New Delhi, Mar 7 (PTI) The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) will honour 30 women from different walks of life across the country on the occasion of International Womens Day tomorrow.
The second edition of the 2nd Annual International Womens Day Awards will also honour men who have helped women in distress.
"These awards not only recognise the unsung heroes of our society but will also prove as an inspiration to others. We received many nominations and 30 persons were shortlisted," said DCW chief Swati Maliwal.
Among the awardees is 2006-batch IPS officer from Assam Sanjukta Parashar, who is currently posted in the National Investigation Agency (NIA). The officer displayed immense courage while fighting the militants in Assam.
"She created terror among the militants in Assam. During her 15 months tenure, she took down 16 militants, arrested over 64 others and seized tons of arms and ammunition," said Maliwal.
Dorris Francis, who used to manage traffic at the busy Aitbar Pushta intersection on the Delhi-Ghaziabad border, before cancer struck her is also being honoured.
"She had lost her 17-year-old daughter Nikki in a road accident on the Aitbar Pushta intersection in 2008. But she did not go into depression. She instead returned to that spot, a few months after the accident, and took to managing the rush hour traffic," the DCW chief said.
DU students Ritu Bhoraiya, Rashi Sharma and Sheetal Pawar, who had fought off a mobile snatcher and helped the police in arresting the culprit in west Delhi are also among the awardees.
Bollywood actress Swara Bhaskar is also being awarded on the occasion for being a part of socially relevant films and taking a stand on issues affecting society.
Delhi Police cops are the others who figure in the list of awardees. Constable Anand Singh, who was killed by three men in Bawana last year while saving a woman robbed of Rs 2,500 and her mobile phone, will be awarded posthumously.
Apart from him, a head constable who probed the Danish woman gang rape case of 2014 will also be awarded, Maliwal said.
Suvarna Raj, a para table tennis player and Saylee Nandkishor Agavane, a specially-abled Kathak dancer are also among the 30 awardees who will be honoured tomorrow.
Shaheen, an acid attack survivor, is being honoured for helping other survivors in their legal battle and getting them quality treatment.
Adam Levine Performs "Purple Rain" At The Howard Stern Birthday Bash on SiriusXM
Where one journey ends, another begins!
Just a few days after his uncle, David Cassidy, performed his last-ever concert, 18-year-old Jack Cassidy made his official debut. The teenager stunned on Monday"s episode of "The Voice" with a rendition of Joan Osborne"s "One Of Us" -- and he didn"t need the family name to do it!
The beautiful performance is a much-needed positive update for the Cassidy clan. David, who"s made headlines over the years for substance abuse, legal problems and a tumultuous relationship with his family, revealed in February that he"s battling dementia.
Thankfully, the ongoing family drama had no impact on the younger Cassidy"s stellar performance! Alicia Keys and Adam Levine both swiveled their chairs and began competing for his loyalty without having any clue that he"s a "Partridge Family" descendant. It wasn"t until Keys specifically asked him about his background that he disclosed the info.
Before his audition began, Cassidy explained why he was resistant to reveal his last name. "I love that the coaches don"t my name; they don"t know anything about me," he said. "They"re just judging me purely on the merit of my voice."
His grandmother, Partridge matriarch Shirley Jones, shared her own hesitations about Cassidy"s entrance into the music world.
"In the beginning, I was not very happy with him going into show business," Jones said. "But, when I saw him sit down at a piano, I didn"t even know he could play the piano. Then he started to sing, and I thought, "You know what? This is a voice that"s really remarkable.""
Cassidy ultimately opted for Team Alicia, a move encouraged by fellow judge Blake Shelton. Shelton pointed out that by teaming up with Keys, the two could put together an incredible piano duet. We can"t wait to hear it!
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Actor Miguel Ferrer Talks "NCIS: Los Angeles" Season Finale
Jeff Sessions, Bette Davis and time travel contribute to this weekends TV highlights. Arent you ready to time travel?
Were almost certain to see Kate McKinnon play Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Saturday Night Live. She also spoofs Kellyanne Conway and Betsy DeVos, so maybe SNL will arrange a film that brings together her portrayals. Oscar winner Octavia Spencer will host, and heres hoping SNL skewers the Academy Awards fiasco. Father John Misty will be the musical guest. Will Alec Baldwin be back as Donald Trump? Will Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer? Find out at 11:30 p.m. Saturday on NBC.
Feud: Bette and Joan, an eight-part limited series, starts at 10 p.m. Sunday on FX. This campy extravaganza explores the making of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and how stars Bette Davis and Joan Crawford detested each another on the set of the 1962 classic. Jessica Lange manages to earn sympathy as the calculating Crawford quite a feat. Susan Sarandon brings a fierce intensity to the driven Davis. Ryan Murphy whipped up this giant souffl of Tinseltown intrigue. It never deflates, thanks to a first-rate cast including Kathy Bates, Stanley Tucci and Alfred Molina. Check out my review.
Feud feels like time travel. Two new series demonstrate the process. Foxs Making History is an incredibly goofy sitcom about returning to the past through a duffel bag. Main characters Dan (Adam Pally) and Chris (Yassir Lester) should appeal to the Fox audience; the show gets the time slot after The Simpsons at 8:30 p.m. Sunday. Maybe this time travel has a future.
Time After Time, debuting with two hours at 9 p.m. Sunday on ABC, is a sturdy premise that you may know from a 1979 movie. In the series, H.G. Wells travels from 1893 London to 2017 New York to try to stop a friend whos revealed to be Jack the Ripper. The first time around Malcolm McDowell played Wells, and David Warner portrayed Jack the Ripper. They were splendid and distinctive; Mary Steenburgen was the female lead. This time around, Freddie Stroma is Wells, and Josh Browman is the Ripper. Other characters disagree about which man is better looking one sign the new version lacks the originals punch.
Theres a lot happening Sunday night. Victoria, the lavish Masterpiece series about the British queen, concludes its first season with 90 minutes at 9 p.m. on PBS.
The Walking Dead offers a new episode, Say Yes, at 9 p.m. on AMC. The plot: Someone in Alexandria must make a morally challenging decision, AMC says, while members of the group scavenge for supplies. Talking Dead, starting at 10:02, features Walking Dead executive producer Denise Huth and comedian/superfan Yvette Nicole Brown.
More Sunday changes: Once Upon a Time returns to the ABC schedule at 8 p.m. NBC brings back Little Big Shots at 8 and Shades of Blue at 10, inserting the new Chicago Justice between them. Justice, a legal drama, comes from d**k Wolf, who is responsible for three other Chicago series on NBC.
CBS offers new episodes of NCIS: Los Angeles at 8, Madam Secretary at 9 and Elementary at 10. NCIS: la will pay tribute to the late miguel Ferrer, who died Jan. 19 of throat cancer age 61.
Viewers will hear a version of "Knocking on Heaven"s Door" played by Ferrer"s band, the Jenerators, and sung by Ferrer. The episode also will explain what happened to Owen Granger, Ferrers character, and conclude with a remembrance title card.
Mark Levin FACT BLASTS Truth on Obama Administration Spying on Trump Campaign/Transition
In 1991, a private investigator named Len Colodny published Silent Coup, a sprawling revisionist history of the Watergate affair. Subtitled The Removal of a President, the book set out to prove that President Richard Nixon was forced out of officenot because of his misdeeds but because a formidable national security party opposed his foreign policy.The coup was engineered by some of Nixons closest aides, who colluded with the intelligence community and the press to subvert him,Colodny wrote.
The book was widelypanned as an unsupported and factually incorrect conspiracy theory. The Washington Post at the time blasted its wild charges and vilifications, and the New York Times said it showed a stunning ignorance of how government operated. One of the subjects, former White House counsel John Dean, went on to secure an out-of-court settlement in a $150 million libel lawsuit against the publisher.
Nevertheless, Silent Coup reached No. 3 on the Times bestseller listafterit was published and has developed something of a cult followingover the years.
The term silent coup has been invoked on the right repeatedly in extreme accusations against Obama. Among the terms fans is a fiery conservative radio host named Mark Levin, who used it in a July 2015 radio show,arguing Obama had imposed martial law on thecountry through his immigration, health care and law enforcement policies.
His government doesnt have the authority to do any of these things, but he does it, Levin said. Weve had a silent coup in this country.
On Thursday, Levin returned to the silent coup theme during his evening show, arguing that the Obama administration had orchestrated a silent coup against President Trump.
The Obama Justice Department, heclaimed, had wiretapped and spied on the Trump campaign when it investigated Russian interference in the election and had leaked information to the media to underminethe new president.
Former director of national intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. on March 5 denied that President Trump"s 2016 campaign was wiretapped while senators of both parties weighed in on the allegations. (Bastien Inzaurralde/The Washington Post)
Levins claims were picked up bythe website Breitbart, which reported Levin saying that Obamas police state actions, rather than conspiracy theories about alleged Russian interference in the presidential election to help Trump, should be the target of congressional investigation.
By Saturday morning, Trump was on Twitter accusing Obama, without evidence, ofa Nixon/Watergate plot to tap the phones at Trump Tower. (Obama has denied the allegation, and James R. Clapper Jr., the former director of national intelligence, said there was no wiretapping of Trump.)
And by Sunday, the White House was urging just what Levin suggested, a congressional investigation that focused on Obama.
There was some irony in mocking something as a conspiracy theory, considering Levins own dark warnings over the years of apocalyptic conspiracies. In his books and radio shows, Levin describes the United States as unmoored from its core principles, perhaps fatally so. A staunch champion of constitutional originalism, hehas long warned of an incursion by liberal statists, power-hungry elites he says want to expand the federal government at the expense of personal freedoms.
While he has a massive following on the right, it has been noted that many, perhaps most, on the left have never heard of him, yet another emblem of the different worlds they inhabit.
Writing in the Atlantic in March, 2012, Conor Friedersdorf noted that while movement conservatism has been abuzz about the release of his latest book, Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America, one would search in vain for a review in the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, or The Washington Post.
Nevertheless, Friedersdorf pointed out, the book debuted at No. 1on the New York Times bestseller list.
The National Review Online described him as a methodical eviscerative attorney whose command of the facts is unquestionable.
Unlike fellow conservative hosts Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, Levin began his career in government. After graduating from Temple Law School, he joined the Reagan administration in the early 1980s, serving as associate director of presidential personnel and chief of staff to Attorney General Edwin Meese. He later joined the Landmark Legal Foundation, a right-leaning public interest law firm, where he still serves as president.
It was only in 2002, with the help of Limbaugh and Hannity, that Levin got his start in radio. Within four years, his syndicated two-hour program was boasting 2 million weekly listeners in some 50 markets nationwide, as Human Events reported at the time.
He has written six books since 2005,most of which take aim at what he views as an out-of-control federal government that has desecrated the Constitution.
His first, Men In Black: How the Supreme Court is Destroying America,argued that activist judges on thehigh court undermine Congress and the president androutinely reach beyond their constitutional limits.
In 2009s Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto, Levin pits his idea of conservatism put simply, an originalist interpretation of the Constitution and individual freedoms against what he calls liberal statists whoreject the principles of the Declaration and the order of civil society.
In The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic, from 2013, he lays out something of a personal mission, saying he wantsto defend the Constitution and civil society from the growing authoritarianism of a federal Leviathan. The nation, he wrote, has entered an age of post-constitutional soft tyranny, with Obama showing an impressive aptitude for imperial rule.
This is not doomsdaying or fearmongering but an acknowledgment of fact, levin wrote. the statists have been successful in their century-long march to disfigure and mangle the constitutional order and undo the social compact. To disclaim the Statists campaign and aims is to imprudently ignore the inventions and schemes hatched and promoted openly by their philosophers, experts, and academics, and the coercive application of their designs on the citizenry by a delusional governing elite.
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Actor Miguel Ferrer Talks "NCIS: Los Angeles" Season Finale
The late Miguel Ferrer"s final appearance as Assistant Director Owen Granger airs on CBS" "NCIS: Los Angeles" 9 p.m. Sunday Feb. 19 (Channel 12).
Ferrer, son of singer Rosemary Clooney and cousin of actor George Clooney, died of throat cancer on Jan. 19. He was 61.
Katie Barker, CBS Entertainment vice president, tells me that Ferrer will be in a couple of scenes taped before his death.
CBS" publicity photos and media releases for the Feb. 19 broadcast do not mention or show Ferrer.
In the "Payback" episode, CBS says that "emotions run high for the team as one agent is held in an unknown location and tortured by the mole, while another discovers he was betrayed by someone he least expected."
Two of the five publicity photos show Special Agent Sam Hanna (LL Cool J) at a church.
After airing reruns opposite the Academy Awards on Feb. 26, "NCIS: Los Angeles" returns with a new program on March 5 including a tribute to Ferrer in his own voice, Barker confirms. Producers plan to broadcast Ferrer singing Bob Dylan"s "Knocking On Heaven"s Door" with his band, The Jenorators.
The episode will end with a remembrance title card, she says.
CBS promotions for the March 5 episode also don"t mention the late actor. Called "Old Tricks," the March 5 description says:
"After a retirement home resident is kidnapped, the NCIS team uncovers a pair of con artists: Ginger and Edward OBoyle (Debra Jo Rupp and Martin Mull), who hop from home to home scamming the elderly out of their money. Also, Callen (Special Agent G. Callen, played by Chris O"Donnell) confronts his father on his illegal activity and the danger it places on their family."
Ferrer started his career as a drummer, and toured with his mother and Bing Crosby. In the early 1980s, he and his father jose ferrer shot a movie in Kentucky in which his younger cousin, George Clooney, was an extra.
As I wrote on Jan. 19, George moved to Los Angeles and lived with Rosemary in 1982 to pursue acting at Miguel"s urging. And here"s a link to my Feb. 2 story with George"s remembrances of Miguel from a Paramount Studios memorial service.
Once Upon A Time 6x11 Emma & Old Hook in Wish Realm "Tougher Than The Rest" Season 6 Episode 11
Things are about to get interesting in Storybrooke.
As Once Upon a Time returned for the second half of season six, Emma (Jennifer Morrison) and Regina (Lana Parrilla) found their way home out of the wish land--thanks to an always-welcomeappearance from August (guest star Eion Bailey)--bringing with them the wish land"s version of Robin (Sean Maguire), which shouldn"t get weird at all. (Yeah, right.)
Once home, Emma had the showdown with the hooded figure that"s been plaguing her all season long, only she found the strengthto flip the script on Gideon (Giles Matthey), blasting him with her powers and putting up a good fight. Although, as Gold (Robert Carlyle) later told Belle (Emilie De Ravin), she just may have incited a war, given that Gideon"s plans include him becoming the Savior regardless of the costs.
Oh, and we finally learned how a chance encounter with August as a young runaway gave Emma her iconic last name, Swan! (He stopped her from burning the pages of fairy tales for warmth, rescuing The Ugly Duckling just in time.)
It was a lot to unpack, but luckily co-creators Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis were on hand to tackle our burning questions about where the show goes from here, how the much-talked about upcoming musical episode figures into things, and what it took to convince Colin O"Donoghue to step into that fat suit to bring the wish land"s version of Hook to hilarious life.
With all this talk of war coming to Storybrooke, just how bad are things going to get?Kitsis: Um, I think it"s going to be really bad.
Horowitz: I think there"s an intensity that"s about to overcome everything and it"s going to be not just be about the external conflicts of what"s going on with Gideon or whoever else they may be facing, but also internally as all the characters have to look inward and deal with their own issues in the face of great adversity.
We see Goldtell Belle that he doesn"t want Gideon to kill Emma, that we wants to spare him the same fate that"s befallen him. Can we trust him when he says that, given that he is Gold, after all?Kitsis: I think that in this case, what we do know is it"s like a gangster who wants his son to be a doctor. That"s how we approached it. Rumple is many things, but he does love his son. He does feel the guilt of what happened with Baelfire and I think he means it. I think that me may be unable to resist the dark magic, but he certainly doesn"t want to send his son on the same life. You always want whats better for your children. So, I believe him. But that doesn"t mean he won"t be tempted or have curveballs thrown in his way.
Gideon talks about his motivation not being out of pure evil, but instead needing to become the Savior to go save others. Can you talk about what that means?Kitsis: What I can tell you is that he hinted at wanting to free the realm of the Black Fairy. His motivations are going to become clearer in his origin story and the Black Fairy"s origin story, which is two flashbacks we"ll be doing this year. Gideon"s is episode 16 and the Black Fairy"s will be 19.
With all of this intensity coming to Storybrooke, how exactly does a musical fit into that? What can you talk about the plans for that?Horowitz: It"s interesting you should say that because we"ve been thinking about a musical for a long time, and we"ve actually been planning this one since last fall. What we wanted to do with a musical, one of the things that the bar we had to clear for ourselves was that we didn"t want it to be a standalone episode or something outside of the continuity. We wanted it to be an organic part of the season"s storytelling. And we found a way to do that which we"re really excited about. So all this intensity and stuff that going on in town, I think you"ll see, once we get to the musical, that it is nicely balanced by what"s happening in the musical. The storytelling in the musical is the key to all the different storylines going on.
Kitsis: Yeah, it"s not like a one-off, "Oh, it doesn"t matter."
What was the reaction like amongst the cast in approaching the musical episode?Kitsis: They all have musical backgrounds, so they were really excited. They"ve been very enthusiastic. It"s interesting. They really, really are excited. What we love is that the audience already knows how talented our cast is, but I don"t think they realize how well they can sing. So, it"s really fun for us to show off our fantastic cast.
I want to talk a little bit about Regina"s decision to bring the wish land"s version of Robin Hood back into Storybrooke. When you guys killed off Robin last season, was this idea already there to play with another version of the character?Horowitz: As with most of our ideas, when we get between seasons we do this planning for the upcoming season and a lot of these big ideas and big arcs grow out of that. So what usually happens at the end of the season is we take a few weeks when production is done to sit with the writers, we look back at what happened the previous year, we look ahead to what we want to have happen the next year, and we have a whole slew of ideas that we"ve had since the beginning that we want to find a place to touch on. I think that idea grew out of those discussions there and then we kind of seeded it in to what we"ve done this season. And you"ll see in the second half of the season how it comes into play and most importantly what it means for Regina.
This version of Robin, how does he handle adapting to Storybrooke and, in turn, how does Storybrooke adapt Robin Hood suddenly being back?Kitsis: I mean, exactly. People are like, "What is this?" We"ve dealt with large snow monsters and wraiths and dragons and fairies, but we"ve never had a bizarro version of someone else coming back. So, I think that Storybrooke is going to be wary, but I think more importantly, Regina"s friends and family are going to be wary because this is not the same Robin Hood and Regina has been trying very hard to remove the darkness from her and move forward with her life. This is definitely going to be a test of that.
I have to ask, when you told Colin that he was going to become that old, paunchy version of Hook, how did he take that?Horowitz: Colin was full-throttle for it. He is an incredible actor who will go any place you point him to and make it special.
Snow has been stuck asleep for so long. What can you tease about how this situation with her and Charming moves forward?Horowitz: Well, one, it seems like she"s been asleep longer than she has been because we"ve been off the air. But, yeah, it"s been a challenge. One of the big elements of the storytelling in the second half of the season is how do Snow and Charming deal with this new curse of being separated in a waythey"ve been separated before, but it"s always been by physical distance. Now, they"re separated in a way that"s almost even more cruel. How do they deal with that? And can they overcome it and how? Those are a lot of questions that get posed and dealt with as the season progresses.
There"s been a lot of talk about the future of the series past this season, with rumors floating about a possible reboot to the series as some storylines close. What would you say is the truth about how you"re approaching an upcoming additional season?Horowitz: I think that we"re approaching it in that there"s another chapter to the story that we want to tell, and hopefully we get the chance to tell it. Within the bounds of this season, there are many, many stories that we"ve been telling for a long time that may reach some kind of climax. But at the same respect, these are characters who have, to us, really rich history and vital lives yet to be explored that while we may shake things up in a big waywe"re hoping tothere"s a lot more we want to do if we"re lucky enough to get the chance to do it.
