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Organised jointly by Ehsaas Charitable Trust, Spot’less Fashion Magazine, and DCT Model Management at Arya Auditorium, the Season-5 Grand Finale crowned Vedika (Miss), Monica Chhabra (Mrs.), and Rajen Sharma (Mr.) following rigorous runway, presentation, and jury Q&A rounds.
Filmmaker Vishnu Varadhan is returning to Tamil cinema after a decade with Nesippaya, a fictional love story inspired by real-life events and shaped by his post-Shershaah creative ambitions. Speaking about the film, he said he wanted to explore something new, describing romance as timeless but increasingly complicated in today's generation.
Deepak Kumar Mishra's 'The Vvaan: Force of the Forest' arrives with a timely premise about ecological preservation, political corruption and the cost of development, but the film's execution is weighed down by soap-opera melodrama, repetitive scares and uneven tonal shifts. Sidharth Malhotra leads a cast that includes Tamannaah Bhatia, Sunil Grover, Anup Soni and Shweta Tiwari in a story that aims for mythic urgency but often settles for formula.
Crazy Mohan's beloved comedy play Chocolate Krishna is set for a special staging in Coimbatore by his brother Maadhu Balaji and the Crazy Productions team, in an intimate performance aimed at senior citizens at Geri Care Skilled Nursing Facility & Senior Citizens Clinic. The show is part of the troupe's Chamber of Humour format, which takes theatre into schools, colleges, factories, hospitals and care homes, blending entertainment with personal interaction and remembrance.
Akamai Technologies' reported $11.6 billion, seven-year cloud computing agreement with Anthropic underscores how rapidly the global AI infrastructure market is expanding, with the deal potentially rising to $20 billion. In India, the same day's startup roundup reflected a broader ecosystem in motion, from Dextr AI's $6.7 million seed round to mPokket's push deeper into New-to-Credit lending, alongside fresh moves in startup competitions and logistics capacity.
Baranica Elangovan won India's first-ever bronze in pole vault at the Asian Games, but the emotional weight of the achievement took time to sink in as the event dragged on and official confirmation remained pending. Her medal came amid a strong Indian athletics showing, with Gulveer Singh taking silver in the 10,000m and shot-putter Manpreet Kaur insisting there was more to come.
Suruchi Phogat and Kamaljeet delivered India's first shooting gold of the Asian Games at the Aichi General Shooting Range, winning the 10m air pistol mixed team event with a record-breaking 484.6 points. The victory, built on Suruchi's standout precision and composure, offered a timely lift after India had struggled to defend several of its shooting titles from the previous Games.
India began its Asian Games athletics campaign with a silver in the 4x400m mixed relay and a bronze from Seema in the 10,000m on a dramatic opening day in Nagoya. The results came through tactical changes, late-race composure and a measure of luck, while also exposing the fine margins that separated celebration from heartbreak in other events.
Artix is returning to The Claridges in New Delhi for its fifth edition with a format that has become central to its identity: hotel rooms turned into intimate exhibition spaces. With 20 selected participants, a new Artist in Focus section and a deliberate emphasis on younger collectors and emerging practitioners, the fair is positioning itself as an accessible entry point into India's contemporary art market.
Singaporean collector, scholar and curator Peter Lee is using textiles, dress and domestic heritage to argue that the histories of Peranakan and South Indian communities are deeply intertwined through the trade networks of multicultural port cities. Speaking in Karaikudi at the Chettinad Heritage and Cultural Festival, Lee linked his own family memories, his research on the kebaya and his work on Peranakan heritage to a broader rethinking of identity, material culture and empire.
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