- Saturday, March 01, 2025
Almost eight years after they worked together in Dilwale, Kajol and Kriti Sanon are reuniting for the Netflix film Do Patti, the streaming service announced Wednesday. The upcoming movie marks the maiden production for writer Kanika Dhillon and Sanon under their newly-launched banners, Kathha Pictures, and Blue Butterfly Films, respectively. Dhillon, whose…
ACTOR Ace Bhatti said his new film, about unravelling family secrets, reflects the universal appeal of good drama, with audiences drawn to the plotline and not the characters’ ethnicity. In The Effects of Lying, Bhatti plays Naveen, a “dutiful husband and loving father” whose life falls apart over a series of events…
Research suggests that taking vitamin D supplements later in life can reduce the risk of heart attacks. In the largest trial of its kind, a five-year study involving 21,315 Australians aged 60 to 84 was conducted. The participants were randomly assigned to either a group that received a monthly tablet…
A recent study has discovered that long Covid may be attributed to an immune inflammatory reaction, not directed against covid-19 itself, but rather triggered by a common, harmless, dormant “bystander” virus found in the body. This reaction leads to a cytokine storm, resulting in the persistence of long Covid symptoms.…
AUSTRALIA can expect to face a fired-up England and a furious crowd in the third Ashes Test at Headingley starting Thursday (6) as the row over Jonny Bairstow’s divisive dismissal at Lord’s rumbles on. British prime minister Rishi Sunak and Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese have even traded verbal bouncers over…
FOURTH-TIER side Forest Green Rovers appointed Hannah Dingley as caretaker head coach on Tuesday (4) following Duncan Ferguson’s exit, making her the first woman to manage a men’s professional team in England. Forest Green, who were relegated from League One last season, said earlier on Tuesday that Ferguson had left…
World number one Carlos Alcaraz and defending women’s champion Elena Rybakina both began their Wimbledon campaigns with victorious performances on Tuesday (04). However, torrential rain wreaked havoc on the All England Club schedule, resulting in only one hour of play being possible on the outside courts. As a result, 69…
INDIA’s HDFC Bank on Wednesday (5) said its merged loan book with Housing Development Finance Corporation stood at about Rs 22.45 trillion (£216 billion) as at the end of the June quarter. HDFC Bank merged with HDFC on July 1 in a £31.5bn merger, the largest in India’s corporate history,…
WOMEN-OWNED and women-led small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are set to benefit from a proposed India-UK free trade agreement (FTA) as part of a “Trade and Gender Equality” chapter which has been provisionally closed at the end of 10 rounds of negotiations, business and trade secretary Kemi Badenoch said. In…
MET POLICE will reopen an investigation into Covid-19 lockdown breaches at a December 2020 event held in the headquarters of the governing Conservative Party in London following an assessment of new evidence. However, police said other referrals, made to them by the government following an examination of former prime minister…
