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Siva Karthikeyan and Keerthy Suresh’s Tamil outing Remo is gearing up for a release in Telugu on November 25. The film cleared its censor hurdles and received a U certificate from the board.
Sivakarthikeyan enjoys good fan following among children and family audience and a ‘U’ certificate is also important for his film from the business standpoint. TV anchor-turned-film actor, Sivakarthikeyan will be seen in one of a kind role in this upcoming romantic comedy. The movie features Sivakarthikeyan dressed in drag. He has disguised himself as a drool-worthy nurse.
Upcoming actor Keerthy Suresh, who is on a roll in the South Indian film industry, will be seen romancing Sivakarthikeyan onscreen for the first time. She was last seen in recently released Thodari, starring Dhanush and also in Tollywood flicks opposite Ram in Nenu Sailaja. She will also be pairing with Nani in Nenu Local.
Top producer Dil Raju is releasing the film in Telugu. Remo is directed by Bakkiyaraj Kannan and has music from young heartthrob Anirudh Ravichander, which is also his fourth collaboration with Sivakarthikeyan
The Tamil version released on October 7 and did decent business at the Tamil box office. After reportedly garnering Rs 8 crore on its opening day, the film has outdone itself in its theatrical box office collection on Saturday and Sunday of the releasing week. Not just in Tamil Nadu, the film is also doing well overseas. The film, which marked the widest opening for Siva in the US, where it released in over 70 screens, holds the second position among Indian films after Telugu movie, Premam.
The south princess who is on a roll with big-ticket stars is teaming up with Powerstar Pawan Kalyan and director Trivikram Srinivas for her next Tollywood flick. She was elated to share the news on social media.
“Very happy to announce my next Telugu film with Pawan Kalyan sir Pawanism, Director Trivikram Srinivas sir, Production Haarika & Hassine Creations, Anirudh Ravichander,” Keerthy Suresh posted. Under Trivikram’s direction, the movie will be bankrolled by Harrika and Hassine Creations. The music for the film will be scored by Anirudh Ravichander.
Keerthy Suresh has already proved her mettle in Tamil industry and has starred opposite stars such as Vijay Ilaythalapathi and Dhanush. In Tollywood, she made her debut with Ram in Nenu Sailaja and is already shooting her next, Nenu Local, with Nani. Her name was also on the cards for Mahesh Babu’s next film.
Sources close to film unit had revealed that the movie would cast two females leads. The other actor to star in the film is not yet confirmed. Reports also suggested that Devdude Digi Vachina had been registered as the film’s title with the Film Chamber and its regular shoot will start later this month.
Trivikram and Pawan have earlier delivered blockbusters like Jalsa and Attarintiki Daredi. In both the movies, there were two heroines who were paired opposite Pawan. While Ileana D’Cruz and Parvathi Melton acted in Jalsa, Samantha and Pranitha Subhash were cast in Attarintiki Daredi.
Pawan is already busy with Dolly’s Katamarayudu, which is a Telugu remake of Tamil blockbuster Veeram. The movie will feature Pawan Kalyan as a faction leader. Simultaneously, he also booked a slot for another Tamil remake of Vedalam under R T Neason for which the shooting will begin next year.
Being healthy should be part of your overall lifestyle, not just a New Year’s resolution. Living a healthy lifestyle can help prevent chronic diseases and long-term illnesses. Feeling good about yourself and taking care of your health are important for your self-esteem and self-image. Maintain a healthy lifestyle by doing what is right for your body.
Step 1
Maintain a healthy weight. Determine whether you are overweight by checking your body mass index. If you are overweight, it can lead to a higher risk of chronic disease such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, stroke and certain cancers.
Step 2
Stick with healthy food from each food group. This means staying away from food high in saturated fats, sodium and added sugars. Eat more whole grains, lean proteins such as chicken or legumes and beans, low-fat or non-fat dairy, and increase your fruits and vegetables.
Step 3
Visit your doctor for an annual physical exam. Depending on your age, certain lab tests and screenings, such as mammograms, colonoscopies and heart tests, are necessary. Stay up to date on your health screenings to identify whether there are medical problems to address.
Step 4
Make sure your relationships are positive and healthy ones. Surround yourself with people who support you and who you feel good around. Your partner in life, friends and others who are in your life should respect you. If you find yourself in an unhealthy relationship, take steps to improve it or move on.
Step 5
Engage in physical activity for at least 30 minutes every day. Take an exercise class, join the gym or just take a brisk walk outside. Making the time for physical activity is a necessity and not a luxury.
Step 6
Know when and how to de-stress. Taking care of your mental health is just as important as taking care of your physical health. Make sure that you have positive ways of dealing with stressors in your life. This might be exercising, meditating, yoga or just doing deep-breathing exercises. If stress becomes so severe that it is interfering with your sleep or ability to cope, talk to your doctor or a counselor.
Step 7
Do not smoke. Smoking can cause preventable diseases such as lung cancer and other cancers. Stay away from secondhand smoke, since this can also be hazardous to your health.
A recent study has found that even among those at high genetic risk, following a healthy lifestyle can cut in half the probability of a heart attack or similar event.
It is a well known fact that following a healthy lifestyle, not smoking, avoiding excess weight and exercising regularly can keep one away from risk of heart disease.
But what about people who have inherited gene variants known to increase risk?
"The basic message of our study is that DNA is not destiny," says Sekar Kathiresan.
"Many individuals - both physicians and members of the general public -- have looked on genetic risk as unavoidable, but for heart attack that does not appear to be the case."
In order to investigate whether a healthy lifestyle can mitigate genetic risk, the multi-institutional research team analyzed genetic and clinical data from more than 55,000 participants in four large-scale studies.
Three of these -- the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, the Women's Genome Health Study, and the Malmo Diet and Cancer Study -- are prospective studies that have followed participants for up to 20 years. The fourth, the BioImage Study, assessed a variety of risk factors, including the presence of atherosclerotic plaques in the coronary arteries when participants joined the study.
Each participant in the current analysis was assigned a genetic risk score, based on whether they carried any of 50 gene variants that previous studies associated with elevated heart attack risk. Based on data gathered when participants entered each study, the investigators used four AHA-defined lifestyle factors -- no current smoking; lack of obesity, defined as a body mass index less than 30; physical exercise at least once a week, and a healthy dietary pattern -- to determine a lifestyle score, whether participants had a favorable (three or four healthy factors), intermediate (two factors) or unfavorable (one or no healthy factors) lifestyle.
For participants in the prospective studies, the research team investigated how each individual's genetic risk score and lifestyle factors related to the incidence of heart attack, the need for procedures designed to open blocked coronary arteries, or sudden cardiac death. Among participants in the BioImage study, genetic and lifestyle factors were compared to the extent of atherosclerotic disease in the coronary arteries at baseline.
Across all three prospective studies, a higher genetic risk score significantly increased the incidence of coronary events -- as much as 90 percent in those at highest risk. While known risk factors such as a family history and elevated LDL cholesterol were also associated with an elevated genetic risk score, genetic risk was the most powerful contributor to cardiac risk.
Similarly, each healthy lifestyle factor reduced risk, and the unfavorable lifestyle group also had higher levels of hypertension, diabetes and other known risk factors upon entering the studies.
Within each genetic risk category, the presence of lifestyle factors significantly altered the risk of coronary events to such an extent that following a favorable lifestyle could reduce the incidence of coronary events by 50 percent in those with the highest genetic risk scores.
Among participants in the BioImage study, both genetic and lifestyle factors were independently associated with levels of calcium-containing plaque in the coronary arteries, and healthy lifestyle factors were associated with less extensive plaque within each genetic risk group.
"Some people may feel they cannot escape a genetically determined risk for heart attack, but our findings indicate that following a healthy lifestyle can powerfully reduce genetic risk," says Kathiresan.
"Now we need to investigate whether specific lifestyle factors have stronger impacts and conduct studies in more diverse populations, since most of the participants in these studies are white."
The study has been published in New England Journal of Medicine.
2.0 has been made at a cost of Rs 350 crore. The first look launch of Shankar's 2.0 starring Rajinikanth and Akshay Kumar will be hosted by Baahubali's producer Karan Johar. The cost of the event? Rs 6 crore!
First look launch event of Rajinikanth’s film 2.0 will be held in Mumbai
It won’t be an over-the-top description to call the first look launch event of superstar Rajinikanth and Akshay Kumar’s upcoming film 2.0 the biggest film event of 2016. Like the budget of Shankar’s film, which is more than Rs 350 crore, the event has also been planned on a grand scale. The who’s who of Indian film industry will congregate in Mumbai on Sunday as the makers will unveil the first look of Rajinikanth and Akshay Kumar from the big-ticket sci-fi movie
On Wednesday evening, the Thalaivar took the internet by storm by tweeting the first poster of the Enthiran sequel. We should understand one thing, there was no such thing as a ‘first look launch event’ until a few years ago in Indian film industry. The advent of social media and its popularity paved way for releasing the first look posters to create curiosity among the audience as a marketing strategy. Even makers of Baahubali 2, another expensive film from India, smartly selected the Jio MAMI 18th Mumbai Film Festival to release the first look of Prabhas from the film. But, none of the filmmakers have held an event on such a grand scale as 2.0’s.
CHENNAI: Chennai sees more people fighting with insurance companies over settling their health insurance claims, said B N Mishra, current ombudsman of Chennai.
Mishra, who is the insurance ombudsman of Orissa, has been given additional charge of Chennai. "While Bhubaneswar sees a lot of disputes over death claims, in Chennai predominantly problems arise over not disclosing pre-existing medical conditions and other medical disputes," said Mishra on Bima Lokpal Day observed on Thursday.
The Chennai Ombudsman office has zero cases pending at the end of the year, second time in a row. During the year 2015-16, Chennai centre received in all 1,170 complaints. Of this 303 cases were given awards amounting to Rs188.25 lakh. More than 67% of awards were skewed in favour of policyholders.
The number of complaints received, declined 23% year-over-year in FY16 compared to 1,527 in FY15. This compares to 1,952 complaints received the previous year.
The Ombudsman received more complaints from private insurers than the public-sector insurance companies. In life, LIC saw 272 complaints compared to 384 complaints against private life insurers. LIC has more than 70% of the life insurancemarket. In general insurance also, the four PSUs saw 239 complaints versus 275 complaints registered against private general insurers.
Among private life insurers, HDFC Standard Life Insurance saw the most number of complaints at 77. In general insurance, Star Health and Allied Insurance saw as many as 97 complaints registered.
When it came to policy-type, life insurance industry saw more than 86% claims from traditional policies and 4% from ULIPs, 7% from pension plans and 2% from health products. Since July 2016, life insurers have been prohibited from selling health products.
In the general insurance industry, more than 53% disputes arose from non-settlement of individual mediclaim policies. Followed by motor at 21%, group-mediclaims at 12%.
"With the Chennai floods, we also saw an increase in the number of disputes over settlement of home insurance claims," said Mishra. In one instance that the ombudsman settled K Ramachandran was denied repayment for his flood-damaged house by Royal Sundaram General Insurance, which claimed that the policy did not cover damage by rain water.
The Ombudsman awarded the dispute in favour of Ramachandran, stating that the insurer must take into account the incessant, heavy rain that battered Chennai from December 1-3. With more than 49 cm of rain reported in the city, the insurer's surveyor failed to observe the level and duration of water logging. "Damage suffered by other buildings in the vicinity, exact cause of damage and age of the building was not assessed," observed the ombudsman.
Since the insured's location was one of the worst-affected areas in the Chennai floods, the insurer cannot ignore the claim, said the Ombudsman.
As the poor struggle, black money owners are finding a variety of ways to save their wealth.
An analysis of illegal wealth uncovered by the income tax department shows that at best, only 6% of illegal wealth is stored in the form of black money. Most of them will be able to save even this cash, it seems, given how frantically India is Googling for "How to convert black money into white" and the top searches are from Gujarat. Here are 13 ways in which such people are succeeding:
1. Temple donations. There are reports of people giving their black money to temple 'hundis' or donation boxes. Temple managements will show this money as anonymous donations, exchange it for new currency notes, keep a commission for this service, and return most of it to the owner. The government has already clarified that temple hundis will not be asked questions. ABP news showed a sting operation in which the priest of Govardhan temple in Mathura was willing to convert Rs 50 lakh of black money into white for a 20% commission. There have been such reports from different parts of the country.
2. Back-dated FDs in co-operative banks and credit societies. Since such institutions still do a lot of their work manually, they are reports they have issued fixed deposit receipts in back date. Owners of black money have reportedly been able to get various FDs in such institutions in names of various villagers in back dates, and will receive new currency notes in due course, after paying a cut to those in whose name they deposited the money. Non-banking financial institutions who accept such deposits are also reportedly acting similarly in helping convert black money into white. Such institutions have long been alleged to be indulging in money laundering. The level of regulation of such institutions differs from state to state.
3. Using poor people as money mules. As the poor stand in queues at banks to exchange their currency notes, there are reports of them being used to convert black money into white. This doesn't even need a co-operative bank. Black money are reportedly finding poor people to deposit Rs 2.5 lakh in cash, since the government has said deposits up to that amount won't be questioned. Such people will then ask to withdraw the entire amount soon, keep some to themselves and return most of it. Since this requires trust, black money hoarders are first and foremost using their staff and their relatives.
4. Giving loans to poor people. Funnelling money through poor people whose bank transactions will not arouse suspicion, is giving way to many creative enterprises. There are also people willing to give interest free loans to the poor - which may seem like a good impact of demonetisation but is actually an effort to convert black money into white and defeat the purpose.
5. Finding Jan Dhan account holders. Jan Dhan accounts have started showing high cash deposits since demonetisation and a part of it is suspected to be black money being laundered. The problem with using poor people as money mules is that they may not have bank accounts. With the banking system overloaded, opening new accounts may take a few days. The government keeps boasting about having opened crores of Jan Dhan accounts but most have seen barely any transactions. Jan Dhan accounts can have deposits up to Rs 1 lakh a year but there are also Jan Dhan accounts which have a lower limit of Rs 50,000 if they don't adhere to Know Your Customer norms. While the government says it will monitor unusual activity in Jan Dhan accounts, it will be easy for a poor person to say the small amount was his life saving at home. There have been concerns about the use of Jan Dhan accounts for hawala operations since the scheme was launched in 2014.
6. Approaching the banknote mafia. Overnight, a banknote mafia has emerged. These are people accepting old Rs 500 and 1,000 notes and giving back anywhere from 15% to 80% of the value in Rs 100 notes. The people collecting old notes will be able to earn a profit by converting them into white, new currency through poor people, or through other means.
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7. Paying advance salaries. Businesses having black money have reportedly used old notes of Rs 500 and 1,000 to pay advance salaries for anywhere between the next 3 to 8 months. The idea is to pay each employee less than Rs 2.5 lakh - the limit above which deposits will be examined. In Gujarat, some businesses are reported to have opened salary accounts and deposit advance salaries, keeping their debit cards with company itself. This way they will be able to deposit old currency notes before 30 December and withdraw new ones easily, without attracting the attention of the income tax department.
8. Booking and cancelling train tickets. Since old notes are being accepted till 14 November to book train tickets, there has been a surge in booking expensive train tickets that people intend to later cancel and get refunds in new notes, with a small cancellation fee. The number of expensive first AC tickets booked per day have increased by many times. As a result, the railways have said refunds won't be in cash. But since these bookings are being made through travel agents, even refunds through electronic transfers mean the travel agent will be able to return large sums in new currency notes.
9. Using professional money laundering firms. Run by chartered accountants, there are money laundering companies, most famously in Kolkata but elsewhere too, which specialise in converting black money into white while evading the taxman. Known as 'jama-kharchi' firms in Kolkata and pad-pedi in Mumbai or, they launder money by using businesses such as highway transport which run completely on cash. These 'cash-in-hand' firms match the needs of companies which need short-term funds with those who have excess black money to park. Showing back-dated transactions in the current fiscal is not difficult for such firms. They are said to be burning the midnight oil till 30 December.
10. Buying gold. Gold prices shot up because many black money hoarders rushed to jewellery shops as soon as prime minister Narendra Modi made the demonetisation announcement on 8 November. Many black money owners made the most of four hours they had and bought gold till midnight. There have also been reports, again, of gold selling in back-dated transactions. Jewellers happily sold gold at a high premium. In some shops the demand was so high there was pandemonium with buyers fighting amongst each other to be able to buy first. The government has asked top jewellers to give details of gold transactions after the demonetisation.
11. Using farmers. Since agricultural income is not taxed, a farmer can easily say he got this much cash from the mandi by selling his produce before demonetisation, and here's the old currency, now please exchange it for new one. In this way, any farmer could help launder money, from old currency notes to new ones, for a cut. An investment advisor told Rediff, "The agricultural income in this country is going to be fabulously high this year, immaterial if the crop is good or poor."
12. Using political parties. Since political parties can collect donations of Rs 20,000 or less without having to reveal who donated the money, let alone their income tax PAN number, they will have the easiest time with demonetisation. A political party can say it collected this amount of cash in old currency donations before demonetisation and demand that it be changed into new currency by 30 December. That also raises the fear that political parties could actually use this method to launder black money of individuals within and without their party.
13. Brazenly putting it in the bank. The finance ministry said those who deposit large sums of cash that don't match their income, may have to pay up to 200% tax. In other words, their money could be confiscated and they may have to pay the same amount as penalty. However, income tax authorities say this may not be legally possible. One can put in a large amount of cash in bank, show it as income from 'other sources' in the current assessment year, and pay 33% income tax on it. To be able to levy income tax penalty on your deposit, the government will have to be able to prove you didn't earn this cash in the current assessment year.
