Amitabh Bachchan, a successful and influential star, is also a loving family man. Recently, his granddaughter Aaradhya Bachchan displayed her talent at her school’s annual function and impressed everyone with her performance. 

Following Aaradhya Bachchan’s outstanding performance at her school’s annual day, Amitabh Bachchan expressed his admiration for her. Initially, he shared his thoughts on his blog, stating, “I shall be with you shortly .. busy getting over the Concert at Aaradhya’s School and here performance .. such a delight and a moment of pride for all of us .. a complete natural on stage the little one – well not little anymore.”

He also took to X and shared his thoughts on Aaradhya. He tweeted, “pride and joy at progeny achievements.”

Aaradhya Bachchan’s school performance videos are circulating online. In one clip, she confidently delivers English dialogues in a musical play, while her proud mother, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, captures the precious moments on camera. Aaradhya also showcased her talent by performing Evil Like Me, a song by Dove Cameron and Kristin Chenoweth.

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With India facing allegations of hatching plots to murder pro-Khalistan elements in the United States and Canada, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday said “the two issues are not necessarily the same”, adding that India is a country where “we are very responsible, very prudent on what we do”.

“The point was when Americans brought up some issues and the two issues are not necessarily the same. When they brought up that issue, the Americans told us some specific things,” Mr Jaishankar told news agency ANI.

Sikh separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun – a dual citizen of the United States and Canada – was allegedly the target of the plot by India, alleged the US Department of Justice.

The US has filed “murder-for-hire” conspiracy charges against Indian national Nikhil Gupta. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of 20 years.

On November 18, the Government of India constituted a high-level enquiry committee to look into all the relevant aspects of the matter.

In September, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made allegations regarding a “potential” involvement of Indian agents in the killing of a Canadian citizen, Hardeep Singh Nijjar.

Nijjar, who was the chief of the banned Khalistan Tiger Force and one of India’s most-wanted terrorists, was killed in June.

Refuting the allegations as “politically motivated”, India said Canada should share evidence – a request Ottawa has so far declined.  

“What happens in international relations from time to time such challenges can arise. So, we very sincerely have told the Canadians saying that look it’s up to you, I mean your choice whether you would like us to pursue it, further look into it or not,” the Minister told the news agency.

Late last month, India’s High Commissioner to Canada, Sanjay Kumar Verma, also said that Indian government is cooperating with an American investigation into alleged thwarted assassination attempt and not Canada’s probe into the June killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia’s Surrey due to a disparity between the information.

Mr Verma said India was “absolutely” and “decidedly” not involved in the homicide, terming it a “motivated and absurd allegation.” The allegations caused diplomatic tensions between the two nations.

The Israeli army said on Sunday it had uncovered the biggest Hamas tunnel in the Gaza Strip so far, just a few hundred metres from a key border crossing.

Such was its size that small vehicles would be able to travel within the tunnel, an AFP photographer granted access to it reported.

The underground passage formed part of a wider branching network that stretched for over four kilometres and came within 400 metres (1,300 feet) of the Erez border crossing, the army said in a statement.

EXPOSED: The biggest Hamas terrorist tunnel discovered.

This massive tunnel system branches out and spans well over four kilometers (2.5 miles). Its entrance is located only 400 meters (1,310 feet) from the Erez Crossing—used by Gazans on a daily basis to enter Israel for work… pic.twitter.com/RcjK5LbvGL

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) December 17, 2023

It cost millions of dollars and took years to construct, Israeli forces said, with the project lead by Mohamed Yahya, brother of Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, who is believed to have masterminded the October 7 attacks.

The honeycomb of passageways features a drainage systems, electricity, ventilation, sewage and a communication network as well as rails.

The floor is compacted earth while its walls are reinforced concrete and its entrance is a metal cylinder with 1.5 centimetre (half-inch) thick walls.

Footage released by the Israeli army, which it said was filmed by Hamas, showed a small construction vehicle being driven into the tunnel, an extensive temporary warehouse filled with pre-cast concrete for lining the walls and workers digging beneath the earth using crude power tools.

The Israeli army said it had found a large number of weapons stored in the tunnel, ready to be used in an attack.

People, goods, weapons

Hamas had expended huge resources in the project, said Lieutenant Colonel Richard Hecht, an army spokesman, and did so to “serve only one purpose — attacking the State of Israel and its residents”.

He said the tunnel was deliberately built near the Erez crossing, which Israel uses to facilitate the strictly controlled entry of Palestinian workers and those travelling for medical care.

“For Hamas, attacking the people of Israel continues to take priority over supporting the people of Gaza,” he said.

The group launched a surprise attack against southern Israel on October 7, killing around 1,140 people, mostly civilians, and taking about 250 hostages, according to the latest Israeli figures.

In response, Israel set out to destroy Hamas and launched a relentless bombardment and ground invasion of the Gaza Strip to achieve that goal.

The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says Israel has killed more than 18,800 people, mostly women and children, during the war.

Dubbed the “Gaza Metro” by the Israeli military, the labyrinth of tunnels beneath the coastal territory was initially devised as a way of circumventing the crushing Israeli-Egyptian blockade, in place since 2007.

Hundreds of tunnels were built under the border with Egypt and into the Sinai Desert, allowing people, goods and weapons to cross into Gaza from the outside world.

Since the 2014 war with Israel, the tunnel network has been expanded and Hamas has made frequent use of it to facilitate its rocket launches.

A study published on October 17 by the Modern War Institute at the US military academy West Point said there were 1,300 tunnels stretching over 500 kilometres (310 miles).

The Israeli army said at the beginning of December that it had discovered more than 800 tunnels, with 500 destroyed.

Reports in Israeli media last week said that the army was considering flooding the tunnels with seawater pumped from the Mediterranean and had already conducted succesful tests.

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