Hollywood actress Julia Roberts was suggested to play Harriet Tubman in 1990s, it has been revealed. Harriet is a historical film based on the life of the slave-turned-abolitionist. The biopic was released earlier this month and stars Cynthia Erivo. Gregory Allen Howard, the screenwriter and producer of the film, has revealed that one studio executive had suggested to cast Julia …

New York: Singer and rapper Lizzo scored eight Grammy nominations Wednesday to lead a field packed with newcomers, including bold pop iconoclast Billie Eilish and overnight sensation Lil Nas X, for music´s biggest honors. The magnetic 31-year-old Lizzo debuted in 2013 but truly burst into the public eye this year with her third studio album “Cuz I Love You,” which …

BRUSSELS: Feminist activists protested at cinemas in Brussels with condemnations of the latest film of director Roman Polanski, accused of rape, overnight on Tuesday and Wednesday. The French-Polish filmmaker pleaded guilty to unlawful sex with a minor in California in 1977, in a plea deal after he was accused of raping a 13-year-old girl. But he fled the United States …

Priyanka Chopra, who is currently in New Delhi for work purposes, went out on a date with her ‘beauty’ friend Tamanna Dutt. Priyanka took to Instagram sharing a beautiful photo posing with Tamanna. She wrote “Date With my beauty” tagging her friend with a love emoji. The Sky is Pink actor decided to go on a date with her friend …

JERUSALEM:  The Israeli army confirmed it carried out strikes on Syrian and Iranian  targets near Damascus on Wednesday. The Israel Defense Forces, who blamed Tuesday´s rockets on “an Iranian force”, said it holds Damascus responsible for attacks launched from Syria into its territory. Syria´s state media earlier said Syrian anti-aircraft defences intercepted a “heavy attack” by Israeli warplanes over the …

US 2020 election WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has been on a social media ad spending spree for his 2020 re-election campaign, but he´s about to endure a massive digital counterattack. His opponents are rushing in with multimillion-dollar efforts to prevent him from dominating the web, even as the rules of the main platforms are in flux. Trump has spent more …

A visually impaired student of Jawaharlal Nehru University appeared on television after being  tortured by Indian police recently. The student, in a show of defiance, sang a revolutionary poem by Pakistani poet Habib Jalib and it is enough to give you goosebumps. The video, which is making rounds on the the social media,  has been viewed thousands of times. Identified …

President Donald Trump’s visit to Apple’s Texas manufacturing plant represents a truce in the White House war on Silicon Valley and an unlikely “bromance” with chief executive Tim Cook. The visit will give the US leader a chance to hail American manufacturing and step back, at least temporarily, from his tirade against big technology firms. Apple announced in September it …

A key actor in President Donald Trump’s alleged effort to pressure Ukraine for dirt on his political rivals will be in the hot seat Wednesday as Democrats build their case for impeaching the US leader. Numerous witnesses have fingered Gordon Sondland, the US ambassador to the European Union, as a central conveyor of Trump’s demands that Ukraine investigate potential 2020 …

TEHRAN: Iran´s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the enemy had been “repelled” in the country where dozens are thought to have died in violent protests sparked by a petrol price hike. Demonstrations broke out in the sanctions-hit Islamic republic on Friday after it was announced the price of petrol would be immediately raised by as much as 200 percent. …