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Deewane Huye Paagal (दीवाने हुए पागल)

Deewane Huye Paagal (दीवाने हुए पागल) is a 2005 Hindi romantic comedy directed by Vikram Bhatt, starring Akshay Kumar, Shahid Kapoor, Suniel Shetty, and Rimi Sen. Released 25 November 2005, it earned 15.17 crore net in India against a 20 crore budget and was declared a flop.

Deewangee (दीवानगी)

Deewangee (दीवानगी) is a 2002 Hindi psychological thriller directed by Anees Bazmee, starring Ajay Devgn, Akshaye Khanna, and Urmila Matondkar; a lawyer defends a musician accused of murder who claims a split personality, loosely echoing Primal Fear.

Deewangi (دیوانگی)

Deewangi (دیوانگی, meaning obsession) is a Pakistani Urdu-language romantic drama serial on Geo TV, aired from December 2019 to August 2020 and starring Danish Taimoor and Hiba Bukhari.

Deewaniyat (दीवानियत)

Deewaniyat (दीवानियत) is a Star Plus Hindi romantic drama (11 November 2024 to January 2025, 79 episodes) about Jeet and Mannat's forbidden love amid the Malik-Chaudhary family feud in Haryana, starring Kritika Singh Yadav, Vijayendra Kumeria, and Navneet Malik.

Deewar Mein Ek Khirki Rahati Thi

Deewar Mein Ek Khirki Rahati Thi (दीवार में एक खिड़की रहती थी) is a 1997 Hindi novel by Vinod Kumar Shukla that won the 1999 Sahitya Akademi Award.

Deezer

Deezer, also known as Deezer.com or Blogmusik, is a French music streaming service founded in Paris in 2007, offering about 120 million tracks in over 180 countries.

Deezer Brasil charts

The Deezer Brasil charts are the streaming rankings Deezer publishes for Brazil, led by the Top Brasil playlist of the 100 most-played tracks and the annual My Deezer Year retrospective.

DEF CON

DEF CON, also known as the Defcon conference, is an annual hacker convention held in Las Vegas each August, founded in 1993 by Jeff Moss, known as "The Dark Tangent."

Def Jam Recordings

Def Jam Recordings, founded 1984 in New York by Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons, is a hip-hop label (now under Universal Music Group) behind LL Cool J, Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, Rihanna, and Jay-Z.

Def Jam Recordings India (record label)

Def Jam Recordings India, also known as Def Jam India, is a hip-hop label division of Universal Music Group's India and South Asia operations, launched in 2022.

Def Jam Vendetta

Def Jam Vendetta is a 2003 Aki-developed, EA-published wrestling game for PS2 and GameCube, pitting Def Jam rappers like DMX and Method Man in a New York underground circuit run by D-Mobb, built on the WWF No Mercy engine.

Def Jam: Fight for NY

Def Jam: Fight for NY is a 2004 AKI-developed, EA-published 3D fighting game for PS2, Xbox, and GameCube, also known as Def Jam Fight for New York, with 67 rappers, five fighting styles, and Metacritic 83.

Def Jam: Icon

Def Jam: Icon is a 2007 hip-hop fighting game by EA Chicago for PS3 and Xbox 360, third in the Def Jam series, with music-driven arenas, DJ controls, and a Build-A-Label career mode.

Def Leppard

Def Leppard: English hard rock band formed 1977 in Sheffield within the NWOBHM, known for Pyromania (1983) and Hysteria (1987), over 110 million albums sold, 2019 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees.

Def Leppard discography

Def Leppard discography: catalog of the Sheffield hard rock band formed 1977, twelve studio albums from On Through the Night (1980) to Diamond Star Halos (2022), plus Pyromania, Hysteria, Vault, and Volume 4 box sets.

Def-Con 4

Def-Con 4 (DEFCON-4) is a 1985 Canadian post-apocalyptic sci-fi film directed by Paul Donovan, starring Lenore Zann, Maury Chaykin, and Kate Lynch as satellite crew survivors of nuclear war.

DEFA

DEFA (Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft), East Germany's state film studio founded 17 May 1946 in Potsdam-Babelsberg under Soviet license; produced almost 750 feature films, fairy tales, Indianerfilme, and documentaries until 1990, now preserved by the DEFA-Stiftung.

Defacement (The Death of Michael Stewart)

Defacement (The Death of Michael Stewart) is a 1983 painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat commemorating Michael Stewart, a young Black artist who died after arrest by New York transit police.

Defactinib

Defactinib (VS-6063, PF-04554878, FAKZYNJA) is an ATP-competitive FAK/Pyk2 inhibitor (IC50 0.6 nM). FDA-approved May 2025 with avutometinib for KRAS-mutated recurrent low-grade serous ovarian cancer; failed as mesothelioma monotherapy in COMMAND.

DeFacto (retailer)

DeFacto is a Turkish fast-fashion apparel retailer headquartered in Istanbul and founded in 2003. It runs more than 500 stores worldwide, and its 2023 turnover was about $783 million.

Defamation

Defamation: a false statement harming reputation, civilly actionable as libel (written) or slander (spoken). Key differences include the U.S. actual-malice standard for public figures, UK burden-of-proof rules, and anti-libel-tourism reforms.

Defamation Act

Defamation Act statutes (UK 1996, UK 2013, Ireland 2009, Ireland amended 2026) reform defamation law: serious harm thresholds, truth and public-interest defences, jury abolition, and anti-SLAPP measures.

Defamation Act 2013

Defamation Act 2013 (c. 26), UK statute reforming defamation law in England and Wales, in force 1 January 2014: serious harm threshold, statutory defences of truth, honest opinion, and public interest, website operator and peer-reviewed publication protections, jury presumption removed.

Defamation in Australia

Defamation in Australia: a common law tort, harmonized since 2006 by uniform state and territory Defamation Acts based on Model Defamation Provisions, with a one-year limitation period, a $250,000 general damages cap, a serious-harm threshold from 2021, and 2023-24 digital intermediary reforms.

Defamation law of New Zealand

The defamation law of New Zealand is the tort law of injury to reputation, grounded in the common law and the Defamation Act 1992, in force since 1993.

Default (finance)

Default, also called debt default, is the failure of a borrower to pay scheduled interest or principal on time, or to honor other terms of a debt contract.

Default (국가부도의 날) (2018 film)

Default (국가부도의 날) is a 2018 South Korean drama directed by Choi Kook-hee, the first film to dramatize the 1997 financial crisis and IMF bailout.

Default deny

Default deny, or deny by default, is a network security policy in which a firewall blocks all traffic not expressly permitted, recommended by NIST SP 800-41.

Default gateway

A default gateway, also called a default router, is the router a host uses to send packets to destinations outside its local subnet, often assigned by DHCP.

Default logic

Default logic is a formal system for nonmonotonic reasoning introduced by Raymond Reiter in 1980, in which plausible conclusions from incomplete information can be retracted when new facts arrive.