• Monday, March 10, 2025

Top Gun: Maverick producer explains why Tom Cruise-starrer outshone MCU…

Headlined by Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise, Top Gun: Maverick hit theatres on May 27 and turned out to be a massive success within days of its release. In its journey to become one of the highest-grossing films ever made, the action drama outperformed MCU and DC biggies at the box…

Women lose desire for sex after 40 – Study

Up to 1 in 3 women between the ages of 30 and 59 experience low libido (desire or appetite for sex) at some point in their lives, informs WebMD. A study consisting of 8000 people has found that a woman’s desire for her husband plunges after she turns 40, The…

Up to 40% ‘hardened’ smokers can quit smoking if prescribed…

In the UK, e-cigarettes have become a very popular stop-smoking aid in recent years, informs the NHS. Known as vapes or e-cigs, these smoking aids are considered to be less harmful than traditional cigarettes and can help smokers to quit smoking completely. WebMD informs that a “vape,” or electronic cigarette,…

Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick surpasses Avengers: Infinity War as…

According to Variety, helmed by Joseph Kosinski, ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ has collected over $679 million in North America, overtaking ‘Infinity War’ which collected $678 million at the domestic box office. Internationally, ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ has generated more than $700 million — and that’s without playing in China or Russia, two…

Female Afghan judge fleeing Taliban appeals against denial of entry…

A female former judge from Afghanistan has appealed against the Home Office decision to deny her entry to the UK, according to media reports. According to her lawyers, the woman, 52, and her son, 24, fled Afghanistan and are in hiding in Pakistan after their home in Kabul was attacked…

Priti Patel inks deal to speedily deport illegal Pakistani migrants

British home secretary Priti Patel has signed a deal with Pakistan to deport criminals and failed asylum seekers to their home country. The Returns Agreement was signed by Patel and Pakistan home secretary Yousaf Naseem Khokhar and the country’s High Commissioner to the UK, Moazzam Ahmad Khan in London last…

‘Pinch me’ – Ex-refugee Ramla Ali becomes women’s boxing trailbazer

Britain’s Ramla Ali said she sometimes felt she was dreaming after her journey from Somali refugee to trailblazing women’s boxer took a big leap forward in Saudi Arabia. Ali, fighting the first women’s professional bout in the kingdom, put on a show in Jeddah on Saturday evening, knocking out Crystal…

Pak media watchdog imposes ban on broadcasting ex-PM Imran Khan’s…

Pakistan’s media watchdog has banned broadcasting live speeches of former prime minister Imran Khan on all satellite television channels with immediate effect, hours after he threatened state institutions and government officials while addressing a rally in Islamabad. Khan, while addressing a public gathering here on Saturday, threatened to file cases…

Celebrating India at 75

I AM old enough to remember the day of independence in 1947. I was young and excited, though barely able to understand what it meant. On the night of August 14, in the words of India’s first prime minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (‘as the world slept’), I failed to stay…

Vijay Deverakonda faces netizens’ ire as ‘#BoycottLigerMovie’ trends

Seems like the boycott Bollywood movement has found resonance in the Southern film industry with the Vijay Deverakonda starrer ‘Liger’ becoming the latest target of the trend. Backed by Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions, directed by Puri Jagannadh and also starring Ananya Panday in the lead, the upcoming sports drama is…