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Kareena Kapoor, Malaika Arora, Amrita Arora and Karisma Kapoor have been friends for ages and they are still going strong. The quartet are often joined by filmmaker Karan Johar, designer Manish Malhotra. They often share pictures from their close-knit circle. At Amrita Arora's 45th birthday on Tuesday, the squad were joined by a special guest - rapper-singer AP Dhillon. Yes, you read that right. The singer checked into the party that was hosted by Amrita Arora's BFF Kareena Kapoor at her Mumbai residence on Tuesday. AP Dhillon smiled and posed for the paparazzi stationed outside. See photos of AP Dhillon arriving at the Kareena Kapoor's house on Tuesday: AP Dhillon at Amrita Arora's party. AP Dhillon at Amrita Arora's party. AP Dhillon at Amrita Arora's party. The usual suspects at Amrita Arora's birthday bash included her sister Malaika Arora and friend Karisma Kapoor . Since Kareena Kapoor was the host for the party, she was not photographed

An Iranian court has handed jail sentences of over 10 years each to a young couple who danced in front of one of Tehran's main landmarks in a video seen as a symbol of defiance against the regime, activists said on Tuesday. Astiyazh Haghighi and her fiance Amir Mohammad Ahmadi, both in their early 20s, had been arrested in early November after a video went viral of them dancing romantically in front of the Azadi Tower in Tehran. Haghighi did not wear a headscarf in defiance of the Islamic republic's strict rules for women, while women are also not allowed to dance in public in Iran, let alone with a man. This couple has been sentenced to 10.5 of prison for this public dance in the Azadi Sq in Tehran. It's hard to believe how little moments of joy are being so violently crushed by IR. Dancing in public has become one of the most powerful forms of resistance in Iran. #MahsaAmini pic.twitter.com/Yz3NpFBwIn — Fatemeh (Shahrzad) Shams (@ShazzShams) January 30, 2023 A revo

Predictably, India's middle class is looking for some form of income-tax relief. Though the tax slab wasn't changed and no new deduction was announced last year, inflation has eaten into people's earnings. They haven't seen a change in tax rate since 2017-18 and in tax slab since July 2014. Ms Sitharaman may be able to afford a balanced, not a populist, Budget since the general election is still a year and one more Union Budget away. Still, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP hoping to win a third consecutive term, massive welfare programmes for farmers and the rural population can't be ruled out. The Finance Ministry had been considering increasing the limit under 80C, which includes investment in life insurance, fixed deposit, bonds, housing and public provident fund. If this happens, it will encourage savings and help raise rainy day funds of people whose savings were eroded at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The markets in India - Asia's thi

After a pet parrot wounded a doctor, a Taiwanese man was fined $91,350 (Rs 74 lakh) along with a two-month prison sentence, according to a report in the BBC . Dr Lin fractured his pelvis and dislocated his hip after a fall caused due to the bird.  As per Taiwan's Central News Agency, the macaw shocked the doctor after landing on his back and flapping its wings frantically.  The owner had brought the bird and another macaw for a jog close to where Dr Lin was running, according to testimony in court. Dr Lin also filed a civil claim for damages for his financial losses against the macaw's owner, Huang, as per the outlet.  He said in court that he spent a week in the hospital after suffering injuries and was unable to work for six months due to recovery including three months of special care. The doctor in question is a plastic surgeon and needs to stand for long hours to perform surgery, therefore, the injury led to heavy financial loss. His lawyer said, "He can now walk,

With Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman getting ready to present the last full budget of the Modi 2.0 government, expectations are high that she will meet the demands of all stakeholders, including the common man who is reeling under the price rise. The finance minister has held several rounds of discussions with various stakeholders, and final touches are being given to the Union Budget for 2023-24 which will be unveiled in the Lok Sabha on February 1. "The Budget to be announced will be an exercise of managing several objectives: movement to fiscal prudence, stimulating growth without accompanying inflation, garnering more resources through non-tax measures and providing sops where necessary. "As all these objectives would run in different directions, the FM will exercise considerable dexterity to move ahead decisively on all counts," said Madan Sabnavis, Chief Economist, Bank of Baroda. Since this will be the last full Budget before the 2024 general elections, Si

A 23-year-old German woman has been accused of seeking out a lookalike of herself on social media and killing her in an attempt to fake her own death, reported Telegraph . The brutal and bizarre case has been dubbed "the doppelganger murder." The police referred to the German woman as Shahraban K, 24, residing in Munich, who had set up a fake Instagram account and tried contacting women who resembled her. After scouting many profiles, she found a cosmetics blogger, Algerian citizen Khadidja O, 23, who lived about 100 miles away, police said. Both the women had long dark hair and similar complexion. According to police, Shahraban K and her boyfriend named Sheqir K, 24, reached out to Khadidja and offered beauty products and went to pick her up. While going back, they stopped in a forest and stabbed the victim over 50 times, police said. Shahraban K had told her husband that she was going to meet her ex-husband. When Shahraban didn't return, her parents went looking f

South Africa took an unassailable 2-0 lead over England in the three-match ODI series, after claiming a five-wicket win in the second ODI on Sunday. Asked to bat first, the visitors posted 342/7 in 50 overs after Jos Buttler and Harry Brook played top knocks of 94* and 80 respectively. However, the game completely turned upside down in the second innings when South Africa skipper Temba Bavuma smashed 109 off 102 balls as the hosts chased down the target with five wickets and five balls to spare. Apart from such a spectacular win, one moment which grabbed everyone's attention was the banter between Jos Buttler and Rassie van der Dussen  that was caught on stump mic. In the 19th over of South Africa's chase, a conversation between England skipper and wicketkeeper Buttler, Jos Buttler, and van der Dussen was captured on the stump mic. Buttler was heard saying, "I am trying to get to the ball” to which Dussen says “I saw”. Jos Buttler is at it again. #SAvsENG | #Proteas

Scientists exploring the surface of the red planet, Mars, discovered a fragment of the rocky planet that was grinning back at them. The face of what appears to be an enormous Martian teddy bear, complete with two beady eyes, a button nose, and an upturned mouth, smiles at the camera of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in the image released by The University of Arizona on January 25.  The adorable picture was taken by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as it cruised roughly 251 kilometres above Mars.  The eyes of the teddy bear are the craters on the planet and the circular fracture pattern seen in the head could have been caused by the "settling of a deposit over a buried impact crater. HiPOD: A Bear on Mars? This feature looks a bit like a bear's face. What is it really? More: https://t.co/MpLQBg38ur NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona #Mars #science #NASA https://t.co/2WUNquTUZH pic.twitter.com/1k2ZnLcJ5o — HiRISE: Beautiful Mars (NASA) (@HiRISE) January 25, 2023 &quo

A 22-year-old NEET aspirant allegedly hanged himself in his hostel room under the Kunhari police station area here, police said on Monday. The dead was identified as Ranjeet Singh (22), a resident of Rajrooppur village in the Prayagraj district of Uttar Pradesh. According to police, he arrived in Kota and enrolled himself at a coaching institute in August, last year. According to a 4 to 5 pages of handwritten note recovered from Singh's room, he was disturbed, circle officer of the area DSP Shankar Lal said. He had written on spiritualism, depression and gods and goddesses, he added. While talking with Singh over a call on Sunday, his family had got a hint of their son's condition. They had even left for Kota to meet him. However, by the time they reached the hostel, Singh had ended his life, the official said. He was also skipping classes since mid-December last year, the CO said. The body was handed over to the father after postmortem later in the evening and further i

A former Google employee has revealed that he found out about his layoff at 2 am while he was feeding his newborn daughter. Nicholas Dufau said he felt "acutely expendable" when he received the email days after the birth of his first child. The Los Angeles-based lawyer was working as the Associate Product Counsel for Google for the last six months. Mr Dufau was on parental leave after his daughter was born in the early hours of January 17.  Mr Dufau took to LinkedIn to share the same. He said, "Last Tuesday morning at 2am, I became a father. The next day, my Google teammates showered me with heart emojis and virtual confetti, wishing me well on my paternity leave. On Friday morning at 2am while feeding my infant, I received a notification that I had lost access to my Google corporate accounts. I had been laid off via automated email." He also shared a picture of himself feeding his little one on his company's Slack channel.  He stated that his colleagues

Amid allegations of "unauthorised occupation" against Nobel laureate Amartya Sen by Visva-Bharati, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday handed over land-related documents to him, asserting that "no one can question him" in future. The chief minister, who reached Bolpur in the second half of the day, visited Mr Sen at his residence and dubbed the accusations made against him as "baseless". The chief minister also announced that the Nobel laureate would be accorded 'Z category' security in future. "Allegations of land grabbing against him (Amartya Sen) are baseless. It is an attempt to tarnish his reputation. No one has the right to insult him. We won't tolerate it," the chief minister said as the economist sat beside her. The CM said her government would decide on the next course of legal action once she was back in Kolkata. Visva-Bharati, in a missive last week, asked Mr Sen to immediately hand over parts of a plo

The sea of love at Shah Rukh Khan's Mumbai residence Mannat was quite a scene to witness on Sunday evening. The reason? The superstar surprised his fans with a meet and greet session. After Pathaan 's stellar success, SRK decided to do an impromptu session with fans. Shah Rukh Khan blew kisses and greeted fans with open arms (literally). He also shared a video from the moment on his social media profile and he wrote: " Mehmaan Nawaazi Pathaan ke ghar par ( hospitality at Pathaan's house)...Thank you all my Mehmaan s (guests) for making my Sunday so full of love. Grateful. Happy. Loved." The comments section of the post was filled with heart emojis and comments like "Last star of the planet" and "the last of the stars." Check out the video posted by SRK here: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Shah Rukh Khan (@iamsrk) A few days ago, SRK was asked by a fan during an AMA session "H

India created history by winning the inaugural ICC Women's U-19 T20 World Cup title after the Shafali Verma-led side defeated England by seven wickets on Sunday. As celebrations erupted across the country, the Indian team marked the victory with a dance to the popular song 'Kala Chashma'. Taking to Instagram, ICC posted a video of the dance moves with the caption, "Winning on the field and off it. India - ICC Women's #U19T20WorldCup Champions". "The new Kala Chashma champions," reads the text in the clip. Watch the video here: View this post on Instagram A post shared by ICC (@icc) In the video, the champions dressed in blue and wearing medals around their necks can be seen grooving to the peppy song in style. The joy of winning is evident on their faces as they dance with energy and excitement, and don't miss a beat. They even aced the hook step of the song and also added a few moves of their own

A police dog, named Officer Ice, came under investigation by the Wyandotte Police Department (WPD) of Michigan after he allegedly stole lunch from one of his colleagues on January 12. The police department then shared an image of the dog's mugshot after alleging criminal charges, as per a report in Fox News . The police department took to Facebook to share the same. They stated that Officer Barwig was eating his lunch when he was summoned to the WPD jail for assistance. Upon his return, he found his lunch had vanished. "Ofc. Barwig was eating lunch in the breakroom when he was called to assist a person in the WPD jail. He quickly jumped into service, leaving his half-eaten lunch on the table. A short while later Barwig and another officer returned to the breakroom only to find Ofc. Ice leisurely strolled out of the room licking his chops. Barwig's entire lunch was gone....disappeared, vanished!" the post stated.  The department also stated that Officer Ice had &quo

Shahrukh Khan's latest movie Pathaan has broken multiple records since its release on January 25 and it has now gained a famous fan – Australian cricket team star David Warner . Warner, who is well known for his online videos featuring Indian songs and movie scenes, posted a hilarious video to pay tribute to the movie. In the video which has gone viral on social media, Warne juxtaposed his own face on that of Shahrukh Khan's in various scenes from the movie Pathaan. "Wow what a film, can you name this?? #legend #icon," Warner captioned the post which he released along with the song 'Besharam Rang'. View this post on Instagram A post shared by David Warner (@davidwarner31) The video was loved by several users on Instagram and India bowler Khaleel Ahmed also appreciated the effort by Warner. The Australia opener had previously posted videos of him dancing to Indian songs.  The spy-thriller, which marked Shahrukh

The number of people taken ill after allegedly consuming contaminated water in a dozen villages of Nadaun sub-division in Himachal Pradesh's Hamirpur district rose to 535 on Sunday. People from a dozen villages, including Banh, Jandgi Gujran, Jandali Rajputan, Panyala, Pathiyalu, Niyati, Rangas Chowki Haar, Thain and Sankar have been affected by the outbreak of water-borne diseases. Rajeev Kumar, the head of Rangas panchayat, had earlier in the day said the number of people taken ill crossed 300. Some patients have been referred to hospitals in Hamirpur. Two to three people in every household have taken ill after consuming contaminated water provided by the Jal Shakti department, he added. It is believed that the high amount of bacteria in the water is causing the illness, Mr Kumar said. He attributed it to contamination of the pit from which the water is supplied. Villagers said the water was supplied without being filtered from an under-construction tank, causing the outbrea

The Maharashtra Police has arrested a former chairman of a state-based cooperative bank and his five family members after an ED complaint they were allegedly obstructing its raids and destroying evidence, officials said Sunday. The case pertains to an Enforcement Directorate money laundering investigation, linked to alleged irregularities of about Rs 494 crore, against the former officer-bearers of the Pune-based Seva Vikas Cooperative bank including its chairman Amar Mulchandani. The agency, according to official sources, raided the premises of Mulchandani in the Pimpri-Chinchwad area (near Pune), early morning on January 27, but its team could not get into his house as "no one opened the house." The ED subsequently called in a locksmith who breached the lock, following which ED officials found at least five people inside. Official sources said the occupants of the house informed ED sleuths that Mulchandani was not there, and their statements were recorded under the secti

On Saturday, Ekta Kapoor's son Ravie Kapoor turned a year older, and on this occasion, the producer celebrated her son's fourth birthday in Mumbai. She hosted a grand bash, which was attended by the children of celebs, including Kareena Kapoor-Saif Ali Khan 's sons Taimur and Jehangir aka Jeh, Karan Johar 's twins Yash and Roohi, Riteish Deshmukh-Genelia D'Souza , with sons Riaan and Rahyl, Shilpa Shetty, with daughter Samiksha, and others. Taimur looked adorable in a grey t-shirt, jeans and yellow shoes, while Jeh wore a striped blue-white t-shirt, pants and shoes.  Karan Johar's twins Yash and Roohi also looked adorable as they arrived at the venue with their nanny. Roohi was seen in a pretty frock, while Yash opted for a blue sweatshirt paired with yellow pants and sneakers.  Ekta Kapoor was snapped with her son and birthday boy Ravie. He looked adorable in a grey blazer and black pants. Ekta looked pretty in a floral print dress at her son's birt

Indian tennis stars Rohan Bopanna and Sania Mirza went down fighting in the final of the Australian Open mixed-doubles category on Friday. Bopanna and Sania lost in straight sets (6-7, 2-6) to Brazil's Luisa Stefani and Rafael Matos at the Rod Laver Arena. The match also marked the end of Sania's Grand Slam career. Sania's family, including her son Izhaan, was present at the Melbourne Park for her last dance at a Grand Slam, while Bopanna's wife and kids were also spotted cheering for the Indian pair. After the match, a fan took to Twitter and labelled Bopanna's wife as the "most beautiful woman". Responding to the viral tweet, Bopanna said: "I agree". I agree ... https://t.co/XVUjZWI1Rm — Rohan Bopanna (@rohanbopanna) January 28, 2023 Sania capped off her glorious Grand Slam career with runners-up finish at the Australian Open. "If I cry, these are happy tears. That's just a disclaimer. I'm still going to play a couple of mo

The idea of New York in wintertime conjures up images of Manhattan's Times Square and Central Park shrouded in snow. Not this year. The city is forecast Sunday to surpass a 50-year record for the latest first snowfall of the season. It is also close to recording its highest number of consecutive days without any measurable flakes. The snowless streak has New Yorkers puzzled, some questioning their love-hate relationship with the white stuff. "It's really sad," said retired teacher Anne Hansen. "Basically, we don't like to see the snow. But now we're sorely missing it," she told AFP. The Big Apple usually gets its first dusting around mid-December. Last season it arrived on Christmas Eve. A heavy load often results in "snow days," beloved by children and office workers who gets days off school and work. Kids grab their sleds and head to the nearest grassy slope. Adults cross-country ski around the main parks. "You stay home, you

Alleging that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at the Centre shows step-motherly treatment towards Telangana, ruling BRS leader and Telangana IT and Industries Minister K T Rama Rao claimed his party is ready for early polls if the BJP dissolves the Lok Sabha, showing its willingness for early elections. The BJP-led government has not announced any new institution or funds to Telangana and not even delivered on the promises made to the State in the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, he alleged. "They say 'sab ka saath, sab ka vishwas'. But, their actions are 'sab kuch bakwas' (all rubbish). The value of rupee is moving towards the 'pathalam' (abyss), the debt is mounting towards the sky. Such is the situation prevailing in the country today," he told reporters in Nizamabad. The NDA government waived off loans for its "corporate friends", he alleged. "...especially those in BJP in the State, they talk big. If they hav

India's time has come, and the driving force of the country's development journey is its Yuva Shakti, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the NCC rally on Saturday. The NCC rally was held on the occasion of the commemoration of 75 years at the Cariappa Ground in Delhi. Notably, 196 officers and cadets from 19 foreign countries also participated in the rally. Addressing the event, PM Modi said, "NCC is celebrating 75 years of its formation. Those who have represented NCC over the last 75 years have been a part of it. I appreciate their contribution to nation-building. India is proud of the determination and spirit of service of the NCC cadets." Addressing the NCC rally in Delhi. We are proud of the determination of the cadets. https://t.co/9QkgIrXELa — Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) January 28, 2023 "Both as NCC cadets, and as a youth, you are representing an 'Amrit Pidhi' (Amrit generation), which will help in making the country developed and Atmani

Former Pakistan captain Sarfaraz Ahmed recently made a successful comeback to international cricket. He played his first Test series in three years against New Zealand recently at home and scored three half-centuries and a ton for Pakistan. After being picked over Mohammad Rizwan in the team, Sarfaraz repaid the trust shown as he scored 335 runs in the two-match series. Wishes and praises poured in for Sarfaraz for his gritty knock in the second Test. Now in a video, that has gone viral, Sarfaraz can be seen singing a song 'Sada khush raho tum...' at Pakistan cricketer Shan Masood 's wedding.  Sarfarz Ahmed sings at #Shaanmasood 's Qawali Night. #sarfarazahmed #qawali #qawalinight #weddingdiaries pic.twitter.com/ylDkWEYO2r — CCZDigital (@cczdigital) January 27, 2023 Earlier, former Pakistan spinner Danish Kaneria took a jibe at those who had dropped Sarfaraz from the national squad earlier. "The people who dropped him from the team are hiding their fac