American Horror Story creator Ryan Murphy has revealed the FX horror anthology’s next edition will be set in the future.

The announcement was made during the Television Critics Association’s semi-annual press tour in Pasadena, reported Entertainment Weekly.

“All I’ll say about it is I want to go to the future still topical, but the future, which I’ve never done,” Murphy said.

No casting announcements have been made yet.

Veteran actor Betty White said her secret to a long-lasting life is that she only focuses on enjoying every moment.

The six-time Emmy winner, who turns 96 on January 17, said she believes in ignoring negativity, reported Parade magazine.

“Accentuate the positive, not the negative. It sounds so trite, but a lot of people will pick out something to complain about, rather than say, ‘Hey, that was great!’ It’s not hard to find great stuff if you look,” she said.

White’s career has spanned over 70 years, starring in shows such as The Golden Girls and Hot in Cleveland, as well as movies like The Proposal with Sandra Bullock.

The actor still takes her craft seriously and advises anyone with Hollywood dreams to “do your work.”

“Learn your lines and come in prepared. Don’t think you can wing it, because you can’t. We’re in show business, which is fun, but take your business seriously, because it is a serious business,” she said.

Singer Shalmali Kholgade says she wants to prepare herself as a good and worthy musician before working with Oscar and Grammy-winning composer A.R. Rahman.

“Like many singers, even I want to work with Rahman sir. But for that, I want to prepare myself as a better musician. I work hard on myself and he keeps inspiring me, so that one day he will give me a chance to work with him. That is my sentiment about working with Rahman sir,” Shalmali said.

Shalmali feels the music by Rahman, who turned 50 on Saturday, has changed the perspective of Hindi film music globally.

“The music of Rahman has changed the perspective of Hindi film music to the global listeners and that is a big achievement. The sound of background music, songs in films has changed and he is one of the big contributors to why our music is looked up to now,” she said.

“My birthday is on January 2, and his on January 6; so I feel really cool about it,” added the “Pareshaan” hitmaker.

At the moment, Shalmali is excited about her episode on the seventh edition of Royal Stag Barrel Select MTV Unplugged. The show airs on MTV.

A special CBI court here is likely to pronounce its order on January 23 on a plea by two Intelligence Bureau officials challenging the summons issued to them by a magistrate in the Ishrat Jahan alleged fake encounter case.

Rajeev Wankhede and T S Mittal, assistant central intelligence officers at the time of the alleged fake encounter, have challenged the summons issued by a metropolitan magistrate’s court here.

CBI judge J K Pandya reserved his order on their pleas till January 23.

The lower court issued the summons to them and two others — Central IB’s special director Rajinder Kumar and officer M S Sinha — on the basis of a supplementary charge sheet filed against them by the CBI in the Ishrat case.

The CBI has charged them with murder, criminal conspiracy, illegal detention and kidnapping.

The lawyers of Wankhede and Mittal argued on Saturday that the summons was not maintainable, as the court has not taken cognisance of the CBI charge sheet.

No summons can be issued as the Union government has not given sanction for their prosecution as required under the Code of Criminal Procedure, the lawyers said.

The CBI, however, contended that a court can use its discretion to issue a summons even when the competent authority hasn’t given sanction.

The magistrate last month issued summons to the four IB officials after the CBI informed the court about denial of sanction by the Union government.

Ishrat Jahan, a 19-year-old college girl from Mumbra near Mumbai, her friend Javed Sheikh alias Pranesh, Amzad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar were killed in an alleged fake encounter by the Ahmedabad police on the outskirts of the city in June 2004. The police had then claimed that they were terrorists affiliated to the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba.

The first charge sheet filed by the CBI named seven Gujarat policemen, including IPS officers P P Pandey, D G Vanzara and G L Singhal, for carrying out a fake encounter.

All of them are out on bail.

A Naxal was gunned down in an encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district On Saturday, police said.

The exchange of fire took place around 3 pm in the forests of Karka village under Gangaloor police station limits in which one ultra was killed, Bijapur Additional Superintendent of Police Mohit Garg told PTI.

A team of District Reserve Guard (DRG) was out on a counter-insurgency operation in the interiors of Gangaloor, around 450 km away from here, he said.

When the forces were cordoning off jungles near Karka, they came under heavy firing from a group of rebels, leading to a brief gunfight, he said.

After the guns fell silent, security forces searched the area and recovered the body of a Naxal clad in “uniform” along with one muzzleloading gun and a country-made pistol, Garg said.

The identity of the killed ultra was yet to be ascertained, he said.

The team of the upcoming movie Gayatri released another poster of Telegu cinema actress Shriya. After releasing the movie poster, they posted this still of the actress who will be starring beside Vishnu Manchu for the first time. She will play his love interest and fans are looking forward to seeing the pair on screen.

“Strong women are naturally graceful” @shriya1109 from #Gayatri pic.x.com/mfRnptT9JU

— Vishnu Manchu (@iVishnuManchu) January 6, 2018

The first poster that was revealed on the first day of the year had both the actors together. It caught the eyes of the audience and went on to get a quite good response. Director Madan is coming up with this action movie on 9th February 2018. Other than Shriya and Vishnu Manchu, the movie will feature Nikhila Vimal and Brahmanandam in the second lead.

The film Gayatri will be released by the big banner ‘Sree Lakshmi Prasanna Pictures’. It will be presented by Vidya Nirvana, Ariaana, and Viviana.

Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has declared himself mystified by the US threats to cut off funding, saying that Washington’s financial assistance was “very, very insignificant” and that Islamabad was “on the forefront of the war on terror”.

In an interview with the Guardian, Abbasi said that reports about the US was considering cuts of up to $2 billion in security assistance were bewildering because of the total aid Pakistan — civilian and military — actually received was a tiny fraction of that amount.

“I am not sure what US aid has been talked here,” Abbasi said in his office in Islamabad.

“The aid in the last five years at least has been less than $10 million a year. It is a very, very insignificant amount. So when I read in the paper that aid at the level of $250 million or 500 or 900 has been cut, we at least are not aware of that aid.”

US President Donald Trump used his first tweet of 2018 to threaten to withhold aid to Pakistan because of what he called its “lies and deceit” over terrorism, claiming: “They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan, with little help.” The President said that the US had “foolishly” given Pakistan $33 billion over the past 15 years.

According to the US Agency for International Development, the US gave $778 million to Pakistan in assistance in 2016, of which 35 per cent was military and the rest economic.

Abbasi rejected Trump’s charge of duplicity over the fight against terrorism, calling his claim that Pakistan was harbouring terrorists a “fallacy”.

“Pakistan is a sovereign country and it has always abided by international conventions,” he said.

“We are today fighting the largest war on terror in the world. We are fighting the world’s war on terror with our own resources… That is something the world has to appreciate.

“Today we are fighting terrorists. So if somebody says we are harbouring terrorists, there is no greater fallacy,” Abbasi said.

“We have engaged US at every level from President Trump down. We have explained to them … what Pakistan has done we have explained to the rest of the world also.”

The Madras High Court has dismissed a contempt petition against authorities for their alleged “wilful” disobedience of its order banning pictures of living persons in banners and hoardings.

Justice Vaidyanathan dismissed the contempt petition filed by social activist “Traffic” Ramaswamy on Friday.

The petitioner submitted that the authorities had failed to implement the October 23 high court order imposing a blanket ban on banners or hoardings carrying images of people who are alive.

The judge noted that the First Bench of the court on December 20, 2017 set aside the earlier order on the matter to a limited extent as regards depiction of photos in banners of persons who are alive.

The judge said the grievance of the petitioner was that photographs of living persons were depicted in the banners till the earlier order was partially modified by the First Bench.

“I am of the view that since the order dated October 23, 2017 passed by me got merged with the order dated December 20, 2017 passed by the First Bench of this court on the principle of Doctrine of Merger, the present contempt petition cannot be entertained.”

However, if the petitioner was aggrieved, it was open to him to put forth his grievance before the division bench concerned, the judge said and dismissed the contempt petition.

Filmmaker Karan Johar says his very good friend and superstar Shah Rukh Khan is a very inspiring parent.

“Shah Rukh is amazing. He’s such an hands on parent and a very inspiring parent to me,” Karan, who became a father of twins via surrogacy, said here on Friday.

Shah Rukh, who is married to producer-entrepreneur Gauri Khan, has three children — sons Aryan and AbRam and daughter Suhana.

Karan will next be seen in the upcoming reality show India’s Next Superstars. He will be co-judging it with director Rohit Shetty.

The Ae Dil Hai Mushkil filmmaker praised Rohit saying that he is leads the pack when it comes to entertainers in Bollywood.

“Just in general entertainment he leads the pack. His every film has performed non-stop. He’s given 10 back to back blockbusters. If there are two directors in the country is one is S.S. Rajamouli and other is Rohit,” Karan said.

“They have a non-stop entertainment package. They promise you entertainment from the time you sit till the time you end,” he added.

Asked how does he take the compliment, Rohit said: “I’m happy that Karan is praising me. I’m top of the world.”

After a special CBI court on Saturday sentenced Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav to 3.5 years in jail and fined him Rs.5 lakh in a case of fodder scam, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi took to Twitter saying, “Our charges against Lalu has been vindicated by Court”.

Conviction is conviction.Either 3.5 yrs or 7 yrs .Our charges against Lalu has been vindicated by Court.

— Sushil Kumar Modi (@SushilModi) January 6, 2018

CBI court verdict

Lalu Yadav was likely to get three to seven years’ punishment, as per reports and had he got a three year sentence, the process to get bail would’ve been easy. However, now the leader would have to approach the higher court to get the bail.

Minutes after the verdict, Lalu’s son, Tejashwi said he would be approaching the High Court.

“The judiciary performed its duty. We will go to the High Court after studying the sentence and apply for a bail,” Tejashwi said.

The RJD leader also hit out at the BJP for conspiring against his father and called it a political witch-hunting.

Earlier, Sushil Modi had taken a jibe at Lalu Prasad Yadav after his conviction by the CBI court in the fodder scam case, Modi had said, “What you sow, so shall you reap”.

He had also said that RJD chief Lalu Prasad is a habitual criminal, who will never get reformed.

“Lalu Prasad aadatan apradhi aur jail yatri hai, jo kabhi sudharne wale nahi hai (Lalu Prasad is a habitual criminal and a frequent visitor to jail, who will never get reformed),” Modi said here a day ahead of the pronouncement of quantum of punishment in a fodder scam case by a special CBI court in Ranchi.

Sushil Modi was one of the petitioners, on whose PIL the Patna High Court had, in 1996, ordered a CBI inquiry into the cases relating to the fodder scam.

Chennaiyin FC head coach John Gregory has been suspended for three matches and fined Rs four lakh for making offensive remarks against the referee during his side’s Indian Super League match against Jamshedpur FC last month.

The Chennai team had won the match 1-0 on December 28.

The suspension comes into immediate effect, the ISL said in a statement.

All India Football Federation’s disciplinary committee found Gregory in breach of Article 50 (misconduct against match officials) and Article 58 (offensive behaviour and fair play) for his offensive remarks against the referee during the match against Jamshedpur FC at JRD Tata Sports Complex, the statement added.

Meanwhile, the ISL, in another statement said Claudio Matias of Delhi Dynamos FC and Sehnaj Singh of Mumbai City FC have been suspended for four and two matches respectively for their club’s upcoming games owing to disciplinary reasons.

Matias has also been fined Rs three lakh and Sehnaj Singh Rs two lakh, the statement said.

The AIFF disciplinary committee found Matias and Sehnaj Singh in violation of Article 48 (serious infringement) and and Article 49 (misconduct against opponents or persons other than official) during the match between Mumbai City FC and Delhi Dynamos in Mumbai on December 29.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday said it attached the immovable properties worth Rs 4.53 crore of BLA Industries in connection with its ongoing probe into the coal block allocation scam.

“ED has provisionally attached immovable properties located in Narsingpur district of Madhya Pradesh, admeasuring 348.34 acres worth Rs 4.53 crore of BLA Industries Pvt. Ltd. in Coal Block Allocation Scam,” the financial probe agency said in a statement.

The ED has registered a case based on the FIR filed by the CBI.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has booked BLA Industries, its Managing Director Anup Agarwal and other unknown public servants.

“During investigation, it was revealed that BLA Industries mined 26.23 lakh MTs from 2004-05 to 2013-14 coal and sold 25.07 lakh MTs of coal during the same period worth Rs 577.23 crore,” the ED said.

The agency also said that the BLA Industries created 35 lakh new shares after allocation of mines with share capital of Rs 3.50 crore at Rs 10 per share during 2007-08 and issued to Advaita Holdings Private Limited.

“During 2010-11, a total of one lakh new shares were created and issued to Advaita Holdings Private Limited, at a premium of Rs 55, which brought share capital of Rs 65 lakh.

“Advaita Holdings Private Limited, is a holding company of BLA Industries Limited,” the agency said.

“The company created 36,00,000 new shares which it has allotted to Advaita Holdings and thereby accrued advantage of Rs 4.15 crore which is attributable to mining allocation,” it alleged.

“Further investigation revealed the above proceeds of crime generated from illegal mining and new share capital creation have been placed and layered through its various bank accounts and finally integrated in the form of purchase of immovable properties admeasuring 348.34 acres worth Rs 4.53 which have now been provisionally attached,” the agency added.

In its FIR, the CBI alleged that the Gotitoria East and Gotitoria West coal blocks located in Madhya Pradesh, were allocated for captive use in power plant.

The plant was not set up and condition of captive use of coal was altered by public servants allowing BLA Industries to sell coal, thus causing undue favour to the company.

Author-actress Tessa Dahl, mother of model Sophie Dahl, has been arrested and will appear in a US courtroom next week on a charge of larceny.

If convicted, Tessa could face from one to five years in prison.

Tessa checked into a Connecticut hotel, where rooms start at 140 pounds a night, on October 27 last year, signing in as “Chantal Dahl” — the Christian name which appears on her birth certificate.

By the time she departed on November 3, she had run up a bill of 3,970 pounds, which she left without paying, prompting the hotel’s management to call the state police.

Later on November 3, the hotel staff called the police again, to alert them that Tessa had contacted them from a nearby hotel and said that she would not be paying her bill and that “they would never see her again”.

The police later landed up at the other hotel and arrested Tessa, whose life has been scarred by tragedy, alcoholism and drug addiction.

During that time, she gave a home address in Massachusetts and was released on payment of a 3,970 pounds bond.

Nine persons were killed and two, including an eight-year-old, were rescued after the vehicle in which they were travelling was caught in an avalanche in a north Kashmir border area, police said on Saturday.

The avalanche occurred on Friday evening at 3,000-metre Sadhna Pass of Tangdhar region in Kupwara district on Friday evening.

“Nine dead bodies have been recovered by rescue teams. The deadinc lude an engineer of the BRO (Border Roads Organisation) and eight locals,” a police officer said. The BRO engineer was identified as Mangla Prasad Singh.

Rescue teams rescued the child and a 50–old man from the avalanche debris on Friday evening.

Sadhna Pass, which mostly remains closed for six months in winters, connects Kupwara with border town of Karnah

Rescue operations at the mountanious pass overlooking zigzag, treacherous roads are extremely difficult due to sub zero temperatures.

The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav responded on Twitter, after a special CBI court on Saturday sentenced him to 3.5 years in jail and fined him Rs.5 lakh in a case of fodder scam.

Lalu Yadav said, “Rather than practising BJP’s Simple Rule – “Follow us or We will Fix you”. I will die happily fixing myself for Social justice, harmony & equality”.

Rather than practising BJP’s Simple Rule – “Follow us or We will Fix you”. I will die happily fixing myself for Social justice, harmony & equality.

— Lalu Prasad Yadav (@laluprasadrjd) January 6, 2018

The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief was likely to get three to seven years’ punishment, as per reports and had he got a three year sentence, the process to get bail would’ve been easy. However, now the leader would have to approach the higher court to get the bail.

Minutes after the verdict, Lalu’s son, Tejashwi said he would be approaching the High Court.

“The judiciary performed its duty. We will go to the High Court after studying the sentence and apply for a bail,” he said.

The RJD leader also hit out at the BJP for conspiring against his father and called it a political witch-hunting.

All the accused including Lalu, who is lodged in the Birsa Munda jail in Ranchi, appeared before Justice Shivpal Singh of the special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court via video conferencing.

While the arguments of Lalu along with four other convicts were heard on Friday, the arguments on the quantum of punishment for the six remaining convicts were completed on Saturday.

For the first time in this case, the hearing was conducted through a video-conferencing facility.

The verdict comes as major for Lalu, who on Friday, had moved an application before the court on health grounds and sought minimum punishment in the case.

In a plea filed in the court, Lalu’s lawyer has pleaded to the court have mercy on his client who is a heart patient and also has diabetes.

The plea further said that the Birsa Munda jail doesn’t have clean drinking water which could be harmful to Lalu’s health. Moreover, there’s no provision for any medical care in case of an emergency, the court was told.

Therefore, the RJD chief should be let off with minimum punishment.

The request comes after Lalu told the court that he felt very cold in the jail to which the judge asked him to play the ‘tabla’.

The fodder scam relates to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs. 89.27 lakh from Deoghar treasury 21 years ago.

Earlier, the court had pronounced a total of 17 accused including guilty while six including former Bihar Chief Minister Jagannath Mishra were let off in the case.

Meanwhile, top party leaders on Saturday attended RJD’s “emergency meeting” under to plan the way forward in the absence of Lalu.

JuD chief Hafiz Saeed has served a Rs 100 million legal notice to Pakistan’s defence minister for “defamation”, days after the government banned the Jamaat-ud- Dawah from collecting donations following US President Donald Trump’s outburst against Islamabad’s sheltering of terrorists.

“I call upon you (minister Khurram Dastgir) to send a written apology to my client (Saeed) within 14 days and seek his forgiveness and promise to be careful in future, failing which criminal proceedings under section 500 of Pakistan Penal Code punishable for two years will initiated against you,” said the notice by lawyer A K Dogar who served it on behalf of Mumbai attack mastermind Saeed.

Pakistan banned JuD and FIF and other organisations from collecting donations on Monday, after Trump accused Islamabad of giving nothing to the US but “lies and deceit” and providing “safe haven” to terrorists.

Dastgir had said that action against JuD, Falah-i- Insaniat Foundation (FIF) and other organisations had been taken so that “terrorists cannot open fire on schoolchildren anymore”.

Dogar claimed the JuD has no nexus with Lashkar-e-Taiba and the UN resolution against it is “illegal”.