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New York, July 3 : Singer Harry Styles has reportedly got an offer to write a song with former Take That band member Gary Barlow.

Sources reveal that Styles met Barlow in Soho House for a drink at the weekend to discuss his development as a songwriter. And Barlow gave him a few handy tips.

"Gary has been over in New York working on music for a Broadway musical version of Finding Neverland. He heard Harry was in town and arranged to meet up," thesun. co. uk quoted a source as saying.

Indian auto giant Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) has confirmed that it has raised Rs 500 crore through a 50-year, plain vanilla rupee-denominated bonds issue.

The bonds carry an interest rate of 9.55 per cent payable annually and does not have call or put option.

Islamabad, July 3 : Pakistan Prime Miniter Nawaz Sharif has ordered the country's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and the Intelligence Bureau (IB) to bring the perpetrators behind certain terrorist activities in the city of Quetta to book.

Speaking to the media Tuesday after attending a high-level meeting in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province, Sharif said that he has directed all agencies to cooperate with the Balochistan in bringing back peace to the city.

"Establishing peace in a city of 20 streets and 20 markets shouldn'' be so difficult," local media quoted him as saying.

Mumbai, July 3 : Vishakha Singh, who played a teacher in the recently released "Fukrey", which opened to an encouraging response, says if you have a hit to your credit, people take you more seriously.

"I am feeling really great because now I understand why people say that a hit is important. People start looking at you in a different way," Vishakha said here Tuesday at the success party of "Fukrey".

"I believe I had the talent from the beginning, but now when people appreciate and recognise it, it gives a different high," she added.

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New Delhi, July 3 : India and the US share values of democracy and their cooperation will be the "defining partnership" in the 21st century, President Pranab Mukherjee said Thursday while wishing the government and citizens of the US on the eve of the country's Independence Day.

The US celebrates its 237th Independence Day July 4.