Zendaya recently made changes to her social media account, notably unfollowing her boyfriend, Tom Holland.

As of January 4, 2024, the 27-year-old actress has cleared her Instagram “following” list, removing friends, colleagues, and notably, her boyfriend, whom she met while filming Marvel’s Spider-Man: Homecoming in 2017.

On the flip side, Holland still maintains a following list of 315 users, including Zendaya, as of January 4.

While Zendaya hasn’t addressed her decision, she’s been actively promoting her latest films. Just days ago, she shared a poster of her upcoming movie, The Challengers, on Instagram. The poster features Zendaya in the forefront, wearing purple sunglasses that reflect her co-stars Mike Fast and Josh O’Connor playing tennis.

In this film, Zendaya plays a tennis coach to her husband, preparing him for a match against her character’s former partner. Originally slated for a September 2023 release, the movie was postponed due to the SAG-AFTRA strike, ending only in November 2023.

Additionally, fans can anticipate Zendaya’s return as Chani in Dune: Part Two, set to hit screens on March 15.

The auction of four properties owned by Dawood Ibrahim concluded today, with two of the land parcels getting no bids and one, which had a reserve price of just Rs 15,000, being sold for an eye-popping Rs 2 crore. Dawood is India’s most wanted terrorist and is believed to be hiding in Karachi.

The buyer of the plot said he paid so much for it because the survey number and the amount add up to a figure in numerology that works in his favour. He intends to set up a Sanatan school there.

The four tracts of agricultural land are located in Mumbake village in Maharashtra’s Ratnagiri district, and their combined reserve price was just Rs 19.22 lakh. While the two bigger land parcels did not receive any bids, a plot with an area of 1,730 sq m and a reserve price of Rs 1.56 lakh was sold for Rs 3.28 lakh.

The smallest land parcel, which has an area of 170.98 sq m and had a reserve price of Rs 15,440, has been sold for Rs 2.01 crore. This plot was bought by lawyer Ajay Srivastava, who had earlier purchased three of the underworld don’s properties, including his childhood home in the same village.

When he was asked why he had paid so much for the agricultural plot, Mr Srivastava, who is a former Shiv Sena leader, said, “I am a Sanatani Hindu and we follow our panditji. The survey number (of the plot) and the amount have a figure that goes in my favour according to numerology. I will start a Sanatan school on this plot after getting it converted.”

“I had bid for Dawood Ibrahim’s Bungalow in 2020. A Sanatan Dharm Pathshala Trust has been set up and, after getting it registered, I will start a Sanatan school there as well,” he said. 

Friday’s auction was held under the Smugglers and Foreign Exchange Manipulators (Forfeiture of Property) Act, 1976.

The president of the Maldives, Mohamed Muizzu, will pay a state visit to China from Jan. 8 to 12, the Chinese foreign ministry said in statement on Friday, in what would be a high-profile snub to the island nation’s huge neighbour India.

Multiple calls by Reuters to the Foreign Ministry and President’s Office in Male on Friday – the weekend in the Maldives – to confirm the president’s trip went unanswered.

Muizzu, who in November took over as president of the Indian Ocean nation made up of more than a hundred islands dotted with luxury resorts, issued an election pledge to remove a small contingent of some 75 Indian military personnel in the country and alter the Maldives’s “India first” policy.

Asked to comment on Thursday about talk of President Muizzu making a state visit to China, New Delhi said the matter was out of its hands.

“It is for them to decide where they go and how they go about their international relations,” Indian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said, adding that he had no update on the removal of Indian military personnel from the islands.

While both New Delhi and Beijing are vying for influence in the region, Muizzu’s government is considered to be leaning towards China.

The Maldives owes China about $1.3 billion, according to the latest International Monetary Fund (IMF) data. China is the Maldives’ largest external creditor, accounting for about 20% of its total public debt.

“President Muizzu seems disinclined to continue engaging India. His actions seem directed at creating distance between Male and Delhi. He also seems keen on a close friendship with China, which should be concerning to India,” Abhijit Singh, head of the Maritime Policy Initiative at the Observer Research Foundation think tank in New Delhi said.

“The President’s trip to Beijing, before a visit to New Delhi, is a signal – as clear as any – that India is low on priority for this regime.”

Unlike most of his predecessors who have visited India first after being elected, Muizzu chose Turkey as his first international port of call. He later met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the United Arab Emirates on the sidelines of COP28. The two countries have set-up a core group to discuss the withdrawal of Indian troops.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke with Foreign Minister Zameer on Thursday, the State Department said in a statement.

“The Secretary reaffirmed the United States’ commitment to strengthening cooperation with Maldives, a key partner in a free, open, secure, and prosperous Indo-Pacific region,” it said.

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