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Time of India
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Bigg Boss Malayalam 7: Sariga opens up to Adhila, says, 'I thought I would never accept two girls in love, but now I adore you both'
Bigg Boss Malayalam Season 7 made history with Adhila and Noora, the first lesbian couple in the Indian franchise. Their participation sparked conversations and changed hearts, exemplified by housemate Sariga's emotional confession about her evolving views on same-sex love after witnessing their relationship. Adhila and Noora, cybersecurity analysts and social media content creators, faced mixed reactions upon entering the house. Bigg Boss Malayalam Season 7 has already carved its place in history by featuring Adhila and Noora, the first-ever lesbian couple to participate in any Indian Bigg Boss franchise. While their entry sparked nationwide conversations, it's not just the headlines they're changing; it's hearts, too. In a recent emotional episode, housemate Sariga shared a heartwarming moment with Adhila, expressing how her views on same-sex love have changed after spending time with the couple inside the house. 'I adore you both. Because of your love for each other, you are both truly blessed. I thought I would never be able to accept you both. I come from a background where girl-and-girl love could never be taken seriously. But now that I see you both together, you're just like a normal couple. Your love is adorable. I'm going emotional,' Sariga told Adhila. Sariga's honesty visibly moved Adhila, and fans praised the emotional exchange for its sincerity and impact. Adhila and Noora, who gained attention through their legal battle for the right to live together as a couple, are both professionals working as cybersecurity analysts. Outside their careers, they've also built a strong presence as social media content creators, frequently sharing candid vlogs about their relationship and daily life. Their entry into the Bigg Boss house was met with a wave of mixed reactions online, from overwhelming support and admiration to criticism and trolling.
Daily Mirror
17-07-2025
- Daily Mirror
'I was a mum-of-three by age 15 after being forced to marry man in his 30s'
WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Noora Al Shami was married off to her 35-year-old cousin in Yemen in 1989 and gave birth at the age of 13 after years of violent abuse When she was just 11, Noora Al Shami was tragically dressed in adult attire, oblivious to the horrific ordeal she would face later that evening when her 35 year old cousin and husband-to-be took her home to assault her. During a three-day celebration in Yemen's port city of Al Hudaydah, Noora donned "three beautiful dresses" at the family event, only to be plunged into years of sexual abuse by Mohammed Al Ahdam. For young Noora, dressing up seemed like innocent fun, but it was a grim prelude to the trauma ahead. "I was allowed to wear adult clothes, to put on jewellery, to accept presents," Noora, now aged 47, told The Guardian. "What had not dawned on me was that I would be abused by a violent criminal." The first time Al Ahdam exposed himself to Noora, she fled. She managed to evade the attack for 10 days until Al Ahdam's sisters accused her of "bringing shame on our brother by rejecting him", reports the Express. When the rape occurred, Noora's body went into shock. "I was rushed to hospital - I was a child being treated as a sex object, but the abuse did not stop. Nobody was interested in my complaints, as I was legally a wife." Al Ahdam, a much older distant cousin, wed Noora in 1989 right after she turned 11. "He was three times my age and saw marriage as a means to act like a depraved animal," Noora said. In 2021, UNICEF reported a staggering 4 million child brides in Yemen. Decades on from Noora's own underage marriage, Human Rights Watch data revealed in 2006, 14% of Yemeni girls were wed by 15, with over half married before turning 18. Families often marry off daughters to lessen their financial burden in exchange for a dowry, despite the lack of protection for young girls under Islamic law. "My husband provided a dowry of around $150, which was a huge amount. But it was at the end of the wedding that the fear and horror set in. I was taken away from my parents and left with a man who meant nothing to me. He drove me to the house he shared with his widowed father in Al Hudaydah. It was a nice home but I immediately started to quiver, and to cry." Noora endured two miscarriages within a year, before giving birth to her son Ihab at just 13. Her daughter Ahlam arrived when Noora was 14, followed by another son, Shihab, at 15, with each pregnancy fraught with complications. Her husband Al Ahdam's violence escalated. "He thought nothing of hitting me, even when I was pregnant," Noora recounted. "If his father hadn't been in the house, it would have been even worse. His presence was some kind of restraint, but I was still very badly injured." Al Adham also turned his cruelty towards their children, once grabbing their daughter Alham by the feet and slamming her onto the floor, resulting in a hospital visit for the two-year-old, bleeding and hurt. After enduring ten years of appalling abuse, Noora found solace in a programme spearheaded by Oxfam and the Yemeni Women's Union that supports domestic violence survivors. She then took the bold step to file for divorce. The struggle didn't end there. Noora engaged in a legal tussle for financial support to raise her children. Her resilience saw her return to education, qualify as a teacher, and she now fervently advocates for tighter laws on child marriage. Noora refuses to be shackled by the "ruins of the past". "We need to change the lives of our children, and not just by paper laws," she insists. "We need a complete change in culture. It's not really something that the law has been able to control, especially not in tribal communities," Noora admits. "The legal marriage age has been 15 for some time, but my mother was first married at nine, and divorced by 10, before going through another two marriages. She had me in her early teens. "I wanted to stay at school and get a good job, but my parents could not afford it. They did not want me to live in poverty forever. I did not understand their decision to marry me off - only that the same thing happened to most girls my age." Despite Noora's and other activists' efforts to increase the legal marriage age from 15 to 18, physical and psychological scars are often lifelong. Yet, even with potential legal amendments, Islamic law does not stipulate a minimum marriage age, and Yemeni clerics frequently contest any statutory limitations. Today, 30 per cent of girls in Yemen wed before they turn 18 and 7 per cent marry before they reach 15, as reported by the advocacy group Girls Not Brides. If this article has affected you, please get in touch with SARSAS at info@ or seek advice from the NHS on help after rape or sexual assault.
India.com
22-06-2025
- Entertainment
- India.com
Dawood Ibrahim's brother used to work in Bollywood films, wrote songs for Salman Khan, Rishi Kapoor, Raveena Tandon, his name is..., songs are...
Dawood Ibrahim's brother used to work in Bollywood films, wrote songs for Salman Khan, Rishi Kapoor, Raveena Tandon, his name is..., songs are... Bollywood had a notorious history with the underworld mafia Dawood Ibrahim. Several movies were made on him, even after he left India and went abroad. It was following his departure that he attempted to make an indirect effect on the industry, via his brothers. One of his criminal brothers, Noor Ul Haq Kaskar, secretly used to work in Hindi films and was an aspiring lyricist. Fondly known as Noora, he wrote songs that starred Bollywood icons like Rishi Kapoor, Salman Khan and Raveena Tandon. Dawood Ibrahim's brother was was an aspiring songwriter and lyricist Noora wrote song Choom Loon Honth Tere Dil Ki Yahi Khwahish Hai, in the Rishi Kapoor-starrer film Shreemaan Aashique . He also penned Tumse Jo Dekhte Hi Pyar Hua for film Patthar Ke Phool , starring Salman Khan and Raveena Tandon. As recounted in The Indian Express, his most memorable contribution was the iconic song Tumse Jo Dekhte Hi. Popular journalist S Hussain Zaid once shared in his YouTube video, 'Noora was a shayarmizaaj aadmi… For Dawood, it was family first. If he ever had any differences with Iqbal or Noora, he wouldn't let anybody know of it. The 'tapori' type songs in films, he'd write those. He could do anything for his brothers. Everybody else came second.' Dawood Ibrahim's brother was a notorious criminal Reports suggest that beyond his creative side, Noora was deeply involved in Mumbai's underworld along with his brother Dawood Ibrahim during the 1980s and 90s. He was a feared gangster who was embedded in hafta vasooli (extortion) rackets. Noora was said to gave been killed in 2009, after it was claimed that he died of a heart attack. His death marked the end of straddling criminal activities and creative production.
Indian Express
21-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Dawood Ibrahim's brother Noora secretly wrote Bollywood songs; penned lyrics of tracks featuring Rishi Kapoor and Salman Khan
The notorious underworld don Dawood Ibrahim has long fascinated the Hindi film industry. He inspired several movies, even after he left India and went abroad. It was after his departure that he attempted to make inroads into the film business himself, via his brothers and his aide, Chhota Shakeel. However, one of his brothers, Noor Ul Haq Kaskar, was an aspiring lyricist. In fact, he secretly wrote several Bollywood, besides the ones that actually featured his name in the credits. Fondly known as Noora, he was said to have been killed in 2009, after it was initially reported that he died of a heart attack. Among the songs written by Noora were 'Choom Loon Honth Tere Dil Ki Yahi Khwahish Hai,' performed by Kumar Sanu and Alka Yagnik in the Rishi Kapoor-starrer Shreemaan Aashique, and the song 'Tumse Jo Dekhte Hi,' performed by SP Balasubrahmanyam and Lata Mangeshkar, for the film Patthar Ke Phool, starring Salman Khan and Raveena Tandon. Also read – This Salman Khan and Rani Mukerji-starrer was reportedly funded by Chhota Shakeel, ensuing scandal exposed Bollywood-underworld nexus 'Noora was a shayarmizaaj aadmi,' said journalist S Hussain Zaidi in a video on his YouTube channel, in which he interviewed (on video) a close associate of Dawood's. The insider said, 'For Dawood, it was family first. If he ever had any differences with Iqbal or Noora, he wouldn't let anybody know of it. The 'tapori' type songs in films, he'd write those. He could do anything for his brothers. Everybody else came second.' Noor Kaskar also has an IMDb page, in which he is credited as a lyricist on the film Mehboob Mere Mehboob, which was released in 1992 and featured Mohnish Behl. The Indian Express reported in 2009 that Noora had died, seemingly of a heart attack, at the age of 51 in Karachi. But two weeks later, it was reported that the real cause of his death was murder. Noora was reportedly kidnapped, shot, and discarded outside Dawood's house in Karachi. Kidnappers were said to have demanded $50 million as ransom. According to the Indian Express report, 'Noora has eight cases of extortion and kidnapping against him besides being named in the murder of a Customs officer Rajinder Singh.' Weeks before his death, Noora was attempting to follow in the footsteps of several of Dawood's associates and return to India. He had even contacted his lawyer, asking if he had any pending cases. 'He was longing to return to India,' his lawyer Shyam Keswani told the Indian Express in 2009. The same report said that Noora left India for the Middle East in 1989, and assisted his brother in several criminal operations. An neighbour of his from Mohammed Ali Road remembered him as an amusing character, recalling that on his wedding night, 'Noora took his wife to the terrace and was seen teaching her to fire using an imported revolver.'
Yahoo
08-02-2025
- Yahoo
‘Hateful bigot' attacks Jewish man in NYC lobby with unhinged rant: ‘I want ISIS to kill all of you!'
A female 'hateful bigot'' was caught on shocking video Thursday hissing to a Jewish man in a Midtown office building, 'I want ISIS to kill all of you!'' The wigged-out woman unleashed her antisemitic tirade in the lobby of 950 Third Ave. near East 57th Street in Manhattan just after lunch, witness Seth Bell told The Post. The hate-spewing woman, who identified herself in the footage as 'Noora,'' first got into the 'personal space'' of a Hasidic man as he was walking through the lobby, said Bell, a 46-year-old lawyer. 'As I got closer, I heard the word 'Jew' being thrown around, and 'genocide' and 'Israel' and 'Palestine,' and I just knew immediately,' Bell said Friday. 'She was equating some random Jewish guy with what was going on in the Middle East, which is classic antisemitism,'' said Bell, a Jewish dad of three. When Bell confronted the woman, asking her if she was verbally attacking the other man because she was 'just an antisemite,'' she flew into a new vitriolic, profanity-laced rage. 'F–k the Jew, I love Jesus,'' she said — before allegedly swatting at Bell's phone in his hand and part of his head and kicking at him. Bell said, 'You messed with the wrong Jew today, Noora.'' When she asked what he was going to do, he responded, 'I'm going to do nothing. 'I'm going to act like a civilized human being. … I'm going to film you,'' the lawyer said, adding, 'You are a hateful bigot.' The woman, dressed in a long skirt, heels and a purple sweater with 'PINK' across it, then got into the elevator and plunked herself down, refusing to leave. 'I demand Jihad! I want ISIS to kill all of you! I am conspiring with Hamas, Palestinian Jihad and with ISIS, I am conspiring with them!'' the woman said. An exasperated Bell said on the video, 'This is what Jews in New York City have to deal with.'' Bell said building security called the cops, who responded and cuffed the woman. She was taken to Bellevue Hospital for evaluation, law-enforcement sources said. The NYPD's Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating the incident and conferring with Manhattan prosecutors on possible charges, including assault, sources said. Bell said he hopes she is charged. 'I'm just sick and tired of people getting to say what they want and do what they want and we just have to, the Jews just have to take it. 'I see it all the time,'' Bell said. 'The least we can do is expose it.'' The woman told cops her name was 'Noora Bandoora,'' sources said. But she was identified by the group Jew Hate Database on X with a different name and as 'director of government affairs'' for a state chapter of the controversial Muslim group CAIR. The Council on American-Islamic Relations posted on X: 'This is a lie. 'This person has not worked with our CAIR-KY chapter in FIVE years. She has no role at our civil rights group. 'We condemn and reject the antisemitic comments in the video, just as we condemn and reject anti-Palestinian racism and anti-Muslim hate. Racism is wrong, no matter the source or the target,'' it added. The group later said in a statement that 'CAIR has not confirmed the identity of the person in the video.'' The former CAIR director identified on X as the woman did not respond to phone messages and texts from The Post. David Ben Yosef, co-founder of Jew Hate Data Base, part of the Anti-Jew Hate Organization, told The Post that the incident 'is extremely disturbing, at a minimum. 'It's not like this guy was carrying an Israeli flag. He just happened to be Jewish,'' Yosef said of the Hasidic man who was initially accosted.
