Watch: Varun Dhawan shares a special BTS video documenting his journey with Remo D’Souza and team from ‘ABCD 2’ to ‘Street Dancer 3D’

It was the final curtain call for Varun Dhawan, Shraddha Kapoor and the team of ‘Street Dancer 3D’ as they wrapped up shooting for the dance flick last Friday. After a long and demanding shoot schedule that began last year, the team finally bid their farewells with emotional notes that they shared on social media over the past weekend.
Today, leading man Varun took to his YouTube channel to share a special behind the scenes video that documented his journey from ‘ABCD 2’ to the final day on the sets of ‘Street Dancer 3D’, the third instalment of the hugely successful ‘ABCD’ franchise.

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"Disagree With Gavaskar Sir": Sanjay Manjrekar On Virat Kohli's Status As Captain

Sunil Gavaskar had questioned why Virat Kohli was an automatic selection for the post of India captain, saying that the Indian selection committee should have had a formal meeting to reappoint Virat Kohli as skipper of the Indian team. Calling the selection committee "lame ducks", cricketing legend Sunil Gavaskar had said that while players like Kedar Jadhav, Dinesh Karthik "get dropped after below expectation performance, the captain continues despite much below par expectations". Former India batsman Sanjay Manjrekar took to Twitter to oppose Gavaskar's take on Virat Kohli's captaincy and his remarks on the Indian selectors.

Countering Sunil Gavaskar, Manjrekar said that India "did not put in a 'much below par WC performance' they won 7 lost two".

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Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad Moves Triple Talaq Bill In Rajya Sabha

• Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Tuesday moved the triple talaq bill in Rajya Sabha, saying it has been brought to ensure justice for Muslim women and should not be seen through a political prism
• Urging members to approve 'The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2019', he said the practice of triple talaq is continuing despite the Supreme Court banning the same through its judgement
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WhatsApp iOS Beta Starts Testing Quick Media Edit Feature, Multi-Platform System Rumoured

WhatsApp has released a new beta update for iPhone users, and it brings a number of changes. The most notable change is the removal of the ability to save profile picture using 3D Touch. Other changes include notifications of download issues using a pinned alert in chats and enabling of the Quick Media Edit feature for testing purposes. Now that this feature has been enabled, it should trickle down to the stable version soon. WhatsApp features tracker WABetaInfo also reported of a new rumour suggesting that the company is working on a multi-platform system that will allow business users to run the same account on two devices at the same time.

A WhatsApp for iOS update recently released in the TestFlight Beta Program brings the version up to 2.19.80.16. Talking about the changes, WABetaInfo tips that WhatsApp has removed 3D Touch shortcuts thus ending the ability to save profile picture using the shortcut. WhatsApp is also testing pinned alerts for download issues, and this alert will show up on the top of your chats, suggesting you to update the app.

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Tax Rise For High Earners May Trigger Fund Flight, Says Ex-RBI Governor

Tax Rise For High Earners May Trigger Fund Flight, Says Ex-RBI Governor

"In theory if tax rates are very high, obviously people look for other countries," Mr Jalan said.

NEW DELHI: 

A former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor, Bimal Jalan, has warned that the higher income taxes the government introduced in its budget could lead to a flight of funds from the country.

"In theory if tax rates are very high, obviously people look for other countries, which have lower interest rates, and also exemptions from income tax," said Mr Jalan, 77, who chairing a central bank panel deciding on how much of the RBI's reserves should be transferred to the government.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her budget this month, raised taxes on people earning more than Rs. 1 crore a year to at least 42.7 per cent. That included foreign portfolio investors registered as trusts.

Analysts and traders say this has been a major reason for foreign investors being net sellers of more than Rs. 3,000 crore of funds from Indian equity markets in July, after they invested more than Rs. 10,000 crore in June.

That has helped to send India's BSE index tumbling more than 4 per cent to 37,686.37 since July 1.

Parliament passed the budget last week.

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Gulabo Sitabo: Amitabh Bachchan Makes Fun Of His Own Tantrums, Remarks On 'farewell' Culture

Gulabo Sitabo: Amitabh Bachchan Makes Fun Of His Own Tantrums, Remarks On 'farewell' Culture

• Amitabh Bachchan pens a heartwarming note on his blog⟵⟵ as he wrapped up shooting for his upcoming venture 'Gulabo Sitabo'
• His hilarious remarks on 'farewell' culture is sure to tickle your funnybone
• The veteran star further hailed Shoojit Sircar and talked about his experience working with the director. 

Veteran Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan, recently penned a heartwarming note on his blog as he wrapped up shooting for his upcoming venture 'Gulabo Sitabo'. The actor shared a number of pictures from the wrap-up celebrations and made fun of his own tantrums, remarks on 'farewell' culture. 

"Another chapter endeth .. and they that have worked and lived together for these almost 45 + days, bid farewell in the rejoice of the association .. its been a tradition now with this generation to applaud the last day of work .. it never was this before .. but it feels more like a relief from the artist, his tantrums his idiosyncrasies, his temperament his fluctuating moods, pet paroxysms demands, and generally unwanted behavior.. all of which they have found in me, and now rejoice my departure .." he wrote in his blog.

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If you are a great talent, you need time' - Shreyas Iyer

If you are a great talent, you need time' - Shreyas Iyer

Shreyas Santosh Iyer is an Indian cricketer who presently captains Delhi Capitals in the Indian Premier League. A right-handed top-order batsman, Iyer has played One Day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals for the India national cricket team. He played for the India Under-19 cricket team at the 2014 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup. He plays for Mumbai in domestic cricket

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