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Sidharth Shukla is the winner of Bigg Boss 13. The actor took home the winner's trophy. After facing a roller-coaster ride of umpteen tasks, extreme challenges and staying away from all the luxuries for 140 days, Sidharth Shukla emerged as the winner of the Bigg Boss 13 finale, which aired on Colors on Saturday night. Paras Chhabra was the first of the six finalists to be eliminated while Aarti Singh was the second one to leave the house, followed by Rashami Desai. Shehnaz, Asim and Sidharth made it to the top three. Comedian and Salman Khan's Bharat co-star Sunil Grover took over the stage and amused all the contestants with his funny gag. His impressive mimicry of Amitabh Bachchan clearly deserves a special mention. Sunil's act cracked up all the contestants.

#coronavirus Coronaviruses are a family of viruses known for containing strains that cause potentially deadly diseases in mammals and birds. In humans they're typically spread via airborne droplets of fluid produced by infected individuals. What is the virus causing illness in Wuhan? It is a novel coronavirus – that is to say, a member of the coronavirus family that has never been encountered before. Like other coronaviruses, it has come from animals. Many of those infected either worked or frequently shopped in the Huanan seafood wholesale market in the centre of the Chinese city, which also sold live and newly slaughtered animals. New and troubling viruses usually originate in animal hosts.

What is  CAB /CAA NRC/Citizenship Amendment Act & National Register of CitizensThe Citizenship Amendment Act is based on religion, with a thrust on exclusion of Muslims from those #cabnrcbill immigrants from India's three Muslim-majority neighbours — Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan — seeking India's citizenship. But National Register of Citizens is not based on religion. It seeks to detect any illegal immigrant, regardless of their caste, creed or religion and detain and eventually deport them. NRC limited to Assam, CAA nationwide Inspite of Union Home Minister Amit Shah's repeated claims, the fact remains that the NRC exercise, as of today, remains a state-specific exercise. The NRC, identified and detained illegal immigrants from Assam, on Supreme Court's order, to keep its ethnic uniqueness unaltered. It does not apply anywhere apart from the state. Citizenship Amendment Act is a nationwide Act While the Citizenship Amendment Act is a nationwide Act and...

Thousands of protesters have converged at the Gateway of India to condemn the violence at JNU. While several of them shouted slogans, some others were seen making posters at the site to vent their anger over the incident.  studentprotest However, this particular poster at the site evoked strong reactions on social media platforms. Reacting to the image and video of this poster tweeted by news agency ANI, several people demanded strong action against the woman protester for openly taking an anti-India stand. #jnucabprotest

Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has been sentenced to death by a Pakistan court in the high treason case, according to Pakistani media reports. The former military dictator was sentenced to death today by a three-member bench of a special court in the long-drawn high treason case against him for suspending the constitution and imposing emergency rule in the country in November 2007, a punishable offence for which he was indicted in 2014. Pervez Musharraf, 76, has been living in exile in Dubai since March 2016 after he left Pakistan for medical treatment and has not returned since citing health and security. Since then, he has spent most of his time between Dubai and London. In March, he was admitted to a hospital in Dubai after suffering from an ailment.Musharraf had challenged the special court verdict and sought suspension of his trial in his absence. He asked the Lahore High Court to suspend the special court's reserved verdict until he is healthy enough to appear b...

The Gadhimai Festival - a two-day festival in honour of the Hindu goddess of power - kicked off in the early hours of Tuesday amid tight security, with the ceremonial slaughter of a goat, rat, chicken, pig and pigeon. A local shaman then offered blood from five points of his body. Following that, some 200 butchers with sharpened swords and knives walked into a walled arena bigger than a football field that held several thousand animals as excited pilgrims climbed trees to catch a glimpse.Hindu worshippers have begun slaughtering thousands of buffalo as part of a religious ritual held every five years in southern Nepal, despite efforts to end the practice considered the world's biggest sacrifice of animals at any one site

The numbers: BJP with 105 s As the rift between the BJP and Sena seemed irreparable, an improbable alliance began to be worked out between the Shiv Sena, the NCP and the Congress. The resignations of Fadnavis and Pawar came after a week of hectic activity, beginning with the Shiv Sena-Nationalist Congress Party-Congress combine seeming to finally come to an agreement on Friday about what sort of government they would run, despite appearing to hold extremely different ideologies. The month-long saga of who will form a government in Maharashtra seems to have ended on Tuesday. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis of the Bharatiya Janata Party resigned, just three days after he was sworn in before dawn on Saturday. His announcement came hours after Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, a renegade from the Nationalist Congress Party, stepped down. Fadnavis held a press conference on Tuesday afternoon admitting that he did not have the numbers to form a government in the 288-member hous eats,...

ब्राजिलको रिओ दि जेनेरिओ सहरमा दिउँसै मगन्ते युवतीलाई पैसा मागेको निहुँमा पैदलयात्रु एक युवकले पेस्तोल प्रहार गरी हत्या गरेको भिडियो यहाँको टेलिभिजनले सार्वजनिक गरेको छ । ती युवतीले पैदलयात्रुसँग ब्राजिलियन एक रियल मागिरहेको भिडियोमा देखिन्छ । तर युवकले अचानक प्यान्टभित्रबाट पेस्तोल झिकेर नजिकैबाट प्रहार गरेको देखिन्छ । त्यसपछि आक्रमणकारी शान्तसँग हिँडिरहेका देखिएका छन् । केही बेरमै तिनै युवा मृतक युवतीलाई बचाउन अत्तालिँदै युवती भएछेउ पुगेर बचाउन प्रयास गरेका छन् । ती युवाको नाम अदेर्बल रामोस दे क्यास्त्रो भएको बताइएको छ । ब्राजिलियन प्रहरीका अनुसार ती महिलाले ब्राजिलियन एक रियल मात्रै मागेकी थिइन् । स्थानीयहरुका अनुसार ती ३१ वर्षीया मगन्ते महिलाको नाम जिल्दा हेनरिक दोस सान्तोस लियान्द्रो हो । जसलाई स्थानीयहरु निया भनेर बोलाउँथे । साथै ती घरबार विहीन महिला सडक छेउमै बस्दैआएकी थिइन् ।

 The Supreme Court pronounced in a historic judgement on Saturday that a temple be constructed for Hindus on a 2.77-acre site in Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya town, which has been the epicentre of independent India's biggest religio-political wrangle, while Muslims should get an alternative land to build a potential mosque. The five-judge Constitution bench, headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, ruled unanimously that the spot, where frenzied right-wing mobs destroyed the four-centuries-old Babri Masjid in 1992, should be handed over to a trust that the Centre must constitute in three months to oversee the construction of a temple, subject to conditions. #rammandir  #ayodhayavirdict

India New Map Captured Nepal Kalapani area to protect from with China. The Ministry of External Affairs said that the boundaries with Nepal remain unchanged in the new map.New indian map accurately depicts the sovereign territory of India. The new map has in no manner revised our boundary with Nepal. MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar told media. https://youtu.be/W2NRdtGaUGg He, however, added that the boundary delineation exercise with Nepal was ongoing under the existing mechanism. "We reiterate our commitment to finding a solution through dialogue in the spirit of our close and friendly bilateral relations. At the same time, both countries should guard against vested interests trying to create differences between our two nation.MEA on Thursday allied Nepal's fears about India trying appropriate its territory in the new map. Reacting on Nepal's claim that the new map of India 'incorrectly' depicted Kalapani area situated in the country's far-West lies wit...

Donald JTrump was on his feet for the main event as Jorge Masvidal defeated a bloodied Nate Diaz via TKO before the fourth round at UFC 244 at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night.   wrapped a crudely named, made-for-PPV baddest man in MMA title belt around Masvidal’s waist as nearly 20,000 fans howled in protest of the quick finish. Masvidal dominated the first three rounds and opened cuts above Diaz’s eyes that turned his face into a crimson mask. The assigned doctor for the New York State Athletic Commission stopped the fight just before the fourth round.  

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