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  13. ADMIN
    Saif Ali Khan's personal aesthetic can be defined as sharp and elemental at the same time. 
    After doing films like Jawaani Jaaneman, Tanhaji, and Laal Kaptan, it is evident that it is not just his brilliant acting skills but also his sense of style that has evolved in the last couple of years. 
    He now sticks to wearable, relaxed silhouettes. We're talking cotton kurtas and other breathable fabrics on an everyday basis. 
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    © Viral Bhayani
    Case in point, Saif Ali Khan was recently seen with Kareena Kapoor Khan and son, Taimur, wearing a solid navy blue cotton kurta, along with a pair of crisp white pants. 
    To complete the look with his mask, he also threw in a pair of shades and a pair of classic leather monk straps in the light brown shade. The fusion outfit with the pair of monk straps surprisingly looks good together. 
    Take a look at his outfit here:
    © Viral Bhayani
    We think that this is definitely a great outfit for the transitional weather. In fact, combining the kurta with white pants also makes it a great fusion outfit that we can definitely take a cue from. 

    Amid Unlock 5, as more people have started stepping out, casual fusion-wear outfits can be rather convenient as they are not just functional but also look great.

    © Viral Bhayani
    Saif has a big lineup of films ahead of him. He is next going to be seen in films like Adipurush, Go Goa Gone 2, Bhoot Police, and Bunty Aur Babli 2 next year. This also means we shall be seeing more of him soon. 

    Considering that each film will require him to change his look, we can't wait to see the 4 different looks on him.

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  14. ADMIN
    Every day we come across many bizarre incidents and this time, it was rather a scary one. Recently, priests of the Sri Ananthapura temple in north Kerala’s Kasaragod had a visitor that none of us can guess. Yes, a vegetarian crocodile.

    According to the priests at the temple, the crocodile had made the temple lake its home for the past many years and this time, he visited the temple and entered the temple premises. The priests also confirmed that this is Babiya’s first-ever entry into the temple.
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    Temple official Chandrasekharan said, “Some reports suggest Babiya entered the sanctum sanctorum but it is not correct. However, it came to the temple premises on Tuesday evening and spent some time there and went back after chief priest Chandraprakash Nambisan asked it go to its permanent habitat-- the temple pond.”

    Also, Babiya the crocodile is believed to be vegetarian and no one has any idea as to how the crocodile came to the pond and who named it. But, people around say that the crocodile has been in the temple for over 70 years now and has never acted wild with people.
    Babiya eats whatever offerings come to the temple and come out whenever the temple priests call for him.
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    However, it is also said the circus personnel must have deposited hatchlings years back in the pond and only one of them survived. The best part is that the crocodile has never attacked anyone.

    “The priest feeds Babiya twice a day. At times he puts the rice ball right into its mouth. The priest has a unique chemistry with Babiya. The temple pond has enough fishes and we believe it never attacks or consumes them. It is a fully vegetarian crocodile keeping with the tradition of the ancient temple,” said the temple official.
    © Unsplash Croc
    Also, Babiya is a star attraction of the temple and only comes out during feasting hours. Now, that’s a pretty smart croc. 


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  15. ADMIN
    We've seen plenty of good options on the Windows laptop side of the fence in 2020, yet there's hardly any laptop that comes close to Apple's MacBook line up. Only a handful of them get a respectable nod from enthusiasts and the Dell XPS 15 is one of them.
    Dell's XPS series laptops are often the ones that are looked upon as equals to MacBooks, so we wanted to see if it stands true for the new one that came out in 2020 or tells a different story. Well, we've been using the Dell XPS 15 9500 for the better part of a month now and we can't wait to tell you more about it. Let's begin -
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    Dell's XPS laptops have been ranking high up on the list of best-looking Windows laptops for years now. That said, we were worried about the design this year because they were beginning to look a bit dated. A bit of a facelift was in order and Dell delivered it with the XPS 15 this year.

    Taking a closer look at the laptop, you'll see the laptop is now more compact than ever before, particularly in its width. It's not the lightest laptop in the world but the dimensions are well under the acceptable limits. The lid and the chassis are made out of aluminum and the keyboard deck comes fitted with soft-touch carbon fiber.
    You'll also notice that the speakers are next to the keyboard on both sides, facing forward. This placement helps push the sound directly towards the user and the result is simply great when compared with the laptops that have down-facing speakers. This is another quality of change that we welcome and the speakers sound excellent, in case you're wondering. They get plenty loud without having to crank all the way up.
    © MensXP/Karthik Iyer
    Overall, we think the Dell XPS 15 9500 screams quality in a way most Windows laptops fail to do. We love that Dell has still managed to keep it classy here without making any compromises. If you were to buy a Windows laptop purely for the looks, then this is the one.

    DisplayYou'd be spending most of the time staring at the display and we're glad that the Dell XPS 15 has probably the best display we've seen on a laptop this year. In fact, the display is one of our favorite things about this laptop. We've been using the variant that has the optional 4K resolution (3,840-by-2,400-pixel) touch panel and boy, has it been a fantastic experience.
    It's a 15.6-inch panel with super slim bezels around it. The 92-percent screen-to-body ratio will make you instantly fall in love with it. If that's not enough for you then how about the fact that you get to stare at more vertical pixels, thanks to the 16:10 aspect ratio? It makes it look more modern and aesthetically more pleasing to look at.
    © MensXP/Karthik Iyer
    The panel is incredibly sharp and vibrant to look at. It's rated for HDR 400, and it maxes out at 500 nits of brightness. It also covers 100 percent of the Adobe RGB spectrum and 94 percent of DCI-P3. It's a stunning panel to use and we think it's just perfect for content creators. You can also choose to opt for the full HD non-touchscreen too.

    Keyboard & TrackpadThe Dell XPS 15 9500 also has one of the keyboards on a laptop. If you are a writer who appreciates a good keyboard on a laptop, then this will definitely put a smile on your face. The keys have great tactile feedback and the layout is perfect with no odd key placements. It's just a great experience to type on this laptop. The keys are also backlit so you don't have to worry about that either.
    © MensXP/Karthik Iyer
    The trackpad is also a huge upgrade over any other Windows laptop you've probably used. The sheer size of the trackpad may surprise you at first, but it's definitely one of those things that you can't go back from. It's gigantic, to say the least, but we're not complaining about the space we're getting for smooth scrolls and pans. It uses Windows precision drivers, so they're very reliable too.

    Overall, a great keyboard and a trackpad. That, along with the beautiful display will definitely make you happy every time you open the lid and start using it. It just never gets old.
    PortsWe're not too happy about the ports situation though. Besides an SD card slot and a headphone jack, you only get USB-C ports on this laptop, which is a bit of a bummer. Yes, the future is moving towards USB-Cm, but that future isn't here yet and we still find ourselves bamboozled looking for a USB-A port quite often.
    © MensXP/Karthik Iyer
    The two on the right side of the laptop include Thunderbolt 3 and DisplayPort support, whereas the one on the right only offers DisplayPort support. Thankfully, all three of them can be used to charge the laptop. Dell also includes both USB-C to USB-A and USB-C to HDMI adapters in the box, so that a relief.

    PerformanceThe variant of the laptop we used for review was armed to the teeth with an Intel Core i7-10750H processor, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, and an Nvidia GTX 1650Ti GPU. You can choose between a few RAM and storage options to see which one suits your budget the best.
    Day-to-day tasks were no big deal for this beast and it handled everything we threw at it like a champ. Windows laptops have gotten better now thanks to the software advancements too, so no complaints there either. We ran benchmarks on this laptop to see the kind of numbers we could get. Well, the XSP 15 didn't disappoint. 
    © MensXP/Karthik Iyer
    It scored a respectable score of over 5,000 in PCMark 10, which is higher or on-par with most other similarly-specced Windows laptops on the market. We got a score of around 1,500 in Cinebench 15 which is higher than what we got on the MacBook (around 1,300). We were also able to run all popular photo and video editing tools on this machine without any hiccups.

    The Dell XPS 15 9500, though it has great internals, is not a gaming laptop, so we don't recommend pushing it to the limits with resource-intensive AAA titles. It can run all the popular titles like Apex Legends, Valorant, Fall Guys, etc., with ease. But again, it's not a gaming laptop so you need to keep an eye on thermals as they're nowhere close to the sophisticated ones found on gaming laptops.
    Battery LifeThe Dell XPS 15 9500 comes packed with an 86WHr, which was surprisingly good. Though it doesn't measure up to the competitors, it was respectable for a device with a 4K panel running constantly at 75-percent brightness at any given point. The laptop should comfortably get you through a full day provided that you're not pushing the envelope.
    Of course, things like video/photo editing, gaming, or pretty much anything that gets the core kick-in will consume more battery power, but we don't think you should be doing any resource-intensive work without holding hands with the charger.
    The Final SayDell's XPS line up has given us some of the best Windows laptops in the past and we're glad that the XPS 15 9500 will carry that torch hereon. Simply put, the Dell XPS 15 9500 is the best version of a laptop that was already amongst the best in the market.
    You get what we think is one of the most beautiful laptops on the market with some powerful internals. The display is just oh-so-good to look at and it gets a solid recommendation from us for that alone. Honestly, there are no major downsides here except for maybe the price.
    Coming in at over Rs 2 Lakh, the Dell XPS 15 9500 is surely going to put a deep hole in your pocket. But the XPS 15 9500 will fill that by delivering a great experience and by putting a smile on your face every time you open that lid. It's one of the best laptops we've used this year.

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  16. ADMIN
    Making an action movie, obviously, costs a massive amount of money, especially, if it's a freaking James Bond movie. But, I've never heard of a movie production having a substantial coke budget. No, not that coke.
    Reportedly, to perfect a bike stunt scene in the upcoming Bond flick No Time To Die, almost 32,000 litres of Coca Cola was used and yet, no one drank a single drop of that.

    Basically, the scene had Daniel Craig on a bike on the cobbled street of Matera in southern Italy. To make the road more sticky and safer to actually drive a bike, the aforementioned outrageous amount of coke was sprayed all over.
    The added bonus was that the coke left the streets looking cleaner than before. Well, we all know coke is the best thing to clean stuff, apparently.
    © Universal Pictures
    However, the thought of producers of the movie spending $71,000, or over Rs 50 lakh, on just coke is pretty hilarious, but also extremely wasteful. To put things in perspective, the bike in the scene cost less than one third the amount spent on coke. Hmm.

    Triumph Scrambler 1200 Bond edition is worth $18,500, and well, that's basically nothing compared to the $71k.
    © Universal Pictures
    Stunt head Lee Morrison, the man behind the bizarre idea, said, "I spent nearly €60,000 spraying Coca-Cola around Matera. I’ve been spraying Coca-Cola on slippery surfaces for a very long time."


    Well, it's great that the coke did the trick because performing a bike stunt really is no time to die.

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