Paulo Coelho gives Nawazuddin Siddiqui a shout-out
Earlier this month, we learnt that Nawazuddin Siddiqui is a Momina Mustehsan fan. And now, we know that writer Paulo Coelho is a Nawazuddin admirer! Coelho took to Twitter to share some praise for the Netflix series, Sacred Games and Siddiqui, calling him ‘a great actor’:
Senator Cristina Castro hosts Fundraiser for Senator Dick Durbin State and Representative Fred Crespo
Honorary Cristina Castro and other elected officials hosted a Backyard BBQ with Senator Dick Durbin on Sunday, September 15th – 1:00 to 3:00 PM @ Home of Marty McCormack and Ivonne Hopkins in Elgin. Over 150 democrats attended this event. Over a dozen of elected officials were there. It was outstanding gathering. State Senator Cristina […]
Felicity Huffman gets 14 days in prison in college cheating scandal
Actress Felicity Huffman, the first parent sentenced in a wide-ranging US college admissions cheating scandal, was given a 14-day prison term on Friday after pleading guilty to paying to rig her daughter’s entrance exam. US District Judge Indira Talwani sentenced Huffman, the 56-year-old former star of the popular television series “Desperate Housewives” and one-time Academy […]
Justice Department authorized prosecutors to charge Andrew McCabe
WASHINGTON (AP) – Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, a frequent target of US President Donald Trump’s wrath, faces the prospect of criminal charges after his lawyers failed to persuade senior Justice Department officials that he didn’t intentionally lie to internal investigators. Two people familiar with the matter said on Thursday (Sept 12) that Deputy […]
Ohio mom, 20, acquitted of killing newborn, convicted of corpse abuse
LEBANON, Ohio (AP) – A young Ohio mother who prosecutors said killed and buried her unwanted newborn in her backyard just days after her senior prom so that she could keep her “perfect life” was acquitted of murder on Thursday (Sept 12). Brooke Skylar Richardson, now 20, began shaking and sobbing while a judge read […]
Supreme Court allows broad enforcement of Trump’s asylum limits
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing nationwide enforcement of a new Trump administration rule that prevents most Central American immigrants from seeking asylum in the United States. The justices’ order late Wednesday temporarily undoes a lower-court ruling that had blocked the new asylum policy in some states along the southern border. The policy […]
Gully Boy to release in Japan in October
Filmmaker Zoya Akhtar’s “Gully Boy”, which has premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and won the Best Film award at Indian Film Festival of Melbourne, is all set to release in Japan in October. “I am very happy, very proud that Gully Boy is releasing in Japan. I have never been to Japan but only […]
Justin Trudeau calls Canadian general election for 21 October
Justin Trudeau kicked off the fight of his political life Wednesday, under attack for an ethics lapse and other controversies as he opened a campaign for Canada’s October 21 general elections. Polls showed Trudeau, once the youthful golden boy of Canadian politics, in a horse race with Conservative Andrew Scheer, who launched his bid for […]
18 years later, America vows to ‘never forget’ 9/11
NEW YORK – Americans commemorated 9/11 with solemn remembrances and vows to “never forget” 18 years after the deadliest terror attacks on American soil. A crowd of victims’ relatives assembled at Ground Zero, where the observance began on Wednesday (Sept 11) with a moment of silence and tolling bells at 8.46am – the moment when […]
Dozens killed after stampede at Ashura ritual in Iraq
BAGHDAD – At least 31 people died and another 102 were wounded on Tuesday (Sept 10) during the Shi’ite Muslim religious rituals of Ashura in Iraq’s southern holy city of Kerbala, in what officials at its Imam Hussein shrine described as a stampede. The death toll released by the Iraqi Health Ministry was expected to […]
