BATSMAN Suryakumar Yadav and fast bowler Deepak Chahar were on Wednesday (23) ruled out of India’s three-match Twenty20 series against Sri Lanka because of injuries. India, led by new all-format skipper Rohit Sharma, will play the opening Twenty20 international in Lucknow on Thursday (24) followed by two matches in Dharamsala.…
Oti Mabuse has announced she is set to leave Strictly Come Dancing, ending her seven-year-long association as a professional dancer on the show. The 31-year-old South African star won the BBC One contest twice, with Kelvin Fletcher in 2019 and Bill Bailey in 2020. She shared a montage of pictures with her…
Cruz Beckham’s photoshoot for the Spring issue of i-D magazine has not gone down well with fans. The youngest son of David and Victoria Beckham stripped down to boxers for magazine cover, which has caused a stir among social media users. Cruz turned 17 on Sunday. Victoria Beckham has also faced backlash on Instagram…
The remake, to be directed by Arati Kadav, is set to go before cameras soon. Reports were doing the rounds lately that Harman Baweja is set to remake the critically and commercially successful Malayalam film The Great Indian Kitchen (2021) in Hindi. Some media outlets also reported that Sanya Malhotra, known for such…
Known for bejewelling Indian cinema with some of the finest films such as Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999), Devdas (2002), Bajirao Mastani (2015), and Padmaavat (2018), celebrated filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali is presently waiting for the release of his next directorial venture, Gangubai Kathiawadi, starring Alia Bhatt in the lead role. Ahead of the release of the film, the filmmaker…
Cinema is a director’s medium and Bollywood boasts of a long list of filmmakers who have used this medium to tell meaningful, engrossing stories that cut across generations. Whether it seems to be so or not, filmmaking is a difficult art form. While many people take years to master the…
INDIAN teenage chess grandmaster Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa won praise on Tuesday (22) for a stunning victory over world number one Magnus Carlsen in an online championship. Praggnanandhaa, 16, who in 2016 became the youngest international master in history at age 10, beat Carlsen late on Monday (21) at the Airthings Masters…
SOCIAL media went abuzz following the wedding of a British diplomat with an Indian filmmaker last week. As Rhiannon Harries, the UK’s deputy trade commissioner for South Asia, posted a photo of her wedding with “the love of my life”, congratulatory messages flooded on Twitter. As a smiling Harries is…
MOB violence broke out in a south Indian city, leaving several people injured, following the murder of a Hindu activist over the weekend. Harsha, 26, a member of the hardline outfit Bhajrang Dal, was allegedly stabbed to death by a group in Shivamogga, about 300 kilometres (186 miles) from Bangalore,…
India is known to be one of the countries to have the highest rate of adoption when it comes to cryptocurrency and its population, and it seems the nation is set to try and take advantage of that as it looks to introduce a new form of taxation. It has…