The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has done away with one of its longstanding eligibility requirements for the 2021 Oscars, due to COVID-19.

New Delhi, May 9 () The testing capacity for COVID-19 has been scaled up to around 95,000 tests per day and a total of 15,25,631 tests have been conducted so far across 332 government and 121 private laboratories, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Saturday. The minister, who reviewed the status of COVID-19 in the northeastern states along with the measures taken for its containment and management, also stressed on the need to take concrete action to check the use of non-smoking tobacco and prohibiting spitting in public places which shall help in preventing the spread of the infection, according to a statement. During the high-level meeting with Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim, Vardhan appreciated the dedication of all the states

Chennai, May 9 () The Tamil Nadu government onSaturday set up a high-level committee headed by formerReserve Bank of India governor C Rangarajan to examine fiscalchallenges facing the state owing to the COVID-19 pandemic andsuggest the way forward to improve its fiscal position. The committee, which will also consist of FinanceSecretary S Krishnan as coordinator, will submit its report tothe government within three months, according to a GovernmentOrder. The committee, with 21 members, would assess theoverall immediate and medium term impact of the COVID-19pandemic on different sectors of the state's economy includingthe impact of lockdown, additional costs and implications dueto social distancing and their precautionary measures. Also, it would assess the opportunities and threatsin the

Moby announces at Mercy for Animals gala that he will headline vegan festival

'One thing I know my daughter gets embarrassed by is that I do look so young and I get mistaken for her brother at times. It repulses her, like absolutely repulses her.'

Evan Ross and Ashlee Simpson decided to go for matching outfits as they stepped out in Beverly Hills on Monday.

Now that Phaedra's divorce from Apollo Nido is final, she's moved on with reality show star Tim Norman of Welcome to Sweetie's Pies. When he was 17 he went to prison for armed robbery.

She's famous for saying in her TV courtroom, 'I love the truth.' And the truth is, the legal celebrity looked like a million dollars when she was spotted leaving her favourite West Hollywood eatery Craig's on Sunday.

A few days ago she was in New York promoting her new album, Remnants, on NBC's Today Show. But the singing star turned up at Staples Center in Los Angeles for Backstage At The Grammys on Friday.

The couple divorced in 2011 after four years of marriage, but showed their commitment to family on Monday in Los Angeles at the 9th birthday celebration for their twins.

Zoe Kravitz ex Twin Shadow and Andrew Aged Unveil ‘Yamaha Revstar: Meet Your Other Half’ Video Series. Featuring three videos of the guitarists improvising

June 'Mama June' Shannon managed to fit into her dream wedding dress after her weight loss transformation. But there's only one catch - she doesn't have a groom.

Patty Jenkins is 'excited' over news that Joss Whedon may produce a Batgirl film. The 45-year-old Wonder Woman director said that she is over the moon about the March 30 news.

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Speaking after Kim claimed she would 'never' make another movie, Kristin said she hopes the cast will reunite in the future to bring out a third movie.

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The country star and the baseball player met in 2012 and tied the knot in June 2014 at the First Presbyterian Church in Greeneville, Tennessee. Now she is citing irreconcilable differences .

The 22-year-old has printed her serious boyfriend Tom Leech a sweatshirt to wear while he's on holiday in Austria, to ensure no one is tempted to try and steal a kiss from him.

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Richard Madden has revealed Bodyguard could return for a second series, as he is meeting the show’s creator later this month. It is the show that was the biggest BBC drama in a decade.

Daniel Craig, who first appeared as James Bond, 14 years ago, has been enduring a gruelling diet and fitness regime that culminated in staggering 12-hour workout sessions last week.

Skateboard legend Tony Hawk dished up some impressive moves at the opening of a new Mexican restaurant in Newport Beach, California, Saturday.

Cleveland Cavaliers center Tristan Thompson and Portland Trail Blazers point guard Seth Curry were seen shooting around at USA Mega Fitness in Reseda, California earlier this week.

The 55-year-old writer and producer was married to Kaeppeler for five years and reportedly has a prenuptial agreement with his second wife.

The leading actresses of Maleficent: Mistress of Evil spoke to ten female students from the Mulberry School for Girls to inspire them on today's International Day of the Girl.

Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi are teaming up to help raise funds for the Garden State's pandemic relief fund, by performing at the #JerseyForJersey benefit on April 22.

Jenni was seeing red after he 'downplayed' an incident in which her boyfriend Zack '24' Carpinello, 24, hit on her old roommate, Angelina Pivarnick, 33.

Ellen Degeneres is continuing to feel the heat from former staffers over her alleged behind-the-scenes bad behaviour.

'I just cannot understand it. I don't understand it. I'll never understand it to this day,' she told Entertainment Tonight. They had dated in 1996 after he had a long crush on her.

As he boarded a flight home after cutting short a visit to Greece (pictured today), Netanyahu said: 'Just as Israel has the right of self-defence, the United States has exactly the same right.'

Video game Conflict of Nations: World War 3 tweeted: 'Iran starting World War 3? Simulate any #WWIII scenario you can think of in Conflict of Nations right now!'

Iran's foreign minister, Javad Zarif, called Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (left) an 'arrogant clown' following the funeral procession for slain Iranian general Qassem Soleimani (right).

The troops are in addition to about 700 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne who deployed to Kuwait earlier this week after the storming of the US Embassy in Baghdad by Iran-backed militiamen.

Iran's Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi said: 'In a potential conflict in the future, which I don't think they have the courage to carry out, it will become clear where five and two will belong.'

The notification is classified and likely describes Trump's justification for the attack that killed the high-level Iranian official, who was considered second in power to the Ayatollah.

Kerr, left, tweeted Friday to say Pence, right, 'is lying about Soleimani's involvement in 9/11'. He added: 'One thing I've learned...is to not believe our government when it comes to matters of war.'

More Americans back Donald Trump's decision to conduct an airstrike that took out Iranian General Qassem Soleimani than those who disapprove, according to a poll released Monday.

The 52 F-35A aircrafts, which are worth a whopping $4.2 billion, took off in quick succession from the Hill Air Force Base in Utah on Monday.

In a statement to MPs yesterday, Mr Wallace said he was taking 'urgent measures' to protect the UK's soldiers and citizens from potential reprisals by the Tehran regime.

Iran's first retaliatory move was delivered in a 22-missile strike on US bases in Iraq last night. However, despite an array of devastating options it is believed the Ayatollah pulled his punches.

The State Department warned that Iraq's access to its main account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York could be shut off if the Iraqi government asks American troops to leave.

Four Iraqi soldiers were wounded in the attack, two military sources told Reuters. The military sources said the mortar bombs fell on a runway inside the base.

Jerry Holliman, 69, says he was exposed to Agent Orange, has battled cancer and diabetes and that he's now stuck in a Mississippi veterans home feeling abandoned by his country.

Damien Mander spent three years in Iraq training the country's paramilitary, before finding his new calling in Africa training poachers to secretly track and arrest poachers illegally hunting animals.

Veterans of Foreign Wars said Trump (left) must apologize for saying concussion suffered by troops in the Iraq attack is 'headaches' - as Joe Biden (right) branded comments 'disgusting'.

Andrew Demma, an Iraq War veteran who served a one-day prison sentence for child porn charges, will be re-sentenced in Dayton, Ohio. Federal officials say the conviction was 'unreasonably low.'

Bertie Carvel, 42, stars alongside Waleed Zuaiter, 49, in Channel 4's gripping new thriller Baghdad Central. The pair told how having an Arab Muslim as the lead character is nothing less than historic.

As part of his bid to become the next Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer has made political capital out of his legal career by highlighting the cases he has pursued on behalf of the 'underdog'.

'The president (left) this morning made a series of obviously false statements concerning Lt Col Vindman (right),' Vindman's lawyer, Ambassador David Pressman, said.