NEW DELHI: Actors Preity Zinta, Pankaj Tripathi and Suniel Shetty, filmmaker Priyadarshan and musician Ricky Kej are among 18 members named to the reconstituted Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), bringing prominent faces from cinema, television and music to the film certification body.The appointments take effect immediately and will remain valid for three years or…
US President Donald Trump. The Trump administration has cut or frozen up to USD 177 billion in federal grants since President Donald Trump began his second term, with disruptions affecting all 50 states and the District of Columbia, according to a tracking tool released by the States United Democracy Center and Grant Witness.According to the…
Shatrughan Sinha sends advance birthday wishes to PM Narendra Modi (Image Credits Twitter and IMDb) Veteran actor and politician Shatrughan Sinha has extended his birthday wishes to Prime Minister Narendra Modi a day ahead of his 76th birthday. In a message shared on X, Sinha posted two throwback pictures with Modi and explained that he…
Delhi HC calls the incident ‘callous and criminal’ conduct NEW DELHI: Delhi high court on Wednesday said the collapse of a multi-storey hostel building in Satya Niketan, which killed seven people including students, was “not an ordinary incident.“A bench of Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia said four students who died had…
Hollywood actress Cassandra Peterson shared this amusing story in an interview. A story about Brad Pitt and his former Los Angeles estate has drawn attention for an unusual reason. The actor reportedly bought a neighbour’s house while expanding his property, but allowed the elderly man living there to stay without paying rent until his death…
Nani and director Srikanth Odela, who last teamed up for ‘Dasara’, are set to reunite with the action thriller ‘The Paradise’, releasing on September 24. Reports now suggest the film has cleared censorship with an ‘A’ certificate and a runtime of nearly three hours, adding fresh momentum to the buildup around one of the year’s…
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav inspects flood-affected areas from a bridge to assess the ground situation, in Bihar. = NEW DELHI: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Wednesday hit out at the Centre over the flood situation in Bihar, alleging that the government had no money for flood-affected people but was…
Image: Left/Jennifer Sellitti(credit: Joe Mazraani 2025)/Right/A diver splashing from D/V Tenacious during operations offshore ( credit: Jennifer Sellitti) Jennifer Sellitti is a New Jersey public defender by day and a shipwreck diver by choice. For more than a decade, she explored the North Atlantic’s sunken vessels alongside her partner, Joe Mazraani, aboard their boat, D/V…
After slamming ‘Dhurandhar’ for recreating old songs, Sameer Anjaan blames industry monotony and exhaustion for Arijit Singh’s playback singing exit: ‘Every song sounds the same’ Noted lyricist Sameer Anjaan has weighed in on superstar singer Arijit Singh‘s decision to step away from playback singing, pointing to repetitiveness in today’s music as a key factor behind…
Anant Nag will receive the Dadasaheb Phalke Award NEW DELHI: Veteran actor Anant Nag, whose career spans Kannada cinema, Hindi films and the much-loved television series ‘Malgudi Days’, will receive the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2024, the government announced on Wednesday, recognising more than five decades of work across languages.The 78-year-old actor will be presented…