Ira Spotted At Airport With Nupur And Mom Reena After Udaipur Wedding

Ira Khan and Nupur Shikhare registered their wedding in Mumbai last week and they exchanged vows in Udaipur on Wednesday. A day after their dreamy wedding ceremony in Udaipur, the couple were spotted at the Udaipur airport before flying back to Mumbai for their reception. The couple were spotted alongside Ira's mother Reena Dutta. In pictures and videos from the airport, Ira can be seen in a casual ensemble, featuring black shorts, a blue shirt and a white long sweater. Nupur complemented her look in a black leather jacket, pink shirt and blue jeans. The trio, including Reena, posed for the paparazzi.

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Newlywed couple Ira Khan, Nupur Shikhare and Reena Dutta spotted at the Udaipur airport 🛫 📸#IraKhan #NupurShikhare #IraNupur #spotted #ReenaDutta #Newlywed #Trending #Udaipur #airport #BollyTadka24 pic.twitter.com/mBKI5M1gd6

— Bolly Tadka24 (@bollytadka24) January 11, 2024

In another video, Aamir Khan was also clicked at the airport after attending his daughter's wedding ceremony.

Aamir Khan clicked at Udaipur Airport heading back from Ira and Nupur wedding. pic.twitter.com/utRJZz2yh1

— Eliteshowbiz (@Elite_showbiz) January 11, 2024

Meanwhile, pictures and videos from the Udaipur wedding have taken all over the Internet.  In one such picture shared online, the newlyweds Ira Khan and Nupur Shikhare can be seen posing with family. The frame features Aamir Khan, Ira's mother Reena Dutta, Ira's brother Junaid, Aamir's ex-wife Kiran Rao and her son Azad. Aamir Khan, Junaid, Azad can be seen dressed in black outfits. Kiran Rao can be seen dressed in an off-shoulder black gown while Reena Dutta can be seen clad in a saree. Ira can be seen holding a bouquet of flowers and flashing her widest smile. Take a look:

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The photos from the vows ceremony were shared by the official wedding photographers Ethereal Studio on Instagram on Thursday. Ira's parents Aamir Khan and Reena Dutta walked her down the aisle. In one picture, Aamir Khan can be seen fixing Ira's veil. Another collage features Ira dancing with dad Aamir and husband Nupur.

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Ira Khan and Nupur Shikhare registered their marriage in Mumbai last week. They flew down to Udaipur last weekend to host their wedding festivities. The festivities included a mehendi ceremony, a dinner night, a pyjama party and a fun sangeet. Nupur Shikhare and Ira Khan got engaged in September 2022.

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Amazon Cuts Hundreds Of Jobs At Twitch, Prime Video And MGM

Amazon's gamer streaming unit Twitch on Wednesday announced that it was laying off 500 staff, reportedly one third of the company, as it struggles financially despite strong popularity among players.

The online shopping giant also said it was slashing hundreds of staff in its entertainment division, targeting both movie streaming service Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studio, the home of James Bond.

The cull comes as part of Amazon's biggest ever job-cutting plan launched last year, which it said will reach 27,000 positions across the company.

"I wanted to send a short note to let you know that we've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of our workforce today," Twitch CEO Dan Clancy said in a blog post.

Founded in 2011, Twitch was acquired by Amazon in 2014 for close to $1 billion and has hit headwinds of late, recently shutting down its operations in major market South Korea due to cost issues.

The latest cuts, first reported by Bloomberg, came as Twitch has suffered an exodus of top executives amid the Amazon cost-cutting campaign.

They also came after previous rounds of staff cuts at the streamer, which is used by the gaming community to showcase live gameplay.

"I know many of you are wondering why this is happening. Over the last year, we've been working to build a more sustainable business so that Twitch will be here for the long run and throughout the year we have cut costs and made many decisions to be more efficient," Clancy wrote.

"Unfortunately, despite these efforts, it has become clear that our organization is still meaningfully larger than it needs to be given the size of our business."

The cuts at Prime Video and at the Amazon MGM Studio division were also described as painful but necessary to keep the businesses in line with objectives.

"This is a difficult decision to make and one that my leadership team and I do not take lightly," the company's entertainment chief Mike Hopkins wrote in an email to staff.

But because the entertainment industry "continues to evolve quickly...it's important that we prioritize our investments for the long-term success of our business."

Amazon bought the iconic MGM studio in 2022, merging it with its own production studio where content is primarily geared towards the Prime Video streaming service, a rival to Netflix and Disney Plus.

As the company seeks to increase revenue, last month Amazon said that Prime Video subscribers would start seeing ads on their service on January 29 and charge customers extra to receive films and series ad-free.

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"Never Sold As Many...": Airbus Reports Record Plane Orders, Most From India

European planemaker Airbus said Thursday that it secured 2,094 net plane orders last year, a record for the group as airlines prepare for further global passenger growth and seek out more fuel-efficient planes.

The company also said that despite persistent supply chain problems it delivered 735 jets to clients last year, beating its own target of 720 deliveries.

The new orders smashed Airbus's previous record from 2013 of 1,503 planes, continuing to reap the success of its popular A320 family for shorter flights and the A350 for long-haul routes.

After the Covid-19 pandemic, "We originally anticipated aviation to recover sometime in the 2023-2025 timeframe, but what we saw in 2023 was, alongside the single-aisle market, widebody return much sooner than expected, and with vigour", commercial chief Christian Scherer said in a statement.

Major contracts were racked up with airlines including India's low-cost IndiGo, which ordered 500 A320s -- the biggest civil aviation order in history -- as well as Air India (250 planes) and Turkish Airlines (230 planes).

"We have never sold as many A320s or A350s in any given year... Travel is back and there is serious momentum," he said.

The company's overall order backlog stood at 8,598 aircraft at the end of last year.

Airbus has begun development of a successor to the popular A320 family for the second half of the 2030s, and is aiming to launch a hydrogen-powered plane -- which would emit no CO2 -- toward 2035.

The performance outstripped that of its US rival Boeing, which is facing renewed scrutiny of its new 737 MAX jet after a scare on an Alaska Airlines jet last week, when a fuselage panel came off mid-flight and forced an emergency landing.

Boeing also saw a rise in net orders last year, to 1,314 aircraft, mainly for the 737 MAX but also for its long-haul 787s.

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Epstein Survivor Claims She Was Paid $15,000 To Have Sex With UK Royal

Prince Andrew's accuser Virginia Giuffre claimed that she was paid thousands of dollars by convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein to have sex with the royal when she was 17, court documents revealed. According to Sky News, the legal papers are among the latest batch released relating to Ms Giuffre's civil defamation case against Epstein's ex-girlfriend and long-time associate Ghislaine Maxwell, which was filed in 2015 and settled two years later. In the court documents, Mr Giuffre was asked by lawyers about the occasion when she claims to have spent time with Prince Andrew in 2001. 

"Were you paid 10 to $15,000 by or on behalf of Jeffrey Epstein for having sex with Prince Andrew?" Ms Giuffre was asked, as per the outlet. She responded, "Yes, I did receive $15,000. I don't know what equivalent that is to pounds. I received it in American dollars". Ms Guiffre was then asked if she paid taxes on the money, and she said no. 

Notably, Prince Andrew has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. But Ms Giuffre has previously stated that her first experience with the royal took place at the London home of Ghislaine Maxwell when she was 17. Maxwell, however, has denied the allegations and is currently serving a 20-year sentence in federal prison for her role in sex trafficking girls alongside Epstein. The disgraced financier died while awaiting trial on federal conspiracy and sex trafficking charges in 2019.

Ms Giuffre previously alleged she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew 3 times between 1999 and 2002 in London, New York and on a private Caribbean island owned by Epstein. Elsewhere in the deposition, she talked about an undated visit to a Club with Prince Andrew, where he ordered them "clear drinks" from the bar and said that her drink contained alcohol. 

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Andrew withdrew from frontline royal duties in late 2019 after public outrage at a BBC television interview in which he defended his friendship with Epstein. In February 2022 settled a US civil case brought by Ms Giuffre, who claimed he sexually assaulted her when she was 17.

Andrew's mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, stripped him of his honorary military titles and patronages soon afterward, effectively shutting him out of royal life. He has consistently denied sexual assault and even meeting Ms Giuffre.

Jeffrey Epstein socialized with Wall Street titans, royalty, and celebrities before pleading guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008. He took his own life in 2019 at age 66 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges. 

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US' 1st Private Moon Lander Mission Fails

An historic commercial US mission to the Moon will fail after suffering a critical loss of fuel, organizers admitted Tuesday, ending for the time being America's hopes of placing its first spacecraft on the lunar surface since the Apollo era.

Fixed to the top of United Launch Alliance's new Vulcan rocket, Astrobotic's Peregrine Lunar Lander blasted off Monday from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, then successfully separated from its launch vehicle.

But a few hours later, Astrobotic began reporting malfunctions, starting with an inability to orient Peregrine's solar panel towards the Sun and keep its battery topped up, owing to a propulsion glitch that also damaged the spacecraft's exterior.

The company said it had "no chance of soft landing" on the Moon.

Peregrine has about 40 hours of fuel remaining and Astrobotic said it planned to operate the spacecraft until it ran out of propellant.

NASA had paid the company more than $100 million to ship scientific hardware to a mid-latitude region of the Moon to answer questions about the surface composition and radiation in the surrounding environment, as it prepares to send astronauts back to Earth's nearest neighbor later this decade.

The United States is turning to the commercial sector to stimulate a broader lunar economy and cut costs, but Astrobotic's failure could increase scrutiny about the strategy.

Astrobotic however said it was continuing to receive valuable data to prepare for its next contracted mission, sending the Griffin lander transporting a NASA rover to the lunar south pole, later this year.

Latest commercial failure

It is the latest private company to have tried and failed to achieve a soft lunar landing.

Israel's Beresheet lander, the first attempt by a non-government entity, was destroyed on impact with the Moon in April 2019, while Japan's private Hakuto mission, operated by iSpace, crashed in April 2023.

For now, the feat has only been accomplished by a handful of national space agencies: the Soviet Union was first, in 1966, followed by the United States, which is still the only country to put people on the Moon.

China has successfully landed three times since 2013, while India was the most recent to achieve the feat on its second attempt, last year.

The next commercial attempt will be by Houston-based Intuitive Machines, which is launching in February, bound for the Moon's south pole.

In addition to its scientific instruments, Peregrine is carrying more colorful cargo on behalf of its own private clients. These include a physical Bitcoin and cremated remains and DNA, including those of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, legendary sci-fi author and scientist Arthur C. Clarke and a dog.

The Navajo Nation, America's largest Indigenous tribe, had objected to sending human remains, calling it a desecration of a sacred space. Though they were granted a last-ditch meeting with White House and NASA officials, but their misgivings failed to change matters.

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LK Advani To Attend Ram Temple Event: Hindu Outfit Leader

International Working President, Vishva Hindu Parishad Alok Kumar on Wednesday said that BJP veteran LK Advani will attend the Ram Temple "Pran Pratistha" ceremony on January 22 in Ayodhya.

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Krishna Gopal and Ram Lal along with Alok Kumar paid a visit to LK Advani and extended the invitation to the Ram Temple "Pran Pratistha" ceremony on Wednesday.

Alok Kumar said that all the required medical facilities and other arrangements will be provided to LK Advani during his visit to the "Pran Pratistha" ceremony in Ayodhya.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to attend the installation of the idol of Ram Lalla at the grand temple on January 22.

Invitations have also been extended to saints from all traditions for the "Pran Pratistha" ceremony on January 22.

Meanwhile, the Congress turned down the invitation for the "Pran Pratistha" ceremony of Lord Ram Lalla.

Congress' senior Congress leaders--Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury--' declined' the invitation to the "Pran Pratistha" ceremony of Lord Ram Lalla in Ayodhya on January 22.

As per temple officials, the ceremony will be held for seven days starting from January 16. Preparations are underway in full swing for the Ram Temple "Pran Pratishtha" on January 22, which will draw dignitaries and people from all walks of life.

The Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust has decided to enthrone Ram Lalla at the sanctum-sanctorum of the Ram Temple at noon on January 22.

Vedic rituals for the "Pran Pratistha" ceremony of Ram Lalla in Ayodhya will begin on January 16, a week before the main ceremony.

A priest from Varanasi, Lakshmi Kant Dixit, will perform the main rituals of the ceremony of Ram Lalla on January 22. From January 14 to January 22, Ayodhya will mark the Amrit Mahotsav. Ayodhya, the birthplace of Lord Rama, holds great spiritual, historical, and cultural significance for the people of India.

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Refused Help, Woman Gives Birth Outside Haryana Hospital In Biting Cold

A woman gave birth to a baby on a vegetable cart on the premises of the government-run district hospital in Haryana's Ambala yesterday after the doctors allegedly refused to pay attention to her husband's repeated requests for help. The baby was born out of doors on one this winter's coldest evenings.

"It was God who saved them," her husband said. "I considered doctors and hospital staff as God. But after last night's events, I have lost faith in these hospital staff," he added.

The man -- a resident of Punjab's Dappar city -- had been running from pillar to post after managing to bring his pregnant wife to the hospital. But no one was ready even to bring a stretcher for her, he said.

The woman finally gave birth out in the open, on the street near the hospital gates.

There was panic in the hospital as the news spread and the mother and child were finally taken inside and installed in a ward.

The matter has also been reported to state health minister Anil Vij, who said there will be a thorough investigation and the guilty will be punished.

"This information has to be checked. We provide ambulances and free delivery service. So whether they were informed or not – I will get everything investigated. If there has been any negligence, action will be taken," Mr Vij said.

The hospital authorities say they have formed a committee to investigate the issue. The report will be available in a couple of days, said Sangeeta Singla, the Principal Medical Officer of the city's Civil Hospital.

Asked what action will be taken, she said, "We will give them a warning. Why the special case was not checked. If the patient was in such a state that she delivered on arrival, the staff on duty -- doctors, nurses -- should have been there to attend to her," she told reporters.

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