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First Post
18 hours ago
- Entertainment
- First Post
Varun Dhawan, Ishaan Khatter to Siddhant Chaturvedi: Looking at New-Age Collaborations of Pooja Hegde
With acclaimed films and collaborations, Pooja Hegde is surely rising to prominence. By spreading her wings in Bollywood and South, Pooja has established a fanbase read more Pooja Hegde has longtime been celebrated as a pan-Indian actress, whose work seamlessly transcends language barriers. Her work is speaking volumes, it is resonating with viewers, and her audiences are loving her for going the extra mile in exploring various genres and versatile characters. While she is experimenting with nuanced storylines, she is also working alongside a combination of well-established actors and new-age actors. Pooja Hegde's latest blockbuster is Retro, for which she collaborated with Suriya, and registered another strong title to her growing body of work. Currently, she is shooting for her upcoming Bollywood film, Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai. Touted to be a lighthearted rom-com, the film will see her alongside Varun Dhawan in a breezy plot. Both actors carry unique individual energies, and also a playful side. With this collaboration, it would be interesting to see their energies collide in this David Dhawan directorial. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD In addition to working with Varun Dhawan in Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai, Pooja Hegde is also collaborating with fresh faces Ishaan Khatter and Siddhant Chaturvedi. Though there is no clarity on their upcoming project, a photo of the trio had gone viral a few days ago, suggesting that they are teaming up for something interesting. With acclaimed films and collaborations, Pooja Hegde is surely rising to prominence. By spreading her wings in Bollywood and South, Pooja has established a fanbase, with audiences who are eager to see her step into more diverse roles. At times when actresses often find comfort in predictability, Pooja Hegde is determined to break conventionality.
Time of India
2 days ago
- Time of India
Man kills girlfriend, dumps body in suitcase
Patna: In a chilling crime that has left residents of Biharsharif shaken, a 25-year-old man allegedly murdered his 20-year-old girlfriend on Tuesday, packed her body in a newly purchased blue colour suitcase, and travelled nearly 1 km in an e-rickshaw before dumping it near a drain in Nalanda district's Sohsarai police station area. Shockingly, when police later returned to the crime scene on Wednesday after his confession, they found the body, but the suitcase had vanished—apparently stolen by someone who noticed the expensive-looking luggage. The victim, identified as Pooja Kumari, hailed from Onda village under Sare police station area. She was a nursing student at a private medical college in Bhagan Bigha and had been living in a rented accommodation in Biharsharif for over seven months. The accused, Amit Kumar, from Barbigha in Sheikhpura district, worked at BEd College at Malti in Biharsharif. He had been staying in a rented room in the town's Kagzi locality for about seven months. According to the police, Amit slit Pooja's throat with a sickle at his rented residence on Tuesday morning after she allegedly insisted on marriage, which angered him. He then packed her body into a brand new blue suitcase worth Rs 8,000, which he had purchased earlier that day from a local shop. Amit then hired an e-rickshaw and transported the suitcase—containing the body—to a drain located behind the Govt Girls' High School in Sohsarai area, roughly 1 km away. "It appears that someone took away the suitcase, leaving the body behind," a senior police official said. "We are investigating who might have stolen the suitcase, unaware of what it contained," he added. The crime came to light after Pooja's family grew concerned on Tuesday when she failed to respond to calls. She had informed them earlier that morning that she was going to collect her exam uniform. When attempts to reach her failed, the family initially assumed she was resting. But later in the day, they filed a complaint with Biharsharif police station. Acting on a tip-off from the family, SHO Samrat Deepak detained Amit. During interrogation, Amit confessed to the murder. Police subsequently recovered the body from near the drain early Wednesday morning, along with the sickle used in the killing. Blood stains were also found in his rented room. Sadar SDPO Nurul Haq said Pooja was the eldest of five siblings. Her father is a govt schoolteacher. Police are now probing how the murder went unnoticed by the landlord and are trying to trace the e-rickshaw driver who transported the suitcase. The search is also on for the person who walked away with the suitcase.
Time of India
2 days ago
- Politics
- Time of India
Elected govt buffer for security on ground, serves Centre's interest: Omar Abdullah
Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah speaks on issues ranging from the challenges of running a Union Territory to the Pahalgam attack, relations with the Union government, and the INDIA bloc. Excerpts from his talk at the ET Roundtable: What are the lessons learnt from the Pahalgam attack? Previously learnt lessons need to be implemented. One of the lessons we have learnt from past mistakes was to disconnect tourism from the overall narrative of normalcy in J&K and make it conflict neutral. Tourism is an economic activity and not a barometer of normalcy. The problem is when you equate tourism with normalcy. The best way to counter that normalcy argument is to damage tourism. How long will it take to revive tourism? Our peak season –– May to July –– this year is gone. We are hopeful that we get an incident-free and peaceful Amarnath Yatra (July-August). If the Yatra goes well, then we will be able to do some marketing in West Bengal around the Pooja holidays. Greater normalcy is expected around next April. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Sabonete que ajuda a escurecer os fios sem química viraliza entre homens e mulheres maduros. Cabelo e Barba grisalhos Saiba Mais Undo Is Pahalgam attack a setback for restoration of statehood? In J&K, you can't afford confusion with regard to who is in-charge. You can't have dual centres of power. Pahalgam (attack) has shown a lack of coordination, a lack of unity of command. There was a reason why elected governments were able to bring the graph of militancy down. It was because we had channels of communication not available to Raj Bhawan today. I believe it is in the interest of the Union government to have an elected government that is responsible for security and law and order in J&K. An elected government performs the role of a buffer. How effective was Op Sindoor? The strikes were engineered to dissuade Pakistan from any future attacks …but that, only time can tell. We responded in a similar manner post the attack on the CRPF in Pulwama. That gave us a few years without an attack of this nature. But, we told ourselves that after this, Pakistan will never dare to look at India with an evil eye. But they did, after a few years. Live Events Who do you think should be held responsible for the security lapse? Icertainly can't hold myself responsible, because I'm not responsible for security and law and order. I'm not sure the reaction would have been as muted if I had been responsible for security and law and order. But that's where politics comes into play. What is the sense on the ground in J&K? Pahalgam certainly gave us a rude awakening that this is not just part of the dark past of J&K, it's part of our current reality. People were angry and disappointed. They said this is not something that we support or we endorse, and that was a huge change from anything we've seen in the past 30-35 years. Have people changed because of the abrogation of Article 370? The anger was spontaneous and real. But don't mistake people's anger with regard to the attack in Pahalgam as some sort of endorsement of what happened on August 5, 2019. The Opposition parties feel you were passive about the dual control situation in J&K till now. Your comments. You don't come in and straight away start firing. It takes time to figure out how things work. I haven't started firing yet. I know the Lieutenant Governor recently said that only security and law and order is his responsibility, and he doesn't dabble in anything else. That's his way of tacitly admitting that Pahalgam perhaps was a failure on his part and it is his way of putting his hand down. Also, the fact is that the LG does dabble in governance-related matters. He lays foundation stones of factories and distributes job orders that fall under the purview of the elected government. So, there are areas where the boundaries sort of blur. If he believes in what he says, then the business rules approved by the cabinet should be agreed by him. Has the GoI shared any timeline for restoration of statehood? What can you expect from me? What have I left undone that you would need me to do for statehood to be restored? Has my government been irresponsible? Have we failed in our responsibility to the people? Have we been lacking in our response to any crisis that has hit J&K in spite of the fact that security and law and order is not our domain. Statehood is not for me, the commitment was to the people of J&K. They came out in droves and participated in an election which they didn't need to. They could have boycotted the way they did the previous elections. Is there an expiry date to your patience with the current system? Everything has an expiry date. But I'm not given to threats. That's not in my nature. And, if I was to give you a date, it would sound like a threat. So, let me just say that everything comes with an expiry date, and that's it. Why have you softened your stand on Article 370 and other issues after the assembly election? What have we been silent on? We passed a resolution calling for the restoration of the special status of J&K and constitutional guarantees. When the J&K assembly passed a political resolution like this earlier, it was dismissed. This resolution is alive. We were able to put together a political resolution that survived scrutiny by the Government of India. It lays a foundation of the framework for dialogue with any future government around the special status and constitutional guarantees of J&K. Even before I became chief minister this time, I have always maintained that the onus for creating conditions conducive for a dialogue rests with both countries and Pakistan will have to address India's concerns vis a vis terrorism, for a sustainable dialogue. At every function of the prime minister, in some way or the other, I've managed to insert it in the discourse of statehood. I'm not going to give us 100 out of 100, but I'm certainly not going to fail us either. Was the Indus Water Treaty bad? Yes, It was a terrible treaty if you were in J&K but a great treaty if you were in Punjab…Now, with the suspension of IWT, we believe that if we lift water from the Chenab somewhere around Akhnoor, you'll be able to take care of the water needs of Jammu for at least the next 2-3 decades. I got a lesson in opportunistic politics from my opposition, the PDP. They labelled me as a warmonger for talking about Wullar Barrage. We swiftly reminded them that during Mufti Sayed's first term in office, they had passed a unanimous resolution in the assembly calling for the abrogation of IWT. In Mehbooba Mufti's term in office, she actually went and met Prime Minister Modi with the single focus agenda being that India should exit from IWT because J&K has suffered. As the IWT is in abeyance are you looking at some new projects in J&K? What the IWT will allow us to do going ahead is to at least regularly flush out the existing projects vis-a-vis silt collection. We are doing that in Salal and Baglihar. Also, Wullar Barrage in Kashmir will have three advantages, navigation being one, the restoration of Wullar as a lake, because the water levels will rise and downstream power generation in winter months that will almost double the generation capacity of both Uri 1 and 2 projects as well as lower Jhelum Hydroelectric project. How is the new Chenab Bridge? It has become a tourist destination in itself. One of the ideas discussed when the prime minister came to inaugurate the bridge was to use the Chenab Bridge as an adventure tourism destination for Bungee jumping. Also, there is a sort of a finite time limit to us being able to claim this bridge as the tallest in the world because the Chinese hate us being able to claim anything. I understand from the Railway Minister that China is already planning a bridge 30 meters higher than this one. What about Congress' reservations on the process of elections? It's not something that the INDIA bloc has sort of discussed. This sort of discussion is something that the Congress has as a party and it is their point of view. Unfortunately, since the conclusion of the Parliament elections in 2024, the INDIA bloc hasn't met. I don't share it simply because I am not given to making excuses for things that I don't succeed at. If I have a problem with election results, I need to have it when I have won as well. Do you think the INDIA bloc is over? The INDIA bloc performs a very important role but somewhere we are not sure whether that role is limited to just fighting general elections or is it limited to general elections plus some floor coordination in Parliament or is it something that is supposed to guide us through the five years between Parliament elections. The NDA seems to have more meetings than the INDIA bloc at the moment, which is surprising because the NDA otherwise has never held so many meetings in the past. You have formed a panel on reservation. What is the status of the findings? The report is ready and will be presented at the next cabinet meeting. The findings are for the cabinet to hear first and decide on how to go about it. The room to maneuver is limited. Some reservations are mandated by the government of India like SC, ST, OBC but some reservations are exclusively within the domain of J&K. I do not know what the committee has recommended. Your view on caste census? Ididn't have it when it was being talked about but if it's going to benefit a caste that has been excluded, I am fine. I was surprised the way BJP did a complete U-turn on caste census after maintaining that it is the worst thing that can happen to Hindus because it was designed to divide them. But now that they have discovered a new-found love for it, this is the best thing that could happen to the country. You seem to have a good rapport with the prime minister. Is it just optics? He is not the sort of person who will do things for optics and I will never claim to have a good rapport with him. The Union government has been helpful and I am not going to be ungrateful. Without the Government of India's additional assistance at the end of the last financial year, I would have run out of money in January. I would have had no money for salaries, pensions or anything. I had a Rs 5,000-6,000 crore hole in my budget. You have worked with three PMs so far. How was it dealing with them? You deal with them as prime ministers, they are not your friends, they are not even in my own age group. I would never let that line blur. I am not the sort of person who will sit back and joke with any of them. It's also comparing apples and oranges…None of the PMs I have worked with have looked at J&K from a point of view like 'Sabak Sikhana Hai' or 'Tang Karna Hai.'
Time of India
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Pooja Hegde sets the fashion record by declaring that this silk saree is her favourite
(Image Credits: Instagram) Woven by master weavers who were the descendants of Sage Markhendeya, Kanjeeveram sarees have stood the test of time and are the sacred attire of celebratory occasions. Known for holding the essence of culture and tradition for ages, the timeless grace of Kanjeeveram sarees remains pious and eternal. Bringing the raw energy and divinity of these silk threads to life, actress Pooja Hegde recently professed her love for Kanjeevarams and called the drape her 'all-time favourite'. Dressed in a deep purple Kanjeeveram saree against a pink background, she struck some regal poses for the camera, leaving us swooning for more. (Image Credits: Instagram) For an award event, Pooja opted for a deep purple-hued Kanjeeveram saree adorned with traditional floral motifs in gold, spread all over the main bodice. It also came with a thick border and abstract traditional floral motifs that instantly uplifted the overall grace of the drape. Pooja Hegde gets brutally TROLLED for wearing black saree with deep-neck 'backless' blouse at Baba Siddique's Iftaar party Pooja teamed it with a quarter-sleeved matching blouse and allowed her pallu to cascade from her shoulders. Creating a flawless overall charm, she further added a purple beaded statement necklace with matching earrings and a statement ring. (Image Credits: Instagram) For her makeup, the 'Radhe Shyam' actress decorated her eyes with a soft pink shade of eyeshadow, winged eyeliner, and a touch of kohl. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Memperdagangkan CFD Emas dengan salah satu spread terendah? IC Markets Mendaftar Undo Adding a sleek purple bindi with glossy coral lipstick, the diva left her hair down and showed us exactly how to drape a divine Kanjeevaram saree, making it a mandatory choice for every occasion. How to properly style a Kanjeevaram saree? Let the rich and intricate zari embroidery of your drape take centre stage. Elegantly and with utmost patience, lay down the drapes at the front, and leave the pallu down to showcase the rich detailing. Next, team it with a well-fitted matching blouse and add elbow-length traditional sleeves or a modern sleeveless cut. Lastly, seek out traditional gold jewellery and aim to complete the look with stunning temple jewellery. Opt for a sleek, decorated eye look with a brown lip shade and create a sleek low bun with a gajra to get the perfect South Indian look. One step to a healthier you—join Times Health+ Yoga and feel the change
Gulf Today
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Gulf Today
Bollywood star Pooja Hegde serves traditional elegance as ‘Kanjivaram Girl'
Actress Pooja Hegde has professed her love for Kanjivaram sarees and said that she is always a 'Kanjivaram girl.' Pooja took to Instagram, where she shared a string of images and clips from a recent photoshoot, where she wore an exquisite aubergine and gold hued saree. She completed her look with drop earrings, a choker and bangles. For the make-up, she went subtle with nude lips and left her long straight black hair open. She wrote: 'Once a Kanjivaram girl, always a Kanjivaram girl.' Kanjivaram sarees are renowned for their South Indian origin and are made from pure mulberry silk. They are heavy and have exquisite craftsmanship. On the work front, Pooja will next be seen next in 'Hain Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hain,' which is being made under the direction of David Dhawan. With Varun Dhawan as the protagonist, the highly-anticipated drama enjoys a stellar cast including Mrunal Thakur, Mouni Roy, Chunkey Panday, Maniesh Paul, Jimmy Shergill, Rakesh Bedi, Ali Asgar, Kubbra Sait, Rohit Saraf, Rajeev Khandelwal, Nitish Nirmal, and Sreeleela, along with others. The title of the romantic-comedy-drama, 'Hain Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hain' has been derived from the song 'Ishq Sona Hai' from Dhawan's 1999 hit 'Biwi No.1,' starring Salman Khan, Karisma Kapoor, and Sushmita Sen in the lead. Produced by Ramesh Taurani under the banner of TIPS, the release date for 'Hain Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hain' has not been disclosed yet. Over and above this, Varun will once again be seen sharing screen space with Janhvi in Shashank Khaitan's 'Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari.' These two were earlier paired on-screen in the 2023 romantic entertainer, 'Bawaal'. Sanya Malhotra, Abhinav Sharma, Maniesh Paul, and Manini Chadha are also a part of the project's pivotal cast. Pooja was last seen in the romantic action drama film 'Retro' by Karthik Subbaraj. The film stars Suriya and Pooja in the lead roles. In the film, Paarivel 'Paari' Kannan, an orphan raised by a gangster, faces betrayal and a violent cult as he searches for his true origins, fulfils a prophecy, and tries to reunite with his lost love, Rukmini. Meanwhile, Pooja revealed her favourite homesick remedy. Being an actor means staying away from home for long periods of time, and everyone ends up inventing their own way of overcoming their feeling of being homesick. Through her latest Instagram post, actress Pooja Hegde shared that one of her favorite homesick remedies is to enjoy a hot cup of tea with some yummy Parle-G biscuits. The 'Retro' actress dropped a clip on her Instagram handle, where she was seen enjoying this beloved combo. She was heard saying in the background, 'Simple joys to make me feel like I am at home'. Indo-Asian News Service
