms @vashubhagnani @honeybhagnani @Sen_Aleya @taapsee @Saqibsaleem

— Jackky Bhagnani (@jackkybhagnani) January 16, 2018

The actress also took Twitter to share the new poster of the film. The release date has also been announced and it’s 14 February, Valentine’s day.  So, get ready to make the day  ‘juunglee’ as Taapsee says.

Let’s make this valentine Junglee ! Here’s the first poster of #DilJuunglee.@poojafilms @vashubhagnani @honeybhagnani @jackkybhagnani @Sen_Aleya @Saqibsaleem pic.x.com/WQWYVMjhtS

— taapsee pannu (@taapsee) January 16, 2018

It is a Vashu Bhagnani, produced by Jackky Bhagnani, Mudit Jain, and Mayank Jain. The film will release on  16 February 2018, presented by Pooja Entertainment.

England and Bangladesh registered comfortable victories in their respective Group C matches at the ICC U19 World Cup on Monday.

England rode on superb batting by Will Jacks and Harry Brook to thrash Namibia by eight wickets at the Queenstown Events Centre here.

Batting first, Namibia could only manage a modest 196/9 in their allotted 50 overs.

Jacks and Brook then produced a 130-run partnership to help England overhaul the target in just 24.1 overs.

Jacks remained unbeaten on 73 runs, with 12 boundaries an a six studding his 44-ball innings. Brook was not out on 59, hitting 12 boundaries over the course of his 48-ball stint in the middle.

The Namibia batsmen did reasonably well against the strong England bowling.

Their openers Jurgen Linde and Lohan Louwrens gave them a steady start before solid knocks from Sam Fouche, Petrus Burger and Nicol Loftie-Eaton helped overcome stagnation in the middle order.

But Namibia’s inability to capitalise on a reasonable start proved costly in the end.

Leg-spinner Luke Hollman was the most successful among the England bowlers with figures of 3/41 in his 10 overs. Brook and Tom Scriven bagged two wickets each.

England had a steady start to their chase with their openers Savin Perera and Tom Banton scoring 55 runs between off eight overs.

Fast bowler Gerhard Lottering rekindled Namibian hopes with two wickets in back to back overs.

Banton was the first to go when he a delivery onto his stumps. Perera was dismissed in Lottering’s next over when he mistimed a pull and was caught at square leg.

Brook and Jacks then came together to produced some attacking batting and carry England to victory.

The duo found the boundary in almost every over while the Namibia bowlers did not exactly help their team’s cause by giving away 19 runs as extras.

Meanwhile in Christchurch, Bangladesh defeated Canada by 66 runs.

Batting first, Bangladesh rode on a century by Towhid Hridoy to post 264/8 in their 50 overs before dismissing Canada for 198.

Off-spinner Afif Hossain spearheaded the Bangladesh bowling with figures of 5/43.

Asked to bat first, Bangladesh endured a rocky start as Canada pacer Faisal Jamkhandi sent back opener Pinak Ghosh and skipper Saif Hassan within the first eight overs.

Hridoy then strode in and proceeded to take control of the situation with a steady 122 off 126 deliveries, hitting nine boundaries and a six along the way.

He produced a partnership of 62 runs with opener Mohammed Naim Sheikh, before the latter was dismissed by Canada off-spinner Rommel Shahzad.

Hridoy then added 111 runs along with Afif Hossain to put Bangladesh on a firm footing.

In reply, Canada were off to a slow start before losing wickets at regular intervals.

A steady 108-ball 63 by Arslan Khan was the lone bright spark in the Canadian batting effort as the rest of their batsmen failed to get going.

Brief scores:

Namibia: 196/9 in 50 overs (Shaun Fouche 44, Nicol Loftie-Eaton 36; Luke Hollman 3/41, Tom Scriven 2/30, Harry Brook 2/32) vs England: 198/2 in 24.1 overs (Will Jacks 73 not out, Harry Brook 59 not out; Gerhard Lottering 2/33).

Bangladesh: 264/8 in 50 overs (Hridoy 122, Afif 50; Jamkhandi 5/48) vs Canada: 198 in 49.3 overs (Arslan Khan 63; Afif Hossain 5/43).

Fourteen school children and a teacher were wounded in a knife fight in a school in Russia on Monday.

The attack took place in a secondary school in Ural mountains city of Perm, Xinhua news agency reported, quoting the regional Health Ministry.

“The teacher and two students aged 15 and 16 are in grave condition, and are undergoing surgery,” a Ministry statement said, adding that other wounded have been provided with medical care.

Two pupils started the knife fight, the regional division of the Investigative Committee said in a separate statement.

Educational activity in the school has been suspended with all pupils and teachers evacuated, it said, adding that suspects have been detained and will be interrogated.

The Investigative Committee has initiated a criminal case on the grounds of attempted murder of two and more persons.

Fiery American tennis player CoCo Vandeweghe had a bizarre moment during her straight sets loss to Hungary’s Timea Babos in the women’s singles first round at the Australian Open here on Monday.

The women’s World No.9 received a time violation for waiting “too long” for a banana mid-way through the match, reports.

After going down in the first set 6-7 (4-7) in a gripping tie-break, Vandeweghe requested some courtside fruit.

“I asked for a banana at the end of the set and they didn’t have any on court,” she said.

“So I tried to wait for it but the chair umpire deemed that it was not a good enough reason to wait and he gave me a time violation for trying to wait for a banana.”

When the match resumed, Babos dominated play and took the second set at 6-2.

Although the first round exit was considered a huge shock after the 26-year-old made the semi-finals of the tournament last year, Vandeweghe explained she had been suffering from illness in the lead up to the match.

“I’ve had the flu since about (last) Sunday,” Vandeweghe said.

“It’s the first time I have been out of bed in four days. I tried my best… but she played really well.”

After setting the cash counters ringing and registering a collection of Rs 325.71 crore nett in India with “Tiger Zinda Hai”, superstar Salman Khan hopes many more movies create records for Bollywood for the industry to flourish.

According to “Tiger Zinda Hai” makers, it is Salman’s biggest hit so far.

Salman said in a statement: “I hope the industry has many more bigger successes this year. It is important that we see more hits, more blockbusters. It will expand our industry, provide more jobs for people and entertain audiences much more. I’m happy with the business that Tiger Zinda Hai has been doing at the box office.

“Records are never ever-lasting. Records are meant to be broken and it’s good for new records to happen more frequently. It is healthy and extremely important.”

The high-on-action entertainer is the third Salman movie to surpass the Rs 300 crore mark after “Bajrangi Bhaijaan” and “Sultan”.

Both “Sultan” and “Tiger Zinda Hai” — helmed by Ali Abbas Zafar — are produced by Yash Raj Films.

“Tiger Zinda Hai” emerged as the highest grossing Hindi film of 2017, next only to the Hindi-dubbed version of “Baahubali 2: The Conclusion”.