Saving the best for the last indeed! ‘Love Aaj Kal‘ director Imtiaz Ali surprised the fans recently by spilling some secrets around the actor Randeep Hooda’s character in the upcoming flick.

The trailer that got dropped a few weeks earlier did show the chemistry between the lead actors Kartik Aaryan and Sara Ali Khan. Randeep, too, had his own share of scenes in the trailer.

But, in a snippet of the movie shared by the director himself on Instagram it has come to notice that Randeep is the character Raghu, the guy Kartik plays in his 90s scenes.

In the video, we can see Randeep explaining his flashback love story of 90s to Sara which is played by Kartik opposite Arushi Sharma as his lover. Sara is seen as highly intrigued to listen to his share of romance from his earlier life.

Alongside the video, tagging Randeep, Imtiaz wrote in his Instagram: “brother we saved the best for the last 🙂 Presenting Raj in #LoveAajKal”.

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Director Vidhu Vinod Chopra slammed those alleging that he “commercialised the pain of Kashmiri pandits” with his film ‘Shikara‘ and termed them donkeys.

“‘3 Idiots’ earned 33 crores on first day and we knew the first day of Shikara will be 30 lakh. I make a film in the memory of my mother for 30 lakh collection on first day and some people say I commercialised the pain of Kashmiri Pandits. These people are donkeys,” said Chopra at an event on Tuesday.

Earlier on the day of the release of the film, a woman belonging to the Kashmiri Pandit community broke down and lashed out at Chopra after watching the film at a theatre here where he had come to get a firsthand public review of the film.

The woman alleged that Chopra commercialised the entire issue of the exodus of the community which took place in 1990 and did not portray the actual suffering of the community including the genocide, mass rapes and mass murders committed by Islamic radical groups in his film.

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Asia’s biggest motor show drew to a close on Wednesday bringing the curtains down on the six-day extravaganza. Even though it fell short of the overall number of participation, it was one of the biggest in terms of partaking by new entrants.

Beating the slowdown that has sapped buyer’s sentiments and hit volumes at auto companies for the past year-and-a-half, a total of 608,526 people visited the show at the Great Noida Expo Mart between February 7 and 12, according to Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (Siam).

With a peek into the future of mobility via green technologies, the exposition included 352 product displays from 108 exhibitors.

This included eight global premiers and over 70 launches and unveils. It also comprised introduction of 35 electric vehicles and 15 concepts.

Though many manufacturers gave the show a miss, those who participated believed in it as a platform to rekindle interest in a slowing market.

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Coronavirus concerns, corporate results, and macro data will be the top triggers for Indian indices today. Investors might turn cautious after China’s Hubei province reported a record rise in the coronavirus death toll on Thursday, as global health experts warned the epidemic could get far worse before it is brought under control. Health officials in Hubei province said 242 people had died from the flu-like virus on Wednesday that brought the total number of deaths in the province to 1,310.

Market participants will also react to macro numbers released post market hours yesterday. Retail inflation in January rose to a multi-year high of 7.59 percent, while industrial output contracted 0.3 percent in December, against a growth of 1.8 percent in November, data showed. The figures might dent investors’ outlook on the revival in the Indian economy.

On the results front, almost 615 companies, including BPCL, Page Industries, Nestle India, and Apollo Hospitals Enterprise, are scheduled to announce their December quarter results today.

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Despite the push for electric vehicles and sustainability, the market share for automobiles will be dominated by internal combustion engine (ICE)-driven cars for at least a decade for a multitude of reasons, top-most of which is the absence of an accompanying charging infrastructure across the nation.

According to research by IHS Markit, for an ecosystem still grappling with infrastructural issues, high costs of EVs and a greater OEM focus on electrifying two-wheelers and commercial vehicles, the share for such vehicles would be at four per cent by 2030. The passenger-car market in India has seen sales volumes of over three million units during the past few years.

A study by Crisil Research shows that by 2024, 43-48 per cent of new three-wheelers (excluding e-rickshaws), and 12-17 per cent of new two-wheelers sold in India will be electric vehicles but traction may be low for four-wheelers, with only five per cent of new sales likely to be Evs.

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South Korean electronics manufacturer Samsung on Wednesday unveiled its 2020 flagship smartphones at a global event, which was held in San Francisco. At the event, the company unveiled the Galaxy S20-series of smartphones, along with the Galaxy Flip Z foldable phone.

Unlike last year, Samsung unveiled three variants of the Galaxy S20-series, all with 5G network support. The phones are named the Galaxy S20, the Galaxy S20 Plus and the Galaxy S20 Ultra. The Galaxy S20-series smartphones get major updates with regard to design, display and imaging experience. Samsung uses a 120Hz refresh rate AMOLED screen across variants. However, the three models would have different screen sizes.

Imaging also get major bumps, both in terms of sensors and value-added features. The Galaxy S20-series brings higher-megapixel camera modules, featuring more than three optics on the vanilla S20 and four rear sensors on the S20 Plus and S20 Ultra.

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The number of fatalities from China’s new coronavirus epidemic jumped to 1,110 nationwide on Wednesday after hard-hit Hubei province reported 94 new deaths.

In its daily update, Hubei’s health commission also confirmed another 1,638 new cases in the central province, where the outbreak emerged in December. There are now more than 44,200 confirmed cases across China, based on previously released figures from the government.

The new virus is believed to have emerged last year in a market that sells wild animals in Hubei’s capital Wuhan, the city at the centre of the outbreak. The virus was officially named “COVID-19” at a conference in Geneva held by the World Health Organization, where the body’s chief said countries had a chance of stopping its global spread.

WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday that although 99 percent of cases are in China, where it remains “very much an emergency,” it also “holds a very grave threat for the rest of the world.” He urged countries to share data in order to further research the disease.

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AAP leader Sanjay Singh on Tuesday said his party will register a “massive win” in the high-stakes Delhi Assembly election, counting for which began amid tight security at various centres set up to carry out the exercise.

Initial trends suggested the ruling Aam Aadmi Party marching ahead, but the Bharatiya Janata Party leaders maintained that their party would win.

The counting began at 8 am and will be held in multiple rounds, Delhi Chief Electoral Officer Ranbir Singh said.

“We have been saying since the beginning that the upcoming polls will be fought on the basis of work done by us and it is too early. You wait and watch we will register a massive win,” Singh told reporters outside his residence.

Here you can read: Delhi Election Result 2020

In the third and final match of its One Day International series against India, the New Zealand cricket team won the toss and invited India to bat first. For New Zealand, regular captain Kane Williamson has returned to its playing 11 for this match, being played today at at Bay Oval, Mount Maunganui. India, on the other hand, has made only one change — bringing in Manish Pandey in place of Kedar Jadhav.

Here are the playing 11s of both teams:

New Zealand playing 11: Martin Guptill, Henry Nicholls, Kane Williamson(c), Ross Taylor, Tom Latham(w), James Neesham, Colin de Grandhomme, Mitchell Santner, Tim Southee, Kyle Jamieson, Hamish Bennett

India playing 11: Prithvi Shaw, Mayank Agarwal, Virat Kohli(c), Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, K L Rahul(w), Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Navdeep Saini, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah

India vs New Zealand 3rd ODI live score

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Delhi election results LIVE updates: Counting of votes for the Delhi Assembly Election is underway, with the incumbent Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leading in 13 and BJP in 11. Postal ballots were counted first. TV exits polls have unanimously predicted that the incumbent Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will return to power in Delhi with a comfortable majority, even as polling percentage this time across the 70 Assembly constituencies has declined to 62 per cent from a 67 per cent turnout seen in the 2015 Delhi Assembly election. The AAP had registed a historic win, bagging 67 of the seats.

However, exit polls have not dampened the spirits of challenger Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The party leaders claim that the Delhi election result will surprise everyone as “the saffron party will stake claim to power with a resounding majority”.

Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari on Monday asserted that his party will win 48 seats in the 70-member Assembly and form the next government. “Our confidence is based on a micro analysis of all the seats. The exit polls are only rough estimates. I am confident that the BJP will form the government in Delhi with a full majority,” he said. The BJP campaigned extensively for this election and aggressively raised the anti-CAA protests in Shaheen Bagh as a poll issue. While the Congress was visibly mute, the AAP stressed on its development agenda and progress made by Delhi during its government term.

Here you can read: Delhi Election Result 2020