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Shahid Kapoor and Mira Rajput’s non-starry parenting approach won them a fan; find out Noted author Shobhaa De recounted an incident in her recent column about her in-flight interaction with  Shahid Kapoor  and Mira Rajput. She wrote that she met Shahid and Mira Kapoor in a flight to the city from Amritsar. When she woke up from a nap, she saw Shahid and Mira Kapoor’s darling daughter Misha looking at her. Shahid and Mira greeted her and offered her parathas. Shobhaa mentions in the column that she did not find anything starry about Shahid and Mira. In fact, both of them behaved like regular passengers and had no starry air. They did not ask for any special treatment and regularly checked on little Misha Kapoor who was in a cheerful mood. Both were equally involved in monitoring her and kept her distracted by playing her favorite nursery rhymes on a tablet. Shahid and Mira encouraged Misha to interact with the other kids on-board and prompted her to say ‘thank yo...

Anti-quota bandh call has police in MP, UP Rajasthan on high alert Little-known groups, such as Sarv Samaj from Rajasthan, have also issued statements calling for the bandh. The Samaj claimed to have membership from across the Brahmin, Rajput, Jat and Gujjar communities. THE HOME Ministry has issued a nationwide advisory to ensure that adequate security measures are put in place to prevent any violence during the Bharat Bandh called on April 10 against the policy of caste-based reservation in education and jobs. The bandh call has not been endorsed by any major group but comes just eight days after nine people were killed in widespread violence during a similar call issued by Dalit groups protecting against the alleged dilution of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Separate security alerts have also been issued in a number of states, particularly in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan from where the deaths were reported on April 2. Prohibitory ord...