Mahmood Farooqui is an acclaimed writer and performer known for reviving Dastangoi, the lost art of Urdu storytelling. He has received the Ramnath Goenka Award for Besieged: Voices From Delhi-1857. He has been visiting fellow at the University of Michigan and University of California, Berkeley. Mahmood has co-directed Peepli Live and produced The Great Shamsuddin…
Director Nelson Dilipkumar has thanked audiences for their response to Rajinikanth’s ‘Jailer 2’, sharing a picture with the superstar and music composer Anirudh Ravichander. Calling the theatrical reception phenomenal, Nelson said nothing beats watching audiences celebrate the film. The action drama, which was released on October 15, 2026, has reportedly crossed Rs 317 crore in…
Katrina Kaif’s appearance at the Ambani family’s Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations in Mumbai on September 14 sparked an unexpected conversation online. The actor, who attended the festivities with husband Vicky Kaushal, found herself at the centre of social media commentary about her post-pregnancy body, with some users making comparisons to her older photographs. The criticism did…
Vidyut Jammwal has broken his silence on the conversation he shared with Tiger Shroff in the wake of last month’s firing incident in Mumbai. Recently, he spoke about the impact the episode could have on Tiger, why he felt compelled to call out the bystanders who saw the attack, and how he took it when…
1 (Those born on the 1st, 10th, 19th and 28th of any month, are ruled by the Numerology number 1)A choice confronts you today, and the tricky part isn’t the selection itself, it’s determining whether your input is even required. As a number 1, you’re direct and like to take charge, so the impulse to…
BJP calls AISA chief Neha Bora ‘poster girl’ of Rahul Gandhi’s ‘anti-Hindu politics’ NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday targeted All India Students’ Association (AISA) president Neha Bora over a video purportedly showing her criticising the “Brahmanical system” with party spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari accusing her of spreading “Hindu hate”.Sharing the video on X,…
Forests are more than stretches of trees for the Indigenous peoples and local communities who have lived among them for generations. They provide food, shelter and livelihoods, while also carrying cultural traditions and ancestral ties to the land. Yet securing legal rights to these territories remains a challenge in many parts of the world, even…
Amit Shah takes on Rahul over polls, Kejriwal over Yamuna and Punjab drugs NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Thursday hit out at leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi over his allegations of “vote chori” and “collusion” between the Election Commission and the BJP, accusing the Congress of using the…
BMS has been actively working in Kashmir since 2020 after the abrogation of Article 370. PULWAMA: Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, an RSS affiliate, opened its first office in Kashmir Valley on Sunday in Barsu village at the foothills of the Zabarwan mountain range. The office is located around five kilometres from Lethpora highway, where the Feb…
Image: World Green Building Council In Freiburg, south-west Germany, a city hall has been designed to do something unusual for a government building: produce more energy than it consumes. Completed in 2017, the city’s latest town hall combines high-performance solar panels with an energy-efficient design that sharply reduces the building’s demand for heating, cooling, ventilation…
