New Delhi: Athlete Milkha Singh's wife Nirmal Kaur is impressed by actor Farhan Akhtar, who plays the Flying Sikh in forthcoming film 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag'.
The movie is inspired by Milkha Singh, known for his brilliant running.
Nirmal Kaur, the former captain of the national women's volleyball team, is impressed by the way Akhtar changed his appearance for the character and went through rigorous physical training.
According to sources, Nirmal Kaur said that Akhtar's efforts in the film should fetch him some prestigious awards....
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06:04 AM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: After a stern warning from the Janata Dal (United) leader and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over National Democratic Alliance's (NDA) prime ministerial candidate, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hit out at its biggest ally saying it should refrain from targeting its allies and instead focus on removing the "corrupt" United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. Nitish had, in a veiled threat to the BJP, made it clear that...
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02:23 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Day two of the BJP's National Executive where the party is putting together its strategy for the 2014 General Elections. Sources say the Gujarat Chief Minister is likely to be made the chairman of the BJP election committee but a formal decision unlikely to be taken till the end of March. ...
12:21 PM, Mar 02, 2013
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04:05 AM, Mar 01, 2013
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05:31 AM, Feb 06, 2013
The voice of jailed MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi, who is facing sedition charges for his alleged "hate speech," was on Tuesday recorded by Andhra Pradesh Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) even as a local court extended his judicial remand in the case till February 19. Akbaruddin's voice was recorded in the court of Judicial First Class Magistrate in Nirmal town of Adilabad district by the APFSL experts and the sample will...
04:31 PM, Feb 05, 2013
A local court on Tuesday extended till February 5 the judicial remand of MIM legislator Akbaruddin Owaisi, accused of sedition and criminal conspiracy for his "hate speech." The Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) leader, who is presently lodged in Adilabad District Jail since his arrest on January 8 by Nirmal Police from Gandhi Hospital in Hyderabad, was produced before the Additional Judicial First Class Magistrate court here which extended his judicial custody...
01:50 PM, Jan 22, 2013
BJP on Thursday asked the Centre to take tough steps against Pakistan in the wake of the brutal killing of two Indian soldiers and pledged support to it on the issue even as it rued that the country has a "weak government" which may not be capable of such decisions. ...
08:21 PM, Jan 10, 2013
New Delhi: A plea for lodging a criminal case against self-proclaimed godman Nirmal Baba for allegedly cheating people and breaching public trust was on Monday dismissed by a Delhi court. Metropolitan Magistrate Neeraj Gaur dismissed advocate Prem Shankar Sharma's complaint for direction to the police to register an FIR against Nirmaljeet Singh Narula alias Nirmal Baba and asked Sharma to lead pre-summoning evidence in favour of his complaint. Sharma had...
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07:20 PM, Oct 09, 2012
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02:40 PM, Oct 04, 2012
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11:52 AM, Sep 28, 2012
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01:39 AM, Sep 24, 2012
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12:06 PM, Sep 10, 2012
