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India.com
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- India.com
Meet actress who became star with a song, quit Bollywood forever after few films, got job with high salary, she works in...
You must have heard the superhit song of the 90s 'Ghar se nikalte hi…'. This song is from the 1996 film 'Papa Kehte Hain'. Jugal Hansraj and Mayoori Kango were seen in this film. Mayoori worked in many films, but suddenly she disappeared from the film industry. In all these years, Mayoori has changed so much that you will be stunned to see her new pictures. Before starting college, Mayoori went to Mumbai with her mother for a shoot. Here, a director decided to cast Mayoori in his film. After this, Mayoori entered the film world with that director's film 'Naseem'. After some time, Mahesh Bhatt cast Mayoori in his film 'Papa Kehte Hain'. The chemistry between Mayoori Kango and Jugal Hansraj in the film 'Papa Kehte Hain' was worth watching. The film proved to be a hit at the box office. The song 'Ghar se nikalte hi…' from the film was a big hit. Mayoori looked very beautiful in the song. This song remained a hit for years and rocked the music charts. After saying goodbye to the world of acting, Mayoori Kango started working at a good position at Google in the year 2019. Today, the actress is the head of the industry at Google India. According to reports, Mayoori's net worth is Rs 12.40 crore.
Int'l Business Times
09-05-2025
- Politics
- Int'l Business Times
Weary Border Residents In Indian Kashmir Struggle To Survive
Mohammad Naseem says his neighbours laughed when he borrowed money and built a concrete bunker under his home in a village near the disputed Kashmir border. But this week when mortar bombs rained in Salamabad, 38 people -- men, women, and children -- huddled in it as about a dozen shells exploded outside in quick succession. One of them destroyed Naseem's home. "Many of us would have died had we not moved into the bunker," Naseem, a 34-year-old hotel chef, told AFP. "We grabbed our children and rushed inside. It got so packed that after some time we felt suffocated, two of our children became unconscious," he said. "The children had to be hospitalised after daybreak when the shelling stopped." Other villagers hid behind rocks and bushes on the mountain slopes. Some watched their homes being reduced to rubble. Deadly confrontations between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan erupted after New Delhi accused Islamabad of backing an April 22 attack on tourists on the Indian-run side of the disputed territory, which killed 26 people. Pakistan denies the charge. "We took our children out and went up the mountain slope holding them tightly as bombs exploded around us," Naseer Ahmed Khan, 50, said outside his damaged house on Thursday. "Our life is worth nothing. At any time entire families could be wiped out," Khan said. "Our children are not able to sleep and we cannot have a meal in peace." The exchange of heavy fire has destroyed or severely damaged dozens of homes in Uri, about 100 kilometres (66 miles) from the Kashmir capital Srinagar, forcing many to flee to safer areas in towns like Baramulla, about 50 kilometres away. Sajjad Shafi, a local lawmaker told AFP that about 10 percent of Uri's population -- some 22,000 people -- fled since the latest fighting began. On Friday, many more were fleeing in buses and trucks provided by the government or driving off in their own cars. "How can we stay here?" Rubina Begum said outside her destroyed home. "The government should lodge us somewhere safe". Begum's daughter, Saima Talib, added: "We have nothing left except the clothes we are wearing". Displaced people are struggling to find food and work and many are now sheltering in government buildings in Uri. Mohammad Lateef Bhat, a road construction worker, said: "I work as a labourer with army's border roads organisation but their work also stopped." "This morning I came to the market looking for work but there is nothing," Bhat said. Some vegetable sellers briefly set up shop before closing. Mohammad Bashir was also despondent. "I came to the market to find some work so I can buy some food for my family (of eight) but there is nothing," Bashir, 60, said. The death toll from India and Pakistan's biggest clashes in decades passed 50 on Friday with each accusing the other of staging drone attacks in waves. Farooq Ahmed Khan, 35, a bus driver from Sultandhaki village near the border, said "this fighting has made our life miserable." Nagni, a rare mixed settlement of Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs, sits on mountain slopes near the Indian army's border headquarters in Uri. Villagers say 35 of the 50 families there have fled. Badal, a 22-year-old student who only gave his first name, was cleaning up after his sister's wedding at his freshly painted home. He showed a crater caused by a mortar bomb that landed a few metres away on the night of the wedding. "Luckily there was no loss of life but a lot of damage. What we need.. is bunkers, but there are none". "This village has always been a target of Pakistani attacks in the past because the (Indian) army headquarters are nearby," said Sahil Kumar, another Nagni resident. Locals say they are fed up. "I say there should be a war just to decide where Kashmir goes," said Farooq Ahmed Khan, the bus driver. "I will also go to fight in that war so that this trouble ends for good," Khan said. Indian villagers wait for transportation after fleeing their homes AFP A man stands inside his destroyed home in the border village of Salamabad AFP Many people said they were fed up AFP
France 24
09-05-2025
- Politics
- France 24
Weary border residents in Indian Kashmir struggle to survive
But this week when mortar bombs rained in Salamabad, 38 people -- men, women, and children -- huddled in it as about a dozen shells exploded outside in quick succession. One of them destroyed Naseem's home. "Many of us would have died had we not moved into the bunker," Naseem, a 34-year-old hotel chef, told AFP. "We grabbed our children and rushed inside. It got so packed that after some time we felt suffocated, two of our children became unconscious," he said. "The children had to be hospitalised after daybreak when the shelling stopped." Other villagers hid behind rocks and bushes on the mountain slopes. Some watched their homes being reduced to rubble. Deadly confrontations between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan erupted after New Delhi accused Islamabad of backing an April 22 attack on tourists on the Indian-run side of the disputed territory, which killed 26 people. Pakistan denies the charge. 'Our life is worth nothing' "We took our children out and went up the mountain slope holding them tightly as bombs exploded around us," Naseer Ahmed Khan, 50, said outside his damaged house on Thursday. "Our life is worth nothing. At any time entire families could be wiped out," Khan said. "Our children are not able to sleep and we cannot have a meal in peace." The exchange of heavy fire has destroyed or severely damaged dozens of homes in Uri, about 100 kilometres (66 miles) from the Kashmir capital Srinagar, forcing many to flee to safer areas in towns like Baramulla, about 50 kilometres away. Sajjad Shafi, a local lawmaker told AFP that about 10 percent of Uri's population -- some 22,000 people -- fled since the latest fighting began. On Friday, many more were fleeing in buses and trucks provided by the government or driving off in their own cars. "How can we stay here?" Rubina Begum said outside her destroyed home. "The government should lodge us somewhere safe". Begum's daughter, Saima Talib, added: "We have nothing left except the clothes we are wearing". Displaced people are struggling to find food and work and many are now sheltering in government buildings in Uri. 'Return empty' Mohammad Lateef Bhat, a road construction worker, said: "I work as a labourer with army's border roads organisation but their work also stopped." "This morning I came to the market looking for work but there is nothing," Bhat said. Some vegetable sellers briefly set up shop before closing. Mohammad Bashir was also despondent. "I came to the market to find some work so I can buy some food for my family (of eight) but there is nothing," Bashir, 60, said. The death toll from India and Pakistan's biggest clashes in decades passed 50 on Friday with each accusing the other of staging drone attacks in waves. Farooq Ahmed Khan, 35, a bus driver from Sultandhaki village near the border, said "this fighting has made our life miserable." Nagni, a rare mixed settlement of Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs, sits on mountain slopes near the Indian army's border headquarters in Uri. Villagers say 35 of the 50 families there have fled. Badal, a 22-year-old student who only gave his first name, was cleaning up after his sister's wedding at his freshly painted home. 'There should be war' He showed a crater caused by a mortar bomb that landed a few metres away on the night of the wedding. "Luckily there was no loss of life but a lot of damage. What we need.. is bunkers, but there are none". "This village has always been a target of Pakistani attacks in the past because the (Indian) army headquarters are nearby," said Sahil Kumar, another Nagni resident. Locals say they are fed up. "I say there should be a war just to decide where Kashmir goes," said Farooq Ahmed Khan, the bus driver. "I will also go to fight in that war so that this trouble ends for good," Khan said. © 2025 AFP
India.com
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- India.com
Father sold her daughter to a brothel for money, three generations spent their lives in humiliation, it was not easy for this actress to enter films, her name is…
The world of Bollywood looks very glamorous from the outside, but only those who are there know about the struggle inside. After a lot of hard work, effort and long wait, someone's luck shines in the film industry. Everyone doesn't need to have a godfather in the film industry. Many actors have made their mark even by coming from a non-film background. If you turn to any page of the history of cinema, you will find an outsider actor. In such a situation, today in Cinemagram, we are telling you about that actress who belongs to a courtesan family. Grandmother and great-grandmother were courtesans while mother was a superstar of Hindi cinema. In such a situation, let us tell you about that actress. The actress who belongs to a family of courtesans is none other than Saira Banu. She may have been the top actress of the industry in the past, but if her mother had not come out of the streets of the courtesan and the brothel, history would have been different. It was not Saira Banu who first dreamt of becoming an actress, but her mother, Naseem Banu, and she made it come true. Not only did she If we talk about the struggle to get out of the streets of the brothel, then this story is a bit long. Saira Banu's grandmother, great-grandmother and mother used to live in the brothel. Even her mother and grandmother had their own brothel in Delhi. This was not their profession, but Saira's great-grandmother came into this profession out of compulsion. The story begins with Jumman Bai, who was Saira Banu's great-grandmother. When she was seven years old, her father sold her to a brothel in Hasanpur. The reason for this was that he hated girls. However, Jumman Bai did not want to live in that quagmire. She often tried to run away, so the brothel owner sent her to Delhi, after which she remained imprisoned in the streets of the brothel. Here, she gave birth to a daughter at the age of 18, who was the daughter of Ratan Singh, who worked in the brothel. That girl was named Shamshad. Shamshad became Saira Banu's grandmother after her birth. Shamshad was very beautiful since childhood. It is said that when she was 12-13 years old, her mother and Saira Banu's great-grandmother Jumman Bai put her in a brothel. Here she became famous as Chamiya. Her beauty was such that even Nawabs and English officers from far-off places used to come to see her. Once Abdul Wahid Rehman, who was the nobleman of Hasanpur, argued with an English officer for Chamiya Bai. Naseem Banu later became the mother of Saira Banu. But, before that, she had become a popular Bollywood actress. Naseem was fond of becoming an actress since childhood. Chamiya Bai also wanted to get out of this quagmire, so she came to Mumbai with Naseem. After coming to Mumbai, Naseem used to go to watch the shooting of films with her mother. Meanwhile, one day, Saurabh Modi's eyes fell on Naseem. At that time, she was studying in 11th grade. He wanted to offer her a film. In such a situation, somehow mother Chamiya was convinced. She worked in many hit films, and later she was named Naseem in the industry itself. She has been a successful actress of Indian cinema. She was also given the tag of 'The First Queen of Indian Cinema'. Naseem was married to Ehsaan Ul Haq and Saira is his daughter, who herself is a well-known name in the industry and wife of late actor Dilip Kumar.
Indianapolis Star
06-05-2025
- Politics
- Indianapolis Star
'Clerical error' leads to Indy migrant being wrongfully placed in deportation proceedings
A federal immigration judge was visibly irritated after learning a Honduran man had been sitting in an Indiana detention center for the past two months because of a "clerical error." Immigration officials have been holding Amner Nunez-Vasquez without bond while trying to fast-track his deportation to Honduras. Nunez-Vasquez is one of the two people who were forcibly removed from their vehicle by federal agents in Indianapolis earlier this year and has been held in the Clay County immigration detention center since. But Nunez-Vasquez's attorney, Elisabeth Carlson with ECG Immigration, says he's being wrongfully detained, doesn't meet the criteria for expedited removal from the U.S. and should be allowed bond while his immigration case makes its way through the courts. In April, the Chicago Immigration Court was informed during a bond hearing that Nunez-Vasquez, who has no prior criminal record, was being detained because of a mistake in his booking information. His case was being reviewed by Judge Samia Naseem, who was appointed to her seat in January 2020 by then-Attorney General William Barr. Since her appointment to the court in 2024, she has heard 634 asylum cases and denied 45% of them, according to TRAC, a nonprofit data research center. During the hearing, the Department of Homeland Security 's attorney asked the judge to deny bond since the Department of Justice had plans to deport Nunez-Vasquez via expedited removal proceedings, a process that operates outside the court's jurisdiction under certain circumstances. DHS contends Nunez-Vasquez meets the criteria because he hasn't been in the country more than two years. His booking information shows he entered the country illegally in September 2023, they said. Nunez-Vasquez's attorney, however, said that date is incorrect and her client has been in the U.S. since September 2022. After reviewing the information given by both attorneys, Naseem rescheduled Nunez-Vasquez's hearing and ordered his lawyer to file evidence proving he'd been in the country since 2022 with the court. The judge also said to turn that information over to the DOJ so it could rectify the error. DOJ's error still not fixed On April 28, Nunez-Vasquez's lawyers appeared in Naseem's courtroom virtually, expecting to move forward on his bond hearing. However, after reviewing court files, the judge noticed the "clerical error" had not been resolved by the Department of Justice. Under terse questioning by the judge, Nunez-Vasquez's lawyer explained she's made several attempts to reach the Executive Office for Immigration Review to remedy this issue. The attorney filed several documents with the DOJ and the court, including receipts and pay stubs, proving her client has been in the U.S. since at least September 2022. Naseem reviewed those documents before shifting her irritation toward the DHS attorney, questioning why the error wasn't fixed. "It's clear that there is some kind of error here," Naseem said. Naseem ordered the DHS attorney to ensure Executive Office for Immigration Review personnel resolve the issue before their next hearing on May 9. "It's a waste of government resources," Naseem said regarding Nunez-Vasquez's continued detainment and time spent on court proceedings. How did Nunez-Vasquez get into ICE Custody? On Feb. 28, 2025, Nunez-Vasquez and his nephew, Jose Montoya-Lopez, who are both from Honduras, were pulled over by federal agents near the intersection of West 29th Street and Interstate 65 in Indianapolis. The men were forced out of their vehicle by agents and placed into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody. They were booked into the Marion County jail before being sent to the Clay County immigration detention facility in Brazil, Indiana. The arrest of the two men was captured on camera and shared on social media by a family friend on March 7, 2025. On Dec. 8, 2023, the Chicago Immigration Court issued a deportation order for Montoya-Lopez, which stemmed from an August 2020 incident when Indianapolis police arrested and preliminarily charged him with battery using a deadly weapon and battery resulting in moderate bodily injury, according to public records. The state never formally charged Montoya-Lopez with a crime due to a lack of witness cooperation and evidentiary issues, the Marion County Prosecutor's Office said. Either way, Montoya-Lopez was been deported to Honduras. It was unclear what happened to Montoya-Lopez until March 30, when Univision, an American Spanish-language news broadcaster, met with him in Honduras and captured the moment he returned home to his family. "For me, it's a joy that he has returned," Alejandrina Avila, Montoya-Lopez's grandmother, told Univision. Montoya-Lopez also took a moment to reflect on the day he was taken into ICE custody. "In that moment, I felt afraid because I didn't know if they were going to shoot us just for simply being from another country," Montoya-Lopez told Univision. He explained that he decided to record the interaction, believing that he and his uncle would have the opportunity to plead their case in court. However, due to his pending deportation order, he never had the chance. Montoya-Lopez's wife and their 3-year-old daughter remain in the U.S. and are struggling to get by without their sole provider, but she's glad he's safe. "He's back with his family," she told IndyStar. Nunez-Vasquez's fate remains uncertain.
