All not well between Anurag, Sabrina?

It is being said that after Kashyap went public with their relationship, Sabrina hasn’t reported back to work.

According to a source, “In a recent interview, Anurag said that he was seeing Sabrina. Upon reading this, her family was shocked. Her father, in particular, was upset because he was not aware of their affair. Until recently, he only knew that she was part of a big film. He was proud of her work but this revelation has come as a shock to him.”

The source, who is close to the filmmaker, adds that since then, Sabrina has stopped answering her phone. “We only know that her father is upset with her. She has not been coming to work for the past few days,” says the source.

It may be pointed out that Sabrina, who is in her 20s and is fondly called Sabby by Kashyap, has been assisting him on his film, ‘Bombay Velvet’.

Interestingly enough, in a recent interview, the filmmaker had said that he was in a happy phase right now.

Kashyap remained unavailable for comment.

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'Desi Kattey' a different take on friendship: Anand Kumar

The film, starring Jay Bhanushali, Akhil Kapur, Suniel Shetty, Sasha Agha, Tia Bajpai and Ashutosh Rana, is releasing on August 28.

"My film is about the journey of two boys and their friendship. One of them becomes a gangster while the other one becomes a shooter who goes to Olympics. Suniel plays an army officer and who turns mentor to Jay's character," Anand said.

The director, whose last film did not do well, is confident that his new movie will not suffer the fate of 'Zila Ghaziabad' which, he feels, was not promoted well.
   
Anand said he next plans to direct 'Pachis Hazrat Ganj'.

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Rahul meets Badaun gang-rape victims’ family, demands CBI probe

Rahul said the Uttar Pradesh police cannot give them justice and the culprits should know that they cannot get away with such a heinous crime.

"They have said that the honour of their daughters cannot be brought back with money. They said they want justice and they have no faith in the UP police as their people are involved. They said that the UP police cannot get them justice. I agree with them, there can be no price for a woman's honour,” said Rahul.

"I am also in agreement with them on what they have said about the CBI inquiry. CBI inquiry should happen," he added.

The Congress vice-president, however, refrained from attacking the Samajwadi Party government which has faced a lot of flak over the sensational crime amid allegations that the local police was hand in glove with the accused.

"Whosoever have committed this crime should know that they cannot do such things in India," Rahul said

The Congress vice-president visited the home of the dalit girls and during the interaction, their family members complained that the police did not act when they approached the local police chowki.

"Had the police acted in time, our daughters would have been alive," father of one of the victims told Rahul.

The Congress leader also walked to the spot where the victims had been found hanging from a tree.

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Social groups condemn police role in Badaun gang-rape

The groups lashed out at the lackadaisical approach of police and insensitive comments of Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, after the two girls were found hanging from a tree.

The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) condemned the role of police officers in shielding the accused.

"There can be no hope of preventing or minimizing rape if our law enforcers are apathetic to it. A message must be sent that this kind of criminality will not be tolerated, particularly against minors, by ensuring that all the penal provisions on gang rape and murder are invoked, including the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012," a statement said.

As per reports, when the parents of the girls approached police to file a complaint, the officials refused to do so and sent them away, asking them not to worry.

Ruchira Gupta, founder and president of NGO Apne Aap Women Worldwide, echoed similar sentiments and stressed the need to hold police accountable.

"To stop rape, we need police to be held accountable. As long as police are part of the problem, poor, low caste women have nowhere to turn to for justice from men who rape them, buy and sell them," Gupta said in a statement.

"Even police believe that poor low caste women should be sexually available. There is an urgent need for police reforms and urgent need for section 166 A to challenge India's rape culture," she said, referring to the section in the Indian Penal Code that deals with a public official disobeying the law.

The groups feel police revamping is necessary.

"Unless there is a full examination of the chain of command and police is not revamped from top to toe, these tragedies will continue to occur," said CHRI director Maja Daruwala in a statement.

NGO ActionAid hailed Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi's quick response seeking a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation and setting up of a rape crisis cell.

"We welcome the speedy and sensitive response from Maneka Gandhi who has promised that a 'rape crisis cell' will be set up which has been a long standing demand of women's rights groups," Sehjo Singh, ActionAid India's programme and policy director, said in a statement.

Expressing concern on the low rate of conviction, Singh said, "The extremely low conviction rates send out a signal to perpetrators that they are free to act with impunity and can deter women from reporting rape and other crimes of sexual violence."..

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Badal to meet Narendra Modi with development plan for Punjab

Interacting with mediapersons on the sidelines of 'Sangat Darshan' programme in Talwandi Sabo Assembly segment here, Badal said he would soon meet Modi and Union Ministers in New Delhi to apprise them about the special needs of Punjab, which had "suffered" adversely due to the "step-motherly" treatment of the

Congress-led UPA government.

The Chief Minister alleged that the state government's plan to develop Punjab was "deliberately sabotaged" by the previous Union government.

"But now, with the formation of the NDA government at the Centre, the development of the state would get a major boost," he said.

Punjab government officials have already been asked to prepare a detailed plan regarding the development of the state and the problems faced by it so that maximum benefit could be taken from the grants under the various Central schemes, the Chief Minister said.

"The country in general and Punjab in particular has a lot of hopes from Modi," Badal said.
"Modi is a decisive and visionary Prime Minister of India and he will certainly work hard to realise the cherished dreams of every man of the country," added Badal.

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Smriti appeals to DU to reinstate officials suspended for leaking her documents

“In public life one should be open to scrutiny and criticism. So am I,” Irani said on Twitter.

“Since DU is an autonomous institution I have put forth my personal appeal to the VC to reinstate the officials,” she added.
Meanwhile, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh welcomed the HRD Minister’s decision.

“Thanks Smriti for appealing to VC DU for reinstating DU officials. Now let people of this Country know your actual Educational Qualification,” Singh said on Twitter.

The senior Congress leader had earlier in the day condemned the move to suspend the five officials of Delhi University.

“ 5 officials of Delhi University suspended for leaking HRD Minster's educational qualification details! Does this Govt believe in transparency,” he tweeted.

Five non-teaching staff members of Delhi University were suspended for allegedly leaking purported documents relating to undergraduate course admission and admit card of Irani whose educational qualification is caught up in a row.

"DU's School of Open Learning has suspended five people on the suspicion that they entered a confidential domain and accessed documents which were leaked," University sources had said earlier...

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