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OTT Releases of the Week (June 23 - June 29): Squid Game Season 3, Raid 2, Panchayat 4, and More
The top OTT Platforms are ready with a new set of releases for this weekend to binge-watch. From Raid 2 to Squid Game season 3, there’s a lot to add to your watch list. Top streaming platforms include Netflix, Z5, Prime Video, JioHotstar, etc. Start streaming now.
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Viral Reddit Post Lists Things From The Past That Will Shock Gen-Z: "When The Internet..."
The responses are a mix of nostalgic throwbacks and fascinating revelations that will leave you either reminiscing or scratching your head.
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Centre "Singularly Responsible" For India's Economic Problems: Congress
The Congress on Tuesday attacked the Centre over a top UN agency projecting a decline in India's economic growth, saying the government's contention that the country's economic problems are imported is a "smoke screen".
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Anti-Smoking Messages on Screen Disturb Viewing, Says Shyam Benegal Panel
"The static warnings that appear during every smoking scene apart from the disclaimers and anti-tobacco health spots being shown mandatorily in the beginning and interval of every film, disturbs the smooth viewing of the film," the panel said in its report
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How Non-Smoker Shahid Kapoor Filmed Udta Punjab Title Track
"Shahid who doesn't smoke, shot the track with only smoke around. It was a tad bit difficult, but Shahid got into the skin of the character and finished the song without any hitch," the film's director Abhishek Chaubey said
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Lung Screening May Not Push Smokers to Quit
A new study suggest that Medicare and other insurers could be spending billions of dollars on screening smokers for lung cancer that would be better spent on helping them quit and keeping others from starting.
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Former Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss Urges Actor Dhanush to Give Up Smoking On-Screen
PMK leader and former Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss today appealed to Tamil actor Dhanush to give up smoking on screen in the interest of youngsters' health.
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Land Bill Changes a Smoke Screen to Help Industrialists: Congress
Hitting back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Land Acquisition Bill, the Congress on Sunday said the government's move to bring changes was a "smoke screen" to benefit industrialists and he was "lying" by claiming to have done favour with amendments in 13 Acts.
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Smoking scenes to be allowed again in films - with a warning
Smoking scenes will be back on the screen though with the strict stipulation that one of the actors in the scene warns viewers that "smoking kills".
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I&B Ministry wants a relook at conditions on smoking scenes
Finding it impractical to implement the strict conditions on showing smoking scenes in films, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry has reportedly asked the other concerned ministries to take a relook at the issue.
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Stop showing tobacco on screen, Bollywood urged
Civil society members urged the film industry and censor board to avoid depicting such scenes in movies.
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NGO protests over SRK puffing at IPL
The National Organisation for Tobacco Eradication (NOTE), has protested against filmstar who was shown on the TV screen smoking during an IPL match.
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OTT Releases of the Week (June 23 - June 29): Squid Game Season 3, Raid 2, Panchayat 4, and More
The top OTT Platforms are ready with a new set of releases for this weekend to binge-watch. From Raid 2 to Squid Game season 3, there’s a lot to add to your watch list. Top streaming platforms include Netflix, Z5, Prime Video, JioHotstar, etc. Start streaming now.
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Viral Reddit Post Lists Things From The Past That Will Shock Gen-Z: "When The Internet..."
The responses are a mix of nostalgic throwbacks and fascinating revelations that will leave you either reminiscing or scratching your head.
-
Centre "Singularly Responsible" For India's Economic Problems: Congress
The Congress on Tuesday attacked the Centre over a top UN agency projecting a decline in India's economic growth, saying the government's contention that the country's economic problems are imported is a "smoke screen".
-
Anti-Smoking Messages on Screen Disturb Viewing, Says Shyam Benegal Panel
"The static warnings that appear during every smoking scene apart from the disclaimers and anti-tobacco health spots being shown mandatorily in the beginning and interval of every film, disturbs the smooth viewing of the film," the panel said in its report
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How Non-Smoker Shahid Kapoor Filmed Udta Punjab Title Track
"Shahid who doesn't smoke, shot the track with only smoke around. It was a tad bit difficult, but Shahid got into the skin of the character and finished the song without any hitch," the film's director Abhishek Chaubey said
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Lung Screening May Not Push Smokers to Quit
A new study suggest that Medicare and other insurers could be spending billions of dollars on screening smokers for lung cancer that would be better spent on helping them quit and keeping others from starting.
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Former Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss Urges Actor Dhanush to Give Up Smoking On-Screen
PMK leader and former Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss today appealed to Tamil actor Dhanush to give up smoking on screen in the interest of youngsters' health.
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Land Bill Changes a Smoke Screen to Help Industrialists: Congress
Hitting back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Land Acquisition Bill, the Congress on Sunday said the government's move to bring changes was a "smoke screen" to benefit industrialists and he was "lying" by claiming to have done favour with amendments in 13 Acts.
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Smoking scenes to be allowed again in films - with a warning
Smoking scenes will be back on the screen though with the strict stipulation that one of the actors in the scene warns viewers that "smoking kills".
-
I&B Ministry wants a relook at conditions on smoking scenes
Finding it impractical to implement the strict conditions on showing smoking scenes in films, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry has reportedly asked the other concerned ministries to take a relook at the issue.
-
Stop showing tobacco on screen, Bollywood urged
Civil society members urged the film industry and censor board to avoid depicting such scenes in movies.
-
NGO protests over SRK puffing at IPL
The National Organisation for Tobacco Eradication (NOTE), has protested against filmstar who was shown on the TV screen smoking during an IPL match.
