LOS ANGELES — Brooklyn-based Pakistani vocalist Arooj Aftab has won a Grammy Award for her song “Mohabbat” in the best global music performance category at Hollywood’s biggest music awards night. The 37-year-old singer-composer has become the “first ever female Pakistani GRAMMY winner”. “And the first ever female Pakistani GRAMMY winner is… Arooj Aftab Best Global […]
MUMBAI — Fans of Lata Mangeshkar are disappointed after the melody queen was not included in the ‘In Memoriam’ section of the 64th Annual Grammy Awards. The absence of the legendary Indian playback singer from the 2022 Grammys ceremony, held on early Monday morning in Las Vegas, comes a week after the Academy Awards left […]
BHOPAL (MP) — Two complaints were filed with two different police stations against film director Vivek Agnihotri for allegedly stating “Bhopalis are homosexuals,” said the police on Saturday. One of the complaints was filed with Arera police station, by one Anwar Pathan. The second complaint was filed by Social Democratic Party members with Shahjahanabad police […]
NEW DELHI — Film director Vivek Agnihotri has been given ‘Y’ category security with CRPF cover pan India, reported ANI quoting government sources. Agnihotri has been in the news after ‘The Kashmir Files’ hit the screens last week.
JAMMU — A Jammu district judge has restrained by way of temporary injunction from showing the scenes depicting the acts pertaining to martyr Squadron Leader Ravi Khanna in the movie ‘The Kashmir Files’ to be released on March 11. The plaintiff filed the suit for mandatory injunction wherein it is stated that the plaintiff herself […]
MUMBAI — Kashmir-based lyricist Peer Zahoor has bagged the ‘upcoming lyricist award’. Peer Zahoor, a KPS officer from Kashmir received the award for penning down ‘Rubaru’ song that was part of the Bollywood movie ‘Ginny Weds Sunny.’ Sources told news agency Kashmir News Trust that among the five persons nominated under ‘ Best Upcoming Lyricist’ […]
MUMBAI — Bombay High Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition seeking to stop the release of the film ‘The Kashmir Files’. The film can now be released on its scheduled date of March 11. The petition had sought to prevent the release of the movie claiming that it is a “propaganda movie” to hurt the […]
MUMBAI — Singer-composer Bappi Lahiri, who popularised disco music in India in the 80s and 90s, has died following multiple health issues, a doctor treating him said on Wednesday. He was 69. Lahiri died on Tuesday night at the CritiCare Hospital in Juhu. “Lahiri had been admitted to the hospital for a month and was […]
CHANDIGARH — Deep Sidhu, Punjabi actor-activist, who shot into limelight following the Red Fort violence during the farmers’ protest on Republic Day last year, died in an accident on the Kundli–Manesar–Palwal Expressway on Tuesday. According to the police, his Scorpio had rammed into a parked truck. Sidhu, who was at the wheel, was declared brought […]
MUMBAI — Legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar passed away Sunday at the age of 92. She died at the Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai where she was undergoing treatment for Covid. She was admitted to a city hospital in early January this year, after she tested positive for Covid-19 and was also diagnosed with pneumonia. She […]
