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Samsung has just unveiled the Galaxy S9 and it seems to be a promising offering. Apart from the ones aspiring to own a brand new S9 smartphone, there are plenty who will be looking to upgrade to the latest flagship.

I know many have been taken aback by the likeness of the S9 and the S8 but there’s a lot happening inside the phones. The S9 shares a lot of ergonomics with its predecessor but brings in a lot of freshness in terms of hardware and software.

So, for the ones looking to upgrade, here’s what you should be looking forward to with the new Galaxy S9.

Rani Lakshmibai – the very name conjures up the image of a valiant queen, galloping on a horse in the midst of a battlefield, fighting ferociously with her infant son strapped to her back. History textbooks are inundated with gleaming mentions of Jhansi ki Rani, who is celebrated till date as the foremost example of female heroism in the country.

Time and again, Jhansi’s queen has reincarnated in popular culture – from poems, songs, films, serials, ballads, books – as a tribute to her valour and courage, with Radha Krishna Jagarlamudi’s Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi, starring Kangana Ranaut in the titular role, next in line. But even before this film could liven up the celluloid, it finds itself in the line of fire of a caste-based outfit – joining the league of the recently released Padmaavat.

In the light of the current controversy, The Quint attempts to revisit history to lift the lid on Rani Lakshmibai, her life and her relentless defiance of the British forces.

In November 2017, the Amaq News Agency, which is directly aligned with the so-called Islamic State’s (ISIS) operations, announced the first attack in Kashmir by the terror group in which a police officer was killed in Srinagar’s Gulabh Bagh area.

Three months later, ISIS has claimed responsibility for a similar incident, this time in the city’s Soura area after constable Farooq Ahmed Yatoo was shot dead in front of separatist leader Fazal Haq Qureshi’s house, reportedly by ‘freelance’ militant Isha Fazli who also had connections with Lashkar-e-Taiba and Hizbul Mujahideen.

Kabir Taneja decodes the apparent presence of AQ and ISIS in Kashmir.

Read here: https://www.thequint.com/voices/opinion/opinion-isis-al-qaeda-in-kashmir-valley-for-terrorism-islamic-militancy-government

इश्क, बेवफाई और फैमिली ड्रामा से भरपूर टीवी सीरियल दिखाने वाला स्टार प्लस इस साल नये कलेवर वाला कॉमेडी सीरियल लेकर आया है. 26 फरवरी से स्टार प्लस पर 'हर शाख पे उल्लू बैठा है' सीरियल शुरू हो चुका है. इस शो के जरिए कॉमेडियन राजीव निगम के रुके हुए करियर को फिर से रफ्तार मिली है.

लालू, मुलायम, मोदी जैसे राजनीति के धुरंधरों की मिमिक्री कर तमाम कलाकारों ने कॉमेडी की दुनिया में नाम कमाया. लेकिन पूरी तरह राजनीति और नेताओं के वादों पर कटाक्ष करने वाला ये संभवतः पहला शो है.

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