Akshaye Khanna’s portrayal of Rehman Dakait in Aditya Dhar’s ‘Dhurandhar’ became one of the most talked-about performances from the two-part film. However, casting director Mukesh Chhabra has revealed that the actor was not the original choice for the role. According to Chhabra, two or three big stars had turned down the part before Akshaye eventually…
India’s double Olympic medalist from Paris 2024 Manu Bhaker and kabaddi player Pawan Sehrawat lead the contingent at the athletes’ parade, during the opening ceremony of the 20th Asian Games, in Nagoya, Japan. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Manu Bhaker wore a borrowed ceremonial kit at the opening ceremony in Nagoya after the kit issued to…
PM Modi mimicry at Rahul Gandhi event NEW DELHI: BJP on Sunday criticised the Congress after stand-up comedian Pulkit Mani mimicked Prime Minister Narendra Modi during an event attended by party leader Rahul Gandhi in Madhya Pradesh, with Union ministers and other BJP leaders targeting the opposition party and Congress MP over the performance.The comedian…
Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak/Image: Reuters Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has warned against equating skin colour with nationality, saying people born and raised in England should not have their English or British identity questioned because they are not white.Writing on X on Sunday, Sunak said his Cowdrey Lecture at the Marylebone Cricket…
From ‘6-7’ to ‘aura farming’: 10 Gen Z slang terms you’ll keep seeing online in 2026 and what they mean If you have spent even a few minutes scrolling through Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube comments lately, you may have noticed that the internet seems to have developed its own language.One minute someone is “locked in”;…
Actor turned politician C Joseph Vijay who also serves as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu waved the ceremonial flag at the Le Mans race in Silverstone which features another Tamil superstar Ajith with his racing team. Recently, senior actor Prakash Raj who often remains in headlines for his political takes reacted to Vijay and…
Indian men’s hockey team at the Asian Games (Photo/ Hockey India) The Indian men’s and women’s hockey teams wore saffron jerseys in their respective opening matches at the Asian Games on Sunday, despite Hockey India’s pre-event announcement that the teams would return to their traditional blue kits.Both teams wore saffron in their opening matches against…
Shashi Tharoor is known for his use of rarely-used and often difficult-to-pronounce English words NEW DELHI: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, known for his English vocabulary and his use of rarely-used and often difficult-to-pronounce English words, on Sunday used another such word to take a dig at the ruling BJP.He described “quockerwodger” as the “word of…
The curious link between hemlines and the economy As wacky as it sounds, fashion and the economy have been linked by an unusual theory for nearly a century: the Hemline Index. In one of the strangest attempts to study economy, the theory proposes: skirts get shorter when times are good and when the economy struggles,…
Diana died at age 36 in a 1997 car crash in Paris while being chased by photographers on motorbikes (Photo: AP). Late Princess Diana’s brother, Earl Charles Spencer, said in an interview published Sunday that Prince Harry and his wife Meghan are facing media treatment comparable to what his sister endured, and cautioned that lessons…
