Singer Mariah Carey and rapper Nick Cannon reunited over an intimate family dinner with their twins – five-year-olds Moroccan and Monroe.

Carey and Cannon, who parted ways in 2014 after being together for six years, were spotted together on Thursday night, reports aceshowbiz.com.

The former couple appeared to be in high spirits as they happily chatted and shared a laugh while leaving an eatery here. 

After their night out, all of them headed to Carey's home. She posted on Instagram a photograph of them snuggling in bed. She could be seen reading her twins a bedtime story while their dad slept next to them. 

Their reunion comes after Carey's split from boyfriend Bryan Tanaka. 

Reality TV star Caitlyn Jenner, who was an avid supporter of US President Donald Trump during his election, says that she now regrets voting for him.

Caitlyn, who was formerly known as Bruce Jenner before undergoing gender transition, feels Trump is not doing anything positive for the LGBT community, reports aceshowbiz.com.

"Here's the deal: Yes, I did vote for Trump, but here's the deal-breaker with the Republican party and the deal-breaker is you mess with my community, you do the wrong thing with my community, you don't give us equality and a fair shot, I'm coming after you," Caitlyn said on TV show 20/20.

"It comes to all equality issues for the entire LGBT community, okay? What we need is we need federal guidance, just like the previous administration said that it was okay to serve as a trans person in the military. 

"We have front line people, okay, and I'm talking marines, trans guys, marines on the front line fighting for our country. I'm trying to get, especially the Republican party, to make a change," she added.

Gearing up to welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his scheduled rally in Shimla on April 27, state Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) on Saturday held a special meeting for the preparations.

Modi will first inaugurate the regional connectivity scheme ‘Udan’ at Jubbarhatti airport in Shimla and later address a party rally at the historic Ridge here.

Chairing the meeting, BJP chief spokesperson Rajeev Bindal said the rally of Narendra Modi will be historic. “It is from this rally that we will blow the bugle for forthcoming assembly elections in Himachal Pradesh."

Bindal said it would be a massive rally as there is much enthusiasm in BJP rank and file and the people ahead of PM’s visit to Shimla.

He said the BJP will launch a massive cleanliness drive in coming three days in every ward of Shimla city in the run up to the rally.

“The party workers will work as messenger of cleanliness and will also go door to door to invite the residents to attend the rally.”

This will be the first rally of PM in Shimla and second in the state after he assumed office. He had addressed his first rally in Mandi in October last.

The BJP leaders and workers are particularly elated over his visit, as it would boost the party cadres ahead of assembly polls in Himachal Pradesh.

The school students of a government school in Almora district of Uttarakhand, had to face a scary moments, when high speed wind blew off roof of their school building on Saturday. The alarming situation forced the students to rush out of the damaged building and in the process over half a dozen students and two teachers suffered minor injuries.

Dyunathal is located abut 45 Kms from Almora district headquarters. This remote village witnessed high-speed wind creating terror in the locality on Saturday. The 350 odd students, enrolled in the Government Inter College of Dyunathal, had to rush out to save their lives as the school building's roof got ripped off in the high speed wind.

Laxman Singh, principal of GIC Dyunathal, said, “The incident took place at about 8.30 am. High speed wind damaged the roof of the school. Two teachers and seven students suffered minor injuries in the process of rushing out of the building.”

The injured students and teachers were provided first aid at the Primary Health Care centre in the village. The incident created panic in the area and parents rushed to the incident site. Villagers are thanking their star that none of the student suffered major injuries.

The construction work of the double story school building got completed few months back. Most of the students managed to come out unharmed as the wall of the building remain intact. 

The Meteorological Department’s forecast about high speed wind and rainfall taking place in Uttarakhand proved correct. Many placed in the hill state received rainfall on Saturday, to provide the local residents some relief from the scorching heat.

Actor Zachary Quinto has been left devastated by the death of his "true prince", his beloved pet dog Noah.

The 39-year-old Star Trek actor paid a heartbreaking tribute to Noah, in which he told how the pooch made him a better person and thanked his canine companion for always being by his side.

He wrote on Instagram alongside a picture of himself and Noah: "Anyone who has ever truly known me in the last 14 years has known this true prince. Noah has been by my side through up and down. Thick and thin. Feast and famine. In loving him I learned to love myself more fully. He taught me compassion and patience and generosity… and oh how he made me laugh.

"He made friends wherever he went. His spirit was pure.

His love was legend. I am a better person for having had him in my life. But tonight we had to let him go. Surrounded by love he went to sleep and may he forever rest in peace (sic).

Actress Margot Robbie has been roped in to play Queen Elizabeth in upcoming drama film Mary Queen of Scots.

Besides Robbie, the movie will feature Saoirse Ronan as Mary Stuart, reports hollywoodreporter.com.

Mary Queen of Scots will take on the historical family rivalry between Elizabeth and Mary, when the latter attempted to overthrow her cousin's from the English thrown.

Josie Rourke will direct the movie, which will be backed by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Liza Chasin.

Robbie's upcoming projects also include the assassin movie Terminal, A.A. Milne biopic Goodbye Christopher Robin and Tonya Harding movie, I, Tonya.

Union minister Suresh Prabhu on Saturday said the expansion of rail services would play a key role in country s growth.

He also asserted that the Centre and the states need to work together for this purpose.

Prabhu was speaking at a function at Chhattisgarh s Raipur railway station where he inaugurated various passenger facilities for stations falling under the South East Central Railway (SECR) zone.

"Prime Minister wants development of the country. For the purpose, we have decided to develop rail. Development of rail would lead to the development of the country.

"With the expansion of rail (services), India can move ahead," Prabhu said.

"Unless the Centre and the states will not work hand-in-hand, it will not be possible," he pointed out.

The union minister further underlined the need for the development of Chhattisgarh to make PM s 'Make in India' campaign a success.

"Presently rail projects worth around Rs 24,000 crore are underway in Chhattisgarh and in future many other major projects will be launched in the state which is rich in mineral resources.

"If we want to make the Prime Minister's initiative of Make in India a success, we need steel, iron ore, coal and other resources and these are in abundance in the state," he said.

"We have to develop Chhattisgarh for making 'Make in India' a success. Transportation of minerals will benefit both the state and railways. Besides, it will also create job opportunities for the youth," he said.

"An amount of Rs 3,676 crore will be invested in the financial year 2017-18 for rail projects in Chhattisgarh.

Seven railway stations in the state will be revamped in such a way that they will have better facilities than airports," said the railway minister.

These stations will be revamped into iconic structures and will have better passenger amenities, he added.

He said the railway will have an agreement with the state government to provide e-marketing facility to the tribal population engaged in making artifacts.

The e-marketing facility will be provided through the IRCTC website so that the artisans can earn good return for their art, he added.

Similarly, Prabhu said, Railways will provide opportunity to self-help groups (SHGs) for providing local cuisines in trains through e-catering service.

As part of the Railways green initiative to create green cover along the track, as many as 5 crore trees (saplings) will be planted in Chhattisgarh, Prabhu said.

The Railway and the state government will also work to convert waste into energy.

Besides, the initiative has also been undertaken to revive water bodies that exist in the premises of railway lands, he added.

On the occasion, the union minister along with Chief Minister Raman Singh inaugurated two escalators towards Gudhiyari end of the Raipur station and two lifts for Platform 2/3 and 5/6.

They also inaugurated narrow gauge maintenance facilities at Kendri, three lift facilities on the platforms of Durg railway station, high-speed wi-fi facility in Durg railway station and Bilaspur railway station and the newly built foot-over-bridge at Dongargarh railway station through video conferencing.

Besides, they also laid foundation stone for the third line between Rajnandgaon-Nagpur section on Howrah-Mumbai Rail route in Nagpur Division under South East Central Railway (SECR).

The Railway minister also flagged-off Durg-Nizamuddin Humsafar Express (bi-weekly).

Chairman of Railway Board AK Mittal and other senior officials, MPs and MLAs were present for the function.

US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis met Qatar's emir today during a visit to the oil-rich Gulf state, home to the largest US air base in the Middle East.

The visit to Doha is part of a regional tour that has included stops in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Israel. Mattis is scheduled to visit Djibouti tomorrow.

The Pentagon chief met with Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani and was also due to hold talks with Defence Minister Khaled Al-Attiya during his brief visit to Qatar, which aims to improve ties with US President Donald Trump's administration.

Talks were expected to focus on the fight against the Islamic State group, the Syrian crisis, and the regional role of Iran, which Mattis has described as "destabilising".

Washington's ties to Gulf states became increasingly frayed during the administration of president Barack Obama, whom leaders saw as too reluctant to intervene in the civil war in Syria and overly friendly with regional rival Iran.

Mattis, who commanded troops during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, said in Israel yesterday that there was "no doubt" Syria has kept some chemical weapons and warned President Bashar al-Assad's regime not to use them.

A small but strategic state in the Gulf, Qatar plays a key role in regional politics.

It is home to the Al-Udeid air base which houses around 10,000 US troops.

A longtime supporter of Syrian rebel groups, Qatar was also a key negotiator in brokering a recent deal to evacuate thousands of Syrians from besieged towns.

Rival Iran, an ally of Assad, played a crucial role in the evacuation deal, which according to sources in Baghdad included the release of a Qatari hunting party kidnapped in southern Iraq in 2015.

Washington has previously accused Doha of not doing enough to fight extremist organisations such as the Islamic State group. Qatar has denied the accusations.

The two countries have close economic ties, with national carrier Qatar Airways announcing in October the acquisition of up to 100 Boeing aircraft worth USD 18.6 billion (17.3 billion euros).

Zohmingliana Ralte headed in a late winner as Aizawl FC edged closer to creating history with a 1-0 victory over Mohun Bagan in a crucial I-League match at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium here on Saturday.

Ralte (83rd minute) exploited some loose marking by the Mohun Bagan defenders to find the net in the closing stages of a match which saw an intense battle between the two teams.

Aizawl are now favourites for the title, having regained the top spot in the league table with 36 points from 17 matches. 

They are now on the brink of creating history as even a draw in their last match against Shillong Lajong FC will see them cap their fairytale run and become the first team from the north-east to win the I-League.

Mohun Bagan on the other hand, are in a complicated situation. The Kolkata giants have dropped to the second place with a tally of 33 points from 17 matches.

They need to beat top division debutants Chennai City FC in their last match and hope that Lajong manage to defeat Aizawl. If the fervent prayers of their fans are answered and such a scenario does happen, then Mohun Bagan will win the title due to their superior goal difference and head to head record.

 Far from abolishing film censorship, the Ministry Of Information & Broadcasting is actually considering a more stringent monitoring agency to channelise and restrain the free flow of content on the home-viewing medium.

While the CBFC chief Pahlaj Nihalani refrained from discussing the I&B's plans to monitor content on television, he lashed out hard at what he considers the free flow of muck into homes. 

"Television soaps, reality shows and crime shows are crossing all limits. Shows like Crime Petrol and Savdhan India show the most gruesome and heinous crimes in graphic detail. 

"Real-life people are named in the fictional recreation of crime stories.Women are raped in incestuous attacks, housewives and minor girls are shown to be violated. If the same content was shown in any film we at the CBFC would have to clamp down heavily on the content," he said.

Nihalani feels restrictions must be imposed on the inflow of software on television before it's too late. 

"Why are filmmakers required to get a new censor certification for their films to be shown on television when all the rest of content made specially for television gets to go on air unchecked? This free flow of content in television must stop. It's affecting the natural psychological development of young minds. Parents are worried," he said.

President Robert Mugabe's grip on power has faced little recent threat from Zimbabwe's splintered opposition, but efforts to forge a unified alliance in next year's election could test his supremacy.

Any opposition bloc would first have to overcome fierce rivalries within their various camps, and then hold together in an intense and often violent political landscape dominated by Mugabe's ZANU-PF party.

Two deals between opposition parties signed this week represent an embryonic attempt to forge an alternative to Mugabe's rule, which began with independence from Britain in 1980.

Now aged 93 and in weak health, Mugabe has struggled to maintain control over ZANU-PF. The party has been hit by infighting and public frustration over the country's economic woes.

The strife presents an opportunity to the opposition only if they can unify, according to Alois Masepe, a Harare-based political analyst.

"It is a move in the right direction," he said of steps toward the alliance.

"A fragmented opposition does not help anyone except ZANU-PF." 

Anything less than unity would mean near-inevitable victory for Mugabe.

The going is tough, after decades of repression, vote- rigging and ZANU-PF violence during campaigning.

But another stumbling block is apathy.

"The opposition leaders must find strategies to get the people to participate," Masepe said. "The majority… don't." 

On Wednesday, Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), held a joint press conference with Mugabe's former vice president Joice Mujuru, who has set up the National People's Party.

"This is just the beginning," Tsvangirai said as the two signed a pact to work together to try and topple Mugabe in next year's poll.

The following day, Tsvangirai signed another pact to re- unite with the MDC-N, which split away in 2005, and is led by the influential Welshman Ncube.

The MDC has been weakened by repeated splits, and was badly fractured by Tsvangirai's troubled term as Mugabe's prime minister in a coalition government from 2009 until 2013.

"We owe it to future generations, we owe it to ourselves to do everything that we can to make sure that come 2018 we won't fail," Ncube said.

In 2008, Tsvangirai pulled out of a run-off against Mugabe after a wave of deadly violence, vote-rigging and voter intimidation from ZANU-PF operatives.

This week's pacts, however, are fledgling.

"More still needs to be done to unravel the matrix of cheating by ZANU-PF," warned Takavafira Zhou, a political scientist at Masvingo State University. 

The Meghalaya government has appointed former Gauhati High Court judge Justice (Rtd) B D Agarwal to head the judicial commission that will probe the alleged police firing in North Garo Hills.

"The governor has notified the appointment of Justice Agarwal as chairman of the judicial inquiry commission into the incident," Chief secretary K S Kropha on Saturday said.

Kropha said the notification was issued earlier this week and the commission has been given six month's time to file its report.

Chief Minister Mukul Sangma had assured the state assembly of judicial inquiry into the March 6 incident in which three persons while returning from a weekly market, were allegedly fired at by police when they did not stop their vehicle at a police check point in Kaldang area of the district.

The trio were injured in the incident and following it a mob torched a police station and seven vehicles.

Resubelpara MLA and former chief minister S C Marak had demanded in the assembly a judicial inquiry and adequate compensation for the victims.

The injured were compensated with Rs 20,000 each and the two policemen accused of firing at the vehicles were suspended.

Voters waking up in some French overseas territories are preparing to vote first in France's unpredictable presidential election, one day earlier than in the mainland.

Political campaigning is banned from today across France, and online, as voters in far-flung areas such as French Polynesia, Guiana, Guadeloupe cast ballots for one of the 11 candidates.

The mad-dash campaigning of the last few weeks came to a premature end Friday, hours after a gunman killed a police officer on the famed Champs-Elysees.

Major candidates cancelled their last campaign day events yesterday over security concerns including the National Front's Marine Le Pen, Les Republicans' Francois Fillon and centrist Emmanuel Macron.

Opinion polls suggest that at least four candidates have a chance of grabbing one of the two places in the May runoff.

Hashim Amla, AB de Villiers and Faf du Plessis were among eight marquee Protea players announced Friday by Cricket South Africa to represent the franchises in the first two editions of the new T20 Global Destination League starting later this year.

This follows the announcement last week of the eight marquee foreign players.

Each marquee Protea player will be allocated a new franchise team based in the city he has either been historically associated with or with which he can build a strong association.

The other five marquee Protea players are Quinton de Kock, JP Duminy, David Miller, Kagiso Rabada and Imran Tahir.

"The selection of our own South African marquee players has been very exciting. And it will be even more exciting when we engage fans to help us to allocate the 'hometown hero' to each franchise team," said CSA Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat.

"This announcement is another major step towards establishing our new T20 League in South Africa.

"We must not understate the world class quality of our own players. They are household names across the world and our fans in South Africa will finally get the chance to see them compete against one another at home. Together with the international marquee players announced last week, the Protea stars will add great value to the new franchise teams they will represent, added Lorgat.

As announced last week, each franchise team will also be allocated an international marquee player. This means that each team will start with two marquee players named in their 17-man squad. The rest of the squad will be assembled by the team owners and coach in a player draft system.

The process of acquiring team ownership is presently underway with the closing date for bidder proposals being April 28.

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Saturday he fears "5 to 10 per cent" EVM tampering in Delhi's civic polls and urged people to vote heavily for the AAP to defeat this.

In an interview, the Aam Aadmi Party leader also accused the Modi government of trying to cripple state governments not with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Saying he was "100 per cent" sure EVM tampering prevented an AAP victory in Punjab, Kejriwal told IANS in an interview that this would be tried on Sunday too in Delhi's municipal elections.

He said there were three reasons he feared Electronic Voting Machine tampering on Sunday.

"One, pre-2006 EVMs without security features are being used in Delhi; two, these EVMs have no VVPATs; three, the EVMs are coming from Rajasthan (where he said EVMs were tampered with).

"The only way to fail EVM tampering is to vote for the AAP tomorrow in huge numbers… People must defeat the EVM tampering."

Kejriwal denied he was complaining about EVMs because the AAP lost the assembly elections in Punjab and Goa.

Singer Arati Mukherjee, director -actor Churni Ganguly, theatre activist Usha Ganguly, archer Dola Banerjee, have been crowned as 'Woman of Substance' in their respective fields at the biggest jewellery show in eastern India.

Fashion designer Sharbari Dutta, actress Paoli Dam and educationist Devi Kar were also felicitated.

"All these women are achievers in their respective fields and made their mark. Each of them embodies the concept of 'Sonar Meye', Bengali superstar Prosenjit Chatterjee said after felicitating the ladies with trophies and citation yesterday.

"From the domain of sports to performing arts and fashion designing, 'Sonar Meyera' (daughters of gold) are taking the nation forward. Let's not forget the immense contribution of women in building the society," Prosenjit said.

"I am honoured as this award has more symbolic value," Churni, whose Bengali film 'Nirbasito' inspired by the life of a woman Bangladeshi writer on exile was referred in citation, said.

'Sonar Sansar', the jewellery show, is being jointly organised by Swarna Shilpa Bachao Committee (SSBC), a forum of jewellers and KNC Services, which organises jewellery exhibitions.

The fair will continue for four days.

App-based car service provider Uber India has approached the Bombay High Court seeking Rs.12 crore in damages from taxi owners and drivers associations for harming its reputation and livelihood of drivers by protesting against the company.

In its suit, Uber India Systems Pvt Ltd also sought an injunction restraining the defendants from stopping Uber drivers to work, alleging that they were being "verbally abused, physically assaulted and threatened".

The suit names Sangharsh Tourist Chalak Malak Sangh, an association of taxi owners and drivers, Action Committee of Maharashtra against Ola and Uber, Mumbai Vikas Foundation, All Drivers Welfare Association and Maharashtra Tourist Permit Union.

"The defendants are deliberately, unlawfully and wrongfully resorting to violence and intimidation under the garb of strikes and protests in Mumbai and thereby restraining drivers associated with the plaintiff's mobile App from operating and pursuing livelihood," the suit said.

It further alleged that the defendants have been engaged in "actively inciting" drivers of Uber to go on strike and protest against the company.

"The defendants have been hampering the legitimate business of plaintiffs (Uber) by interfering in their operations quite extensively across the city of Mumbai. They have been indulging in threats to the driver partners of Uber, in the event they wilfully continue to drive using the Uber App," the suit alleged.

The suit referred to a protest held by the taxi owners and drivers associations at Azad Maidan in south Mumbai in March this year when several Uber cars were allegedly damaged and their customers and drivers were threatened with dire consequences.

"The mobile devices (with Uber App) of the driver partners of Uber were forcibly snatched and their vehicles were damaged. The defendants even forced the passengers out of the vehicles where trips were being taken through the Uber App, verbally abused, physically assaulted and threatened the Driver Partners of dire consequences," the suit claims.

The company has also claimed that a total of 830 incidents have been reported wherein either the driver or the passengers have been harassed.

"As the magnitude of such protests are only increasing, the plaintiffs anticipate further losses. Hence the company seeks the court to grant injunction restraining the defendants from stopping Uber drivers to work," the suit said.

"The plaintiffs further seek a direction to the defendants to pay a sum of Rs.12.41 crores as damages to business, reputation and goodwill of Uber," the suit said.

The suit is likely to be heard by Justice S J Kathawalla in due course.