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Bigg Boss 16 contestant Ankit Gupta recently opened up about suffering from an emergency, following which he had to be hospitalised. Revealing that he has currently stopped eating meat, Gupta told Farah Khan on her cooking show, “I had a gastric and panic attack because of which I was hospitalised.” Revealing the symptoms he experienced, the 36-year-old continued: “During a panic attack, there is breathlessness, palpitations, and blood pressure shoots up. Aisa laga kabhi bhi saans aana bandh ho jayegi. (It feels like I won’t be able to breathe at any moment).” He added that he now follows a strict…

THE Central Administrative Tribunal’s (CAT) order scrapping Urdu as a compulsory language requirement for a Revenue Department post in Jammu and Kashmir has renewed debate on the issue in the Union Territory. While the BJP, which had been protesting against the notification since it came out and calling it “illegal”, welcomed the CAT decision, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said non-Urdu speakers would not be “efficient” in the posts since most land records are in Urdu. Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti, who made the same argument, added that it was “deeply unfortunate” that the judiciary appears to be “influenced…

Jasprit Bumrah’s availability in the Manchester Test has still not been made clear by the team management but with the match a must-win for the visitors to stay alive in the 5-match Test series, all signs point towards the speedster playing in the game. Former India player Deep Dasgupta also feels that the speedster will be in line to lead India’s pace lineup at Old Trafford. “Bumrah should be ready to go. There has been a fair amount of rest in between matches. With India trailing 1-2, you would expect him to play,” Dasgupta said to PTI. Bumrah’s workload management…

While preparing for my recent trip to the Galapagos Islands, I kept coming across hiking pants on suggested packing lists. At first, I was skeptical and wondered why I would need long pants on a warm weather trip. While I knew I’d be hiking most days, I thought I’d be better suited to face the Ecuadorian sun in running shorts or tennis skirts.  A few days before my vacation, I ended up making a last-minute trip to browse the TJ Maxx activewear section. There, I stumbled upon the Free People Movement Fly By Night Pants. They instantly caught my eye…

France on Thursday (July 17, 2025) formally handed back its last two military bases in Senegal, leaving Paris with no permanent camps in either West or Central Africa.Ending the French army’s 65 years in Senegal, the pull-out comes after similar withdrawals across the continent, with former colonies increasingly turning their backs on their former ruler. The French withdrawal comes as the Sahel region faces a growing jihadist conflict across Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger that is threatening Gulf of Guinea nations to the south. A recent string of attacks this month in Mali included an assault on a town on the…

Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal in ‘Eddington’ Ari Aster and Darius Khondji/A24 hide caption toggle caption Ari Aster and Darius Khondji/A24 Films known as “period pieces” take viewers back to the Renaissance or Victorian England, for example. Are you ready for a period piece about the pandemic? Eddington takes its name from a fictional small town in New Mexico in late May 2020. And like any good Western there’s a stand-off. Pedro Pascal plays the mayor who’s trying to enforce masking and social distancing, and Joaquin Phoenix is the sheriff who thinks that should all be a choice, not a…

Good morning. You’re reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today’s top stories The Senate approved legislation early this morning to rescind $9 billion in federal funding for NPR, PBS, their member stations and foreign aid programs. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., noted that it has been over 30 years since a rescission package was passed. The House is expected to vote on the rescission package later today. If it passes, it will be a win for President Trump…

TikTok only provided part of the complainant’s data “in an unstructured form that was impossible to understand”, Noyb said [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS Online privacy campaigners filed fresh complaints against social media giant TikTok and two other Chinese-owned companies on Thursday, saying they had failed to comply with data access requests.Prominent Austria-based privacy campaign group Noyb (None of Your Business) already filed complaints against the three and another three Chinese-owned companies in January, accusing them of “unlawfully” sending Europeans’ personal data to China.While Shein, Temu and Xiaomi provided the complainants with additional information, TikTok, AliExpress and WeChat “continued to…

From soaring skylines in East Asia to vertical expansions in the Middle East, skyscrapers have become defining features of modern urban landscapes. Some of these metropolises are even best known the world over for reaching for the heavens, like New York or Hong Kong. But not all cities build upwards equally. Some have turned high-rise architecture and once-impossible feats of modern engineering into a signature, driven by population density, land constraints, and economic ambition. According to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), which maintains a database of high-rise structures, the following destinations below are the cities with…

Georges Ibrahim Abdallah’s prison release on July 25 is conditional: He must leave France and never return. A French court has ordered the release of pro-Palestinian Lebanese fighter Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, who has been imprisoned for 40 years for his role in the killings of two foreign diplomats in France in the early 1980s. The Paris Appeals Court ordered on Thursday that Abdallah, 74, be freed from a prison in southern France on July 25 on the condition that he leave French territory and never return. The former head of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Brigade was sentenced to life imprisonment in…