A recent Bharatanatyam performance by actor, choreographer, and filmmaker Prabhu Deva has become the centre of a heated online debate. The veteran dancer performed at an event in Chennai held to mark the 100th birth anniversary of Guru Sri Udupi Lakshmi Narayanan. The performance was hailed by many as a tribute to his guru but…
NEW DELHI: India is continuing to engage with Russia to secure the release of the remaining Indian nationals serving in the Russian military, the ministry of external affairs (MEA) said on Friday, adding that 139 Indians have been brought back so far.Addressing a weekly media briefing, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said the government has been…
A new warning comes from the State Department for visa holders about reckless driving. The Department of State cited a few recent cases of reckless driving by foreigners in the US that resulted in the revocation of visas and said the Donald Trump administration is not giving second chances to those who put the lives…
Kangana Ranaut shared a childhood photograph from a 1997 school play. She portrayed Goddess Sita in the Ramayana during her school days. This memory surfaced amid discussions surrounding the recent Ramayana trailer release. The actress also recently criticized Gen Z protesters in social media posts. Ranaut was last seen in the medical drama-thriller Bharat Bhagya…
A Delhi court on Friday sentenced former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain and four others to life imprisonment for the murder of IB officer Ankit Sharma during the 2020 Northeast Delhi riots. Spain has deployed its armed forces to Ceuta after more than 49,000 migrants crossed into the North African enclave from Morocco in 24 hours,…
In the small coastal village of Witsand, at the mouth of the Breede River in the Western Cape’s Overberg region, sits Africa’s first desalination plant powered entirely by solar energy. Witsand has a low-season population of only around 300 people, but that number swells to more than 3,000 during the busy summer tourist months, placing…
Kiara Advani birthday special: Inside her reported rise from Rs 5 crore films to Rs 15 crore paycheque for Yash and Geetu Mohandas’ ‘Toxic’ Kiara Advani turns 35 today, July 31 and the actress continues to scale new heights in Indian cinema. From delivering blockbuster films across Bollywood and Telugu cinema to becoming one of…
Rohit Chakravarty led a bat walk at Sunder Nursery on April 17 to mark International Bat Appreciation Day and launch Delhi-NCR’s first bat field guide Nobody grows up wanting to be a bat person. Unless your parents fell in love over dead ones. For Aditya Srinivasulu, bats were never mysterious creatures of the night. They…
For much of the last century, the beaver was largely missing from many North American rivers. Intense trapping for fur had reduced populations so severely that, in many regions, the animal almost vanished from landscapes where it had once been common. Rivers continued to flow, but they did so without one of the species that…
The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has joined UEFA and CONCACAF in opposing FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s proposal to allow private investors to acquire minority stakes in the commercial rights of the FIFA World Cup and other global tournaments, significantly escalating resistance to one of the governing body’s most ambitious commercial plans.In a strongly worded statement…