Actor Tiku Talsania will soon be seen in the upcoming TV show Sajan Re Phir Jhooth Mat Bolo. 

Tiku will be playing the role of a father to the male protagonist (played by Hussain Kuwajerwala) in the Sony SAB show.

The actor says he is glad to be part of the show. 

"I have played the role of a father before but this time my role is quite different from what I have portrayed before. The show has a very powerful storyline, which I am sure the audience will love," Tiku said in a statement. 

The show is a sequel to Sajan Re Jhoot Mat Bolo, and revolves around the humour that comes from situational lies. 

She has portrayed various characters onscreen in films like Gangs of Wasseypur, Ek Thi Daayan, Dedh Ishqiya and Jolly LLB 2, but actress Huma Qureshi says she is waiting for a film where the character she plays "resembles" her.

"There are times, when actors do resemble the characters they portray onscreen, but I don't think I have played myself in front of the camera. I have always portrayed a character. Though I would love to play myself. I think I am very interesting. I need to definitely play myself," Huma told  in an interview.

"I don't know what I am in real life. I can't really describe myself. But what you see onscreen that's not who we really are. We are very different from the characters we play onscreen," added the actress, who promoted diamond brand Forevermark here earlier this week.

Huma said she has often been misunderstood because of her roles.

"I remember when I did my first film 'Gangs of Wasseypur', a lot of people thought that I am a girl from Bihar. I never visited Bihar before that in my life. When people feel you are that character in real life, then at least as actors we feel that we have done our job nicely.

"A lot of people even thought that I couldn't speak in English. When they met me, they were surprised. I belong to Delhi and have been born and brought up here," she said.

Huma, who last appeared in Jolly LLB 2, is currently doing a 28-day cleanse over social media.

"I am not on a fitness regime. Basically it is whatever I eat I will share it with my followers on social media. The idea is to follow a more healthier lifestyle. It is not to lose weight or become a certain size. It's not for a film. It's just a way of life," said Huma.

"I need to tell my followers that healthy food is not boring or bland. In a way, I've always spoken about how it's important for us to set better role models for women because I see so many people suffering from so many health issues," she added.

Huma made her Hollywood debut with filmmaker Gurinder Chadha's Viceroy's House.

"It's my first English-language film. It was fun and exciting working on the project. Gurinder (Chadha) is a very exciting director to work with. I loved the script when I read it," she said.

She said that Hindi films will always be her "first love".

"I want to stay here, but if something interesting comes my way, then I will do it. I don't want to shift base and go anywhere. I am happy while living in my country," she said.

Huma said right now she is waiting for the release of Viceroy's House in India.

"There are more interesting things coming up. Viceroy's House is going to release in India in July or August. They still are finalising a date. We will have an English and Hindi release," she said.

"I have also finished shooting for the film with Saqib, It's going to release soon," Huma concluded.
 

White House officials are giving out conflicting details of a tax plan that President Donald Trump has promised will be released on Wednesday, a media report said.

On Saturday, administration officials offered confusing signals on which route Trump would pursue, The Washington Post reported.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin suggested Wednesday's announcement would pursue a long-term overhaul of the tax code.

Mnuchin said one of the White House's top priorities was to complete "comprehensive economic tax reform", dramatically simplifying how people file their annual returns. 

He said he wants to allow many people to file their taxes on a "postcard".

But on Sunday, Mick Mulvaney, director of the Office of Management and Budget, appeared to cast doubt on Mnuchin's statements, saying the White House has not decided whether to pursue a long-term or short-term tax overhaul.

He also said they have not decided whether to offset the rate cuts with other changes that would reduce the budget deficit. 

"I don't think we've decided that part yet," Mulvaney told Fox News on Sunday. 

"You can either have a small tax cut that's permanent or a large tax cut that's short-term."

Mulvaney said the tax plan the White House will release Wednesday will include "some specific governing principles, some guidance, also some indication of what the rates are going to be."

Trump surprised Capitol Hill – and even some people within the White House – when he first announced the Wednesday deadline at an event last week. 

The president has said an overhaul of the tax code is one of his biggest priorities, reports The Washington Post.

He said cutting taxes will grow the economy, lead to more hiring and bring trillions of dollars back into the US that companies are now holding overseas to avoid taxation. 

Among the administration's stated aims are to simplify the tax code for individuals and families, lower corporate tax rates and provide a major tax cut for the middle class.

 A team of engineers has developed a process by which it is now possible to 3D print complex forms of glass.

The scientists at the Germany-based Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) mixed nanoparticles of high-purity quartz glass and a small quantity of liquid polymer and allow this mixture to be cured by light at specific points by means of stereolithography.

The material, which has remained liquid, is washed out in a solvent bath, leaving only the desired cured structure. The polymer still mixed in this glass structure is subsequently removed by heating.

"The shape initially resembles that of a pound cake; it is still unstable, and therefore the glass is sintered in a final step, that is, heated so that the glass particles are fused," said Bastian E Rapp from KIT Institute of Microstructure Technology.

The scientists presented the method in the journal Nature.

"We present a new method, an innovation in materials processing, in which the material of the piece manufactured is high-purity quartz glass with the respective chemical and physical properties," added Rapp.

The glass structures made by the KIT scientists show resolutions in the range of a few micrometers — one micrometer corresponding to one thousandth of a millimeter.

3D-formed glass can be used in data technology.

Australian retailers are preparing for the invasion of US giant Amazon, and have vowed to take the fight up to the online-based store when it comes to local shores.

Amazon confirmed its rapid Australian expansion by announcing its search for a site to build its "fulfilment centre" – a large warehouse for storing and shipping goods purchased online, Xinhua news agency reported on Monday.

However local retailers, mostly from electronics and homewares division, including Harvey Norman's founder Gerry Harvey, said he would make it hard for Amazon to succeed Down Under.

Harvey Norman sells electronics, furniture and bedding – all markets in which Amazon hopes to hold a stake.

But Harvey has said that it would happily go toe-to-toe with the American behemoth to maintain its share in the Australian market.

"In America and other parts of the world, they (Amazon) have just demolished other retailers, no question about that, and they send a lot of retailers broke," Harvey told News Corp on Monday.

"There is no question they have one ambition, and like Attila the Hun, or Alexander the Great, they just want to demolish everything in front of them and then at the end of day claim to be victorious and make their own rules."

"So this is a company that is extraordinary by any measure and defies every rule that has ever been written about a business."

Some analysts have said that Amazon could take in as much as $three billion in sales in its first five years in Australia (around one per cent of the total $225 billion market).

However, Harvey has refuted those claims, saying that local retailers would be putting up "one hell of a fight" when Amazon launches its main retail services in Australia.

"We will be out there fighting them like no American retailer has ever fought them," he said. "Any price that they put we will beat or equal."

Meanwhile, Harvey's thoughts were backed up by those of former CEO of supermarket chain Woolworths, Roger Corbett, who said Amazon would struggle to replicate its lower wages and claims of lightning fast delivery to rural parts when it opens in Australia.

"Amazon will have an impact on the market place, but they are coming into an already very competitive market," he told News Corp.

The Supreme Court on Monday ordered the Kerala to restore T.P. Senkumar as the Director General of Police after noting that his removal was arbitrary.

The apex court set aside the Pinarayi Vijayan government's decision to remove Senkumar following a public outcry over the allegations of mishandling of the Kollan temple fire tragedy and the Jisha murder case.

A bench headed by Justice Madan B. Lokur said that the DGP was removed in disregard of the rules. The court described the decision to remove Senkumar as "inappropriate". 

It quashed the Kerala government's earlier order sacking Senkumar.
 

Researchers have found that a new test which takes just around 15 minutes can help diagnose some the most dangerous and drug-resistant types of bacterial infections.

What is more, the researchers said, the test costs less than one Dollar and can be carried out using equipment already owned by most hospitals.

"The exciting thing about this technique is that it relies on technology that is already available in most hospitals. This means that it could be rolled out quickly and cheaply, and potentially have a rapid impact on tackling drug-resistance," said one of the researchers Gerald Larrouy-Maumus from Imperial College London.

Bacteria have been gradually evolving to become resistant to the antibiotics used to treat them. Over the last few year, scientists have found evidence that some bacteria have become resistant to a last resort antibiotic called colistin.

Knowing which patients have these most dangerous infections means it is possible to use quarantine measures to halt their spread and stop the rise of drug resistance, the researchers said.

In a presentation at the 27th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) being held Vienna, Austria from April 22-25, the researchers described how they were able to test bacteria to quickly tell whether they were resistant to colistin, and how easily they might pass this resistance on to other bacteria. 

Previous research has shown two different types of colistin resistance exist in bacteria. One type, called chromosome-encoded resistance, can only be passed on when bacteria grow and divide to form new bacteria cells. 

The other type, called plasmid-encoded resistance, is considered more dangerous because it can be passed on from one type of bacteria to another completely different type of bacteria.

The team tested 134 different colonies of bacteria using a machine called a mass spectrometer. 

Mass spectrometers are found in testing labs at most hospitals where they are used to analyse various different molecules.

They found that it was possible to distinguish not only between those bacteria that are colistin resistant, and those that are not, but also which bacteria have the more dangerous plasmid-encoded resistance. 

Expressing outrage over right-wing outfits attacking police stations in Agra, CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury on Monday said there was a 'jungle raj' (lawlessness) in Uttar Pradesh.

"BJP MPs and MLAs are leading mobs to attack police stations in Uttar Pradesh. If this is not jungle raj, what is? Constitutional responsibilities," Yechury asked on Twitter.

"We get enraged (and rightly so) when cops are attacked by stones in Kashmir. How are these BJP MPs and MLAs different when they attack police," he asked.

Right wing activists including members of Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad on Sunday attacked Agra's Sadar Bazaar and Fatehpur Sikri police stations and roughed up policemen.

The activists were led by Bharatiya Janata Party MLA from Fatehpur Sikri, Choudhary Udai Bhan Singh. They wanted the release of their party members against whom an FIR had been registered.

The Hindu outfits on Saturday tried to lay siege to the Taj Mahal and forcibly enter the restricted 500 metre zone to demand the lifting of a ban on saffron scarves.

Actress Kanika Maheshwari says that she got better at bargaining thanks to her role as Meenkashi Rathi in the TV show Diya Aur Baati Hum.

Kanika's character is back on the small screen with sequel Tu Sooraj Main Saanjh Piyaji. 

"Who doesn't love shopping? Everyone learns something from their character. I developed the bargaining skills so well that now whenever I go for street shopping, I make sure to save some money," Kanika said in a statement. 

"I even ask for an extra puri at the pani puri stall, all thanks to Meenakshi Rathi," she added.

As Diya Aur Baati Hum ended with the death of its lead pair Sooraj and Sandhya Rathi (played by actors Anas Rashid and Deepika Singh), Tu Sooraj Main Saanjh Piyaji focuses on the journey of their children Ved, Vansh and Kanak Rathi.

The show airs on Star Plus.

A diet high in animal protein is associated with a higher risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), a condition in which fat builds up in the liver, in overweight people, says a study.

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is a major health concern as it can lead to permanent scarring (cirrhosis) and subsequently to cancer and malfunction of the liver.

This may result in life-threatening complications for which a liver transplant is needed.

"A healthy lifestyle is the cornerstone of treatment in patients with NAFLD, but specific dietary recommendations are lacking," said led author of the study Louise Alferink from the Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

"The results from this study demonstrate that animal protein is associated with NAFLD in overweight elderly people," Alferink said.

These findings presented at The International Liver Congress 2017 in Amsterdam also showed that fructose consumption per se might not be as harmful as previously assumed.

A total of 3,440 people were included in the study of whom 30 per cent were lean and 70 per cent were overweight (body mass index [BMI] of 25 kg/ square metre or greater).

The average age was 71 years and NAFLD, as assessed by abdominal ultrasound, was present in 35 per cent of the participants.

Macronutrient intake was recorded using an externally validated 389-item food frequency questionnaire and analysed in quartiles using the nutrition density method (energy percentage).

Furthermore, analyses were stratified for BMI to account for BMI-related differences in eating habits and dietary measurement errors.

Significant associations between macronutrients and NAFLD were found predominantly in overweight individuals.

The results showed that total protein was associated with higher odds of NAFLD and this association was mainly driven by animal protein.

Simi Garewal, who is still remembered for her negative character in Subhash Ghai's Karz, says that the filmmaker has done a lot for this industry.

"Subhash sir is so talented and he has done alot fSubhash Ghai has done a lot for the industry, says Simi Garewalor the industry. Starting with direction, then starting Mukta Arts Productions and now Whistling Woods for children who want to learn film making. His contribution to this industry is tremendous and appreciable," said Simi who was present at the re-premiere of the cult classic starring Rishi Kapoor and Tina Munim along with Rishi and Ghai on Sunday.

"It feels good to see that still people are loving our film and even after seeing the movie so many times on TV, they have still come to theatres to watch the film," she added.

Ghai said: "It's nostalgic for all of us to come together and to know that the craze of the movie is still so warm between the audience is really overwhelming."

Asked about his memories of the film, he said: "It was a tough job convincing both the actors. It took me 2 months to convince Simi ji and few weeks to convince Rishi sahab. It was a tough job as my image was that of an action film director and Karz was a musical screenplay." 

Rishi revealed that he was very apprehensive about picturising one song which went to become one of the biggest chart-busters. 

"When the song Dard-e-Dil was being shot, I was busy finding a choreographer on the set. Subhash Ghai came and said he will choreograph the song. Initially that made me little worried as he was a director of an action film and this was a love song. But Subhashji assured me that he will re-shoot the song if i don't like it.

"Now I am pleased to tell you that the final version you see in the film was picturised by Subhash Ghai, without any choreographers," he revealed. 

Google has introduced the first code for a new feature called 'Copyless Paste' in its Chrome app running on Android OS that will take data from Chrome usage and use that to improve the experience in other apps.

Users can now enable 'Copyless Paste' in chrome://flags in Chrome Canary for Android, although turning it on might not do anything, a report in VentureBeat said.

"If you looked at a restaurant website and switched to the Maps app, the keyboard would offer the name of that restaurant as a suggestion to enter into the search bar," the flag's description said. Data is only stored locally and never sent to Google.

Chrome flags are a way to enable or disable functionality in Chrome that may not be fully implemented, standardised, or that might still be a little buggy.

According to the report, Google started the work on this feature in February. Presumably 'Copyless Paste' will arrive in the next few months.

Researchers have found that 10 minutes of walking up and down stairs at a regular pace is more likely to make you feel energised than ingesting 50 milligrams of caffeine-about the equivalent to the amount in a can of soda.

"We found, in both the caffeine and the placebo conditions, that there was not much change in how they felt," said study co-author Patrick J O'Connor, Professor at University of Georgia in the US.

"But with exercise they did feel more energetic and vigorous. It was a temporary feeling, felt immediately after the exercise, but with the 50 milligrams of caffeine, we didn't get as big an effect," O'Connor said.

The study, published in the journal Physiology and Behavior, aimed to simulate the hurdles faced in a typical office setting, where workers spend hours sitting and staring at computer screens and do not have time for a longer bout of exercise during the day.

For the study, participants on separate days either ingested capsules containing caffeine or a placebo, or spent 10 minutes walking up and down stairs-about 30 floors total-at a low-intensity pace.

O'Connor wanted to compare an exercise that could be achieved by people in an office setting, where they have access to stairs and a little time to be active, but not enough time to change into workout gear, shower and change back into work clothes.

"And a lot of people working in office buildings have access to stairs, so it's an option to keep some fitness while taking a short break from work," O'Connor said.

Study participants were female college students who described themselves as chronically sleep deprived – getting less than 6 and half hours per night.

To test the effects of caffeine versus the exercise, each group took some verbal and computer-based tests to gauge how they felt and how well they performed certain cognitive tasks.

Neither caffeine nor exercise caused large improvements in attention or memory, but stair walking was associated with a small increase in motivation for work.
 

Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi has said that there is a very strong provision under Juvenile Justice Act in the country to stop children taking to criminal activities.

“There is a very strong provision under the Juvenile Justice Act which needs to be enforced. If we are able to comply and enforce the provisions, the scenario will change,” Satyarthi told reporters Sunday night.

“If we properly take care of all juveniles who are in need of protection, the scenario will change,” Satyarthi, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan in 2014, said while answering a question about the rise in juvenile crime rate.

“And again if we are able to ensure their right to education and properly implement social security programmes like the mid-day meal, then children won't be forced to become slaves, prostitutes or turn to violent acts,” he pointed out.
“You should not put the blame on children who are already the victims,” he said.

To a question about children seen carrying arms in religious processions he said, “We have to differentiate if they are being forced to participate or doing it willingly. If force is used, that is not the right thing.”

Talking about the situation across the world, Satyarthi exhorted nations to take collective responsibility in order to end child labour and slavery.

Satyarthi, whose activism had made the International Labour Organization (ILO) adopt Convention No 182 on the worst forms of child labour, said, “We need the highest level intervention to put an end to child labour and slavery. Slavery and civilisation cannot go hand in hand.”

“No foundation of sustainable development can be built on the miseries of children,” Satyarthi, who was interacting with media after being conferred P C Chandra Puraskaar 2017, said.

Stating that “230 million children are now living in violent war zones across the world” the 2014 Nobel laureate said, “I demand that the UN set up a high power committee under the Security Council to address the issue.”

Speaking at another programme organised by a pre-school, the child rights activist exhorted the parents of well-to-do families to take up the cause of deprived children.

Satyarthi urged the parents present at the programme to be very sympathetic to those who did not have the fortune of attending schools.

He said that he has drawn up a programme where 100 million privileged children would take care of another 100 million underprivileged.

South Korea on Monday announced it has developed a new radar system to detect North Korean artillery at the border, one of the greatest threat the country faces in the event of conflict with its neighbour.

The system, called counter-artillery detection radar-II, will start operating from 2018, announced the South Korean Defence Acquisition Programme Administration (DAPA) in a statement.

The South Korean army currently uses the Swedish Arthur-K system to detect artillery positions of North Korea, a country with which it has been technically at war over the last 70 years.

South Korea began developing the system in 2011 at a cost of around 54 billion won ($47 million).

This device can detect enemy artillery positions more than 60 km away, against the 40 kms range of Arthur-K.

The new radar, fitted on a truck, is designed to identify the point of launching attacks with mortar, shells or rockets and send the information to artillery units to help counteract almost immediately, according to the DAPA.

North Korea has large numbers of artillery deployed along the inter-Korean border, which brings together the South Korean capital and its adjacent border towns with a total population of around 20 million.

The announcement of the decision coincides with escalating tension on the Korean peninsula due to repeated weapons tests carried out by the Pyongyang regime and a verbal spat with the US, which has hinted at possible pre-emptive strikes.

Despite mixed Asian equity markets, Key benchmark indices were trading with gains in the late morning trade on Monday. At 11.15 am, the Sensex was trading 140 points or 0.48 per cent higher at 29,505 while the Nifty50 was trading 45 points or 0.49 per cent up at 9,164.

In the broader markets, BSE Midcap and BSE Smallcap indices surged 0.4 per cent and 0.7 per cent respectively.

Among the BSE sectoral indices, Realty index registered the biggest gain with a jump of 3.7 per cent. Capital Goods (up 1.3 per cent), Bankex (up 0.6 per cent) and Power (up 0.4 per cent) indices were other notable gainers. Healthcare index declined 0.8 per cent.

On Friday, the BSE Sensex had closed 57 points or 0.19 per cent up at 29,365 while the NSE Nifty had closed 17 points or 0.19 per cent higher at 9,119.

Top gainers in the Sensex-30 pack: HDFC Bank (up 2.6 per cent), Adani Ports (up 2.1 per cent), HDFC (up 1.9 per cent), L&T (up 1.8 per cent) and Gail (up 1.7 per cent).

Top losers in the Sensex-30 pack: Lupin (down 3.8 per cent), Cipla (down 1.5 per cent), ICICI Bank (down 1.1 per cent), Infosys (down 1 per cent) and Bharti Airtel (down 0.9 per cent).

Meanwhile, the Rupee was trading 11 paise down at 64.53 against the US Dollar.