'India has great chance to become a manufacturing hub': BSE CEO

Mumbai, Feb. 27 - The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer ( CEO) of the Bombay Stock Exchange ( BSE), Ashish Chauhan , on Friday said India has a great chance of becoming a manufacturing hub.

'Make in India' is the main plank and somewhere on the line we have lost the bus. Over the last thirty five years when China started coming up, we lost the bus on the manufacturing side and we made up partially through the services framework that we created. Without too much of thinking the services sector came into India, BPOs and other, which were the newer world and the older manufacturing came to China," Chauhan told ANI here.

I was in two minds about doing 'Badlapur': Huma Qureshi

New Delhi: Huma Qureshi started her Bollywood journey by starring in edgy, unconventional films but even she had doubts about signing Sriram Raghavan's 'Badlapur' as the actress felt it was "too dark" and "hard-hitting".

"The only reason I said yes was because of the team and how everybody believed in it. I was the third actor to join the movie and I was really scared. We had a big discussion about should I, shouldn't I or will it be too much or too dark. I have been a part of edgy films earlier but 'Badlapur' was quite hard-hitting," Huma told reporters in an interview.

Huma, 28, is one of the four actresses in the Varun Dhawan-Nawazuddin Siddiqui starrer revenge drama. Though her presence is limited to 5-6 scenes in the movie, Huma has earned a lot of praise for her performance.

Scarlett Johansson says John Travolta's Oscars 'welcome' kiss wasn't 'creepy'

Washington, Feb 27 : Scarlett Johansson has defended John Travolta, who planted a kiss on her cheek at the Oscars, by saying that he didn't overstep.

The 30-year-old actress said in a statement that there is nothing strange, creepy or inappropriate about Travolta, who is a true class act and everyone in the business would agree, E! Online reported.

The 'Lucy' star added that the image, in which Travolta had his hand on her waist and she at least appeared to not be welcoming the exchange, that is circulating is an unfortunate still-frame from a live-action encounter that was very sweet and totally welcome.

Leonor Varela welcomes daughter

Los Angeles: Actress Leonor Varela has welcomed her second child, a daughter, with producer Lucas Akoskin in Santa Monica, California.

Facebook to allow users to define their gender themselves

Washington, Feb 27 - A year after Facebook introduced preset custom genders like "cisgender" or " transgender," it has now started rolling out a new version of its custom gender field where users can type in any word to represent their gender across Facebook.

While the earlier feature allowed users to choose their gender from a set of pre-defined options, they will now be able to define their gender themselves. The version although populates suggestions as you type but you can choose any word and then a pronoun to represent yourself on the platform, reported The Verge.

Japan Airlines to expand WIFI services

New Delhi, Feb 27 : Japan Airlines will be expanding its in-flight WIFI services for customers.

Since 2012, Japan Airlines has been offering in-flight services with Boeing 777-300ERs.

The airline will start expand to include Boeing 767-300ERs and Boeing 787-8s Wi-Fi service in Europe, North America and long-haul Asia routes from March 3 under the theme "Embrace new Challenges".

The service will be applicable on Boeing 767-300ERs under which nine planes have been scheduled for the financial year 2015. For Boeing 787-8s, three planes are scheduled in financial year 2015.

The service will be continued for more Boeing 787-8s for the financial year 2016.

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