Top 10 World’s Highest Paid Actresses

Do you know, who is the highest paid actress in the world? Well, here is a list of Top 10 World’s Highest Paid Actresses. Jennifer Lawrence tops the list, pulled in $46 million this year, she once again beaten some of Tinseltown’s best-known starlets to reclaim the top spot in Forbes’ annual list of highest paid actresses in the world.

From Hollywood’s Hottest Jennifer Lawrence to India’s Most Beautiful Deepika Padukone, the world’s highest paid actresses earned a combined $205 million.

10. Deepika Padukone

Deepika Padukone is not just India’s highest paid actress, she is also among the world’s top 10 highest paid actresses. She makes the cut with hits such as Bajirao Mastani. She earned less than her Hollywood counterparts for roles but compensates with over a dozen lucrative endorsements. The actress is the only Indian on the list with earnings of $10 million.

9. Mila Kunis

Mila Kunis, with $11 million, here on our list of highest paid actresses this year. Bad Moms star also cashes with advertisements for Gemfields jewellry and Jim Beam whiskey.

8. Julia Roberts

Mother’s Day failed to make an impression with critics or at box office, though her Money Monster reunion with George Clooney fared better, making her one of the most successful actresses in terms of box office receipts. Julia Roberts is here in our list at 8th spot with an estimated $12 million in earnings. Roberts had become one of the highest paid actresses in the world, topping The Hollywood Reporter’s annual “power list” of top-earning female stars from 2005 to 2006. Her fee for 1990’s Pretty Woman was $300,000; in 2003, she was paid an unprecedented $25 million for her role in Mona Lisa Smile (2003). As of 2010, Roberts’s net worth was estimated to be $140 million.

7. Amy Adams

With $13.5 million, Amy is at number seven in the ranking of highest paid actresses. The 5 time Oscar nominee returns to the ranking as she revives her role as Lois Lane in warner Bros.’ D.C. comics series. Adams is the recipient of two Golden Globe Awards, and was named one of 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2014. She is married to the artist Darren Le Gallo, with whom she has one child.

6. Charlize Theron

With $16.5 million, she comes at fourth place on the list of Highest Paid. Theron likes to balance her work in smaller films, like 2011’s Young Adult, with bigger-budget fare like in 2012, she played Queen Ravenna in Snow White and the Huntsman and Meredith Vickers in Prometheus, both of which were box office successes. She reprised her role of Queen Ravenna in the 2016 follow-up film The Huntsman: Winter’s War. In 2016, Time Magazine named her in the annual Time 100 most influential people list.

5. Fan Bingbing

The only Chines actress in ranking of ten highest paid actresses around the world. With $17 million, she join the ranks to roles in local movies such as Skiptrace and Lady of the Dynasty. American audiences may recognize her from 2014’s X-Men: Days of Future Past and advertisements for Chopard and L’Oreal.

4. Jennifer Aniston

This year, In fourth place on the list of Highest Paid Actresses: Jennifer Aniston with $21 million. Makes most of her cash through endorsements. She added Emirates airlines advertisements to her Smartwater, Aveeno and Living Proof shills.

3. Scarlett Johansson

With $25 million, Scarlett Johansson make it at number three. Besides movies, she boosts her money with a Dolce & Gabbana endorsements. As of July 2016, she is the highest-grossing actress of all time and the tenth movie star in general in North America, with her films making over $3.3 billion.

2. Melissa McCarthy

Plus sized model and actress, with $33 million, Melissa McCarthy is at number 2 amongst highest paid actresses. She earned 8 figure upfront fee to star in Ghostbusters remake. Off screen, she designs her own all-sizes clothing line. Also in 2015, Forbes named McCarthy the third highest-paid actress in the world that year.

1. Jennifer Lawrence

Lawrence is at the top amongst the highest paid actresses in the world for second consecutive year. The list’s youngest member is Tinseltown’s golden girl at the moment. She took a cut of profits from the big box office gross ($653.4 million) of her final Hunger Games installment and plumped her checkbook with soaring upfront fees.

Here’s the full list of highest paid actresses by Forbes:

1. Jennifer Lawrence ($46 million)
2. Melissa McCarthy ($33 million)
3. Scarlett Johansson ($25 million)
4. Jennifer Aniston ($21 million)
5. Fan Bingbing ($17 million)
6. Charlize Theron ($16.5 million)
7. Adams ($13.5 million)
8. Julia Roberts ($12 million)
9. Mila Kunis ($11 million)
10. Deepika Padukone ($10 million)

Best Summer Recipes

Summer is here and the best way to beat the heat is through one’s diet. It is the time to let go of fatty foods and greasy gravies, and instead switch to light meals and seasonal veggies. You will be amazed how easily your diet choices can help you stay refreshed throughout the season. And who says summer meals need to be boring? There are many ways you can spruce up lauki, cucumber, squash, melons and fruits like mangoes, pineapples, litchis and jamuns to delight your taste buds like never before.

An important point to remember during the summer months is to stay hydrated. Therefore, include a lot of body cooling beverages and rehydrating soups that will also help in providing your body the much needed vitamin and mineral doses. Picking seasonal veggies and fruits is also crucial because they are needed to keep the body cool. So toss up refreshing salads and even light curries using vinaigrette, hung curd, honey, lemon, fruit juices, etc for the dressing. You can also have fun in the kitchen with the little ones by making interesting popsicles, flavoured water, ice creams and sorbets. Dare to explore with different flavours to tickle your senses and make the most of the season.

To help you get started, here are our 10 best summer recipes -

1. Sol Kadi (Konkani Kokum Drink)
Recipe by Meenu Nageshwaran

This is a famous drink from Maharashtra's Konkan region. Sol Kadi is made from Kokum or Aamsol and coconut milk. It cools down the digestive system after eating spicy food. It is a natural digestive, and supposed to be an excellent antidote for acidity.

2. Spicy Watermelon Soup
Recipe by Meher Mirza

A fruit soup! What is more summery than a crisp, chilled watermelon? This is a fairly easy recipe but for the laborious deseeding of the watermelon.

3. Stuffed Lauki
Recipe by Chef Roopa Gulati

Bottle gourd is one of those green veggies which are not loved by many but with this interesting twist, you are sure to garner a few fans. Blanched bottle gourd marinated in lime, stuffed with cottage cheese and baked beautifully.

4. Prawn and Litchi Salad
Recipe by Meher Mirza

This one is an extremely easy salad, quick to put together and perfect for those days when you just can't be bothered.

5. Four Melon Salad with Canola Mint Chutney Pesto
Recipe by Chef Romil Zaveri

Here's the weekly winning recipe of the Guilt Free Contest. A chunky salad with refreshing melons drizzled with a sweet and minty dressing.

6. Drunken Salmon Cucumber Rolls
Recipe by Plavaneeta Borah

Easy to make, this refreshing treat is guaranteed to be a big hit in any party. Smoked salmon, sour cream and cucumber slices are spiked with gin to give it a heady twist.

7. Yellow Squash Spaghetti
Recipe by Chef Vicky Ratnani

Thinly shredded yellow squash and bottle gourd, stirred in with green chilies, basil leaves and herbs, and sprinkled with cheese.

8. Mango Curry
Recipe by Chef Roopa Gulati

A lovely Indian curry made with yogurt, mango, gram flour, and jaggery.

9. Mango Kulfi
Recipe by Chef Niru Gupta

Popular kulfi recipe but with a twist, flavoured with mango. Summer is never complete without indulging in mangoes.

10. Jamun Mint Popsicles
Recipe by Plavaneeta Borah

Use the tarty summer fruit to create pretty purple-hued popsicles to impress your friends. Ridiculously easy to make, you can sprinkle some black salt or chaat masala too for a desi twist.

India's Fastest Growing Cities

A lot has been said about India's robust economic growth with economists predicting a bright future for the country. But few know of the booming Indian cities that are adding to the nation's growth. So which are the country's fastest growing cities? Read on to find out

1. SURAT

Growth rate: 11.5%

Surat is Gujarat's second largest city with a population of 4 million. It is the fastest growing Indian city in terms of economic prosperity. The city has registered an annualised GDP growth rate of 11.5 per cent over the past seven fiscal years, according to the data compiled by economic research firm Indicus Analytics.

Known for its thriving diamond and textile industry, Surat is situated on the banks of the Tapti river. More than 90 per cent of world's diamonds are cut and polished here.

These two industries have largely contributed to the city's growth as the economic powerhouse of India. Though often affected by floods and earthquakes, the city has always come out on top.

Improved infrastructure has been key to Surat's rapid rise. A number of elevated roads and flyovers have facilitated the thriving diamond and textile business of the city. The city's Varachcha flyover is claimed to be India's longest.

Surat with its low unemployment rates, high job rates and one of the highest per capita small business credit is the top destination for jobs and business. It is said that if you want to make money, Surat is the place to be in.

2. BANGALORE

Growth rate: 10.3%

What was knows as the Pensioners' Paradise 10 years back, has grown 10-fold today and a study reveals that the rupee millionaire club in Karnataka's capital is the most crowded in India. Bangalore also boasts of having the largest number of households with an annual income of Rs 10 lakhs (Rs 1 million) or more.

With an estimated population of 6.5 million, Bangalore is one of India's most populous cities.

How has this city which was more famous for its gardens and laidback lifestyle changed so much in character? The two reasons that come to every Bangalorean's mind are: the advent of the IT industry, and subsequently the boom in real estate prices.

Unlike other cities in India, Bangalore's main activity is information technology and information technology-enabled services. Being the leading contributor to India's IT industry, the city is often referred to as the Silicon Valley of India. Software majors Infosys and Wipro being headquartered in the city, Bangalore contributed 33 per cent of India's Rs 144,214 crore ($ 32 billion) IT exports in 2006-07.

Businesses involving large corporates that are either multinational companies or Indian firms dealing with or catering to MNCs employ a very large workforce in Bangalore.

And although the city's infrastructure has been unable to keep pace with the rapid growth of the city, Bangalore still remains one of India's boom towns.

3. AHMEDABAD

Growth rate: 10.1%

The Ahmedabad region, including Gandhinagar, of Gujarat is the largest inland industrial centre in western India and has been an important base of commerce, trade and industry. With a population of 56 lakh (5.6 million) Ahmedabad has seen great prosperity because of its proximity to Surat and its access to the hinterland of Gujarat.

Though dusty roads and bungalows used to dot the city once, Ahmedabad is now witnessing a major construction boom and an increase in population. In recent years, the city has seen a significant rise in information technology and scientific industries.

Apart from these, chemicals and pharmaceutical industries contribute to the state's economic growth, with two of the biggest pharmaceutical companies of India -- Zydus Cadila and Torrent Pharmaceuticals being based here.

Ahmedabad also forms the corporate headquarter of the Nirma group of industries and Adani group. Of late, many foreign companies have set up their units here. Among them, Bosch Rexroth of Germany, Stork and Rollepaal of Netherlands deserve special mention.

4. MUMBAI

Growth rate: 8.5%

The commercial capital of India is one of the world's top ten trade centres. The city contributes 25 per cent of industrial output and 70 per cent of capital transactions to India's economy.

The city accounts for about 1 per cent of the total population in India but has a per capita income which is almost three times that of India. Mumbai accounts for 14 per cent of India's income tax collections and 37 per cent of the corporate tax collections in the country.

The city is the berth of significant financial institutions like the Reserve Bank of India, Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of India.

One of the largest special economic zones in India is being set up in Navi Mumbai, to be spread over an area of around 50 square kilometers.

Numerous corporates and multinational companies have their headquarters in the city that attracts migrants from all over India. The city offers countless employment opportunities and is known for its interesting and high standard of living.

The city, with a population of 19 million, is also known as the Indian seat of entertainment as it is the home to the Hindi film industry, the largest in the world.

Most of the city's inhabitants rely on public transport to commute. Transport systems in Mumbai include the Mumbai suburban railway, also known as the lifeline of Mumbai, BEST buses, taxis and auto rickshaws.

5. NEW DELHI

Growth rate: 8.4%

Though it can't rival Mumbai in terms of contribution to the growth of the Indian economy, the capital of India, is no pushover.

Delhi's, (including its nine districts and adjoining Noida, Ghaziabad, Faridabad and Gurgaon) total GDP stood at Rs 1,60,739 crore (Rs 1,607.39 billion). It contributes 4.94 per cent to all-India GDP.

Connaught Place, one of northern India's largest financial centres, is located in the heart of Delhi.

Being an important commercial centre in South Asia, Delhi has a per capita income of Rs 53,976, which is more than double the national average.

Delhi's key service industries, backed by as strong and well laid out infrastructure, include IT, telecommunications, hotels, banking, media and tourism. In recent times, Delhi's manufacturing industry has grown considerably and consumer goods industries have established manufacturing units and headquarters in and around the capital.

Construction, power, telecommunications, health and community services, and real estate form the backbone of Delhi's economy. The capital's retail industry is one of the fastest growing industries in India.

Public transport in Delhi consists of buses, auto rickshaws, taxis, suburban railways and metro rail.

D Language's Official Compiler is Open Source

Long held back by proprietary licensing issues, the D language's official compiler is now open source for all, a first step toward broadening its user base.

The D language, long an underdog among programmers, got a significant boost this past week when its developers received permission to its reference compiler as an open source project.

DMD, the reference compiler for D, has been encumbered by legacy licensing, courtesy of Symantec. The license made it problematic to distribute the compiler in conjunction with other open source software -- for instance, in a Linux distribution -- and often sparked confusion about what it permitted.

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All that changed when Symantec finally gave permission to allow DMD to be under the highly permissive Boost License.

Two other open source D compilers exist, GDC and LDC, but both have typically lagged in terms of their feature support for the language.

DMD's licensing is one likely reason why the D language, originally created as an evolutionary expansion of C/C++, has not enjoyed wider adoption. Most other recently created languages, such as Go and Rust, have their reference implementations available as open source projects.

Supporters of D cite many features that put it in the same class as Rust and Go in terms of convenience and safety: fast compilation times, garbage-collected memory management (with manual memory management also available), and strong interoperation with C/C++. But it stands out thanks to its static introspection functions and code-generation features, which allow compile-time optimizations that would be difficult in other languages.

Freeing up DMD means one fewer obstacle to wider acceptance of D, but not automatically so. D co-creator Andrei Alexandrescu has cited three key obstacles D would need to overcome: How its use of garbage collection by default alienated many C/C++ programmers, its "historical lack of vision," and the fact that it remains minimally used though it's been around for years. Relicensing DMD can address the first of those by allowing a broader base of developers to build more standard-library additions that don't depend exclusively on D's garbage-collected memory management.

But D also faces strong competition from other languages. Much of the potential user base for D may already have made commitments to Rust and Go, and newcomer languages like Nim are seeking their own comfort zones between security, speed, and convenience. Still, D can potentially make a case for itself in the face of those odds, and it has now added one more way to do so.

Microsoft Buys Startup To Boost Its Cloud

Software giant Microsoft has bought startup Deis that specialises in containers -- a modern way to develop and deploy software.

The deal is seen as a boost to Microsoft's cloud because software containers are termed as the new building blocks of cloud-based applications. 

According to a report in Fortune on Monday, the containers constitute a hot category as many businesses are turning to third-party public clouds -- like Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services -- to run their applications. 

"Deis gives developers the means to vastly improve application agility, efficiency and reliability through their Kubernetes container management technologies," said Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President Microsoft in a blog post.

According to Microsoft, the company has seen explosive growth in both interest and deployment of containerised workloads on Azure. 

The company expected that the Deis' technology simplified it for customers to work with Microsoft's existing container portfolio including Linux and Windows Server Containers and Azure Container Service.