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  • Interview: ‘Good chance that BJP will co-opt Cockroach Janta Party’s demands’
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    Interview: ‘Good chance that BJP will co-opt Cockroach Janta Party’s demands’
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    ‘Brown’ review: Gripping series overcomes plotting holes through memorable characters
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    The problem with David Attenborough’s spectator environmentalism
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    ‘100 is just a number’: PM’s economic adviser says rupee should ‘find its own value’
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    Karnataka minister resigns over portfolio allocation two days after Shivakumar Cabinet takes office
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    ‘Bandar’ review: A relentlessly grim, needling statement on MeToo
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    Bhopal’s Barkatullah University to be renamed Vagdevi Bhojpal University
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    Mumbai is worried about water, but its control over mainland dams is depriving others
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    An ‘indigenous’ Assamese woman was pushed into Bangladesh. A year later, she is still stuck there
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    For young readers: How wrestler Aman Sehrawat became the youngest Indian to win an Olympic medal
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‘Pritam Singh Zinta was never my name’: Actor Preity Zinta sets the record straight

Co-star Bobby Deol used to call her Pritam Singh on the sets of ‘Soldier’ as a joke.

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Dec 15, 2023 · 03:41 pm
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Over the years I have consistently read in various media articles that I have changed my name from Pritam Singh Zinta to Preity Zinta. I have tried to set the record straight so many times by telling everyone that, on the sets of “Soldier” @thedeol called me Pritam Singh as a… pic.twitter.com/ibImRuMwhj

— Preity G Zinta (@realpreityzinta) December 14, 2023
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