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Actress Anushka Sharma with Aishwarya Rai in Karan Johar’s directorial  Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, says the former beauty queen’s role is “very different”.
“Yes, I am doing Karan Johar’s next, which also features Ranbir Kapoor and Aishwarya,” said the actress who worked with Ranbir in Bombay Velvet and “had a great bonding” with him.

“And I have grown up watching Karan’s films. Now it’s a great thing that I am working with Ranbir and Karan again. Aishwarya’s role is very different and new in the film and I am glad she is doing the film.”
To be shot across the globe
Delhi, New York, London and Paris, the love story dealing with relationships and heart breaks, will hit the screens June 3, 2016.

Amritsar, Dec 12
Harmanveer Singh was declared Mr. Punjab at the Grand Finale of Mr. Punjab Contest organised by PTC Punjabi Group of Channels.
Jalandhar boy, a student of Apee Jay College has won this first ever Mr. Punjab contest organised by any channel.
Balraj Singh was declared 1st Runners Up while Ramanjeet Singh and Prince Narula were declared joint 2nd Runners Up of the contest.
The runners up got a cheque of Rs.50,000 each
The artistes who performed included Malkeet Singh, Jazzy Bains, Nachhatar Gill, Jassi Gill and Ammy Virk
The judges of the show included Bollywood actress Divya Dutta, Famous actor-comedian Gurpreet Singh Ghuggi, Golden Star Singer Malkeet Singh UK and Tarun Khanna.
Ten contestants were present on the stage when the show started but five out of them were eliminated in an elimination round leaving five finalists to vie for Mr Punjab title.
Rabindra Narayan, president and Rajie M Shinde CEO of PTC Punjabi and sponsors of the show did the honours.

Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan met Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday.
Shri Amitabh Bachchan met the Prime Minister
Amitabh is the brand ambassador of Gujarat, the state which Modi represented as Chief Minister earlier.
in the meeting Saturday, both Modi and Big B were dressed in  white kurta-pyjamas and wrapped themselves in shawls to beat the winter chill that has engulfed the capital.

Later, upon getting back to Mumbai, Amitabh, 72, tweeted- “Cold Delhi…warm Mumbai…happy home…soon happier  grandchildren coming in from the cold to be with their cousin in the warm.”

Actor Priyanka Chopra says she picks contentment over competition. “Every ­person needs to be content with the work they are doing. I am in competition with myself and not with the world,” says the 32-year-old actor, who feels that being in the showbiz was her destiny.

“I was studying to be an engineer. But I now know that this (the film industry) was my destiny, and this is my ­calling. I feel like a child in a china shop,” says Priyanka, who has also turned a producer.

She says this is a good time to be in films. “This is  an interesting time to be in the industry. As a woman, I feel great about the fact that scripts are being written for me, characters are being sketched keeping me in mind and I am getting amazing work.

Girls aren’t a prop anymore,” says the actor whose woman-centric film, Mary Kom, crossed the `100-crore mark.
And at a time when ­saying ‘awards don’t ­matter to me’ has become the ‘it’ thing in the film industry, PeeCee feels ­otherwise.
 “How you feel about awards is an ­individual thing. In my opinion, these are a token of appreciation for the  good work that we do.

I see awards as encouragement and motivation to do better than what we are doing, and ­as a mark of people’s  faith in our work,” says Priyanka, who has also been declared the ­sexiest Asian woman of 2014 according to a British newspaper poll.

This is not the first time that she has won the title — she has won it earlier, too, but she says that does not take away the ­excitement.

 “It’s extremely flattering  to have been voted so. For a few seconds, it made me feel wonderful about the ­support and faith I have from people,” says a ­grateful PeeCee, who has also earned many new fans through her ­international music ­stint.

Actress Kajal Agarwal, who has acted in many successful Tamil and Telugu movies, is now debuting in the Kannada film industry. So, she is expected to rock the Sandalwood as she did in the Tollywood and Kollywood industry.

Kajal Agarwal

Debutant director Raghu Hassan has approached Kajal for his Kannada movie Thathasthu, which has Chiraag in the lead role. Hassan has now started working on his film.

Hassan said, “We will soon make an official announcement regarding the film”.

The director added, “Initially, we approached Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor for the role. But, we have almost finalized on Kajal Agarwal as she has also talked about her expectations”.

Lead actor Chiraag has also indicated Kajal being the heroine opposite him in the movie. Anaji Nagaraj is producing the movie, which was launched on July 9. Kajal is now busy with her two Tamil films and three Telugu projects.

Kajal has earlier acted in the Tamil films like Bommalattam, Pazhani, Saroja, Modhi Vilayadu, Naan Mahaan Alla and also in many Telugu films such as Lakshmi Kalyanam, Ganesh, Magadheera, Darling and many more.

Priyamani, the versatile actress of Paruthiveeran, experimented with movies in Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada. Thanks to her skills, any movie she does is touted to be good.

The buzz has been generated and it says that she might be cast opposite the Bollywood macho man Salman Khan in a sequel to Wanted.

Priyamani

However, she has something else to say. She says that nothing’s been confirmed yet. There have been talks about Wanted 2, but all are still in the pipelines so far. She would definitely want to do a film with Salman Khan.

She also adds that she is not at all against the idea of working with a lesser known star from Bollywood. She would like to essay a role in a Bollywood flick, where she can showcase her acting abilities. Till then she’s cool and okay in the South. Here’s wishing the talented actress, the best of luck.

To put this in perspective, Chengdu's New Century Global Center is big enough to house 20 Sydney Opera Houses.
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Chengdu's New Century Global Center
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New Century Global Center is the 'largest freestanding building in the world'
Mega-structure capable of housing 20 Sydney Opera Houses
Attractions include an IMAX cinema, water park and luxury retail outlets
(CNN) -- The superlatives in China continue -- the latest symbol of China's "bigger is much, much better" ethos is open for business.

Located in Chengdu (population 14 million), capital of Sichuan province in southwestern China, the New Century Global Center is the "largest freestanding building in the world," Chinese officials say.

Though the words "world's largest" usually bring to mind an image of a towering skyscraper, this project actually isn't all that tall. But it's certainly big.

At 500 meters long, 400 meters wide and 100 meters high, the 1.7-million-square-meter mega-structure is capable of housing 20 Sydney Opera Houses and almost three times the size of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.

The Global Center, which opened June 28, is home to business offices, hotels, movie theaters, shopping malls, a faux Mediterranean village and family-themed attractions such as a water park called Paradise Island.

The New Century Global Center is located in an entirely new planned area of Chengdu called Tainfu New District.

Chengdu is also currently expanding its subway line and plans to construct a new airport by 2020, further suggesting official ambitions to make the city an economic and cultural capital of western China.

From June 6-8, Chengdu hosted this year's Fortune Global Forum, an annual invite-only event featuring chairs, presidents, and CEOs of the world's largest companies.

According to Xinhua, China's official state media, by the end of 2012 Chengdu's GDP had hit 800 billion RMB (US$130.48 billion).