• Saturday, March 01, 2025

Ranbir-Alia wedding: From guest list to wedding menu, everything you…

Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt are set to tie the nuptial knot today. Ranbir’s mother, Neetu Kapoor, and sister Riddhima Kapoor, confirmed the same on Wednesday, saying the wedding will indeed take place on Thursday at Vastu apartments in Mumbai. As the wedding ceremonies started on Wednesday with mehndi, Neetu Kapoor took a…

Big B and Karan Johar send wishes as Bollywood gears…

Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt, who have been dating for four years now, are set to tie the knot today (14) in Mumbai. Ahead of their intimate wedding, several Bollywood celebrities extended their good wishes to the soon-to-be-married couple. Filmmaker Karan Johar, who launched Alia in Student of the Year (2012) and directed Ranbir…

Yanick Ghanty: For any actor doing more than one genre…

GRADUATING from top acting school East 15 kick-started an interesting journey for Yanick Ghanty that led him from performing in theatre to exploring diverse mediums of storytelling in all genres. The latest project to feature the British Asian actor is newly released Channel 4 sitcom Hullraisers, which revolves around three working…

Naisha Bhargabi’s Top 10 Style Tips

Confident: First and foremost, the best thing you can wear is confidence. When you really believe in yourself, it radiates through and adds that extra layer of style to whatever you are wearing. Be confident, wear what you feel comfortable in and show off your best assets to the world. Don’t…

Sushi maker ‘sent to hospital in taxi’ after he loses…

A SUSHI maker who lost his fingertips while on duty in a food factory accused his employer of being unsupportive to him. The tips of his two fingers came off when Viraj Kakadia was operating an “unsafe and dangerous” vegetable cutting machine at Taiko Foods in Acton, London in January this year.…

Fajila Patel bids to become first niqab-wearing Tory councillor

A niqab-wearing mother-of-four will contest Blackburn’s Bastwell and Daisyfield ward in May’s local council elections as a Tory candidate, according to reports.  Fajila Patel, 36, says she wants to ‘inspire’ more women to get into politics – including those who adopt the full veil, reported MailOnline. She is backed by her…

Rishi Sunak’s wife set to receive £6m from Infosys

AKSHATA MURTY, the wife of Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak, is set to receive a dividend payment of £6 million from the Indian IT major Infosys in which she has a 0.93 per cent stake. The company, founded by her father NR Narayana Murthy, has declared a dividend of…

India’s weather office predicts normal monsoon rains this year

INDIA is likely to receive normal monsoon rains this year, the state-run weather office said on Thursday (14), raising prospects of higher farm and general growth in Asia’s third-biggest economy. The rains, which usually lash the southern tip of Kerala state around June 1 and retreat by September, are expected…

Valneva’s Covid vaccine gets UK approval

BRITAIN has approved a new coronavirus vaccine by the Austrian-French drugmaker Valneva, the UK regulatory authority MHRA said on Thursday (14). “An approval has been granted after the Valneva Covid-19 vaccine was found to meet the required safety, quality and effectiveness standards,” the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency said in…

Chemical factory fire kills six in Andhra Pradesh

A fire at a chemical factory in southern India killed at least six people and injured 12, a government official said on Thursday (14), with more casualties feared in the second such accident this week. Pictures of the scene provided by government officials showed Wednesday’s (13) massive blaze, with at…