Preity Zinta has recently shared an adorable throwback picture from her first photoshoot. Taking to a social media platform, the Veer-Zaara actress dropped a photo from her 20s with a heartfelt caption. “I was all of 20 & I thought I knew everything I needed to know about the world… except how to pose for a photo shoot,” she added.

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The photo is an image of Preity posing with her head slightly tilted. Her fans have been sharing positive reactions and commenting cheerfully on her post. Moreover, the actress actively posts on social media and updates her fans about her thoughts and whereabouts from time to time.

Sometime back, she also posted a throwback video with Shah Rukh Khan where the duo were rehearsing to perform their iconic song Jiya Jale from the movie Dil Se.

On the professional front, Zinta is set to make her comeback with the Rajkumar Santoshi movie Lahore 1947. While the official announcements are yet to be made, fans are excited to witness the Kal Ho Naa Ho actress in all her glory once again.

A rare total solar eclipse plunged the Pacific coast of Mexico into complete darkness at 11:07 am (1807 GMT).

The “path of totality,” where the Moon completely obscures the Sun’s light, will streak across Mexico and the United States, before returning to the ocean over Canada’s Atlantic coast, in a celestial spectacle witnessed by tens of millions of people.

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The Congress has brushed off the latest tranche of advice and criticism from poll strategist Prashant Kishor, saying “consultants’ remarks” do not require any comment. Mr Kishor, in an exhaustive interview with the Press Trust of India, had given a  checklist for the party and its senior leader Rahul Gandhi yesterday, which also included the advice that he step aside if the party does not perform well.

Asked about Mr Kishor’s remarks today, Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate said, “I do not answer on remarks by consultants. Talk about political people, what is there to answer on consultants?”

In an interaction with PTI, Mr Kishor had said Mr Gandhi, for all practical purposes, has been running the party for a decade and has been unable to deliver or step aside.

“When you are doing the same work for the last 10 years without any success, there is no harm in taking a break,’ Mr Kishor had said. “You should allow someone else to do it for five years. Your mother did it,” he said, pointing to the time when Sonia Gandhi, after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, had left party matters to PV Narasimha Rao in 1991.

The poll strategist, seen as a stern critic of the Congress, said Mr Gandhi’s practice of running the show is “also anti-democratic”. Mr Kishor, who crafted the winning campaign led by Amarinder Singh in 2017, had also come up with a revival plan for the Congress, but walked out due to disagreements with party leaders over its execution.

After a decade of the UPA rule, the Congress has been tailspin, with the party’s seats, voteshare nationally, and presence and strength in states, dwindling fast.

After its victory in Karnataka last year, Mr Kishor had advised the Congress against “mistaking the assembly poll outcome for a hint of what lies in store in Lok Sabha polls”.

Mr Kishor formally exited as a poll strategist after the Bengal assembly election in 2021 that saw his client Mamata Banerjee achieve her best-ever performance.