Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has worked with Salman Khan in a few films including Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam. A lesser-known fact is that the actress almost played the actor’s sister in a movie.

An old interview from 2018 featuring Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has gone viral. During the conversation, she shared that Salman Khan and Aamir Khan were in talks to star in Josh. The film featured Aishwarya and Shah Rukh Khan as siblings.

She further shared that she had no apprehensions about playing Shah Rukh Khan’s on-screen sister. The two had starred opposite each other in Mohabbatein which was released weeks before Josh in the same year.

Josh was released in 2000 and was a success at the box office.

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Over 5,000 Myanmar nationals have crossed over to neighbouring Mizoram in India following Monday’s airstrike by the Myanmar army in its Chin state, said Lalbiakthanga Khiangte, Inspector General of Police, Mizoram Police.

“Now there are as many as more than 5,000 people took refuge in two Mizoram villages along the Myanmar border,” the IGP said, adding that many got injured.

“As many as about 20 are injured. Eight of them are taken to Aizawl for better medical treatment and the rest are being treated in Champhai,” the IGP further said. He said one of the injured succumbed to his injuries last evening.

Asked what the status was on the ground and whether there was any possibility for commotion on the Myanmar side, he said, “Since last night there has been no commotion.”

“Now it is quite calm but we don’t know whether the Myanmar army will attack from the air. We cannot rule out air strike at present if the Myanmar government is willing.”

The Mizoram IGP apprised that as many as 42 Myanmar army personnel have surrendered in front of Mizoram Police, and they have been handed over to the central force — Assam Rifles. “(Government of) India will decide their fate.”

The injured are being taken care of by local Mizo non-governmental organisations. Many Myanmar nationals were caught in the crossfire and got injured while crossing over to India on Monday.

The fighting reportedly started after the People’s Defence Force (PDF) attacked two military bases at Khawmawi and Rihkhawdar in Chin state near the Indian border. In retaliation, the Myanmar army launched airstrikes.

Several Myanmar nationals who were injured in the Myanmar army airstrike have crossed the international border entered Mizoram’s Champhai district and were admitted to a hospital for treatment.

The latest influx of refugees is in addition to the thousands who have already taken refuge in the northeastern state since 2021. Mizos share ethnic ties with the Chin community.

Myanmar’s military junta is facing its biggest test since taking power in a 2021 coup.

Two months after she was discharged from a hospital, former Congress president Sonia Gandhi is shifting to Jaipur temporarily till the air quality improves in Delhi. Ms Gandhi suffers from respiratory problems and doctors have advised her to temporarily move to a place where the air quality is better. 

The Air Quality Index for Delhi on Tuesday was 375, which is in the ‘severe’ category, while the figure for Jaipur was 72, which is in the ‘moderate’ category, according to private air quality monitoring website aqi.in.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who is addressing rallies in various states where the assembly elections will be held later this year, will visit Ms Gandhi in Jaipur on Tuesday night before heading to Chhattisgarh on Wednesday. He will go back to Jaipur and continue with his scheduled rallies in the state on Thursday.

Ms Gandhi had been admitted to Delhi’s Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in September after showing symptoms of fever and had been discharged a day later. She had also been admitted to a hospital in January because of respiratory issues.

This is not the first time that the former Congress president has had to move to another city to avoid the pollution in Delhi. In the winter of 2020, Ms Gandhi had gone to Goa on the advice of her doctors.