Mumbai:Bollywood‘s chocolate boy Kartik Aaryan attended his spotboy Sachin’s wedding and made it even special by posing for pictures with the newly-weds.
Kartik took to Instagram and posted a couple of pictures posing with the newly-weds. He penned a note for his spotboy. The actor chose to go in casuals as he was seen in a custard yellow shirt paired with denims.
He wrote: “Congratulations Sachin aur Surekha. Happy Married life ahead.”
On the work front, Kartik, who made a special appearance in ‘Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar’ starring Ranbir Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor, was last seen in ‘Shehzada’.
He will be next seen in ‘Satyaprem Ki Katha’ with Kiara Advani. He also has ‘Aashiqui 3’ and ‘Captain India’.
Mumbai: Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza’s son Izaan and sister Anam are currently on a trip to Dubai.
On Tuesday, the duo bumped into actor Salman Khan who is also currently in Dubai.
The ‘Wanted’ actor, currently enjoying the release of his family entertainer film ‘Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan’, jetted off to celebrate Eid with his fans.
Taking to Instagram, Sania’s sister Anam dropped a video from her Dubai diaries which she captioned, “POV : 24 hours in Dubai.
Recharged for a tough work week ahead.”
In the video, Anam and Izaan could be seen happily posing with the ‘Ready’ actor in casual outfits.
Salman can be seen in a black t-shirt and jeans. He completed his look with a cool cap.
He is seen holding Sania’s son close while posing for the camera.
Soon after she dropped the video, Salman fans flooded the comment section with red hearts and fire emoticons.
“Surprised everyone for salman khan,” a fan commented.
Another user wrote, “Wow salman khan.”
Meanwhile, Salman was recently seen in the action entertainer film ‘Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan’ which performed well at the box office despite getting negative reviews from the critics.
Helmed by Farhad Samji, the film also stars actors Pooja Hegde, Shehnaaz Gill, Palak Tiwari, Sidharth Nigam, Venkatesh Daggubati, Bhumika Chawla, Raghav Juyal and Jassie Gill in pivotal roles.
Salman will be next seen in the upcoming action thriller film ‘Tiger 3’ opposite actor Katrina Kaif. The film is all set to hit the theatres on the occasion of Diwali 2023.
SRINAGAR: According to the police, a man who worked for the Jal Shakti Department was arrested on Monday for supposedly raping a woman in Samba district, Jammu and Kashmir.
The accused, who resides in Ramgarh, pretended to be a “tantrik” capable of healing skin ailments.
The police official stated that the arrest was made after a rape case was filed against the employee as directed by the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Samba. A woman in her middle age claimed that she was sexually assaulted by the accused at his home after he posed as a ‘tantrik’ with extraordinary healing abilities to treat her skin ailment.
The victim was reportedly tricked by the accused during a visit to a temple.
Benam Tosh, the Senior Superintendent of Police in Samba, stated that the police’s top priority is to combat crimes against women in the district. (Agencies)
New Delhi: A man was arrested for cheating innocent people by projecting himself as a rich bachelor on a matrimonial site, and used expensive cars to impress his victims, a Delhi Police official said on Friday.
The accused identified as Vishal, a resident of Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, further duped the victims by offering iPhones at cheaper rates and got the money transferred.
According to police, the complainant, a 26-year-old woman, reported to the police that her parents made her profile on a matrimony site, and she came across Vishal’s profile.
“He projected himself as a HR professional having an income of Rs 50-70 lakh per annum. He won over her trust and convinced her to purchase iPhones at cheaper rates for her relatives and friends. She transferred a total of Rs 3,05,799 in eight transactions,” said Jitendra Kumar Meena, Deputy Commissioner of Police (north-west).
“After blocking her on social media platforms, he informed her that he met with an accident and was admitted to a hospital in Jaipur, and stopped attending her calls,” said the DCP.
“After some days of incident, posing as a decoy a request on the same matrimonial site was sent to the alleged man. He accepted the request and started influencing her in a similar manner, by projecting himself as a HR professional and rich bachelor. The decoy female asked him for a meeting and when he came to meet her, he was nabbed,” said the official.
During interrogation, Vishal confessed to his involvement in this cheating and disclosed that after completion of his studies of BCA and MBA from Delhi, he worked as a HR professional in a MNC in Gurugram in 2018.
“Vishal left his job in 2021 and started his business by opening a restaurant in Gurugram, which was not successful. He made a profile on a matrimonial site — Jeevnasathi.com — and projected himself as a rich bachelor,” said the official.
In order to create an impression, he hired an expensive car for 15 days through an app and paid Rs 2500 per day. He showed some villas and farmhouses as his properties in Gurugram and also projected his well-off business of a food chain in Gurugram, in order to win over the trust of families looking for suitable matches.
“He offered iPhone-14 pro max at a cheaper rate and convinced the victim to buy it, in order to earn profit,” said the official, adding that further efforts are being made to trace his possible involvement in other similar complaints also and his bank account details are further being scrutinised.
New Delhi, Feb 24: The discovery of lithium in Jammu and Kashmir is significant for India’s push towards electric vehicles but any environmental gains could be negated if it is not mined carefully, say experts, citing risks such as air pollution and soil degradation in the fragile Himalayan region.
The Geological Survey of India recently identified a potential deposit of 5.9 million tonnes of lithium in Reasi district’s Salal-Haimana area, the first such anywhere in India, which imports lithium. GSI said the site is an “inferred resource” of the metal, which means it is at a preliminary exploration stage, the second of a four-step process.
The discovery of lithium deposits can be a potential “game changer” for the country’s clean energy manufacturing ambitions in several ways, said Siddharth Goel, senior policy advisor at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).
“First of all, the scale of the reserves is significant, and can — if proven to be commercially viable — reduce India’s reliance on imports of lithium-ion cells, which are a key component for EV batteries and other clean energy technologies,” he said.
But there is a flip side too.
“Reports indicate that approximately 2.2 million litres of water are needed to produce one tonne of lithium. Further, mining in the unstable Himalayan terrain is fraught with risks,” cautioned Saleem H. Ali, distinguished professor of Energy and the Environment at the University of Delaware.
Lithium mining in Chile, Argentina and Bolivia, for instance, has led to concerns over soil degradation, water shortages and contamination, air pollution and biodiversity loss.
“This is because the mining process is extremely water-intensive, and also contaminates the landscape and the water supplies if not done in a sustainable method,” Ali said.
According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), about a fourth of the Earth’s known lithium deposits (88 million tonnes) would be economical to mine, said Charith Konda, energy analyst, Electricity Sector at at US-based Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA).
“Applying this benchmark, India could probably economically extract 1.5 million tonnes of lithium from the 5.9 million tonnes discovered in preliminary studies,” Konda told PTI.
Economically here would mean that the resources and technology used to extract will give good return in terms of usage of the resource.
“India has a vision of increasing the share of electric vehicle sales to 30 per cent in private cars, 70 per cent in commercial vehicles, 40 per cent in buses, and 80 per cent in two- and three-wheelers by 2030. In absolute numbers, this could translate to 80 million EVs on Indian roads by 2030,” Konda said.
The battery pack of an average electric car, he explained, requires 8 kg of lithium. By this metric, India’s economically extractable lithium reserves should be enough to power 184.4 million electric cars.
Currently, India is import dependent for several elements such as lithium, nickel and cobalt. Ministry of Commerce data shows that India spent around Rs 26,000 crore importing lithium between 2018-2021.
In 2021, preliminary surveys by Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research (AMD) showed the presence of lithium resources of 1,600 tonnes in Mandya District in Karnataka. However, there has been no report of mining the resource till date.
An IISD study found that access to critical elements such as lithium is a key challenge faced by companies investing in India’s EV ecosystem.
“These reserves could potentially be a huge carrot to attract investment into domestic battery manufacturing and other clean energy technologies,” Goel said
The potential site in Reasi has the same amount of lithium as the reserves in the US and more than China’s current reserves which are around 4.5 million tonnes.
However, the world’s largest lithium reserves in South America — especially in Bolivia, Chile and Argentina — are several times greater, collectively over 40 million metric tonnes.
According to University of Delaware’s Ali, domestic supply of usable lithium, if developed, could help develop batteries for solar and wind storage and EV usage.
What is critical in this scenario is the government putting in place the right support to make sure that securing these critical minerals is done in a socially and environmentally responsible manner, experts agree.
Environmentalists also argue that the focus should be on redesigning cities to reduce car usage in general instead of using metals like lithium to shift to EVs.
“This could specially be done in high density population centres of India with smarter urban planning,” Ali said.
This is because even when safeguards try to limit the social and environmental harm around fossil fuel extraction, which is considerable, there is no “fix” for air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, IISD’s Goel added.
“Given that lithium-ion batteries are the most advanced batteries available, they would continue to play a major role for the foreseeable future. India should mine lithium with proper environmental and social safeguards in place given the ecological and political sensitivities of the area,” IEEFA’s Konda said.–(PTI)
To walk on to the Great Salt Lake, the largest salt lake in the western hemisphere which faces the astounding prospect of disappearing just five years from now, is to trudge across expanses of sand and mud, streaked with ice and desiccated aquatic life, where just a short time ago you would be wading in waist-deep water.
But the mounting sense of local dread over the lake’s rapid retreat doesn’t just come from its throttled water supply and record low levels, as bad as this is. The terror comes from toxins laced in the vast exposed lake bed, such as arsenic, mercury and lead, being picked up by the wind to form poisonous clouds of dust that would swamp the lungs of people in nearby Salt Lake City, where air pollution is often already worse than that of Los Angeles, potentially provoking a myriad of respiratory and cancer-related problems.
This looming scenario, according to Ben Abbott, an ecologist at Brigham Young University, risks “one of the worst environmental disasters in modern US history”, surpassing the partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor in Pennsylvania in 1979 and acting like a sort of “perpetual Deepwater Horizon blowout”.
Salt Lakers are set to be assailed by a “thick fog of this stuff that’s blowing through, it would be gritty. It would dim the light, it would literally go from day to night and it could absolutely be regular all summer,” said Abbott, who headed a sobering recent study with several dozen other scientists on the “unprecedented danger” posed by lake’s disintegration.
Ben Abbott on a mound of bleached and exposed microbialites at the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Photograph: Kim Raff/The Guardian
“We could expect to see thousands of excess deaths annually from the increase in air pollution and the collapse of the largest wetland oasis in the intermountain west,” he added.
There is evidence that plumes of toxic dust are already stirring as the exposed salt crust on the lake, which has lost three-quarters of its water and has shriveled by nearly two-thirds in size since the Mormon wagon train first arrived here in the mid-19th century, breaks apart from erosion. Abbott now regularly fields fretful phone calls from people asking if Salt Lake City is safe to live in still, or if their offspring should steer clear of the University of Utah.
“People have seen and realized it’s not hypothetical and that there is a real threat to our entire way of life,” Abbott said. “We are seeing this freight train coming as the lake shrinks. We’re just seeing the front end of it now.” About 2.4 million people, or about 80% of Utah’s population, lives “within a stone’s throw of the lake”, Abbott said. “I mean, they are directly down wind from this. As some people have said, it’s an environmental nuclear bomb.”
Alvin Sihapanya, a research student at Westminster College, looks in the water of the Great Salt Lake. Photograph: Kim Raff/The Guardian
Emergency action
The Great Salt Lake’s predicament is often compared to that of the dried-up Owens Lake in California, one of the worst sources of dust pollution in the US since the water feeding it was rerouted to Los Angeles more than a century ago. But the sheer heft of the Great Salt Lake, sometimes called ‘America’s Dead Sea’ but in fact four times larger than its counterpart that straddles Israel and Jordan, presages a loss on the scale of the Aral Sea, once the world’s fourth largest lake but strangled to death by Soviet irrigation projects.
The demise of the Aral Sea was dumfounding to many Soviets, who thought it virtually impossible to doom a lake so large just by watering some nearby cotton. “But these systems are actually very, very delicate,” said Abbott, and they can quickly spiral away. The Great Salt Lake, its equilibrium upended by the voracious diversion of water to nourish crops, flush toilets and water lawns and zapped by global heating, could vanish in just five years, a timeline Abbott admits seems “absurd”.
“History won’t have to judge us, not even our kids will have to judge us – we will judge ourselves in short order,” said Erin Mendenhall, the mayor of Salt Lake City, who is now regularly bombarded with questions about the toxic dust cloud from mayors of other cities. “The prognosis isn’t good unless there’s massive action. But we have to start within one year, we have have to take the action now.”
Haunted by these prognostications, Utah’s Republican leadership has responded with hundreds of millions of dollars in ameliorative measures and pugnacious rhetoric. “On my watch we are not allowing the lake to go dry,” Spencer Cox, Utah’s governor, has vowed. “We will do whatever it takes to make sure that doesn’t happen.” Cox, who previously requested Utahns pray to help alleviate the worst drought to grip the US west in the past 1,200 years, has suspended any new claims for water in the Great Salt Lake basin.
Two photos of the Great Salt Lake. One from 1985, and another from 2022 showing a greatly reduced size.
A swathe of bills before the Republican-dominated legislature would tear up thirsty turf, encourage farmers to be more efficient with water and create a new role of Great Salt Lake commissioner. “We have to re-evaluate our relationship with water and how we live,” Brad Wilson, the Utah house speaker, said. “We are second driest state in country and we have opportunity to reimagine use of water.”
But scientists who study the lake worry that the proposed remedies don’t yet match the extent of the problem. A network of dams and canals have siphoned off so much water from the three main rivers – Bear, Jordan and Weber – that flow from the mountains to the lake that in the past three years it has got just a third of its natural streamflow. The level of the lake is 19ft below its natural average level and the decline has accelerated since 2020, with the lake in just three years starved of enough water that could cover the whole of Connecticut in a 1ft-deep swimming pool.
Continue this way and the lake faces complete collapse. “It’s definitely the feeling of standing at the precipice and rocks are crumbling under your feet,” Bonnie Baxter, a biologist at Westminster College who has spent years studying the lake. “And you know you’re about to go over. It’s like that close. That’s what it feels like.”
Bonnie Baxter, professor of biology and part of the Great Salt Lake Institute, in the research labs at Westminster College in Salt Lake City. Photograph: Kim Raff/The Guardian
Baxter and her fellow researchers are anxious about the fate of the lake’s ecological foundations, structures called microbialites which look a bit like dull coral reefs but are made of millions of microbes. The microbial community grows in a mat, feeding brine flies which, in turn, along with the lake’s brine shrimp, feed the 10 million birds that use the lake a crucial stop-off.
The receding waters, however, have left many of the microbialites stranded in the open air, slowly dying. The lake’s shrinking pool of water is becoming far more saline, a bit like how the last of the bathwater concentrates the grime, making conditions intolerable for the flies, shrimp and microbes. The lake is typically three or four times saltier than the ocean but this year it is about six times as salty, which Baxter said is “just crazy. We are a little bit worried about that.”
The risks
Losing the lake threatens a strange and terrible cocktail of ramifications. Birdlife and recreation on the lake will vanish as the lake’s surface area – now less than 1,000 square miles, down from three times that in the 1980s – turns into a crusty, potentially toxic miasma.
The lucrative extraction of lithium, magnesium and other minerals from the lake would be in peril, as would ski conditions on the mountains that loom next to the lake – moisture from the lake is sucked up by storms that then deposits it as snow for skiers and snowboarders to enjoy. Billions of dollars in economic damage would result.
Westminster College students Cora Rasmuson, left, and Bridget Dopp set up an experiment testing the effects of water salinity and brine fly larva at Westminster College. Photograph: Kim Raff/The Guardian
A projection of a brine fly under the microscope in the research labs at Westminster College in Salt Lake City. Photograph: Kim Raff/The Guardian
As the lake’s plight has become apparent, there’s been an outpouring of unconventional ideas on how to save it. Lawmakers have pledged millions of dollars towards cloud seeding – putting chemicals into clouds to prompt more snowfall – while some have advocated cutting down trees, in the belief they are sucking up too much water, or even building an enormous pipeline to the Pacific ocean to funnel water into the lake.
Baxter said she gets a lot of “old retired men” emailing her or dropping by her office to impart such wisdom. “The pipeline – well I mean it would be too much money, too much energy, the carbon equation is huge,” she said. “Also, we don’t want to add salt to the lake, we need the fresh water that’s already in the watershed.”
Utah is America’s youngest and fastest growing state – the population leapt 18% in the past decade – but the Great Salt Lake is being parched by an antediluvian network of water rights for agriculture rather than thirsty newcomers. About three-quarters of the diverted water goes to growing crops, with the growing of alfalfa, a water-intensive crop that is turned into animal feed, the largest consumer. Just 9% of the diverted water goes to cities.
Already an overdrawn account subjected to unrestrained spending, the Great Salt Lake is being pushed further into the red by the climate crisis. Rising temperatures are winnowing away the snowpack that feeds its rivers and evaporating the water that sits in the closed, saucer-like lake. “The diversions got us in the situation we’re in now where we don’t have the resiliency to deal with the impacts of climate change,” said Baxter. “So now we’re dealing with both things.”
The shrinking shoreline of the Great Salt Lake. Photograph: Kim Raff/The Guardian
Urban growth and agriculture collide with drought
The story of the Great Salt Lake, much like that of the ailing Colorado River, is very much a tale of the US west, of scant resources being harnessed to seed major cities and bloom a cornucopia of food in an arid land.
But this fantasy of ongoing, untamed growth is colliding with a new climatic reality – the US west’s sprawling Great Basin network of terminal lakes, which includes the Great Salt Lake at its eastern extremity, is in the process of drying up as 3.3tn liters of water are diverted from its streams each year. The shortfall is sparking jarring disagreements between states over cuts to the Colorado’s use and, in Utah, calling into question the long-held water primacy of farming.
Abbott and Baxter’s report calls for “emergency measures” to cut water use in the region by up to a half. Such a massive reduction would probably require stringent curbs in alfalfa growing, among other major reforms, in order to push millions of gallons of water back through the system.
The Salt Lake City mayor, Erin Mendenhall. Photograph: Kim Raff/The Guardian
The state’s Republican leadership is wary of forcing farmers’ hands, however, leaning on the settlers’ principle of “right in time, first in right” for water allocations. “Alfalfa has got a really bad wrap lately but we have got to create economic incentives for water conservation, let the free market guide those decisions,” said Joel Ferry, the executive director of the Utah department of natural resources, and who has grown alfalfa himself at his farm near Bear river.
“Farmers fundamentally have the right to grow alfalfa, they produce some of the finest crop in the world,” Ferry added. “It’s not the role of government to say ‘you can’t do that.’” Wilson, the house speaker, has said “we don’t need sticks” to prod Utahns to do the right thing.
Ferry said that the challenges faced by the Great Salt Lake are “large but not insurmountable”, pointing to reforms taken by farmers to better conserve water through sprinklers and other technology. “I’m optimistic the people of Utah will rise to the challenge,” he said. “I’m a fifth-generation farmer and rancher and I want this to be sustainable for five more generations.”
Line chart of the elevations of the Great Salt Lake over time.
The crisis has, at least, prompted a reappraisal of what the Great Salt Lake means to its nearest inhabitants. John Fremont, a military officer who was the first white explorer of the lake in 1843, marveled that it “possessed a strange and extraordinary interest” and erroneously speculated that a “terrible whirlpool” took its waters to the ocean. Subsequent Mormon settlers found the area harsh but captivating, an oasis amid the desert, and rumours swirled for decades that monsters lurked within the lake. For a while, a few vacation resorts dotted the lake’s shores.
Since then, the Great Salt Lake has been rather looked down upon for its briny, fly-ridden appearance and rotten egg smell. It was a place to dump trash, rather than take a picnic. “We haven’t had a love affair with the Great Salt Lake until recently, there was a lot of disparagement that it was this inaccessible, useless lake,” said Mendenhall. “People thought it was ugly.”
A visitor to Lady Finger Point that overlooks the lake bed of the Great Salt Lake. Photograph: Kim Raff/The Guardian
But as the lake hit a record low level in 2021, and then again last year, a certain warmth started to stir among Salt Lakers of the body of water their city is named after. “We dismissed the Great Salt Lake, we ignored it,” as Joel Briscoe, a Democratic state lawmaker, lamented in January. “We failed to appreciate it for too long.” There’s a growing desire to save this sprawling, ebbing ecosystem, even if the main motivation is to avoid a choking miasma of dust pollution.
“There is this whole personal connection to the lake now,” said Baxter, who suggests the ‘first in time’ water priority should apply to the malnourished, 11,000-year-old lake itself. “People say to me we are losing this lake and that it is part of their fabric, someone even said they have written poems to the lake. It’s changing. We’ll see if it’s enough.”
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New Delhi: The Congress asked the government on Saturday if it is prudent from a national security perspective for a firm facing serious accusations of money laundering to be allowed to dominate a strategic sector like ports.
Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh, in his series of “Hum Adanike Hain Kaun” questions to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said these queries relate to industrialist Gautam Adani’s rapidly expanding monopoly in the ports sector.
“Even though it is a Saturday here is HAHK (Hum Adanike Hain Kaun)-7. ‘Chuppi Todiye Pradhan Mantriji’,” Ramesh wrote on Twitter.
He said the Adani Group controls 13 ports and terminals that represent 30 percent of India’s ports capacity and 40 percent of the total container volume. “It is no surprise that this growth trajectory has accelerated since 2014,” the former Union minister added.
He said in addition to the Mundra port in Gujarat, recent acquisitions of the business group include the Dhamra port in Odisha (2015), the Kattupalli port in Tamil Nadu (2018), the Krishnapatnam (2020) and Gangavaram (2021) ports in Andhra Pradesh and the Dighi port in Maharashtra (2021).
“There is a clear strategy at work: Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha account for 93 percent of the overseas cargo traffic from India’s ‘non-major ports’. Krishnapatnam and Gangavaram are the largest private ports in the south. The Adani Group has declared its goal as expanding its market share to 40 percent by 2025 and is attempting to acquire even more ports.
“Do you intend to oversee the takeover of every significant private port by your favourite business group or is there any space for other private firms that wish to invest?
“Is it prudent from a national security perspective for a firm that faces serious accusations of money laundering and round-tripping by offshore shell companies to be permitted to dominate a strategic sector like ports,” the Congress leader asked.
He alleged that as with airports, the BJP-led government has facilitated an Adani monopoly in the ports sector too, using all the means at its disposal.
Alleging that ports that enjoy government concessions have been sold to the Adani Group without any bidding, and where bidding was allowed, the competitors “miraculously vanished” from the process, Ramesh said, “Income Tax raids appear to have helped ‘convince’ the previous owner of the Krishnapatnam port to sell it to the Adani Group.
“Is it true that In 2021, the public sector Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust was bidding for the Dighi port in Maharashtra in competition with Adani but was forced to withdraw its winning bid after the ministries of shipping and finance changed their mind about supporting its bid?” he asked.
The Congress leader said generally, port concessions are negotiated with the special purpose vehicle for each port to segregate risks and protect assets, yet many of these ports are now part of a single listed entity — Adani Ports and SEZ.
“Has this transfer of assets been done in violation of the Model Concession Agreement for ports? Have the concession agreements been changed to accommodate Adani’s commercial interests?” he asked.
The Congress has been posing questions to the government on the Adani issue ever since a report of US-based short-selling firm Hindenburg Research levelled allegations of financial irregularities against the business group, leading to a meltdown of its stocks on exchanges.
The opposition party has also been demanding a joint parliamentary committee probe into the issue.
Mumbai: Superstar Salman Khan recently met his ‘Andaz Apna Apna’ co-star Aamir Khan at the latter’s residence.
A picture from the duo’s meeting has been doing the rounds on the internet. In the image, Salman is seen happily posing for a picture with Aamir’s mother Zeenat Hussein and his sister Nikhat.
The adorable image was captured by none other than Aamir and Nikhat shared it on social media.
“For those who were missing Aamir,” Nikhat, who is currently garnering praises for her special role in Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Pathaan, captioned the post.
Aamir is not on social media. He also has taken a break from work to spend quality time with his family and friends.
In November 2022, Aamir at an event in Delhi revealed that he is taking break from acting in his 35-year-career.
“I feel I have been working for 35 years and I have single-mindedly been focused on my work. I feel that it’s not fair to people who are close to me. This is the time I feel I have to take some time off to be with them, and actually experience life in a different way. I am looking forward to the next year, year-and-a-half in which I am not working as an actor,” he shared.
Aamir’s revelation about taking a break from acting comes months after his film ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’ failed at the box office.
He was recently seen attending a wedding in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, where he met Punjabi singer Jasbir Jaasi.
Hyderabad: Gorgeous diva Aditi Rao Hydari is rumoured to be dating her Maha Samudram co-star Siddharth. Though they never confirmed it officially, their social media moves and public appearances together keep adding fuel to the speculations.
Fans are waiting for the couple to make their relationship official soon. Amid this, their latest photo is grabbing a lot of attention online. Aditi and Siddharth were spotted at the engagement of Tollywood hero Sharwanand, who got hitched with Rakshitha Reddy on Thursday. The rumoured lovebirds look too hot to handle in traditional outfits as they posed with newly-engaged couple.
Fans are going crazy over their click, while a few are wondering if Aditi just let the cat out of her bag making a grand entry with beau Sid. “Sidharth Aditi Rao next velladey (It’s Siddharth and Aditi next),” commented on fan. “Are you getting married next?” asked another social media user.
Check out the photos below:
As we know, Siddharth and Aditi Rao Hydari’s chemistry in Ajay Bhupati‘s mass-action entertainer Maha Samudram was loved by many. The film, however, failed to click at the box office. It is said that the two started dating each other during the shooting.
For the unversed, Aditi Rao Hydari was first married to actor Satyadeep Mishra in 2009. They called it quits in 2013. Siddharth, on the other hand, was married to Meghna. The couple, who got married in 2003, ended their relationship in 2007.
Mumbai: Actor Meezaan Jafri has shared a picture posing with ‘Pathaan’ Shah Rukh Khan and ‘Tiger’ Salman Khan on social media.
Without revealing where the two stars were, Meezaan took to Instagram to share the picture where the two superstars are seen posing happily.
In the image, Salman is seen dressed in an olive green suit paired with a night blue shirt. Shah Rukh chose Indian wear as he was seen wearing a black kurta-pyjama.
Meezaan captioned the image: “#PATHAAN in theatre’s tomorrow.”
SRK currently awaits the release of ‘Pathaan’, which is slated to release on Wednesday. The film also stars John Abraham and Deepika Padukone in lead roles. Salman will reportedly be seen in a cameo as ‘Tiger’ in the film.
The ‘Dabangg’ star will be reuniting with actress Katrina Kaif for Tiger 3, which is set to release on Diwali 2023.
