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Facebook is an online social networking service. Its name comes from a colloquialism for the directory given to students at some American universities. Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow... moreFacebook is an online social networking service. Its name comes from a colloquialism for the directory given to students at some American universities. Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The founders had initially limited the website's membership to Harvard students, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities before it opened to high-school students, and eventually to anyone aged 13 and over. Facebook now allows anyone who claims to be at least 13 years old to become a registered user of the website.
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Cast
Arjun Kapoor as Krish Malhotra
Alia Bhatt as Ananya Swaminathan
Ronit roy as Vikram Malhotra – Krish's Father
Amrita Singh as Kavita Malhotra – Krish's Mother
Shiv Kumar Subramaniam as Shiv Swaminathan – Ananya’s Father
Revathy as Radha Swaminathan – Ananya's Mother
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Complete list of winners:
Best Performance in a Leading Role (Female) – Deepika Padukone
Best Performance in a Leading Role (Male) – Farhan Akhtar for ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’
Best Performance in a Supporting Role (Female) –... moreComplete list of winners:
Best Performance in a Leading Role (Female) – Deepika Padukone
Best Performance in a Leading Role (Male) – Farhan Akhtar for ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’
Best Performance in a Supporting Role (Female) – Divya Dutta for ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’
Best Performance in a Leading Role (Male) – Aditya Roy Kapur for “Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani’
Best Debut (Male) – Dhanush for ‘Raanjhanaa’.
Best Debut (Female) – Vaani Kapoor for Shudh Desi Romance
Best Director – Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra for ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’.
Best performance in a comic role Arshad Warsi for ‘Jolly L.L.B’
Best performance in a negative role – Rishi Kapoor for ‘D-Day’
Best Playback Singer (Female) – Shreya Ghoshal for Sun Raha Hai Na Tu (Aashiqui 2)
Best Playback Singer (Male) – Arijit Singh for Tum Hi Ho (Aashiqui 2)
Entertainer of the year – Deepika Padukone
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A part of this season will be held outside India after Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde denied the provision of security the league demanded as it would clash with the 2014 general election. The tournament will be jointly hosted by India and the United Arab Emirates. The opening 20 matches will be held in the UAE at three different stadiums in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah with the tournament returning to India on 2 May.
The player auction took place on 12 and 13 February 2014. Unlike previous seasons, the auction was in Indian Rupees rather than US dollars.
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Modi was a key strategist for the BJP in the successful 1995 and 1998 Gujarat state election campaigns, and was a major campaign figure in the 2009 general elections, eventually won by the Indian National Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA). He first became chief minister of Gujarat in October 2001 after the resignation of his predecessor, Keshubhai Patel, and following the defeat of BJP in the by-elections. In July 2007, he became the longest-serving Chief Minister in Gujarat's history, at which point he had been in power for 2,063 days continuously. He is currently serving his fourth consecutive term as Chief Minister.
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Northeast India is the eastern-most region of India connected to East India via a narrow corridor squeezed between Nepal and Bangladesh. It comprises the contiguous Seven Sister States—Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland... moreNortheast India is the eastern-most region of India connected to East India via a narrow corridor squeezed between Nepal and Bangladesh. It comprises the contiguous Seven Sister States—Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura—and the Himalayan state of Sikkim. These states are grouped under the MDONER ministry of the Government of India. Except for the Goalpara region of Assam, the rest were late entrants to political India—the Brahmaputra valley of Assam became a part of British India 1824, and the hilly regions even later. Sikkim joined the Indian union through a referendum in 1975 and was recognised as a part of North-East states in the 1990s.
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Woman killed two months before wedding as twin blasts hit train at Chennai station
KV Lakshmana and Sudipto Mondal, Hindustan Times Chennai/Bangalore, May 01,... morehome » India-News » India
Woman killed two months before wedding as twin blasts hit train at Chennai station
KV Lakshmana and Sudipto Mondal, Hindustan Times Chennai/Bangalore, May 01, 2014
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A woman was killed and at least 14 people were injured in two "low-intensity" explosions that took place on Guwahati-Bangalore Express at Chennai Central railway station on Thursday.
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Cops and security officials stand near a passenger train in which two explosions occurred, at Chennai railway station.(Reuters photo)
Bomb detection and disposal squad personnel search cargo for explosives on the platform of Bangalore railway station after twin explosions killed one and injured several in Chennai. (AFP photo)