Actress Pooja Hegde, who will share screen space with Salman Khan in the film ‘Bhaijaan’, spoke about her co-star and said, “I’m really excited to work with [him].” “What I really admire about him is that he’s very transparent – if he likes you, he really likes you, and if he doesn’t, then you can tell he doesn’t,” Pooja added.

Shilpa Shetty has filed defamation suit in Bombay High Court against 29 media personnel and media houses for ‘false reporting and maligning her image’ in a pornography case in which her husband Raj Kundra is accused. She said such reports have caused irreparable damage to her reputation. Shilpa has demanded unconditional apology, deletion of such content and ₹25 crore compensation.

A Mumbai Crime Branch official has said that actress Shilpa Shetty hasn’t been given a clean chit yet in the porn videos case, in which her husband Raj Kundra has been arrested. “All possibilities and angles are being probed. Forensic auditors are appointed and they are looking into the transactions of all accounts in this case,” the official added.

Issuing a red alert for three days (till the morning of July 24), the Hyderabad centre of India Meteorological Department on Wednesday predicted heavy to extremely heavy rainfall for several districts in Telangana. IMD also claimed that Hyderabad would receive light to moderate rains today. Meanwhile, an orange alert was issued for Adilabad, Nirmal, Nizamabad and other districts.

Shaharyar Ali, a professor at SRK College in Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad, has been arrested for allegedly making vulgar remarks against Union Minister Smriti Irani on Facebook in March. Ali had surrendered before Additional Sessions Judge Anurag Kumar and moved an interim bail application on Tuesday. The judge, however, denied the bail plea.

Amid the Pegasus controversy, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday claimed the government wants to turn India into a surveillance state and added, “This isn’t a democracy but a detective-ocracy.” “The phones have become recorders to them,” she said. As she urged Opposition parties to come together against BJP, the Trinamool Congress chief said, “2024 isn’t far.”

Shilpa Shetty’s husband Raj Kundra was arrested by the Mumbai Police on the night of July 19 in a pornography case. The officials earlier confirmed that he to be the ‘key conspirator’ in the case. He has been sent to judicial custody till July 23, along with Ryan Tharp, who was also arrested in the same case, from the Nerul area on Tuesday morning.

Speaking about mental health issues, actress Shruti Haasan said that it is important to be aware if someone needs help over mental health and not brush the issue. She added, “When it comes to mental health, the worst attitude you can have is ‘chin up’; or ‘I’m fine’.” “Usually, people don’t even realise what they are going through,” Shruti said.

The largest international study of people with long COVID-19 has estimated 203 symptoms. The study, published in the Lancet’s journal EClinicalMedicine, found that the symptoms, ranging from fatigue, brain fog, hallucinations, tremors, suicidality, vision loss and new allergies, span ten organ systems. Responses from people from 56 countries, with confirmed or suspected COVID-19, were analysed.

WhatsApp in its compliance report under the new IT rules revealed that it banned 20 lakh Indian accounts from May 15 to June 15. “Our top focus is preventing accounts from sending harmful or unwanted messages,” WhatsApp said. It also clarified that over 95% of such bans are due to the unauthorised use of automated or bulk messaging (spam).

A former executive of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has said that the foundation’s staff are “freaking out” about its future, Business Insider reported citing an FT report. “People are really worried that the credibility and standing of the foundation [are] in jeopardy now, especially in areas like gender empowerment,” the report quoted the executive as saying.