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The ‘Lagaan’ team, including Aamir Khan, Yashpal Sharma, Daya Shankar Pandey, Rajendra Gupta, and filmmaker Ashutosh Gowariker, on Wednesday evening attended the funeral of veteran actor Pradeep Singh Rawat. They all looked emotional while bidding a final farewell to Pradeep Singh Rawat, who essayed the role of Deva Singh Sodhi in Lagaan.Aamir also met with the family members of Pradeep and paid his heartfelt condolences. After attending the funeral, several actors spoke to ANI, sharing heartfelt tributes and fondly reminiscing about their memories with Pradeep.”I am at a loss for words. Bhagwan unki aatma ko shanti de. Woh hamesha humari…
As the DP World ILT20 prepares for its fifth season, CEO David White says the league’s biggest achievement has been its contribution to the growth of cricket in the UAE and the wider Gulf. The competition has franchise owners, broadcasters and commercial partners behind it, but White says what it has done for local players counts for more.”It’s pleasing to see the DP World ILT20 firmly established on the UAE sporting calendar. We have built a strong and sustainable competition, but our ambition has always been to contribute to the long-term development of cricket in the UAE. The league is…
BRUSSELS, 8th August, 2026 (WAM) — EU imports of Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) rose by 14% in June compared with the same month a year earlier, despite the bloc’s commitments to end its dependence on Russian energy supplies by 2027. The Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) reported that Russian revenues from these sales amounted to approximately €60 million per day, with France ranking as the largest buyer. The French port of Montoir received quantities more than four times higher than its imports in May, while data from the Bruegel research center in Brussels showed that…
ABU DHABI, 8th August, 2026 (WAM) — The United Arab Emirates has condemned in the strongest terms the attack launched by the Houthi group on the Najran Region in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) affirmed that these attacks constitute a flagrant violation of the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and a threat to its security and stability. The Ministry reaffirmed the UAE’s solidarity with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its support for all measures aimed at safeguarding its security and stability. Source: Emirates News Agency
Gold prices continued their upward trend in Dubai on Friday as the precious metal was heading for the best week since January on the back of weaker oil prices.The 24K gold price was trading at Dh5140.0 per gram on Friday morning, up from Dh510.50 per gram at the close of the markets on Thursday. Among the other variants of the precious metal, 22K, 21K and 18K were trading higher at Dh476.0, Dh456.25, Dh391.25 and Dh305.0 per gram, respectively.Stay up to date with the latest news. Follow KT on WhatsApp Channels.Spot gold was trading at $4,267.89 per ounce, up 0.63 per…
After spending more than two decades building the world of Pandora, Oscar winning filmmaker James Cameron says he is finally ready to look beyond the Avatar franchise and explore new creative territory.Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published this week, Cameron admitted he no longer wants to devote years at a time exclusively to the blockbuster series that has dominated his career since the original Avatar debuted in 2009.“I’ve got other stories to tell, and I’ve got other stories to tell within Avatar. What won’t happen is, I won’t go down the rabbit hole of exclusively making only…
Gianni Infantino will hold a crisis meeting with top Fifa officials in Morocco on Wednesday as he looks to shore up his position in the wake of the collapse of his gambit to sell off commercial rights to the World Cup.The Fifa president has been the subject of a torrent of criticism, and no small amount of personal abuse, since he floated the idea of the new commercial rights body to Fifa’s 211 member associations last week.The proposed sale of 20% of the body to private investment to raise $4.2 billion, and the involvement of a company with family links…
BRUSSELS, 8th August, 2026 (WAM) — In May 2026, compared with April 2026, seasonally adjusted services production increased by 0.8 percent in both the euro area and the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In April 2026, services production grew by 0.7% in the euro area and by 0.3% in the EU. In May 2026, compared with May 2025, services production increased by 2.4% in both the euro area and the EU. Among Member States for which data are available, the highest monthly increases were recorded in Greece (+4.5%), Latvia (+3.8%) and…
ABU DHABI, 7th August, 2026 (WAM) — Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) and the Department of Municipalities and Transport (DMT) have entered a new phase of collaboration under the Abu Dhabi Waste Management Strategy, focusing on delivering a programme of environmental clean-up activities that combine structured field operations with systematic data analysis, reflecting a shared commitment to supporting Abu Dhabi’s environmental protection and sustainability agenda. This collaboration forms part of a broader vision to unify government efforts and transform clean-up operations into strategic tools for environmental monitoring. To date, four clean-up campaigns have been carried out at selected sites,…
There are certain places in the world that arrive long before you do. Shanghai is one of them.Before I’d even landed, I already had a mental image carefully assembled from films, newspaper headlines and social media reels. Glass towers. Neon lights. Relentless energy. The future.Curiously, my first glimpse of mainland China was… none of those things.I’d been to Hong Kong countless times, but never ventured into mainland China, so I arrived with a mixture of curiosity and mild apprehension. Immigration was astonishingly efficient; luggage appeared with military precision and before long I was gliding through the Shanghai night towards Changshu.…