'They also think that if all opposition parties rally behind him, then 2024 will be Rahul versus Modi and that will be advantage BJP'
World boxing icon Manny Pacquiao announced his retirement from what he called the "greatest sport in the world" on Wednesday to focus on a run for the Philippines presidency, the biggest fight of his career.
'Every day, after 'pack-up', Khansaab and Deepika would come for dance practice and rehearse till around 1-1.30 am.' 'The weather was a challenge because while on screen, it looks warm and sunny, it was actually bitterly cold, with a sharp, stinging wind which had the actors and dancers shivering in their summer clothing.'
Aseem Chhabra highlights 10 films that moved him, films that may show up in theatres near you.
Damage from new shenanigans can be contained if regulators move quickly when something does not smell right, counsels Debashis Basu.
After the scandals of the 1990s, didn't investment banks put sexist employment practices behind them? Evidently not.
It will be interesting to see if Thackeray now succeeds in reviving the fortunes of his weakened party.
'My role will be to take her message across the country.'
Titled the King, Pele made football and Brazil a household name and Brazilian football, a benchmark.
No prizes for guessing what the BJP's election campaign is going to be, and who will provide important inputs for it.
US Open champion Naomi Osaka paid tribute to basketball legend Kobe Bryant after winning her second title.
Dolores Aveiro, an avid Sporting fan, made clear during the title celebrations that she would try to bring the Juventus forward back to the club.
'Thank you @incredibleindia for all the wonderful memories'
Messi announced he wanted to leave Barcelona, on Tuesday, after spending his entire career at the Catalan club.
Lord Palmerston, famed for regular territorial tiffs with neighbouring Downing Street mouse-catcher Larry, will see out his retirement in the English countryside, where he has been spending lockdown already at the home of a member of Foreign Office staff.
An angry Leclerc dropped to fourth after Ferrari called him in again for slicks and then told him, too late, to stay out after Sainz also pitted and went directly from wets to the dry tyres.
Despite a few flaws in the film, Yash Chopra distinguishes himself.
IMAGES from Day 2 of the Ranji Trophy final played between Mumbai and Madhya Pradesh at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Thursday.
'I am sure you will get back to normal life very quickly afterwards, I know I did. I am sure it will be the same with you.'
'Comedy is way more difficult than the serious stuff.'
'Great talent sadly underused.'
An ardent fan of F1 driver, Max Verstappen, Yuvraj keenly follows the Scuderia Ferrari Formula1 team.
Parisian serial killers. Teen doctors. Desi ghostbusters. Potluck parties. Sukanya Verma suggests everything you can catch on OTT this week.
Rishi Sunak, the former UK chancellor of the exchequer, on Friday formally launched his leadership bid to succeed Boris Johnson as the new Conservative Party leader and future British prime minister.
Darya Dolidovich and her family are now in Poland, where she hopes to continue training
'Where Pratidwandi is concerned, there are very few men standing.'
Thackeray, considered a soft-spoken man vis-a-vis his aggressive father, took oath as the 18th chief minister under the tripartite alliance in November 2019, the first in his family to hold a public office.
Normal life in Bihar was on Friday affected by a dawn to dusk `bandh' called by students' bodies in protest against anomalies in the format of exams conducted by the Railway Recruitment Board and police high handedness against protesting students.
Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren came to the rescue of athlete Geeta Kumari, who was forced to sell vegetables in the streets of Ramgarh district to make ends meet. Soren's timely intervention helped Kumari get Rs 50000 from the Ramgarh district administration and also a monthly stipend of Rs 3000 to pursue her athletics career.
'The trick is to ride the downs and not get carried away by the highs. Just get on with life.'
'His plays were like Bollywood cinema.'
'I will study at a private English medium school and become an IAS officer, my aim is clear.'
While we seem to want soldiers on short-term engagement, warfare itself is getting more technical and needs skilled manpower. The world has seen the dismal performance of armies that rely on short tour of duty soldiers or have outsourced war to 'contractors' in Afghanistan and now in Ukraine, points out Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Maradona was a uniquely gifted player who rose from the tough streets of Buenos Aires to reach the pinnacle of his sport.
'They say 'a picture paints a thousand words', so seeing Rishi Sunak PM at the door of Number 10 can never be taken from us.'' 'It is a symbol that will go down in the history books.' 'It is the very embodiment of me saying to my boys, "You can be who you want to be",' notes James Salins in this must-read feature.
'I picture him now like our Mickey Mouse... forever with us, forever adored, forever magical, forever guiding us with that special Virgil FUN.'
Here's looking at how Bollywood's leading ladies show off their sari love these days.
R Madhavan is ready to go to any length if he believes in a film. And he seems to really believe in his next, Jodi Breakers.
Virat Kohli will be facing the most defining test of his captaincy career as he expects his men to be the proverbial 'phoenix rising from the ashes' when India take on a street-smart New Zealand in a do-or-die T20 World Cup Super 12 match in Dubai on Sunday.
IMAGES from the Azerbaijan F1 Grand Prix held at Baku City Circuit on Sunday
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