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Ram Charan’s phone call changed THIS celebrity trainer’s career: ‘He immediately called Tamannaah Bhatia amid his workout’ Celebrity fitness trainer Kiran Dembla recently opened up about one of the biggest turning points in her professional journey. Known for training several leading stars, including Ram Charan, Anushka Shetty, Tamannaah, Upasana Konidela, Prabhas, and Taapsee Pannu, Kiran credited a simple gesture from Ram Charan for helping her establish herself in the celebrity fitness industry.During a recent interview with Trend Today, Kiran remembered how a conversation during one of Ram Charan’s workout sessions eventually changed the course of her career. She revealed that…

Neega Ngurang began fishing as a child, “local style” with a “bamboo pole rod, using a single monoline and one hook,” recalls the sports angler, river guide, and content creator from Sagalee, near Itanagar in Arunachal Pradesh.In 2013, he discovered angling and was hooked — pun intended. “I did not know what sport fishing is, but when I saw a spinning rod on television, I realised that I also wanted to buy it and learn how to use it,” says Neega, who spent the next two years practising angling in the rivers in and around where he lived. “As I…

One person has been killed in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon, the country’s health ministry says, after the Israeli military said it was responding to a “blatant violation of the ceasefire” by the Iran-backed group Hezbollah.A man died and 12 other people were injured when the roof of a prayer hall at the cemetery of the town of Tibnin was hit, according to Lebanese media.Strikes were also reported to the west in the town of Mansouri, where the Israeli military issued its first evacuation order for more than a month.Hezbollah has not commented on the events, which came as…

Nitish Kumar Reddy and Harshit Rana NEW DELHI: Flustered by the frequent injury breakdowns of players in the Indian team, the medical team at the Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Bengaluru is looking to resurrect its fitness programme. TOI understands that the CoE is finally working on standardising base fitness parameters after it emerged that the non-definitive customised fitness tests for players were identified as a core reason for the drop in the overall fitness standards.The Indian team went through a change in fitness testing drills after Adrian Leroux replaced Soham Desai as the strength and conditioning coach last year.…

The plan to install bio-absorbent sound barriers along the road bordering the bungalow premises was particularly panned Mumbai: Hours after TOI’s report on Wednesday that the premises housing her official residence—a heritage bungalow in Byculla zoo—was set to undergo a revamp at Rs 2.9 crore within four months of a Rs 2.4-crore facelift, the BMC administration cancelled the tender and mayor Ritu Tawde distanced herself from it.The move came on the heels of massive public and political outrage, particularly over the plan to install bio-absorbent sound barriers along E S Patanwala Road bordering the premises.Earlier in the day, Tawde sought…

New Delhi: CBI has filed a chargesheet against a bank official and the owner of a Pulwama-based firm in connection with a case of “digital arrest” of a resident of Delhi.The crooks extorted Rs 1.6 crore from the senior citizen after holding her captive for days.The accused have been identified as Umer Iqbal, proprietor of M/s Himalayan Enterprises, and Umer Ahmad Dar, a deputy manager with Axis Bank, officials said.To con the victim, the criminals posed as law enforcement and judicial officials and made video calls to her, threatening her with arrest. The elderly woman was made to disclose all…

Bengaluru: With the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) entering its final stage, the Election Commission (EC) has begun a statewide exercise to help voters wrongly classified under the ASDDO category get their records corrected before the electoral rolls are finalised.Election officials have urged citizens to verify whether they have been marked as ASDDO, which stands for absent, shifted, dead, duplicate and others. Voters who find themselves wrongly categorised have been asked to immediately approach their booth level officer (BLO) to have their enumeration forms corrected. “Only those who sign and submit the forms will be included in the draft list,” chief…

Telangana colleges see two ragging complaints every month Hyderabad: Telangana’s higher education campuses have reported nearly two ragging complaints every month over the past five years, with 101 cases received between 2022 and July 22, 2026.While the number is lower compared to several southern states, experts and students caution that the official figures may not reflect the ground reality, with many incidents allegedly going unreported due to fear and institutional pressure.According to data tabled in the Lok Sabha, Karnataka recorded the highest number of ragging complaints among southern states at 187, followed by Tamil Nadu (178), Andhra Pradesh (133) and…

Chennai: The C Joseph Vijay-led Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam govt has used its maiden budget to give Tamil Nadu’s welfare architecture a new political identity. Finance minister Marie Wilson on Wednesday announced a string of programmes carrying the prefix ‘Vetri’, signalling govt’s attempt to build its own welfare brand.Yet, the budget document showed that much of these projects and schemes were not new. They continuations, revivals or expanded versions of programmes introduced by successive DMK and AIADMK govts, but under the `Vetri’ label.DMK’s Kalaignar Kanavu Illam Thittam, a housing scheme, has been rechristened Vetri Veedu Thittam with an enhanced allocation of…

The accused told police they had been buying from the supplier for two months Ahmedabad: The city crime branch arrested two men with 1.4g of mephedrone during a late-night operation on Monday near New Ranip underpass. They also filed a case against an alleged supplier under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act after the duo claimed they had procured the drug from him for personal consumption. An FIR was filed on Tuesday.The case was registered with the DCB police station on the complaint of police sub-inspector N B Rawal. According to the FIR, the Crime Branch received a…