Congress leaders from Punjab
and Haryana were at loggerheads On Thursday as the Supreme Court struck down the Punjab law
scrapping all water-sharing agreements with other states.



While
Punjab Congress chief and Lok Sabha member from Amritsar Captain Amarinder
Singh resigned from Parliament as a mark of protest, Congress leader from
Haryana Randeep Singh Surjewala called it a “historic and
path-breaking” verdict.



“A
historic & path breaking verdict by Supreme Court upholds Haryana’s claim
on SYL. Victory for people, justice for Haryana. Satyamev Jayate!”
Surjewala tweeted.



Amarinder
Singh wrote in his resignation letter addressed to the Lok Sabha Speaker that
he is resigning as a mark of protest against the deprivation of the people of
the state of the Sutlej river water.

Baaghi actor Tiger Shroff has been an ardent student of
martial arts and has been practicing it since the age of four.

Owing to his stunts and action-packed scenes in films, the
actor is being invited to a lot of events that are taking place on the birth
anniversary of Bruce Lee.

One of the biggest fans of Bruce Lee, he has been receiving calls from the
event holders to attend their events on his birth anniversary. 

“Bruce Lee has been such an inspiration for me from my
childhood days. I was four when I watched his film and decided I want to take
up martial arts. A part of the credit for what I am today goes to him,”
the actor said.

Lee’s birth anniversary falls on November 25 and
Tiger’s team is already inundated with requests as they would like a face of
action from Bollywood to grace the event.

The actor is currently busy shooting for his upcoming movie Munna Michael.

Gentle, soft and relatable, Dear Zindagi’s new song is
out! 

Sung by Sunidhi Chauhan, the second single track features
Alia Bhatt, who is trying to do away with her emotions.

Beautifully written by Kausar Munir and composed by Amit
Trivedi, the song has a unique melody that gets you hooked to it.

Just Go To Hell Dil is a feeling we all have gone
through in our lives and it is very well portrayed by Alia.

A budding cinematographer, Alia plays Kaira, who is in
search of a perfect life. A chance encounter with Jug, an unconventional
thinker, helps her gain new perspective about life. She discovers that
happiness is all about finding comfort in life’s imperfections.

Dear Zindagi has been helmed by Gauri Shinde, the
director of the critically acclaimed English Vinglish, Gauri Shinde and
has been jointly produced by her along with Gauri Khan, Karan Johar.

The film will woo movie buffs on November 25. 

With a surprise treat for children, Aamir Khan is all set to
launch the first track from his forthcoming film Dangal.

The song ‘Baapu tu sehat ke liye hanikarak hai…’ is
an ode to children’s sentiments towards fathers.

Written by Amitabh Bhattacharya and composed by Pritam, the
song is penned like an anthem where kids are telling their father that he
is not good for their health and is too strict.

Shot in Ludhiana, the song is a representation of all the
emotions undergone by the little hearts on being coaxed to achieve higher
goals.

“Hanikarak brings to the forefront the rigorous journey
that led to the making of a female Olympic medal winner. The song beautifully
encapsulates the feelings of Geeta and Babita towards their father (Mahavir
Singh Phogat) during their training phase,” a spokesperson confirmed.

Aamir will launch the song on November 12, with younger
Geeta (Zaira Wasim), Babita (Suhani Bhatnagar) and director Nitesh Tiwari.

The Dangal trailer has already crossed over 29
million views across platforms and is rapidly heading towards reaching the 30
million mark in less than a month of its launch.

The crux of Mahavir Phogat’s biopic, the father-daughter
story, has struck chords with the masses worldwide and is slated to release
on December 23.

Shah Rukh Khan unveiled his much awaited biography by Samar
Khan at an exclusive event in Mumbai on Thursday.

The biography titled 25 years of a Life captures
interesting incidents and anecdotes from King Khan’s successful journey in the
Indian cinema through the eyes of the directors he has successfully worked
with. 

The book essays his epic journey from Aditya Chopra’s ‘Raj’
in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge that won him the ‘King of Romance’ title
 to Farhan Akhtar’s suave and discerning Don.

“Twenty-five years in the film industry was a big dream for
a boy who came from Delhi all those years ago. These years have been full of
excitement, hard work, and various ups and downs and this book is a tribute to
all the film makers who believed in me and my dreams,” the actor said at
the book launch.

“I am extremely thankful to all my fans who have made
me what I am today and would like to thank Royal Stag Mega Music, Samar and
everybody associated with this book for giving me the chance to relive all
those wonderful memories and characters once again,” Khan added.

The book includes 30 chapters and each one of them is a
director’s take on a particular character created by them and portrayed by SRK.
Popular names from B-town like Abbas Mustan, Kundan Shah, Anubhav Sinha and
Piyush Pandey attended the mega-event.

In a setback to Punjab, the Supreme Court on Thursday held as unconstitutional the state's 2004 law intended to deny Haryana its share of Sutlej-Yamuna water. Holding the Punjab Termination of Agreement Act, 2004, not in conformity with the provisions of the Constitution, the constitution bench of Justice Anil R. Dave, Justice Shiva Kirti Singh, Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose, Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel and Justice Amitava Roy answered in the negative all the four questions referred to the top court in a Presidential reference. While Justice Dave pronounced the opinion for the majority of the judges, Justice Singh, while agreeing with the majority view, gave his own observations.  At the initiative of the then Congress government headed by Amarinder Singh, the Punjab assembly had unanimously passed the law terminating all the agreements with the states of Haryana, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Chandigarh and Delhi on the sharing of Sutlej-Yamuna river water.  This act was brought to tide over the January 15, 2002 apex court judgment and decree and subsequent judgment and order of June 4, 2004. While answering the Presidential reference in the negative, the court refused to extend its interim order of March 17, 2016 by which it had appointed receivers under the Union Home Secretary to ensure that farmers' land that was acquired for constructing the Sutlej-Yamuna Link canal was not disturbed.  The Punjab assembly had also passed a law for returning the farmers land acquired for the canal.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's move to demonetise high value currency notes will not have any effect on the release of Rock On!! 2, says actor-filmmaker Farhan Akhtar who feels nothing can stop the audiences from coming to theatres once they decide that a film needs to be watched. Farhan, who plays one of the leads in Rock On!! 2 and is also the film's co-producer, wonders if there is ever the perfect time to release a film. “Finally, it's not about how much you market your film. If intense marketing helped sell a film to the audience, every film would be a hit. I feel the public makes up its mind whether it wants to see a film or not early in the process of a film's marketing. If they've decided they want to see a film, nothing can stop them,” he said. After Modi announced scrapping of Rs.500 and Rs.1,000 notes, there was a buzz that the makers of Rock On!! 2 were contemplating postponing its release to avoid the immediate backlash of the currency shortage among consumers. “Wrong,” said producer Ritesh Sidhwani, and added: “We are releasing on schedule this Friday.” In fact, cinema hall chain PVR Cinemas has decided not to charge convenience fee on usage of a debit or credit card for purchase of tickets for Rock On!! 2. Also, Paytm has started a 'buy one, get one free' offer for the first week of the movie's release.

As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi starts his three-day
official visit to Japan on Thursday, he will be expecting to see the already
close bilateral relationship rise to a new height, with several major deals set
to be inked.

Among them will be a civil nuclear cooperation agreement,
which allows Japan to export its nuclear plant technologies to India, and one
on India’s purchase of 12 amphibious rescue aircraft from a Japanese
manufacturer worth up to $1.6 billion.

These deals are especially significant given that India has
yet to ratify the international Non-Proliferation Treaty, and that the aircraft
deal will be one of Japan’s first sales of military equipment since it lifted a
50-year ban on arms exports.

The very good personal chemistry between Modi and Japanese
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is said to have played a part in deepening relations
between the two nations. It is reported that Modi is one of the few people Abe
follows on Twitter. Modi, on his part, first visited Japan back when he was
chief minister of India’s Gujarat province.

It would be just another diplomatic anecdote if it stopped
there.

Yet some have tried to describe the visit as a mutual effort
by New Delhi and Tokyo to “counter an assertive China”, or “to
keep a rising China in check”. They hope that an anti-China alliance could
be forged between the world’s second most populous nation and third-largest
economy, because of China’s longstanding territorial dispute with India and its
spat with Japan over the Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea.

People with such thinking have too simplistic an idea of
international relations that are not a zero-sum game.

Modi has always sought “to lead India’s foreign policy
with its economic interests in mind”. And Japan’s trade with India is
still less than a quarter of that between India and China.

China, as the top trade partner of both, is more than happy
to see deepened economic, trade and political relations between its neighbors
if they contribute to peace and stability in the region.

While some in Japan may continue to trumpet “the rule
of law in the South China Sea” or “freedom and openness in the Indian
and Pacific Oceans”, as Abe did with Modi in September on the sidelines of
a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Laos, Sino-Indian
relations are strong enough to withstand differences and external
interferences.

China
on Thursday successfully launched a satellite into space to detect signs of
pulsar, which are very high density stars formed exclusively by neutron.

The satellite, designed by academies affiliated to the state-owned China
Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, took off at 7.42 a.m from Jiuquan launch
base in the Gobi desert.

The satellite launch was conducted on a Long March-11 rocket which debuted last
year.

Upon entering the orbit, the satellite will conduct tests on signal and
adaptation to the space environment.

The pulsar, born of supernovae explosions, emits electromagnetic radiation on a
regular basis.

Neutron stars also rotate at high speed and have a slightly greater mass than
the sun but concentrated within a radius of 10 km approximately, which gives
them a high density.