FWICE’s Ashoke Pandit revealed that Aamir Khan and several Bollywood insiders tried to resolve the feud between Ranveer Singh and Farhan Akhtar over ‘Don 3’. Farhan claims a Rs 45 crore loss, while reports of Salman Khan’s involvement were dismissed as rumours. Ranveer Singh‘s alleged sudden exit from ‘Don 3’ seems to have set off…
June 13 marks another anniversary of ‘Chalte Chalte’, the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer that arrived in theatres in 2003. While the romantic drama went on to become a commercial success, it is often remembered for a controversy that unfolded long before its release. The film became linked to the reported fallout between two of Bollywood’s biggest…
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar took a swipe at the United State’s shifting stance and Western nations’ double standards, saying Washington imposes and lifts sanctions or tariffs based on its own interests and not on any fixed principle.Speaking at the Kultaranta Talks in Finland on Thursday, Jaishankar strongly defended India’s decision to buy…
India’s Women’s T20 World Cup campaign begins with high expectations following last year’s ODI triumph. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur’s squad faces a tough Group 1, including Australia and South Africa. (Photo/IANS) More than 48 years since India contested its first ICC World Cup match, on Jan 1, 1978, the side arrives in England for the Women’s…
The Sahara is often imagined as an endless expanse of sand, a landscape so harsh that permanent human settlement seems almost impossible. Yet the desert seen today is only a recent version of a much older place. Thousands of years ago, vast stretches of North Africa looked entirely different. Grasslands spread across regions that are…
Comedian-actress Mallika Dua called out Pranit More, Himanshu Jangra, the ‘Rs 370 biryani’ man and a KEM doctor in a strongly worded Instagram post. She slammed crowd-work comedy and viral internet culture, while Maharashtra Cybercrime police registered an FIR against Pranit More over objectionable content shared on social media. Comedian-actress Mallika Dua took to Instagram…
Shah chairs meeting to review security preparedness NEW DELHI: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday chaired a high-level meeting to review the security and operational preparedness for the upcoming annual Amarnath Yatra, officials said.The yatra is scheduled to begin on July 3.The meeting was attended by National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval, Jammu and…
NEW DELHI: President Droupadi Murmu and Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra led an outpouring of grief from across the country on Friday following the death of legendary shooter and coach Jaspal Rana, with tributes pouring in for a man widely regarded as one of the architects of Indian shooting’s rise on the global stage.Rana, a former…
Rivers are often treated as fixed features of the landscape. They bend, flood, and shift over long stretches of time, but they seem permanent enough that entire towns and economies are built around them. The Mississippi River, in particular, has long been regarded as one of North America’s defining geographical landmarks. Yet in the early…
The names of the days often feel so familiar that they pass unnoticed. They appear on calendars, meeting schedules and phone screens without inviting much thought. Yet hidden inside those ordinary words is a record of how earlier societies understood the heavens.Long before modern astronomy explained planets and orbits, people paid close attention to the…