More than 50 Africa-born or African-origin players are spread across 11 teams -- excluding sides from the continent -- that are part of the tournament in Qatar.
Bollywood loves number games. And not just the rat race kind. There's a slew of movies with numbers in their title.
Once a K-drama buff, always a K-drama buff.
Lots of romance and action on OTT this week. Sukanya Verma lists her recommendations.
rediffGURU Kanchan Rai, founder, Let Us Talk, offers advice on how to navigate problems in a relationship.
Tiger Woods will write a memoir billed by the publishers as a "candid and intimate narrative of an outsize American life".
'I don't think marriages break because of infidelity, they break up because of disrespect.'
If these six stories in Rainbow Rishta are any indication, then urban Indian society is moving towards a welcome liberalism, even though reality cannot be so simple, notes Deepa Gahlot.
'Family is the most important thing in a society.' 'That's why I am always thinking about family and society. I want it to be better.'
Love Storiyaan comes alive in the courageous and fearless voice of six spirited romantics speaking direct dil se, applauds Sukanya Verma.
Aseem Chhabra lists his favourite films from the recent Toronto International Film Festival.
Aseem Chhabra introduces us to the best of Berlinale.
You'll wish weekends lasted as long as weeks after looking at Sukanya Verma's long, long list of recommendations on OTT this week.
'Nobody is telling you, 'Oh, my God, you are 30 and you are not married!'.'
As new OTT release Bawaal tackles the lives of a terribly unhappy couple, and Satyaprem Ki Katha about a young wife with a tragic secret is a box-office success, here's pick of ten (out of a considerable number) of relatively recent films about troubled marriages.
You will appreciate the Mammootty of this movie better if you do not take the servile reviews to heart, for this is a grand, broad, almost proudly comic performance, assures Sreehari Nair.
Some of her best films are not available on streaming platforms, but Deepa Gahlot looks at her Hindi cinema oeuvre on OTT.
Tamannaah Bhatia and Riteish Deshmukh's rom-com is blah, complains Namrata Thakker. Plan A Plan B Review
Deepa Gahlot lists 10 popular Mani Ratnam films that you can watch on streaming platforms.
'Despite the pornographic quality of its name, Lust Stories is something of an event in Indian popular culture,' says Shuma Raha.
Divya Nair lists 2023's Malayalam movies that can be enjoyed by all ages.
Dream Girl 2's understanding of womanhood boils down to her boobs, sighs Sukanya Verma.
Was descending into the telling of only Diana's tale in four long, slightly-draggy soap-opera-ish episodes of the last season the original premise of The Crown? asks Vaihayasi Pande Daniel.
Sara, and her co-star Vicky Kaushal, could not stop grinning throughout the success party of their film, as they blew balloons, sang, cut cake and pulled each other's leg.
While Sam got candid about divorce and alimony, Akshay had some revelations about the Hindi film industry.
After being together for 11 years, Hollywood's most controversial couple has now called it quits!
Kareena has signed on the dotted line for Sujoy Ghosh's Devotion, an adaptation of Keigo Huganshino's Japanese novel The Devotion Of Suspect X.
A man and two women, including his first wife, have decided to live peacefully in two separate houses by dividing three days each of a week between them and also with the liberty to the man to spend the seventh day with the woman of his choice, said a lawyer associated with the family court in Gwalior city.
The most common abuse happens in marriages in the confines of one's own home. Be it raising a hand on one's spouse without the slightest provocation, or abusing them without their consent, notes Aarti David.
For women, it is important to build an emergency fund and a financial independence fund independent of the couple's joint goals and plans.
Harris is known for many firsts. She has been a county district attorney; the district attorney for San Francisco -- the first woman and first African-American and Indian-origin to be elected to the position.
'I was quite taken in by the adept handling of a simple (yet complicated!) subject and had my share of laughs and tears by the time the curtain fell,' observes Nitin Sathe after watching the superhit Baipan Bhari Deva.
Things may not always look bright, but the sun won't stay out forever is a running theme conveyed across its short films about people from various walks of life in all their varying moods and musings, applauds Sukanya Verma.
A list of watchable Hindi legal shows and films on OTT, in order of release.
Fascinating films based on true stories you might want to catch this year.
Stories of rural India, campus capers, realistic family dramas and urban romance that are no longer picked up by film-makers, find their way to the Web, and the viewing experience is richer for the variety available.
US Olympic medallist Dawson was born in South Korea's Busan where, at the age of three, he was separated from his mother in a bustling marketplace.
Yes, there's going to be a lot of tears, laughs and thrills coming your way.
Though the lies hardly go beyond extramarital affairs and conception problems, they are laid out by arresting storytellers who raise the stakes while speaking in tongues not wiped clean to make progressive points (No Made in Heaven-type diddling, here), notes Sreehari Nair.
KAtie Holmes took everybody by surprise when she filed for divorce last Thursday.