Bollywood film faces attacks from Hindu groups
NEW DELHI, Nov 20: A member of India's Hindu nationalist ruling party has offered a 100 million rupee ($1.5 million) reward to anyone who beheads the lead actress and the director of the yet-to-be released Bollywood film "Padmavati" over its alleged handling of the relationship between a Hindu queen and a Muslim ruler. Suraj Pal Amu, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader from the northern state of Haryana, offered the bounty against actress Deepika Padukone and filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali on Sunday.—AP
One in five women victim of online harassment
NEW YORK, Nov 20: More than one in five women have experienced online harassment or abuse, according to research by Amnesty International surveying more than 4,000 women. The vast majority of this harassment happens on social media sites, according to the report. Almost half of the victims said the abuse or harassment was sexist or misogynistic in nature, and a quarter had received physical or sexual threats. A majority of the harassment - almost 60 percent - was racist, sexist, homophobic or transphobic, the poll showed.--AP
Food aid stampede claims 15 lives in Morocco
RABAT, Nov 20: Fifteen people were killed and five more injured when a stampede broke out in a southwestern Moroccan town on Sunday as food aid was being distributed in a market, the Interior Ministry said. A hospital source put the death toll at 18, adding that most victims were women who had been scrambling for food handed out by a rich man in the small coastal town of Sidi Boulaalam.--Reuters
Argentina unsure if signals came from missing submarine
BUENOS AIRES, Nov 20: Argentina's navy could not confirm Sunday if seven brief satellite calls received a day earlier were from a lost submarine with 44 crew members on board. "We do not have clear evidence that (the calls) have come from that unit," said Adm. Gabriel Gonzalez, commander of the Mar del Plata Naval Base. "We are analyzing more closely to reliably determine that they were not calls coming from the submarine." —AP
US 1960s cult killer Charles Manson dies in jail at 83
LOS ANGELES, Nov 20: Charles Manson, the psychopathic guru who masterminded a savage killing spree in the United States in the late 1960s that shocked the world, has died aged 83, California prison officials said. Manson "died of natural causes at 8:13 pm (0213 GMT Monday) on Sunday" at a hospital in Kern County, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a brief statement.—AFP
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