While about 8,000 people are in the long list of invitees, the select list features just a few hundred people, including prominent politicians, leading industrialists, top film stars, sportspersons, bureaucrats and diplomats.
As Telangana voters queued up to exercise their franchise in the assembly polls on Thursday, they were pleasantly surprised by finding some of the well-known actors and politicians around them.
BJP heavyweights Smriti Irani, Arjun Munda, Ajay Mishra Teni and Kailash Chaudhary were among the 13 Union ministers who tasted defeat in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, as stunning losses in three Hindi heartland states forced the BJP to rely on allies to form the government.
Bollywood turns up to watch Laal Singh Chaddha.
There's much entertainment coming up from July to December, and Joginder Tuteja highlights those films for us.
The actor will marry Sneha on March 6.
There is also speculation within the BJP that its national president J P Nadda, whose extended tenure will end by this month and who was among the leaders meeting Modi, may also be brought back in the government.
The Pat Cummins-led side is in the midst of an intense battle between multiple teams who are bidding for spots in the final four, with Rajasthan Royals (16 points), Kolkata Knight Riders (14 points) and Lucknow Super Giants (12 points) placed above SRH.
In mixed doubles, K Sai Pratheek and Tanisha Crasto prevailed 21-18, 21-14 over Macau's Leong Iok Chong and Weng Chi NG to make a winning start.
Among the new entrants to the Union cabinet, former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has been given the agriculture and rural development portfolios, Bharatiya Janata Party president J P Nadda the health portfolio and former Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar the power portfolio.
Varun Tej Konidela and Lavanya Tripathi's grand wedding celebration.
Allu Arjun, star of the 2022 movie blockbuster Pushpa, was the Grand Marshal at the Federation of Indian Association's Indian Independence Day parade in Manhattan on Sunday, August 22, 2022.
He's reportedly keen to do the Hindi version of Gowtham Tinnanuri's Telugu hit, Jersey.
Polling is underway to elect 119 members of the Telangana Legislative Assembly, with voters queuing up to exercise their franchise amid tight security on Thursday.
Kejriwal was produced in the court by the CBI after the end of his three-day custodial interrogation.
Mumbai Indians will aim to land the killer punch after fluffing an easy run-chase in their opener when they meet a dangerous Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
Banerjee said her microphone was stopped after five minutes, while other chief ministers were allowed to speak for longer durations.
Ram Charan and his wife Upasana Konidela's friends threw the couple a lovely baby shower in Hyderabad over the weekend.
An Indian-American pharmacy owner in Trenton, New Jersey, was shot dead allegedly by a teenager after he refused to give a medicine to the boy without a valid prescription. Arjun Reddy Dyapa, 52, owner of Brunswick Avenue Pharmacy in Broad Street, was shot in the chest and brought dead.Eye witnesses said a teenage African-American with dreadlocks showed up at the counter and demanded a medicine without producing a valid prescription issued by a physician.
Congratulations, Akshita and Manu!
Congrats Anisha-Vishal!
Stars get in a festive mood on social media, as they celebrate Makar Sankranti, Pongal and Lohri.
Ranveer Singh's Jayeshbhai Jordaar gives out a social message in a fun, quirky way, applauds Namrata Thakker.
Dressed in traditional finery, Muslims across India offered prayers at mosques and eidgahs on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr on Thursday, marking the end of the holy month of Ramzan.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday announced Prime Minister Narendra Modi will fight again from Varanasi in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections as it named 34 Union ministers in the first list of 195 candidates.
Here is the complete list of ministers in Modi 3.0 and their portfolios:
The selectors had also proposed to pick one pair each for men's and women's doubles and two mixed doubles combinations through a round-robin tournament format to decide the final standings.
Bunny gave the audience at the India Day Parade a riff on his memorable line from Pushpa, to thunderous applause of course.
Coaching is the toughest job: Saina Nehwal on her future
'Our hero is strong and you must have seen the mother, she is stronger.' 'And Mike Tyson is the strongest!'
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Bollywood!
There is a superhero, a super woman, a super solider and a super ghostbuster arriving in theatres!
Joginder Tuteja lists never-seen-before jodis coming up in the movies.
Joginder Tuteja looks at some of the fresh faces who may have to wait another year to make their debut.
Top directors are getting ready to put together some of their most ambitious films.
HS Prannoy, who occupies the 8th spot, is the best ranked Indian in the men's singles while Lakshya Sen and Kidambi Srikanth are placed 19th and 20th respectively.
Earlier titled Fighter, this much anticipated film from the Arjun Reddy star has been made at a whopping budget of Rs 125 crores.
Producer Ekta Kapoor hosts a success bash for her film.
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