The actress turns 37 today, April 16.
To an award show that's famous for honouring artists belatedly, we have sent as our official entry one of our major film-makers's weakest work yet, feels Sreehari Nair.
...And that's a very good thing, feels Sukanya Verma.
Researchers at the University of Arizona in US imaged the picture of the planet residing in a gap in LkCa1's disk, despite the disk's considerable distance from Earth and its gaseous, dusty atmosphere.
Britain's most wanted female terrorist, dubbed the 'White Widow', has masterminded over 400 deaths including last month's slaughter of 148 people at a university in Kenya, media reports said.
The official privy to the probe said the crime was committed for a few thousand rupees.
Behind the movement are shock-workers functioning quietly to ensure that a seemingly spontaneous, apolitical, grassroots mobilisation sustains itself without dribbling into chaos or violence. Sai Manish lists some of them.
'My wife has done everything... She has had to give up a lot,' HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar tells Sahil Makkar.
Novelist Renu Balakrishnan will conduct a workshop for budding writers in Mumbai.
Here's a glimpse of all that happened around the world last month, in 14 images.
After months of anticipation (and 31,000 submissions from the British public), the Britain's Duchess of Cambridge's final selection of images for Hold Still is available to view on the National Portrait Gallery's website. Designed to "capture and document the spirit, the mood, the hopes, the fears and the feelings of the nation" during lockdown, the project brings together 100 moving amateur shots of everything from at-home haircuts to make-shift classrooms; exhausted NHS staffers on duty to dedicated postmen in superhero costumes; pensioners FaceTiming with their grandchildren to mothers cradling their newborn babies. Below, see 22 remarkable images from Hold Still - then head to the The National Portrait Gallery website for the full exhibition.
Two members of the small Pakistani contingent participating at the Rio Olympics have the country's military to thank for much of their training.
'The economy is in a free fall.'
'And it's been declining for so long, so consistently, that the promise of growth and better days now looks a fantasy.' 'A mid-1970s kind of pessimism, even hopelessness, is growing among the young.' 'This isn't what Mr Modi promised them.' 'Their aspirations and needs are clear and present, and not being fulfilled,' notes Shekhar Gupta.
'We don't know how complicated things will get with the onset of the monsoon.'
The majority stocks are still inexpensive and undervalued.
The Coachella festival saw some stylish and outlandish appearances.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Deane De Menezes hopes to reduce the awkwardness and stigma around menstruation.
Reader Shweta Balakrishnan sends us pictures.
Wealth may drive your relationship preferences says study.
Here's a look at the top 10 tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
The WHOS has long held that the coronavirus is spread primarily by large respiratory droplets when an infected person coughs or sneezes.
Automakers are caught in a chicken-and-egg situation: Prices have to come down if volumes are to increase, and volumes won't increase unless prices come down, notes Pavan Lall.
Saif and Amrita Singh's daughter makes her Bollywood debut opposite Sushant Singh Rajput.
Security staff examined the images, deleted some of them, and photocopied Mariam Jukaku's university ID and driver's license, then asked her if she was a US citizen
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
'Like in cricket, M S Dhoni was the captain and Virat Kohli played under him.' 'Then Dhoni played under Kohli.' 'Now imagine, having a second switch.' 'That is the analogy here, and I find no other example in Indian politics, or even world politics.'
SEWA International, a leading Indian-American non-profit organisation, has so far raised more than $250,000 for its COVID-19 relief efforts. It is using the money to buy personal protective equipment's, in particular facial masks and surgical masks, to donate free to the local law enforcement officials and hospitals in some of the hot spot areas like New York, who have run out of these essential items.
It will not be to India's advantage to create misperceptions that it is bandwagoning with some Anglo-American project for regime change in Myanmar, argues Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
'The producer will wear these gold ornaments, but they will not part with Rs 30,000 or Rs 50,000 to pay the writer.'
In a statement posted on his official Twitter handle, the actor's family said he was diagnosed with the disease in 2016.
'Look at the number of billionaires, the number of new billionaires in India.' 'Adani and Ambani are not the only ones.' 'What's wrong with people making money as long as it benefits us?'
The trio used the same principles of evolution -- genetic change and selection -- to develop proteins used in a range of fields.
Exam centres will not only ensure social distancing among examinees -- there will also be a strong focus on avoiding malpractices and conducting the test with minimal human intervention.
Captain Saurabh Kalia was captured, tortured and barbarically killed in the Kargil War. For 20 years, his father has waged a war of his own to get justice for his son. Captain Kalia is no more, but he lives on in the home he did not return to.
The blaze at the Oil India Ltd's oil well is so massive that it can be seen from a distance of more than two kilometres, eyewitnesses said.
Saurav Chordia's morale patches celebrate bravery and glorify events that are significant for different IAF units or squadrons.
Meet Shubhi Gupta and Prateek Goel, two passionate students who proved their mettle in a college competition when pitted against 25 finalists from around the world!
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