Ex-Pakistan pacer Shoaib Akhtar criticised Pakistan captain Sarfaraz Ahmed following their defeat against India in 2019 World Cup on Sunday, calling him “brainless”. He added Sarfaraz had a chance to win half the match by batting first after toss but he committed a mistake by deciding to bowl first. “How could he forget that we don’t chase well?” Akhtar added.

Actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas has thanked her in-laws Kevin and Denise Jonas for loving her like their own daughter. On the occasion of Father’s Day on Sunday, Priyanka tweeted a photograph of herself along with her father-in-law and captioned it: “Happy Father’s Day Papa Kevin Jonas I feel blessed to have you and Mama Denise Jonas in my life! Thank you for taking me in as your daughter with so much love and warmth. Love you loads. Happy Father’s Day.”

President Donald Trump on Saturday warned that US would face a massive stock market crash if he’s not re-elected in 2020. “If anyone but me takes over…there will be a Market Crash the likes of which has not been seen before!” the 73-year-old tweeted. The Dow Jones index, whose performance Trump often references, last peaked over eight months ago.

Actress Kangana Ranaut has revealed that she is not on social media as she cannot invest so much time on something that doesn’t deal with an issue. “My sister Rangoli says though I have helped people build hospitals and gifted a ₹2.5-crore flat to my yoga teacher, nobody knows about these things as I don’t talk about it,” she added.

Amitabh Bachchan on Thursday donated ₹5 lakh each to the families of 49 CRPF jawans who were martyred in the terror attack in J&K’s Pulwama earlier this year. “It took a while to get the names and addresses of those that lost their lives, but our efforts were fruitful,” Amitabh said. He also paid off loans of 2,100 farmers.

BJP leader Jaya Prada has challenged the election of Samajwadi Party MP Mohd Azam Khan to the Lok Sabha in the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court. In her petition, Jaya Prada has said that he is holding an office of profit as chancellor of the Jauhar University and cannot assume the membership of Lok Sabha. She has said that the election of Azam Khan from the Rampur Lok Sabha seat should be cancelled and she should be declared elected. The petition is likely to be taken up for hearing soon.

Shahid Kapoor is all set to woo his fans over with another smashing performance in his upcoming film ‘Kabir Singh’. As the clock ticks down to the film’s big release next week, the actor has been quite busy promoting the film. As per reports, the film which is helmed by Sandeep Vanga has been cleared by the censor board and is gearing up for a release on 21 June. It is also said that the runtime of the film is approximately 2 hours 54 minutes.

Actress Parineeti Chopra has not started shooting for “Saina” yet and says she is still learning how to play badminton. Parineeti on Thursday said that the shooting for the biopic will commence in October. “Hi everyone, we have not started the shoot of ‘Saina’ yet. I am still learning how to play Badminton! We will start in October once I get better at it! Four months to go,” she tweeted. Parineeti had replaced actress Shraddha Kapoor in the Saina Nehwal biopic, which is being directed by Amole Gupte.

As many as 103 employees of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) earned more than ₹1 crore in annual compensation in the previous financial year, excluding the compensation of CEO Rajesh Gopinathan and COO NG Subramaniam, the Economic Times reported. A quarter of these employees began their careers with the company. In Financial Year 2016-17, TCS had 91 crorepatis, the report added.

Denying link-up rumours with actor Sidharth Malhotra, actress Kiara Advani said, “They all are ‘alleged’ stories which are reported.” “Earlier I used to read such stories…and get upset…but now I laugh about it and it’s fun,” the actress added. Kiara further said that she realised over time that rumours like these are part and parcel of the entertainment industry.

Like most of us, Wednesday seemed to get the better of Katrina Kaif. The actress, who has some rather mean dance moves, was tired of all the practice sessions and wanted to just sit and talk instead. However, since work must be done, she was soon up and rehearsing the steps that looked quite difficult. It isn’t called hump day for nothing.

Ever since the news came out about Bigg Boss Telugu season 3, fans started speculations about who will host the controversial reality show. Amidst all the buzz, report states that actor turned politician Pawan Kalyan’s ex-wife and actress-director Renu Desai is considered for Telugu Bigg Boss 3. After all, Renu Desai enjoys a huge fan following in Tollywood and makers are now reportedly keen on getting her on board.

London: Despite having a busy schedule for the 2019 World Cup in England, the Indian cricket team took out time to watch superstar Salman Khan starrer “Bharat”. Cricketer Kedar Jadhav shared a photograph of the “Bharat team” — M.S. Dhoni, Hardik Pandya, Shikhar Dhawan and K.L. Rahul. Jadhav captioned the image: “‘Bharat ki team. ‘Bharat’ movie ke baad.” Following the thumbs up from the Indian cricket team, an overwhelmed Salman took to Twitter and thanked them for watching the movie.

Amazon has moved past Apple and Google to become the world’s most valuable brand. The brand value of Amazon surged by 52% to $315 billion, global market research agency Kantar said in its report. Amazon jumped from third to first place to eclipse Google — which slid from first to third with Apple holding 2nd spot.

Bollywood actor Shahid Kapoor and his wife Mira have invested an undisclosed amount in yoga and wellness startup Sarva, founded by Sarvesh Shashi in 2016. The firm has 91 wellness studios running or under construction and plans to reach 100 centres by end of next month. The list of global investors in SARVA, spearheaded by yogi-turned- entrepreneur Sarvesh Shashi, also includes Malaika Arora.