Mumbai: Renowned playback singer Shreya Ghoshal is set to lend her voice for a special track penned by Javed Akhtar for Vikram Phadnis’ upcoming film. Saiyami Kher, who stars as the lead, expressed her excitement and said that every actor wants a song by her in their filmography. Saiyami shared a special moment with playback sensation Shreya...

New Delhi: India Tuesday summoned the Iranian diplomats, including Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) Mohammad Javad Hosseini, following the latest attack on United Arab Emirates (UAE) merchant vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, which killed one Indian and injured several others. An Indian sailor was killed, and six others were injured after a strike by Iran on...

New Delhi: India has backed Palestine's bid for United Nations membership and reaffirmed its support for a two-state solution to the festering conflict between the Palestinian people and Israel. New Delhi's position on Palestine was apprised by Sripriya Ranganathan, a secretary at the external affairs ministry during a ministerial meeting of the Palestine Donor Group, held in...

Tokyo: Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu registered a straight-game win over Malaysia's Wong Ling Ching to progress to the women's singles second round at the Japan Open Super 750 badminton tournament in Tokyo Tuesday. World No. 10 Sindhu, a 2019 world champion, produced a compact performance to notch up a 21-14 21-11 win over Wong, ranked world...

Puri: The authorities of the Jagannath Temple here will conduct a special inventory of the shrine's Ratna Bhandar July 19 when the deities will be at the Gundicha Temple for a week-long stay during Rath Yatra, a senior official said. The sibling deities of Lord Jagannath, Devi Subhadra and Lord Balabhadra, will travel from their 12th-century shrine...

Hyderabad: Mortal remains of three persons from Andhra Pradesh who were killed in a boat tragedy in Vietnam arrived at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport’s cargo terminal Tuesday. Andhra Pradesh Minister Kondapalli Srinivas received the bodies and consoled the family members. Earlier, the bodies of Mudiam Sreedhar (Kadapa), Gelli Jayalakshmi (Machilipatnam), and Ravi Teja (Hindupur) reached the Mumbai...

Jammu: A special NIA court has issued a non-bailable warrant against Hafiz Saeed, the Pakistan-based chief of the proscribed terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, in connection with a case pertaining to the ongoing probe into the Pahalgam terror attack. The order was passed by the Special Judge of the NIA Court on July 8, two days after the National...

Mumbai: Filmmaker Sandeep Reddy Vanga has urged every genuine film lover to watch Rao Bahadur, calling it a rare cinematic experience that deserves time, patience and applause. Vanga shared a note on X, formerly Twitter, in which he spoke about the psychological drama written, directed, and edited by Venkatesh Maha. He wrote: “Just watched Rao Bahadur. This...

Ahmedabad: Gujarat High Court, while upholding the death sentence of 38 Indian Mujahideen operatives in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts, has cited the "humongous" conspiracy, the intention to spread widespread terror and the large number of casualties as key reasons for affirming the punishment. A division bench of justices AY Kogje and Samir Dave, in its July...

Mathili/Malkangiri: Three tribal families staged a sit-in and hunger strike outside the Mathili tehsil office Monday, alleging they had been denied compensation for land acquired for a railway project due to irregularities in the land acquisition process. The protest was led by a former senior police officer and tribal leader Sarat Chandra Buruda. The demonstrators alleged that...