Janhvi Kapoor who has been busy promoting her upcoming film Mr and Mrs Mahi has been in the news for a while now because she is absolutely acing the method dressing trend. In a recent interview, Janhvi made an interesting revelation about her personal life.

The actress admitted to checking her boyfriend, Shikhar Pahariya’s phone. She did go on to call herself a red flag but also admitted that she cannot help it. During the same interview, when someone in the audience asked Janhvi, “Should boyfriends be allowed to check their girlfriends’ phone?” The actress replied, “No! Don’t you trust us?”


Janhvi Kapoor recently confirmed dating Shikhar Pahariya. The duo, who had broken up earlier but reconciled around Diwali 2022. The Bawaal actress is not shy to show her love for Shikhar and is often spotted donning her famous Shiku necklace.


On the work front, Janhvi’s film Mr and Mrs Mahi will be released in cinemas on May 31. The film also stars Rajkummar Rao. Other than that, she also has a lineup of highly anticipated films like Ulajh, Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari and Devara: Part 1.

The Oscar-winning star wore an elegant black and white off-shoulder dress with green lining. Looking at the colour-blocking of the dress, people on the internet instantly pointed out that she is making a political fashion statement. She paired the dress with a chain of pearls that she wore below the neckline, around her chest.

Although speculation about whether the back of her dress was white or a light shade of pink still continues, many couldn't ignore how her dress' colours when seen against the red carpet's backdrop match the colours of the Palestinian flag. This indicated the UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador's solidarity with that of the sovereign state which is currently under war due to conflict between Israel and the militant group Hamas.

Memorial Day will start off rainy due to leftover showers/thunderstorms from Sunday, but rain chances begin to die down as we enter the afternoon hours. For Monday, highs will be into the low 80s.

Tuesday we will see mostly sunny skies and temperatures into the high 70s. Mostly sunny conditions stick with us through the rest of the week after that, a few isolated showers in the afternoon hours of each day are possible for this time of the year, but the main story for the middle-end of next week is the decreasing temperatures. By next Friday, we are expected to be back into the low 70s.

The Turkish president said at the event that recent floods in some provinces of Afghanistan have brought about a humanitarian disaster.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said: "Following the floods, more than 400 of our brothers and sisters in Afghanistan lost their lives, and a major humanitarian disaster has occurred in the north of the country. We invite world countries to help the flood victims in Afghanistan. Turkey continues to send humanitarian aid to Afghanistan after the floods."

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) also emphasized the need for continued humanitarian aid to the people of Afghanistan.

Edem Wosornu, director of OCHA's Operations and Advocacy Division, said: "The humanitarian situation in Afghanistan is fragile, 23 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance this year, this is 5 times the number in 2019. The majority of people in need are women and girls, children in Afghanistan (there are) 1.4 million girls who are directly affected by the ban on female schooling after grade six, this is a huge concern to say the least.”

"As I previously emphasized, 23 million people in Afghanistan rely on humanitarian aid; this is five times more than in 2019. The second point is sustainable solutions, including livelihood and agricultural support, and finally, we must hear their voices [the people of Afghanistan], they want us to listen to them," said Wosornu.

Shah Wali, a resident of Karkar town in Pul-e-Khumri, said that in addition to the loss of lives, significant financial losses have been inflicted on the people due to the deadly floods; however, no government or private organization has yet helped the affected people in this area.

"No one from the government or any officials came to help us or to ask about our condition, to see how the flood came and what it destroyed," Shah Wali told TOLOnews.

Some domestic charitable organizations, various departments of the Islamic Emirate, civil organizations in Turkey, and some businessmen inside and outside the country have also provided humanitarian aid to the recent flood victims. Countries such as Turkey, Iran, Qatar, Russia, Japan, and Uzbekistan have also provided initial aid to the flood victims.

Recently, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Interior delivered over two million afghani to the flood victims in Baghlan.

Based on statistics from the Ministry of Disaster Management, devastating and deadly floods have hit the provinces of Baghlan, Faryab, Ghor, Sar-e-Pul, Badakhshan, Takhar, Samangan, Herat, Badghis, Laghman, Bamyan, Farah, Nuristan, and Kapisa in the past two weeks.

Nicki Minaj was released from custody Saturday hours after she was apparently arrested by police in the Netherlands on suspicion of exporting soft drugs, authorities said.

The rapper was fined and allowed to “continue her journey,” police said in a translated post on X just before 4 p.m. ET.

Minaj, 41, was traveling to Manchester, England, from Amsterdam for a concert on her “Pink Friday 2 World Tour” when she was apparently arrested. Minaj, whose real name is Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty, was scheduled to perform at the Co-op Live arena in Manchester on Saturday night but it was postponed, Live Nation UK said in an update.

“Despite Nicki’s best efforts to explore every possible avenue to make tonight’s show happen, the events of today have made it impossible,” the company said. “We are deeply disappointed by the inconvenience this has caused.”

Tickets will remain valid for the rescheduled concert, the company said.

Police have not identified the name of the person arrested, but when asked if it was Minaj, a spokesperson said officers had “arrested a 41-year-old American woman at Schiphol Airport because of possession of soft drugs.”

In a social media post early Sunday local time, Minaj said she arrived at her hotel in Manchester a little more than an hour ago. "After sitting in a jail cell for 5-6 hours, my plane still didn’t take off for another 20 mins once I boarded" the 50 minute flight from Amsterdam, she wrote.

"Please please please accept my deepest & most sincere apologies," Minaj wrote. "They sure did know exactly how to hurt me today but this too, shall pass."

The rapper said she hopes to be able to share the rescheduled date for Saturday's show on Sunday, and that she and her team are considering one option in June and another in July.

She confirmed she'd still be performing the second show in Manchester on Thursday, and that she will still go on in Birmingham on Sunday.

"I’ll find a way to not only make up the date with the performance but I’m going to create an added bonus for everyone that had a tkt for this show. Promise," Minaj said.

Earlier on Saturday, Minaj had shared numerous posts on social media detailing the incident.

In one video she shared on X, the rapper is seen being told that her luggage needs to be searched.

“I’m so sorry to say that,” a man at the airport tells her.

“But isn’t that what you planned on doing from the get-go? Why didn’t you guys search it before it went on the plane,” she responds.

The man says they did a “random quick check” but need to open the luggage.

In subsequent posts, Minaj said she believed people were trying to “stop this tour” and were lying to her.

“They took my luggage & when I asked where it is they said it’s on the plane. It couldn’t have been, I just pulled up,” she said. “I never gave them my bags. They’re refusing to let me see my own bags.”

In another post, she wrote: “They’re being paid big money to try to sabotage my tour b/c soooooo many ppl are mad that it’s this successful & they can’t eat off me. They got caught stealing money from my travel/jets. Got fired. Got mad. Etc.”

“This is how they plant things in your luggage,” another read.

Minaj said in the Sunday social media post she has video evidence of the encounter and she’ll “have the lawyers & GOD take it from here tho.”

China’s military yesterday showed off its machine-gun equipped robot battle “dogs” at the start of its biggest ever drills with Cambodian forces.

The 15-day exercise, dubbed Golden Dragon, also involves 14 warships — three from China — two helicopters and 69 armored vehicles and tanks, and includes live-fire, anti-terrorism and humanitarian rescue drills.

The hardware on show included the so-called “robodogs” — remote-controlled four-legged robots with automatic rifles mounted on their backs.

Handlers kept the dogs of war on the leash, demonstrating only their walking capabilities to watching journalists and top brass — not their shooting skills.

Opening the exercises, Cambodian armed forces commander-in-chief Vong Pisen said that they would “enhance the capabilities” of the two armies in the fight against terrorism.

Vong Pisen said that Cambodia would never allow a foreign military base on its territory, echoing previous assertions by Cambodian leaders.

After Cambodia dismantled facilities at Ream naval base near the Cambodian port city of Sihanoukville, built partly with US funding and having played host to US military exercises, China began funding its renovation.

Two Chinese warships docked at Ream in December last year for the first time after work began to expand the base.

Washington says that Ream could give Beijing a key strategic position on Gulf of Thailand near the disputed South China Sea.

Earlier this week, Cambodian army spokesman Thong Solimo told reporters that the exercises were biggest ever of their kind and China would cover the cost.

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The multibillion-dollar question of how Houston ISD intends to balance its budget went largely unanswered Thursday night, with district administrators revealing few specifics about job or program cuts as they unveiled a long-awaited spending plan for 2024-25.

HISD Superintendent Mike Miles said the district will move forward with slashing over $500 million, equivalent to about 20 percent of the district’s spending in the 2023-24 school year, due to an upcoming budget squeeze, but he only gave broad outlines of which departments would see the reductions. HISD likely will need to eliminate a significant number of jobs and scale back initiatives to trim $500 million next school year.

“We cut a lot of positions in central office and that’s very painful,” Miles said. “Anytime you cut, they’re real people, real jobs.”

HISD released its budget plan to the media Thursday afternoon at the start of the first and only scheduled board meeting about the budget, which trustees expect to vote on next month. However, destructive winds and power outages at HISD’s central office forced board members to cancel the workshop before Chief Financial Officer Jim Terry could present the budget to trustees. Miles spoke to the media prior to the meeting and release of the budget plan Thursday afternoon.

HISD is already behind its typical schedule for detailing its spending plans for the upcoming year. By mid-May last year, HISD had held four public budget workshops to explain plans to the board and gauge community members’ feedback, district records show. District officials plan to reschedule Thursday’s canceled meeting for May 23.

The delay in releasing detailed information to the public concerns elected trustee Sue Deigaard, especially with drastic cuts planned.  Deigaard and the rest of HISD’s elected school board technically remain in place, though all of their power has been temporarily transferred to a state-appointed board of managers as part of sanctions against the district.

“It’s easier for the distrust to grow if enough people don’t understand why this is happening,” Deigaard said.

Miles argues the deep cuts are necessary because the district is headed toward a “fiscal cliff” created by years of enrollment declines and HISD’s recent use of pandemic stimulus funds to prop up its budget. HISD is using roughly $325 million in federal stimulus dollars this fiscal year, the documents HISD released Thursday evening show. Those funds are set to expire in the fall.

Miles’ plan to balance the budget comes primarily from cuts to HISD’s central office, which includes non-academic operations, technology and curriculum, among numerous other departments.

School budgets, which largely cover teacher and campus administrator salaries, would stay relatively flat under Miles’ plan. 

The 130 campuses participating in Miles’ “New Education System” next year will receive funding increases to cover higher teacher salaries, bringing their average budget to $5.6 million. Many of the roughly 140 campuses not included in the program will see budget cuts, bringing their average total to $4.8 million, with roughly two dozen campuses required to shave 12 percent of spending due to enrollment declines.

HISD plans to offset next year’s deficit, in part, by selling $80 million in property and dipping into $130 million of its “rainy day” fund. That would leave $800 million in reserves, which Miles said is a healthy level to maintain the district’s strong bond rating.

While he didn’t detail layoff totals, Miles outlined the level of planned cuts to central office departments, including some that will see the biggest hits. Staff salaries make up most of the spending in the departments.

• The operations office would lose roughly $101 million, equivalent to 45 percent of its 2023-24 budget. Several thousand people work in the department, including custodians, bus drivers and numerous other non-teaching staff work.

• The human resources office would lose roughly $97 million, equivalent to 88 percent of its 2023-24 budget.

• The academics office would lose about $69 million, equivalent to 37 percent of its 2023-24 budget. The office includes employees who develop curriculum, support teachers and engage with parents.

• The information technology office would see roughly $68 million in cuts, equivalent to 58 percent of its 2023-24 budget.

How many of you remember when one of the NBA’s most famous players shared a documentary claiming that Jews had fooled the world into believing that they were God’s chosen people, including by fabricating the Holocaust?

Kyrie Irving’s promotion of “Hebrews to Negroes” came around the same time as antisemitic outbursts by Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, and caused only a relatively brief outcry.

Irving alternately played coy — saying that sharing the link didn’t constitute promoting it — and inflamed tensions, denying that he could be antisemitic by hinting that, as the movie suggested, Africans were the real Jews.

He was suspended, donated to the Anti-Defamation League, made more inflammatory comments, saw his donation get rejected, eventually apologized and returned to the court and then months later deleted the social media post containing his apology after being traded from the Brooklyn Nets to Dallas.

Now he’s leading the Mavericks on a playoff run and concerns about his alleged antisemitism have all but disappeared.

“It doesn’t come up unless Kyrie Irving does something good,” explained my colleague Louis Keene, who covered the original controversy. When that happens, Irving’s legions of young fans will bemoan the past efforts to cancel him.

Louis just published a piece about his conversations with Jewish Mavericks fans who, whether they like him personally or not, are rooting for Irving to succeed. “I’ve forgotten about the antisemitism,” said Ben Calmenson, a 28-year-old who grimaced when Iriving wore a keffiyeh to a recent press conference but quickly excused it.

I still cringe when I watch Irving win, as he’s been doing throughout the playoffs and did again against the Minnesota Timberwolves Wednesday night. But I’m not saying he should have been kicked out of the league for sharing a film that concludes Jews are to blame for Black suffering. He mostly seems like a weird guy who doesn’t believe in vaccines and isn’t sure whether the earth is flat or round.

“There’s a lot of young fans who see Kyrie Irving as an iconoclastic figure whose vulnerability to conspiracy theories is just part of that,” Louis explained to me. “He’s very charitable — even by the standards of professional athletes — and he’s very outspoken on social issues, so they just see him as a genuinely and deeply good person who is a little bit unusual.”

The Kyrie Irving saga shows how selective the organized Jewish world can be when it comes to calling out antisemitism. The American Jewish Committee and other leading groups quickly aborted a campaign to convince Amazon, which still sells the antisemitic film on its Prime Video service, to remove the movie after Andy Jassy, the company’s chief executive, refused.

Right now, the concern is about what’s happening with left-wing students on elite college campuses. But if Irving was playing basketball thirty years ago, when Jewish groups were focused on how so-called “Black antisemitism” threatened American Jews, it is possible reporters wouldn’t have so quickly stopped asking him about “Hebrews to Negroes” and his social media post referring to Israelis as “murderous oppressors” would have received more attention.

There’s also the fact that Irving is playing for a basketball team that Mark Cuban, who Louis described as a “Jewish community legend,” is in the process of selling to Miriam Adelson, wife of the late Jewish casino mogul and philanthropist Sheldon Adelson.

And Irving is a celebrity. Jewish leaders have a fair amount of sway on campus and even in Congress. But it’s really, really hard to sanction superstars for what fundamentally amounts to intemperate comments. “They recognized their power is kind of limited,” Louis said.

While federal sentencing guidelines sometimes factor in acceptance of responsibility, legal experts told 11 News that Marilyn Mosby's brazen push for a presidential pardon may backfire. Her sentencing is scheduled for Thursday, at which time, she could face up to 40 years in federal prison. Defense attorneys have pushed for Mosby to serve no prison time. The federal government has asked for a 20-month prison sentence.

 Nikki Haley said Wednesday that she will be voting for Donald Trump in the general election, a notable show of support given their intense and often personal rivalry during the Republican primary calendar.

But Haley also made it clear that she feels Trump has work to do to win over voters who supported her during the course of the primary campaign and continue to cast votes for her in ongoing primary contests.

The British magazine Tatler revealed Wednesday the cover of its July 2024 issue on Instagram: a portrait of Her Royal Highness Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, by the British-Zambian artist Hannah Uzor. The picture is the third such portrait of a royal commissioned by Tatler and used for the cover of the magazine in the last three years. 

 Artificial intelligence technology leader Nvidia (NVDA) late Wednesday beat Wall Street's targets for its fiscal first quarter and guided higher than views for the current period. It also announced a 10-for-1 stock split. Nvidia stock rose in extended trading.

 XDefiant’s Preseason is live now on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC through Ubisoft Connect. The free-to-play arcade shooter takes inspiration from different Ubisoft games, kicking off with five game modes, five unique factions, 14 different maps, and 24 weapons with 44 attachments. To help prepare you to jump into its fast-paced 6v6 action, here’s the skinny on XDefiant.

Billie Eilish has revealed that her ex Jesse Rutherford is still her “favorite” person in the world.

The What Was I Made For? hitmaker shared that she is still on good terms with her ex boyfrie

  Wilson Sporting Goods Co. announces today a multiyear partnership with Indiana Fever guard, Caitlin Clark, as part of its athlete roster. Wilson will roll-out signature basketball collections celebrating Clark's continued legacy, as well as work with her to innovate product across the WNBA, NBA and basketball at large– further cementing her impact on the world of sport.

 Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter One’ Review: Kevin Costner Gets Thrown From His Horse in Muddled Western Epic.

The director stars alongside Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Jena Malone and Luke Wilson in the opener of a quartet of films about the settlement of the American West.

Running a taxing three hours, this first part of a quartet of films is littered with inessential scenes and characters that go nowhere, taking far too long to connect its messy plot threads. Warner Bros. will release Chapter One in U.S. theaters June 28, with Chapter Two following on August 16 and Chapter Three reportedly going into production. A vigorous montage closes the first part with action-packed snippets from the next installment, adding to the nagging sense that we’re watching episodic TV that lost its way.

What’s most perplexing coming from Costner is the uncomfortably long time the film takes to show sensitivity toward its Indigenous characters. We’re well into Horizon before the perspective on Native resistance is broadened to acknowledge that their murderous attacks on new settlements are a direct response to the occupation of their ancestral lands. It’s very confusing to see a Western in 2024 and find yourself thinking, “Wait, so American Indians are the bad guys again?”

The blustery notes of John Debney’s score over the opening title card announce that we’re about to watch A Work of Great Importance. It begins in Arizona’s San Pedro Valley in 1859, as three surveyors, one of them just a boy, hammer stakes into the ground to mark a plot of riverside land. Two Indigenous kids observing from the rocky hills wonder what the white folks are doing and why they have come. The two adult Native brothers who appear shortly after, Pionsenay (Owen Crow Shoe) and Taklishim (Tatanka Means), are not so much curious as simmering with rage.

Some days later, a solo traveler finds the surveyors’ dead bodies, with feathers laid alongside their corpses as a warning. Those stakes become crosses on their graves.

The action then jumps to Montana Territory, where Lucy (Jena Malone) empties a rifle into James Sykes (Charles Halford), a man who has clearly wronged her, then takes off with their infant son. The dead man’s tough family matriarch (Dale Dickey) sends her two sons, Caleb (Jamie Campbell Bower) and Junior (Job Beavers), to dole out retribution and bring back her grandchild. One is a hotheaded idiot, the other smarter and more controlled, plus he can rock a silver wolf stole.

Meanwhile, back at the river, the new township of Horizon — advertised on widely distributed handbills — has sprung up directly across from those three graves. But any sense of security is instantly erased when Pionsenay and Taklishim lead a deadly ambush. Acting against the advice of their father (Gregory Cruz), an elder of the White Mountain Apache tribe who warns of the inevitable cycle of violence, they kill any settlers unable to get to safety and torch structures that have only just been erected.

In the movie’s most visceral sequence, the tribesmen close in on the home of the Kittredge family. Along with a handful of community members who have gone there for shelter, the father, James (Tim Guinee), and teenage son Nate (the director’s son Hayes Costner) try to hold off the attackers while the mother Frances (Sienna Miller) and daughter Lizzie (Georgia MacPhail) hide out in a hatch under the floorboards.

The flimsiest strand follows Russell (Etienne Kellici), an adolescent boy who manages to outride the Apache horsemen pursuing him, then later wrestles with his conscience about how and against whom to take revenge for his losses. That thread feels like one too many, but it makes the point that white folks regard all Indigenous tribes as a single enemy, meaning payback is indiscriminate.

Working from a discursive screenplay he co-wrote with Jon Baird, Costner is not at his best as a director with this kind of multi-branched narrative. He struggles to keep all the story’s plates spinning, as characters are sidelined and resurface with too little connective tissue.

It’s almost an hour into the film before Costner appears as Hayes Ellison, a taciturn loner described by one of the Sykes boys as a “saddle tramp.” The role allows Kev to go full Clint, conveying the inner conflict of a troubled man wishing to leave violence behind but skilled enough with a firearm to handle it when provoked. Presumably, the character will reveal more layers and maybe a backstory in Chapter Two.

Hayes is the figure who begins to tie things together when he ambles into a small township and catches the eye of Marigold (Abbey Lee), who turns tricks to get by and babysits for Lucy, now going by Ellen and married to good-natured Walter Childs (Michael Angarano). Marigold is an annoying character — dumb, whiny, opportunistic — and it’s a slight stretch that a man as careworn and solitary as Hayes would be suckered into helping her, putting them both in danger. The unconvincing performance of Lee does nothing to make Marigold more palatable.

Other characters include the cavalry summoned to Horizon after the massacre, dispatched by Colonel Houghton (Danny Huston) and led by Sgt. Major Riordan (Michael Rooker) and First Lieutenant Trent Gephardt (Sam Worthington), who gently strikes up a romance toward the end of the film. Gephardt is the one person patient enough to explain to the folks of Horizon why the Apaches are hostile to the idea of sharing land on which they have hunted for generations.

Despite the harsh conditions and extreme danger involved in the expansion of the West, wagon trains of new settlers keep coming. Traveling with one of them is military captain Matthew Van Weyden (Luke Wilson), who lands the exasperating job of de facto leader, dealing with disputes and ensuring that everyone contributes to the workload. That comes as a surprise to a couple of over-educated but clueless Brits begging to be scalped, Juliette (Ella Hunt) and Hugh (Tom Payne).

Any of these plotlines might have sustained an hour of compelling television but they don’t add up to much in this awkwardly stitched quilt, which rarely provides the space for anyone’s experiences to resonate. That also limits the scope for the actors to breathe much dimensionality into their roles. Dialogue-driven scenes often feel stilted and lifeless; the characters played by Costner, Worthington, Miller and Malone at this point show the most potential.

The subtitle An American Saga and some easy guesswork suggest that as Horizon continues the project will become a broad-canvas picture of frontier life and its challenges, of the constant threat of outlaws and Indigenous attack, and the injustices toward Natives that indelibly stained the soil of the West with blood. Hopefully, it will also acquire some much-needed structure.

In the meantime, the movie serves up handsomely photographed virgin American landscapes, with red cliffs, green valleys and wide open plains providing some arresting backdrops. (As is often the case, Utah locations stand in for various parts of the Southwest and Montana.) Period design elements evoke the milieu more than serviceably.

Will the Timberwolves' vibes pull them through to the next round? Or will the Nuggets' experience prove the deciding factor of Game 7? (Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post)